Brendan

Well I for one think it is disgusting. It is just this sort of wishy washy, liberal, sense of entitlement rubbish that is why this country isn?t what it used to be. You sir are also a communist, possible Nazi sympathiser and a foreigner.

You should work from the pub (or the local wine bar of course) In fact working from the pub should become compulsory to help alleviate congestion on public transport, lower carbon emission and stimulate the local economy.

Seriously though your last point pretty much encapsulates my growing disdain for the right wing (and to a large extent the ethos of new labour). They vehemently attack the idea of a more equal society. The idea is that it is not just enough for the more powerful to enjoy the privileges of their endeavour (or more often than not inheritance) but those privileges have to be so great as to grind those below them into the ground. They decry ideas of equality as socialist, oblivious to the irony that the socialist style systems we have would not be necessary if wealth was more evenly distributed. No one is saying that a partner in a city law firm should have a big gaff and a fancy car but just that maybe he shouldn?t be getting paid 2 million quid a year when the guy who cleans his office gets 9K a year, is forced to claim benefits to house and feed his family and is then labelled a scrounger and a drain on society.

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > a pension and when > you did claim it you had a high chance of dying > every year. Sounds horrible. I think the way we do it now where you only get one year to die in, then that's it is much better.

Is there an owl behind the door?

Fucking hippies.

Cor, they were using big words to say something stupid.

You?d have worse problems if you had to deal with pissed up people.

Moos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is that view being ascribed to me? Thank goodness > I didn't get to read the pre-edited version. > > I'm not an 'intelligent design'-er. We have to > put in the caveat that future generations may find > a better explanation but at the moment evolution > is the best explanation of how everything works. > > > I just think that there's more to life and its > purpose than the workings of genetics. Fine, fine. Ruin my joke if you must.

What a cunt.

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Or all three could be industrious, one makes a > fishing rod from wood and fishes, ... But what if they are vegetarian?

Because, Sean, if someone doesn?t have the same things you have they are different to you. If they are different to you there is a good chance that they are bad in some way, in this case because of laziness.

Is that something similar to Marlboro one hundreds?

"Now don't make us kick the fookin' shit out o' yeez."

It all sounds like an awful lot of bother to me. Personally I?d spend the summer working on my tan and then charm my way into the hut come the winter.

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Cmon Brendan, its not the British Empire anymore. No but the rich poor divide in this country is so historically entrenched it is completely valid. That aside it?s an interesting point to contemplate though. You could argue that if someone had the initiative to take advantage of the situation they have every right to reap complete benefit.

Although the more realistic reflection of what we?re talking about is that the one person picks up the sticks and uses one of them to beat the other person and force them to build a hut for them. When winter comes do they have to let the other person share the hut or were their actions a legitimate and laudable use of the resources they had and they therefore don?t have an obligation to share anything?

Moos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > All of this is why I like to think there is more > to life and its purpose than the purely genetic > explanation.. So rather than resign oneself to the unfortunate consequences of an often unpredictable and nonsensical process it is better to put it down to intelligent design directed by a deity who by that very reasoning must be a right bastard because after 40 years hard graft he makes the hair fall off your head and pubes grow out your nose.

womanofdulwich Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I see where you are coming from - but you can > drive,walk in a straight line or work safely after > sex or gambling- regardless of how much you have > consumed ( to a point anyway!). However with drugs > and alcohol you cannot. Now you see, I always take statements like that as a challenge.

I'm giving serious consideration to wearing bow ties to work. Yes, no, maybe. I'm not sure. Business suits are fuk boring.

Or if you've just had dhole dumplings with a gharial ganache in snow leopard soup for lunch.

Dam your infernal questions! We?re obviously not talking about Kakapo Korma and Panda Pate.

Anyone else not give a monkeys what people choose to eat or not eat and think that their motivations are entirely their own concern and it is no skin off anyone else nose? Just a thought you know.

she bangs the drums - stone roses.

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