BalarnyStone

So....2 out of 100. Well done. All we need to do now is find two people in your earning bracket that don't really deserve their wage according to some random bloke on the street's assesment of their lives, and then we can start cahrging you whatever tax-rate you think is fair.

Or whether you can pay for it out of government hand outs for being 'sick'....

That's fair is it? For a start, it's clearly speculative bullshit - I'd wager that you couldn't even guess with any kind of accuracy at all just how many of the Times rich list are actually privelaged inheritors, and how many are actually company directors. Second, I'd bet you'd be fucking fuming if you were ever taxed on the basis of how hard someone else in your office worked - or worse, based on how hard someone else who knows nothing about them, thought that they worked.

The way people go on you'd think Ashley Cole had come into work with a 9mm hollow point and blown some kid's head off for not showing him enough respec'. Get some fucking perspective - while fooling around in the changing rooms he accidentally fired an air rifle and it hit someone in the leg. It was a daft thing to do, but in terms of reasons to despise people as despicable cunts not fit to wear the shirt, that sort of thing doesn't even compare with examples like shagging your team mates ex or disrespecting your own fans on national TV, for fucks sake.

One thing that's always perplexed me is why it's considered 'fair' that richer people should pay more tax than the poor. If people were that bothered about fairness, everybody would be paying a flat rate. Would people stand for being charged a different price for a pint, based on how much was in your wallet? Of fucking course not, because that's not an example of fairness at all. It's quite amazing that even in a world where, in percentage terms, rich people on average pay twice as much tax as the rest, that communists like this Parky fella still complain about the rich not paying their 'fair share' and want to get their hands on more of their money.

Missed most of the start but.... Shit camera-work Shit atmosphere till it got dark Some shit performances, where it sounded as if the mics weren't turned up enough Absolutely no need for 'comedians' to fill the gaps Love him as I do, Rolf needs to seriously tone down the arselicking Lenny Henry isn't funny 'Sing' ironically appears to have no identifiable chorus Only the lighting show on the palace, the sheer mentalism of Grace Jones, and the ever reliable Kylie & Tom Jones, and the sight of the Archbishop clapping along to an assortment of poofs, fornicators & bling blingers, saved this from being a complete disaster imho

Coincided with the Queen's Official Birthday.

You irritate sweetcheeks? Is that prison lingo or something?

Granted, but no posts in 7 days is wank.

This is the funny? srsly?

bassey to lennox, nothing else, unless kylie comes out in a thong, which I doubt

No, I'll muddle along. I'm used to working in an environment where the people who think they're helping, are just being irritating.

The Times is paywalled. There's a Wikipedia page for Diamond Jubilee Concert iirc. Not that fussed, so haven't looked for anything else.

Eh? Not with you at all on this one.

Not sure if this will be classed a superiority thing or not, but didn't any of your mothers teach you not to talk about people when they're in the room, as if they weren't?

It was a backhanded apology if anything Hunnybun. A halfway decent football forum would have had a more recent reply than 31 May, on what's supposed to be the catch all Euro 2012 thread.

While I'm sure you dream of being the proud posessor of the country's tallest Fleshlight, it's hardly a relevant comparison is it? Although given the fact you probably clawed back the expense of yours by letting strangers fuck it for 50 pence ago, I suppose on one level the analogy works.

Sorry Monkeys Fist. I looked as far down as the Man City debt thread all the way back to Jun 1, and thus assumed nobody had started one.

Keep telling yourself that Dorothy. Here in the real world, it's all just shades of grey.

As you're not reading, you wouldn't want to know now would you? If it's a one on one consult you're after, that's going to cost you. People as damaged as you can't be fixed in just a couple of sessions.

Deserves a thread. Can we post fixtures for UEFA stuff? If not, the BBC wallchart seems remarkably useable this year, dates, times, channels, and nowt else, all on one plain page. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/european-championship/2012/groups-schedule

Should've gone for the full refund. She's basically called you a spacker for not knowing your beef cuts. You could have pointed out that you represented 83% of her takings that day, and can she really afford you telling the world what you think of her little establishment on twitter/facebook et al.....

While your one liners and smilies are to die for. It's a shame you're usually talking shite even then.

Gazza was a victim of the celeb culture in as much as he was given a shitload of money and attention, and was expected to just handle it using what little intelligence and common sense he was born with. He basically says this in his books, his back room team consisted of Jimmy 5 bellies. He gfot plenty of decent advice from the likes of Sir Bobby, but that's no replacement for having someone there permanently. It's no surprise he made a load of poor life/career/media decisions, and ended up broke. All he wanted to do was play, and have a laugh. Combined with a pretty obvious personality/addictive disorder, he was doomed, you just can't do that in the celeb era. It would be interesting to see how he would have coped had he broken through nowadays, when footballers are given far more help in terms of PR and other advice, especially regarding addictions (and yet most are still cunts, like Rooney).