Claysies new boat, extra 30K to spend!!

[longjohnsilver]

Don't suppose he'll get around to reading this for a few days, he'll be out celebrating following todays news about getting the extra £30K for postponing his old age pension. Wonder what he'll spend it on? Still the bad news is that by then he might be more dead than he now is /forums/images/icons/smile.gif or more likely they'll be taxing the wind, sail makers, anchorages, distillers...................................as well as making it compulsory for employers to contribute to employees pensions and then further taxing those very same pensions!

Wish I could say to peeps, don't take your pay for 5 years and I'll then pay you a lump sum in lieu. Life expectancy at 65 is 20 years so a goodly proportion aint ever going to see their 30 grand. Can't wait to be as old and wise as Claysie!

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[sailbadthesinner]

Re: obvious

he will spend 5 k employing jimi to install a holding tank
then anohter 25K in lift out and surveyors fees trying to locate it

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[tcm]

I am pretty cheesed off that this government is taking the easy way out. The original idea I proposed was that the pensions would be replaced by a single bonus payment of £250,000 if they made it to age 95, but this policy has been watered down, as usual.



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[claymore]

Re: obvious

Almost
thought I'd put 5K on one side to treat Mrs Sailbad. She seems a nice girl and there's hardly a morning I don't wake up and think "Poor Mrs Sailbad"

Anyway - I can't wait to be 70 - its a real incentive - the pension will be around 5K a year so I hang on in there without it and get a 5k bonus for doing so. I don't think so

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[Ohdrat]

Are they going to Index link/inflation/ cost of living proof the £30K bonus.. cus by the time I get there it'll be worth nothing..

I would have thought Claysie would have been up for it tho' cus he's such a workaholic and obviously very conciencious, I was under the (mis)conception that Claysie would do anything to support this disfunctional govt just to keep the US from coming in and making us function../forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[claymore]

You must have been talking to my Boss - she said the very same thing to me yesterday "Claysie" she said - " You are doing far too much work at home or down at the Sailing Centre - why don't you come in here for the odd afternoon like the rest of us have to?"
"Well Maggie" says I "Thats civil of you but I find I'm more productive off site as I don't keep having to go to all those interminable department meetings"
She went off on one then - big style - but I don't really know what she said as I don't listen. This confirms Dear Hearts assertions.
Not sure what you mean about supporting the Government - Kennedy is in a grand situation as its easy to promise the world when you know there's no chance of ever being in power, is there a Conservative Party any more - they seem awfy quiet and I think its quite good fun having the present mob in as it gives us all plenty to gripe about - but then we did that with Major, Thatcher,Heath,Wilson,Callahan, Wilson, Heath, Hulme, MacMillan... so whats new?


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[claymore]

OK - I forgot Michael Foot nm.

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[Twister_Ken]

>just to keep the US from coming in and making us function<

???You mean like the US is making Iraq function???

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[tcm]

Re: OK - I forgot Michael Foot nm.

tsk. Michael foot was never PM. Although i haven't yet devised a rhyming/scanning ditty to remeber all the PMs, you can jolly well learn the monarchs of England which is smugly handy (occassionally)

Wiliam Wiliam Henry Steve
Henry Richard John

Henry, 3 edwards,
Richard, 3 Henrys

Edward 4and Edward Vee
- and in the same year (1483) Richard Three

Henry Seven, Eight, fifteen-O-Nine
Henry's Children: Edward (Jane) Mary and Liz

James Charles, Charles James
William 'n Mary
Anne

Georges (Four),
William the fourth

Victoria
Edward George Edward George
Liz



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[Evadne]

You still haven't told us what you're going to spend the 30k on. By the time you get it, a new Optimist, perhaps?


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[Ohdrat]

Re: Tongue in Cheek..nm

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[Guest]

I have to say that Britanicus Disfunctionus was my greatest regret.. I think the Sates (wherever they are) would be made to pass up on a conquest.. tho I do not think much of their methodology in Persia

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[claymore]

Re: OK - I forgot Michael Foot nm.

I thought he was briefly - about the time he stood at the Cenotaph in his duffle coat?

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[tcm]

Re: OK - I forgot Michael Foot nm.

Um, that didn't make him PM, though. Callaghan lost, then foot took over by order of the TUC, then foot lost, and then kinnock lost twice. As a prize for losing twice and thereby being most voted-against person in UK history, kinnock is now EC vice-president.

Kinnock stood at the cenotaph too, as did paddy ashdown. But even with a duffle coat, power doesn't result.

If you are still unsure about this, pls send me a duffle coat i can verify by practical experiment, as the cenotaph is quite close by, just 200 yards along and left at the lights. But I am fairly sure they have to win a general election as well. I expect that this is a bit tough, esp with a duffle coat.

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[claymore]

Re: OK - I forgot Michael Foot nm.

Hmm - well, again I must bow to your superior knowledge. I have neither a duffle coat nor a sheepskin jacket as my aged Mother told me about 37 years ago that I was two short for such garments. I thought she had a bit of a nerve really as she was shorter than me and had a sheepskin jacket. She also had a fur coat until some left wing boiler-suited lesbian feminine activists from Lancaster University confronted her and started banging on about women who wear fur coats are the dumb animals. My late lamented father was quietly suited by this verbal assault as he was the one funding mothers fashions tastes. Mother was on the other hand, not as suited and from memory her fairly instant response went along the lines of "Bugger off you smelly twerps, buy yourselves a mirror if you can find one that won't crack at the sight of your fat arses and daft haircuts, get a wash then try working for a living" She probably mentioned the war at that point - it normally followed any remonstration with members of my generation and the sacrifices of course - and the fact that thousands who died in the cause of freedom would probably have had second thoughts if they could see what they'd been fighting for. It caused consternation amongst the ranks of the chutney ferrets as they were to a Lesbian, silenced and taken aback at this rather demure little blue rinsed lady who looked as if butter wouldn't melt.
I later took employment at the same seat of learning and I feel that she always felt a bit let down really.
Never saw her out in the coat again

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[Aja]

Re: OK - I forgot Michael Foot nm.

Michael Foot was there in his capacity as Leader of the Opposition.

Donald

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[CharlesK]

Re: OK - I forgot Michael Foot nm.

Whilst I commend your work ethic I have to say that sheepskin bomber jackets are reserved for dynamic youngsters like myself.

However I fail to see the problem with duffle jackets.. I thought they were the hight of naval / maritime fashion.. though I think they may not suite the Claysie type ... reputedly

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[claymore]

Re: OK - I forgot Michael Foot nm.

Well - good for him. At least there was an opposition then.
(Shuffles off mumbling and feeling a bit of a prat in such politically educated company)

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