Roger Adams
pfm Member
Three more day to go!
Three more days of sorrow.
Three more days in that old dump
Then we'll be home tomorrow!
Three more day to go!
Three more days of sorrow.
Three more days in that old dump
Then we'll be home tomorrow!
What about some of the real-world basics? We are at the end of the month again ...next week I have this to look forward to: 4 VAT returns in 4 different languages, all asking different questions. One for UK, one for France, one for Germany and one for Spain.Just quoting this in the hope our Brexit supporting posters might respond to it.... they seem to be trying to ignore it. One of the best posts on pfm IMO, thanks for putting it together.
Three more day to go!
Three more days of sorrow.
Three more days in that old dump
Then we'll be home tomorrow!
I dunno about that, it worked OK for me. I came out at 16 with an O level (now GCSE) and a decent grasp of the language in 1983, and I have no further French quali's. After a bit of night school action about 1992 I got *a bit* better, and I just used it on holiday and with French friends through the 90s. Quite good by 1996-7. Then 2002, I did some work in France. 2003, moved there full time. Worked like hell, fully fluent.
If there is anything tragic about the UK it is the undervaluing of anyone speaking a foreign language and the people that are proud of the fact that they don't speak anything other than English.
What about some of the real-world basics? We are at the end of the month again ...next week I have this to look forward to: 4 VAT returns in 4 different languages, all asking different questions. One for UK, one for France, one for Germany and one for Spain.
We only turn over 700,00 per year. Hopefully next month we will only have to do 3 VAT returns.
I think that is referred to as 'confirmation bias'.
Don't worry, you can relax. Kris has even taken the wind out of my sails! Needless to say, I very much disagree with (most of) what he wrote as it is both narrowly focussed, ignores a large number of indubitable facts regarding the EU institutions, and is, well...wrong on numerous counts. But I've already set my case out, and if I did so again I would probably be hoofed from the thread for 'circularity' and thread-crapping, as it distracts from what is an important point from the OP. I'm sure we'll meet elsewhere on the forum.
The latter.....in euros. I am nearly done with it though, EV. I sold half the company last month and hope to sell the other half to the same buyer next year if I can get turn over up a bit more.Is 70,000 or 700,000. If the latter, pretty impressive.
Crazy, all that bloody bureaucracy. I thought we were in a single market.
The latter.....in euros. I am nearly done with it though, EV. I sold half the company last month and hope to sell the other half to the same buyer next year if I can get turn over up a bit more.
Fed up of the accounting and the corporate service suppliers; Amazon, eBay, Stripe and PayPal basically. They don't treat me like I treat my customers at all. They treat me as if I should feel privileged to be working with them. I am thinking of something more cash based and less full-time. No more massive out of control multinational companies. I am split between a food catering van at motorbike events or horse transportation with my brother.
What do you think?
Your point about only getting 20% whilst restaurants get 65% and then don't pay the bill was well erm interesting. But I am still thinking it over.No to good catering van at events. Up front-fees to book for season/ahead pitches at events can be crippling.
Horse transportation? Tell us more
May I add quality cremant importation as a well-honed skill and one with repeat business potential year round?
Sorry it was EV that said that about some margins.No to good catering van at events. Up front-fees to book for season/ahead pitches at events can be crippling.
Horse transportation? Tell us more
May I add quality cremant importation as a well-honed skill and one with repeat business potential year round?
While EV’s tongue may not have the breadth you have, his posts indicate his is fifty times as long. Some times I wonder if he gets sales because the customer will pay in order to terminate the onslaught. It’s not unknown.Actually I see myself as belonging to a pariah social echelon, that of the foreigners. But my background gives me a different, wider perspective. I have inside as well as outside knowlege and experience. I grew up listening to music in other languages, watching subtitled cartoons and films spoken in other languages, reading books by foreign writers in their native languages, about other countries, interacted with foreign visitors that did not speak my mother tongue. That makes a hell of a difference.
The way foreign languages are taught in state schools here in England (and the cultural background that comes with learning a language) is tragic.
Are you referring to Boris our leader who has won an outstanding victory at the recent election. I don't think your man Leo will be around for much longer. Barnier will send the whole of Europe into recession if he disrupts trade.Yes top notch but in this strange world that counts for nothing in the UK. You have bungling Boris and his merry band of do-gooders
Brexit will never happen, so cheer upSo Brexit next week everyone. I was against it all the way but accept it is now going to happen.
What about some of the real-world basics? We are at the end of the month again ...next week I have this to look forward to: 4 VAT returns in 4 different languages, all asking different questions. One for UK, one for France, one for Germany and one for Spain.
We only turn over 700,00 per year. Hopefully next month we will only have to do 3 VAT returns.
You reckon the world ends before Friday then?Brexit will never happen, so cheer up
True!700 a year!
hardly worth getting out of bed for.
The universe began 13.8 billion years ago & will expand & accelerate infinitely.You reckon the world ends before Friday then?
Are you referring to Boris our leader who has won an outstanding victory at the recent election. I don't think your man Leo will be around for much longer. Barnier will send the whole of Europe into recession if he disrupts trade.
Yes, and those that voted for him via the proxy of 'get Brexit done ' / a vote for the Conservatives IOW, need to utterly own this idiotic choice; and the many, many other failures about to land on them, and the rest of us, so hard.Johnson has enthusiastically signed up to disrupting trade within the UK (between NI and the mainland) with the WA... the self-serving, lying, opportunistic twat.