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Post by Wavey75 on Jul 24, 2015 17:52:11 GMT
vagueandrandom, That's terrific for you! Now, take that £100k and go buy a plot of land somewhere, wihtout any planning permission if possible, somewhere not greenbelt, but close enough to a main commute into any large town or city. Now, apply for planning permission to build 2 x semi detatched homes, 1x 3 bed & 1 x 2 bed. This should be easy to find on plotfinder.co.uk and will set you back around about the £25 - £45k mark. Now a builder will want about 10k for your foundations, and allow another 5k for supplying services (electric, gas, water, etc. If you can include some sort of ecco geothermal heating system or solar panels, it will add to the cost of the build, but also add to the for sale price, which means you make out like a bandit in the long run, it's definitely worth doing. So far, you've now spent, say £60,000 pounds and about 6 months have past. Next, go to one of the companies that supple pre-fabricated homes, german ones too and get quotes on thei pre-fab 2/3 bed ready to build homes. Choose hte most popular basic colours, interior fittings, carpets, etc. and the timber frames will be built on site within about 12 weeks, 4 weeks if the germans supply & build it. The best thing about this though, no mortgage. You put down a 20% deposit when you order, then you have 6 or 12 months to pay the remainder, depending on your deal. Your cost for these 2 houses will most likely be around the £125k mark, but you only paid 20% at most upfront, so it's actually cost you £25k, bringing your totl cost to £85,000. Now, after they're built, cleaned up and landscaped, you sell them both, 2 bed will be around the £145k and the 3 bed around the £175k mark. So, you have now got the following: started with 100k, spent 85k, leaving £15k in the bank, safe. 9 to 12 months later, now have 310k, with a debt of £100k to pay the house builders, plus interest. So, you now have £200,000 after repaying the house builders and say 10% interest (in won't be that much though, but it's a nice round number.) This example is also assuming that you sell your houses yourself, no estate agents. If you you estate agents, I think they take 5% of the sale, which is madness when you can stick it on eBay or another fixed price sale for like £50. so you now have doubled your money and all you did was get planning permission (which is a default yes at the moment) and provided more housing, reduced their carbon footprint (which significantly improves your chances for planning permission) and sack back and waited for everyone else to work, while you quietly slip of with more than twice as much money as you started with. Now, you could go thoruhg it all again, exept with 2 plots and 4 houses, but I think you get the idea :-) manson88, lol, not rude at all - I'm flattered.
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Post by Wavey75 on Jul 24, 2015 12:52:55 GMT
vagueandrandom, Sounds interesting! I have not had any reactions other than nothing said after I say it, and the conversation continues on their medical concern or problem. bee, I have no idea what people have thought of me over the years! my cclosest family have called me their crazy cousin, and my parents often called me wild, but beyond that I have always been described as aggressive, acting without thinking & lazy. My biggest dissapointment was when I told my closest friend who has still not responded to it and it has been brushed under the rug, so to speak. TANGENT START! Where you describe the flordrobe and stepping stones, etc. my parents would immediately jump on me saying that with the "That's no excuse! if you don't try, you will always fail!" and "that's the wrong attitude to have, if that's your attitude, no wonder you can't fix it!" they'd verbally drag me over hot coals and I'd feel embarrassed. However, I'm lucky in that I have always had a need to have things were they should be. Our next door neighbour had the same size garage as us, but when I saw his with every single tool, appliance and other items all stored neatly, with felt tip pen outlines around where they should go, and a blank outline if that item was in use or another reason, I just thought "wow, I want that!" And now I do, well not the whole felt tip pen outlines, that's just silly! but I have organised the house so that certain things are organised in that area they are used, etc. TANGENT END! thehedgehog, I recently had one of my uni tutors tell me that I was out of my depth going for a named degree and I should perhaps go with an open degree! so I know how you feel there! ;-) I never told anyone I had ADHD until I was diagnosed. I told my parents and my wife that I might have it and that part of my assessment involved them discussing what I was like, but that's it. When I found out I did have it I told anyone that would listen. Why not tell? it's who I am and if you don't like it, you know where the door is! lol @dutch, Wow, you have been lucky! 95% positive reaction to telling others you have ADHD? was there any slight head tilts, one-handed shoulder comforts, followed by "Ahh" or "Awww" ? I've mostly had non-reactions to my news that I have ADHD. I always say I have it and then ask do you know what that is? most people say yes they do know, but there's no further discussion, which leads me to think that they are lying out of embarrassment or because they want to end this conversation and get away from me. Either way, it has left me feeling very much alone and alot like a pariah. Let's have some really positive accounts! anyone had the best reaction to announcing they have ADHD? come on, I kno you're out there... I can hear you breathing!
