THE ENFORCERS ARE COMING..... FOR OLDBADGER!

[oldbadger]

They're always take'n me fingerprints here for sumthin or other......it if ain't me concealed carry license, it's for ID to fly on a danged airline. They always need new ones cuz they must lose'm regularly, & cuz no one arm of gov shares info with another....or they just like mess'n with me.

In Britistan nobody but a convict has to give their fingerprints or dna.
Because of this we're still discovering rapists from 20 years ago+. Then they get caught in a minor misdemeanour and get dna/fingerprint tested, and 'bingo', they're caught for major crimes carrying life-sentences.

Mrs B likes all oldbadger's posts.

 

[Revoltingest]

All this happines could mess up your digestion, Revolting!
That was 40 years ago! You can get BP licences (or whatever you need today) because Cap n Ball pistols are just about the only handguns allowed in the British Isles.... but I'll bet it's a difficult process to go through.

I had an idea that BP was banned in the US..... ? Can you clear that one up? It's mighty blasting powder, that stuff, but burns slowly in a gun.... more of a whooooffff than a bang.

You can snicker away, you snickering old Michanistanian, but we still do have stupid cops. My dear Lord.... the stories I could tell.......

I don't know of any black or smokeless powder restrictions here.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

I later got a very vicious letter from the cops and a new Permit to acquire 4 oz of black powder, just so that I had a permit..... I was holding about 2 lbs of the stuff!!

Cool! Like some latter-day Guy Fawkes?

 

[Smart_Guy]

Focus..... fooocuuussss...

 

[oldbadger]

Cool! Like some latter-day Guy Fawkes?

It would be a crime to tell you where I wanted to stuff some of it!

 

[Brickjectivity]

Its the 15th of December about 3pm where you are. No one has visited you, yet?

 

[Revoltingest]

It would be a crime to tell you where I wanted to stuff some of it!

We have something weird here called the "personal property tax". We (business) are taxed on things like desks, computers, chairs, refrigerators, microwaves, & even tableware. My bill this year is about $35.
An odd thing about it:
The tax is based upon original retail price, not value. Let say you buy an ancient copier (40 years old, but still works) for $50. If it originally retailed for $10,000, then that price is used to calculate your tax bill. (Consequently, there is some fibbing on the tax forms turned in.)

Now for the story:
Several years ago, a government employee decided that I was such an important source of income, that he must audit me. He did his research on records I've submitted. Perhaps he even scanned the public record, because he showed up fully prepared. (At the time, I paid around $75 per year.) He spent a couple hours inspecting my framed pictures, chairs, pencil cups, ancient serial monitors, & copier. The entire time, I pointed out the inefficiency of spending so much taxpayer money to collect so little, how dishonest the valuation process is, & how useless local government is in general to business. I also advised him on the advantages of finding real work that would actually benefit people. Then, when I wasn't looking, he ended his tour of my facility by quickly hopping in his car to flee.
The result:
He found that I had fewer assets than I was assessed, but doubled my taxes anyway. Government....filled with naught but useless people who couldn't find a real job....trying to justify the paycheck they collect.

 

[oldbadger]

We have something weird here called the "personal property tax". We (business) are taxed on things like desks, computers, chairs, refrigerators, microwaves, & even tableware. My bill this year is about $35.
An odd thing about it:
The tax is based upon original retail price, not value. Let say you buy an ancient copier (40 years old, but still works) for $50. If it originally retailed for $10,000, then that price is used to calculate your tax bill. (Consequently, there is some fibbing on the tax forms turned in.)

Now for the story:
Several years ago, a government employee decided that I was such an important source of income, that he must audit me. He did his research on records I've submitted. Perhaps he even scanned the public record, because he showed up fully prepared. (At the time, I paid around $75 per year.) He spent a couple hours inspecting my framed pictures, chairs, pencil cups, ancient serial monitors, & copier. The entire time, I pointed out the inefficiency of spending so much taxpayer money to collect so little, how dishonest the valuation process is, & how useless local government is in general to business. I also advised him on the advantages of finding real work that would actually benefit people. Then, when I wasn't looking, he ended his tour of my facility by quickly hopping in his car to flee.
The result:
He found that I had fewer assets than I was assessed, but doubled my taxes anyway. Government....filled with naught but useless people who couldn't find a real job....trying to justify the paycheck they collect.

