Huguenot

Can you pack in salient points? Doesn't a salient point need to stand out, rather than pack in?

I think it's thoroughly irresponsible to damage the management and the future of our nation over something as petty as not liking the company who is totting up the data. The organisers of this protest demonstrate an extraordinary arrogance that they are willing to damage our nation and the people within it over a half-formed, and half-informed 'principle', apart from pissing 500 million quid of YOUR money up the wall. They may want to take the moral high ground, but I prefer to think of it as the 'complete tw*t' ground.

I half expected somebody was going to go ninny on me about my use of the word 'girls', but as soon as I had the thought I dismissed the idea that anyone would be so petty. Clearly there are further depths to be plumbed. Please note through the fug of your pompous righteousness that I also referred to boys. They were used as affectionate diminutives. Odyssey, these were highflying media types running newspapers and radio stations that you see and hear every day. I don't think they were fainting violets. I think generalisations that the men are more pushy than the women are typical of the gender discrimination that 'women' are complaining about. Certainly if men expect highwer salaries, then that confidence will impact upon the negotiating confidence and have a corresponding outcome. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Either way, since we don't know the other variables included in the parasol study, it's impossible to draw any conclusions at all. It's just a headline grabber. I don't think Lesotho is much of a case study. It's practical to have a matriarchy when all the men have left the country.

It doesn't state that the comparison is like-for-like. The CMI survey is quite clear that it was for equivalent jobs, but the Parasol survey only mentions 'averages'. If the boys are doing deep-sea diving on oil rigs, and the girls are doing data-entry that may account for it. Aside from that I don't really have first hand knowledge - most of my bosses and senior executives have been women, and there was certainly no complaint from these stong-willed women that there was a gender gap in pay.

Well, you'll have 40 days to enhance your divinely acquired metaphysical 'scientific' insights. Enjoy. I'm always up for sensible scientific assessment, but you'll forgive me if I don't accept your gut-feel at a similar level of authority.

"Anyway, you've only got to look at the picture to see it looks as if the scientist sneezed snot on the sample." Ha ha, I forgot this, it's YOU. I remember this from the climate change denial thread - you're a better scientist than all these academic types, down to your famous gut feel.

It's illegal to use roads for commercial storage, so if you had a wealthy patron you could launch a case on them and estate agents. Try Joanna Lumley.

What's your source silverfox? I suspect that's just the start of the unsubstantiated assertions, obfuscation and denial supported by bogus claims of doubt and personal attacks on the scientists isn't it? When are you going to wheel out a paediatrician to challenge the cosmologists?

I think you're being blindingly daft if you imagine that freely distributing weapons amongst mortgage holders won't fill the arsenals of criminals who are far more likely to pull the trigger. Your solution to reducing muggings is to increase the murder rate a thousand times. My statistics on gun murder rates aren't dodgy, go and look them up. It's a cretinous idea. Solutions to crime involve complex and expensive work to rebuild our societies, change our aspirations, create more inclusive aspirational values, build up communities and invest in a more humane environment. That isn't as easy as lobotomized Daily Mail readers quaking behind barbed wire in gated communities wheedling about how their shotgun makes them powerful.

It kind of depends upon a couple of factors - firstly the base price: a 60p hike on something that's 10 quid is only a 6% premium, which isn't a lot. On a 1 pound item it's a 60% lift which is quite a lot. Certain types of products, especially daily commodities like milk and bread, are deliberately sold at a loss by supermarkets. This is because your regular purchase makes you price conscious, they want you thinking this way, and they know that local traders can't match the loss. The supermarkets make the loss back up on higher end products, so sometimes the price on daily commodities might be higher in a local trader, but when you get to slightly more expensive products the local trader will be cheaper. Wine is often like this. We get the idea that supermarkets are cheaper for everything, but with wine they tend to overcharge for donkey pee.

Perhaps cook him some cupcakes, and leave them at the end of the lane where he does his turns, alongside faked photos of him going about his everyday business with her standing alongside..... ;-)

I think I saw him with an Indian girl in the Bishop? ;-) Joking aside, if she can't find the courage to strike up a conversation about how chilly the water may or may not be, I'm not sure what good it's going to do her to find out whether he's single or not. Maybe some discussion about potential opening gambits followed by some role-plays?

