Rob Winters

Seven and a half questions for Simon Collison

I’ve just discovered another stealth tax. Ok this one does not directly go to the government but instead goes directly to the person who does the laundry in your household. Your wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend/android is pocketing a percentage of your lose change from dirty washing that you have thoughtfully hung on the floor 2 feet away from the laundry basket.

I caught my girlfriend making a DWT deduction this morning, she calls it the Sarah washing fund, I call it another reason I can’t afford a G5 Power Mac or diamonds for the soles of my shoes.

How much are YOU getting taxed? How long has this been going on? Are there any tax breaks if we manage to put our laundry in the basket. (Yeah.. who is going to do that!)

Quote from the girlfriend in question.
I wont hold onto notes, that’s like an unwritten rule, but up to about £2 worth of change is the current rate*.

So apparently I can pay up to £2 per load in Dirty Washing Tax. I’m not sure what tax bracket that puts me in but it seems like a pretty reasonable one, I get a good service, my clothes always magically appear on hangers in my wardrobe smelling like fresh daises and 8 times out of ten remain the same size and colour as the day I bought them.

*This rate may change without warning or reason. Your side of the bed maybe at risk if you do not keep up payments.

Take two search engines in to the shower? I just Yagoohoogle and go!

What a prick!

One Idea is Better than Three (via Stopdesign)

“Round Two will make Firefox even more fun, safe and productive.”

Thunder Chunky Magazine! Great little site.

BBC NEWS Election 2005 Weblog
(from stylegala)

Newsreaders Cut to the Chase

I meant to blog about this at the time, but I never had a blog then so I couldn’t. Anyway I goes away for three weeks to the beautiful Land of the long white cloud. I reluctantly return to work to find my desk looking like THIS. Seems my colleagues Mat and Vince had a busy time while I was away.