Bloody Hell.......
No! I can't think of any bureaucratic griffle as bad as that in Britistan.... but don't hold your breath, 'cos we've got a few Britistanian members who might know better.

As a working householder I pay various fees and taxes. Income tax on any earnings over £10,000, I am taxed on the size of our home which is so tiny that it fits into Band A (£1000 pa) and no Council Surveyor could possibly find reason to shift it upwards eek, water drainage £200 pa) , water supply (£200 pa) ..... and the bloody telly licence (£145 pa). That's it. Other members will have masses more fees, licences, taxes etc than that, but as a pensioner on a bicycle the b-stards can't think of anything else (yet) to nail me for. I actually get free bus travel throughout England, free prescriptions, free National Insurance, free specs and free £200 pa towards winter heating.
A (pensioner) mate of mine does Kent to Cumberland and back by various routes each summer for zilch, and takes a tent for kipping-out if it's dry. All my mates are a bunch of skinflint tightwad skimpers.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

As a working householder I pay various fees and taxes. Income tax on any earnings over £10,000, I am taxed on the size of our home which is so tiny that it fits into Band A (£1000 pa) and no Council Surveyor could possibly find reason to shift it upwards eek, water drainage £200 pa) , water supply (£200 pa) ..... and the bloody telly licence (£145 pa). That's it. Other members will have masses more fees, licences, taxes etc than that, but as a pensioner on a bicycle the b-stards can't think of anything else (yet) to nail me for.

Still, at least we have got the National 'Elf Service, let's hope they don't mess it up or sell it off or something!

 

[oldbadger]

Still, at least we have got the National 'Elf Service, let's hope they don't mess it up or sell it off or something!

God Bless it. My wife was in Critical care for 14 days in April, and then into Kings for an operation followed by High Dependency nursing over 6 weeks. + all the peripheral bits and pieces. That would have cost us our home in most other countries. And now, because her condition is probably genetic, Guys is researching her bloods and dna before checking out her entire outer family, about 300 people on either maternal or paternal side. All for our NIS instalments.
Of course, I forgot to tell Revolting about Value added tax, chucked onto mostly any purchase at any stage of production or deliverance. What is it now? 20%? Not that I care too much, since I don't buy many things, don't need many things, these days.

 

[xkatz]

 

[oldbadger]

Oh jeesh! They look like that!!??

 

[Revoltingest]

Bloody Hell.......
No! I can't think of any bureaucratic griffle as bad as that in Britistan.... but don't hold your breath, 'cos we've got a few Britistanian members who might know better.
As a working householder I pay various fees and taxes. Income tax on any earnings over £10,000, I am taxed on the size of our home which is so tiny that it fits into Band A (£1000 pa) and no Council Surveyor could possibly find reason to shift it upwards eek, water drainage £200 pa) , water supply (£200 pa) ..... and the bloody telly licence (£145 pa). That's it. Other members will have masses more fees, licences, taxes etc than that, but as a pensioner on a bicycle the b-stards can't think of anything else (yet) to nail me for. I actually get free bus travel throughout England, free prescriptions, free National Insurance, free specs and free £200 pa towards winter heating.
A (pensioner) mate of mine does Kent to Cumberland and back by various routes each summer for zilch, and takes a tent for kipping-out if it's dry. All my mates are a bunch of skinflint tightwad skimpers.

Wow! You actually get something in exchange for your taxes!? I can travel for free....so long as I provide my own vehicle, & pay for fuel....except for toll roads all over eastern Americastan. Free specs? Free insurance? Never heard of such a thing. We prefer to spend our money bombing faraway countries, sending politicians on spendy junckets, paying farmers to grow too many crops, paying farmers not to grow crops, fondling travelers at airports, throwing grenades in cribs, etc, etc.

 

[oldbadger]

Wow! You actually get something in exchange for your taxes!?

Well, that's my optimistic approach to it. Other Britistanian members with a less positive outlook could probably challenge you to a 'It's more crap here' contest.
After spending a whole life wasted on anger, ranting at the moon and not being listened to, I stopped being angry (about 5 years ago). I should have stopped being angry when I was about 3yrs old but wasn't bright enough.

I can travel for free....so long as I provide my own vehicle, & pay for fuel....except for toll roads all over eastern Americastan.

