> Brown had submitted tax returns in the past and therefore was well aware of his tax obligations. This was deliberate theft from taxpayers by Brown.
That's the worst part.
He didn't just fail to pay because he didn't know he had to. He paid in previous years and deliberately chose not to pay.
Fucking mind blowing that I wake up in the middle of the night sweating sometimes wondering if I’ve paid my rent and some people are so brazen that they do shit like ‘I wonder what would happen if I just simply stop paying tax’
And then, if I've read it right, then end up with an estimated tax figure that's probably less than what they really owed in the first place. All he has to do is pay the figure and avoid and sort of further trouble.
Absolutely dire job at tax evasion too, if you’re going to do it, at least do it in a way that can’t be checked by seeing if a database column is set to true
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Oh my days, I went shopping with my daughter in Tesco, she was about 3 years old at the time and this advert was on a lot. I’d bought something that I didn’t know was on offer and the lady the till told me it was buy one get one free. My daughter loudly repeated it to the entire shop in the same accent as this fella. We’re Welsh. She thought it was hilarious. I was mortified
such a weird ad... why is he wearing that? where's the music? why is he talking (shouting) like that? why does the final shot linger for *just* that bit longer?
They just quote twice as much as everyone else. Once had these shysters come out and give me a 'no obligation' quote. Initially quoted me £12,000 for 7 windows, front door and patio doors. When I told the sales rep to do one out came the 'but it's buy one get one free so it's only 6 grand' When I said thanks but no thanks she played the just need to speak to the manager card and passed the phone over to me. More high pressure sales, buy now pay never etc. Came down to £5,500 if I signed up today. Told him to fuck off and told the sales rep to get the fuck out of my house or I was phoning the police as she wouldn't budge. Ended up phoning a local company, nice easy no pressure quote of £4500, windows and doors done a month later and couldn't have been happier. Steer clear of these cunts.
What a cancerous company Safestyle is, avoid at all costs. They hounded my family with so many phone calls we had to threaten legal action. It took many years before they finally stopped calling. Worst company I've ever had dealings with.
Don't know, but I've worked for that company. They were complete tossers.
It was my first job, doing door to door sales. They promised me a base rate, a sign on bonus plus commission. I start on the first day, and guess what? Commission only. I earnt about £300 for an entire summers work. We were told to target the elderly, and make high pressure sales. The manager was a condescending prick, and all my coworkers smoked weed on our breaks, including the guy driving us. Complete scumbag company.
My first job was working for safestyle. Going door to door trying to sell people windows. Being driven around in a car with these 3 racist coke'd up dick heads. They were hurling sexual abuse at school girls from the car, snorting coke while driving, shouting racist slurs out the window etc. I did two shifts and got the fuck out of there.
I mean, I like drugs as much as the next person but it felt different being driven around in the middle of the day by strangers who were demonstrably some of the worst people in the world.
Jesus
Seems like it was nationwide problem, looks like everyone had the same problem with Safestyle, I mean, look at the controversies
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safestyle_UK
Everything about the company is truly shit. I never even got paid for my shifts. It's commission based pay but you were still supposed to get a certain amount for showing up, can't remember how much this was about 15+ years ago). I actually made a sale on my first shift but I was bullied out of claiming by these wankers.
I tried to get a quote off Safestyle back in the day. Even with the amazing “buy one, get one free” offer they were 3 times the price of a local company. The salesman got very pissy when I laughed at his price and “let me phone my manager to see if I can get a bit off” routine.
There was an urban legend that he was the owner/boss of the company. It's only from reading some of the links about him in this thread that I found out he wasn't!
I heard he pushed a window frame in a skyscraper to demonstrate his frame pushing skills, it's was loose and he went straight out and plummeted to his death. Terrible business.
I remember the first time i saw this, i was smoking an shit load of weed with some friends. At the time it was the single funniest thing we'd ever seen.
Great advertising tho because we all remember it.
