A note to the world.......

"Svend" (svend)
01/31/2020 at 14:06 • Filed to: None

Screw you world.

Okay, so not so much a note as a few words.

Today I woke up, top ped up the windscreen washer fluid, got my step-father and went to get my sister to head to York for grand father’s funeral, then the brother in law decided to come, fine. Set off for the two hour journey and every few minutes it was, ‘daddy’ (for my step-father’s attention) or ‘Sven’ (for me, obviously) with rambling inane questions and statements.

Got to the crematorium in plenty of time, got the lay of the land, spoke to the Royal Air Force Association rep who was going to escort the hearse in with the RAF banner and Union Flag over the coffin. All going fine, avoided the aunt and her spawn who made my mum’s life hell for years while my grand father lived with us for 15 years. He didn’t want to speak to her, she took it out on my mum thinking she was keeping him away from her, meanwhile he was wanting kept away from her and mum was getting the fallout.

Time for the eulogise, everyone patting themselves on the back for looking after him while he lived with us the last 15 years, how they all visited him and how he made their lives meaningful, etc... he died nearing a year to the month of being diagnosed with vascular dementia. In the eulogise there was no mention of us looking after him for 15 years but how they looked after him after mum died (because apparently, after mum died, there was no one to look after him. Ye’, expect me and my step-father who had done so for all those years), oh, they looked after him, for 15 DAYS and put him in a care home. Lots of patting on backs of how they visited him every day, then other day, then week.

One track they played after the crematorium that made me smile because my mum loved it too was Franck Pourcel’s, Concorde. Which starts with the sound of a Concorde and her beautiful Rolls Royce/Snecma Olympus593 engines taking off. Apparently during his last few days, it was the only thing that would make him smile.

Here’s a good one for you all. My mum was send back to the U.K. from Cyprus when she was a late teenager as she developed an allergy from something while in Cyprus . Now her mother was in the U.K. but wasn’t well so my mum stayed with her aunt and uncle. Grand father learned that my mum had met a young lad, but my grand father was out at RAF Akr otiri in Cyprus and didn’t know anything of the lad, so he grabbed a lift from an AVRO Vulcan bomber crew who were coming back to the U.K., just so he could check this guy out. Lol.

Anyway, eulogy, no mention of us other than my mum was his daughter and she had passed away. So we got back into the car and headed home, two more hours in the car with my sister’s inane talking. When she got out the car. I said to my step-father, ‘I’m glad it’s all over’, he said, ‘what’s that lad?’. I replied, ‘Kerry’s voice’. Lol.

Add to it all it’s Brexit Day today, we’re now in the 12 months of negotiations and deals stage. Thanks to those Brexit racist idiots who voted to leave and the elderly lot who won’t live to see the true fallout.

I didn’t and still don’t want it, but it’s here so lets get it over with and move on with our lives.

So a few McDonalds okay-ish burgers and a bottle of Teeling Single Grain should hopefully get me through the night. If not, well, I don’t really care, I really sodding don’t.

One Big Mac, two Grand Big Macs, large fries and a Spicy Chicken Legend.

Rant over.

Right then you horrible lot. Squad, Squad shun, to your duties, fall out.

DISCUSSION (34)

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Svend
01/31/2020 at 14:49

I believe my duty is to show support of your whiskey choices. Though for some reason I’ve always preferred the normal Teeling to the Single Grain.

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > Svend
01/31/2020 at 14:56

That ..... is a lot of whiskey. You have Brexit and Boris Johnson. Us Americans will still have the orange moron for at least the rest of 2020, and possibly another four years more. No amount whiskey will make take that away.

God help us all.

Svend > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
01/31/2020 at 15:00

Lol. Fair play. the Single Malt just won best single malt in 2016 I think it was, it one best Irish Single Malt, this year best single malt.

I just find the Single Grain that much smoother.

LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com > Svend
01/31/2020 at 15:08

Family. Can be a curse or a blessing, or most frequently is quite a mix. Sad about your grand-dad.

Svend > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
01/31/2020 at 15:10

The world is going bonkers.

All to many people are solely thinking of themselves. I’m really fed up of it.

But for now, there is Murder in Paradise on BBC iPlayer and a large whiskey.

Darkbrador > Svend
01/31/2020 at 15:12

Dafuq is a Grand Big Mac ?

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Darkbrador
01/31/2020 at 15:14

i think thats a bigly big mac in american

ttyymmnn > Svend
01/31/2020 at 15:14

Thanks to those Brexit racist idiots who voted to leave and the elderly lot who won’t live to see the true fallout.

