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East Street, mid 80s - I had a 'flirtation' with the girl who worked on her dad's sweet stsll (about 5 stalls down on the left)who i met in the old Sun & Doves...she was yummy her dad was scary and 'had his eye on me', nothing csme of it, that's all

James Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > >>Empty suits filled with smug self satisfaction, > oblivious to the role of fortune in their > overprivileged lives. > er, if we are going to generalise, I think that's just the Middle Class whoever they vote for

"adoooooba dooooba Tell me more tell me more like does he have a car" etc

I think progressive taxation is an emotive and misleading name for envy taxation

oh come on, Donald used to distract people with that warpaint.......and 100mph deliveries

Jeremy, I voted for them as a mixture of protest and wanting to do something and it wasn't raining. I suspect they'll never get much true power in the UK and to a degree I don't care what they do in europe and there is a symbolic message in keeping 'green' up there somehwere. I quite like the concept of Citizen's Income...but agree with you on the others

SimonM Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I saw George Best in his pomp: and Bobby Charlton. > So...yer avin' a laff right? :)) I saw them in their pomp losing 2-1 at Upton Park :))

Funnily enough I've just seen the Daily Express headline in Budgens - something along the lines of "Another xp on your tax to pay for this mess"

Get rid of 50% of Public Sector non-frontline 'management' positions

To add and show a bit of balance (maybe ;-), the Tory press will also be targeting the Public Sector pretty soon, (possibly with some justification)in terms of solid copperbacked pensions, salaries, job security, hours, holiday AND expenses . And Private Sector employees - who have born the brunt of the recession in terms of employment, seeing their private pension pots, if they have one, decimated (final salary pensions almost don't exist in the private sector) and with absolutely no chance of a guranteed job for life, in fact mainly massive job security - outnumber public sector wotrkers four to one. Imagine the Daily Mail - "Another 2p on my tax so tube drivers get a final salary pension, a ?35K+ index linked salary job for life, 8 weeks holiday and a final salary pension..." oh hang on a minute, they might have a point

South Africa 3.3 India 5.6 Sri Lanka 5.9 New Zealand 8.4 Pakistan 11 West Indies 13

Yup - I think your analysis looks pretty sound. I'm gonna go and see what the odds are doing, India were favourites intially (NZ were about 8/1)

bloody builders

We'll they'll have to be spending cuts or raised taxes...and I think I know which one the electorate will actually go for. We, all of us, can't go on spending all this money on the Public Sector without having to pay for it properly and Flash Gordon didn't put any money away for a rainy day when the sun was out....cries of 'Tory Cuts' is just base, emotive nonsense of a pretty desperate goverment, we are going to have to cut or be taxed more. Effectively it's like we've had a cleaner, nanny, cook and gardener on about a ?35K income...not workable. We either need more income or one of them's going to have to go....and the completeley politically motivated envy taxing of ?150K+ earners won't pay for it all (if any, if many commentators are to be believed). So, more tax for you and I to be poured into an unqenchable public sector or cuts.......or we go bust. Labour doesn't appear willing to accept that this is the truth, certainly in public, and are doing their best to stop the tories doing anything about it too.

Dick Datstardly

Ted S/A were 2nd favourites at 3/1 before the start.....I thought NZ offered better value though

Tony Benn was a significant factor in the destruction of Labour as an electable party and rise of thatcherism

it literally translates as "You wait for hours and three turn up at the same time"

...followed by a "Wedgie"

Fun wasn't it - I actually saw you guys in the FA Cup at the Old Den 89/90ish? West Ham

A ?4.99 hand carved Palmerston chip obviously

What do you call a well balanced nbn? One with a chip on both shoulders...BOOM BOOM

I dunno, they're like bleedin' busses all these italians

New Den, easy peasy...you should have gone to the old one

Sounds like an average day on here to be honest