Stupid little things that bug you

[Grassland Blue]

Bang on. If you get cash as a business, declare it and pay tax on it, so what.
If you then pay your staff in cash, with them paying the relevant tax, so what !

The Government, which ever one is in power, make you believe cash is always a fiddle.
Bollocks.
They need the banks to make millions, they need everyone in line like supplicant rats.

@Bill Walker all I saw in Sydney especially the suburbs were small business wanting, asking, for cash. Banks charge too much, fuck 'em.

The banks want their 'pound of flesh'.

 

[Blue Mist]

The banks want their 'pound of flesh'.

They also wanted millions of pounds of our money.

Apart from Barclays.

 

[urban genie]

A 15 picture set of things that bug everyone



my top 4 from it

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Yanks on the stage at the festival shouting out 'Glaystonberry'

 

[Bill Walker]

If they’re avoiding tax then that’s a different matter altogether and they’re putting their entire livelihood at risk in doing so. Doesn’t alter the fact that there’s billions of pounds lost to the U.K. economy each year in card fees, money which these businesses could have used for the benefit of their customers or other businesses.

Yes that's fair enough but you also have to face the fact that billions are lost to the treasury each year in the UK due to tax avoidance and a large part of the tax avoidance is the cash economy.
And those billions could be spent on things like the national health service or schools or better roads or public transport.
It's the same here I'm building a house at the moment and I'm sick of tradies asking me if I want to pay cash or through the bank. Obviously if I pay cash it doesn't go through the books.

Anyway I don't want to steer the thread away from its purpose by turning it into a sort of political thread, I think I started it I saying it bugs me when people insist I pay in cash when I haven't carried cash for over five years and I don't want to start queuing up in a bank to get cash or using an ATM.
I usually tell them I'm happy to pay a bit extra for the transaction fee like I do with Aldi but they don't want to know.

 

[mexico1970]

Yes that's fair enough but you also have to face the fact that billions are lost to the treasury each year in the UK due to tax avoidance and a large part of the tax avoidance is the cash economy.
And those billions could be spent on things like the national health service or schools or better roads or public transport.
It's the same here I'm building a house at the moment and I'm sick of tradies asking me if I want to pay cash or through the bank. Obviously if I pay cash it doesn't go through the books.

Anyway I don't want to steer the thread away from its purpose by turning it into a sort of political thread, I think I started it I saying it bugs me when people insist I pay in cash when I haven't carried cash for over five years and I don't want to start queuing up in a bank to get cash or using an ATM.
I usually tell them I'm happy to pay a bit extra for the transaction fee like I do with Aldi but they don't want to know.

I really wouldn't trust politicians or town hall officials (Hell any public body) to distribute wealth taken by means of tax, they'll either build a statue commemorating some dead head or give it away to someone abroad to make them feel better.

There have been 2 occasions in the last week where a business hasn't been able to use an electronic transaction, thankfully I carry cash some of it older than it should be.

Below is my latest purchase :)



A Ten Bob note in all of it's glory.

 

[Grassland Blue]

I really wouldn't trust politicians or town hall officials (Hell any public body) to distribute wealth taken by means of tax, they'll either build a statue commemorating some dead head or give it away to someone abroad to make them feel better.

There have been 2 occasions in the last week where a business hasn't been able to use an electronic transaction, thankfully I carry cash some of it older than it should be.

Below is my latest purchase :)

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A Ten Bob note in all of it's glory.

When I passed my 11+ in 1969, my granddad gave me a new 10/- note.
I felt rich!
A 50p coin given now would not have the same effect - lol.

 

[mexico1970]

When I passed my 11+ in 1969, my granddad gave me a new 10/- note.
I felt rich!
A 50p coin given now would not have the same effect - lol.

It was really classed as birthday money wasn't it? Here's what it would buy back then roughly in t' shops :)

 

[Grassland Blue]

The odd shaped toast in 'spoons.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

I really wouldn't trust politicians or town hall officials (Hell any public body) to distribute wealth taken by means of tax, they'll either build a statue commemorating some dead head or give it away to someone abroad to make them feel better.

There have been 2 occasions in the last week where a business hasn't been able to use an electronic transaction, thankfully I carry cash some of it older than it should be.

Below is my latest purchase :)

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A Ten Bob note in all of it's glory.

That was in your wallet the last time you went to the bar.