You are right, and I am wrong. it is 20% of my pay.
Even that is not complete. that figured in other "taxes" including my NI. I think it is more like 10% of my pay went to my NHS contribution.
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- July 14, 2004, 10:10 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Socialized medicine has its own problems.
- Replies: 81
- Views: 16817
- July 14, 2004, 10:00 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Socialized medicine has its own problems.
- Replies: 81
- Views: 16817
- July 14, 2004, 3:41 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Socialized medicine has its own problems.
- Replies: 81
- Views: 16817
Having spent time in England, I have enjoyed the benefit of going to the doctors without having to bring cash with you... and at the same time also enjoyed watching over 40 percent of my pay being taken out for NHS.. hmm national health service. I wonder. Do they take out that type of tax in Canada,...
- March 22, 2004, 5:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Sunserae your avatar is being challenged!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1582
- February 13, 2004, 1:50 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Was this really Necessary?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2075
- February 2, 2004, 1:27 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Halliburton over charges again
- Replies: 3
- Views: 589
- January 30, 2004, 1:28 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Frat boys suck!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 968
- January 29, 2004, 1:01 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Halliburton's "price gouging"
- Replies: 61
- Views: 5718
- January 21, 2004, 7:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New show on ABC
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1029
- January 16, 2004, 8:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Corn Dog or Dog Stick?!?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 10191
- January 15, 2004, 6:11 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Theatre or Theater?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5397
- January 13, 2004, 4:51 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Pot bust
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3181
- January 12, 2004, 8:52 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Um...wow.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1918
- January 12, 2004, 3:05 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Um...wow.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1918
My ex-wife reported to me that in order for her, her boyfriend, and my daughter to fly over here from England now, she has to go to London, to the embassy and fill in a ton of paperwork, get fingerprinted, photographed, an HOPE they approve it before she can come over on a tourist visa. All of this ...
- January 10, 2004, 9:27 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Wounded in Iraq
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1054
Hell, I have one friend who has a Fractured Skull. She keeps telling the VA that's she's fine and ready to go back....there is no way in hell she's healed, and they told her that it would be at least 6 months. As for other reasons for people to be sent back could be promotions. Another person I kno...
- January 7, 2004, 3:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Smoke at work?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2751
- January 5, 2004, 2:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: do you have a secret food?
- Replies: 138
- Views: 29236
- January 2, 2004, 8:01 pm
- Forum: Ryyysfemorrrr!
- Topic: A Picture of 10 Dolphins
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3301
- December 24, 2003, 3:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: WalMart
- Replies: 75
- Views: 6852
- December 22, 2003, 8:33 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: California Quake 12/22
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3641
- December 19, 2003, 3:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Slower Traffic
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3692
- December 19, 2003, 3:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Diners attack Lady with Forks
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1789
upon further contemplation, we (the cubicle hive mind) decided that a 647 lb. woman would not be able to walk due to the amount of pressure that her weight would place upon her ankles. Henceforth we decided it was a hoax. I dunno. My ex father in-law weighed 33 stones before I left England, and I h...
- December 18, 2003, 1:24 pm
- Forum: Everquest General Discussion
- Topic: The fallen
- Replies: 37
- Views: 6566
I hear there is a mage currently dominating the server, lumona or something similar. I read an account of her attack against a party (who absolutely sucked), and she wasted them quickly. They had a shaman, wizard, pally, and a few more. They didn't even try to stun or blind. The wizzy did train some...
- December 5, 2003, 1:13 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: No customized fish for us californians!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1442
I think it has to do with the paranoia CA has with escaped animals ruining the local ecosystem. They felt the same way with Ferrets. Now I think the law is you cannot import a Ferret to California, but if you have one already, you can legally own it now. I think they confiscate ferrets if they catch...
- November 23, 2003, 3:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Oh No! No more dwarf tossing!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 944
- November 10, 2003, 2:29 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: WMD timer!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 761
- October 21, 2003, 1:27 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Bush's reasoning: You need to kill em to save em
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7391
As an example of non-hunting (?) animal protection that has worked (and almost backfired). Sea-lion population along the California Coast. Apparently, preservation has worked a bit too well. The population of Sea-lions in the Monterey area has gone from 150, to well over 5000. They now endanger fish...
- October 8, 2003, 5:35 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Canadian engineer unfairly deported to Syria comes home
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13737
- October 8, 2003, 5:16 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Canadian engineer unfairly deported to Syria comes home
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13737
- October 8, 2003, 5:04 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Canadian engineer unfairly deported to Syria comes home
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13737
- October 8, 2003, 12:29 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Canadian engineer unfairly deported to Syria comes home
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13737
- October 8, 2003, 4:44 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Canadian engineer unfairly deported to Syria comes home
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13737
Mr. Graham said Mr. Arar's case is one of many in which Canadians who hold a second passport don't have their Canadian passports recognized. He added that U.S. officials told him they felt they had every right to send Mr. Arar to Syria because he has citizenship there. http://www.globeandmail.com/s...