You mean Boris? I was just thinking today that the only people who should have been allowed to vote for Brexit was those 30 years and younger.

lone_liberal > Svend
01/31/2020 at 15:14

I’m heading for the store tonight to pick up some Westland (a Seattle distillery ) whiske y that I’ve heard great things about but haven’t tried yet . I will be sure to raise a glass to your grandfather.

Svend > Darkbrador
01/31/2020 at 15:16

Apparently it’s a ‘ thicker and wider burger’.

Generally slightly more of everything, pattie, bun, lettice, sauce, onions, etc...

I specced mine without lettuce on the Grand Big Macs and forgot to on the regular Big Mac. Doh.

gettingoldercarguy > Svend
01/31/2020 at 15:16

Well damn, I hope the whiskey does its job.

When my wife and I decided to move to the Pacific Northwest, we were at a dinner interview and one of the interviewers asked me if we had family here.

On queue I quipped, “No, quite the opposite.”

There’s was a great deal of laughter from the table. Later I learned that was the CEO of the hospital and the other physicians at the dinner are all from various areas and moved here for a similar reason.

Chariotoflove > Svend
01/31/2020 at 15:16

TIL there is such a thing as a Grand Big Mac.

We didn’t have any eulogy at Mom’s funeral Mass, just the obligatory homily. It wasn’t to keep anyone from saying anything, just to make it no longer than the experience had to be. Dad especially just wanted it to be over, and my sister, brother, and I instinctively knew that (and felt the same) . After, Dad said to me, “I didn’t hear a word the priest said, but I saw that he kept it under 10 minutes, so I approve.”

Tripper > Svend
01/31/2020 at 15:22

Rough day man, bottoms up. You’ve got me hankering for a big mac now.

Darkbrador > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
01/31/2020 at 15:24

Kinja'd!!!

Darkbrador > Svend
01/31/2020 at 15:24

Bigrexit Mac ?

Svend > ttyymmnn
01/31/2020 at 15:25

And no politicians who were born in New York ‘ accident of birth’* or not, meaning no trumpie of johnson.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31475945

Boris Johnson says he intends to renounce his American citizenship to prove his “commitment to Britain”.

He told the Sunday Times that his citizenship was “an accident of birth that has left me with this thing. I’ve got to find a way of sorting it out.”

The Mayor of London, who was born in New York, has in the past been forced to pay US tax because of his American citizenship.

He has just completed a six-day tour of cities in the US.

Mr Johnson said he would approach US ambassador Matthew Barzun to explore what steps he had to take to give up his American nationality.

The Conservative politician - who was born in Manhattan in 1964 and holds a US passport alongside a British one - said that relinquishing his citizenship was a “laborious business, they don’t make it easy for you”.

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His passport was renewed in November 2012 but he had previously stated that he would give it up after being told in 2006 that, as a native born American, he could only use a US passport to travel in that country, and not his British one.

“The reason I’m thinking I probably will want to make a change is that my commitment is, and always has been, to Britain,” he said.

In January he settled a US tax bill he had previously described as “absolutely outrageous”.

Mr Johnson had faced a demand from the US authorities to pay capital gains tax on profits from the sale of his house in north London.

American law requires all citizens to pay US taxes even if they live abroad.

Oh and this.

American law requires all citizens to pay US taxes even if they live abroad.

Even people who have never set foot in the U.S. since birth have to pay U.S. once they are over a certain threshold.

In the U.K. if you live in the U.K. for less than 11 months a year, you get your income tax BACK.

Svend > lone_liberal
01/31/2020 at 15:31

Good whiskey is good whiskey. You enjoy mate.

He was a good man, but as he got older he became more racist and bigoted, sure it may of been the early sign s of dementia but he said a lot of hurtful things to a lot of people, some of it to my mum about disabled people, his words were, ‘h itler had the right idea about disabled people’, baring in mind my mother, sister and step-father are/were all disabled at the time. Some ten+ years before he was diagnosed). He’s in a better place because he would of hated to of seen how he ended up.

Svend > gettingoldercarguy
01/31/2020 at 15:34

Yep, now t as strange as family. Eh!?

ttyymmnn > Svend
01/31/2020 at 15:38

So it’s really about money, and not nationalism?

Svend > Chariotoflove
01/31/2020 at 15:39

The Grand Big Mac is just slightly more of everything.

Kinja'd!!!

Svend > Tripper
01/31/2020 at 15:41

Rough day man

No truer three words have ever been uttered.

