I've created threads in the past, One2, without much success.
Maybe I should take a leaf out of your book.
Different people respond to different stimuli; we respond to different stimuli at different times. That's interesting in itself, both in terms of observation and introspection. It's all inspiring and a learning process.
I was referring to something different, though. We all interpret from our own value framework: I find it frustrating when people attribute bizarre motivations to my posts, or behaviours. It's not so much that I'm concerned about how I'm personally perceived, as frustration that my posts have all sorts of stuff attributed, or added to them which hasn't come from me, but from the perceiver.
It kind of negates using the techniques of debate and logic, which I put some thought and effort into.
People have bank accounts in different countries, regardless of their residency.
People have bank accounts in the country they have a visa to reside in.
Say they have a visa to cover an academic research project contract. If that contract is extended, or they secure another, they might apply for an extension of their visa.
If that visa is refused to make the government statistics look good, regardless of the long term advantage of a country's research status, or product...and the academic's bank account is frozen within hours of refusal, it's possible that they won't have the means to leave the country.
Cue more financial expense deporting someone who would have otherwise got a job and taken their valuable expertise to benefit a less stupid country.
I'd be interested in more details of that scheme, Rumps.
I'm not clear about what you're saying.
Perhaps you can run through what the scheme does for an individual - how basic is the income, what do they do to earn it, how do they come to move to the countryside, eduction, qualifications, what work opportunities are available to them after the scheme including transport access to where work is - things like that.
Are you looking for free passage back to Greece, One2?
Only if the government wants to send me back to my homelands, their gonna have to wait until they can cremate me and scatter my ashes into the four winds.
The moment their visas aren't renewed, but before the information about this is put in the post?
The day before they are due to leave the country like the Cardiff schoolboy, but when they need access to their accounts to pay for a taxi to the airport to leave?
A few years back there was a purge of foreigners round here.
The bit I heard about involved not renewing visas for a lot of academics. It involved the interruption of significant and funded research projects contributed to by specialists from all over the world.
Freezing bank accounts holding significant sums sounds like going for easy targets to boost statistics, without the consequence necessarily being at all beneficial to the country.
Like the Cardiff schoolboy who was dragged out of class by police on his last day with his peers before returning to his home country with his parents the following day, I wonder what resources and inhumanities will be expended in packing people off who are already packed for the off.
Lightly steamed cabbage with garlic butter, or plant based alternative is nice.
Polish tomato soup - fry onions and garlic in a little oil. Add seived, fresh tomatoes, or unseived if you want to retain the nutritious pulp and seeds. Add stock and a very small handful of rice. When it's nearly cooked add a chopped cabbage leaf, salt, freshly ground black pepper, tamari, maybe a few drops of lemon juice, or anything else you fancy to tweak the flavour.
Yes, I know that and my daughter was much more than when my mum said it to me about having a debilitating stroke.
I got the gist of what she was saying, though - neither of us want our lives artificially prolonged for the sake of staying alive.
I don't expect my daughter to actually put a pillow over my head, but maybe if I no longer want, or remember to eat, it's time to let things take their natural course. I'd rather not have people ramming food down my throat for their own needs.
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...how to say the English 'th' sound.
than when my mum said it to me about having a debilitating stroke. 
RE: What panic when told that some people were buried alive by my teacher, I was ten years old
That string around the toes attached to a bell - the it's where the expression - 'saved by the bell' the comes from.I've had a close shave with the grim reaper. It was just a part of life, but with a flood of endorphins.