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  1. As far as bots go, he's pretty good! :D
  2. Are there any gay characters in Doctors tho? Don't they have magazines that are all about soap characters and storylines? As though it's real life? Who buys those?
  3. LOL Louisa is back! :D
  4. Is Tarot any relation of Louisa by chance? :D
  5. I did wonder Otta ;)
  6. lol Heterophobes! Do you feel presecuted now Tarot because no-one shares your same bigotted viewpoint. You haven't actually responded to a single point made, all of them far more sensible than your view that children can be adversely affected by seeing gay characters in a soap drama. Have ANYTHING to say about that? Head, cloud, cuckoo land comes to mind. Meanwhile, Dot I believe is an android. That's why she looks not a single day older from her appearance in the first episode.
  7. A not very bright homophobe?
  8. Yeah I agree Jeremy. That last post from you Tarot says to me that you are scared of gay people, and their representation in programmes your children might watch. If you actually knew anything about sexuality, and it takes many forms, not just gay or heterosexual, you'd know that most people don't choose how they are. Do you really think all those heterosexual storylines are what make children turn out heterosexual? Tell me, how did you CHOOSE your sexual preference? What is known from data, is that in the past, gay children suffered huge traumatic stress in having to keep their feelings secret. Imagine that Tarot. A world where 90% are gay and you are one of the 10% heterosexuals. You see no characters on TV like you and no-one ever talks about your straighness in anything but negative terms. Some people even wnat to put you in jail for it, or worse still hang you. See how ridiculous your comments are? But it seems you don't like much else on tv either. You don't have to watch. There are many other forms of content to watch. Netflix is very good.
  9. lol true keeky :D But try telling the missus that! She watches everything.....
  10. That's awful midi and it does seem as though insurers try it on in the hope they get away with liability. The message to me seems to be that if your fight your corner, they cave in.
  11. But aren't we talking about gay characters over gay storylines? The only storyline I can think of that is specifically gay would be a coming out storyline. Otherwise we are just talking about storylines that could be equally asigned to gay or heterosexual characters? I think your gripe is more to do with the number of gay characters? And you might be right (I don't watch all the soaps) in that suddenly gay characters are featured in a lot of storylines. Soaps have a tendancy to follow trends in order to attract viewers. So if one soap does something, and gets its ratings up as a result, all the others follow, no? Personally, if I were a soap writer (and I'm not lol), I would be now writing a storyline around a jihadist grooming theme. THAT would be topical and bound to attract viewers and debate etc. I agree that a gay character is no longer controversial, but it's a good thing surely that soaps now think nothing of having gay characters. I was a young teen when Brookside made Beth Jordash a lesbian, and remember how ground breaking that was. Being a bloke I thought it was great of course :D But seriously, I want a world where soaps speak to everyone (no mean feat) and I think we need to seperate characters (and their characteristics) from storylines, because the two are different.
  12. Hmmm so gay characters have changed soaps over violence, murder, tram crashes and all the other ridiculous storylines that writers dream up? Because they are just that - gay characters. There's no such thing as a gay storyline. There are storylines about falling in love, or out of love, or being cheated on etc. It just happens that sometimes the charracters involved are gay. Mostly though they are heterosexual. And it doesn't bother most people either way. The only fact is that you are bothered by it.
  13. Is anyone else sick to death of all the heterosexual storylines on all the soaps,Emerdale,Eastenders,Coronation street. Do you have any idea how ridiculous your post is?
  14. Also check out www.megatrain.com for cheap tickets. They definitely do Euston to Birmingham by both train and coach. A coach costs as little as a fiver each way.
  15. That's a very sensible post Loz. Can't disagree with any of it. The conservatives have also pledged to take those on minimum wage out of income tax. Sounds good but equally problematic, when a salary hits the min tax threshold. And of course, for every penny lost through income tax receipts, we either have to increase tax elsewhere, or cut public services. So the poorest are screwed either way. I still think there hasn't been enough emphasis on helping small businesses from any of the parties. One way to beat multi-national corporations is to invest in home grown businesses surely? We seem to still invent plenty of things, but end up losing the technology to companies abroad who have the required investment to develop them.
