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Not today, but the other day I learned that the expression 'Daylight robbery' comes from window tax.
Quote from: Kid Icarus on Saturday 1 June 2013, 10:38:30 PMNot today, but the other day I learned that the expression 'Daylight robbery' comes from window tax.Narrow houses and all that?
Quote from: Northerngimp on Saturday 1 June 2013, 10:39:35 PMQuote from: Kid Icarus on Saturday 1 June 2013, 10:38:30 PMNot today, but the other day I learned that the expression 'Daylight robbery' comes from window tax.Narrow houses and all that?I don't follow...
Quote from: Kid Icarus on Saturday 1 June 2013, 10:40:03 PMQuote from: Northerngimp on Saturday 1 June 2013, 10:39:35 PMQuote from: Kid Icarus on Saturday 1 June 2013, 10:38:30 PMNot today, but the other day I learned that the expression 'Daylight robbery' comes from window tax.Narrow houses and all that?I don't follow...Cant fully remember if its the same tax but in Holland and could have been here as well, people were taxed on either widow space or land space...thats why you see old houses really thin/narrow...to avoid paying the tax.
Quote from: Northerngimp on Saturday 1 June 2013, 10:43:05 PMQuote from: Kid Icarus on Saturday 1 June 2013, 10:40:03 PMQuote from: Northerngimp on Saturday 1 June 2013, 10:39:35 PMQuote from: Kid Icarus on Saturday 1 June 2013, 10:38:30 PMNot today, but the other day I learned that the expression 'Daylight robbery' comes from window tax.Narrow houses and all that?I don't follow...Cant fully remember if its the same tax but in Holland and could have been here as well, people were taxed on either widow space or land space...thats why you see old houses really thin/narrow...to avoid paying the tax. Oh right, I see. I have no idea. I just read about the window tax that was brought in by the Tudors, and that's why you see a lot of older houses with bricked up windows, and that that's where the expression 'Daylight robbery' comes from.
Look at Gimp teaching us s***.
I didn't learn this today, but it's a fact that has always stuck with me because it's just incredible. More British soldiers died in the last year of the first world war, than in all of the second world war.
Steve Bruce, liar, s*** manager and general prick.
I learned that Emily Ratajkowski is the greatest woman in history.
Ants are well organised life form.
Quote from: Northerngimp on Saturday 1 June 2013, 10:37:51 PMAnts are well organised life form.Just think if they got truly organized, humans would be dead in months.
Just realized you aren't Dave, dick. Now I gotta actually do s***.
Quote from: Super Duper Branko Strupar on Saturday 1 June 2013, 10:59:51 PMI learned that Emily Ratajkowski is the greatest woman in history.