Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Do you know how to skin and dress small game?

For the gentleman wabbit, a smart blue coat, for the lady wabbit, a pinafore dwess.

For the effing wood pigeons, I can dismantle them barehanded and turn them inside out. Anyone who wants the technique can PM me.

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For the pesky wabbit (that should be read in an Elmer Fudd voice ), I use the pinch and nick method.

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I don't think you could rely on anyone else to do anything to anyone elses advantage, Poo could be dropped into a dug hole in the garden, long term you could plant a very successful tree in the hole and cover it with soil, I've seen them growing extremely vigorously on a campsite that did this when they relocated their composting loo once every 3 years. Wee could be left to turn into ammonia which in medieval times was used as part of washing clothing, neither of these options is particularly acceptable to modern man but if there was no chemical fertilizer poo would keep your plots fertile and if there was no washing powder/liquid to clean clothing lye made from hardwood ash and ammonia made from wee would be useful to have and you'd still have clean clothes, makes you think doesn't it?

greenbee

Karmacat wrote: »

I've only been tv-free for just over a year, but they haven't sent me anything since I stopped the licence and informed them online once.

They'll contact you every two years to ask whether your circumstances have changed.

I think if you give them your details and tell them you're not using a TV they assume you are telling the truth. If you're not talking to them, they assume you're hiding from them

The problem is, people like GQ are assumed to be watching TV without a licence because so many people do - so everything is boiled down to the lowest common denominator and if you don't fit the stereotype it doesn't work.

I thoroughly recommend giving them your details if you want to avoid harassment. One letter and online declaration (1min? 90 secs?) is much less stressful.

thriftwizard

Excuse me changing tack a bit here, but am I being very cynical wondering whether HSBC's "glitches" processing people's pay today might just have resulted in them having the use of the money for rather longer than normal? It did cross my mind back in June when RBS had similar "difficulties" that it might just be being used to plug a temporary gap in their "books" - but they probably don't need to resort to such shenanigans, do they?

GreyQueen

I'm just one of those awkward cusses who cannot see why I should be assumed to be a criminal just because there are some people out there who are criminals. Even the county's finest don't come harrassing my neighbours at home without having gathered enough intel to get a flipping warrant from the magistrates. TVL seem to be a law unto themselves.

Some people shoplift; I don't and I doubt you do, either. I expect you'd be livid if store detectives wanted to search your bags every time you popped out for a pint of milk and a tube of Prungles, in case you might've nicked something.

Righty, I am off to do something highly controversial; I shall read a book. It's a big book with citations and Proper Science in it, and I shall end the evening a tad more edjumicated than I was at breakfast, which beats most offering on the Idiot's Lantern. Onwards!

jk0

thriftwizard wrote: »

Excuse me changing tack a bit here, but am I being very cynical wondering whether HSBC's "glitches" processing people's pay today might just have resulted in them having the use of the money for rather longer than normal? It did cross my mind back in June when RBS had similar "difficulties" that it might just be being used to plug a temporary gap in their "books" - but they probably don't need to resort to such shenanigans, do they?

Oh yes, of course. It's only business banking that's affected isn't it. By Tuesday, all HSBC's personal customers will have been paid their wages by other banks, so HSBC will still be in the black if they then pay out their businesses' wages.

Cripe. I'm with HSBC & never thought of that before.

jk0

jk0 wrote: »

Oh yes, of course. It's only business banking that's affected isn't it. By Tuesday, all HSBC's personal customers will have been paid their wages by other banks, so HSBC will still be in the black if they then pay out their business's wages.

Cripe. I'm with HSBC & never thought of that before.

Cripe again... Of course this fiddle only works if one bank does it at a time. Any time two or more try it, the whole pack of cards comes down and no-one gets paid.

jk0

Morning all. Phew. What a relief. I thought I'd broken MSE there by posting such subversive views.

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greenbee wrote: »

I think if you give them your details and tell them you're not using a TV they assume you are telling the truth.

No they don't, hence why they say they may visit, to conform your NLC, which stands for "no licence needed claim".

If they believed you, it'd be a "no licence needed statement/declaration"

They also state "An enquiry officer may visit the address to verify that a Licence is not required."

If they believed you, they wouldn't need to "verify" it.

I thoroughly recommend giving them your details if you want to avoid harassment.

I wouldn't. Having your details, makes it easy for an unscrupulous enfarcement officer (and no, that's not a typo ) to falsify evidence against you.

One letter and online declaration (1min? 90 secs?) is much less stressful.

What stressful about ignoring letters and random door-steppers :huh: