LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2019

We get the winter fuel allowance and at the moment the free TV licence. I consider it a trivial recompence for the way we're ripped off by any government in power. I don't feel at all guilty for accepting it.

Despite being retired for a couple of decades, I'm still paying a boat-load of income tax, added to which I'm paying VAT at 20% on anything that "moves," or the government can think of taxing, i.e. like insurances now. More food items will be next.
So as well as having one of the lowest rates of state pension in Europe, (subsidising other countries pensions must be where some of the money we pay into the EU goes), they're taking 50% of my income.

 

Why do I NOT have to pay for prescription charges BUT have to pay for hospital car parking at inflated prices? It cost me £8 today and the hospital made the appointment!

 

@shiney

and Canada 42.5%

 

Why did they not put the numbers on telephone keypads in the same configuration as a calculator or keyboard side pad?

How stupid is that. Working entering accounting data then go to call someone. ..

 

Same with remote controls. OK the numbers are usually in the same place, but other functions are not.

Because in one room we have a Freeview TV with a soundbar, with Virgin Tivo box under it on top of a Humax HDR, on top a CD/DVD player,



I've five remote controls.



I find them all very confusing.

 

Going back to Vinces comment. Recently there was post in the local freebie, Newsshopper'. A lady on the medical staff stated that it was costing her in excess of £35 a week for parking at the QE2 hospital in Woolwich. Of course there were the usual comments like. Leave the car at home and use public transport etc. The lady replied. Being on the emergency staff, has the individual tried getting a bus at 3.00 in the morning.

Thankfully I am exempt from paying road fund tax and I have a Blue Badge. I sympathize with patients who may be stuck at the hospital for several hours and visits.

 

Maybe if the government properly funded the NHS and din’t try to backdoor privatise hospitals, then they wouldn’t have to charge for car parking and use it as a source of income to try and survive. Hardly any hospitals finances are balanced anymore. Huge deficits across the whole NHS, which have pushed hospitals to only have to provide statutory care levels and hospitals to close or not to provide a full range of services-hence people now having to travel further around their counties/country to get appropriate care. Don’t blame the hospitals-blame the government who make these poor decisions about our wonderful NHS.

 

I sympathise Snorky
I’m currently helping a friend with her neighbours. She is disabled.....polio ....and on her own. Her neighbours ...a family incl a couple of teenagers.....simply intimidate her. They needlessly park in front of her property, she has a small disabled scooter. When I confronted them recently about this I received an apology and a promise not to do it again and immediately moved their vehicle.
Been well behaved since...we’ll see???
Bully’s are also cowards Snorky. Don’t be intimidated

 

What we found with our nasty neighbour the best thing was to not say anything at all to them and just turn your back and walk away, it's nice to know that the police will come out straight away, our police didn't want to know even when there was damage being done

 

That’s exactly what we have done. No interaction at all. She had no reason to come over to me at all. Minding my own business. She was clearly trying to provoke a reaction. I mean why on earth would she film me whilst getting out of her car and come over to me on my driveway?! Idiots. Her plan backfired on her big time.

 

This technology (pulse senders) is used in vintage jukeboxes. Some incorporated the dial system. You could only select records with it, not call anyone.