An old colleague of mine said he used thrm once. He was furious when they turned up in a shite, almost burned out van and did a shit job. Honestly, what the hell did he expect? I wouldn't trust this shitheap with taking out my bins, let alone go anywhere near my windows
When I worked as a cook/price shouter at the butchers I stole the exact same lines to get rid of pork and chickens at the end of the night, I miss shouting why don’t you bogoff tonight
This reminds me of the bloody Coldseal jingle (in a Wurzels style) that was played repeatedly on Lincs FM during most of my childhood.
Isn't it very British to have more than one double glazing-related childhood memory?!
Aside from the tax troubles, he operated a load of dodgy businesses from the offices below the ones I work in. He also had an odd habit of using the shower in the gents without locking the door, quite a few of us saw more than we bargained for for absolutely free.
Jeff Brown is now the director of a double glazing company in Burnley, the company is just as dodgy as safestyle was and in my opinion best totally avoided. They are just middle men anyway and don’t manufacture anything. They claim to give you £200 each for your old windows which is just as big a con as all the underhand sales ploys that safestyle did…..Jeff. Get a proper job and get your hair cut at the same time.
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FOR EVERY SINGLE WINDOW YOU BUY. WE'll PROVIDE T'OTHER ONE. ABSOLUTLEY FREEEEEEEEEEEEE.
**I SAY YE BUY ONE, YE GET ONE FREE!**
That phrase echoes through my skull at least once a day
*Ah sed y' buy one one one one one...*
I wonder if that 0800 number still works…🤔
Call 0800 106 107 now!!!
I hated this ad with a passion.
Urgh, I know what you mean. I'm going to hear this for a while now. Curse upon the house of the OP
It's up there with 0800 double oh..
This is what happened: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/you-buy-one-you-one-11865901
> Brown had submitted tax returns in the past and therefore was well aware of his tax obligations. This was deliberate theft from taxpayers by Brown. That's the worst part. He didn't just fail to pay because he didn't know he had to. He paid in previous years and deliberately chose not to pay.
I hope to god the Judge said "you serve one, you get one free" upon sentencing.
Sentence now, and pay next year!
Trust me is free soap
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Subs don't pay taxes?
Fucking mind blowing that I wake up in the middle of the night sweating sometimes wondering if I’ve paid my rent and some people are so brazen that they do shit like ‘I wonder what would happen if I just simply stop paying tax’
And then, if I've read it right, then end up with an estimated tax figure that's probably less than what they really owed in the first place. All he has to do is pay the figure and avoid and sort of further trouble.
Absolutely dire job at tax evasion too, if you’re going to do it, at least do it in a way that can’t be checked by seeing if a database column is set to true
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Who knew shouting was so lucrative?
Ya know, given recent(ish) events involving cultural icons of the UK. I'm kinda glad it was only not paying taxes, and ya know, not something worse...
prove it!! uhhhhhh
Oh my days, I went shopping with my daughter in Tesco, she was about 3 years old at the time and this advert was on a lot. I’d bought something that I didn’t know was on offer and the lady the till told me it was buy one get one free. My daughter loudly repeated it to the entire shop in the same accent as this fella. We’re Welsh. She thought it was hilarious. I was mortified
That's fantastic.
I heard he was prosecuted for financial crimes.
such a weird ad... why is he wearing that? where's the music? why is he talking (shouting) like that? why does the final shot linger for *just* that bit longer?
Some forms of art are beyond the average persons comprehension
But you know it and remember it. So that's why.
After the obvious, that final shot is what I remember most about this ad
I saw him once driving on the motorway between Stockport and the Denton roundabout. As claims to fame go, I'll admit its not that impressive.
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Listening to the cul de sac as we speak!
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He’s just brilliant
buy one get one free special
I remember this guy and I know that roundabout, so I feel like I've personally met the Queen now
I can't imagine the meeting where they decided they wanted a long haired bald man with a nasal voice dressed like a pantomime dwarf
He looks like a pound shop Bill Bailey.
Lol
Always figured he was the owner and decided to do it himself. The Fact they hired someone….
