Reply to: Christmas Credit Crunch Crime

[threaded]

Hmmm…Danish is probably fairly easy to learn for someone who speaks Dutch. How’s the testing market?

For native English speakers they say Danish is probably the hardest language in the world to learn. 75% of native born Danish school leavers actually failed their Danish exam last year.

But in the testers room there is a Dutch guy, who i've just chatted to, and he thinks it was easy to pick up, about 6 months, and you can read the newspapers straight away.

[BrilloPad]

What is it with English tourists that makes them wear football shirts and carry cans of lager everywhere they go?

I wish ALL the English chavs would go abroad.

[Mich the Tester]

OK, in the summer you do get English tourists, some of which can give you a bit of a fright.

What is it with English tourists that makes them wear football shirts and carry cans of lager everywhere they go?

[threaded]

I doubt that

OK, in the summer you do get English tourists, some of which can give you a bit of a fright.

[Mich the Tester]

Higher rate should be 65%, but hardly anyone actually pays it as there are various allowances, for most higher rate earners it is actually 40%, and will go down with the proposed changes.

Hmmm…Danish is probably fairly easy to learn for someone who speaks Dutch. How’s the testing market?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

And there're no ugly birds either!

I doubt that

[threaded]

And that’ll be about 85%?

Higher rate should be 65%, but hardly anyone actually pays it as there are various allowances, for most higher rate earners it is actually 40%, and will go down with the proposed changes.

[Mich the Tester]

Forgot to mention: in Denmark they're also planning on removing the higher tax rate for high earners completely. So there'll be just one rate for everyone.

Which is nice.

And that’ll be about 85%?

[threaded]

Forgot to mention: in Denmark they're also planning on removing the higher tax rate for high earners completely. So there'll be just one rate for everyone.

Which is nice.

[Unicorn]

Yes, and crime never happens in Euroland does it. Euroland must be renamed Perfectland in the eyes of these fervour fueled bolshevik type convertees. Most of you are dodging tax as well. The main reason you are actually abroad, lets face it.

Yes correct. And ?

[Mich the Tester]

Yes, and crime never happens in Euroland does it. Euroland must be renamed Perfectland in the eyes of these fervour fueled bolshevik type convertees. Most of you are dodging tax as well. The main reason you are actually abroad, lets face it.

Of course. Having robbed my local branch of Barclays in the early 90’s I left for a European country with approximately the same rates of personal taxation to live in a truly heavenly sub-tropical Northern European paradise, surrounded by a harem of tall, large breasted willing blonde nubiles who pour glasses of Dom Perignon for me before showering their t-shirts with another bottle. My 200 ft luxury cruiser transports me to diverse tax havens where the world’s most famous supermodels and Italian actresses tend to my every wish as I sit to watch my formula one speedboat team dominating the world championships. There’s no crime where live, because we employ an army of private security guards, hired directly from the SAS and the Foreign Legion, to hunt down and shoot chavs on sight. You should try this lifestyle, it’s really quite pleasant.

[threaded]

Yes, and crime never happens in Euroland does it. Euroland must be renamed Perfectland in the eyes of these fervour fueled bolshevik type convertees. Most of you are dodging tax as well. The main reason you are actually abroad, lets face it.

It is quite true. In Denmark, you pay less tax than in the UK, and get way better services in return.

And there're no ugly birds either!

[Turion]

Yes, and crime never happens in Euroland does it. Euroland must be renamed Perfectland in the eyes of these fervour fueled bolshevik type convertees. Most of you are dodging tax as well. The main reason you are actually abroad, lets face it.

[Sysman]

Even if there is cash in the bank, once you’ve shipped it on a small speedboat to Senegal, and then in a container to Brazil to enjoy your takings in an extradition-free zone, it will have devalued to the point that you’ll struggle to find a money changer who’ll give you much more than one cruzeiro per pound, and you might just as well have robbed a bank in South America.

Cough. I tried changing pounds in a third world country just after Sterling popped out of the ERM. Everyone was asking for USD instead.

[Mich the Tester]

Beat me to it!

Even if there is cash in the bank, once you’ve shipped it on a small speedboat to Senegal, and then in a container to Brazil to enjoy your takings in an extradition-free zone, it will have devalued to the point that you’ll struggle to find a money changer who’ll give you much more than one cruzeiro per pound, and you might just as well have robbed a bank in South America.