Preparedness for when

Butterfly_Brain

Has anyone seen this?
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/18/hmrc-to-sell-taxpayers-data

Is there anything this corporate grubbyment won't sell?

GreyQueen

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Has anyone seen this?
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/18/hmrc-to-sell-taxpayers-data

Is there anything this corporate grubbyment won't sell?

Yup. The sweat of their own honest toil.

Anything else is on the market; their souls, consciences, first-born children, elderly parents, you name it, they'll be flogging it.

Coming soon, the Fresh Air Tax.

I did feel a certain unholy amusement that the worst air pollution in the whole of the country is to be found in the richest boroughs of Lunnon Town, though.

Hmmm, piggies, cute-cute-cute. And so very tasty.

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Buggalugs is still her usual, unsociable self.

Just opened the door to let her out, and she came face to face with next door's ginger cat.

Cue instant hissing and flying claws.

On the good side, next door's cat was the one that ran, meaning buggalugs is still the boss. :cool:

ALIBOBSY

OH is working all day tomorrow, shame we won't see him till teatime, but when you are self employed you don't turn down the work and it will be a good payday lol.

Will still have a nice Easter tea together, defrosted the lamb shoulder from the FR lamb half we got before crimbo, and will be slow roasting it.

OH did an egg hunt with the kids this afternoon as he won't be here tomorrow morning and we have a few more eggs for in the morning as well (not all from us lol). Kids tend not to eat all the chocolate so often end up baking with it. In laws gave us a few boxes of corn flakes they stocked up on and no longer eat so am thinking choc cornflake cakes to use some up.

Ali x

jk0

Yesterday in Iceland a young mother with a child in the next checkout queue tried to pay with two twenty pound notes. The operative had obviously tried to mark them with some sort of marker to see if they were genuine.

Whatever the result of that test, they failed and the manager was called over. He told the woman they would not accept the notes, as they did not feel right. She protested that she had only just got the notes, but had no others so had to leave her shopping behind.

I wondered if she would walk back to one of the banks in the same precinct, to tackle them about the notes, but she didn't. I wonder if she knew they were dodgy twenties.

Anyone else seen that happen before, or have I just lived a sheltered life?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

actually the piglets ( or the boglets as we call them here, and mother is called a boglin lol) smelt of bacon when they were born..lol..

Frugalsod

jk0 wrote: »

Yesterday in Iceland a young mother with a child in the next checkout queue tried to pay with two twenty pound notes. The operative had obviously tried to mark them with some sort of marker to see if they were genuine.

Whatever the result of that test, they failed and the manager was called over. He told the woman they would not accept the notes, as they did not feel right. She protested that she had only just got the notes, but had no others so had to leave her shopping behind.

I wondered if she would walk back to one of the banks in the same precinct, to tackle them about the notes, but she didn't. I wonder if she knew they were dodgy twenties.

Anyone else seen that happen before, or have I just lived a sheltered life?

They use a range of anti counterfeit markers, I think that the ink changes colour if it is a fake. The actual chemistry of the paper is quite complex and consistent so that it works with these pens. There are also ultraviolet detectors which you see occasionally.

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I've been thinking about what someone posted, a week or two back, about the neighbours spotting my CFL running during a power cut.

I'm now considering having three panels cut from 1/8" ply, to fit over my LR windows.

Painted with blackboard paint, on the street facing side, they wouldn't be obvious to people outside.

themarsbargirl

jko-happens more than you think. when i worked with retail my favourite one was the fake ID so bad it had 'this is a toy' written on the back...
I actually had a supermarket give me a fake £2 coin in my change recently, i didn't realise at the time, not until a self-service till rejected it. Now in a bit of a quandry over what to do with it...

jk0

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I've been thinking about what someone posted, a week or two back, about the neighbours spotting my CFL running during a power cut.

I'm now considering having three panels cut from 1/8" ply, to fit over my LR windows.

Painted with blackboard paint, on the street facing side, they wouldn't be obvious to people outside.

If you make it half or 3/4" plywood it will serve a dual purpose to stop zombies getting in.