Yes, it’s amazing and fantastic and more than a little surreal that all of these incredible musicians whose work we have come to know due to their involvement in this dumb skeleton band can finally admit it to the world.
HOWEVER.
This does not, nor will it EVER, mean that bombarding them with every last inane question about the band that has ever popped into your mind is something you can do now. Neither does it mean that thirsting over them TO THEIR (virtual) FACES is acceptable. It’s really no different than actors in a play or film. Who they are onstage and who they are offstage are separate. Always have been, always will be, always should be.
Am I shouting into the void here? Probably. But I had to at least try.
Seeing lots of ‘financial gurus’ on TikTok pushing the “You shouldn’t buy a house” line - so here’s me telling you that if you can, you should.
They’ll say shit like “A mortgage is just another name for a loan” as if it’s profound.
A mortgage tends to be much cheaper, even when including utilities. I don’t know if it’s common elsewhere but in my experience in Scotland the landlord rarely covers utilities so don’t listen to anyone who says “But then you’re paying a mortgage, plus insurance, plus utilities” as if it’s big and scary. In most cases it’ll come in cheaper than the rent you’re paying anyway.
And there’s a high chance that these ‘gurus’ are trying to put you off buying so people like them can accrue properties and rent them out.
Also the whole “Millenials/Gen Z don’t care about owning things” is just propaganda.
Maybe multi property ownership should be controled and limited by law.
I like the idea of incremental taxation - first house is 1x normal tax, 2nd house is 1.5x, 3rd is 2x etc with strict rent controls so the cost wasn’t pushed to the tenants.
Think AirBnB would implode overnight which I’d be fine with.
Owning a house is often significantly cheaper than renting a house, if you can get the deposit. I own one of those house things now and my monthly mortgage payments are less than what I was paying for one of 4 rooms in a 3 bedroom flat in 2009 which was £250 a month and the cheapest rent I ever had. It was a cheap house of course but still it’s like, I’ve never rented anywhere this cheap.
And the money goes back to me owning this place, not to a landlord who tries to tell me the constant damp is because I’m not opening the windows for 3 hours a day in early January or whatever. The money doesn’t go to someone who can’t even make the inspection on the day they say they will because they own so many properties.
i went ahead and made a masterpost of links to my uploads, translations, reports, etc. so if you got tired of sorting out my spotty and incomplete tagging –> douzo.
why are non-offensive moves even an option in pokemon?? im here to kick ass. have fun wasting a turn with your swords dance mirror shield whatever the fuck while i beat the shit out of you. hope you can still enjoy that raised sp attack stat in poke-hell
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Not to mention the fact that these two, specifically, would likely never, ever willingly hold hands with each other unless something very strange was going on, considering their backstories.