  16. If that article is true Loz, that's pretty shocking! But how do we tackle greed? How do we change the mentality of those millionaires? We don't seem to be able to close tax loopholes/ havens etc. That's why I do agree with the mansion tax in principle. People/ corporations can't hide property offshore. They can't hide land either. It's just a case of getting the details/ thresholds right.
  17. It was 60p under Thatcher Jeremy. 50p doesn't seem so bad really.
  18. I agree miga. And it's the tinkering that annoys me personally. It's meaningless if it changes nothing in reality. I work with people with problems that are exacerbated by the lack of 'standard floor', and yes, that stardard has been lowered and lowered. It's very frustrating. There's a layer of society that is being left destitute and without hope, many of them made ill by it. We should care about those people, but we should also look at solutions that work, instead of cutting resources and making solutions that work impossible to deliver. But equally, there's a layer of people who should be able to do ok, but for whom the future also looks bleak, unless the gap between wages and the cost of things like housing narrows.
  19. Yes, hence the tenancy requiring a primary place of residence?
  20. I completely agree that New Labour didn't do enough, BUT they did reduce the discount on right to buy. The coalition on the other hand increased it to a higher discount than even under Thatcher. The issue remains the same for both parties. We need more jobs and more people working as a percentage of the population to raise the taxes needed to look after everything else. Neither party seems to have any solutions for that. The Conservatives are total free market enthusiasts, but we know that the free market doesn't take care of everything (without regulation to force it to do so). Labour on the other hand stand for some regulation but are essentially free market supporters too. Neither party wants to alienate the only wealth creating sectors we have left, and rightly so but there needs to be more effort to support start ups and to help successful small businesses to expand (especially in new technologies). On social housing. The free market has never taken care of people at the lower end of the pay scale. That's why social housing came about, along with the welfare state. Either we believe in a minimum quality of life, housing etc for all, or we don't. I think the demonisation of the poorest has only been possible because middle income earners are feeling the squeeze as much as the low waged. The cost of housing/ property is playing a huge role in that.
  21. But if she is away for long periods of time it could be said that it is not her primary place of residence, another condition of a council home tenancy. A friend of ours wanted to laminate her council home floor and had to get permission (because the council want to make sure you use underlay to minimise noise). So if they have that policy (worth finding that out for sure I would think) then I can't see how they can fail to take the noise from sanded floors seriously too.
  22. That's how I see it too John. It's an admission that prices are too high for ordinary working people to afford. Lend lease are just profiteers, who pretend to be specialists in urban regeneration. Totally agree miga. There is no consideration of a problem that will take more than the lifetime of a parliament to rein in. It smacks of desperation really. Wishy washy Cameron couldn't win the last election outright and looks like he won't improve in this one. The delusion of power by the back door! You have to ask yourself, do they really think these policies are the kinds of vote winner to swing an election? For the 1.3 million HAs tenants there are many more trapped in private rented accomodation or living with parents. I'd say the conservatives have now alienated those people. When Thatcher came to power, the economy was so crippled it wasn't hard to be radical. If we want to be radical today, it has to be about bringing a fairer distribution of wealth surely? I don't see any of that from the Conservatives, just the usual pre-election tax bribes and giveaways, from a party that says we need to make more cuts in the next term to keep the deficit down! It just doesn't add up.
  23. Mopeds are stolen everywhere! I don't know much about security products for them but they do seem pretty easy to steal and start.
  24. Many social housing tenants who work are on minimum/low wages Alice. That's why they are in social housing (and why we need it). They are never going to earn enough or be in stable enough employment to keep a mortgage on a private market property going. And how about we stop artificially inflating the housing market and let it return to normal market forces. I.e. when first time buyers can no long afford to buy, the price comes down, instead of bringing out yet more products designed to give people part ownership etc.
  25. Signed. This is a no brainer. School children need playing fields.
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