Why on earth does the attention of someone with a phobia of grubs always catches on a thread about grubs in the soil. No matter how quickly I'm scrolling down looking for a favourite long term thread I still catch sight and read the grub that title. It leaves me shivering due to the phobia. I'm thinking there could be a load of them in my soil
Perhaps people could use a neutral thread title with the initials NSFPh or Not Suitable For Phonics. Then you put the grubs bit inside the thread.
Anyone else got phobias triggered by posts on here? BTW through exposure I learn to be cope, doesn't mean I like it though.
But you don't have to give money to charity. You can't get away from paying money to the Council. IMHO the overwhelming majority of politicians are in it for what they get. Pigs in troughs.
True enough but that hardly negates the propensity for the CEO's of International Charities to pay themselves similar huge sums. Not citing charities only but if you look at the salaries ( plus expenses, shares and other freebies ) given ( rather than earned ) to some people today, your immediate thought ( or mine anyway ) is how can they actually justify the amount , how can they actually spend it and why on earth do they need it ? I agree about the Pigs in Troughs but sadly it doesn't just apply to politicians.
Even when they become former politicians there still at it.
Here's a truly disgusting charity salary for someone who should know better.
Anyone else got phobias triggered by posts on here? BTW through exposure I learn to be cope, doesn't mean I like it though.
Definitely but best not mentioned, I’d be banned 😀
Face your fears 😂😂 ...I say that having avoided the greenhouse for half n hour yesterday because there was an angry bee in there that buzzed at me when I went in 😖
The valuations office have finally agreed to undertake a review of my council tax banding. It doesn't mean it will be changed but they only do reviews if there's enough evidence that it could be incorrect so fingers crossed. It'll save me just over £460 a year if they find in my favour. I'm not holding my breath though.
If they decide your is in the correct band and all the others used for comparison are too low you may need to keep a low profile for a while.
Can we briefly go back to being grumpy about cars? I spent the entire weekend covered in oil stripping the engine on the camper van but had to take my car for a service today just to keep up the service record for a job that I would have done better myself (in my opinion).
I know people put a lot of value in service history but the cambelt on the camper was apparently changed 30k miles ago when we bought it and this is how it looked when I removed it yesterday. It's an interference engine too so if the belt had snapped it would have done a lot of expensive damage.
You caught that in time , just, but I've always had a policy of only buying cars that use a chain and not a cheap rubber belt. the manufactures switched to rubber belts simply to save money. The popular T5/6 VW campers all have a rubber belt which is costly to have replaced by a garage . Cheap for the manufacture but costly for the buyer in the long run.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
Not many in poverty in the charity sector. Just google charity pay 2021. The amount some charities pay staff and exec is staggering.
Things have hopefully changed over the years but it was once reported that Oxfam spent more money on administration than on the charity spending element. That was brought to the fore when they had a fancy new office block built.
When I was at school, independent grammar with well paid teachers, we had one leave to work for OXFAM. I'd like to say it was for altruistic reasons but he fell in love with India after the charity took a handful of its top volunteers on a fact finding jollie to see what they were doing there. I think he just wanted to find a way to keep going back and the oxfam job did that.
Mind you he was clearly bored of teaching. I also guess he knew that being an ancient Greek teacher wasn't going to improve his chances of progression!
There's probably a site somewhere listing the percentage of money raised going on admin/ back office and how much going on charity
I once saw the figures for how much charities get, relative to the folk they " help " I've never given to RNLI ever again. I'm not saying they don't go great work,but they need my money less than other charities. I remember looking at RSPCA's accounts and they had £122,000,000 in the bank. They clearly don't need my money either.
The valuations office have finally agreed to undertake a review of my council tax banding. It doesn't mean it will be changed but they only do reviews if there's enough evidence that it could be incorrect so fingers crossed. It'll save me just over £460 a year if they find in my favour. I'm not holding my breath though.
If they decide your is in the correct band and all the others used for comparison are too low you may need to keep a low profile for a while.
I did wonder about that but apparently they can only increase a property's banding when a house is sold so I should be safe for now.
I printed off a map of my entire estate though and marked up all the houses in the band below mine to try and find out where the line was drawn and from what I can tell I'm right on the upper limit of the band. I'm the smallest house in my current band anyway but I guess someone has to be.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Perhaps people could use a neutral thread title with the initials NSFPh or Not Suitable For Phonics. Then you put the grubs bit inside the thread.
Anyone else got phobias triggered by posts on here? BTW through exposure I learn to be cope, doesn't mean I like it though.
Even when they become former politicians there still at it.
Here's a truly disgusting charity salary for someone who should know better.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/david-miliband-slammed-for-salary-of-nearly-1-million-as-charity-boss-1.917061
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
If they decide your is in the correct band and all the others used for comparison are too low you may need to keep a low profile for a while.
The popular T5/6 VW campers all have a rubber belt which is costly to have replaced by a garage . Cheap for the manufacture but costly for the buyer in the long run.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
Things have hopefully changed over the years but it was once reported that Oxfam spent more money on administration than on the charity spending element. That was brought to the fore when they had a fancy new office block built.
Mind you he was clearly bored of teaching. I also guess he knew that being an ancient Greek teacher wasn't going to improve his chances of progression!
There's probably a site somewhere listing the percentage of money raised going on admin/ back office and how much going on charity
I'm not saying they don't go great work,but they need my money less than other charities.
I remember looking at RSPCA's accounts and they had £122,000,000 in the bank.
They clearly don't need my money either.