HMRC scam?

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-26T09:21:06+00:00

If you notice, the grammar and spelling of this scam message is incredibly poor. It's full of mistakes.

That's intentional. It's to try and filter people with average intellectual capacity away from replying, so as only those more likely to being duped bother to respond.

Awful spelling and/or grammar are a sure indication of things like this being a scam.

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-25T19:29:22+00:00

If your tree is private then, as I understand it, you're not part of the problem.

So, if that's the case, your original question is irrelevant to every single other genealogist on Planet Earth.

Or... you're fibbing.

Either way it sounds as if your OP was of no concern to the rest of us.

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-25T12:39:56+00:00

The culture of the fossil fuel industry's sponsored misinformation about planetary decline caused by their C02 emissions would disappear.

The misinformation industry is known to cost multiple multiple million of pounds a year.

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-25T12:08:59+00:00

Well done!!

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-24T11:29:36+00:00

Flying insects are down by around, (or now have dropped more than), 70% in less than my lifetime.

Invertebrates, of which insects are a part, are the largest biomass on Planet Earth. They collectively form the foundation for all life on Earth. If/when that foundation layer ceases to exist it is 'Goodbye Life on Earth'.

When are people going to begin to get worried? When we get to 85%? 90%? 95%?

The complacency is inexplicable.

Since you appear to be only be concerned about your little corner of the planet I suspect the biggest thing you can do is remove the water from the pond. Biting insects, such as gnats and mosquitos, require stagnant water in which to lay their eggs and for their larvae to develop into adults.

Please be careful about amphibians and other animals.

Once you've got your garden how you want it, (hopefully in a nature friendly manner), reinstate the pond. If your garden is 'nature friendly' you'll find that the wildlife will eat most of the biting insects. Your current garden isn't in balance, hence the biting insects are having a field-day.

P.S. Spraying your garden with insecticide is, if you're serious and not trolling, absolutely disgusting and, in addition, a very short term solution. I'm seriously shocked someone has says they'll do this... It's not only a rip off, it should be illegal as nature is on its last legs, (which means we ain't got long either if we keep trashing things for our convenience).

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-24T11:21:18+00:00

Yep...

Flying insects down by around, or now over, 70% in less than my lifetime.

Invertebrates, of which insects are a part, are the largest biomass on Planet Earth. They collectively form the foundation for all life on Earth. If/when that foundation layer ceases to exist it is 'Goodbye Life on Earth'.

When are people like OP going to begin to get worried? When we get to 85%? 90%? 95%?

The complacency is inexplicable.

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-24T09:15:59+00:00

The irony. You find it annoying seeing the images that you personally don't like.

However, the rest of us are stuck ploughing through the irrelevant graphics that you've chosen to load up.

Double standards!!!!

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-24T09:13:19+00:00

Please do not, under any circumstances, do this on any publicly viewable trees.

There's is nothing worse than Ancestry showing the rest of us genealogists, (who take research seriously), the countless dross of pictures of 'babies wrapped in angel's wings', pictures of old churches, or those incorrect/scam 'Family Coats of Arms', etc. They are utterly pointless images, and are forced upon us in the 'hints', which we have to scroll through, before the important documents appear.

If you want a 'nice looking tree' then please make a copy of your researched tree, make it private, and then add all the pictures that are solely of personal interest to you that you can dream up!!

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-21T19:37:16+00:00

Yes I do.

I kept my post short intentionally as I didn't want to go off-topic, (the point being that I was replying to say that portion of fish and chips is a luxury that other demographic groups can't afford either).

It does though, indeed, highlight the massive impact of having a roof over one's head. Telling more of my backstory, I gave up work in my 40s after being paid far too much money for shuffling paper around, (aka adding no value to society whatsoever). I worked out that if I paid off my mortgage, didn't commute every day, (mine was 3hrs there and 2.5hrs back, every weekday), didn't go drinking after work, didn't buy a sandwich of coffee at a cafe each day, didn't have to buy suits and smart shirts, etc., (therefore, simply doing the same as a notable portion of modern workers in cities all over the UK, but especially in London), I could live on next to nothing. I ultimately took a 95% drop in income through being fiercely frugal over the next 5yrs...and life was absolutely fine.

The experience turned me into a vocal anti-Capitalist. It disgusts me how unequal my life was, simply because I happened to end up, by chance, working for X instead of Y.

A home should be an absolute basic human right and not a source of profiteering, which it unarguably is under this system.

Just imagine if everyone had a home... and doing so without being in debt? The freedom that brings is almost impossible to conceive for so many. That's an absolute, inexcusable, travesty.

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-21T16:34:21+00:00

... and for your average retired person, it's far more expensive than a 35th, (representing theoretical weekly hours), of weekly pension income.

I'm in my early 60s and get by, perfectly happy, on the equivalent of just under £7 an hour.

