Brendan

Atila Reincarnate Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Yet > another example of how society is going down the > shit hole. Manners, morality, sense of social > responsibility, all gone down the crapper. > There,..... I feel much better now. I blame video games, Thatcher, The EU, organic farming, New Labour and Jeremy Clarkson.

*Scratches head, sips coffee and moves on as he has nothing to add here.*

That was a rubbish book.

No now you?re thinking of Kate Moss but it was definitely Johnny Depp who played Sweeny Todd. Or was it Todd Flanders?

Wasn't that Johnny Depp?

Yis no well yah.

Yeah, South African fellow wasn't he?

I thought you used Morse code for telegraphs.

Oh god the spilling fashists are out agin.

Sorry. :-$

Yeah, it does have its advantages.

Meh. Who cares about people?s fashion sense that?s up to them? Just have some self respect and proper manners and don?t wear hats indoors. And while you?re at it stop pushing in front of ladies to get on the bus, learn how to use the contents of your toolbox and for God?s sake stop wearing pink!

It?s all karma this saturated animal fats business. It?s comeuppance for killing piggies and milking cows. We therefore don?t need lentil-scented tofu merchants trying to make us feel guilty. Well get ours don?t worry.

Chicken!

All guns have barrels. I think you mean a Kalashnikov doesn?t have a cylinder.

Looks like balls to me. There's not a single speed metal band on there. What's the picture on the cover?

Strawbs Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 4. Light and use a manual 'old school' BBQ (no gas > allowed) - hell YES! Well of course you can. You're from the Southern Hemisphere. In fact all you should need to cook a few steaks is some wood, the grill from an old ford and a couple of half bricks.

Most employers are happy to provide references for their employees for free and banks will provide a reference for a small fee to the account holder.

I would do my damndest to find out who the landlord is and approach them directly. The landlord is paying the agent to find them tenants, you're paying the agent too for some reason. So why not just not pay the thieving parasites, and put you money together to get a lawyer to draw up a contract for you.

SteveT Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 1. Change a car tyre I wonder if people are aware > it is the tyreonly and not the wheel, which means > rubber mallet and tyre levers. Or just 2 long screwdrivers and a hammer.

Which begs the question, Why do we employ a government? Surely it?s their job to make sure that the system works and not just say, ?Sorry it doesn?t, you?re all screwed but we are very cross about it.?

Moos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If the Government as a major shareholder were to > insist on no bonuses for the banks they had bailed > out, the medium-term result would be that they > would lose their best staff across all levels, > which would hardly be the best way to get back to > profitability. Lose them to where?

Well there's that too ...

This bonus pool they?re talking about, how much of it will be going to the normal staff of banks who form an integral part of the greater economy, shop on the high street, buy a new family car every few years, move house maybe 3 time in their lives etc? Or will it all be going to those who are responsible for all the trouble in the first place but are completely financially independent from it and who will spend their bonuses on high end luxury products, 4th homes abroad or growing their own little property fiefdoms.

Rant re. that arse from coldplay: He?s just some prat who whines about his emotions. Butch up for gods sake! Why should I care about his puerile observations of the human condition just because he can write songs? Lots of people can write songs it doesn?t qualify them as social commentators. In fact Aqua?s song Barbee Girl is probably a greater contribution to the universal body of music than all of coldplay?s work put together. At least it is amusing in an absurd sort of way and has a good looking woman in the video which is of more cultural value than the shrill laments of a bumfluff faced primadonna. His songs weep wound-like with the kind of pubescent sentimentality found in the scribblings of a petulant teenager who has locked himself in his room with the curtains drawn because the object of his obsession has been giving out handjobs behind the bike shed, nobody understands him and now mum expects him to do his homework.