I used to work with a guy who'd lived in Germany for 5 years, and not learned the language.
My question isn't why, but _how_ could you not learn the language!
Andy
Adam's apprentices
Dec 04, 2019
Last reply: 6 years ago
125 Replies
Ha! They asked me to fill in an application form:-)
How do you work out do some of the answers?
Take Q7
I just think easy. 10% is 24, half that and add it to 24.
BTW the answer to Q12 is to buy an LED lamp before you start:-)
Yeah, I'm old enough to remember 15% VAT.
Owain
They all speak English, and Beer Taxi Hotel Police Toilet are the same or close enough.
Owain
I am old enough to remember purchase tax which was about 40% before it was replaced by VAT at 15%.
I dont think there was ever a 40% rate but I know that, just before I left schol, TV tubes carried a 66 2/3% rate! Ouch!
50%, 25%, then the ±10% twiddles so beloved by chancellors, so we had 55%, 45%, 22.5% and 27.5%!Because it was levied at the wholesale level and many items were priced 'plus purchase tax' it was great fun after each budget calculating the new prices!
What has that got to do with fitting a 13A plug?
They are not simple general knowledge questions, although an interested person would possibly know, an aptitude for learning and a mechanical bent is better
Even I could do that.
Bill
I'm old enough to remember Window Tax.
Bill
Like the constipated mathematician
Which would knock out savants.
But you wuz too poor to 'ave windows :-)
Owain
The legislation for the tax did not define "window". So it could be construed to apply to any opening in a wall. If the rats had gnawed enough holes Bill's cardboard box it might have been charged.
Blame it on not having a Meccano set as a kid. ;-)
We had the windows but not the glass.
Bill
You had a cardboard box? YOU WERE LUCKY!
Bill
Is that the money you pay to Microsoft, Bill?
simple, enlarge the hole to take one the many desk cable outlets. It's what I did for our village hall. Kept the fridge's warranty
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