Originally Posted by agoreira (Post 9631679)

Had very little dealings with these departments myself, but I was always under the impression that what was said there was all in confidence, and not for general consumption outside of the office. Let's hope you are a bit more discreet than your other half.

Originally Posted by fionamw (Post 9631716)

I kind of know this will be a fruitless exercise, but feel strangely drawn to point out that avocados' comment: Yes, I regurally voice my views in person, directly to the point and in person and no one has punched me yet. Is neither here nor there and if anything demonstrates my point in the original post. Face to face you can determine tone, body language, clarification, etc etc. The fact you haven't been punched may be down to that, or it may be down to the fact you aren't rude, by choice. That's all I'm saying. If we can't see the person we're 'addressing' and they can't see us, a bit of civility won't hurt.

As to discussion being pointless, oh dear me. Sad old world, innit!!!

Originally Posted by avocados (Post 9631630)

In answer to the OP........

Yes, I regurally voice my views in person, directly to the point and in person and no one has punched me yet.

People need to understand that this forum and the internet in general is not real life. That's the reason I just post my views and move on. Discussion is pointless.

This forum tries to present itself as some authority on Spain, when clearly it is not!!!!

The regular posters seem to think they are samo saviours with indepth knowledge of all things SPain. All this "helping" only leads to confusion. They are not experts and most of the time their views are collated from pub talk or Spanish friends/relatives, who on the whole know less than the people on here (The Spanish rarely investigate facts themselves, they rely on others to know the answer, because he's "IN THE KNOW").

My OH works for the government, so by default I get a daily commentary on the office happenings. It is very enlightening.

I know all about "you" expats.........your income or lack of it, UK pension, Spanish pension, disabilities, sexuality, hopes and fears, what your plans are, whether your attempting to defraud, blah, blah, blah. No names of course. I can assure you that forums like this are frequented by very few people and don't have the weight that many of you think!!!

The real life demograph is very different to what's portrayed on here.

So to sum up, chillout and don't take the internet too seriously. Life continues irrespective.