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Some reasons to be cheerful....nicked shamelessly from the Spectator. in 1990 the UN announced Millennium Development Goals to halve the number of people in extreme global poverty by 2015....the UN reported at the end of last year that this target was achieved in 2008, that's 'evil' Global Capitalism for you right there, slowly but surely reducing global poverty, slightly at the moaning expense of the obscenly spoilt and indulged in debt west, but a good thing The rich world's economies grew by 6% over the past 7 years but fossil fuel consumption fell by 4% in the same economies. The average life expectancy in Africa reached 55 last year still horribly young compared to much of the world but up from just 50 in 2002. Deaths from AIDS have been falling for the past 5 years and from malaria by a fifth in the same period. The Peace Research Centre in Oslo reports that there have been fewer deaths due to war in the past decade than any decade in the last century. Happy New Year, bleedin' cheer up :)

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In case anyone else is confused, Iceland is not > and never has been a worker's cooperative, and > it's been in more leveraged buyouts than M&S has > prawn sandwiches. > > Its founder and chairman was even charged with > insider trading after offloading masses of shares > before declaring a profits warning. > > One time CEO of Iceland Stuart Rose only stepped > down a year ago from Chairman of... M&S! oh dear huge a huge Whooooosh....you lost your irony detector?

First attempt http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/march/17/newsid_4090000/4090886.stm

Actual knowledge is far better than Google Huge, you should read up a bit of UK social history if you've not heard of the anti-vietnam Grosvenor Square 'riots', not like you're in your 20s.

I take an entirely contrary view to that Mr Lush

LOL at VED as the main tax on cars, seriously.......... VAT and excise duty on Fuel? Huge govt revenue, VED is a pin prick FFS

What Salsaboy said

*waves at Tonybee, Benn, Straw, Ali....i could go on

the-e-dealer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Sun Readers who attacked a paediatrician in > his home cannot in any circumstances be described > as Have A Go Heros And the Guardian readers, (nay, even columnists) and previous gov't ministers who used to march round Grosvenor Square shouting support for a murderer of millions (Mao Tse Tung) should be equally as ashamed, actually more - they had the benefit of an 'education;...but they won't

How we chortled

MOTD for me tonight.......first time in a while

...and who exactly is being snotty and obnoxious on this thread? Unpleasant chippiness is really just that. quids in sticking up for middle classes shocker

I think you may be right with that STS

Ok I meant in general, now if we take it to SE22 rather than Southwark I suspect it'll be well over 50%....if you really want local democracy. Actually, there are plenty of motorists who support this if you scroll up rather than generalise

Exactly LD..and 65% of households own a car.....

I never quite get the phrase "more money than sense", do you, or others who use it, mean people with money are stoooopid, or is it just an envy thing??

Oops, I!ll revert to my originals and sorry for misleading Otta! Will edit :)

Bleeding hell just clocked mick and Maxxi's scores.....they been on the sauce over Christmas no doubt......seems to have worked

Stick her or your head in boiling water strikes me as the best

Cheese is best IMO AM

Happy NYE predictors. could be just you and I RD this week everyone el on a Maxxi :)

Idiot double posting predictions

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Love/Hate relationship of the year(s) = Quids & > Strafer. ...oh bleedin' hell, for the 6th year running!

My view. Keep the Premiership separate - different skill but also people have got into the grove ofd doing their weekly selection, adding CL and FA Cup you'll just get drop outs, too much hassle. Just run 'em as separate competitions, if i am honest i probably won't be bothered.

Oh good, another one of these