- October 7, 2003, 8:06 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Canadian engineer unfairly deported to Syria comes home
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13737
Just a question: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1064541225177_21/?hub=TopStories How accurate is CTV by the way? .......... Again, what is the credibility of the above website/company? And if it is credible, and more to the point accurate in both reporting and the truth of what...
- October 7, 2003, 7:54 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Canadian engineer unfairly deported to Syria comes home
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13737
Just a question: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1064541225177_21/?hub=TopStories How accurate is CTV by the way? I found the following kinda weird if he was so innocent. In November, 2002, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham that, not o...
- October 6, 2003, 8:07 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Anyone else think...
- Replies: 80
- Views: 11978
netanyahu isn't dead Birth: 21 October 1949 Birthplace: Tel Aviv, Israel Death: -- Best Known As: Prime Minister of Israel 1996-99 Benjamin Netanyahu studied for a few years in the United States before returning to his native Israel in 1967 for military service. His career in the United States and I...
- August 28, 2003, 7:32 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: DNA frees another innocent
- Replies: 67
- Views: 6030
- August 28, 2003, 6:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Guild Website Links
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12945
- August 28, 2003, 5:58 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: DNA frees another innocent
- Replies: 67
- Views: 6030
I love people like you who twist and pervert the bible to whatever fits their world view and then pretend piety. Why is it ok, for example, for anti-religious people to claim that a religious text is misinterpreted when it suits them, but it is not ok for religious people to claim a misinterpretati...
- August 19, 2003, 12:44 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: For the chickenhawks to munch on
- Replies: 70
- Views: 5718
Just a few uestions really 1. How much of the defense budget is spent on the pay of troops? 2. How much of the defense budget is spent on the Housing, or the improvement of housing of troops 3. How much of the defense budget is spent on things like BAQ (Basic Allowance for Quarters) for married troo...
- August 7, 2003, 12:08 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Schwarzenegger to run for Governer
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3152
- July 23, 2003, 6:57 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Jessica Lynch.. again
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3528
I would love to see the write up on the recommendation form. and the various recommendations, remember, she has to be recommended by a supervisor, and that also has to pass through an superior officers review, as well as an additional write up. Then, I think (I can't remember) it has at least one if...
- July 18, 2003, 12:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hour by Hour
- Replies: 96
- Views: 24418
Keep in there For me, it was watching my father die in the hospital from lack of oxygen. After smoking for 50 years, he quit, and lived another 9, but the damage was already done. His lungs lost all elasticity, and hardened. Even with oxygen, it wasn't enough. I was living in England at the time, an...
- July 5, 2003, 11:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Tour de France thread.
- Replies: 136
- Views: 9314
no insult taken, i took them as emphasis, as you intended However, the words, in thier own, are redundant Either you win the race, or you don't. A person cannot win the race in someone elses lifetime, because it is implied that the winner of the race is heretofore dead. (bored, so making up words). ...
- July 3, 2003, 7:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Tour de France thread.
- Replies: 136
- Views: 9314
so what you meant was He is one of the only 4 people alive who have one the Tour de France 5 times. (the other way implies that others (not the 4) have won it posthumously. win the tour de france 5 times in their own lifetimes Look carefully at the above sentence. The words in their own are redundan...
- July 3, 2003, 6:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Tour de France thread.
- Replies: 136
- Views: 9314
Re: 2 Days until we begin kicking French ass!
and one of only 6 men to win the Tour 5 times in their lifetime. am confused Aranuil. If a rider died, (one of the previous 5) wouldn't that preclude them from wining the tour de France? I must be doped up today on too much cold medicine to make sense of that part of the paragraph. Sorry :) On a li...
- July 2, 2003, 4:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Price of Gas in your area?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1823
- June 26, 2003, 1:14 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Now dont jump to conclusions!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 850
- June 26, 2003, 11:43 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Now dont jump to conclusions!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 850
- June 23, 2003, 7:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Walking dogs?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3044
German Shepherds aren't really known for their aggresive behaviour though, especially towards other dogs. Are you sure he attacked your dog and wasn't just playing or establishing dominance? I mean if a German Shepherd really wanted to kill a labrador I don't think it would really take him more tha...
- June 12, 2003, 2:26 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Damn peace process is to deadly
- Replies: 47
- Views: 3352
Personally, I think you and others are reading far too much into Kyoukan's posts if you think she's racist toward the middle-class white male, but to each his own. It's far more likely that she was exagerrating to make a point. Perhaps my sensitivity level is too low, but given that I'm a middle-cl...