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[quote user="NormanH"]I didn't even realise that a subtitle option existed except on CDs of foreign films. I watch TV on the Internet for French TV and on iPLayer for the BBC. Is there a a subtitle option in my case? [/quote]Yes for i-player Norman.  http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/access_iplayer/subtitle/  I'll have to look a bit more into the French Internet TV thing to find out.  Certainly they are an "option" on the digi box but rarely availabe in comparison to the UK.  As I say, another example of the French being way behind for disabilities. Like Thibaut, I've found the same with DVDs - a shame because I do like to use them to improve my spoken French - far easier with the subtitles so you can really learn the constructions being used. Back on topic.  I was waching Gordon behind Bars this morning (fascinating series, btw, if you've not been following).  One of the inmates was subtitled when speaking whilt none of the others were.  As an experiment, since it was a recording and having read about this, I closed my eyes whilst he was talking and certainly he sounded perfectly clear to me.  And yes, he was black and no, none of the white guys, no matter how estuary, was subtititled.

[quote user="Clair"][quote user="cooperlola"]... Not that I'm amongst them, but surely somebody must be looking forward to the games as they seem to have sold a lot of tickets.  To read the press/Facebook/fora etc, you'd think nobody at all was interested.  I'm off to Belgium.[:)][/quote] I have made a point of recording a few series and films on the DVR, so I have something to watch when the TV coverage reaches saturation... and I believe we're just about there... [IMG]http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q296/clair46/41d91f1e.gif[/IMG] [/quote]You can finally watch Homeland now.[:)] Talking of which - not into the 2nd series of the Killing very much, are you?  I tried to find the thread about it and failed. Happily the games are on when I've got plenty to do - Spa then the UK for me - neatly avoiding the Olympics en route.  Amazingly easy to cross the channel at the normal price - maybe the rest of Europe failed to get tickets in which case it's not done much for tourism, has it?.

I agree, Alan, France is c**p in comparison to the UK in this regard and really, it's not necessary for them to be so but it's true for many disabilities here, I'm afraid, not just deafness.  It's got better but still has a long way to go, imho.

Thanks Clair for that link - sensible and without the now-obligatory griping and misinformation. Not that I'm amongst them, but surely somebody must be looking forward to the games as they seem to have sold a lot of tickets.  To read the press/Facebook/fora etc, you'd think nobody at all was interested.  I'm off to Belgium.[:)]

Mr C needs subtitles for my Northumbrian relations. At times I do think this is done unneccessarily with accents which I find perfectly easy to understand whilst other incomprehensible ones (I agree, often American - Nick Nolte wins top prize for being incomprehensible to me although I think he's a great actor) they don't bother with.  Surely the solution is to turn on the subtititle option if you need it and for broadcasters to  otherwise leave them off.  It does seem to be unneccessarily insulting to discriminate in this day and age when this facility is readily available in most cases since the advent of the digital era.

Thank you for bringing this to our - er - attention, Norman.  I will pass the link on to Mr C for info'.[Www]

[quote user="idun"] In the end it would boil down to where people had worked most as to who was the responsible state, wouldn't it?   [/quote]Well that would be the sensible way of doing it but this is Europe.  France is my competent state for healthcare.  I haven't worked here but I do pay (a fair, not unreasobale amount, imho) into the system for the time being.  And yes, it's my belief that when Mr C gets his UK state pension, then it all gets paid for by the UK and thus this regulation shouldn't apply any more, even if it does now (still not established.)  Unless of course, one could make a case for its being a benefit which French citizens enjoy which other EU citizens are denied.   I imagine,  however, that all these little quirks were ironed out when the law changed last year and the competent state began to issue the EHIC/CEAM as opposed to the state of residence, as in the past.  I reckon this is the change which Betty's post referred to which has altered the way in which these rights are now due.

Quite so, Mr Frog.  Sorry - missed the vital bit.[:$] I've been sitting here for too long, obviously! It's still a right that local citizens have but non-French EU ones don't - a bit of a conundrum. Now all I need to find out is whether they'd pay for any emergency treatment I, Idun and those like us with CEAMs, might have outside the EU.  It would make a real difference to me as I cannot get insurance at reasonable cost.  This thread has at least unearthed some interesting info' I knew nothing about before.  