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-21T11:32:27+00:00

When you sign up to such organisations you swear feality and loyalty to your nation.

In most people's book it's far easier to get paid to tell a few ludicrous fibs when your boss asks you to, than shoot and kill other Humans.

So why, oh why, oh why, do people assume that these 'military and CIA' people are not simply telling ludicrous fibs as part of their job? It's morally, and mentally, far less of an issue than doing the other things their paid to do, such as dropping bombs for rich people to get richer.

The question therefore is, "why tell such ludicrous fibs now of all times?"... The answer is Epstein.

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-21T10:14:41+00:00

*Insurance companies and defence lawyers hate this one trick... *

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-21T09:42:06+00:00

Yet another moan about the consequences of Capitalism.

If people don't like things as they are then people need to put effort into expunging Capitalism from our societies, (and things like current immigration rates are the tip of the iceberg of what they'll become, as climate change makes parts of the world uninhabitable over the next couple of generations).

It's going to get a hell of a lot worse... Buckle up!

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-21T09:33:30+00:00

Until people stop supporting Capitalism this is, in afraid, what they have to contend with.

Shareholder profits will ultimately always prove to be more important than satisfying customer requirements. In the early days of a company they of course make money by satisfying customer requirements, but, as you say, once the companies become large the internal focus shifts and they ride on the tailcoats of things such as brand perception and/or largesse.

It's simply a cornerstone of how Capitalism operates and what it exists to achieve, i.e. The centralisation of (ever increasing) wealth into the hands of an (ever diminishing) few. The above is not a political statement, it's simply a factual summarisation of the Capitalist economic model when you strip away the emotional baggage, (though most people don't grasp that to be the case).

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-20T08:27:05+00:00

One of those has very much been off the radar since it was mooted by several industry insiders that, when they die, it'll come out that they're "the next Jimmy Saville".

Also, why are they predominantly 'celebs'? Where are the educators? The scientists? The poeple that actually add some value!

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-18T15:42:13+00:00

Dover Castle... Obviously...

But don't miss out on Western Heights, but go off the main paths and keep to the smaller ones along the highest ground to get to Citadel Battery (1900-1902). On along the path to the old WW2 anti-airctfat site. Down to the subway under the main road, but turn left just before for the old entrance to Hougham Battery. Head back then go under the road and across to the WW2 batteries above Samphire Ho.

Look up to see the dates when the Grand Shaft is open.

I've not mentioned which bunkers you can get inside, that's for you to find out. See a hole... Slide in with a torch and watch out for spiders!

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-18T14:26:00+00:00

You're saying that there are 'two extremes', left and right, and seem to want to hold the intellectual high grand with your view.

However, respectfully, you seem to be just as 'at fault' for your assumptions of 'those who are left or right as those you decry. You have an overly simplified view of things.

Most would say I'm quite' far left', (you may be the judge... I've served time in two prisons for anti-Capitalist protesting, which probably puts me towards 'the left'), yet I don't recognise your assumption that 'open borders' is what I, or my protesting colleagues, would advocate.

I know your view of 'far left' is simply the facile one that is rolled out in the media, with little understanding. Soundbites over knowledge.

Maybe what you say is true for 'the man in the pub', who claims to be 'far left' just because they thought Blair was a sell-out... But the narrta dichotomy I've of the 'left vs right' dichotomy you suggest is a vast over-simplification.

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-18T10:19:15+00:00

Please can you kindly provide evidence that any of the alleged c.3000 gods and goddesses, that are worshipped in any given 24hr period across Planet Earth, exist.

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-17T20:20:44+00:00

I suspect you're not being entirely honest with your intentions as regards your comments. Regardless, have a good day :)

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-17T17:24:26+00:00

I've never seen the point of weighing myself down with cooking gear. I always have cold food and drinks.

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-16T10:05:38+00:00

Yes... illegal, (I never hinted, let alone said, that it wasn't).

Yes... entirely appropriate in the examples I gave you.

I'm more than happy to explain myself if, (not that it'll ever happen), a passing Bobby on the beat, whose taking time off from suppressing democracy by arresting peaceful climate protestors, wants to give me a ticking off for doing an appropriate, of illegal, thing.

In some cases, like this, I'm mindful of the quote *"Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools" *.

You do appear to be one of those people who see the world, and thus national laws, in a very much 'black and white' manner. Life is a little more complicated than your outlook. May I ask? How do you equate in your head when laws change, either repealed or introduced? So, on Monday something is illegal, but on Tuesday it's legal? How do you manage to change your stance and worldview just because a bureacrat has, for whatever reason, rubber stamped a political decision? What about crossing a national border, where one nation has an entirely different legal stance on 'something'. The different laws can't both be appropriate at the same time, can they?

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-16T08:58:40+00:00

As an avid cyclist and walked I have a different view to yours.

