Soldato
Increases in life expectancy and the corresponding increased burden on public services were widely predicted but ignored by the governments elected by those people whilst they were young enough to do something about it.
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Increases in life expectancy and the corresponding increased burden on public services were widely predicted but ignored by the governments elected by those people whilst they were young enough to do something about it.
Soldato
You married? I understand you work in a supermarket yeah? I worked in a supermarket and it was predominantly low income "council" types you seem to stereotype. Either that or it was often people who were married into money so did it to just socialise.
Your posts are just constant moaning about people who don't live up to your strange view on the world.
If your "friends" also work in such low paid jobs then I don't think you're too dissimilar to the people you demonise.
Soldato
Don't think the govt was expecting that level of elderly people. In 1985, there were c340 people over 90 per 100k. Now its almost three times as that - 925/100k. If it wasn't for covid, the figure would be 1000/100k
Soldato
You ignoring my post directed at you?
I understand you work in a supermarket with council types. Are you married to a person who earns more money? Are you semi retired and working part time?
Would be interesting to understand how someone as opinionated as yourself goes through life.
I think stereotyping the JE client is acceptable - JE take a 25% cut, the price of convenience and if I bought fast food (there's a blue moon this month never know)
I'd be visiting my local fish&chip shop to get a cheaper meal even if I had to wait 10minutes.
The whole JE organisation is parasitic, and worthy of more vitriol than supermarkets - very much merchants of obesity.
JE probably provide a useful internet menu/payment app , but there must be other cheaper alternative toolkits FF shops could use, for sure, cheaper than 25%
That said local Better swimming pool now sells Walls Ice-cream and other confectionary.
Soldato
I don't think so. The backend to JE and similar services is extensive; it's not just processing orders and taking payments. Takeaways basically don't need their own website either if they're using JE which is a fair amount of effort/overheads saved.
Soldato
Very few people on the council estate work.
Soldato
My friend who works at the supermarket that has JE says the orders are probably £450-700 a week. Not worth having IMO as the store is a £300k a week turnover
Soldato
I like how you just ignored all other parts of my post. Quite pathetic.
Notice how 99% of your posts are my friend this, my colleague that, a person I work with..
You only talk about other people and relay second hand stories. You need to get some excitement in your own life.
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Caporegime
I’m sure he mentioned once that mummy and daddy are paying off his mortgage so he hasn’t got any money worries
Caporegime
You sound like you have not just a chip, but a large sack of spuds on your shoulder
Soldato
Ah yeah so the working in a supermarket thing is just to keep him/her ticking over in his/her simple life of peering through the blinds at council house plebs.
I'd hazard a guess that the people referred to as friends don't answer the phone when cheesy calls.
Sounds like a GDPR issue to me (if true).
Problem is I asked a rider about this when I read your post and he disagrees with your friend. That info is not there.
However some people probably do use these services repeatedly, its up to them how they spend their money, and it helps keep your friend in employment, so whats the issue?
Soldato
Yep, absolute tosh
There might be a transaction number but by no means would they have a tally of how much an individual customer has ordered.
These companies obviously have that info but they use it to decide if you get vouchers .etc not so Bob on his bike can go brag to Cheese about it!
Soldato
Why do you think the government wasn’t expecting it?
Given even lower end projected increases in life expectancy the numbers we see today are hardly a surprise. Add the baby boom cohort and the issue is going to get much worse over the next 10-20 years, and the government still aren’t doing anything to address the problem.
Except perhaps raising pension age after the horse has bolted.
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have you been over and checked or something
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Heir Cheesefest makes them sign in everyday
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Soldato
It does give me the the right as the taxpayer
That being said, complaining about things is a waste of time, i don't complain about that, i just express views, and to solve the issue i'll just make more money.
Paying taxes is not destroying money. the government paying their debt which is owned by the central bank of that country would be destroying money.
If they did that it would cause deflation, but they will never do that as it means cutting spending.