theunderstudy Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Random facts, world capitals, basic mechanical engineering, Star Wars, Pokemon. Latter was my childhood. So stfu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiggyrichard Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 If anyone wants an expert in talking bollox and annoying the shit out of people, i know where there are dozens! Strange, but they all seem to congregate in the same place. Namely...here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted February 16, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted February 16, 2012 Completely useless trivia Terrorism International politics (Specifically conflict and the EU) Gaming Culturally unimportant film Non-ancient History Some Science ..shoot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted February 16, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted February 16, 2012 Pies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Accontancy, tax, football statistics, indie music, real ale. You probably wouldn't want to sit next to me at a dinner party. At the weekend, a birthday party in the meet and greets with random people generally ran thus them: ah so what do you do? me: im doing a masters in european studies, mostly with a historical tilt them: oh interesting! any area in particular? me: yes I'm focussing on survivor holocaust testimony. them: ... oh. So that's.. me: the horrors of torture, death and the total degradation of the human essence as the ultimate means and end of totalitarianism, and a world where tales of cannibalism are spoken of with an unsettlingly surreal detached fashion, and the split necessity and impossibility of communicating this experience them: oh wow, yeah, that's erm, wow... I'm just going to meet some other people now... you know, go get a drink... maybe see you later... me: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulieB Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Is this not an extension of the ask BOF anything thread? I didn't know we had a welfare overpayment benefits person on VT Eames. Someone was bemoaning to me yesterday that everytime she gets tax credits they then say a few months later that she's been overpaid & they need to claim it all back. The tax credits sytem really is a farce! I do Financial services like a few others on VT plus debts, tax, trust & estate work & sorting out care fees etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 The concept was more of a VT Yellow Pages really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Furniture, rollercoasters and cunnilingus. can you do all 3 in one go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Xbox Gaming (PC again one day) Curry and Chinese food ordering advice Online Marketing and Digital Media Cricket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted February 16, 2012 Moderator Share Posted February 16, 2012 Furniture, rollercoasters and cunnilingus. can you do all 3 in one go? No that's him asking advice on them He can't do any of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Furniture, rollercoasters and cunnilingus. can you do all 3 in one go? No that's him asking advice on them He can't do any of them. I've got a chaise longue, Nemesis Inferno photograph and a missus that says otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 16, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted February 16, 2012 The only practical things I've managed to give advice on here seem to be (a) running and ( the use of English. I know shitloads of trivia and OldBlokeStuff, but that's not advice material really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 YES FINALLY something I can genuinely contribute to, if the need arises. Time to pull out the ol' serious hat *ahem* My area of expertise are welfare benefits, specifically overpayments thereof. So if anyone ever has one, or knows someone who has one, I'm yer man. The real proper CAB can offer advice in these respects too, but given my deep seated hatred for them, I wouldnt advise it. I am much nicer right Over payment thereof and the extraction of said overpayment from the poor unfortunates.....? Oh yes. Used to just be for those on benefit, ie. we'd recoup all owed monies via deductions from what ever benefits the individual would have in pay. Now though I do both on and off benefit, so for those we can't take what ever we want UGH SORRY what the debtor can afford from benefits, we send charlie and boys round with a baseball bat. Or something. It used to surprise me how often people would mention to me things that I could relate to the work I do, that being overpaid benefits, and benefits in general - it was a genuine shock to discover that the knowledge I have and take completely for granted, that I consider to be 'just work', can sometimes actually be really useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 YES FINALLY something I can genuinely contribute to, if the need arises. Time to pull out the ol' serious hat *ahem* My area of expertise are welfare benefits, specifically overpayments thereof. So if anyone ever has one, or knows someone who has one, I'm yer man. The real proper CAB can offer advice in these respects too, but given my deep seated hatred for them, I wouldnt advise it. I am much nicer right Over payment thereof and the extraction of said overpayment from the poor unfortunates.....? Oh yes. Used to just be for those on benefit, ie. we'd recoup all owed monies via deductions from what ever benefits the individual would have in pay. Now though I do both on and off benefit, so for those we can't take what ever we want UGH SORRY what the debtor can afford from benefits, we send charlie and boys round with a baseball bat. Or something. It used to surprise me how often people would mention to me things that I could relate to the work I do, that being overpaid benefits, and benefits in general - it was a genuine shock to discover that the knowledge I have and take completely for granted, that I consider to be 'just work', can sometimes actually be really useful. Ha ha! Excellent. I quite often end up in court with the DWP prosecutors.... its ace watching the scumbags wander in and try to explain their £100ks worth of benefit fraud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 16, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted February 16, 2012 Furniture, rollercoasters and cunnilingus. can you do all 3 in one go? No that's him asking advice on them He can't do any of them. I've got a chaise longue, Nemesis Inferno photograph and a missus that says otherwise. Pity you were sitting on the photograph, riding your missus and eating out the chaise longue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 16, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted February 16, 2012 As for me, accountancy the cost of Land Rovers (Jaguars less so) late 90's WWF random facts and probably loads more I can't/won't mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 It's a shame we only take the larger amounts of overpayments all the way to court. I see very very few debtors who have been prosecuted, unfortunately. Compensation orders are also far more rare than they should be. Problem being our fraud investigators know damn well if any overpayment is below £10k it probably won't be taken up by our solicitors, so if the debtor never accepts that the money was gained by fraudulent means we have treat the barrrrstuds exactly the same as the ones that are genuine mistakes. Unless we have evidence, like those ones you see on the news where "Mr. Unable to walk more than 2 feet without aid" is filmed being the lineo at the his local sunday league match They're few and far between too though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Pity you were... riding your missus That is never a pity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 It's a shame we only take the larger amounts of overpayments all the way to court. I see very very few debtors who have been prosecuted, unfortunately. Compensation orders are also far more rare than they should be. Problem being our fraud investigators know damn well if any overpayment is below £10k it probably won't be taken up by our solicitors, so if the debtor never accepts that the money was gained by fraudulent means we have treat the barrrrstuds exactly the same as the ones that are genuine mistakes. Unless we have evidence, like those ones you see on the news where "Mr. Unable to walk more than 2 feet without aid" is filmed being the lineo at the his local sunday league match They're few and far between too though Those ones are my favourites, its amazing how many limps start as they enter the court room.... One bloke got his sentence and tried to plead poverty to keep his deductions low, the Clerk asked him of his NI number and he took the keys to his Aston Martin out of his pocket and put them on the desk. clearing in the woods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted February 16, 2012 Moderator Share Posted February 16, 2012 asked him of his NI number and he took the keys to his Aston Martin out of his pocket and put them on the desk. That's a little hard to believe if I'm honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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