Random Irritations

[bobmac]

Best village 2021, that's competitive and requires skill and exertion of many 'teams'
Is it a sport?
Masterchef?
Britains got talent?

 

[Blue in Munich]

People incapable of realising that a random irritation does not have to comply with a dictionary definition.

 

[Neilds]

People incapable of realising that a random irritation does not have to comply with a dictionary definition.

Maybe they should look up random in their pedants dictionary ???

 

[Blue in Munich]

Maybe they should look up random in their pedants dictionary ???

They probably get to decide what random means in their pedant's dictionary.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Jesus H Christ....do we need the golf courses open or what.......

To be honest, I’m not missing it that much...this is much better “sport”

 

[USER1999]

To be honest, I’m not missing it that much...this is much better “sport”

Is 'a question of sport' a sport?

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Is 'a question of sport' a sport?

Well if taking part isn’t hard work, watching it certainly is

 

[AliMc]

Trying to get our Payroll team to tell me what my bottom line / take-home will be once I drop from 5 days to 4 days from 1st Feb.

I have tried working out my NI and Tax myself using my current monthly payslip calc - and can get quite close - but I should be able to get it exact. I therefore conclude that I am making one or more incorrect assumptions somewhere in my calc, and don't feel comfortable with that. I have also made assumptions about some benefits and associated costs - and though HR have stated the costs of these won't change I would rather see that reflected in a new bottom line.

You'd think nobody had ever asked the question before.

Just work out the % of your Gross Pay that you currently receive as a Net payment, generally for most folk it will be around 66 to 70 % but does vary obviously then apply this % to your new reduced Gross amount, won't be far away

 

[upsidedown]

Being in Cornwall on Oct 8th ?

 

[Orikoru]

It must annoy you that you don’t get to decide that. They have to physically exert themselves (aka perform a physical task by using mouse and keyboard or a controller) to compete against others. That’s the definition of a sport.

You probably want the word exert to mean something physically taxing but it doesn’t mean that. They are sports.

I don't think it's a sport. I always thought they coined the word 'esports' for things like Fifa - i.e. electronic version of a sport, which makes sense. But to extend that to things like Call of Duty no longer makes sense. I think they should stick to 'professional gaming' to describe it to be honest, because that's exactly what it is so there can be no argument.

The definition of sport is "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment". There's no physical exertion in gaming, not unless you're someone who counts breathing and flicking your thumbs as physical exertion.

 

[AliMc]

Trying to get our Payroll team to tell me what my bottom line / take-home will be once I drop from 5 days to 4 days from 1st Feb.

I have tried working out my NI and Tax myself using my current monthly payslip calc - and can get quite close - but I should be able to get it exact. I therefore conclude that I am making one or more incorrect assumptions somewhere in my calc, and don't feel comfortable with that. I have also made assumptions about some benefits and associated costs - and though HR have stated the costs of these won't change I would rather see that reflected in a new bottom line.

You'd think nobody had ever asked the question before.

I can assure you that this was asked of me and my staff many times but would not be entertained. Can't speak for your Payroll Team obviously but I worked as a Payroll Manager in a national organisation with 20+ staff processing 40,000+ weekly payees as well as Fortnightly, Monthly, Lunar and Casual payrolls, tbh we simply didn't have time to deal with these, it wasn't our role to do so in any case, that was to make sure that everyone was paid correctly and on time and that kept us fully employed, not trying to be funny here just stating things as they were.

 

[Deleted member 25172]

Hargreaves & Landsdown. When I passed my probation at work I got enrolled with the pension scheme with H&L and they sent me a mail which had a pincode for me to register my online account.

I didn't do that within 21 days, so then the pin expired. I called them to request a new pincode, but no, now they cannot confirm that I actually live at the address, so I will have to send PAPER copies of my passport and drivers license to them in order to get a new pincode. Paper? Wth? Why not copies emailed over?

Anyways. I sent it over, and on Friday I received another letter from H&L saying they will review the documents shortly. In the mail they had also included the paper copies of my passport and my drivers license. So, they cannot send me a friggin pincode as they can't confirm that I live where I do, but they're happy to send post to that same address which includes the most valuable of documents you have.

That's some logic for you right there.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Hargreaves & Landsdown. When I passed my probation at work I got enrolled with the pension scheme with H&L and they sent me a mail which had a pincode for me to register my online account.

I didn't do that within 21 days, so then the pin expired. I called them to request a new pincode, but no, now they cannot confirm that I actually live at the address, so I will have to send PAPER copies of my passport and drivers license to them in order to get a new pincode. Paper? Wth? Why not copies emailed over?

Anyways. I sent it over, and on Friday I received another letter from H&L saying they will review the documents shortly. In the mail they had also included the paper copies of my passport and my drivers license. So, they cannot send me a friggin pincode as they can't confirm that I live where I do, but they're happy to send post to that same address which includes the most valuable of documents you have.

That's some logic for you right there.

GDPR I’m afraid old boy.

You can’t email documents, for individuals, with a certain number of private/personal details shown.
But post, which can easily be intercepted, is fine.

They should have a portal, which can be used to send anything.

 

[PNWokingham]

GDPR I’m afraid old boy.

You can’t email documents, for individuals, with a certain number of private/personal details shown.
But post, which can easily be intercepted, is fine.

They should have a portal, which can be used to send anything.

i blame the EU!!

 

[Deleted member 25172]

GDPR I’m afraid old boy.

You can’t email documents, for individuals, with a certain number of private/personal details shown.
But post, which can easily be intercepted, is fine.

They should have a portal, which can be used to send anything.

Ok, fair enough on that part then.

But for them to send it back to the same address that they claim they can't verify that I live at, surely that can't be right?

 

[Crow]

Well I'm with Kellfire in the esports debate.

And nobody has yet explained exactly what Jim does, is he a secret agent or something?

What I can't believe, however, is the insistence that "my definition is right " and the need to go into several pages repeating the same unwinnable arguments.

 

[Orikoru]

Well I'm with Kellfire in the esports debate.

And nobody has yet explained exactly what Jim does, is he a secret agent or something?

What I can't believe, however, is the insistence that "my definition is right " and the need to go into several pages repeating the same unwinnable arguments.

In my defence I only just saw it today and added my reply before realising it was 3 pages back.

 

[Kellfire]

I don't think it's a sport. I always thought they coined the word 'esports' for things like Fifa - i.e. electronic version of a sport, which makes sense. But to extend that to things like Call of Duty no longer makes sense. I think they should stick to 'professional gaming' to describe it to be honest, because that's exactly what it is so there can be no argument.

The definition of sport is "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment". There's no physical exertion in gaming, not unless you're someone who counts breathing and flicking your thumbs as physical exertion.

Any physical movement is exertion. As I’ve said in other replies, don’t confuse the word exertion with something physically tiring as that’s colloquial.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Ok, fair enough on that part then.

But for them to send it back to the same address that they claim they can't verify that I live at, surely that can't be right?

I can't defend that one

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

If I was a gamer I'd be seriously embarrassed to call myself a sportsman.