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Post by Shenguin on Jun 15, 2019 17:09:02 GMT
I tried to read that wall of text, I really did. Several times. It all just goes gibberish in my head though. Sorry Tent Hen.
I hope it was a happy wall of text not a glum wall of text.
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Post by tenthenemy on Jun 15, 2019 17:11:07 GMT
I tried to read that wall of text, I really did. Several times. It all just goes gibberish in my head though. Sorry Tent Hen. I hope it was a happy wall of text not a glum wall of text. Hey! I even put in paragraphs! |
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Jun 15, 2019 17:21:28 GMT
lovely stuff tenth hen. I was on the brink of buying Cadence today but my Ailments got the better of me and I just ended up playing some Dota Underlords. First out of the bottom three, not bad.
I’m now thinking about playing some of the game boy Pokemon tcg game. All over the place today.
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Post by lonewolf on Jun 15, 2019 17:25:55 GMT
Unpopular opinion.
Pensioners can afford £13 a month TV licence.
I know how much they get basic and how benefit caps dont effect them. Also as far as "WW2 veterans" goes you would have to be 90+.
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Post by lonewolf on Jun 15, 2019 17:27:44 GMT
I came up with a Joke yesterday.
Have you heard Queen's new environmentally friendly album?
Its 100% Mercury free.
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Post by tenthenemy on Jun 15, 2019 17:32:26 GMT
I came up with a Joke yesterday. Have you heard Queen's new environmentally friendly album? Its 100% Mercury free. Booooooooooo |
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Post by lonewolf on Jun 15, 2019 17:35:23 GMT
I came up with a Joke yesterday. Have you heard Queen's new environmentally friendly album? Its 100% Mercury free. Booooooooooo Booourns? |
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Post by MrTiddles on Jun 15, 2019 17:37:49 GMT
I came up with a Joke yesterday. Have you heard Queen's new environmentally friendly album? Its 100% Mercury free. Booooooooooo I quite like that, but then again, I am Nosferatu. None of that buffy shit.* *No offence. |
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Post by Felice Landry on Jun 15, 2019 20:31:44 GMT
Mr Tiddles disses Buffy, kills chat  <edit>blamed the wrong person |
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Post by Destry on Jun 15, 2019 20:52:24 GMT
Tonight I watched the first episode of Chernobyl. followed by the first episode of A Touch of Cloth.
One was funnier than the other.
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Post by tenthenemy on Jun 15, 2019 21:48:58 GMT
Mr Tiddles disses Buffy, kills chat <edit>blamed the wrong person Positively murdered it and buried it under the patio, what else is new. |
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Post by Chumbles on Jun 15, 2019 22:05:41 GMT
Unpopular opinion. Pensioners can afford £13 a month TV licence. I know how much they get basic and how benefit caps dont effect them. Also as far as "WW2 veterans" goes you would have to be 90+. And we pay tax on income in the same way you guys do. Let's get this straight - I paid tax on all my income which I, when I could, put into pensions ... after losing 10% of my minute pension pots to obligatory advice on getting them out, I got 25% tax free out, which I had to spend on paying off my mortgage and alterations to my house in order to make it tenable for me to manage with my current disabilities. The remainder went into a pension fund. Even with all my benefits (which are subject to taxation along with my pensions) I don't pay tax because my income is LESS THAN THE SINGLE PERSON'S THRESHOLD. I haven't been on holiday since 2006, I eat minimally, I can't eat out, my ONLY 'luxury' is my broadband. I cannot afford sometimes desperately needed assistance. I am surviving on less than the minimum wage. Be very careful about chucking broad swathes of people into a pot and making ill-informed statements about them. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Jun 15, 2019 22:55:10 GMT
There's pensioners and there's pensioners. And it's a long way from taking retirement to reaching your 75th birthday. I don't think it should be means tested, but maybe have an opt-out for those who feel that they can afford it. Think about the taxpayer's money that Chris Grayling alone wasted. The government should be shouldering the costs, not the BBC.
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Post by tenthenemy on Jun 15, 2019 22:57:25 GMT
Pasta bake & broccoli for dinner, accompanied by a very quaffable Bordeaux. Midsomer Murders on the telly, probably starring Mr Tiddles.
