After reading this thread, I have to agree with the original poster about being aware about what you are posting.

It is important to remember that this issue doesn't just affect 'older' members but also (and is probably more relevant to) teenagers.

It is not uncommon for teens today to have at least a facebook/my space account and maybe twitter and accounts on other social networking sites. While the parents may be more aware of what they are posting teens (in general) don't put a lot of thought behind what they post.

I have had several conversions with my son about the content of his posts. Describing his new electric guitar and amp and then telling anyone who wants to read that the family is going away for a long weekend isn't the smartest idea

Iain

at least one of my teenage daughter's friends has everything down to phone number & address on her FB account - and befriends anyone who asks

and is currently telling everyone who'll listen about how they are going away for the weekend & that she can't wait for her next trip to England (she hasn't put the date - yet)

my dd & her had a big argument about putting personal info on the site - she couldn't see anything wrong with it - my dd is horrified

On the very sensible point of sensible postings, I cannot believe HBG was thinking 'sensible' when he made this post.

I like to believe that when something can be understood in different ways, that I should believe the poster meant it in the most constructive way, I will do that in this case.

However, just in passing, The posting I made, where I mentioned being married was in reply to a post where someone wanted to know if they would be able to get State medical cover in Spain.

That person's husband was just under retirement age in UK but was 'permanently disabled' by a health condition.

I said in that reply, I had been in the Spanish State health system since the age of 48. To assist the poster, I added that my wife, even though far below retirement age, was also covered. I hope my post assisted that lady and her husband.

Incidentally, I was never a fat PC anywhere, never in a position where I was likely to be prosecuted, I may have been silly, as HBG said, that's for him to decide. I do hope that the inference that he was at one time a police officer is mistaken, and that when he said, ".......... some of us saved him from being nicked" is not an admission of wrong doing.

My wife is not Thai but do I find it offensive to thousands of Asian people that HBG should make a sweeping derogatory remarks about Thais (Asians in general) being bought. I will be pleasantly surprised if HBG on reflection withdraws the insult to Asians.

I am not concerned about his impolite remarks about me, other than to say, comments of that type about posters may result in people, who can provide useful info to the members of this forum, being discouraged from doing so.

With that in mind, I request the moderators to try to prevent it.

For the record. This was my post which HBG commented on :-

Re: medical coverage
Quote:
Originally Posted by dgjamison View Post
Thank you for your reply, my husband is retired although not yet 65, due to ill health ie triple heart bypass,2 aortic aneurysms repaired too many operations to go into detail. He seems better in a warm climate and enjoys a game of golf with a buggy, but can't walk too far, he needs checkups twice a year, but the cold and damp are getting to him. thought we would look at spain but he would need to have access to the hospitals and doctors. Would we have to pay for these?

MAYBE.

I retired from government service in UK aged 48. I was on Invalidity benefit.

The overseas branch of DHSS (Newcastle) sent me form, I think E121, which entitled me to sign on to the Spanish Heath Service.

When I got married at 66, my wife, who is 32 yrs younger than me, also qualified as my dependant.



So Call Newcastle and ask.

I bet that was Forty!

naughty naughty

He won't read it, he doesn't come on here anymore, we are not good enough for him....

I had noticed his absence

Pity really but I think he was getting sick of it all as well.

Although I have never used FB or it's like, there was something on TV recently where a guy showed you how easy it was to set up a bank account and withdraw money from that account simply by harvesting a few details from FB. He actually took money out of the account, and it was unbelievably easy for anyone in the know. They did give the money back of course, or that's what he told us!

I can't see how that can happen, I mean I know it is often reported and often on TV programs but how can it actually take place? I have recently closed one of our accounts with Natwest down because we have been in a legal battle to get some of the charges reclaimed and we finally got settlement in November and I always vowed I would close the account once I did but trying top open another account before hand was a nightmare.
I thought we could do it online because everyone has been telling me that online banking is the way ahead but you still need to provide physical proof of your address by ways of either two forms of photo ID or one and a utility bill, well if you have got those then you will have paid a whole lot more for them than the bank account is ever going to make you.

I honestly can't understand why or how it can be done now, I mean even phone companies now require two years of proof of address to open an account.

my parents wouldn't be able to do that!

Its amazing! I have always wanted to go back to Lloyds since I left when I went to Australia the first time but good god, I almost opened a bloody post office account it was doing my head in so much!

Where is he - i miss his posts

Wow and from that statement he jumped to the conclusion that you "bought" a young thai wife?

I think he owes you an apology.