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Thread 38 Starmer: Tax your Hamster

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DuncinToffee · 19/11/2025 15:22

Previous thread
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5440759-thread-37-starmer-pinko-commie-slimeball?page=1

Political and general discussion with bonus recipes

Taxes optional but greatly appreciated

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PickAChew · 19/11/2025 15:26

I withdrew my tax, yesterday, before the weather destroyed it. My Japanese anenomes have finished a little earlier than usual but this bud hadn't got the memo.

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pointythings · 19/11/2025 15:28

Thanks for the new thread, tax attached.

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Efacsen · 19/11/2025 15:34

Thanks for the new thread @DuncinToffee

bombastix · 19/11/2025 15:51

No tax. I deported my hamster instead

Spandauer · 19/11/2025 15:54

Thanks for the new thread.

Anyone remember Hammy the Hamster and Tales from the Riverbank?

Cat tax (hamsters are out...putting up flags)

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MsJinks · 19/11/2025 15:54

I think the cats will like the hamsters - or maybe it’s not them that cause their disappearances … 👀

BIossomtoes · 19/11/2025 16:00

Thank you Duncin. Beauty can be found even in a supermarket car park.

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Cheguevarahamster · 19/11/2025 16:00

Thanks for the new thread @DuncinToffee . Tax refusing hamster reporting for duty.

Piggywaspushed · 19/11/2025 16:01

pointythings · 19/11/2025 15:28

Thanks for the new thread, tax attached.

Awww, that looks like my dear departed Clyde.

cardibach · 19/11/2025 16:02

Spandauer · 19/11/2025 15:54

Thanks for the new thread.

Anyone remember Hammy the Hamster and Tales from the Riverbank?

Cat tax (hamsters are out...putting up flags)

I remember it!
Thanks for the new thread @DuncinToffee .
Tax of Perdy discovering the wonder of my heated throw.

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PandoraSocks · 19/11/2025 16:07

cardibach · 19/11/2025 16:02

I remember it!
Thanks for the new thread @DuncinToffee .
Tax of Perdy discovering the wonder of my heated throw.

Perdy looks rather grumpy!

We had a hamster called Hammy. And one called Sweetie who was anything but as she was a biter.

Notonthestairs · 19/11/2025 16:11

I predict taxing hamsters will only lead to an increase in numbers of gerbils.
Or a lot of hamsters taking their wheels to Dubai. They love a gated community.

Missed the last 10 pages of the last thread. I have cotton wool stuffed in one ear to protect from the wind/sleet. And once again I am evading tax.

InMySpareTime · 19/11/2025 16:17

I’m paying my tax in the form of poetry. Life needs more poems and less bile.

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pointythings · 19/11/2025 16:24

Piggywaspushed · 19/11/2025 16:01

Awww, that looks like my dear departed Clyde.

It's my crazy toothless Egyptian miracle cat having a snooze on DD1's lap.

dontcallmelen · 19/11/2025 16:26

Hamsters are well dodgy reckon they are Nigel’s sidekicks definitely responsible for flag erecting I’m with Bombastix they need deporting.
thank you for the new thread Duncin & all contributors flowers from me.

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BIossomtoes · 19/11/2025 16:31

You’ve got a fantastic collection of vases @dontcallmelen.

itsgettingweird · 19/11/2025 16:39

Love the thread title!

Will catch up on old thread in a bit.

Yes we had snow here earlier. It came down inbetween the freezing rain! Too wet to lay but we don’t get it often here in Portsmouth so we take what we can get 🤣

here some tax

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LittleBowSheep · 19/11/2025 16:48

Thanks for the new thread. No hamster tax but here is one of our guinea pigs from my childhood, c.1970.

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dontcallmelen · 19/11/2025 16:58

Thank you Blossom

Karistyleaftea · 19/11/2025 17:22

Thanks for the thread Duncin, flower tax.

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SerendipityJane · 19/11/2025 17:23

Shamelessly nicked

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countrygirl99 · 19/11/2025 17:24

My tax is Deaths Garden at Tampere Cathedral

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DuncinToffee · 19/11/2025 17:38

Love all the taxes 😍

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bombastix · 19/11/2025 18:12

I want to point out that even if your hamster was born in England, it is not an English hamster. Culturally it has come from the desert, and is biologically programmed to stuff its cheeks with food, and critically because hamsters cannot work, they receive free accommodation and benefits. And so hamsters will never really understand our society and should leave. Currently there are an enormous number of them simply idling in pet shops.

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