stella scandal

i'm farely battered on strongbow right now, it's good.

 

I can inform you that, following my football eam's christmas party tonight, and after many many bottles/cans of smirnoff and strongbow and carling, i can inform you that it is still crap in my eyes. goodnight

 

smirnoff and carling are truly awful drinks. only women or the chronically poor buy them.

 

i got a court summons today and its all because of stella. no, i didn't beat up my wifey. i used council tax payment reminders as beer mops and then forgot about them and now i have to go to a magistrates to explain why i haven't paid my council tax bill even though the form has a defined list of valid defences and being a student is apparently not one of them and as such says i shouldn't turn up and accept the bill. why don't i just phone up the council tax people and avoid a trip to the magistrates you ask? because every government office it appears is massively inefficient and stupid and staffed by people with very narrow job descriptions who couldn't dare venturing outside them. infact this has less to do with stella and the legacy of thatcher. probably

 

Agreed. It took me three phone calls to try and arrange a visit by an inspector to ratify my house as uninhabited while I do it up before moving in. In the end they managed to inspect it without even visiting?

 

What's a Council Tax?
Are they like state taxes here in the US?

Some of our Presidential candidates are talking about abolishing income tax (and notably the IRS) and going to a purely consumption tax based system.

I GOTTA GET MY BIGSCREEN HDTV ASAP!!!

 

Council Tax is another way of the government squeezing your hard earned out of you.

In the UK we get taxed on what we earn (income tax & national insurance), taxed on what we spend(VAT & duty) and also taxed on the interest of our savings(part of Income tax). Add to this, the government takes a percentage on top of the money you spend on buying a house (stamp duty, this applies every time you move) and then taxes you for the privilege of living in your own house. (council tax).

:rant::rant::rant::rant::rant:

Stella drinkers the lot of em.

 

on the one hand consumption taxes would be pretty damn cool, but on the other it would mean me paying taxes whilst being a student or even worse, as an under 18 (i'm not under 18, but for a few years i was) unable to get representation despite the taxation. people like the long dead luther (of the door defacing variety) would have a field day (i think, i might have messed up the stands historical figures took).
back to council tax, i have an 824 pound bill plus a 65 pound summons cost which the letter says is unrecoverable despite the fact i dont actually have to pay the 824 pounds. ****ing thatcher

 

I don't pay tax, but I love my Lutherans

 

Sounds a bit like our property tax. Do you pay whether or not you own the place? That would be different substantively than our property tax. How's it calculated? By a % of the value of the property?

 

Yes and yes. Property prices in London are silly and hence the cost of council tax. You do get a 25% discount for being a sad git and living on your own though.

Back to the thread. Stella is drunk by tax collectors, traffic wardens and Robbie Savage.

(all of the above may or may not be true)

 

i went to the tax collectors today and after being bounced about in the town hall, it was finally sorted. i just told the man i wasn't going to court and i wasn't paying and that i was a student. he then asked if i had any proof and i said not on me, so he went off for a bit came back and smiled implied we were all finished so i left and as far as i'm concerned its over. probably

 

That was probably just the Stella talking. The Bailiffs will re round in the morning.:doom:

 

Let me know how this goes...it frankly doesn't sound over, fan. I had a similar run in with the California Highway Patrol back in the mid-eighties, & it wasn't over until a judge pounded a gavel.

 

See that is what stella does to you, if you didnt drink it you would have told them ages ago you were a student and wouldn't be in this trouble

 

so true

 

I tend to refer to them as cockroaches of society...

 

bunch of drop outs. i'm the future damnit

 

God help us all

 

I'm a drop out ;D

 

don't be proud about it. be shameful and proper cut up.

 

I am a proud drop out. Infact the shirt i'm wearing at the moment says "College Dropout" on it.

Long live drop outs!

 

did you even start college?

 

I went to St. Edmunds College for 2 years.

 

I went to Orpington college for 2 years - didnt drink Stella though.

 

isnt two years enough to finish college? thus making you a non-college dropout

 

I left there at 16, only did the GCSE.

 

I belong to the fraternity of those who just barely graduated.

We actually run the 'free' world right now!

 

Ah!you have surfaced from the X Box!

Have you read any Wallace Stegner?

 

I have broken the tyranny of the xbox!

No no Wallace Stegner. who dat?

 

Him big chief American writer (1909-1993) previously unheard of in afanof household. Just read 'Crossing to Safety' and can't understand why he isn't big over here but maybe from your response he isn't big over there either.

 

an american who isn't big? ho ho ho. sleighing in with an obesity joke. or as they're known in scotland, obesity rollers. my god i'm bad at jokes

 

I always think of us as fat ass fat asses, but I've seen quite a few lardlads in the stands of the Premiership games I've caught this season. It's all pub weight though.

I'd say US is 30% gorgeous, 30% malnourished and 30% obese.
Japan, by the way is 10% gorgeous, 80% average and 10% horrible. Have you ever heard of "daikon legs"? Eww.

 

what is the proportion in the UK then?

 

You passed college with this maths?