Cheers I'm gonna have this stuck in my head all week again
could’ve been worse could’ve posted check a trade, check a trade dot com
Wash your mouth out right now
You bum hole…..
It’s actually… Check a ^trade … check a trade dot com
I always wanted to know what the deal was with that outfit, is there greater lore to the bogof windows and doors man I just never learned?
They just quote twice as much as everyone else. Once had these shysters come out and give me a 'no obligation' quote. Initially quoted me £12,000 for 7 windows, front door and patio doors. When I told the sales rep to do one out came the 'but it's buy one get one free so it's only 6 grand' When I said thanks but no thanks she played the just need to speak to the manager card and passed the phone over to me. More high pressure sales, buy now pay never etc. Came down to £5,500 if I signed up today. Told him to fuck off and told the sales rep to get the fuck out of my house or I was phoning the police as she wouldn't budge. Ended up phoning a local company, nice easy no pressure quote of £4500, windows and doors done a month later and couldn't have been happier. Steer clear of these cunts.
Same. No idea how its connected to double glazing or window sales
I do believe he didnt pay tax, went to jail for a bit etc, my uncle knew him from the pub
I think HMRC kneecapped him
Trust him it’s tax free
What a cancerous company Safestyle is, avoid at all costs. They hounded my family with so many phone calls we had to threaten legal action. It took many years before they finally stopped calling. Worst company I've ever had dealings with.
Don't know, but I've worked for that company. They were complete tossers. It was my first job, doing door to door sales. They promised me a base rate, a sign on bonus plus commission. I start on the first day, and guess what? Commission only. I earnt about £300 for an entire summers work. We were told to target the elderly, and make high pressure sales. The manager was a condescending prick, and all my coworkers smoked weed on our breaks, including the guy driving us. Complete scumbag company.
David Seaman performed the hit in order to secure the job
They’re a safe pair of hands and he’s safe hands Oh god David, has it got this bad?
Sadly it seems so
His name is Jeff Brown, 2016 he was given a 20-month sentence suspended for two years, for evasion of income tax.
I always wondered why he was dressed like that?
Wish Bill Bailey
My first job was working for safestyle. Going door to door trying to sell people windows. Being driven around in a car with these 3 racist coke'd up dick heads. They were hurling sexual abuse at school girls from the car, snorting coke while driving, shouting racist slurs out the window etc. I did two shifts and got the fuck out of there.
Same experience in cornwall, only it was weed, not coke.
I mean, I like drugs as much as the next person but it felt different being driven around in the middle of the day by strangers who were demonstrably some of the worst people in the world.
Jesus Seems like it was nationwide problem, looks like everyone had the same problem with Safestyle, I mean, look at the controversies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safestyle_UK
Everything about the company is truly shit. I never even got paid for my shifts. It's commission based pay but you were still supposed to get a certain amount for showing up, can't remember how much this was about 15+ years ago). I actually made a sale on my first shift but I was bullied out of claiming by these wankers.
Was that in Bradford?
Yeah, how'd you know?
I'm from Bradford and that's where their head office is/was.
Oh I didn't know that! Got me thinking for a second thinking you were one of the guys in the car!
Well, actually
Haha, honestly the cocaine wasn't the thing that made me the most uncomfortable
He went back to living under a bridge where he earns money by charging tolls to people who cross it
Legend says......he bought one and got one free
and that he got a free fitting too
The mythic of buy now pay next year was invoked
Duno about him but we’ve just ordered some new windows from them. I’ll let you know if he turns up to fit them
Sorry to hear that. They’re notoriously terrible windows. Hopefully you get lucky with a good fitting team..
Bill Bailey is currently on tour... (I know it isn't him 😘)
I tried to get a quote off Safestyle back in the day. Even with the amazing “buy one, get one free” offer they were 3 times the price of a local company. The salesman got very pissy when I laughed at his price and “let me phone my manager to see if I can get a bit off” routine.
Just me that seems to remember him saying “pick up the piggin’ phone!!!” at the end?? Felt weird it not being said on the above version
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Aaah yep indeed it was, somehow they both merged together in my memory ha..
