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  1. 2 hours ago, Minky said:

    You are all behind the curve on this one.  It doesn't matter who did the job or who gets blamed or whether putin don't like it.   The point is that a group has done it without putins men doing anything about it.  They just walked in and did the deed.  Now I hear that the Muricans were warning about this last week so how did the system overlook this one.  Does it mean that other PEOPLE / GROUPS can just wander into anywhere... train stations. Public areas such as markets, train stations or factories or military establishments and do a lot of damage.   Can't cover everywhere.  Look what happened in the troubles. Watch this space. Putins men are already stretched?, using prisoners and men from other sources.

    You make a very good point - whatever the FSB are watching, it wasn't ISIS cells - more likely those individuals who might have posed a threat to Putin's chance of being re-elected....

  2. I had the exact same problem of Themalite blocks and a gun cabinet fixing requirement - went to a fastener specialist and was recommended to use Excalibur Screw-bolts:

    https://www.excaliburscrewbolts.com/

    One drills a hole to the size of the shaft of the bolt and just screw the bolt in - it cuts it's own thread into the material.   The FAO came to do the inspection and was amazed - couldn't rock or budge the cabinet at all - signed it off and went away with the above URL on a bit of paper.

    They are also used to mount TV wall brackets apparently.

     

     

     

  3. I don't understand golf at all, it seems totally pointless....has to be a social activity like busting clays with a bunch of mates which seems like a good idea to me....😀

  4. State pension is funded by our historical NI (National Insurance) contributions, not income tax.  In a fifty year working life I have tipped plenty into the pot and now at retirement age it is time to take it back.

    I was about 30 years of age (66 now), working in a garage when I finally twigged (slow learner😀) that there is no correlation between how hard you work and how much you get paid  - there ought to be in a fair world but as most of us have worked out - life isn't fair. Back then in the garage there wasn't even an occupational pension to be had.

     

  5. Just had a letter from the DWP to say my state pension is rising to £986.52 (paid every 4 weeks)  from April - 52weeks/4 = 13 payments so £12,824 - so that will completely wipe out the personal tax allowance of £12,570 in a single pass...oh deep joy. 

  6. On 20/02/2024 at 17:06, steve_b_wales said:

    I'm still working full time. I no longer pay National Insurance but my state pension is classed as income, and therefore I am taxed on it.

    Having retired last year and started drawing the state pension from  September (month following my 66th birthday) I was surprised to find that it is paid in full (i.e. no tax deducted) - every 4 weeks.  HMRC, who never miss a trick then deduct the tax for it from other pension income.  

  7. 2 hours ago, steve_b_wales said:

    Once again, I agree, but the DVD discs will be used with people with learning difficulties etc, and are far easier (for them)

    Understood.

    There is this: RONYASOFT CD DVD LABEL MAKER

    The demo version is unlimited use and will watermark the prints - maybe enough for your needs or buy the full version for the professional end result.

  8. New York?  Went there is 2012 for 10 days to placate the wife and expected to hate it - and didn't,  Its like no other city on the planet that I've ever visited

    - Stay in the financial district (that's the bottom bit nearest the Statue of Liberty) and discover it goes quiet at night - must visit the Mexican: Mad Dogs and Beans: https://www.maddogandbeans.com/ down there - their Margaritas are lethal, walking back to the hotel was VERY difficult and it was only 2 blocks away.

    - The have a couple of nights up in Mid-town, just south of central park - nuts, construction sites work 24 hours a day as, its seems, everything else does too.

     

     

  9. Dentists are a likely example of the way the whole of the NHS will go eventually as the current arrangement is unaffordable:

    - Better drugs and technologies mean that people live longer which costs money

    - Better drugs and technologies cost more money in themselves

    - our health professionals are underpaid so the NHS needs more money

    A conversation with my NHS dentist went like this a few years ago..."Under the NHS the treatment is 'X' however that's not really the way it could be done for the best result, current dental techniques in the private sector are 'Y' so if you have a private dental plan this is the way we would approach it".  Hello Denplan - costs me about £50/month.

    UK dentistry is already a two-tier system, the bare minimum vs getting the job done properly, seems only a matter of time before the rest of the NHS follows suit.

  10. - Two things you can do.

    1) Install a an Advert blocker as an extension to your web browser - I use AdblockPlus:  https://adblockplus.org/download, contributing to its development is optional, I do put £5 in from time to time

    2) If you are using a PC consider installing a free tool like CCleaner:  https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/download/standard

     

    Adblock supresses adverts effectively, to the point that some sites will detect it is being used and ask you to turn it off for the site - which you can do.   CCleaner's Custom Clean option, left in it's default settings will clear out the cookies that produce annoying pop-ups.

     

     

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