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Post by Wavey75 on Jul 24, 2015 11:33:38 GMT
£50,000, You could live well on £50,000 a year. But I would have it paid in 12 instalments.. Can't do that. In this scenario, you can only have a single annual payment or a lump sum. If you went for £50,000 a year, it would take 100 years to receive £5 million pounds. However, if you went for the lump sum and like @planetdave says, spend a chunk and then invest the remainder and live off the interst & profits that might not be as much. Let's say you spent a million, and you setup the £4 million lump sum in a simple savings account, you'd earn around 1% interest (some places offer 1.25%, but they are not guaranteed). 1% of £4 million is £40,000 a year in interest. If you put that lump sum in some sort of OEIC or unit trust or anothe high yield investment, the best you can hope for in today's economic climate is around 5% guaranteed without risk. 5% of £4 million is £200,000 a year in interest. If you lock your money away you can get that interest paid monthly, quarterly or at sum other interval that suits you, but usually the interest is paid either monthly or quarterly, with the next most popular being every 6 or 12 months. Some people prefer this method for reducing their spending on accountants for tax purposes, etc. If you went this way, your money would stay with you for your life, but it would never grow or work for you. This leads to an interesting term; Compound interest. This is basically referring to splitting your interest earnings so that your initial investment grows as well. If we follow the examples from before but this time instead of receiving all of your 5% interest, we paid ourselves 2.5% and kept the other 2.5% interest earnt in the same account as the £4 million lump sum, our interest payments would grow over time. So, in effect ,you'd be left t ocope with living on £100,000 for your first year, then you 2nd year would be half of £210,000. That might not sound like much, but if you look at it over ten or twenty years, your interest payments are even higher. As you can see from the attached table the lump sum in 2025 is now £5.12 million and 2.5% interest payments to live on are now £128,000 a year. In 2035 the lump sum is over £6.5 million and the interest payments to live on are almost £164,000 a year. Remember in 2015, we started off with £4 million and lived on £100,000. Just by applying this basic financial concept of compound interest, 20 years later we have increased our living income by almost two thirds and we did nothing more than spend a few hours setting it up in 2015. Things can get even more interesting if we decided to take some risks and invested our living income in some slightly higher risks, short term investments that could double our annual income, which would more than cover the cost of our expenditures, such as off shore tax havens and acountants, as well as a minimal tax bills. So, when I read about lottery winners going bankrupt after just a few years, the mind boogles. I would take the lump sum, follow the system I have explained in detail and then spend my time living without worry. Attachments:
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Post by Wavey75 on Jul 23, 2015 18:47:57 GMT
Q. You’ve just won a huge lottery-like competition, but they say there’s a choice.
You can either:
1. Have a one time only payment of £5 Million pounds cash; or 2. Receive £50,000 pounds a year in cash, tax free for life.
Which one would you choose and why?
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Post by Wavey75 on Jul 23, 2015 18:46:39 GMT
When you tell someone you have ADHD, what's their general reaction?
I mostly get a glazed over sort of look, possibly because they have no idea what it is or think it's a label for naughty kids!
Anyone had the worst or the best reaction from someone after telling them they have ADHD?
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Post by Wavey75 on Jul 20, 2015 14:01:28 GMT
Well, I've only watched 3 recent movies and found the fan-made non-english, english subtitles for:
1. The Wolverine - (japanese, no cursing) 2. Lucy - (korean, nothing worse than wht's said in the movie's dialogue) 3. X-Men:First Class - (german, spanish and other languages - all relevant to the film, but the subtitles are only available if you turn ALL english on, rather than just subtitle the non-english dialogue, often referred to as forced subtitles.
These should be an option or DVD/BLuRay discs as I find english subtitles annoying, I understand English, but I don't speak any other languages!
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Post by Wavey75 on Jul 20, 2015 6:41:22 GMT
But, if like me you can only understand the one language, it would be nice to know what's being siad in korean, or chinese - it may not have much relevance, but why devote this full shot of screen time to a shot that can only be understood in whatever language they are speaking in?
