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Not illegal, but probably unethical?

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  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    OT : but wouldnt it be better to bring forward a loss?

    That's what I do. Feast/famine/feast/famine.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    steadysaver wrote: »
    Clearly I am bored this afternoon too. There is football club in argentina called Moron. Oh and a team in the norwegian leagues called Frigg. (Mildly ammused me anyway)

    There is a town in Moron called Mongolia as well - I've been there.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • Dithering_Dad
    Dithering_Dad Posts: 4,554 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    steadysaver wrote: »
    Remember - Pension plans can go down, as well as plummet.

    Although I realise there are "safer" options available inside a SIPP should you want to ride out the current volitility

    I moved my pension money into cash and was spared the huge stockmarket falls. As you say, you can avoid all the volitility by investing in cash, government bonds and 'Absolute Alpha' type funds.

    Incidently I moved my pension back into cash yesterday because I have a really bad feeling about the stockmarket again. :eek:
    Mortgage Free in 3 Years (Apr 2007 / Currently / Δ Difference)
    [strike]● Interest Only Pt: £36,924.12 / £ - - - - 1.00 / Δ £36,923.12[/strike] - Paid off! Yay!! :)
    ● Home Extension: £48,468.07 / £44,435.42 / Δ £4032.65
    ● Repayment Part: £64,331.11 / £59,877.15 / Δ £4453.96
    Total Mortgage Debt: £149,723.30 / £104,313.57 / Δ £45,409.73
  • Dithering_Dad
    Dithering_Dad Posts: 4,554 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    abaxas wrote: »
    OT : but wouldnt it be better to bring forward a loss?

    That's what I do. Feast/famine/feast/famine.

    Oh, how do you do that?

    *DD sits cross legged in front of abaxas, and hopes to learn something valuable*
    Mortgage Free in 3 Years (Apr 2007 / Currently / Δ Difference)
    [strike]● Interest Only Pt: £36,924.12 / £ - - - - 1.00 / Δ £36,923.12[/strike] - Paid off! Yay!! :)
    ● Home Extension: £48,468.07 / £44,435.42 / Δ £4032.65
    ● Repayment Part: £64,331.11 / £59,877.15 / Δ £4453.96
    Total Mortgage Debt: £149,723.30 / £104,313.57 / Δ £45,409.73
  • steadysaver
    steadysaver Posts: 389 Forumite
    Dithering_Dad wrote: »
    I just hate those tax credits SS, they're a crackpot idea and a huge overhead on the Inland Revenue. If Gordo wasn;t PM I reckon the new Chancellor would do away with them.

    Just don;t take the money off people in the first place, that's the correct way to do it. If you want to help low income families then simply increase their tax free allowance and allow married couples to share their taxfree allowances, so that if one person works and one is a home maker, then they're not losing £5k's worth of tax free allowance. Simple, surely?

    Simple, but effective..... unlike our Government
  • steadysaver
    steadysaver Posts: 389 Forumite
    Dithering_Dad wrote: »
    I moved my pension money into cash and was spared the huge stockmarket falls. As you say, you can avoid all the volitility by investing in cash, government bonds and 'Absolute Alpha' type funds.

    Incidently I moved my pension back into cash yesterday because I have a really bad feeling about the stockmarket again. :eek:

    The last I saw of BlackRocks UK alpha fund didnt look too clever. Admittidly that was a few months ago now.
  • steadysaver
    steadysaver Posts: 389 Forumite
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    There is a town in Moron called Mongolia as well - I've been there.

    There is a place in America called W*nkers Corner
  • nickmason
    nickmason Posts: 848 Forumite
    Horton-!!!-Studley :p , just outside Oxford....

    edit: just got done by the filters. the !!! spells "c","u","m".... and that wasn't the bit I found funny!
  • MrDT
    MrDT Posts: 951 Forumite
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    There is a town in Moron called Mongolia as well - I've been there.

    Moron is the welsh word for carrots. I love morons, yum yum :)


    edit: clitheroe and shavington-!!!-griestley are my favourite place names atm :D
  • oldMcDonald
    oldMcDonald Posts: 1,945 Forumite
    MrDT wrote: »
    Moron is the welsh word for carrots.


    I do so hope this is true. For some sad reason I find this highly amusing.
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