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On 29/05/2017 20:26, wrote:
On Monday, May 29, 2017 at 7:52:23 PM UTC+1, JNugent wrote:
On 29/05/2017 19:02, wrote:
On Monday, May 29, 2017 at 6:40:53 PM UTC+1, JNugent wrote:
On 29/05/2017 16:57, wrote:

[inter alia:]

There wouldn't be road tax actually existed.

Here's what you need:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Basic-English-Grammar-Dummies-Geraldine/dp/1119071151/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1496079617&sr=8-2&keywords=english+for+dummies

No, I need someone to show where in government legislation I can find road tax defined.

Why?

And would you expect to find a differential gearbox defined in
government legislation?

Is that a car spotter's joke?

No. In any case, what is a car spotter?

Sorry, but standing on a motorway bridge with a notebook and a Thermos of tea does not appeal to me.

I understand. You prefer railway platforms, and just the right kind of
anorak.

PS: You still haven't said why you need to see a definition of Road Tax
in "government legislation".

On 29/05/2017 20:55, Paul Cummins wrote:
In article ,
(JNugent) wrote:


Au contraire. There is precisely nothing wrong with calling Road
Tax "Road Tax".

What is this "road tax" you keep referring to?

Don't be so stupid (assuming you have control over that).

I can't find a single finance act referring to it since about 1937.
Do you also believe in the Bedroom Tax?

You won't find that in a Finance Act, either.

On 29/05/17 19:07, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 29 May 2017 19:02:33 +0100, wrote:

No, I need someone to show where in government legislation I can find
road tax defined.

Why do you need this? Just what's wrong with your ****ed up head? Do
you never meet people, do you never hear it called road tax? Everybody
either calls it road tax or a tax disk (before they made it paperless).

Everybody does not.

Look up the evolution of the English language, colloquialisms,
something, please. You're boring the group to tears.

Taking about something nick named "road tax" is the truly boring bit.

On 29/05/17 22:54, wrote:
On Monday, May 29, 2017 at 10:10:04 PM UTC+1, James Wilkinson Sword
wrote:
On Mon, 29 May 2017 22:03:00 +0100, Paul Cummins
wrote:

In article ,
(James Wilkinson Sword) wrote:


If I want to buy a gallon of petrol I pay the same price as
anyone.

How much does your bicycle use while going along the roads the
cars are paying for?

Cars don't pay for roads. Their slaves pay for 60% of the motorway
maintenance budget...

....much of which just circulates round government departments via the
benefits system.

On 30/05/17 03:54, JNugent wrote:
On 29/05/2017 20:55, Paul Cummins wrote:
In article ,
(JNugent) wrote:


Au contraire. There is precisely nothing wrong with calling Road
Tax "Road Tax".

What is this "road tax" you keep referring to?

Don't be so stupid (assuming you have control over that).

It's always simpler to call someone stupid when you can't explain
something you hold dear.

I can't find a single finance act referring to it since about 1937.
Do you also believe in the Bedroom Tax?

You won't find that in a Finance Act, either.

You were asked a question.

In article ,
(JNugent) wrote:

Do you also believe in the Bedroom Tax?

You won't find that in a Finance Act, either.

That's because, like your Mythical "Road Tax", it doesn't exist.

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On 30/05/2017 08:26, TMS320 wrote:

On 29/05/17 19:07, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 29 May 2017 19:02:33 +0100, wrote:

No, I need someone to show where in government legislation I can find
road tax defined.

Why do you need this? Just what's wrong with your ****ed up head? Do
you never meet people, do you never hear it called road tax?
Everybody either calls it road tax or a tax disk (before they made it
paperless).

Everybody does not.

You probably meant "Not everybody does", because "Everybody does not"
(with its completely different meaning) is patently untrue and a
non-starter.

That being the case, we can easily forgive your clumsy attempt at
manipulation of the language and accept that you were right in what you
were trying to say but couldn't quite manage: there are indeed some
people who - for various reasons which are entirely their own - do not
call Road Tax "Road Tax". For that reason JSW's "Everybody either calls
it road tax or a tax disk" has to be seen as a figure of speech with
"everybody" only meaning "a majority".

There, for instance, some people who cannot deal with anything in terms
not provided for in "government legislation". There are others who
cannot deal with any concepts in a way which undermines a point they
wish to try to make and are prepared to go to ever more extreme
extremities to avoid admitting the truth. There may well be a
considerable overlap between those two groups.

Look up the evolution of the English language, colloquialisms,
something, please. You're boring the group to tears.

Taking about something nick named "road tax" is the truly boring bit.

The real boring bit is the anorak-ish harumphing insistence that the
majority are wrong and the self-interested minority are right.

JSW is right insofar as he remarks (in terms) that most people call Road
Tax "Road Tax" and that is is perfectly acceptable to refer to that tax
in that way. I would add that anyone professing not to undserstand the
term is trying, but failing, to be deceitful.

"Government legislation" so loved of another poster here has never yet
managed to define and prescribe the English language as she is spoken.

On 30/05/2017 08:44, TMS320 wrote:
On 30/05/17 03:54, JNugent wrote:
On 29/05/2017 20:55, Paul Cummins wrote:
In article ,
(JNugent) wrote:


Au contraire. There is precisely nothing wrong with calling Road
Tax "Road Tax".

What is this "road tax" you keep referring to?

Don't be so stupid (assuming you have control over that).

It's always simpler to call someone stupid when you can't explain
something you hold dear.

See another post nearby.

I can't find a single finance act referring to it since about 1937.
Do you also believe in the Bedroom Tax?

You won't find that in a Finance Act, either.

You were asked a question.

Was I?

On 30/05/2017 09:56, Paul Cummins wrote:

In article ,
(JNugent) wrote:

Do you also believe in the Bedroom Tax?

You won't find that in a Finance Act, either.

That's because, like your Mythical "Road Tax", it doesn't exist.

Oh, so witty (in your imagination at least)... just as though one could
not see straight through the clumsy attempt at tactical maneouvring.

Your problem is that whilst there is no such thing as a bedroom tax,
there patently *is* such a thing as Road Tax. You don't deny its
existence at all; you simply insist that it be called by another name
and repeatedly stamp your foot in pique when that peremptory order is
not complied with.

In article ,
(JNugent) wrote:

there patently *is* such a thing as Road Tax.

So please provide evidence of it...

A bank statement showing "Road Tax" has been paid...

A government issued piece of paper saying "road tax" on it.

A piece of primary or secondary legislation defining what "Road Tax" is
and what it costs?

You assert it exists, despite the substantial evidence to the contrary,
so please prove your assertion.

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