I know that we the audience are expected to get a feel for what's going on, but I have no luce at all, and i spend the rest of the movie wondering what went on in that scene. I don't pick up on social cues or bode language and I've never been able to read between the lines, but mildly acurate subtitles will at least give people like me an idea of what's going on.
I have taken to getting forced subtitles for my movies and playing them through a media player, but these are made by other fans who feel the same way. So why doesn't hollywood or the filmaker offer these non-english subtitles for scenes that are not in english?
I annoys me! lol
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Post by Wavey75 on Jul 12, 2015 17:17:49 GMT
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Post by Wavey75 on Jul 10, 2015 10:38:00 GMT
I've just bought an apple watch and it's improved my life quite a lot Wavey75. If an iPhone (/ smartphone) makes 10/10 difference (in terms of helping with ADHD stuff), then the watch makes 7.5/10 IMO. Total waste of time for an NT in my opinion, but for an ADHDer I think it's not a gimmick waste if you can get one. After a month or so, I think I would say that I'd go without food to save up to buy another one if this one got broken or something. Biggest pluses are: 1) I never miss a reminder cos it taps my wrist 2) if I don't read the reminder then it taps again til I do 3) same with alarms, it taps and won't let up til I acknowledge 4) when I want to remember something, I speak to the watch and it sets it for me with no hassle - eg 'remind me to take my tablet in 4 hours' or ' create an event on 1 July at 3pm doctors appt - no fiddling about on your phone, no "I'll put that in my calendar later" - speak and it's done. 5) Siri reminders - for when I get somewhere. Eg when I run out of something, I speak to the watch to tell Siri to remind me to buy x when I'm at sainsburys. So when I get there it reminds me. I know the phone can do that, but this taps you on the wrist, you're getting the reminder for sure. How techno are you Wavey75 - I've got an essential ADHD aid app in mind that I've not seen before - I just need someone to build it!! jj, That sounds great - I hadn't thought that a gadget that's pretty much the same as your smartphone on your wrist would be more beneficial! in other words, take the reminders out of the phone and out it in a watch! your explanation is very interesting, thanks jj I'm coming to the conclusion that my ADHD 'gift' is my technology background and my abiity to quickly get to grips with technology that I have not come across. For example, I wanted my own website and I had no idea how to do it, so I went online, read up ,asked some forum questions ,etc and went out and did it for myself. Then I delibrately 'broke' it so I could learn how to fit it. I got that done too. My biggest problem for a website was 'content'. I needed something to put into it to build it. jj, it's on my 'to-do' list to write an app. The APKs (kits to develop apps) for Android and Apple are almost pretty much mostly GUI front end now, no coding needed (although I can read trough code lines for errors, etc). I'm due to finish my dissertation 15th September 2015, and then I'm free as a bird until May 2016 when I will (hopefully) start my taught masters. So, I am happy to work with you on an app development jj during that time. Just message me wha your thoughts are on it, etc.
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Post by Wavey75 on Jul 10, 2015 10:17:52 GMT
My main dislike comes from another source though. I find that they have ruined social occasions for me, and are the main reason I can't go to the cinema anymore. Because of the ASD I have hypersensitivies to sound and sight. My "night" vision is very good (to the point where I can still see clearly when other people cant see anything at all, the flip side being that I get flash blinded badly too). If I'm in a dark cinema and someone pulls out a smartphone, the light of the screen is enough to intefere with my sight processing and I totally lose the thread of what is happening on the screen. I simply can't focus past the phone. It disrupts all of my thought patterns, I get distracted and twitchy as all heck and stop enjoying the film because of this annoying flashy thing. OMG! This is the best description I've come across! I'm the same way too! wow, it's so, so, so good to find out I'm not alone and i'm not the awkward fecker my family and kids have been referring to, I'm teared up with relief. Thank you wiserabbit.
