Isn't this called renting?

J G Miller wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:42:22 +0100, kim wrote:

Just move to Hoalland )

In fact, Groningen (de stad) is not in Holland, neither North Holland
nor South Holland, but in the province of Groningen, and was
originally a part of Frisia.

People would not say "just move to England" if there was a news
article about the City of Aberdeen, would they?

The point of my post was to suggest that the British govt do the same and
purchase 40" plasma TVs with built-in Freeview/Freesat receivers for
everyone on benefits.

(kim)

Colum Mylod wrote:

The Postbank used to send mail to one of its account holders addressed
as "Edinburgh, Scotland, Engeland". He was not best pleased and could
not get it fixed. ...

The Dutch poster would probably only be able to select from a list, so if
the Scottish guy had asked for the country name to be set to
"Groot-Brittannië" specifically using the Dutch spelling, then it would
probably have been fixed in a jiffy.

--
Dave Farrance

Colum Mylod wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:14:46 +0200, J G Miller
wrote:

People would not say "just move to England" if there was a news
article about the City of Aberdeen, would they?

The Postbank used to send mail to one of its account holders addressed
as "Edinburgh, Scotland, Engeland". He was not best pleased and could
not get it fixed. Plenty of Dutch people consider anything north and
west of them as "Engeland".


Perhaps they were getting their own back for the way we insist on
referring to all of the Netherlands as Holland?

(A bit like naming all of England as Yorkshire)

Terry

Op Vrijdag, October 24th, 2008 at 01:46:08h +0100, kim schreeft:
The point of my post was to suggest that the British govt do the same
and purchase 40" plasma TVs with built-in Freeview/Freesat receivers
for everyone on benefits.

The Westminster government prefers a different approach in dealing with
the poorest members of society, any method that will result in larger
profits for its friends and potential donors in the business world.

Is it not the case that reasonable quality Freeview DVB-t/MPEG-2 set top
decoder boxes are currently retailing between GBP 20 - GBP 30 ?

In each region undergoing DSO, the government is asking OAPs to pay
GBP 40 for the installation of such a box should the OAP feel confused
about and in need of help.

Talk about exploiting the weakest members of society ...

Compare that to the uncaring capitalist non-socialist USofA where all
households, regardless of age or income, can apply for USD 40.00 vouchers
to help in the cost of conversion.