Coming of age

[Dezi]

Welcome to the declining band of people who will collect their pensions before they die! After we've drained the system our kids will just have to keep on working........cheerful sod, ain't I? :goodluck:

Au contraire young sir, yesterday I received my second tax demand this year, which
means I will actually paid more in tax than I have had out in government pension.

Not through choice I readily admit.

Dezi c:

 

[Somelier]

Proper Tog then...

I've been a TOG for many years, I've got the sweatshirt and the alarm clock and Terry used to read out my emails frequently!!!:king:

 

[Somelier]

Welcome to the declining band of people who will collect their pensions before they die! After we've drained the system our kids will just have to keep on working........cheerful sod, ain't I? :goodluck:

I started working and paying tax when I was 14 (only part-time until I was 19!). Once I finished my education at 19, I have worked full-time except for a couple of short breaks and when I went to university as a mature student. So I've paid tax and N.I. for more than 40 years. I don't owe anything to anybody, least of all the younger generation!

We only have the government to blame for any crisis in the pension situation, because they've wasted all that money that I paid to them over the years.

 

[kimbowbill]

I'm 50 this year, i keep seeing my retirement age moving further and further away

Enjoy your retirement, you've earned it :banana:

 

[John H]

I started working and paying tax when I was 14 (only part-time until I was 19!). Once I finished my education at 19, I have worked full-time except for a couple of short breaks and when I went to university as a mature student. So I've paid tax and N.I. for more than 40 years. I don't owe anything to anybody, least of all the younger generation!

We only have the government to blame for any crisis in the pension situation, because they've wasted all that money that I paid to them over the years.

I think it was clear that my comment was intended as a joke but I am disappointed by your claim tht you don't owe anybody anything - it is not my philosophy of life (and it is also not the way the state pension system works).

 

[John H]

Au contraire young sir, yesterday I received my second tax demand this year, which
means I will actually paid more in tax than I have had out in government pension.

Not through choice I readily admit.

Dezi c:

And quite right too - squeeze the rich until the pips squeak, I say! :hammer:


(calm down, Northerner - it was a joke!)

 

[Dezi]

And quite right too - squeeze the rich until the pips squeak, I say! :hammer:


(calm down, Northerner - it was a joke!)

Last time I looked I was totally pipless, hence my begging letter franchise.

Dezi c:

 

[maingate]

Last time I looked I was totally pipless, hence my begging letter franchise.

Dezi c:

See you Jimmy. :mad2:

If you pick on me again, you will be nutless as well as pipless. :ninja: :lol-049:

 

[Byronic]

Even though I only receive state pension, sadly I will be paying tax, because my pension annual amount comes to more than my tax allowance, but I shall only have to pay tax on around £600 p.a.

I haven't reached the golden age yet. If that's all I was getting I don't reckon I would be quite as cheerful as you are.
All together now "Always look on the bright side of life de da!!!"

 

[Deleted member 8180]

I think it was clear that my comment was intended as a joke but I am disappointed by your claim tht you don't owe anybody anything - it is not my philosophy of life (and it is also not the way the state pension system works).

Every time someone gets something for nothing, someone else has done something for nothing...

 

[John H]

Every time someone gets something for nothing, someone else has done something for nothing...

True but why do we have to put a monetary value on everything that we do?

 

[Deleted member 8180]

True but why do we have to put a monetary value on everything that we do?

*looks carefully at his own post*

I didn't.

 

[John H]

*looks carefully at his own post*

I didn't.

Wasn't a criticism of you - just continuing the conversation.

 

[BrianG]

I was always told that the best years of one's life was childhood. Not true!
I retired at 60 and the past 13 years have been the best ever. And that is on less than full state pension.
OK I dig into the old money box every month but as they say "No pockets in a shroud"
By the way the missus and I had a fun day out at the undertaker's last week choosing our wooden boxes and things. Thoroughly recommend it. Leaves one with a feeling of being ahead of the game ---on top of things.
Cost a few more pence out of the money box though

 

[Dezi]

I was always told that the best years of one's life was childhood. Not true!
I retired at 60 and the past 13 years have been the best ever. And that is on less than full state pension.
OK I dig into the old money box every month but as they say "No pockets in a shroud"
By the way the missus and I had a fun day out at the undertaker's last week choosing our wooden boxes and things. Thoroughly recommend it. Leaves one with a feeling of being ahead of the game ---on top of things.
Cost a few more pence out of the money box though

No chance of them just taking a deposit & letting you pay the rest on the never never ?

Dezi c:

 

[BrianG]

Never ever never. As somebody else said "it's all money money money" these days. But we did have a great laugh. The undertaker was quite shocked when I told him we wanted the ashes of the second to be poured into the first one's urn. The children have then been told to give them a good shake so that we can have sex for the very last time.
Even that had to be spoiled because the urns aren't big enough for two!! Such is life or whatever!

 

[herbenny]

Never ever never. As somebody else said "it's all money money money" these days. But we did have a great laugh. The undertaker was quite shocked when I told him we wanted the ashes of the second to be poured into the first one's urn. The children have then been told to give them a good shake so that we can have sex for the very last time.
Even that had to be spoiled because the urns aren't big enough for two!! Such is life or whatever!

Thats sooooo funny :lol-053:.....

 

[maingate]

Never ever never. As somebody else said "it's all money money money" these days. But we did have a great laugh. The undertaker was quite shocked when I told him we wanted the ashes of the second to be poured into the first one's urn. The children have then been told to give them a good shake so that we can have sex for the very last time.
Even that had to be spoiled because the urns aren't big enough for two!! Such is life or whatever!

:idea-007: If you both start dieting, you could fit into one urn.

Go on, you know it makes sense. :banana:

 

[BrianG]

If we live long enough we may not need to diet. I know I'm much smaller than I used to be. Height and weight I mean!

 

[Smaug]

We had my Dad's ashes in a plastic container - as cheap as possible cos it's only a way to carry them around easily for a little while. I don't think we got them all & I'm not convinced we necessarily only got his either! But anyway, the container was only about half full. But that is still a lot of ashes.

There is a small bank down the back of our house & my Dad used to accuse my son of pushing him down it after he slipped once. This became a standing family joke, so half the ashes went down there. We then had a small family ceremony down on the prom with a poetry reading & my daughter read a letter he wrote to her at Uni - he sent her one every week & they were all quite surreal. We then cast his ashes in the River where he loved to swim & the next wave washed them back over my shoes - we reckon he still teasing us!

Funerals should be fun, a celebration of life & not a miserable, selfish mourning of loss. I like your approach very much & may think about mine a bit more myself now.