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Post by Wavey75 on Jul 9, 2015 9:41:41 GMT
This article discussing how smatphones and online devices with access to wireless internet have led to addicition and digital amnesia gave me a thought to share with you all. Since this is a broadly aimed article, it's fair to assume that this is directed at NT's and has not allowed for people who already suffer with memory problems or a deficit in their attentions. I myself rely on my smartphone to remind to do things, I'll often ask SIRI to remind me to do something at a certain time, etc. I rely on my google calendar to keep a list of my appointments, schedules and other things in my life. I think I have become dependant on my gadgets to live; but I'm wondering if is this a good thing or a bad thing? Without my technology, my life would be alot harder. I would take longer to get things done, or without digital devices that remind me, I would need to remmber to pick up a clipbaord, update it regularly or not to loose it, otherwise I'd need to try and remember everything that was on it, etc. If I misplace my smartphone, I just get a replacement, login and boom, my schedule's right there for me to continue on with my life. I wondered how everyone else here feels about this increase in a kind of dependency on technology? I personally am a huge fan of technology. I hve aworking history in IT and computing and I am always looking at new technology and I try to be one of those early adopters (except for the apple watch, totally pointless for £500!, would rather have a swiss watch thank you, IMHO) of technology. I remember a story from one paticular ADHD & OCD who told us of her home and the post it notes that 'covered the walls of their kitchen and would often lead to newer post its covering older ones because of the dis-organisation that had come from not removing completed post its, possibly from the attention deficit. I too find my 'to-do' lists are repeated with similar tasks on them, so I try to centralise them, but it often leads to duplicate entries - although if I have completed a single task it is very rewarding to be removing 4 tasks from each to do list lol. I'd be very interested in what others have to say on this technology dependency and their thoughts on if this is something that has improved or made worse your lives? Would anyone consider jumping on stage to try and charge their phone, like this guy did? lol
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 30, 2015 12:29:32 GMT
Irrelevant of ones opinion of the Conservatives/labour policies, FPTP may not be the most democratic system has served this country well. elic, did you mean: Irrelevant of ones opinion of the Conservatives/labour policies, FPTP may not be the most democratic system but it has served this country well. Irrelevant of ones opinion of the Conservatives/labour policies, FPTP may not be the most democratic system has served this country well. We have always had a stable Government. This has allowed us to become a relatively wealthy country with influence on the world stage. Compare this to Italy who have had 42 Prime Ministers in that time. We have not always had a stable government. We have had coalition and minority governments that have not been stable in the past. In 1918 we had a coalition government with Liberals and Conservatives until 1922. In 1974 we had a hung parliment which was a minority goverment formed by Labour, which after a no cofidence vote in the house was passed, led to another election that year. In 2010 after anothe huung parliment, a backroom deal was struck between the Liberals and Conservatives, which lead to almost daily headlines of members from both parties annoucing if certain things did or didn't happen, they would call for disbanding the coalition and force another general election. All of which was mostly under the FPTP system. Compare this to Italy who have had 42 Prime Ministers in that time. I can only find this list which shows 12 presidents since 1946, or am I missing something? To clear this up, it's not a choice of EITHER: FPTP or PR. PR is proportional representation and it will make all 650 seats in the house of commons worth the same number of votes. How the winner of each seat is chosen can either stay as FPTP, or STV (Single Transferable Vote) or AV system, although we had a referendum on it and no one wanted it, most likely because we all knew that choosing an alternative made no difference because of the varying sizes in constituencies. PR will resolve this by making it fairer. I saw this article that took the general Election results from 2015 and applied the number of votes to a PR system and the results were a true representation of how the UK actually voted, weather you agree with it or not, it's more acurate than the result we did get. I feel I should also point out that 60% of the UK voter population are for PR. This means that 60% of UK voters are most likely voting tactically, meaning that the PR result is not as close to a genuine result as it can be. In a 2015 election with PR, the 2 largest parties would most likely have been UKIP & The Green Party, with The SNP being the smallest. Attachments:
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 29, 2015 13:51:07 GMT
2015 Support Group:
Please post here for further information on the details of attending this group in the Torbay & South Devon area for adults with ADHD.
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 29, 2015 13:46:12 GMT
I'm in South Devon and I have to travel to Bristol for one. I'm willing to travel for one closer, such as Plymouth or Exeter. I tried to start one here, but there hasn't been enough interest so far. It only takes 2. The Bristol one started of in a cafe with just 2 of them in 2006, now it's at least a dozen or more!
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 29, 2015 13:39:01 GMT
I was browsing this thread and thought that maybe a video showing you, instead of text you have to read, might be better, as I prefer to be doing something and to ask if this is right as I do it, and the expert next to me confirms it or not, etc. So, I found this link to free video chemistry here. Then I thought about the online free learning from Open University, and searched their site for and found chemistry here. Hope this helps, very interested in the scrub for the bath tub by the way, will it worth on one of those fibre glass tubs with the smooth rounded nobbly bits to stop you from slipping?