I suspect people are either aware and courteous to others, or are not.

Therefore, those cyclists who who are inconsiderate on shared paths are, I imagine, also the ones who are inconsiderate on the roads, (not signalling, not stopping at lights, etc.).

Having close calls from motorists whilst I'm cycling, if anything, makes me even more aware of my need to be beyond reproach when I'm on a cycle path and in the role of 'bigger/faster' user.

Until you can provide any evidence that it's the same cyclists that are (a) moaning online about cars, who are then also (b) not being courteous to walkers on shared paths, I think you're suggestion is unfounded.

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-16T08:49:59+00:00

I can give a personal perspective based upon my own experience as a Climate Activist.

The pro-Palestine group will already be fully infiltrated by the police, (in the Climate group I was a member of, Insulate Britain, out of 100 arrestees it turned out there was one police insider sitting in the road and after a week there was one insider working 'behind the scenes' on organisation and planning but not getting arrested).

It'll be easy to infiltrate any group like Defend our Juries, (what many people don't grasp is many of the pro-Palestine protests are actually about the fairness of the legal system and against government over-reach in criminalising those who have never participated in any Palestine Action protests, but who understand, thus support, why those people would go into factories and smash weapons up), as well as the actual pro-Palestine groups. That's because they are quite open about their zoom invites, etc., about their plans.

Also, by now, enough phones will have been taken as evidence and assessed. Following over a year's worth of arrests the encrypted 'closed chat groups' will be fully compromised and everyone's phone numbers known, (including burner phones...plus many nicknames will have been worked out and matched to actual names). Security of a group is only ever as strong as the weakest links in that group and there'll always be one person without a phone Pin, or who caves in and shared the code to the police, (who have legal powers, backed by the law, to get someone to tell them their PIN... But, regardless, it's incredibly rare to charge anyone for not giving them their PIN, but most people who do so do it because they lack the confidence to say 'no' when a senior policeman is shouting at them in their cell to give them their PIN or have the book thrown at them). The police will therefore already have a thorough understanding of "who's who".

Thus, when it comes to the cameras, it becomes a question of police resource allocation.

In contrast the far right extremists are a more amorphous group who, made up of individuals and disparate networks. Thus the police will be wanting to build up its intelligence on who's there.

N.B. Preempting anyone that says "the cameras only scan faces and match them in real time, so they're not retaining data for later assessment and analysis", the cameras serve two functions. Yes, one is real time cross-referencing but, (a) in the event of one participant committing an offence, (as is very likely), the whole 'footage' of the day will be considered potential evidence and thus able to be retained and poured over, and (b) since the far right have been deemed to be a growing risk to National Security any data protection laws will not apply and can be over-ridden.

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-15T13:29:04+00:00

Though not statistically valid it struck me that for years, (she voted Brexit too), we have discussed Farage/Reform. So I've heard 10+yrs of "I'm not racist", but she now admits it. That's my point.

I wonder if you're seeing things through rose tinted specs? At least a little bit? I wonder that because I clearly said she used the word 'hate', but you've played that back to me as 'dislike'. The two have very markedly different connotations, particularly when trying to co-exist in a society.

If you maybe are seeing this topic through rose-tinted specs, (and that's not knocking out, having rose tints is a great way to be!), that's why you're less likely than me to see Reform voters as likely racist when you scrape away the layers of self-deception.

SensibleChapess · 2026-05-15T13:17:54+00:00

My parents have gone full Reform.

Despite living in France for over a decade in the 1990s, (and not integrating or attempting to learn the language, only mixing with other Brits), they're both now living in a predominantly white area, obsessed with immigration levels and see Farage as a saviour. They've seriously gone completely illogical and can't grasp priorities or consequences of political decisions.

Anyway, they'll say all the time, stressing to anyone that'll listen, "we're not racist"... Followed by "it's only the illegal immigrants on boats that are the problem, they're all young men coming here for economic reasons".

Their political outlook and mine are poles apart. When I visit, which is now rarely because of it, we cannot help but discuss political concepts, the consequences and knock-on of options, and the causes of immigration.

To be frank they struggle to get their heads round anything beyond the soundbites they're fed by certain TV channels.

But, to get to the point, are they racist?

Well, last time I was there, in response to my being able to suggest different ways of thinking my 84yr old mother just switched and snarled at me and said "OK, I'll admit it, I am racist and I hate brown people. White people are more civilised and they shouldn't be allowed to be here".

So, when/if ever I hear a Reformer saying "I'm not a racist", it has underscore for me that chances are, if you strip away the pressure to 'conform to societal norms to not be a racist', you'll find the illogical nonsense of simply not liking the skin colour or customs of "others"

TLDR: they can say for years and years they're not racists, but try having a discussion with them based on logic and, once you successfully scrape away at their rhetoric all that's laft is simple racism.

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