[quote user="Val_2"]Our Parisien friend of over 20years promised his wife on her deathbed some 16years ago he wouldn't marry again.[/quote]Blimey. I would never want Mr C to make such a promise - quite the opposite in fact.  Poor guy.  I'm sure it seems a romantic gesture at the time but I'm not sure that I see the point.  Your way sounds much more sensible.  I don't know that I'd ever want another husband (nor that one would want me) but I certainly wouldn't want to be alone all the time either.  I have a friend whose  husband died about 5 years ago and she has a boyfriend whom she met on an online dating site.  They neither of them want to live together but they do at least have a nice social life and she's glad to have him around even though she adored her husband.   On the subject of rings, my mother wore hers on a different finger for years after her divorce although she hated my father with a vengeance.  I never really understood why and still don't.

It seems that Betty's case is not S1 related - she has already said that she's covered by the French state, not the UK - like Idun and me - so I think it's a red herring. I'll have to look at the EU statute for the rest of the 5 year rule stuff but iirc, (and it's of course perfectly possible that I don't!) there's a little more to it than the stuff from the French right to reside info'. EDIT : Fundamentally, the statute which Idun quotes suggests that yes, indeed, a French citizen is entitled to claim (although there are caveats to suggest that this might not be successful in all cases) for emergency treatment received whilst outside the EU.  However, as I read it, Betty - whose competent state for healthcare is France, she has nowhere said she's on any sort of S form that I can see - has been refused, or at least been told that she would be refused, such payments.  Now, to my mind, this discriminates against non-French EU citizens living in France and I'm not sure that France can do this under EU law.  At the very least, in her shoes I'd ask the EU commission (via Solvit, perhaps) the question. http://eumovement.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/equal-treatment/#more-970 "The basic rule is this:   If citizens of a host member state have a right, an advantage, a benefit, or an responsibility, then so do resident citizens of other EEA member states (and their family members)." It might even be worth her while asking April to look into it - they'd have more clout and more motivation since it would apply to all their EU clients based in France and thus affects their balance sheet.

[quote user="Benjamin"][quote user="cooperlola"][quote user="Benjamin"]Try hoovering from the outside. [/quote]Will do.  The cleaner's here tomorrow![:D][/quote] Doesn't he live there all the time?  [:P] [/quote]No, that would be the chef/groom/personal shopper.....[:)] Oh, I forgot tea-boy (a mugful just appeared to remind me.)

Knowing our capacity for buying every gadget known to man and never using them, we bought a bog standard one which was on special offer in the supermarket.  Given that we've made about 4 loaves in the six years we've had the thing, I reckon it's been just as good as a top of the range one would have been.[:-))]

[quote user="Benjamin"]Try hoovering from the outside. [/quote]Will do.  The cleaner's here tomorrow![:D]

[quote user="betty"]Good further thought Coops. I have resided here continuously for 11 years but it didn’t work for me.[/quote]And knowing how these things work, I'm not convinced that I'd like to give the theory a go.  But it might be worth asking the EU commission what their take is - especially if you work here . Idun, Trailfinders are a UK insurer who will cover you wherever you live in Europe.

Good for you, Val.  I'd bet your husband would be cheering you on if he knew.[:)]

All very interesting. Idun, I know that you are fully in the sytem having worked in France for so long.  I, on the other hand although paying into the French health system am not, as far as I know, in the social security system per se since I don't pay any other cotis and never have and cannot get unemployment benefits or any other state aid afaik.  Could that be the difference?  It's not something I've ever looked into properly as I don't qualify for anything on the basis of my income so have never tried. A further thought - under EU law we must be treated as French citizens once we've been here for five years thus I wonder if the French authorities could legally refuse to pay a UK national who has been resident here for that long, for medical expenses outside the EU, when they would not refuse a French citizen in similar cirumstances, as your link appears to imply.