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 29, 2015 13:22:24 GMT
I found this article explaining why Greece is in so much trouble, in case anyone wants to know. It's a couple of years old, but it's clear why they are where they are now.
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 29, 2015 12:52:24 GMT
They nick my ideas so it seems fair Where do they find your ideas to nick them from? your books? your blog? whatever or whereever your publishing your ideas, I'd like to read them Also, I was raised as a Catholic and I approached the church for any help they could offer for adults with ADHD and they told me to pray. I also asked about using space to hold a local support group in my area once a month for 2 hours and they wanted to charge me full market rates, even though they are a charity for tax purposes. I'm surprised when someone says religion is helping them, and I'm curious to know what help, e.g. financial, social, mental, psychological, etc.
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 29, 2015 9:51:54 GMT
I agree with you @chaoticwitch there.
From some of the comments I am thinking that it's kind of 50-50 on what will really happen if we did leave.
I think it's almost a certainty that there is to be a greek eu exits, which will have to mean that the other member states will should the burden of the huge ECB debt left by Greece. If I had to guess, it would probably be underwritten by China, so ECB borrowing will probably be decided by the Chinese government, as much of the United States' debt is also owed to China.
I think that if we left and things got bad, we could always join it again?
If we left and had a trade deal, the additional costs to SME businesses could be reimbursed by the Government from the £500 million it pays to be a member state and most likely still have lots left over for the NHS, Essential services, etc.
I recall Kraft buying Cadburys and making thousands redundant and moving production to Poland. If we had not of been an EU member state, this would have been less likely perhaps?
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 29, 2015 9:19:16 GMT
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 29, 2015 9:18:00 GMT
since there's to be a national vote (Referendum) on if we should stay in the Europeam Union or not in 2017, I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread for us all to benefit from positive and negative facts and resources in one single place for us to all make an informed decision to be ready for when we cast our votes to stay or leave the EU. A good start I felt was this article in the Guardian. Another source with a discussion underneath is Richard Branson's own opinion on the matter here.
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 29, 2015 8:33:09 GMT
I'm finding it very frustrating that more and more films and hollywood movies with foreign language parts don't offer subtitles for only the foreign languages, often referred to as forced subtitles, on the DVD's and Blur Ray discs.
if you do managed to get these forced subtitles, they will not translate everything that is spoken, only some of it, which I feel is pointless. We are told that for every second of film. it costs thousands of dollars to make, so why not provide subtitles for everything that is spoken, regardless of language?
To me, this is the same as throwing your money away.
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 29, 2015 7:13:27 GMT
As the election is over, perhaps a thread discussing or debating the referendum coming in 2017 to leave the EU or not would be good? I know I would love to hear and share ideas on the matter, as I can't find a single source that can clearly explain why we should stay or go. I would love to be in the know when it comes to choosing either way and as yet I'm not sure either way. I've thought up until now that we should leave, but I Richard Branson is a business man who I respect and as he can come out in support of legalising Marijuana and changing the lottery to make more people rich along with other issues, when he recommends we should stay in the EU, I'd like to know why, other than the whole "better together" excuse. Apologies to original poster for not staying on the topic, I felt this was a natural next step for this thread and I'm a bit of an eco-warrior, I like to re-purpose things as much as possible.
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 28, 2015 16:10:52 GMT
I have to jump in. I don't know much about politics but I don't think there is one party that I would vote for because ultimately I feel that anyone going into politics for "the right reasons" won't get far. @chaoticwitch, This is one of the reasons I believe that IF we ever get the chance to have PR, so every constituency seat is the same amount of votes, this will lead to no single pary majority, until a new generation of politicians realise honesty pays. It won't be perfect, but it will be so much better than the current joke, er I meant democracy
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 27, 2015 19:50:29 GMT
I think fickel = ignorant/I'll informed etc The number of people I've heard saying they vote Tory because they are for traditional family values (they are pushing mumsv out to work) or that theyare crcreating a strong NHS (by cutting funds/unsociable hrs gincrement??) Or they are good for young people (by cutting school funds, ta funds, senco funds, increasing uni fees, and pretending aprentiships of a couple of pounds an hr for shop work are fab) or that they are helping the disabled into work (kicking them off benefits and letting them die....) Err, I hate to point it out, but: Q. Who introduced the ATOS fit for work assessment? A. Labour. Q. Who started privatising the NHS, bit by bit? A. Labour. Q. Who cut funding for Schools by introducing Academies? A. Labour. Q. Who increased University fees to £9,000 a year? A. Labour. By the same token: Q. Who raised the National Debt in this Country by bailing out several banks, intead of borrowing ten times that amount to pay the welfare bill? A. Labour.
