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I think Katie will be in the bottom two again. Wagner should be there with her too though (the joke was over a long time ago).

Ooooh that's sick!

I find most poker sites difficult to make any profit on and know a lot of live players who would agree. I do pretty well at live poker.....up and down online. Last horrible beat.....having my Aover5s flopped full house beat by an Aover7s on the river. Pot ?72.

Not at this time of the night ;-)

Two Essex girls were stopped by a passer by in Lordship Lane who pointed to the night sky and asked them if that's the moon? They replied 'we don't know, we are not from 'round here'.

I have the same experience on the forum :)-D

lol....well I did think the hoover could double up for the rabbit and I suppose I could forfeit the toothbrush for everyday grit (or was it soot the early Victorians used?)........

oh that too lol...

We take so many things for granted but what gadget could you absolutely not live without..... For me it would be the hoover and a toothbrush.

James. not for the first time have you got your figures wrong - still chuckling at the one where you didn't even know what Southwarks annula budget was.

what percentage of rents are paid for by the tax payer through Housing Benefit? Be thankful they have low rents because in the private setor the HB bill would be far higher (part of the lunacy of wanting to hike some social housing rents to being on a par with private sector rents). I agree with you in that there are areas of HB that needed reforming a long time ago. The governments thinking on this is that by further capping, some landlords will be foreced to reduce rents. This may work in a place like Blackpool, where 70% of private rented sector rents are subsidised by HB (high unemployment and most jobs being low paid being the pfactors there), but in somewhere like London it's hard to see why landlord's would reduce rent. Also in the buy to let market, lanlords can't afford to reduce rents significantly because of their mortgage repayments, so we may see the resale of unprofitable properties, leading to a stabilisation of the Housing Market through over supply. In theory it could help the over inflation of the housing and rental market....but I'm sceptical. We'll have to wait and see what the impacts are, for better or worse. The 10% levy on the LTU has NO positive consequnce though. It's simply a measure that will put already poor people into further poverty, which in turn compounds things like mental health and further reduces their chances of ever finding employment. I'd also parallel that with the move to put those with any non terminal or severe physical disibility onto ESA for a year after which they are moved onto JSA irregardless of their health. Many vulnerable people are going to find themselves within a system that not only can not cater for their needs but in which they will find it difficult to cope.

Not George!!! What is the world coming too?

Exactly... a mischievious thumbs up is fun....giving the bird can upset lol............like I said...so many things suddenly make sense lol.

You forgot to add, one of your lethal marghurita's too!

My favourite smiley has always been >:D< because I thought it was a michievious thumbs up. But oh the horror when today I found out what it really means. Certainly explains a few things! :-$

I've never seen that one live.

I saw Giselle earlier this year too...! It was stunningly beautiful.

Hmmm.....depends how low I am. The company of friends definitely helps. Shopping too. Sport is a definite anti-depressant and I agree with Dita. It's important to have something to look forward to.

We'll see if Nick gets re-elected in Sheffield shall we....where there is a large student population and a high level of unemployed who desperately needed the 3000 jobs the grant to Sheffield forgemasters would have created.

I can;t even ride a horse but when I read pompoius statements like zero tolerance for this and extreme prejudice for the culprits! I think get a life. And I also think, go ask the fish in the Thames how they like your effluent polluting their space every day.

I envy anyone who has so much time and energy to focus on dog poo. Most people have far more worrying things to worry about.

I've decided I'm >:D< Friday is for hijinks....

That post says more about you than it does me B)

I'll tell you in an hour when I've woken up properly.....

You are missing DC's point thought Quids. Mental health issues are serious. Depression, whilst not discerning between the inequallity is something that can be triggered by poverty and some of the aspects of inequality. If we are talking about the quality of life then we are definitely talking about where the minimum threshold lies on unemployemnt or pay, hours vs leisure time, community vs state and so on. No one thing or the other is the sole trigger...but put them altogether and some people don't cope as well as others. As a society we should explore how we can make the quality of life better and how we can better take care of those who become vulnerable. If someone has a breakdown it can take years for them to fully recover but if we can prevent someone from breaking down in the first place then that is something to work for. And we definitely could do better in all areas od mental health provision.