CharlieKo

1 hour ago, chang50 said:

Another thread about the ongoing scandal of UK pensioners paying income tax on pension increases we have not received..Phoned them today to explain my situation only to be met with the abrupt response 'we can only go off the figures provided by DWP you need to contact them'.Not really interested in helping at all.

 So I did and they were much more helpful.They said they would contact HMRC through 'searchlight' which seems to be a way to access customer info. and phone me back with an update..he also said he would post me my complete pension record.

Whether any good will come of this remains to be seen..

It's bad enough not getting the pension increases but then to be taxed as if you were is incompetence on a grand scale.

Rant over any input or insight into what is going on would be much appreciated..

 

 

Question. Do you get any other income other than the state pension which takes you over the 12,500 tax free allowance? 

2 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

example try to find someone for an easy job for a few hours or a day..

So you think it would be easier to find someone to do work for a few hours or a day, in other parts of the world? Get real people want full time employment. But you get the staff you are willing to pay for, offer low wages get useless staff. 

Find another lawyer! If your wife is Thai then get her to use the legal system to fight the Landlord and agent.

17 minutes ago, Peabody said:

That's EXACTLY what he did.

That makes the investors and those who provided credit dumb for not doing due diligence! 

18 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

The problem of costs for companies is a bit fake.. Indeed the costs will go up, but than ( I am sorry to say) a few people must be fired. I walk in many stores and i see a lot of people not working but playing their cellphones.. So they don't have anything to do. The productivity will go up if they know when they play on the phone they will get fired.. On the other hand there is so much work in Thailand that a lot of Burmese/Cambodian/Laos /Malaysian people have to come in to do the jobs.. The ones on their cellphones could take those jobs too.. Everybody happy...

You really don't now what you are talking about! The reason Thai's don't do the jobs that the migrant workers do, is 1, The migrant workers get paid less than Thai's. 2, Thai's won't do the jobs the migrant workers do. As for workers on mobiles in stores, if there are no customers what are the workers supposed to do. Shuffle pieces of paper around to make it look as if they are busy.

4 minutes ago, Bundooman said:

"I've studied more than 5,000 near death experiences".

Who were they?

Were they perfect people, you know, god fearing, self righteous, self-serving, self important church goers?

Or were they murderous dictators, serial killers, child predators, you know, that kind of thing?

5,000 is a lot of pure peoples........

 

 

 

That implies only righteous people will experience life after death. That is a load of rubbish. No such thing as pure people. Who decides who's pure? 

Maybe the truth is, we will never know if there is life after death. No one has ever come back and said there is such a thing.   

8 minutes ago, Bundooman said:

Do animals think the same as us about life after death?

Why not? Aren't we all led to believe that we are equal?

Are we that superior to the other creatures on this planet, you know - all those that were here before us?

We are mammals. Did Neanderthal man think like this?

Can you name one animal other than us that believes it?

If not, why doesn't it include all life on earth.

Why just us, the most vindictive, cruel, murderous, selfish, uncaring, sexual predators that ever inhabited this planet.

So, why are we so blessed?

Utter nonsense!

 

 

 

I think therefore I am! lol.

Near death is not death! We might realise we will die at the point death happens. But once the lights are out. They are out. 

Life after death is a made up idea pushed by religions to appease the question of "why are we here" Be a good person and you will surely go to heaven. Be Bad and go to hell. Just a way to control people. Like the ten commandments were the first laws to control societies. 

1 minute ago, Bkk Brian said:

Not my narrative, I quoted what the judge said who is not the only judge to make similar remarks when sentencing rioters from Jan 6th and left out the opinion piece promoted by Trump and his followers which is indeed nonsense.

You must of missed the last couple of sentences?

Chutkan said on Oct. 28, 2022. “It's a blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day." (Emphasis added.)

20 minutes ago, bignok said:

If you can't find a protestor that got 5 years too I rest my case.

Not so fast! lol

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/florida-man-gets-5-years-assault-capitol-riot-longest-sentence-n1286249

WASHINGTON — A Florida man was sentenced Friday to just over five years in prison for assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

14 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

The added opinion that "Chutkan appeared to lament the fact Trump was not yet in prison" is made up nonsense.

So when it doesn't fit your narrative, It's made up nonsense. I wonder how many posters are interested in a fair Trail. Rather than pre judging a guilty verdict?

1 minute ago, candide said:

What was inaccurate in what she said?

It shows she is not fit to judge the case because she is bias. Certainly didn't say anything was inaccurate. Obviously you think Trump should be in Jail. Well that is your opinion, right or wrong! 

5 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Of course you can source this claim with a link.........

https://www.easternprogress.com/in-her-jan-6-courtroom-judge-who-will-hear-trumps-case-is-the-pot-calling/article_a7cf3c2f-bb75-54aa-8b45-819a1e92492d.html

Before sentencing Christine Priola, a Trump supporter from Ohio who pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding, to 15 months in jail, Chutkan appeared to lament the fact Trump was not yet in prison. “[The] people who mobbed that Capitol were there in fealty, in loyalty, to one man – not to the Constitution, of which most of the people who come before me seem woefully ignorant, not to the ideals of this country, and not to the principles of democracy,” Chutkan said on Oct. 28, 2022. “It's a blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day." (Emphasis added.)

5 hours ago, placeholder said:

"bad eyes"? Really. Your comment is absolutely not deranged in any way whatsoever. An absolutely rational and unbiased appraisal of the judge. Truly a model of thoughtfulness.

She is on record, lamenting the fact Trump was not in Jail. She could not be more bias!

It sounds as if you want to have electric cables run over someone else's land to get to your house. This being the shortest route to your house? assuming you have a road or a track leading to your house, the electric poles would have to follow along the edge of the road/track to get to your house.  

It really doesn't matter the condition of the land you want to cross. It belongs to someone else, so you would need their permission first. Doubtful you would get that permission. 

Maybe you should have sorted that out before you built your house! surely the builders needed electricity at some stage of the build. Did they use a generator?

21 minutes ago, wpcoe said:

What "dose" of stinging nettle did you take?  On Amazon I see capsules of varying quantities like 250mg, 500mg, 750mg, 870mg, etc.

500mg.

6 minutes ago, Adumbration said:

I am already heavily to the quackery cures.  I eat pumpkin seeds morning and night and tomatoes and other fruits with lycopeen.  I don't mind those supposed remedies because that are actually foods...and quiet tasty as well.

 

Can you please elaborate on what daily dosage of the nettle capsules you took and over what duration to reduce your prostate.

 

I am a tea totaller and drink only the best imported black tea.  But I drank it white and sweet.  I am also a big cake and candy guy.  I am very fit and healthy so weight was never a problem.  But I have ditched all refined sugar.  I have a peppermint plant in my back garden and now, each morning I make myself a cup of lemon peppermint tea.  I don't really miss the black tea to be honest.  

 

I already eat a lot of avocadoes, but I also loved eating cuacomoli on toast for breakfast.  But I have ditched bread entirely and so am struggling to find something "crunchy" to accompany my avos.  I tried baked slices of sweet potatoe, and that kind of works...you reheat them from the freezer in your toaster....but still a bit lack luster.....it is not so much the taste of bread...but the texture that I miss....and the convenience.

 

I took one capsule per day. After about a month or sooner you should notice a change. But do your own research.   https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/stinging-nettle