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@cas wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/8298700.stm
Not so black and white now eh :wink:
Cas makes an extremely good point here – no the story wasn’t as ‘black & white’ as it first appeared….. indeed quite the opposite.
I was the executor of a friend’s estate a while ago and he left a chunk of the estate to a ‘charity’. (It was the residual portion after all his other bequests etc had been dealt with).
My experience was that the charity was a seriously money grubbing organisation – absolutely every penny had to be accounted for in case they didn’t get all they could out of the estate. they pushed and pushed for assets to be liquidated rapidly seemingly regardless of gaining maximum value….. they just wanted their paws on the cash ASAP.
I now realise that charities do pretty well out of wills and suchlike and have entire departments set up to maximise their incomes from this area ….. which I might add is substantial.
Depends on the circumstances I guess.
If your ageing relative had always promised that they would ”look after you” in their will and then left the lot to the cat’s home, chances are that you’d be slightly miffed.
Or how about the elderly male or female close relative who, in the last year or two of their lives, marries a much younger person …… and then changes their will to leave everthing to their recently bereaved (apparently), equally the chances are that the original beneficiaries might feel somewhat cheated eh?
If a person strongly feels that their deceased relative wasn’t fully in possession of their faculties when they made the ‘new’ will, or that they were unduly influenced by another benificiary for pecuniary advantage – then the will can be challenged on grounds of validity.
True. How about the song titled “You’re Sixteen” by Johnny Burnette? the main lyric is “You’re sisteen, you’re beautiful and you’re mine”
Today this sounds somewhat like a paedophile anthemn eh?
Try these ones then (with a couple more added in just to make it easier):
1. I spent some time in H M Prison Wormwood Scrubs.
2. I also went to a fee paying all girls’s school.
3. I held the speed record for the fastest time round the skid pan at Goodwood racetrack.
4. I jumped out of an aeroplane at 11,000 feet.
5. I draw my state pension next year.
6. I recovered a dead body from Valetta harbour (Malta) at a depth of 120 feet.
Maybe the way forward here is a typically British compromise. How about mixing up cybersex, watching the TV with a beer (or whatever drink) in hand and droning on about football.
What if pubs were to have a bit of a ‘makeover’???
Bars to be fitted out with internet connected computers lined up in front of the beer pumps. All customers could sign in on arrival and order their preferred drink over the internet (and pay by credit card of course) – the barman would deliver the drink to the ‘customer’s’ position – meanwhile they could ‘chat’ amongst themselves about football etc.
Of course cybersex might be slightly difficult in a public bar, but for a small surcharge, privacy curtains could be arranged.
Maybe future politicians might care to re-think their strategies along these lines.
@Bad Manners wrote:
Yes, but why now? He’s been in Switzerland and numerous other countries that can extradite for the last 30 years.
Good point. I think that it is because he has been living (i.e. domiciled) in France most of the time and of course he is a French (and Polish) national.
Apparently a number of attempts have been made to extradite him from France but typically the French have done nothing about it.
The US authorities had advance notice of his visit to Switzerland and arranged for a fresh extradition request to be sent to the Swiss, to await the nonce as soon as he crosed the border.
@will wrote:
@Bad Manners wrote:
Im sick of looking at Will’s siggy and seeing Will and his gay mates or his g/f Melissa (who I wouldn’t do If I had 15 pints in me) staring back at me.
So who agrees that the Willster should do the decent thing, and go change his siggy?i dont see why i shud change m siggy just cos u dont like it. dont bring me girlf into this either shes worth a million of u.
I’m not too sure about her value ‘Will’ but could you persuade her to run a comb through her hair occasionally – it would enhance her natural beauty enormously.
Er ….. ladies??? What’s this all got to do with ‘will’s’ siggy???
@dee wrote:
@forumhostpb wrote:
NEWSFLASH
Undertakers announced today that following the recent death of Keith Floyd, they wouldn’t be embalming his body before burial …. as it was already pickled in alcohol.
I used to think you were quite intelligent
You used to be quite correct…..
@forumhostpb wrote:
……………This usually happens when a number of other customers (of your ISP) in your area are all using the internet at the same time and therefore there is only a limited amount of bandwidth available for each of you to use.
Just to add to the above point:
One of the downsides that you rarely if ever get told is that if you contract to use a “cheap” broadband connection, there is a hidden problem.
Yes they will ideally connect you at their advertised ‘speed’ – usually “up to” 8 MB. However the smaller (and cheaper) ones have a limited capacity and consequently have to share this across all their customers in a geographical area. This means that they ‘throttle back’ an individual’s download capacity so as to share their available bandwidth across all their customers, particularly at times when the majority connect to the internet and download stuff.
The bottom line is that cheaper isn’t always better.
