Loz

Easy. Apart from lots of other benefits, the primary reasons is that multinationals make their European base here because it gives them an entry point in Europe in an English language environment. That gives the City the huge clout on the world stage - generally London fights it out with New York as the premier world centre for business. If we leave the EU, those companies would almost certainly have to move camp to somewhere back in the EU. The knock on effect of that would be massive hit on our GDP and our jobs market. In other words, a massive lowering of standard of living in this country and the knock on effect on tax revenues, which would lead to the aforementioned hit on public services.

The lounge awaits you, Vanessa...

A whole (surprisingly sensible) Guardian article on the subject. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/22/black-asian-minority-ethnic-bame-bme-trevor-phillips-racial-minorities

Nope. All the scare-story hoo-har over Tories "dismantling" the welfare state, public services, NHS, etc, etc, won't come to pass. Yes, they'll be cut back, but Labour would have done that too. And I guarantee you that in five years time there will still be an NHS and a welfare state. A much, much worse situation would have been had we been saddled with an unstable minority government and back at the polls before the year was out. I'd be more worried if I were you to make sure that the upcoming referendum keeps us in the EU. Pulling out of the EU would be an absolutely economic disaster that will have a massive knock-on effect on the services you mention.

That kind of came out of the blue, though. I think se22cat needs a lie-down and maybe a Friday beer.

What have you got against Celts, anyway Rosie?

... and if not you might get some ideas from Louisa's latest thread.

If you are her, can you PM me? I have something of yours!

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This put me right off > http://www.tntmagazine.com/news/weird/death-by-dildo-man-gets-vibrator-stuck-up-his-butt-dies Because if you hadn't read that, it would have been up the Khyber with a black mambo straight after the News at Ten had finished?

steveo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Battery or mains? I thought dildos were unpowered? Wouldn't that make it a vibrator?

You still have one from this morning in ED businesses, restaurants & trades. I suspect any others were deleted as repeat posts.

The older males can get very territorial and violent and kill off the younger breeding males.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was actually reading a pro-hunting forum the other day (out of interest). One of them was > defending that American b-list sleb who bagged a lion in South Africa. They justified it by saying > that they give the meat to poor hungry African boys and girls. You couldn't make it up. On the other hand, news out today on the hunter that paid $350,000 to kill a rhino has completed the task. The rhino was down to be culled anyway for herd management purposes and this way Namibia's anti-poaching unit is much better funded. Seems like a pragmatic approach to me. Yet still the animal rights bunch are up in arms, with the sadly predictable death threats being issued by the loonier variety. http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/19/africa/namibia-rhino-hunt/

Dog food. It is *really* disgusting.

edcam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I hated her and her coffee table music. "White Flag" is particularly loathsome. That's done it, edcam... DC will be along to unnecessarily close the thread any minute now.

They are useful for beating foxes to death.

-0.5/10

Apparently the Turkey tourist authorities offer organised hunting tours for bear, hook horned mountain goat (Samua), wild goat (Bezoar), wild boar, lynx, wolf, jackal and, of course, the fox.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Goodness sake.. > > R.D. Lush. Loz. > > How dull your lives must be if all you have to talk about is Foxy's spelling grammar thread wording. You need new reading glasses, Foxy. I've not mentioned your spelling or grammar.

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > *Bob* Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > AQ Foxy specifically said he didn't want any debate on the thread, only supporting views. I > > quote "this is not a thread to discuss fox hunting". > > > > The Fox's wish has been granted. > > This In that case, I take it back then Foxy. It seems you *do* make the rules around here. Poor judgement, DC. Really poor.

I've eaten oysters - have to say, I can't see why people say they are so amazing. Snails, on the other hand, are rather nice when properly cooked. Ditto frogs legs.

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > AQ Foxy specifically said he didn't want any debate on the thread, only supporting views. I > quote "this is not a thread to discuss fox hunting". > > The Fox's wish has been granted. I think *Bob* is onto something here. It was such a strange thing for DC to do, maybe, just maybe, Foxy asked for it.

aquarius moon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > aquarius moon Wrote: > > --------------------- > > > > I'm not sure you are really grasping how little I > > care on the subject. As I said, I find too many > > morons on both side of the argument to want to > > take sides. > > > It's not about moron people, it's about the FOX! > > If you care about them being ripped to shreds, or if you don't. > > If you really don't care, have a think about it > from the fox's side. How can you not care? > Unbelievable. > > Do you have pets? Dogs, cats, foxes, all feel you know. I've seen rabbits with myxomatosis (highly unpleasant) and foxes that were not taken out with a clean shot and almost certainly died in much pain. Other ways of animal control like snares are even worse. Rat poison causes them to bleed internally until they die. So why only fox hunting with dogs? This is the crux of what I don't get. This is why I feel that it's just a class issue, hijacking an animal issue. And if it's just a class issue, then, yes, I don't care.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Like I said this thread is to bring attention to a petition for people who do care to be able to participate. ... and as I said before, you don't make the rules.

Don't forget - everything he's done has been in your name as well. You are jointly culpable.