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bikerbill


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First, Happy Yorkshire day to you all:-

Yorkshire Day is celebrated on 1 August to promote the historic English county of Yorkshire. It was celebrated in 1975, by the Yorkshire Ridings Society, initially in Beverley, as "protest movement against the Local Government re-organisation of 1974", The date alludes to the Battle of Minden, and also the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, for which a Yorkshire MP, William Wilberforce, had campaigned.[1][2]

The day was already celebrated by The Light Infantry, successors to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, as Minden Day. Together with five other infantry regiments of the British Army, a rose is permitted to be worn in the headdress. In the case of the Light Infantry, the rose is white.

I'm a Yorkshireman and proud of it. can you tell? But not innapropriately so, with lighthearted touch and only a smattering of irony.

But, leaving that aside, my boss has just e mailed me to say that due to the new rles on Business needs cars, i have to hand mine back at teh end of the month. although initally annoyed, this isn't a shock or a surprise and I quickly turned it round to see the benefit - no tax liability, no personal use contribution, this equals effectively a 14% pay rise gross, 10% net. Bingo. What can i get for the same money? Something a bit tasty for sure. I'm an unashamed, unreconstructed petrol head.

Now I had a discussion with the boss and he was surprised at how OK I was with this, said he was worried telling me as he thought I might get blunt and direct. No prblem says I it has benefits. However he then says of course we'll pay you 23p per mile to use your own car for work. Ah, I had to point out that my personal transport is just that. It's not available for work use.

2 hours later he tells me don't rush out to buy a car, I've just escalated this to director level. The staff group cannot afford the lack of flexibility of providing hire cars for teh three of you unless you have them 7 days a week.

So the fat lady hasn't sung yet, but I've got to the point where i'd happily give the car back and get something for me that I really want. But not for today. The car goes back nominally on september 2nd so I have plenty of time to find something else.

a few years ago, the company suggested they were going to do this and boy did I give them both barrels. Like I say, how things change.



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excellent, well done, some seriously good negotiating there


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well...to be completely off topic, I have traced my family back to "East Riding" in Yorkshire then North Yorkshire (Glanton/Sherburn) back to 1640, one of my ancestors from East Riding was The Captain on the Ship that Napoleon surrendered on, my name is the danish root of the word Easton, (East field) and it's a pretty small family, 4 branches since the early 1600's, they started emigrating in the 1700's, and evidently aren't very good at going to war, because we have lost 4-5 family members in -every- single conflict going back to the 1600's, including The Spanish Civil War, The Civil War, World War I and II, Korea, and Vietnam, I am the first member of my family to not serve in the armed forces for GB or The US for -hundreds- of years

sorry, please return to your regularly scheduled cool car sobriety story



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dammit linbaba. You have deeper Yorkshire heritage than I. I was only born here of mixed parentage Scots mum she was the first Scot in her line to permanently leave Scotland and the only one of her line to marry an Englishman although her big brother married an Englishwoman and her a southerner to boot. Dad was Yorkshireborn of a derbyshirewoman and a leicesterman. But though not Yorkshire bred I'm Yorkshire born.

-- Edited by bikerbill on Monday 1st of August 2011 05:32:58 PM

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bikerbill wrote:

dammit linbaba. You have deeper Yorkshire heritage than I. I was only born here of mixed parentage Scots mum she was the first Scot in her line to permanently leave Scotland and the only one of her line to marry an Englishman although her big brother married an Englishwoman and her a southerner to boot. Dad was Yorkshireborn of a derbyshirewoman and a leicesterman. But though not Yorkshire bred I'm Yorkshire born.

-- Edited by bikerbill on Monday 1st of August 2011 05:32:58 PM

Will the real Yorkshire heritage king please stand up??? You guys make me laugh. Maybe, you can challenge Linbaba to a duel? I would buy tickets to that. Have a great day both of you. No more bickering...you hear.  

~God bless~

P.S. Hey Bill, whatever happened to my steak??? Did you forget??? I didn't.



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I ate them all. everytime I eat a steak I say this one's for Mr. David



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LinBaba wrote:

well...to be completely off topic, I have traced my family back to "East Riding" in Yorkshire then North Yorkshire (Glanton/Sherburn) back to 1640, one of my ancestors from East Riding was The Captain on the Ship that Napoleon surrendered on


One brance of my ancestry traces through some sketchy, unproven links to an illegitimate son of King George III.  If true, it explains both the ego and the insanity

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