Brendan

I don?t watch telly on trains either. I have however watched trains on telly before.

So not only does your 2 year old know more about computers than you but they also have a good sense of humour.

What I don?t get is why people look for ways to sue their local council. Ok fine if they have been blatantly negligent and driven a lorry through you front room or something. But some troglodyte who trips down some stairs and then decides to sue the organisation to whom he pays a couple of hundred quid a month to provide him with a liveable environment thereby putting more financial pressure on the council and indirectly himself which inevitably leads to his environment being worse and him being more prone to accidents. I?m not sure if it is because people are selfish or stupid or both. I also have a sneaking suspicion that they do this sort of thing just to piss me off.

No. But I?m also pretty worried about giving a thief the keys to the safe.

Oh well then I won't bother. As homer says, "If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing"

I once got away with quoting Homer Simpson in an article in a construction law journal so I don?t see why not.

Like a picture of Ann Widdy.

Ooohh I love bacon. Have you tried the ones at the cute little caf? on Northcross Road? Scrummy. :))

Rosie from a purely pragmatic point of view there is no moral obligation upon you even if the person paid ?100. They were in an open bidding competition and they chose how much they were prepared to pay. But the person whose life is run on pure pragmatism is hardly human. The issue is not whether it is wrong or right but that it is bothering you. That fact that it is means you are one of those people with an annoyingly overdeveloped sense of fairness. It can be a right bastard sometimes but experience has shown me that if it bothers you now it will carry on bothering you and so you may well feel a lot better if you just bung the person ?10 back. It doesn?t really make any sense but at least you can take some solace in the fact that even though you?re a bit of a bleeding heart at least you aren?t a cunt like every other cunt in this fucking world.

I don?t know. Why can?t a common currency (even a work currency) still work even if a common market doesn?t?

Santerme Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Brendan Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Are you and your mates still part of a network > > where you bung each other jobs and collude, > using > > each of your specific spheres of influence, to > > further the security and interests of your > tribe? > > > Well actually yes to that question in my case! Yeah I know. I work with a few of you. And while the nepotism can sometimes be irksome at least military old boys networks 1) unusually contain individuals who actually see themselves as part of society and not a set apart ruling class and 2) They normally don?t have the intention or power to manipulate the work and money I invest in the country that I live in to their own personal gain.

Always like the solo in Jimmi H?s The Wind Cries Mary. Is that a clich??

Magpie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > (according to Brendan) Britain holding the > Falkland islands is similar to Norway invading the > Shetlands. I feel I have been misrepresented. What I meant was that Argentina invading the Falklands is like Norway invading Shetland.

Do you suppose Argentina would take Shetland in payment for the Falklands?

Can?t say I have. What if Shetland decided they wanted the Falklands?

What? Not to change the way you experience the world? You haven?t lived.

Suppose if the Norway decide it wanted Shetland Britain would do similar.

I?m pretty sure it comes complete with a philosophy too.

Please don?t use the word ?paradigm? when referring to consumer goods. Please.

Do you know that in 2008 they started to let people who were born in the ?90s drink in pubs? That my fiends, was the beginning of the end for broken Britain. 2 years later we had a Ritalen deficient version of Bros on the X-factor. The signs are all there for those brave enough to read them. The one outside my window says, ?Paddington 2, Marble Arch 2 ?

There is the distinct possibility that the ?80s are going to be repeated. You see the trouble is that there is an entire generation of little shi.. erherm teenagers out there who can?t remember how horrific it was the first time around.

You can wear black stockings with white stilettos but only* if you are wearing luminous coloured wayfarers. *Once again I reiterate, ONLY.

giggirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can I wear these shoes > with this outfit?). Just googled that. It's not looking good apparently.

I agree, handouts are a short term solution and can, as is the case in much of Africa, cause long term dependency. Although I think I'm going off topic.

I?ll stop being facetious for a moment shall I. Poor countries are poor for many reasons. Some because they were victims of political experiments, some because they were/are blatantly exploited by other countries some because they have very few natural recourses, or they have only existed for a few decades or any number of other reasons. It?s not always the fault of richer nations just like the poor people in our community are not always the fault of the richer ones. This doesn?t mean though on both counts that the welfare of the poorer isn?t in some way the responsibility of the richer. (I?m not talking about socialism or handouts here. Those are just emergency solutions to severe problems in my opinion.) But even if it isn?t within your moral code to feel that everyone/country should have a fair go (I realise some people just aren?t hardwired this way) from a purely pragmatic point of view guarding against exploitation and inequality makes sense. Inequality especially on a large scale will always cause conflict. Unless of course it isn?t within your moral code to see the avoidance of conflict at all costs as the ultimate end. Which I?m starting to realise also seems, inexplicably in my opinion, to be an accepted point of view in some circles.