Harry and Meghan #116 Meggy exercising her bunions while Haz mucks about with his carrots and onions

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Carpediem69 said:
Have listened to 11th (you can ff in 30 sec chunks) at 2hrs 27; they have an item where they took ‘that’ book to a class of 7yr olds to read it and comment - have to say they quite liked it but the Head Teacher said it wasn’t really a story - which the age group reading it would prefer, the children seemed to enjoy the pictures. They had a little trouble pronouncing her name and one read it as ‘The Duchess of Success’ - he didn’t say anything else. 🥴
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My daughter used to pronounce Sussex as sausage, which certainly seems to fit in this case :ROFLMAO:
 
Apology I didn’t get to it in the last thread: Could I please ask that the generalised 1% bashing stop? It’s incorrect to use Bezos and Musk as the 1% poster boys - they’re in a much, much smaller percentile. I’m not trying to start a debate on inequality, but it pains me that my otherwise wise Tattlers are doing a number of people a disservice by tarring them with the same brush that applies to the behaviour of some egregious outliers.

“In one respect, the UK tax system already looks top heavy. The top one per cent pay 30 per cent of all income tax revenues: a higher share than at any time in past twenty years. In other words, three in every ten pounds that the government receives in income tax is paid by just over 300,000 individuals. (London School of Economics study, January this year)

There are decent people who realise how fortunate they are and contribute to society as best they can, and there are jerks who feel entitled and contribute only if there’s something in it for them, there are wackos with a bit of a disconnect (eg moonshots during a pandemic) and and and. At every level. Broadsides - including the words “scum”, “scumbags” with the solution that “we need to take the money off them” don’t move the discussion forward.

In the UK at least, the government does a good (not perfect) job of collecting from individuals. However, legislation hasn’t caught up with, for example, the Amazon world - and that’s where one sees the pittance of taxes paid. That’s what I’d focus on, because we can influence it through our MPs. Randomised bashing of whole groups of people is just ... random and mostly ineffective. It’s what sugars do in reverse.

To bring this back to H, there’s a poster boy for the 0.1% (not 1%) and I’d like to see that entitled (in attitude) tax slacker get his comeuppance. Unfortunately, my (accountant) hubby believes some will always slip through the net because they develop new tricks before HMRC/IRS/etc can close the gap. Sometimes we need to trust Karma, and I’ve seen plenty of evidence that she delivers :-).
 
The Wicked Lady said:
Break through!!!! Husband has just remembered he reported in originally by Whatsapp (I don't do mornings). I've found his Whatsapp message which is 10th June at 7.25 am stating that Nick Ferrari had just mentioned it.
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Oh no how did I miss it ? I was skipping through on the 30sec fast forward - I just went back and cannot find the 10th now 😭😭😭😭 I failed my mission 😧
 
GoLibrarianPoo said:
Nautical sausage, won't roll off the table in high seas :ROFLMAO:
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😁 Nautical sausage 😋 Smeggy was always keen on a Richmond 😉
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Azalea said:
Apology I didn’t get to it in the last thread: Could I please ask that the generalised 1% bashing stop? It’s incorrect to use Bezos and Musk as the 1% poster boys - they’re in a much, much smaller percentile. I’m not trying to start a debate on inequality, but it pains me that my otherwise wise Tattlers are doing a number of people a disservice by tarring them with the same brush that applies to the behaviour of some egregious outliers.

“In one respect, the UK tax system already looks top heavy. The top one per cent pay 30 per cent of all income tax revenues: a higher share than at any time in past twenty years. In other words, three in every ten pounds that the government receives in income tax is paid by just over 300,000 individuals. (London School of Economics study, January this year)

There are decent people who realise how fortunate they are and contribute to society as best they can, and there are jerks who feel entitled and contribute only if there’s something in it for them, there are wackos with a bit of a disconnect (eg moonshots during a pandemic) and and and. At every level. Broadsides - including the words “scum”, “scumbags” with the solution that “we need to take the money off them” don’t move the discussion forward.

In the UK at least, the government does a good (not perfect) job of collecting from individuals. However, legislation hasn’t caught up with, for example, the Amazon world - and that’s where one sees the pittance of taxes paid. That’s what I’d focus on, because we can influence it through our MPs. Randomised bashing of whole groups of people is just ... random and mostly ineffective. It’s what sugars do in reverse.

To bring this back to H, there’s a poster boy for the 0.1% (not 1%) and I’d like to see that entitled (in attitude) tax slacker get his comeuppance. Unfortunately, my (accountant) hubby believes some will always slip through the net because they develop new tricks before HMRC/IRS/etc can close the gap. Sometimes we need to trust Karma, and I’ve seen plenty of evidence that she delivers :).
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Tell you what...I'll stop bashing the 1% within this thread at least if you stop pontificating endless drivel about the poor little over privileged souls who hoard wealth whilst children are starving across the world. Deal? :)
 
Scotch Mist said:
🤣 they don't mince their words here!
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Sorry to quote my own post but this comment is gold 😂

'You’re not the Duke of Sussex anymore you rapidly balding, carrot headed virtue hoarder, you’re the emasculated Bum of California. Now duck off back to your fame chasing bleep of a wife and make an effort to live that private lifestyle that you keep apparently yearning for. duck OFF.'
 
Scotch Mist said:
Sorry to quote my own post but this comment is gold 😂

'You’re not the Duke of Sussex anymore you rapidly balding, carrot headed virtue hoarder, you’re the emasculated Bum of California. Now duck off back to your fame chasing bleep of a wife and make an effort to live that private lifestyle that you keep apparently yearning for. duck OFF.'
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Brilliant !! Shame its too long for a thread title😂😂
 
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