The realisation you're getting old

[Alex321]

I understand that, but I think the default should be that you just get it (the most common option) but apply if you wish to defer.

Yes, I agree. You should have to take action if you want to defer it, not if you just want the default.

 

[presta]

I understand that, but I think the default should be that you just get it (the most common option) but apply if you wish to defer.

If you claim, you have one opportunity to change your mind and defer, but only one, you can't keep doing it again and again. If claiming were the default, anyone unaware that deferring is an option at all (like I was) would end up wasting that only chance without knowing they've done it.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

If you claim, you have one opportunity to change your mind and defer, but only one, you can't keep doing it again and again. If claiming were the default, anyone unaware that deferring is an option at all (like I was) would end up wasting that only chance without knowing they've done it.

Good point!

 

[cyberknight]

New adverts are using backing tracks form the 80s and 90s , mc hammer, pump up the jam followed by enola gay just now

 

[Red17]

New adverts are using backing tracks form the 80s and 90s , mc hammer, pump up the jam followed by enola gay just now

As I was reading this I'm sure they just played Teenage Kicks on an insurance ad

 

[Zanelad]

I understand that, but I think the default should be that you just get it (the most common option) but apply if you wish to defer.

Why? Is it that much of a faff to apply. It's the work of a minute or two. How are they to know what bank account to pay it into, telepathy?

 

[DRM]

New adverts are using backing tracks form the 80s and 90s , mc hammer, pump up the jam followed by enola gay just now

It always makes me chuckle when they use Enola Gay for ads, it’s a jolly tune, but the subject matter’s very dark & grim

 

[raleighnut]

It always makes me chuckle when they use Enola Gay for ads, it’s a jolly tune, but the subject matter’s very dark & grim

The one that got me was when they turned Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day' into a charity single with various people singing a line...............The song is about Heroin FFS

 

[cyberknight]

The one that got me was when they turned Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day' into a charity single with various people singing a line...............The song is about Heroin FFS

thats a new one for me , make you think ,

 

[raleighnut]

thats a new one for me , make you think ,

The 'rumour' has been around since the 70's, reignited when it was the song playing in 'Trainspotting' as Renton (Ewan McGregor) overdosed.

 

[Rezillo]

New adverts are using backing tracks form the 80s and 90s , mc hammer, pump up the jam followed by enola gay just now

Last week, I found myself humming to the in-store music in Morrisons (similar era) and wishing it was a bit louder.

 

[DRM]

The one that got me was when they turned Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day' into a charity single with various people singing a line...............The song is about Heroin FFS

I must admit i thought at the time it's a bit of a funny choice for a charity recording

 

[Alex321]

The one that got me was when they turned Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day' into a charity single with various people singing a line...............The song is about Heroin FFS

There are people who have claimed that, but he always denied it.

https://www.goldradiouk.com/features/song-facts/lou-reed-perfect-day/

 

[raleighnut]

There are people who have claimed that, but he always denied it.

https://www.goldradiouk.com/features/song-facts/lou-reed-perfect-day/

By the time he denied it he had 'cleaned up' and achieved more success and fame so (as it says in that article) carried on with the tradition of being very vague about what his songs were about and being deliberately obtuse to journalists. Now I've never taken Heroin but following the operations to my shattered Femur I was on Morphine (the medical version) for 4-5 days both times and the lines between dream and reality are certainly 'blurred', I can see why such great literature and music were written by people on Opiates.

 

[DRM]

I can see why such great literature and music were written by people on Opiates.

Alice in Wonderland immediatly springs to mind, you'd have to be off your t*ts to think those characters up!