MRToMRT

More exercise, watch how much you eat, watch what you eat, limit the booze (although your triglycerides are low so I would guess you don't drink to excess)

Statins will reduce LDL but if your are interested in your Cholesterol as part of your cardivascular system working properly you also need to increase HDL (only way to raise HDL is regular exercise to my knowledge).

Many of us have been in your shoes. Some get away with it some get strokes and heart attacks in their mail.

53. Give him another 7 years and the hangovers will be so bad he will never get drunk again.

12 hours ago, Black Ops said:

So what does this mean for your finances?

Not much really, but I don't have a mortgage or enough savings to make a big difference on savings. Hopefully it will be a catalyst to bring inflation down as they plan.

Baggage strike may be off. Menzies made an improved offer.

Unite members are being balloted on whether to accept or not.

GMB union has accepted already, Unite union going to ballot on decision.

48 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I’ll remind you once again, since you introduced it into the discussion, your pension is being raised by 10%.
 

I don’t hear you objecting.

So I would get nearly 1000 quid. Thats means that the average train driver should get 5000 quid in your math. Does he pay 5 times more for anything than me? 

I give up with you, you have worn me down. 

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Inflation is north of 10%.

Now it maybe, but it was not the whole of this last year and it will not be next year. You can't really be saying that salaries should be set based on peak rate? Look at the page below, do you think they are struggling to feed themselves.?

https://www.netsalarycalculator.co.uk/train-driver-salary/

As Mick Lynch's name has come up a few times (I think I may have started that - oops)

What Mick gets paid - 84k a year

Train drivers current salary - 24k as a trainee - then 49K (average).

Whats been offered: Network Rail had offered union members a 5% pay rise for this year – backdated to January – with another 4% at the start of 2023 and a guarantee of no compulsory job losses until January 2025. However, this offer has not been enough to halt the strike action.

I will look up the same for Border Control when I get back from my breakfast 

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

it seems to me to be deliberately offensive towards those who serve

Deleted my comment ( as I realised Chomper was just successfully dragging me down to his level of spurious commentary).

33 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

working people receiving a decent pay

My point is what is "decent" pay. Its a nice phrase to throw around, Mick Lynch does it daily.

But should not "decent" be open to scrutiny. Surely it would be better for the public, who will not only pay for the wage rise, as well as the improvements in conditions of work as well as the resulting higher service fees (such as rail tickets) that will get passed on to as well.

I consider an average of 36K (or over 50k for rail drivers) to be "decent". You may not, I accept that.

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Your pension is subject to the triple lock.

My state pension is a pittance compared to 36K.

On 12/9/2022 at 9:22 PM, Chomper Higgot said:

Undermining the struggle of working people to obtain a fair wage and working conditions.

 

Its an average of 36K/year (lowest is 25k and highest 48k for standard officers according to GlassDoor). They are being offered a 2% rise.

As a UK tax payer and pensioner they are doing a lot better than me.

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As the UK taxpayers will pay for any pay rises, I think they should include the average salaries for each of the services (Train drivers, border force, etc) so we can decide if we sympathise or not. 

A google search brings up a 50-60k per year (without overtime) salary for a UK train driver. That shocked me.

The majority of the rest of the vaccinated world is just getting on with life now. Maskless and without fear. 

Musk himself has admitted (in court) that Tesla engineers were used but theres a spin, apparantly not as paid staff ....

The 50 Tesla engineers who worked for Elon Musk at Twitter weren't "Tesla assets" because they volunteered to work at the company after hours, the billionaire told a Delaware courtroom Wednesday, according to CNBC. 

When questioned whether it was a good idea to use Tesla resources at Twitter, Musk said he "didn't think of this as using Tesla assets." 

"There's 120,000 people at the company. This is de minimis," he added, using a Latin term meaning something so minor it should be disregarded. He added that the engineers worked at Twitter "for a few days, and then it was over."

2 hours ago, peter zwart said:

A lot to find on google. but here is just one of them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/23/vaccinated-people-now-make-up-majority-covid-deaths/

 

But they all could be peops who were vaccinated just once (or twice) so its lost its efficacy.

The junta boys win every which way. Even if theres a PT landslide, the PT will still need to be paying them off to stop them from causing more future trouble. They are all ultimately in the same bed.

Need new blood youngsters (that are ethically motivated rather than morally corrupt) like FF if future change is to be a possibility.

48 minutes ago, sometimewoodworker said:

You must be doing something unusual as Private Relay is not supported in Thailand.

I can only assume its maybe (?) because my apple account is not a Thai one.

8 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

this travesty of the perversion of the English

The english language itself is a perversion of many European court and former invader languages. That is continues on its journey of perversion (I would use the word "evolution") is natural.