Loz

Try a local Polish supermarket and ask for Polish Pure Spirit - you can get it up to 95% ABV. Or try online. Though as others have said... tread carefully with this sort of stuff.

I was in a card shop today. Boy, do they have all the bases possible covered. Father's day cards... - for fathers - for stepfathers - for fathers to be ("a card from the bump" - I jest not) - for the person "who was like a father to me" - for grandads - for grandads who are having their first father's day as a grandad - for an uncle (???) - for "my fianc?" (??????) - from the dog - from the cat

Not really "different", but Bel Air House is popular for weddings. http://belairhouse.co.uk/

Medusa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Medusa Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > ...and you'd be spot-on. > > > > > > Neither do women, by and large. > > > > There was too many double negatives in the OP. > Do > > you mean women get more unfair leniency in the > > criminal justice system? > > > No. I was befuddled by the wording of the OP, > despite decoding what (I assumed) the poster > meant. > > I meant that 'justice' is not meted out so much > according to the crime as according to the > status/privilege of the person who is > charged/convicted. > > I know of plenty of middle-class, white people who've dodged getting charged/convicted/sentenced > to custodial time, along with references to their 'hitherto good character', etc. Meanwhile women > are locked up for crimes of poverty, by and large (shoplifting, unpaid parking fines) and minority > ethnic people are locked up in such numbers that you'd be forgiven for thinking they have been > convicted of the crime of not being white. Though stats show that women are less likely to get custodial sentences and, when they do, get lower jail sentences for the same crime. If you want the least possible punishment for a crime, be a white woman.

I never knew you were supposed to do due diligence for a sale. Is that really a thing?

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I seldom use my Phone Data allowance so 500MB is more than adequate. I don't even use 100MB > 500 minutes.. ? I don't use 50 mins a month. and less than 50 texts a month.. > > My phone is purely for emergencies.. > > Foxy. ... then you are *definitely* paying too much for it.

Virgin Mobile aren't too shabby (unlike their broadband). Five quid gets you 250 minutes, unlimited texts and 500MB of internet. It does me for the month. And they use the EE network, so the coverage is good. If you have BT broadband, they do a pretty good deal as well.

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > began to question why universities seldom act > against perpetrators of sexual assault and rape, > and very few cases are referred to law enforcement bodies. I've never understood why US colleges and universities are expected to be some sort of arbiters of the law. I assume there is some sort of reason people don't/can't report these incidents directly to the police?

Sorry, RH - I hadn't read that article. I agree - those stats do look pretty poor.

I don't think white people as such are treated more leniently. I think rich people who can afford good lawyers are treated more leniently. But, admittedly, the rich people are predominantly white.

Received mine about 10 days ago and it is all completed and sent.

Medusa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ...and you'd be spot-on. > > Neither do women, by and large. There was too many double negatives in the OP. Do you mean women get more unfair leniency in the criminal justice system?

Finding out Edinburgh was slightly west of Cardiff surprised me.

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Latest from Migration Watch > http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/press-release/454 Simple logic, using the article's own stats, shows this article to be a pile of poo. from the article: A central, but cautious estimate, for total net migration suggests that it could run at 265,000 in 2035. 60% of the net foreign inflow would come from the EU. So the non-EU immigration - where we have the sort of 'control' you want - still provides 40% of immigration. You would expect that if the EU were under the same controls, being in close proximity, they would provide AT LEAST a similar level. So the MAXIMUM you would expect immigration to drop if we left the EU would be 20%, but even then (given the close proximity) it would probably be - at most - about 10%. So - based on Migration Watch's own stats - leaving the EU would actually have very little effect on immigration.

Jules-and-Boo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > https://www.crowdpac.co.uk/eu-referendum-in-or-out > > some interesting questions that will help Well, that was bloody annoying. I answer 25 questions and then "give us your email address or we won't give you your result". Sod that.

minder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Been trying to vote in the poll but just keeps > saying 'You have already voted'. Are you on the non-Infinity BT Broadband? You probably share an IP address with a few others, and one of them has probably already voted.

ruffers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 'Postcode lottery.' This one is ok! I've been playing it for about a month now. Sadly, not won owt. Yet. http://freepostcodelottery.com/?ref=547618 (That has my ref code on it. Hope that's OK.)

Saffron Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mr Blandness Builds His Dream House I had to look this up because I thought it was such a great title. Sadly, it seems it's 'Mr Blanding', which isn't half as amusing.

Just thought of another, which I stumbled upon late one night channel hopping. "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring". A South Korean movie about a Buddhist monk living on a houseboat and a young boy sent to him to teach. A slow, meandering story, that is absolutely beautifully filmed. Plus, since I've gone all foreign film... "Spirited Away". A Japanese animated movie by the famed Miyazaki. Try and find the Japanese subtitled version - the dubbed version has some horribly grating voices.

sizemore Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If it's illegal then what's to stop anyone else removing it? > > Or better still painting over it with something more interesting like a penguin eating a hot dog. Just because it is illegally sited, that wouldn't stop the owners having you charged with criminal damage.

'The Usual Suspects' and 'Memento' - probably my two favourite movies.

LondonMix Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Your definition is not net EU migration it is something entirely different. The 333,000 > includes all citizens: British, European and all others (Americans, common wealth etc etc) > > And my point was that net EU migration was not EU citizens arriving less Brits leaving (which it > clearly is not). OK, I can see that. A strange definition. Net immigration includes Brit leavers, but Net EU immigration doesn't? A rather unhelpful figure. It tells me very little.

LondonMix Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Here is the link. > http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/statistics-net-migration-statistics > > When people quote the net EU migration figure it > absolutely does not include British people. I think you should read that page again. The two mentions of the figure 333,000 shows it backs my definition.

LondonMix Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Also, maybe someone else picked this up but a few people have implied net EU migration is EU > citizens coming less Brits leaving. That's not correct-- the net EU migration figure is EU > citizens arriving minus EU citizens leaving Britain. Many EU citizens come to work in London > for a few years and then return home or move elsewhere. That's only correct if you include British people the 'EU citizens' numbers (because they are, but a lot of people wouldn't in terms of the referendum debate). If you are trying to say that net migration is 'new immigrants arriving minus old immigrants leaving' then, sorry, but that's wrong.

I saw that yesterday. It took a lot to resist the urge to comment.