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dbd33 Jun 21st 2007 6:20 am

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Originally Posted by steve666 (Post 4948633)
Can we go back to discussing late 70's music again please.

On Sirius there's a channel "First Wave" that plays only music from that era. Billy Bragg, Souxsie and the Banshees, the (English) Beat, Ian Dury, the Jam and the suddenly fashionable again John Cooper Clarke. It makes me feel very, very old.

steve666 Jun 21st 2007 6:25 am

Re: FROZEN Pensions - Action Needed
 

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 4948642)
On Sirius there's a channel "First Wave" that plays only music from that era. Billy Bragg, Souxsie and the Banshees, the (English) Beat, Ian Dury, the Jam and the suddenly fashionable again John Cooper Clarke. It makes me feel very, very old.

John Cooper Clarke:eek:
I still got one of his poetry books, and Souxsie, what a gal! Billy Bragg...ahhh the memories...
Oh, Liverpool FC are shite by the way.

dbd33 Jun 21st 2007 6:28 am

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Originally Posted by steve666 (Post 4948661)
John Cooper Clarke:eek:
I still got one of his poetry books, and Souxsie, what a gal! Billy Bragg...ahhh the memories...
Oh, Liverpool FC are shite by the way.

JCC's Evidently Chickentown was on the soundtrack to a recent Soprano's episode. I about walked to the foot of our stairs.

DAVIE_MAC Jun 21st 2007 7:13 am

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[quote The case of the British pensioners abroad I suspect to be different from that of the Canadians in that the Canadians generally work and pay taxes in Canada until they retire while the Brits move abroad and pay taxes abroad before making their claim against the UK taxpayer. It makes little sense to me to claim that someone who moved away in his forties should have a claim twenty odd years later.[/quote]

Not realy, they now have dropped the qualifying time to 30 years for Full state pension then why should you not claim it 20 / 30 / 35 or 3 odd years on.

startwin Jun 21st 2007 7:14 am

Re: FROZEN Pensions - Action Needed
 

Originally Posted by steve666 (Post 4948633)
Can we go back to discussing late 70's music again please.

Sure, start a thread on it.

DAVIE_MAC Jun 21st 2007 7:15 am

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[quote Oh, Liverpool FC are shite by the way.[/quote]
Hah realy don't make me laugh with who you support then dude cmon...who is it......please don't say Chelski or Scum Utd

steve666 Jun 21st 2007 7:16 am

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 4948678)
JCC's Evidently Chickentown was on the soundtrack to a recent Soprano's episode. I about walked to the foot of our stairs.

One of my many favorites of his -
'When I married the monster from outer space'

"We walked out - tentacle in hand
you could sense that the earthlings would not understand
they'd go.. nudge nudge ...when we got off the bus
saying it's extra-terrestial - not like us
and it's bad enough with another race
but ***** me... a monster ...from outer space".

And the Jam, got their whole collection on vinyl.
I suppose you don't have record players in Canada.

dbd33 Jun 21st 2007 7:17 am

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Originally Posted by DAVIE_MAC (Post 4949024)
[quote Oh, Liverpool FC are shite by the way.

Hah realy don't make me laugh with who you support then dude cmon...who is it......please don't say Chelski or Scum Utd[/QUOTE]

My old man said be a Tottenham fan...

steve666 Jun 21st 2007 7:17 am

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Originally Posted by startwin (Post 4949015)
Sure, start a thread on it.

I'd rather discuss it here, if you don't mind.
Thanks for the idea though.

dbd33 Jun 21st 2007 7:19 am

Re: FROZEN Pensions - Action Needed
 

Originally Posted by steve666 (Post 4949036)
One of my many favorites of his -
'When I married the monster from outer space'

"We walked out - tentacle in hand
you could sense that the earthlings would not understand
they'd go.. nudge nudge ...when we got off the bus
saying it's extra-terrestial - not like us
and it's bad enough with another race
but ***** me... a monster ...from outer space".

And the Jam, got their whole collection on vinyl.
I suppose you don't have record players in Canada.


From that album I liked "she fell of her stiletto heels and broke her ****** neck".

Of course we have record players, each time I go to England I fish another crate of records out of the parent's garage to play here. Now though I'm scrapping the barrel; Bronski Beat, Menace, the Four Skins. I've long since brought all the Roland Alphonso and Pretenders stuff.

steve666 Jun 21st 2007 7:21 am

Re: FROZEN Pensions - Action Needed
 

Originally Posted by DAVIE_MAC (Post 4949024)
Hah realy don't make me laugh with who you support then dude cmon...who is it......please don't say Chelski or Scum Utd

Fallandon FC, they won the South Ippingdon scour withers cup in 1949.

Notiaink...honest Jun 21st 2007 7:23 am

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 4949039)
My old man said be a Tottenham fan...

A closet Gooner then?

Ah, that song takes me back to my college days. Leeds University are we

fuschiagirl Jun 21st 2007 7:24 am

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 4948634)
I know nothing about Canadian pensions. I would expect them to be generous to Canadian pensioners abroad as, given the climate in Canada, it's usual to retire elsewhere and so there'd be proportionately more Canadian pensioners abroad than British ones.

The case of the British pensioners abroad I suspect to be different from that of the Canadians in that the Canadians generally work and pay taxes in Canada until they retire while the Brits move abroad and pay taxes abroad before making their claim against the UK taxpayer. It makes little sense to me to claim that someone who moved away in his forties should have a claim twenty odd years later.

My father was Canadian, fought in the Second World War, met my mother in England and then settled in England. He had damage to his ears fron shell blast and was awarded a Canadian Veterans pension. My mother is still receiving the widow's element although my father died 18 years ago. This pension is index-linked.

British tax-payers often do not move abroad until retirement, having accumulated a lifetime of tax paying to the British Government. It is only the latest ruling that will reduce to the required years of contribution from around 45 years to 30 years.

dbd33 Jun 21st 2007 7:27 am

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Originally Posted by Notiaink...honest (Post 4949075)
A closet Gooner then?

No. I didn't respond according to the lyric. In fact the first time anyone hit me in Canada I was standing in the beer line at the Montreal Forum unthinkingly wearing a Spurs scarf and someone in red whacked me from behind. If I'd thought to shout "Yiddo" I expect he'd be dead now.

DAVIE_MAC Jun 21st 2007 7:30 am

Re: FROZEN Pensions - Action Needed
 

Originally Posted by steve666 (Post 4949066)
Fallandon FC, they won the South Ippingdon scour withers cup in 1949.

Ah sorry for the confusion and I have respect mate...really I do.

Now can this thread return to pensions again.

Thanks


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