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waynetta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Queen is the only person in the country who > does not require a passport. No-one requires a passport, only if you choose to go abroad you do NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH

Yes, and Labour's shaping up nicely too with the one that's even more unpracticed in the dark arts than his ex- brooding master, the one who lacked the courage to resign when it could have saved Labour, his nerdy brother, a self-seeking hypocritical fraud or the professional nothern one.....great

Living alone and missing having another half? Get in late pissed; try and creep in as quitely as possible then throw plates at yourself and sleep on the sofa.

Blackpool, Spuds and Birmingham for me ;-)

Well for many it started this weekend....see the scum were lucky

My cousin rented a flat in Fulham in the early 90s whose previous tenant had been a Mr Hugh Grant, we used to stare at the toilet seat and say "Liz Hurley's arse has been on that".

I have just sent you a mind message through the ectoplasm

..the answer ,,,if you want a cheap date go to Newcastle

Germany has a long established and huge private sector renting sector with massive tenant security. I think almost for life if you pay your rent (and so many people from all sections of society choose to rent long term rather than buy) much of this property is infact owned by the banks and insurance companies who just hold onto it long term as a solid rental income...no housing booms in germany to inflate their assets value. This is infact why many germans have significant savings as they've not put it all down as a deposit on house but often, on paper, have less wealth in terms of a few hundred grand 'asset' as in a house than us - of course until you retire and decide to move to the Isle of Sky that asset is largely illiquid and not reallty wealth at all. The private rental sector here hardly does anything but encourage those who can afford it and want to put down roots to buy.

Real and share of state spending increased under Thatcher for starters but I'll try and get back later with some more positive and nmeasured contributions. I hated her at the time and never voted for her but with and hand on heart would our economy (not neccessarily our society) have really been better without her. I think we'd have gone down the toilet to be honest. I expect a load of sentimentality back shortly and the butchering of what were either completley uneconomicly sustainable practices - ie most trade Union policy at the time; - the harsh removal of redundant industries (old style docks such as in your own manor and of course the destruction of terrible old, dangerous and unplaesant industries such as old style deep cast mining caused enormous hardship as well as destroying closeknit communities and ill preparing them for change, so there were horrible mistakes... but still the ranting, sentimental, rhetoric of *sighs*, I can find no better word for it. much of'the left' does make me wonder wether people can remember just what a toilet the UK was in say 1979 and what direction it was heading? I think Boys from the BlackStuff and all those northern mining films have a lot to answer for ;-)

er, China's spare cash and globally lower interest rates post the dot com made cheap money...we are but a small cog in global markets and they are a good thing. Banks were freed from constrints on whether they retail or investment by the Democrats and then Labour. Almost everyone benefited or are you now saying public services didn't improve under Labour spending funded by tax revenues and cheap money as a result of the boom? Seriously, stop reading the Guardian for your economics.

The ubiquity of coke nowadays is one the most tedious things in the world...tsk...even at Upton Park nowadays you can't get in a cubicle at half time for a tommy what with all the Essex boys in there sharing and snorting

Prometheus- The Movie....it just goes on and on

Er, Man City were slated all over the place for Thaskin Matthew....has the scouse victimhood thing started to effect a welshman like you now?

er. no. How about cheap money, global capitalism, China, etc...you have a very simplistic take on economics. Capitalism is inherently prone to busts (ironically an old Socialist like Gordon seemed to have failed to pick this up)and the current one has bee particulalry nasty because of a surplus of cash from China, loose credit and low interest rates post the Dotcom crash (for fears that'd spark a global recession...they just put it off), the creation of 'clever' speculative products around debt, shares, insurance, which modern technology and global markets has allowed to accelerate massively - partly because the Democrats and Labour loosened the restrictions on banks - and so make any flaws in the models behind them accelerate massively, a HUGE assett boom and massively high gearing on the part of Individuals (largely spent on their houses) corporations (often using their own propert assets) largely spent to buy other companies (see Icelandic companies and banks as a fine example) and GOVERNMENTS (yes that's Brown) to build nice stuff or give jobs to voters. When it crashed and asset values fell GULP. It still beats any other system which tend to deliver no growth but at leeast has everyone equal as they queue for their potatos, but to say it's singularly the banks and housing market is a pile of horsesh1t. Still at least Gordon put plenty aside for a rainy day....oh, hang on a minute. He's as culpubale as banks, consumers, us all. Good times gone, reality check for us all...but keep blaming the bankers if it makes you feel better, certainly seems to work on Talkradio and with cab drivers.

Certainly not the best movie or even twist but From Dusk til Dawn is a bit like WTF?

WARNING CONTAINS SPOILERS ON SEVEN AND SIXTH SENSE ...alright Tone? Being a smartarse I said to my Girlfriend "he's a ghost" after 10 mins of Sixth Sense... she was not happy; and Seven, admittedly at the end, but as soon as I saw the delivery van coming it was bleedin' obvious surely?...so neither had a particular twist for me, though Seven's a good film nevertheless.

er, two things? how about adding unsustainable, fantasyland public spending by Gordon Brown to that list

Oliver

He posts on here, he's a poor gambler

Bossman - 6 cans of Stella (?5.50 now though :'). Budgens - big bag of Dorrittos and a spicy dip. Sorted.

Oscar Wilde, Ozzie Clarke...all on the same thread...gone to the dogs I tell ya

You can't discuss Kebabs?

Oh come on people, most of it's biodegradable, it blows around in the wind making wistful Sam Mendes type moments and ha s a certain urban charm...

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