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I didn't intend humbug in the sense that I envy them their happiness, but I do think that a special interest group receiving a grant to publish a free community magazine is something better off 30 years ago. Particularly if it's filling its pages with rubbish about Thomas Mickelwright's vegan monocraze. That's not art, that's OCD from a particularly jumped up sector of the community (whose self-regard exceeds their wit by a considerable margin). Almost everything that could have been written in the 'objectives' column of this magazine business plan would have been better delivered online - especially that word 'community'. The concept is tired, joyless and uninspired. About the only thing it delivers is a fleeting moment of physical gratification for the publishers and the contributors.

I've got a big bucket of monkey UDT and it's all over your hairpiece ;-)

I did a search on 'Danish' and can't find your comment UDT? Re. Your comments... 'Reducing exposure to banks' as point 1 - that was my question, yeah how? Public Sector is already cooperative, you daft wally. Investing more in creative is an odd policy commitment, how much more and what do you think the return will be? It's esoteric, hardly working man stuff. NHS freedom is supposed to do what? Increase expenditure? Decrease? How does that solve banking crisis? Bonuses already exist for exports. Do you want government to pay them now? Reduce taxation? *yawn* doesn't everyone? Better planing designs? WTF? Is this anything to do with anything? And so on.....

You can spot a person from their language, it's like a fingerprint, that's not you UDT.

When was the last time you mentioned Danish Unions UDT?

I love those shots on so many levels. Her mate lost her balance because she was changing her pose, but despite the threat to herself, and the slightly panicked face, she still clung on to that leg! That's mates for you!

That was a copy and paste UDT

Early second half for me at the moment, England looking very free and impressive in parts. Liking the new style, will even accept a defeat if they're moving in the right direction.

That's a goal not a solution. How do you propose to meet it?

Something about cresting the brow of a hill, and yet another peak sits smugly in the distance.

Fox activity.

Apex? Zenith, nadir?

Like, I say twinkle, what's your alternative?

Damian H, you really shouldn't drag yourself down!

Given UDT's implacable insistence that banking, more specifically fractional reserve banking, is intrinsically fraudulent, one thing that has bugged me since he first started posting on the subject is what precisely he thinks is the alternative. Given that the majority of human endeavour is based on speculative activity with a future return (I'll pay you when it works), and that opportunities by definition are an addition to existing capacity, we will always be borrowing in excess of existing equity. How also does he propose that we apply Darwinian concepts to the opportunities proposed (i.e. we make sure that only the really good ideas get investment) unless we make the 'borrowers' responsible for the failures. I really don't think UDT has an answer, and until he does his comments are a whinge, not an argument.

Because he's very very clever... ;-)

Oh, who did Valderrama used to be? Or Val D'Isere for that matter? "And welcome to Ski Sunday, brought to you this afternoon from...."

To be fair, UDT does suffer from paranoid delusions, the poor chap. His convictions about bankers aren't even a patch on his World Trade Center theories, and the New World Order. Bankers are just manifestations of his core belief that the world is run by implausibly omnipotent super beings of such implacable evil we cannot even guess at their machinations.

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I think you're being a little bit insensitive JessieW. You're not likely to endear yourself to hard working unpretentious local residents if you announce yourself to be part of a (currently unpopular) 'foreign' tribe of smug advertising hacks, who are sweeping into the area with a view to changing it to make it more like an area that has a reputation for vacuous trustafarian tossers. You then compound the problem by boasting about the money you're going make out of house prices - a rather unattractive and shallow trait that went out of fashion about the same the country collapsed into recession due to the idiocy of housing speculators. Surely even someone in advertising could see that? ;-) BTW, I am an advertising hack.

That's an excellent idea! We had 3 huge stainless steel planters made for us when we were in Crawthew Grove.

Is that mist or pollution? It's only 3? miles away innit?

I think most manfacturers have already realised that the only way to print money by making stuff is to get it done by third world indentured slaves, nothing to do with a massive tax for expensive green energy. Anyway, sorry to nag, but what is the 'massive tax for green energy'. I've done a search and can't seem to identify it?

Those were the days when Snorky roamed the Earth at will, and Alan Dale raved about the free money to be made with 110% mortgages, $30,000 cashback and ripping off students...

If only Bonasi Kitten hadn't been so cruelly terminated in its youth http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/zoom/ea64_bonsai_kitty_happy.jpg