I'm not arguing about a point of law. I'm pointing out that it is disappointing that you personally, as an educated and bright adult, seem to think it's okay to call policemen c***s. For the esteemed and capable lawyer that you so clearly are, it consequently seems somewhat disappointing that the pinnacle of your achievement is to now start calling me names? Your clients would be both proud and impressed I'm sure. Their girlfriends must swoon at your presence.

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Well you can do it yourself skyblue. Next time you offer something say 'free to someone who makes a ?10 donation to xxx on just giving.com. Please remember to check the box saying 'make donation visible'.

The only 'alien life' that anthropogenic religions believe in, is a God whose whole existence revolves around propelling the trivial pursuits and moral wrangles of mankind to centre stage. To such vain people, the discovery that alien life was getting on perfectly happily without, for example, the subjugation of women or homosexuals, would come as such a crashing revelation they'd be unlikely to survive it.

Ah, I san't suggesting that being busy was so much an excuse, but if it was busy it might demonstrate that they were resting on their laurels. It sounds like customers are voting with their feet if it only had 6 tables on a Sunday lunch. Mark Dodds was the name of the landlord, I don't know if he still is. He was a real 'believer' so I'm surprised if he let it go to seed.

More knee-jerk Daily Mail rubbish from silverfox. He hasn't worked out that if you can carry your own gun, then so can the muggers, and the muggers are more likely to shoot first if they think you're carrying. As the US shows us, carrying guns increases crime and murder rates, it doesn't decrease them. silverfox also doesn't know that if you own a gun, you are more likely to be killed by it than you are to shoot someone else. It's not even sensible to say that the 'government' won't spend more on policing or prisons. That'll be the public - they elect governments according to their manifesto, and it's well known that high taxes and spending more on prisons is a vote loser. Criminal motivation is highly complex including cultural and environmental issues, opportunity and limited cost/benefit calculations. Research has proven that few criminals consider the consequences of getting caught, let alone the potential penalty. In other words increasing prison sentences doesn't change criminal behaviour. That kind of logic is just soundbites for idiots. It's not even banal, it's just stupid.

Was it busy? I think the landlord sometimes posts on here?

I cannot for the life of me understand why silverfox is attempting to excuse this as a 'set-up'?? You can't 'set' somebody up to make these offensive remarks. You could deliberately put a video camera in the room, but people behaving like this should be jailed whether there's a camera there or not. I can only assume that silverfox thinks the proposed 'set-up' is a big issue because he thinks the comments Galliano made are not an issue. silverfox's views on Galliano's desirable creativity quite miss the mark. People buy Dior partly because they look good, but in majority because of the 'values' of the brand. Scumbag comments fo so much damage to the brand that they enormously outweigh any positive contribution made by 'creative' flair.

You should probably credit your sources when copying & pasting aspidistra ;-)

Belen, I know english isn't your first language, but even that can't disguise that you are clearly off your rocker.

The evidence seems to hinge on the fact that these formations can't be generated by anything but organic life. It's one of those issues that will struggle to get an sensible debate around it. For adherents to anthropocentric (human-centred) religion, the discovery undermines every tenet of their narcissistic dogma. All of the assertions regarding a Universe created only as a playpen and moral test for humans, a God that is relentlessly preoccupied with mankind, who sacrifices his son etc., fall around their ears... Hence religiously-oriented people will deny all of the evidence, will crap on about 'doubt' that doesn't exist, will roll out obscure scientists in unrelated fields that support their views, and as with climate change deniers, are more likely to accuse scientists of being liars and frauds than recognise humanity's insignificance.

"If there was even such a thing as solar power I would be against it. Mainly because it doesn't smell of anything but also because the people who are in favour of it are homosexual. "They put on bright red lisptick and kiss each other on the penis and then they all skip around a solar panel wearing fancy pink lace." He added: "I'll die before I drive a car that likes bottoms." Brilliant. Sounds a bit like some of the guys on the EDF ;-)

In fact, Kid's Company seem to be here, but I can't find the helpline. If that is the correct Kid's Company, you can check out their revenue and spending here. They seem to be run very tidily by that data :) Dulwich Helpine acccounts can be seen here.