Brendan

PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Maybe he got a job, too! That is more than likely the case. He was looking for a new job as I recall. So he's probably got more important things to do than post on here with the rest of us slackers.

I go by that rule that any unsolicited requests for support or money are suspicious. Choose your charity yourself and then approach them about how you can offer support.

You know we don't speak of the lareday anymore.

I must admit to not knowing a lot about the issues argued or the case but when did charging penalty rates start to be the reason for providing current accounts for free? Not all of them are free anyway. And anyway a current account isn?t really ?free? even if it is free. They get your salary every month to do with what they will. Not to mention your savings which most people will have through the same bank. And unless you live in a house that wasn?t procured in some way with a mortgage, you have never bought anything on credit and you have never paid tax on anything, banking is not free. I don?t have any problem with an agreed fee being paid for an agreed service but if someone doesn?t have money in an account why not just not allow money to be taken out of it?

This ?journalist? from some or other ?news paper? has the audacity to ask, Are South Africa really as good as they think they are? Apparently ?writing? from a ?computer? somewhere in Cape Town. A city so beset with the English already that an extra cricket team will all but go unnoticed. In ?his? ?article? he tries to ?say? that perhaps they aren?t. Ludicrous! Of course they are. In support of this complete toss he compares the South African team to sunflowers which he then asserts are somehow similar to proteas. Cock! Complete cock! The most you can say is that both are angiosperms. Other than that the one is an annual crop originating in the Americas whereas the other is a type of bush only found in Southern Africa and Madagascar. He then wades deeper into the slurry of ?metaphor? and in doing so suggests that fog descends upon Table Mountain when any cricketing journalist worth their salt knows that it rises up from the ocean (or more specifically the Devil?s pipe). How someone without a basic knowledge of botany and the weather systems of South Atlantic coastlines could be allowed near a computerize writing device let alone allowed to voice such frankly dangerous opinions on the subject of cricket in a daily publication is unfathomable. It corrupts the integrity of the press, promotes dissidence and threatens the security of hard working people. Hell, hand basket, gone.

yeah I know but you were suggesting that they were going to stop.

Capitalism needs to be regulated by government in order to work properly though. Part of that is not allowing complete monopolies to develop. That could be one argument for keeping more banks around.

?course not but my cello uses it regularly.

There is nothing quite like a tut, a shake of the head and roll of the eyes to really drive home and idealistic point.

Oh yes there would. No matter how well things work they can always be better.

Of course you have to moan about the country you live in. How else will you get the help up off their collective arse to make it a better place?

As usual you have it sussed there quids. Oh wait, what if one of the banks offers free banking in order to attract customers? I?m not sure but I?ve heard somewhere that that is how this thing called capitalism works. Unless of course they all have some sort of agreement with one another. Oh but wait a minute. That?s called a cartel. They?re illegal aren?t they? Or does the law not apply to financial institutions?

Are you after a golf racket, a cricket racket, a baseball racket, a hockey racket or a squash bat?

That?s the last time I wear that hat with the champagne corks.

Why?

I just checked and Mr Miyagi is still harder than Chuck Norris.

I?m going to try to make this one. I really should make the effort to have a drink in this bar that I keep on taking the piss out of.

MrBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Enter The Jaffacake. Is that a confection based kung-fu film?

Declan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 5/6 nations. Be fair. We all know we should just refer to it as the 5 Nations now. It?s not like Scotland count.

That?s not ?right? thinking as opposed to ?left? thinking mind. What I meant was those who correctly no longer think in terms of right and left. Makes sense no?

There aren't only 2 choices. Hopefull right thinking people will realise this and Quids can cash in on those 20/1 odds being offered.

Presumably if we didn?t the food producing, processing and retailing industries would all lose a 3rd of their business causing unemployment, market failures, etc.

You?re not wrong but it still doesn?t mean that conservative policy isn?t going to further entrench and broaden social inequality thereby creating larger and more diverse class divides.

This is a rather amusing read: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/nov/23/global-warming-leaked-email-climate-scientists

Don?t make me flounce off like Marmora Man.