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 26, 2015 13:11:17 GMT
I wish I could get into London - I fit the other criteria! I just live too bloody far away! bee, I live in South Devon and I got accepted, they were going to pay for my travel expenses (train fare), distance isn't a factor, you only need to get there twice.
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 26, 2015 9:57:18 GMT
@planetdave, The examples you've mentioned have their flaws, but that doesn't mean we are following that way of PR in the UK. The electoral reform society have outlined what PR will do for our democracy and how it will not be as flawed as the many examples of it around the globe. I understand your reservations on PR, but should we ever get the chance to have it in this country, every vote will count and it is likely that no single party will win a majority, but IMHO that is good for the country, not bad as every change in law is voted on and the majority of the country's representatives will represent the whole country, rather than a small part of it. It's in that vain that I will point out that I'm not wearing rose-tinted glasses, I know that a major reason for the poor voter turn out is because they all appear to be as bad as each other, but I believe that with PR and voting as usual with the FPTP systems in place when we start to see our votes really count, voter turn out will increase, because a single vote really can make a diference, were as now, a 1,000 votes are a stone in the water with no ripples. We all saw the news on how UKIP got 4 million votes for 1 seat, while the SNP got 2.5 million votes for 56 seats, or something like that, etc. The point is, under PR, this would have translated into more seats for UKIP and less for the SNP, which would have changed the election results making UKIP the 3rd largest party in the UK, I'm not if I think that's a good or a bad thing, I'm just pointing out that 4 million votes were cast for UKIP and they got 1 seat, which isn't fair. In every system, be it voting, manufacturing, welfare or FIFA, there is always some form of exploitation. No system is perfect, but the current system in the UK is significantly worse than what PR & FPTP combined would bring.
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 25, 2015 20:35:47 GMT
blaze, Yep they're trying to get round the european courts by removing the human rights act so they can do what they like, etc. I think that if things get worse, as we all dread, I'm going to resort to crime, but I will only target those with more money than God, or with more insurance than, err, well someone with a lot of insurance and I will donate the excess to the needy.
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 25, 2015 18:42:13 GMT
blaze, I'm well aware of the Tories and their own beliefs, but there campaign when David Cameron took over was built on his own disabled son's struggles and that he would be sympathetic to those less fortunate than others. TANGENT: I do agree with some of their ideas, like bedroom tax, child benefit freezing for families multiplying for the money, etc. but they were implemented wrong. It should have been for new tennants and exisitng tennants would be evaluated, for example they tried to close the loophole Channel4's dispatches found that if you'd lived in your home since 1993 or something you had more rights andthey couldn't force the bedroom tax on you, etc. END TANGENT. I saw the news article detailing how Ian Duncan Smith's new bedroom tax not only didn't save any money, but it actually ended up costing more than they tried to save, and that was down the the human rights act - now they want to scrap it, funny how things work out. Here's an article explaining how it hasn't save much. This emergency tory budget which is at 12:30pm 8th July 2015 will be a day of reckoning. One thing that completely amazes me is, just what does someone hav to do to get the sack as work and pensions secretary, other than burden the tax payers with even more debt?
