Interesting Links for 16-04-2012

[andrewducker]

• 51% of people in favour of making everyone's tax returns public. 60% want charities excluded from tax limits.
  (tags: transparentsociety charity tax )
• The UK government's war on internet freedom
  (tags: censorship surveillance internet uk )
• Goverment wasting money on ludicious pseudo-psychology "positive thinking" courses for jobseekers.
  Could it be

Comments

[naath]

Gotta move to Canada!

Canadian coins

[doubtingmichael]

"Her Majesty does not glow in the dark."

...
"Your Majesty?"
"Yes, secretary? What is it?"
"It's the Canadians, ma'm. They want to put out a new coin, with your face on it."
"One should hope they did put one's face on it! That's a rule. What's the problem?"
"They want it to glow. Is that acceptable?"
"Glow! What do they mean?"
"Your face would glow in the dark."
"What, like a traffic light?"
"More like a dinosaur, ma'm."
"I didn't think dinosaurs glowed in the dark. One could ask Philip - one thinks he may have shot a few in his younger days."
"The dinosaur on the coin will glow, ma'm."
"Then the answer's no. One will not have the people of Canada confused between one's royal self and a dinosaur."
"Indeed. One is a relic of a long past age with almost no brain, and the other is..."
"You're fired!"

Re: Canadian coins

[cartesiandaemon]

ROFL!

[bohemiancoast]

I bet the vast majority of those 51% don't submit a tax return.

[andrewducker]

I assume that it would (as in the Nordic countries) include automatic tax returns.

[bohemiancoast]

Also -- "The reverse side features a portrait of Queen Elizabeth. Her Majesty does not glow in the dark."

Tempting though this coin is, if the Queen's portrait had also featured a glow-in-the-dark skeleton, that would have made the coin an *essential collectible* for me. They should make a note for next time.

[calum]

I may have to get me one of those coins when I visit Canada.