It is the same here, Revolting, but I can only think of one short toll road (in the Midlands) that I ever used here in my whole life. And fuel taxation here puts the price of both petrol and diesel up to about £1.20+ per litre, circa $10 per gallon. [/QUOTE]

Free specs? Free insurance? Never heard of such a thing.

There's probably quite a longish list of freebies for us coffin-dodgers, as we're called.

We prefer to spend our money bombing faraway countries, sending politicians on spendy junckets,

Us lot as well...... Our leaders seem to become desperate to be World-class politicians, with world wide games to play at world class costs, and our roads at home are falling to pieces.
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paying farmers to grow too many crops, paying farmers not to grow crops,

Oh... you''ve spoilt my first cuppa tea of the morn now..why did you have to mention farmers? I don't know a poor (landed) farmer, and yet by the time that they have manipulated their accounts down to zero profit they get benefits, extra allowances etc as if they were unemployed, and their land keeps racing up in value while they trawl Government schemes for yet better returns. And they moan..... they bloody moan!

fondling travellers at airports, throwing grenades in cribs, etc, etc.

We do get fondled at airports, and sometimes at Court entrances, Guv buildings, the London Eye and other high-risk venues, Parliament visitors, etc
But they don't do the grenade in crib thing here unless there are known terrorists within a prop, such as the Iranian Embassy siege decades ago.

But that's now....... just wait until the Enforcers roll up!

 

[Revoltingest]

Anger.....I find the trick is to consciously choose when to enjoy it.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

God Bless it. My wife was in Critical care for 14 days in April, and then into Kings for an operation followed by High Dependency nursing over 6 weeks. + all the peripheral bits and pieces. That would have cost us our home in most other countries.

I feel really lucky to live in a country with a free health service. Just imagine being ill and having to worry about how to pay for the treatment! I do have concerns about the future of the NHS though, ageing population, rising demands, funding shortages etc. I also think there's a problem with unrealistic expectations and people not always taking enough responsibility for their own health. For example years ago I worked for the Ambulance Service, and I never ceased to be amazed about how people abused the service.

 

[Wirey]

I feel really lucky to live in a country with a free health service. Just imagine being ill and having to worry about how to pay for the treatment! I do have concerns about the future of the NHS though, ageing population, rising demands, funding shortages etc. I also think there's a problem with unrealistic expectations and people not always taking enough responsibility for their own health. For example years ago I worked for the Ambulance Service, and I never ceased to be amazed about how people abused the service.

Two words: Logan's Run.

 

[oldbadger]

Gentle members all........ and Revolting...... oh... and Wirey.

OK.... some of you may find this to be hard-to-believe....... but it's true.
I decided to see what threats are being sent to other people around the country.
The Enforcement manager for the Region which includes Kent signs all the threatening letters as J.Hales.
But I have been reading reports from around the country that letters sent out in many other regions are signed either by J. Hales, or Sarah Armstrong..... Regional Enforcement Managers.
But.......... one person has shown J. Hales' signature on the wwww. That signature is different to those
on my threat-letters. A bit more searching around and I see that Sarah Armstrong's signatures are very different as well.

I'll post up the web sites that make this claim (for RF protection) but I can see for myself that this is true.
So a public body is picking addresses without licences (and oldbadger's which does have a licence) and sending out harassing threatening letters, being signed J. Hales or Sarah Armstrong but actually signed in different hands.

Can you believe this?

PS:Medical advice to Revolting.... go and take an antacid tablet now, and stop laughing or you'll choke up your last meal.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

That signature is different to those
on my threat-letters. A bit more searching around and I see that Sarah Armstrong's signatures are very different as well.

It's probably just a junior member of staff signing the letters on behalf of the boss. In the good old days it was protocol to use "pp" to indicate that you were signing a letter on somebody else's behalf and then use your own signature, but these young 'uns probly 'aven't 'ad a proper edoocashion...

 

[oldbadger]

It's probably just a junior member of staff signing the letters on behalf of the boss. In the good old days it was protocol to use "pp" to indicate that you were signing a letter on somebody else's behalf and then use your own signature, but these young 'uns probly 'aven't 'ad a proper edoocashion...

I'll sniff around a bit more. I don't think that John Hales is in the TV enforcement brigade now, if ever he was! And to title him a regional enforcement manager all over the country,..... it's not looking good.