Seriously, step away from the Big Mac and get something filling and nutritional.

Tripper > Svend
01/31/2020 at 15:44

I have always found it odd how momentarily satisfying mcdonalds is. So good while you’re eating it, but then it’s like you’ve eaten nothing...

Svend > ttyymmnn
01/31/2020 at 15:46

I think the money plays a part with so many saying, ‘where is our money going?’, but not actually bothering to see where, such as with a small amount being used in the U.K. (granted some is), the U.K. gets a rebate after a few years because of it.

But for Boris it was having to pay a massive amount of money to the U.S. where he’d not lived, saw anything of it in return all because his family left him some expensive property in their will, so he had to pay the U.K. tax on it, then pay a U.S. tax on the remainder.

In the U.K. (those who have known about it) find it very strange.

There is a lot of nationalism in it. Many seeing (mostly the older generation), why are we being dictated to by those over there, when we’ve fought so many times against them, stupidly, many of those voted to join it all those years ago.

Svend > Tripper
01/31/2020 at 15:52

I know right. you get me. I keep thinking exactly the same.

Thankfully the McDonalds on the way home from work in the morning has a Greggs bakery across the road.

A good pasty beats a McMuffin any day. There are so much more about them. So yes, I make a few stops at the bakery a bit more often.

lone_liberal > Svend
01/31/2020 at 15:54

My wife’s grandfather had dementia and she says that in his later years he was always very angry, hard to be around and just bad like that too. Totally different than he was earlier in his life when he was a very outgoing and gregarious person.

Tripper > Svend
01/31/2020 at 16:34

I love a good bakery. There’s a local one owned by a Frenchman . I was terribly hungover the first time I was in. I handed him my card, to pay for the truckload of macrons I ordered.

It declined and he shouts from the other side of the bakery in a thick French accent “sir there is not enough money on the card!”

I said, “ looks like I over did it in more ways than one last night” I got a snicker from the others in line.

facw > Svend
01/31/2020 at 16:37

I don’t think the tax thing is that flawed, if you’ve never lived here it giving up citizenship shouldn’t be a big deal. And if you are paying the tax, I’m pretty sure you can deduct foreign taxes paid, so it’s not like you are paying anywhere near the full amount.

Svend > facw
01/31/2020 at 17:05

Ye’, you pay the tax in your host country and anything left over and above a certain amount you pay tax on to the U.S.

Many Americans living in Europe pay small fortunes to have people fill and check their tax returns, only to find they haven’t gone over that threshold.

Giving up citizenship isn’t so easy.

There was a case of a young lad, got a small job while he was at school, got notification from the U.S. tax office on what was expected for if and when he went over a certain amount and would have to start filling out U.S. tax returns. He chose to give up U.S. citizenship, but was told he had to submit three tax returns before he could.

That was simply because he’d not filed any tax returns with the U.S., so had t file three before he could renounce his citizenship.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-renounce-us-citizenship-2018-8?r=US&IR=T

The number of Americans renouncing their citizenship has grown significantly over the past few years, hitting a record high of 5,411 in 2016. Renunciations fell slightly last year, though there were still nearly 1,000 more than in 2015.

Americans may choose to renounce their citizenship for a variety of reasons: High taxes (the US is one of the few countries that taxes citizens based on worldwide income), family circumstances, and legal complications are just some of the explanations .

The process of renouncing US citizenship can be complex and expensive. Here’s how to do it:

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TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Svend
01/31/2020 at 17:32

Sorry to hear about your Granddad, I’ll raise a glass of K ilchoman to you and your family who you like. Cheers mate.

Svend > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
01/31/2020 at 17:42

Cheers mate.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Svend
01/31/2020 at 23:34

I send my condolences and raise a glass to you and yours. That's a tough day, my friend, but there will be better ones to come.

Svend > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
02/01/2020 at 00:12

Cheers mate.

I’ve two more days before I have to go back to the incompetent a-holes at work.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Svend
02/01/2020 at 05:12

Brexit won’t be so bad.

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/01/2020 at 05:23

To be honest when it went to the referendum, nobody in government was prepared for people to vote to leave, but they did and the government and shadow back bench has been trying to drag it out and drag it out as if in someway people would forget and go about their lives.

I didn’t want us to leave, but we are so lets get on with the thing and the sooner we can try and rebuild our lives and economies.

We’ve got 12 months from last night to get all out deals in place with the E.U. and elsewhere during this transition stage, lets get going.