Dickensman

Inequality for the business man has not been considered, he has less power than his employees. He is more responsible for them than they are for themselves when you consider the payments he makes to government. The employees rites have for years been rammed down our throats to such an extent that an employee of mine ran up a ?2500 phone bill and was subsequently fired, when the unfair dismissal tribunal passed judgement I had to pay her seven thousand pounds and the defending of the case cost another six thousand. I determined that day I would not employ anyone again, and I have since been faithful to that pledge. Until we take back the classrooms and put the children back in the position of being in the wrong (which was the way of things in the fifties) then we will never take back the power needed to steer the adult workforce to compete, but if anyone is in doubt of how it would be in such times, I would suggest you read from my favourite author Charles Dickens.

Banking has been a mere distraction from the realities of this failing economy. Until we can stand shoulder to shoulder with the Chinese and Indian economies we are ultimately doomed! Until we can produce the same products for the same price as those economies we are heading towards disaster. There will come a time sooner than we all think, when we can no longer borrow from the world bank, when we will only be able to buy in what we have cash for and 'quantative easing' can only rarely happen otherwise the pound will not be recognised as a serious currency and will lose it's value as confidence slides. We need to become more competitive and work for a tenner a week, rather than a tenner per hour. Who would do that? This will happen when our borrowing comes to an end.

Best fresh veg is on North cross rd at the greengrocers.

Is it true quids was banned? If so what for?

It certainly made me wonder about all the blackbirds lying dead in the road. They do not all drop dead because of the weather conditions, if that were so what about the rest of the birds and mammals.

Quantative easement syndrome quids. You must be feeling dilute and weakened.

Several years ago when the petrol shortage was going on, people were fighting in the forecourts. Over petrol. I think we seem to be civil only when it suits us. wrote PeckhamRose When Ikea opened a new branch in Edmonton, a number of the people queueing resorted to fighting and stabbing one another, because they thought someone was pushing in front of them. We are civil when things are going well for us, but if there wasn't any food in the shops for a week or two you would soon see the savagery of desperate people. Civilization is a very thin veneer.

Yes some do get turned on by wet dogs, especially Chinese chefs.

If things don't alter, they'll stay as they are. Coined by an unknown 'pocket philosopher'.

Bill Oddie..............Obnoxious irritating and oafish. Tony Robinson...........boring old fart. Griff Rhys Jones........Petulant dwarf. Janet Street-Porter.....Garrulous, speech impeded, trollope. Prince of Wales.........Buffoon.

George Best, most overrated man in football, but evidently ahead of his time. wrote Huguenot Well as I'm mid sixties and remember him well, especially on sticky muddy pitches as there was far more rain back in those days and as you so rightly point out, a heavier ball. Best could keep on his feet better than anyone else, and when all around him were slide tackling only he stayed upright and danced around the recumbent opposition. Jah you have to admit that both the drunken Gazza and the unfortunate potato faced Rooney, both had something extra in their game which most others could not match. But Besty was always the best in my slender book of football hero's.

Keef wrote:- With regards to his being "an icon", George Best is also described as such, and why should he be, but Becks not? Mainly because Besty was a football genius and outshone anyone he played against, he made good competent players look slow and clumsy. Rooney has some genius about him too rather like Gazza. But for my money Best was the most outstanding player ever produced from these little islands, and Beckham is the end result of a publicity campaign which Besty created, being the first footballing superstar.

A limited, shallow, gormless, chump! The Beckhams seemed to inherit the papparazzi that had earlier followed Princess Diana, unto her demise. Both are equally over-rated talentless bores.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel! A little help is worth a lot of sympathy. "If you have sex when you are under age it can send you blind", 'then let's only do it till we need glasses'!

What Jeremy said.