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🐫CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 7. If you have a dose of the cameelious hump🐪

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2020
    What!  No ... don't furlough the first team players ... that'd mean we'll (or our descendants) will be paying 80% of their obscene salaries 💵💵💵💵💵💵

    Did you hear that their reasoning  for not taking a cut is that the country needs them to continue paying tax on their  high salaries ... apparently it's them wot's keeping the UK afloat ............ I wonder why they haven't thought of taking a pay cut but still paying tax on the top line before the paycut ........ they wouldn't notice it ... I'm sure it could be arranged by HMRC ... The thing is that what they really want to do is to feel good and up their public profile by making donations to charities, which they can set against tax of course ... I know their tricks 😠

    josusa47     said:
    Dovefromabove said:
    What are you saying @herbaceous ... Im the only real one ... Joan Hickson reincarnate 😊 
    Joan Hickson is to Marple as David Suchet is to Poirot.  There'll never be another as good.
    Peter Ustinov?  <3

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    No word yet on my warranty claim for the washing machine but I have found a workable solution. I worked out the parts of the cycle where water is added to the drum and pause the machine to fill with hot water from the tap through the soap dispenser tray. Better than nothing and things are coming out cleaner now but I hope I don't have to do this for long :|
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318

    Dovefromabove said:
    What are you saying @herbaceous ... Im the only real one ... Joan Hickson reincarnate 😊 
    Joan Hickson is to Marple as David Suchet is to Poirot.  There'll never be another as good.
    Peter Ustinov?  <3
    That man was just amazing, one of very few who could make me laugh out loud in an empty room
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We managed to get one that does hot or cold fill.  It's a Bosch, but we've had it a long time. I'm not sure if they do them anymore.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    That sounds very ingenious @wild edges, obviously a man of many talents!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    If those footballers think they are paying a high level of tax then they should show their tax returns. I bet every one of them is using every tax avoidance measure out there and is paying a much lower tax rate than most.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    herbaceous said:

    Dovefromabove said:
    What are you saying @herbaceous ... Im the only real one ... Joan Hickson reincarnate 😊 
    Joan Hickson is to Marple as David Suchet is to Poirot.  There'll never be another as good.
    Peter Ustinov?  <3
    That man was just amazing, one of very few who could make me laugh out loud in an empty room
    Ustinov was certainly a great entertainer, but I never thought his Poirot was all that good.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    He was my first Poirot .... none can compare  <3

    I love David Suchet's Poirot ... but to me his finest role was as Blott ... in the incomparable Blott on the Landscape ... superb!!!

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Ustinov - too jokey to be Poirot. Just my opinion of course...
    @wild edges - 'fess up - you're really this bloke, aren't you?

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    It's fine to furlough the footballers @Dovefromabove we only pay up to a maximum of £2,500 whatever anyone earns
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
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