Politics

[tyldesley_white]

1 hour ago, Sweep said:

Our plan is not too different - we'll downsize and buy a smaller property here, which hopefully will give us a few quid to go towards topping up our pensions (and/or buying a property somewhere a bit warmer, which we can hopefully also rent out when we're not using it)

Thats my plan too

[mickbrown]

27 minutes ago, Jol_BWFC said:

Is it the one where George Clooney lives?

She already lives with a pound shop Clooney. 

[Cheese]

6 hours ago, Ani said:

A member of our family has a business regularly takes on casual staff cash in hand for jobs he gets paid  in cash, so nothing though books. By regular I mean most days not once a month. 

Why have you not reported them to the Inland Revenue?

[Dimron]

4 hours ago, Sweep said:

Our plan is not too different - we'll downsize and buy a smaller property here, which hopefully will give us a few quid to go towards topping up our pensions (and/or buying a property somewhere a bit warmer, which we can hopefully also rent out when we're not using it)

Down-sizing is our current project... we took our present (300 yrs old) house on as we agreed it would "keep us young", my hobby for the last 12 years has been projects which involve a lot of manual work and the plan has worked. However, at 68 I am feeling it in my bones now so it's time to move on to our final spot.

Selling up soon, off to the coast and do some sort of equity release mortgage and with the various pots I have all over the place we will live disgracefully with old cars, elderly unwanted dogs and gliders.

Sorting out my books soon... anyone want the complete works of John Le Carre? And more...

[Ani]

8 hours ago, Dimron said:

Down-sizing is our current project... we took our present (300 yrs old) house on as we agreed it would "keep us young", my hobby for the last 12 years has been projects which involve a lot of manual work and the plan has worked. However, at 68 I am feeling it in my bones now so it's time to move on to our final spot.

Selling up soon, off to the coast and do some sort of equity release mortgage and with the various pots I have all over the place we will live disgracefully with old cars, elderly unwanted dogs and gliders.

Sorting out my books soon... anyone want the complete works of John Le Carre? And more...

Sure you have looked at the options but if you can avoid equity release do so. It eats up your capital quickly. Rates can be a real rip off.

We have kept ours as drawdown for the small balance on there. Hopefully your projects have added good value to property. 

[gonzo]

On 10/10/2024 at 21:49, Dimron said:

You’re in Blackpool? I’ll tell you a story that illustrates my case.

Back in winter 1975/76 I was a sprog and was “volun-told” to set out and keep an eye on two bridges we were putting over the Palatine… no one else fancied it as it was night works etc.

From my first evening I could see the height of the tram power cables was higher than what was detailed on the drawings but I thought “nowt to do with me, someone else’s problem and I need to get back and go on the piss on Churchgate with my mates”.

The bridges got built and at the company’s expense we had to go back later raise the bridges. I got a minor bollocking but the Chief Engineer got a major.

I was 19 years old and I have obviously now learned… they are all doing it now… these days the youngsters think as long as they send an email or whatsapp it no longer has anything to do with them.

But it has everything to do with everyone… the job has to come first. This is why we are now so crap at infrastructure.

Here's the original bridge over palatine....

 

[bolty58]

2 hours ago, gonzo said:

Here's the original bridge over palatine....

 

Great photo. Mackeson advert (hard to believe now that women who had just given birth were given those to drink in hospital. Can you imagine the nanny state meltdown if someone suggested that now?); Ovaltine (missus still buys that here - not for me thanks); proper buses.

[Dimron]

11 minutes ago, bolty58 said:

Great photo. Mackeson advert (hard to believe now that women who had just given birth were given those to drink in hospital. Can you imagine the nanny state meltdown if someone suggested that now?); Ovaltine (missus still buys that here - not for me thanks); proper buses.

I was telling the missus how Guinness is good for you and how I once knew a big Irish man "Mick the Flagger" whose regular lunch was 2 pints of Guinness and a duck egg. 

She of course fact-checked me and discovered one pint contained one eighth of the recommended daily fibre intake...

I rest my case

[Not in Crawley]

19 minutes ago, Dimron said:

I was telling the missus how Guinness is good for you and how I once knew a big Irish man "Mick the Flagger" whose regular lunch was 2 pints of Guinness and a duck egg. 