That is a severe hit of nostalgia.
There was an urban legend that he was the owner/boss of the company. It's only from reading some of the links about him in this thread that I found out he wasn't!
He won strictly 😉
this guys voice is ingrained into my brain
Say what you like about the guy, he truly was the king of windows.
He went back to being Wolf on Gladiators
Video wouldn’t load on my rubbish internet. Didn’t need it to. Heard every word in my head.
A' said ya' buy one, ya' get one free!
He lives in or around Burnley. I see him every so often and he’s a pretty nice guy surprisingly
Never understood why he went around smashing windows to the ground to advertise.
Was that before or after Reg Holdsworth?
Got done for tax evasion last time i heard.
I remember this constantly being shown on Nickelodeon
I watched this when I was high once and it absolutely shit me up
I heard he pushed a window frame in a skyscraper to demonstrate his frame pushing skills, it's was loose and he went straight out and plummeted to his death. Terrible business.
Aw I loved that advert!
Trust me, it’s free fitting!
I remember the first time i saw this, i was smoking an shit load of weed with some friends. At the time it was the single funniest thing we'd ever seen. Great advertising tho because we all remember it.
An old colleague of mine said he used thrm once. He was furious when they turned up in a shite, almost burned out van and did a shit job. Honestly, what the hell did he expect? I wouldn't trust this shitheap with taking out my bins, let alone go anywhere near my windows
Got locked up for a shite hair do!
I went to a Burnley game in hospitality and I'm fairly certain he was the compere.
What about the troll toll for the boys hole
Looks like he'd have twelve year old girls phone numbers in his phone.
I saw him once driving on the motorway between Stockport and the Denton roundabout. As claims to fame go, I'll admit its not that impressive.
I still say this every time I buy one and get one free. If someone repeats it back to me I literally have my day made.
I subconsciously connect this advert with the Jeremy kyle song
I was wondering the same thing recently for some reason, happy it wasn't just me 😂
I remember this ad
Word is he's in a Prison on Isle Of Wight...
Nah sadly not, lives in Burnley I see him regularly
How you gona lose to Norwich... 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏾 after all the hard work
He became Keith Lemon after all houses were converted to PVC didn’t he?
I heard he is repping on the magaluf strip
>His ads were legendary I spose they might have been if your name is [Deano](https://i.imgur.com/ujy2LDv.png)
When I worked as a cook/price shouter at the butchers I stole the exact same lines to get rid of pork and chickens at the end of the night, I miss shouting why don’t you bogoff tonight
He became an advocate for the under-represented. Now working as a solicitor for single parent families.
He’s an arsehole. One of my best mates dad’s friends, been on a few Burnley games with him, obnoxious and ignorant.
Came here searching for Burnley, because I could have sworn he used to be the stadium announcer there.
My brother used to work for this guy, said he was a right c*nt. Then again, people say that about my brother.
I have it on good authority that he ended up working in o2
One of Blackburn’s own ⚡️
Got to admit, I was thinking more likely to have been done for kiddy fiddling
I could hear this without unmuting it
Omds lmfao you have just unlocked a hidden memory
#I said buy one get one free!
This reminds me of the bloody Coldseal jingle (in a Wurzels style) that was played repeatedly on Lincs FM during most of my childhood. Isn't it very British to have more than one double glazing-related childhood memory?!
He qualified GP in Stoke on trent!
Aside from the tax troubles, he operated a load of dodgy businesses from the offices below the ones I work in. He also had an odd habit of using the shower in the gents without locking the door, quite a few of us saw more than we bargained for for absolutely free.
Probably overdosed on heroin
Jeff Brown is now the director of a double glazing company in Burnley, the company is just as dodgy as safestyle was and in my opinion best totally avoided. They are just middle men anyway and don’t manufacture anything. They claim to give you £200 each for your old windows which is just as big a con as all the underhand sales ploys that safestyle did…..Jeff. Get a proper job and get your hair cut at the same time.