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[Chat]us horribilis

knitdanknitdan In ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered User regular
Annus horribilis is a Latin phrase, meaning "horrible year". It is complementary to annus mirabilis, which means "wonderful year"; however, annus mirabilis is a traditional term, while annus horribilis is of relatively recent coinage.

Although the phrase was used in 1891 to describe 1870, the year in which the Roman Catholic church defined the dogma of papal infallibility, it was brought to prominence by Queen Elizabeth II in a speech to the Guildhall on 24 November 1992, marking the 40th anniversary of her accession, in which she described the year as an annus horribilis.
1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an Annus Horribilis.
The "sympathetic correspondent" was later revealed to be her former assistant private secretary, Sir Edward Ford. The unpleasant events happened to the Royal Family in this year include:

On 12 March 1992, Mauritius, the last Commonwealth realm in Africa, abolished its Monarchy.
On 19 March, it was announced that Prince Andrew, Duke of York would separate from his wife Sarah, Duchess of York.
On 23 April, Anne, Princess Royal divorced her husband Captain Mark Phillips.
On 8 June, Diana, Princess of Wales’s tell-all book Diana, Her True Story was published after being serialised in The Sunday Times. Written by Andrew Morton, it revealed for the first time the unhappy truths of the Princess's marriage – particularly, the affair between Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker-Bowles – starting the "War of the Waleses".
On 20 August, scandalous pictures of the Duchess of York being kissed on her feet by her friend, John Bryan, were published in Daily Mirror.
On 24 August, intimate conversations between the Princess of Wales and James Gilbey from a tape recording of their phone calls were published in The Sun, causing "Squidgygate".
On 13 November, the affair between the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker-Bowles was confirmed by a transcript of a recording of their phone calls published in the Daily Mirror, causing "Camillagate".
On 20 November, just four days before the Guildhall speech, Windsor Castle – one of the main royal residences – caught fire and was seriously damaged. Huge public outcry was aroused against the prospect that the cost of repairs might be on government expenses.
On 26 November, after lengthy discussions and under enormous public pressure, it was announced that the Queen would start to pay income tax and capital gains tax in 1993. This became the first time for a British monarch to pay income tax since 1931.
On 9 December, John Major, then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, announced to the House of Commons that the Prince and Princess of Wales had decided to separate.

“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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    emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
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    ronyaronya Arrrrrf. the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
    the anointed [chat]!

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    spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Official [chat] is official.


    Fight!

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    emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Official [chat] is official.


    Fight!

    King Bowser has a very poor win/loss record when it comes to fights.

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    dlinfinitidlinfiniti Registered User regular
    i prefer bowsers

    AAAAA!!! PLAAAYGUUU!!!!
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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    wait, the British monarchs have to pay income tax?

    What income do they have?

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    ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA mod
    The cardinals gather under the dome and some finger the others.

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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    oh god, thread mergers again

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    knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    I don't quite understand it but it seems to be a certain percentage of income from something called the "Crown Estate." It appears to act as a sort of holding account for revenue from various leases of property owned by the State. Offshore wind farms were given as an example.

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
    -Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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    ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA mod
    Geth, recycle the thread on page 92

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    GethGeth Legion Perseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
    Affirmative Elki. Thread will be recycled after 92 pages.

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    knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    Do you see how I tied it into 92, you guys!?!

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
    -Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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    emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    Delmain wrote: »
    oh god, thread mergers again

    King Bowser horribilis.

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    japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited February 2016
    Delmain wrote: »
    wait, the British monarchs have to pay income tax?

    What income do they have?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Estate

    The royal family receives an indexed portion of the income of the crown estate, on which they pay income tax. Previously they received a civil list payment in exchange for effectively ceding control of the crown estate.

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    simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
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    Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    Down with the the crown!

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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    Yeah, it makes sense.

    I think all of that falls under what we would call Capital Gains Tax though, which was the source of my confusion

    Income Tax here pretty much only applies to money you are paid in exchange for work.

    I suppose there is Corporate Income Tax, and that the Crown is basically a Corporation legally, but I dunno, it threw me off.

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    Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    Terra anus

    Horrible butthole/Australia

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    knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    I imagine William and Harry are compensated in some way for their military service, but I could be wrong.

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
    -Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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    japanjapan Registered User regular
    It's usually misleading to try and categorise the Crown as some kind of other conventional entity (like a corporation) for the purposes of tax law - the Crown is the Crown, it's a unique entity in UK law.

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    Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    It fills me with glee that while still absolutely stupidly rich the fortunes of the British Royal family is much diminished.

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    Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    Charles' "I want to be your tampon" is a most cringeworthy phone sex technique

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    emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    knitdan wrote: »
    I imagine William and Harry are compensated in some way for their military service, but I could be wrong.

    well William and Harry aren't the Monarch

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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    It's usually misleading to try and categorise the Crown as some kind of other conventional entity (like a corporation) for the purposes of tax law - the Crown is the Crown, it's a unique entity in UK law.

    Yeah, which is why the idea of Income Tax was confusing me

    It's not like they're being paid to be the monarch

    It's just a wording thing that was throwing me off

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    Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Registered User regular
    Delmain wrote: »
    knitdan wrote: »
    I imagine William and Harry are compensated in some way for their military service, but I could be wrong.

    well William and Harry aren't the Monarch

    No, they don't arch Dr. Venture.

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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular

    yeah, there was a crossover with Kamen Rider Gaim (which was the current series when this started)

    It kinda made me want to watch it. The dude playing Kikaider was p good

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    thatassemblyguythatassemblyguy Janitor of Technical Debt .Registered User regular
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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular

    can confirm

    that's what happened the last time I thought about making an IRC bot

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    TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    Huh, I didn't think my iPhone would track my time on the elliptical correctly but it seems to have

    Neat

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    ronyaronya Arrrrrf. the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
    dear shell scripters: what is a safe way to pass variables to sed

    it seems like a nightmare of double escaping

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    ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    simonwolf wrote: »
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    dat work ethic

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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    dear shell scripters: what is a safe way to pass variables to sed

    it seems like a nightmare of double escaping

    that's basically how you had to do it last time I looked

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    21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Ugh... back to getting up at the crack of 4:45 am...


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    electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    dear shell scripters: what is a safe way to pass variables to sed

    it seems like a nightmare of double escaping

    At this point realize you should redo it in Python

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    Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    ronya wrote: »
    dear shell scripters: what is a safe way to pass variables to sed

    it seems like a nightmare of double escaping

    I don't remember if sed has the option of using whichever delimiters you want, but python is the best

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    Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    My time in the iron church finished with 135 push ups but I had to do well over half of them on my knees like an economic girlie man

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    NecoNeco Worthless Garbage Registered User regular
    Ugh... back to getting up at the crack of 4:45 am...


    :(

    Oh no, did things not work out with your sister?

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