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Post by Lurk McLurkface on Jun 15, 2019 23:08:03 GMT
Unpopular opinion. Pensioners can afford £13 a month TV licence. I know how much they get basic and how benefit caps dont effect them. Also as far as "WW2 veterans" goes you would have to be 90+. And we pay tax on income in the same way you guys do. Let's get this straight - I paid tax on all my income which I, when I could, put into pensions ... after losing 10% of my minute pension pots to obligatory advice on getting them out, I got 25% tax free out, which I had to spend on paying off my mortgage and alterations to my house in order to make it tenable for me to manage with my current disabilities. The remainder went into a pension fund. Even with all my benefits (which are subject to taxation along with my pensions) I don't pay tax because my income is LESS THAN THE SINGLE PERSON'S THRESHOLD. I haven't been on holiday since 2006, I eat minimally, I can't eat out, my ONLY 'luxury' is my broadband. I cannot afford sometimes desperately needed assistance. I am surviving on less than the minimum wage. Be very careful about chucking broad swathes of people into a pot and making ill-informed statements about them. ."Unpopular opinions" is a Reddit thing you silly old buzzard. Say the unthinkable - provoke debate. Don't take it personally. |
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Post by Chumbles on Jun 15, 2019 23:39:41 GMT
."Unpopular opinions" is a Reddit thing you silly old buzzard. Say the unthinkable - provoke debate. Don't take it personally. If I had been taking it personally I would have been far more unpleasant about it. In general I don't think OAPs should automatically get their TV licenses paid for. But I do believe that a sizable proportion of us will need it; for many of them, locked into their homes by age, inadequacy of support etc. etc. it is a contact with the outside world. The BBC are not in possession. nor should they be, of the statuses of the relevant cadre. Only the government via HMRC has the necessary access to it. I would propose that the BBC be informed of those whose income is less than, say, £14k p.a. and therefore entitled as a tax exempt benefit to a free license. The sums and the thresholds are open to debate... Fortunes are put towards wellness and mental health problems and this lifeline for the isolated elderly seems to be a cost-effective means of ameliorating these problems. |
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Post by Lurk McLurkface on Jun 16, 2019 0:26:34 GMT
."Unpopular opinions" is a Reddit thing you silly old buzzard. Say the unthinkable - provoke debate. Don't take it personally. If I had been taking it personally I would have been far more unpleasant about it. In general I don't think OAPs should automatically get their TV licenses paid for. But I do believe that a sizable proportion of us will need it; for many of them, locked into their homes by age, inadequacy of support etc. etc. it is a contact with the outside world. The BBC are not in possession. nor should they be, of the statuses of the relevant cadre. Only the government via HMRC has the necessary access to it. I would propose that the BBC be informed of those whose income is less than, say, £14k p.a. and therefore entitled as a tax exempt benefit to a free license. The sums and the thresholds are open to debate... Fortunes are put towards wellness and mental health problems and this lifeline for the isolated elderly seems to be a cost-effective means of ameliorating these problems. It was only introduced to get the 'grey vote' anyway. A cruder peice of electioneering it would be hard to find. The reality is the BBC are fucked every which way from Sunday. The 'yoot' don't watch broadcast TV anymore. Even with the increasingly threatening letters from Crapita (I get them too), folks who don't have any need for TV are being victimised for their non-orthodoxy. I would anticipate a U-Turn from the suucessful candidate in the Tory elections. |
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Post by Faceless on Jun 16, 2019 6:07:08 GMT
I second tenthen's suggestion - make Chris Grayling pay for everyone's TV licence.
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Post by crankcaller on Jun 16, 2019 7:03:26 GMT
Happy Father's day to the paters.
As a treat I got to sleep till 0715.
Games. Bit of late night Division 2. Did a supply drop and helped a random complete a mission.
TV. None.
Possibly off to some kids film this morning then out for lunch.
TV licence. Yeah the Govt should pay and folk can opt out of they wish. The daily mail / express covers moaning at the BBC are a bloody joke. Faux outrage once more.
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Post by MrTiddles on Jun 16, 2019 7:09:30 GMT
Just catching up on last night. Chumbles makes a good point, even if I did have to get my dictionary out (again) to understand it fully. "ameliorating" pffft. |
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Post by Shenguin on Jun 16, 2019 7:35:24 GMT
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Post by MrTiddles on Jun 16, 2019 7:47:22 GMT
Shenguin makes a good point. What.a.World. OTTM: I made one too many cheeseburgers last night, so I gave the spare to my 76 year old neighbour. He was merrily tucking into it when a splodge of ketchup fell on his trousers. He wasn't quite sure what was on his trousers initially, so tried to brush it off with his hand. Rookie mistake. Smear city. How we laughed. Great story etc..
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jun 16, 2019 8:17:32 GMT
'Yes officer, that is now 7 of my neighbours found smeared in, er, ketchup.' In the legal textbooks this one is known as the Tiddles Gambit.
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Post by MrTiddles on Jun 16, 2019 9:31:24 GMT
I'm going to do some seriously good grassing today. The good stuff.
*smiling hangman face*
Also sent my dad a card with a badge attached to it. He is 77. He'd better appreciate the irony.
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Post by Felice Landry on Jun 16, 2019 9:53:49 GMT
This is pretty good value Xbox game pass for PC £1 for the first month then £3.99 while in Beta then £7.99 |
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