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I think the Swiss Franc has been a safe haven currency for a while and so is very high (hence even more expensive on top of it's expensive in the first place!). The Swiss have frantically been trying to get the Swiss Franc to fall in value as it's damaging exports.......

...not sure why but still chortling about this Sinn F?in Councillor Martin Kenny from Ballinamore, who knows the couple who found the man, said they had been driving home from Enniskillen when they came upon him on the road. "They noticed something on the road and, at first, they thought it was a traffic cone, but he was wearing red trousers," he said.

Ok then lets just guess.

I dunno, just yo-yoing year after fooking year, i've turned very pragmatic about this, even a bit money orientated, next year the new deal kicks in, if BF Sam keeps us up. etc.... However, all things considered, 80/81 2nd Division champions is probably my favourite ever year Going tomorrow, 2nd time this season WHOOP

Restaurants change etc I think this type of thread needs refreshing. It's the "What does ED lack?" type threads that get an old timer such as meself rolling my eyes in bahhumbug fashion

QPR 1 Norwich 0 Arsenal 1 Stoke 1 Everton 2 Aston Villa 1 Newcastle 0 Chelsea 1 Reading 1 Sunderland 1 West Ham 1 Swansea 2 Wigan 1 Southampton 1 Fulham 1 Man 2 West Brom 0 Spurs 1 Man City 2 Liverpool 2

or a cheap fizzy Italian wine 'Prosecco' (Sp?)

Took some more profit on my Villa relegation bet by laying them at 1.65 Ditto on my QPR bet As I was on Betfair I thought I'd do some mug punting too. So laid Man U at 1.4 for the title, just one slip up or a loss at city and I'll trade; Did a small bet on Ros? for the Open at 35; England out right winners of 6 nations at 2.75, thoughts Mr Medic?

Brown rocking only in bacon sarnie, thems the rules

fook me, am I safe to say we've managed to keep Diame now? Massive for us.

As a very long retired recreational user I would have to say almost all my recreational drug use was so I could keep on drinking.

Annette Curtain Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Always remember that the Swiss invented the Cuckoo > Clock & the Swiss Army knife (not sure about Swiss > Roll tho) > > What does that tell you about a nation ? That you've seen the Third Man

The only Swiss bloke I ever knew well was the straightest - and I mean straightest - recovering heroin addict I have ever met.

Dodos had to take the active ingredient out and the SKB or whoever wondered why their sales dropped by 300% ooh mum, I think I,ve got hay fever...

Loads of money, massive bonus if they stay up, escape clause if they're relegated would be my guess

SOunds a near perfect life to me......apart from waiting for planes

Irons really need a win now...and as I am going on Saturday that's put the Kabosh on that :(

reading,s injury time goal also stopped my only correct score to add salt into another shite performance

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

..the celebrity issue is such a stooopid distraction Brain drain ? happened in the past, to the detriment of the UK (and not just celebs), many top notch academics/doctors/ IT geeks/designer, yes and some actors and pop stars, fled to the US in the 60s and 70s away from our punitive taxes. That?s a reality, however much you think ?Well I wouldn?t do that?, of course many stayed too but this was a drain on our human capital.The loss of just some. Inward investement - Korean/Japanese/US companies looking to invest in Europe including bringing over their own senior management will have a look at tax levels for their senior execs who are going over to manage the businesses if they are too high they?ll go elsewhere, this is a major factor. Senior Korean mangers don?t give a sh1te about our Budget Defeceit or NHS they just say I?ll pay 70% tax there or 45% there?no brainer. This has a significant impact on inward investment decisions. Ditto corporation tax. Yukky marketing speak, but ?branding? your country with an image of one that as one that taxes high and doesn?t reward entrepreneurship ditto. Foreign investors won?t even put you on the potential list. France?s image overseas is increasingly as an anti-business, statists, unflexible economy. Finally, as Huge says, higher tax rates tend to lead to a reduction in overall tax take?as they reduce overseas investment, remove incentives to work harder or longer, drive a certain number of those whose desire is to create wealth (greedy ?orrible people as they are no doubt) away. This is of course a view that is contended by many on the left so there?s debate on this but I personally belive it. I know many left wingers generally think higher tax rates are fairer and juster and all those touchy feely soft values?but it don?t work beyond a certain point. 1000s of people, including many who create wealth, don?t share you ?altruistic? viewpoint on this?.my argument re taxes etc is not idealistic or even altruistic but I believe it is utilitarian, it?s better for us all, rich and poor.

The demographic make up is entirely different- ditto our emigration to Spain - Retired rich brits (or those on loverly Pensions, cough) and even some Brits commuting from the France to work back in the UK is not a brain drain....(anyway, Hollande will put a stop to this with his new second home tax) but the french coming here are far younger than brits going there, are coming to work and entrepreneur... away from stifling, bureacratic, 35 hour max a week France....I've got a whole bunch of French Colleagues over here too who say that at the moment France is stifling and sucked dry by spoilt, indulged baby boomers who have all the elite psoitions, huge pensions, are effectively unsackable, if we are all going to get anectdotal on each others ars*s.

I still can't work out which was the worst choice of manager for West Ham Roeder or Grant. I think Zola just avoids, so it's a binary choice (although a few would bung BFS in the mix no doubt!). Actually it's Roeder, for the position and strength of squad we had then*...Grant was just a bizzare choice when we were nearly bust *tears well up

It's not just celebs, that's just the lazy argument put forward by the left and repeated. It's entrepreneurs, technichains and creatives too...but carry on with the misguided lazy argument about celebs, Exile on Main street etc In the 70s their was a significant and damaging brain drian of UK talent to the US...not Just the Stones to the SoF and Rod to LA.......