She of course fact-checked me and discovered one pint contained one eighth of the recommended daily fibre intake...

I rest my case

It's utter bollocks - 'Guinness is good for you' was a famous marketing slogan that caught on.

It has no realistic health benefits over even a pint of fizzy beer.

You'd be better off eating a beer mat for all the 'fibre' in a pint of Guinness.

[athywhite1958]

36 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

It's utter bollocks - 'Guinness is good for you' was a famous marketing slogan that caught on.

It has no realistic health benefits over even a pint of fizzy beer.

You'd be better off eating a beer mat for all the 'fibre' in a pint of Guinness.

So you're saying the 7 pints of Guinness I had last night were a waste of money?

[Not in Crawley]

21 minutes ago, athywhite1958 said:

So you're saying the 7 pints of Guinness I had last night were a waste of money?

Not at all. My Mrs even spilt the G last night which was pretty impressive.

[jmjhb]

15 hours ago, Cheese said:

Why have you not reported them to the Inland Revenue?

Possibly because it's not existed for 19 years? 😁

[athywhite1958]

2 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Not at all. My Mrs even spilt the G last night which was pretty impressive.

Thank god for that, although one benefit is that it keeps the old bowels working. You can't afford to spill the stuff £6.00 a pint last night

 

[Cheese]

2 minutes ago, jmjhb said:

Possibly because it's not existed for 19 years? 😁

I know, I was just fulfilling Sweep's prophecy.

[Not in Crawley]

10 minutes ago, athywhite1958 said:

Thank god for that, although one benefit is that it keeps the old bowels working. You can't afford to spill the stuff £6.00 a pint last night

 

42 quid on booze? Someone's doing alright for themselves 😄

[athywhite1958]

25 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

42 quid on booze? Someone's doing alright for themselves 😄

You'd no choice, it was at that 'do' last night with McAteer and co

[bolty58]

13 hours ago, athywhite1958 said:

So you're saying the 7 pints of Guinness I had last night were a waste of money?

Remember those words I used. Nanny state. It's a Labour thing.

Killjoys.

 

[Dimron]

On 19/10/2024 at 10:30, Not in Crawley said:

It's utter bollocks - 'Guinness is good for you' was a famous marketing slogan that caught on.

It has no realistic health benefits over even a pint of fizzy beer.

You'd be better off eating a beer mat for all the 'fibre' in a pint of Guinness.

I bet you were a barrel of laughs on a Friday night 🙂

Don't tell Mrs D though, she keeps asking whether I've had my fibre drink

[bolty58]

4 hours ago, Dimron said:

I bet you were a barrel of laughs on a Friday night 🙂

Don't tell Mrs D though, she keeps asking whether I've had my fibre drink

Check his posts. Always entertaining when he's had a night on the Chardonnay with his working class brothers in the trendy lanes of Islington or whichever middle class den of inequity he now frequents. 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

12 hours ago, Dimron said:

I bet you were a barrel of laughs on a Friday night 🙂

Don't tell Mrs D though, she keeps asking whether I've had my fibre drink

https://pedalchile.com/blog/healthiest-beers

As suspected.

Of course it's all relative- too much alcohol isn't good- but, like many natural foodstuffs, grains contain minerals and good compounds.

Grapes similarly in wine.

Edited October 21, 2024 by Tonge moor green jacket

[kent_white]

On 20/10/2024 at 00:12, bolty58 said:

Remember those words I used. Nanny state. It's a Labour thing.

Killjoys.

 

Just a friendly reminder that it was this same nanny state that got rid of set closing times! 😁

[Not in Crawley]

14 hours ago, Dimron said:

I bet you were a barrel of laughs on a Friday night 🙂

Don't tell Mrs D though, she keeps asking whether I've had my fibre drink

If you are going to drink it, do it for the taste and to get a buzz, but not because it's healthy.

[Cheese]

Fuck me, Cleverly is such a cunt.

 

[bolty58]

12 hours ago, kent_white said:

Just a friendly reminder that it was this same nanny state that got rid of set closing times! 😁

See. Sinister. Increasing the opiate of the masses to keep them under whilst they feather their own nests.

[kent_white]

23 minutes ago, bolty58 said:

See. Sinister. Increasing the opiate of the masses to keep them under whilst they feather their own nests.

😁