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 25, 2015 14:58:32 GMT
PR has significant problems - arguably it's a major cause of the middle east impasse ie the Isreali government being manipulated by tiny parties that are hyper religious. With PR it's much more likely for extremist views to get into statute because they're preconditions of small parties in a coalition and coalitions are more likely under PR. There is no perfect solution - if you crave strong government then FPTP works well, if you want representation then PR looks good. From an ADHD medical viewpoint I'd say we need stability and continuity in government so health is not used as a 'dog whistle' popularity contest. I'm not sure democracy is suited to the nation's needs but can't think of anything fairer. @planetdave, PR and FPTP are not one or the other. With PR, the constituencies are uniform in size, then we vote as normal and the results are in the FPTP system. PR is Proportional Representation, which I feel is desperately needed as this goverment represents less than half the Country, exact figures don't matter, only that less than half the country is represented. With PR in place and FPTP for the next election for example, the 2020 results would not produce an outright winner and would definitely lead to a coalition government or minority goverment, although the latter failed in the 1970's and led to another General Election. The referendum we had on voting was not what the LibDems wanted, but the Tories at the time for negitiating the coalition said "Take it or leave it", so something was better than nothing, or so they thought. The AV didn't solve the problem of FPTP because the number of seats for long standing Tory or Labour seats hasn't changed. With PR in place, a fixed number of votes in EVERY seat in Parliment leads to a fairer representation of the Country's democratic vote - where every vote counts. I hugely favour a coalition over a majority. The Americans face this challenge every single day. The democrates win, but the majority of the house is republican, so every bill or new law has to be voted on before it passes. If every new change to the public sector in the UK needed a majority vote before it could be done, it would show a clear representation of the Country's wishes. I don't think the Tories won, I think Labour lost, big time. I'm now a paid up member of the Labour Party (£1 per year) so I can see what's going one and follow the leader election, etc. but mostly I'm waiting for some sort of leader debate to see where each potential leader stands on (in no particular order): - NHS Privitisation
- Trident
- BBC Closure / TV Licence abolition
- Welfare
- Europe/EU
Milliband wasn't clear or didn't give the right answers during the debates that labour voters wanted to hear IMHO and this is why they lost, plus no matter how you feell politically, David Cameron is a likeable person and his charm came across and that helped the Tories in lorry-loads. Even though the Tories have won and will be in power until 2020, because of their ambition to change the voting and consituency borders (which will almost definitely come out in there favour) George Osbourne will take over as Tory leader and be elected Prime Minister until 2025. What's even worse right now is, I watched Ian Duncan Smith and his colleagues answering questions earlier this week from members of the house and he was asked indirectly (4 times I counted) why not reduce the amount of Housing Benefit paid to landlords instead of cutting payments to people already struggling. He responded to these questions from opposing parties by explaining how that particular party had left an even larger mess for them to clear up, etc. the usual deflection. My point is, why painstakingly cut 12 Billion, when you could cut £40 Billion by introducing rent control, making rents so that they cannot exceed more than 5% of their value or 5% of the areas LHA. More importantly, why must they insist on including pensions in the welfare budget, like it's another expenditure that should be cut? 55% of this money is pensions, leaving 45% to go elsewhere. less than 20% goes to unemployed, disabled, out of work and fraudulent claims, the remaining 25% (£30 Billion in 2012/13) goes on paying housing benefit to both unemployed and working households.
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Post by Wavey75 on Jun 22, 2015 13:49:27 GMT
I love a good debate about hot topics like religion, politics, and the like of, etc.
I interpretted this thread as asking about how religion has impacted on ADHD, or along those lines.
I grew up in an irish catholic & protestant house in London.
I went to a catholic school because my parents worried that the other schools in the area would either kill me or convert me into a street gang, which would no doubt lead to drugs, killing and organised crime, or so they thought.
Religion may have impacted my development as I asked for a dyslexia test form my teachers and I was told that I wasn't Dyslexic, I was just lazy, but this was about 1988, when I was a 3rd year (that's year 9 to all you young-uns lol!)
I dont consider myself to be of any particular faith or any label such as agnostic, athiest. I prefer to take the best of all that's available and if it can help me in my life then great.
I struggle in life with ADHD so much already, to then have to deal with the complications of faith and the questions it raises, such as: "if Adam & Eve were the first & only man & woman on earth, who did their children marry, siblings?"
I've used some of the teachings of Bhudda to learn and study for exams, and I've enjoyed the biblical stories such as Noah and The Ten Commandments, etc.
I've entered the local methodist church to give blood and I've also thought about God and if there is a heaven or hell, but I've come up with nothing, but mostly that's because my mind has wandered off topic and I'm now starring at something shiny.
It's an interesting subject Religion. It has been debted, fought over and re-invented in many ways, but I don't know enough about the many organisations that fall into that category to judge ifthey are good or bad.
I think that I would say that religion has probably not helped me in my life, no one ever said to me that my problems and faults might be due to some sort of mental health issue like ADHD.
One good thing I can say that is sure not to offend anyone is, the stories that come from various religions and faiths and are made into movies are entertaining, regardless of weather you thought they were good or bad.
I liked the Russell Crowe Noah film personally, but the Ridley Scott moses film was a complete waste of my time IMHO.
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