Thread: Daily or weekly cheer

Originally Posted by malmomike77

This thread has cheered me up on cold morning start.

Are you sure it wasn’t the gallon of brandy you loaded your morning coffee with that did that?

Originally Posted by Mendip

stopped off at my dentist in Korat with no appointment, she gave me a check-up and replaced the filling all for 1600 Baht.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Bristol | Dentists | The Guardian

spending upwards of £500 on two fillings.

Tales of pain and patience: the story behind the dentistry queue in Bristol | Dentists | The Guardian

1,600 Baht per Korat filling.

11,000 Baht per UK filling.

Originally Posted by cyrille

13 years of cuts and governmental incompetence.

And if you and other champagne socialists, brought up nurtured and educated for free in the UK, had stayed put, taught and worked in the UK, paid your taxes instead of fucking off to a human rights hell to line you pockets with the raghead rial then the country might be better off and not full of the 3rd world dross imported to compensate for the exodus of hypocrites like yourself.

spending upwards of £500 on two fillings.

Thats nonsense. Sound like root canal work, and if so its a very reasonable price.

Originally Posted by taxexile

And if you and other champagne socialists, brought up nurtured and educated for free in the UK, had stayed put, taught and worked in the UK, paid your taxes instead of fucking off to a human rights hell to line you pockets with the raghead rial then the country might be better off and not full of the 3rd world dross imported to compensate for the exodus of hypocrites like yourself.

Tax, err, as in Taxexile, you escaped over twenty years ago to Samui before quitting the Rock for a somnolent Hua Hin and your commodious bathchair to live in feckless, tax free indolence.

You have only returned to a UK residence because you heard the Scythe being sharpened and felt a tap on your shoulder and wanted to extend your life’s warranty by access to free healthcare.

How are you spelling hypocrite these days.

I of course having served the interests of the British state continue to pay tax on my pension wherever I am and therefore speak from a higher moral ground.

tax is a stinking hypocrite, for sure.

That much is clear.

He's milking a system I have not taken a penny from, but only contributed to, in 40 years.

^^

I am a UK resident, and however much I resent paying for the upkeep of
the UKs benefit filching dross, I pay UK taxes as required on my income. My "taxexile" moniker was only truly valid whilst resident in Thailand, and even then I paid UK taxes as required, seeing as my income originated in the UK ( apart from the rather fortuitous profit on a property transaction due to capital gains not being taxable for non residents, but no rule was broken.) The hospital treatment I received in 2021 was indeed very costly, but as a longstanding taxpayer it was no more than I was entitled to.

My comments regarding Cyrilles hypocrisy are more than valid.

And the only higher moral ground you need to concern yourself with will be the one you are eventually buried under

Originally Posted by taxexile

Thats nonsense.

Take it up with The Guardian.

Originally Posted by cyrille

He's milking a system I have not taken a penny from, but only contributed to, in 40 years.

Ah so you contributing is paying the minimum stamp so you can milk taxpayers for your UK Govt pension. OK.

Originally Posted by OhOh

Take it up with The Guardian.

Just when the branch closed last June, she started experiencing “excruciating pain” in her teeth and was left with no choice but to go private, spending upwards of £500 on two fillings. She did not want to have to spend that again.

If she was having excruciating pain, then it is more than likely endodontic treatment, i.e. root canal fillings, were required before the tooth or teeth were filled. This is purposely left unclear in the article.
Root canal work is precision work using expensive instrumentation and is very time consuming. £500, (equivalent to the cost of a half sleeve tattoo, a ct scan on a cat or dog at the vets, or a weekend at a lesser music festival) would be a very good price.

^ this should be in the daily Moan thread. Nothing to cheer about here.

^ indeed JPPR. a load of leftie moaners, they delight in misery, live for it.

Bonza day today, up at 4am, stuff to do but started the right way with me lad

Originally Posted by OhOh

1,600 Baht per Korat filling.

11,000 Baht per UK filling.

It would have been 2007 I was hanging out with a Canadian lad here, it was cheaper for him to fly to Thailand return, book a hotel for 6 weeks, pay for whatever treatment, plus all his spending money, than to do it in Canada.

We obviously all know about medical tourism etc etc, but it's pretty shocking when it's cheaper to do all that.

Originally Posted by Edmond

We obviously all know about medical tourism

Indeed.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Ah so you contributing is paying the minimum stamp so you can milk taxpayers for your UK Govt pension. OK.

Yeah, paid the bare minimum in to extract the maximum.

He's just another Rishi Sunak.

A nice breakfast sausage there.

Still the fucking holy grail here.

^^Whatever you goons want to believe.

Of course I could have merely meant paying VAT on my holidays in the UK.

Originally Posted by Stumpy

^ this should be in the daily Moan thread. Nothing to cheer about here.

Root canal and income tax. How cheery can we get?

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Bonza day today, up at 4am, stuff to do but started the right way with me lad

Nice Brekky and TFG....no sloppy ass shit beans. Cheers.

Slept like a baby last night and up to the sounds of birds and dogs enjoying the cool morning air. Good coffee for breakfast and checking the vegetable patch before deciding what to cook for dinner. Life's all too easy back in the sticks...

Originally Posted by Troy

Life's all too easy back in the sticks...

You should have brought some work with you!

Originally Posted by Troy

Slept like a baby last night and up to the sounds of birds and dogs enjoying the cool morning air. Good coffee for breakfast and checking the vegetable patch before deciding what to cook for dinner. Life's all too easy back in the sticks...

How do you fill the rest of the day after you've decided on dinner at 7:30am?

^ Spent most of it playing with the stray puppy the wife has adopted.

^ Good man!

Why don't you train it to get in a boat?

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Rishi Sunak.

That guy is worryingly minute