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You'd need the wisdom of Solomon to deal with this one. It would p1ss me off no end if someone cut my tree. However is it really worth spending hundreds/ thousands on legal fees? Does your neighbour own the house or is he a tenant?
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Do you really think society would have advanced without someone "whingeing"? Would King John have signed the Magna Carta if it wasn't for those "whingeing" Barons? Or do you think women would have got the vote without those "whingeing" suffragettes?
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That's obviously untrue though. Or do you really think a fat ugly girl has a chance of becoming a model or someone in a wheelchair can become a professional footballer? I just resent the "winner takes all" economics of some industries like books. The big authors will make untold riches and the nearly as good authors will make relatively little. Is this really fair? How many tree surgeons are in the country? say 10,000? I bet they all have a fairly similar salary. How would you feel if the top tree surgeon was making £20million a year and the 100th best tree surgeon was making say £50k a year and the 1000th best tree surgeon was making £5,000 a year? Copyright for books lasts for 70 years after the authors death. Sorry, but it doesn't seem right that the JK family will be collecting royalties for these books for the next 100 years...
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I share your concerns about paying tax for the workshy... For me I understand the arguments why JK should be so rich, but emotionally I just think it's wrong that someone should have so much for writing children's books.. Other people have made a bigger contribution to mankind and not made as much.
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Do I really write like a ten year old?
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Come on, when so many people in the UK are struggling financially it's hard not to make a moral judgement on someone with so much money that they would struggle to spend the money in a hundred lifetimes...
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hmrc?
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The films are brilliant. But it seems she is getting a mighty big slice of cake while other people are getting tiny slivers.
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She is, but do you really think there aren't better ways to spend the money to benefit society? If I gave you a million quid and told you 'spend this money to help society' would you really buy a house to knock down?
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Why don't we look at other hard jobs? Bin man, Royal Marine, social worker, fireman, sewage worker. Is it typical for any of those professionals to make a billion over a Lifetime?
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She "earned" it because we live in a society that has a rule of law and respects copyright laws. IMO someone that becomes a billionaire for writing some books is getting too much money.. Should she not be paying a bit more tax so she doesn't have so much money to fritter away? Perhaps give a bit more back to the society that made her so rich?
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Yeah, she wrote those books while on benefits. She then collects massive royalties for film rights etc. How can she "earn every bit of it" when she is now only effectively going to her bank every month with a royalty cheque for a couple of million? Is that hard work demanding millions?
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Don't get me wrong, I see your argument. But at the same time it doesn't seem right that someone spends the same amount of money that most people earn in a lifetime to buy a house to knock down.
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If I had a million quid in the bank I could think of better things to do than knock a house down..... What would you do with a million? Maybe buy some ferraris and burn them?
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It just seems a bit wrong to knock down a million pound house when people are living in shop doorways.
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I'm not a socialist but I can see why someone that buys their neighbours house for a million quid so they can knock it down to extend their garden would P1ss people off....
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some people should just be locked up and left to rot. I bet the guy that done it has a string of convictions.
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Dress a mate up as a gimp and leave him padlocked to a chair in your lock up. If someone does break in they won't stay long and won't come back. Failing that CCTV seems good.
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OK, it looks a bit p1sh now, but in five years time the neighbouring trees will have grown a bit and start hiding the dead trees. Are people still going to be complaining when woodpeckers etc start nesting in the trees? Surely the landowner must have known what SNH were going to do?
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0.02 of an acre? About 900 square feet? Unless you own adjacent land I would say it's worthless.
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Measurement advice please
matelot replied to Lillywhite Timber's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
what will you do with the timber? tbh, I don't see 20 year old spruce being worth much... -
Mainstream media, modern imperialism and the violence caused.
matelot replied to tommer9's topic in The Lounge
Well it looks like most of us are too brainwashed by the media for some of the posters here to debate their ideas Or perhaps they know deep down that their ideas are complete garbish? -
Mainstream media, modern imperialism and the violence caused.
matelot replied to tommer9's topic in The Lounge
How about the hundreds of people that will read your posts though? If your thoughts are good they might come round to your way of thinking? -
Mainstream media, modern imperialism and the violence caused.
matelot replied to tommer9's topic in The Lounge
"The biggest influence in everyone's life is the media"? Really? It's not your parents? School? Mates? Life experiences? Kids? If you think Israelis are a bunch of d1cks you should say why. fyi I've met a lot of people that don't like Israelis. -
Mainstream media, modern imperialism and the violence caused.
matelot replied to tommer9's topic in The Lounge
And how are minorities treated in neighbouring countries? I bet they're treated a lot worse than Muslims in Israel? No one is saying Israel is perfect, but a lot of the neighbouring countries seem like hell on earth....
