Brendan

And you can get a train there.

I?m not of the opinion that you have to be a cunt to succeed. It may be a way to succeed but it isn?t necessity. Some people just like to have an excuse to be a cunt.

No you don't, you piss about on an internet forum all day. ;-)

That?s illegal. The parkie told us so and threatened to call the cops.

Captain Scarlet Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > well...I dont like to brag...but Bennaton > shirt,George Amani leather jacket and > trousers,timberland shoes.. Oh dear. You poor chap.

He?s good at relating to the public. It?s almost like there?s a career where you specialise in relating to the public and he?s been involved in it.

Fool yourself into thinking the recovery is underwear by taking a daily cap of acid.

Oh yeah, double dipped. I remember that now.

I thought it had something to do with ice cream.

Commie!

Well the way I see it, in the middle of the last century the divide was lessened (unnaturally some [me perhaps] may argue) by the creation of the welfare state. But if you go back before that to the previously century during industrialisation when the current wealth and class divides were forged* it would be a different story. It is the poor communities from then who then became the welfare dependent and who are still on the bottom wrung now that the gap has widened again. I?ve intentionally left the Edwardian period out of this because apart from mustachios and striped blazers I don?t know much about it. *Cemented, engineered ,cast or whichever other industrialisation themed metaphor you care to use.

It?s a lovely day today. Doesn?t anyone else think it?s a lovely day today?

RosieH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ratty, I'd be interested to know how gateway drug > is defined - I think it?s a bit how cider is the entry level alcohol. Now these days since I?ve got big I still enjoy a cider once in a while but to be honest I can pretty much take it or leave it. Try to take my beer, wine or whiskey away from me though and I?ll fucking cut ya mofo!

There?s also the regional issue. In the West Midlands, or one of those other made up places, a family of 4 with one earner bringing in ?45K will be doing pretty well while the same family on the same money living in London will probably be pretty reliant on the child benefit.

Quote: "There is probably nothing unfair about taking away the Child Benefit allowance from higher earners. What is unfair is the way it is being proposed. It's illogical and ill-thought out. A person/household earning ?44,000 gets no allowance, two people next door both earning ?43,999.99p get it." Although the reality (at least before children go to school) is that for the couple who both earn ?43,999.99p one of them will have to give up work anyway because the cost of childcare will be equal to or more than one of their salaries.

In fact that may be a good idea for a thread.

I just love the logic spewing forth from the mail and the telegraph today. People on 10K who need council houses are labled "scroungers" but when folks earning 50K get their child benefit taken away it's "unfair". Why are people such wankspanners? Why oh why oh why?

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > but most people > who drink may get drunk once a week or less. Most > people who smoke cannabis do it far more than > that, every day in many cases and remain in a > permanent state of fog. That's just nonsense. The truth is that most people who smoke weed do so only once in a while. Normally a lot less frequently than they have a drink. You get a few dedicated stoners just as you do dipsomaniacs but the truth is that when it comes down to proper physical addiction due to excessive use weed is a walk in the park compared to what booze does to people.

Very well thank you. Although he doesn't know what a bus or sarcasm is yet.

Children. Right bastards.

Ridgley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Very rare occasion I was smacked as a child :) Me I was mostly caned.

The Irish government banning our comedians! PC gone mad I tell yah.

Listen dammit! Don?t you know that there is an organised regiment of lily-livered liberals ready to pounce on and persecute any decent person who gets amusement out of singling out the differences of another group and using them as a tool for mockery? It is PC gone mad I tell you. You can?t even mock a cripple these days without the bloody PC brigade getting on your case.

How dare you decry the sanctity of our holy past filled with warm beer and the gentle thwack of willies on leather!

Pearson Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Fu*ck me... I thought we had freedom of speech or > something like that? > > I can't stand all this repping and censorship. > Some folk need to 'man-up' I think you're discriminating his human rights Sean.