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Silas

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  1. The correct answer here is: Pick anything from the One Touch era of the Sugababes Overload will be 25 in September, and Mutya turns 40 this May. They were 14/15 when they not only sung but also wrote this. Like imagine writing this masterpiece at just 15: Beyond words
  2. Silas posted a post in a topic in Sugababes's Sugababes
    It’s so exciting to see!!! Impatiently waiting for the Berlin date
  3. Silas posted a post in a topic in 20th Century Retro
    You queued overnight?
  4. Im a Social Democrat. So I sit left of centre on a vary many things, believe in fair taxes and a solid state and that many services for the public good eg power water transport should all be nationalised My red flag is integration. Otherwise you build generational problems. You can ask France, Belgium, Sweden and Germany and learn from the various ways in which the state failed in it’s duty of care. It is however a two way street, and your failure to integrate should be grounds for removal. You are in control of your own destiny and if you make the choice not to learn the language or the social norms or the culture then your visa should not be renewed. My social Democrat side of this tho is that refugees should be given work rights almost immediately. The state should support them with language courses and getting their skills recognised and then they should be able to work as soon as they have reached a minimum language standard.
  5. Silas posted a post in a topic in 20th Century Retro
    I got up early, was there for about 8:15 and was 36th in line. Got let in fairly quickly as they let a bunch in at once. Found the Sugababes, they had a bunch of copies. They were supposed to have The Veronicas but after an hour there no dice So I did this instead
  6. Silas posted a post in a topic in 20th Century Retro
    My target was not early enough 🥲 There’s already like 35 people ahead of me but at least some of them do not look like Sugababes fans. So fingers crossed people
  7. Silas posted a post in a topic in 20th Century Retro
    Im going about 20 mins away on the tram from me to my local participating record store. I’ve seen what I want in their online listing that being the Sugababes obviously and also the Veronica’s. They also posted an image online that had a few copies of TIMW visible. So my target is to get there for 8:20-8:30 for the store opening at 10
  8. Not likely soon when Keisha can barely sing the chorus 😅😅
  9. ACE REJECT KLAXON
  10. I’ll just repost this as I see we seem to have circled back to the exact same topic
  11. Im so happy they finally released something like this as a single. It represents such an important and incredible part of their back catalogue in all of the best ways. It speaks to some of my all time favourite Sugababes tracks. It’s so not out of place with Disturbed, Colder In The Rain, I Lay Down and so on
  12. Oh they are going to absolutely destroy my credit card with that merch I’m obsessed
  13. Silas posted a post in a topic in Sugababes's Sugababes
    Have fun tonight!!! There’s a spoilers thread already if you want to post about the set list etc after
  14. It’s defo not as instant as Jungle but it snares you and draws you in. It’s so ethereal with the layers of lush harmonies and Mutya getting to take a high harmony and its just magical they all shine but this is a Mutya song to me, she sounds so heavenly
  15. Here to extend my DNQ streak to three robberies in a row
  16. Amazon doesn’t pay a fair rate of corporation tax for a number of reasons (a misconception is that Amazon pay no tax, they pay billions in wage taxes and consumption taxes like VAT) chief among which is because they can afford to pay people to find the loopholes in tax law, so you wanna tax Amazon, start closing the long standing loopholes. You fix corporate tax evasion by two primary routes. Legislation and cooperation. Legislation to close loopholes and tighten up accounting regulations and what you can legally deduct from your income by way of tax relief and incentives. Personally as a chartered accountant I would be inclined to calculate a lower rate of corporation tax but from higher up the P&L so there’s less chance for accountants to f*** with it. Cooperation is done through things like the OECD to set global minimum tax rates and enforce requirements such as CBCR and work together to stop corporations offshoring revenue in low tax jurisdictions Tariffs ain’t got jack shit with corporate tax avoidance and certainly won’t stop it
  17. 😶😶 You cannot be serious. Do you know how capitalism works? The economic system, particularly in the USA, revolves around building short term shareholder wealth and prioritises that above literally anything and everything else including the long term financial stability of the business in question. You don’t make less profit, not f***in voluntarily anyway. If Tarifs come in, they get passed on, why? Because most businesses are margin based and focus on maintaining or improving that margin. Tarifs push the input costs up, and as a consequence prices rise in order to maintain the margin so they can pay dividends to shareholders (the majority of whom are institutional investors of which a substantial portion is private pension funds). Seriously tho, like how old are you? What do you do/study? Coz you seem to be living in a bubble that is detached from reality
  18. Sugababes - WeedsSugababes - WeedsChoose your preferred music service Presave link!!!
  19. People are comparing this to Spiral which sets expectations quite high
  20. You appear to have entirely forgotten about non-state pensions. We’re not talking about the UK state pension, that’s just straight up taxpayer funded. Roo is on about private pensions. The big funds have countless billions invested in stocks. I say „forgotten“ but given the rest of your posts in this thread it’s probably more accurate to say „didn’t know“
  21. Dying for this. Heard a small clip off a fan I know who’s based in the Phillipines and it’s LUSH
  22. It’s apparently out in NZ so I think we have our answer there!
  23. Have no idea tbh. Waiting to see what happens with the start of the tour as the first night is hours away
  24. Silas posted a post in a topic in Sugababes's Sugababes
    And it’s now confirmed then!