So far all I've done is to turn the music up![:D] Seriously, thanks for the advice.  I'm not sure I'm brave enough to open the thing up, Bugs - I'd be terrified of hoovering up a vital bit of it by mistake and never knowing where to put it back.[:-))]

I do find since slothfullness was forced upon me that it becomes more and more difficult to get out of the habit.  It's very easy now to persuade myself not to do anything since it's become more difficult.  I used to be out and about every day with the dobbins or the dog and now that I can do neither it's hard to get motivated so the telly, the pc and books and mags become increasingly appealing. I have a couple of very overweight friends (married) who seem to get fatter every time I see them.  They used to at least work but now they've retired it seems that even walking across the supermarket car park is too much of an effort - they'll drive round and round waiting for a space near the door rather than walk any distance. It's a self-perpetuating downward spiral, I'm afaid, and I'm acutely aware of how much damage it is doing to me in terms of the weight I put on.   I didn't realise it contributed to breast cancer though - that was a new one on me!

[quote user="Boiling a frog"][quote user="cooperlola"] Ah.  Thanks so much, Betty, that makes sense now.  It seems very odd that any insurer would expect your country of residence to pay for treatment outside the EU, wherever you were born and thus, yes, travel insurance is a must (thus I really can't leave Europe any more being disabled and having had cancer as insurance companies won't touch me except for half the national debt.) BaF, not all of us have reached UK state retirement age so some of us still get a CEAM from France. [/quote] True but I was pointing out that logically ,if one has an S1 issued by the UK then that only covers one for treatment in France because outwith France, but still in the EU it is the UK which covers you via the EHIC. In your case I suspect that you have an EHIC issued by France therefor it is France who picks up your tab so the previous statement re S1 holders does not apply. ,[/quote]The fundamental problem was that I misunderstood Betty's post - I thought she was talking about European holidays!  I think I have it straight now but was somewhat put off by the notion that an insurance company would expect a French resident of any nationality to claim for treatment needed when on holiday outside Europe, from the CPAM. EDIT : Thanks, Baf (posts crossed) - I never knew that.

Ah.  Thanks so much, Betty, that makes sense now.  It seems very odd that any insurer would expect your country of residence to pay for treatment outside the EU, wherever you were born and thus, yes, travel insurance is a must (thus I really can't leave Europe any more being disabled and having had cancer as insurance companies won't touch me except for half the national debt.) BaF, not all of us have reached UK state retirement age so some of us still get a CEAM from France.

It would be nice, Betty, if you could come back and clarify this (esp with the legal reference) - I've been all over the place on the web trying to find it.  Do you mean Non-French European CEAM holders living in France claiming for medical expenses whilst on holiday elsewhere in Europe, or British EHIC holders on holiday in France?

My desktop's fan has suddenly become very noisy (from first turning it on yesterday.)  I've done a full backup in case the thing blows up but in general terms, should I worry about this?  I'm off to the UK in a couple of weeks and my instinct is to bung it in to be repaired while I'm away but is it worth it - does the noise presage doom or is it just an annoyance I could put up with?

This might be of interest, Gloria: http://www.forumconstruire.com/construire/topic-52710.php There are some legal references to the appropriate legislation which may help.  Iirc, I read somewhere on this forum that the state of the floors and roof are taken into consideration, but I may have remembered this wrongly. 

Well, I must say that my instinct if I were the o/p would be to buy a (cheaper) UK reg van and endeavour to limit the time it's in France to less than 6 months which should satisfy all the criteria.  Like you, I just find it easier to comply most of the time - I also don't do guilty very well - I reckon everybody would know the moment I tried to cheat as it would show on my face! I still have an unregistered horsebox trailer rotting away in my garden because I have never registered it and now don't need it.  I see a few Brits at shows and things who live here and who just tow their dobbins about regardless of the fact that they're behind illegally registered cars with unregisterd trailers.  They have more guts than I do.  If that's the expression I'm looking for.[Www]

Ah, thank you.  I might learn 21st century French yet![:)]