ChezGiven

Unbelievable this. The thing I really hate about paedos is that they're all fucking immature arseholes.

Is the massive amount of cash we now have also a concern? I've not followed the details this time but it seems like profits were expected to be higher but came in lower due to unexpectedly high operating costs. Are the unexepectedly high cash balances relevant to that?

I think giving time to her opinions is a mistake. In her world, there the points he makes won't land anyway.

"I sometimes wonder if satire has reached a nadir in Britain because British society has itself become a parody of itself. The Chipping Norton Set: the prime minister, a tabloid editor and a Roger Mellie-ish TV icon all conveniently living in the same little town and taking turns at being the centre of scandal, feels like a novel Martin Amis bashed out because his conservatory was leaking. Likewise there has been an element of tragic irony this week as the growing drumbeat of anti-immigration election rhetoric has been punctuated by the mass drowning of migrants. The SNP’s growing popularity has prompted a little low-level press racism of the kilts-and-porridge variety, as an English electorate struggles with the idea that there will be Scottish people holding the reins of power for the first time since the last government. Nicola Sturgeon has been called “the most dangerous woman in Britain”, by someone who hasn’t met any other Scottish women. Of course, it’s difficult to explain to English people that we have always had their best interests at heart – if we hadn’t invented penicillin they would have all died in a Greek airport departure lounge. There have already been a couple of amusing moments in the campaign when leaders standing in front of union jacks expounding on the need for a £100bn missile system have taken time out to warn us about the dangers of nationalism. Personally, I think it might be invigorating to have a hung parliament where, before any law was passed, the government had to have an argument with a Scottish person. “Gosh, you seem awfully good at this. Have you had some practice?” “I’m not actually part of the Scottish negotiating team, I’m just here to take your drinks order …” “Ah, right, could I have a cup of tea?” “NO.” Ed Miliband’s anti-immigration stance is odd: it’s hard to vote for a man who doesn’t have the confidence to defend his own existence. It seems that his main argument against immigrants is that his dad raised a befuddled fuckwit. Could you hand Labour’s “controls on immigration” mug to a guest? There’s nothing like jollying up a Macmillan Cancer Support coffee morning by making your neighbours feel like the pakoras were a little unwelcome. Let’s not forget where coffee and tea come from: this mug is bitterly opposed to its own contents. Unless you drink hot Tizer from a coffee cup, the drink inside that mug will be an immigrant. The logic of a receptacle for hot beverages provided by slavery and colonisation being anti-immigrant bears no more examination than a pair of homophobic Speedos. Then there’s Ukip, like someone made a heavy-handed version of The Thick of It for ITV. They don’t want Britain to be ruled by foreigners – with the notable exception of the royal family. They want an Australian-style points system for immigration. Who knows what this will look like, but my suspicion is “being white” will be like catching the snitch in Quidditch. If we have become a self-satirising society, Ukip are just the broader end, the easy slapstick laughs. They even have a porn-star candidate. Of course, he isn’t the first MP to have filmed himself having sex. But he is the first to do so with an adult, whom he allowed to live. Even our charity is essentially patronising. Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day. Give him a fishing rod and he can feed himself. Alternatively, don’t poison the fishing waters, abduct his great-grandparents into slavery, then turn up 400 years later on your gap year talking a lot of shite about fish. In a further nod to satire, Comic Relief this year focused on Malawi and Uganda. I didn’t see any acknowledgement that Britain had been the colonial power in those countries. “Thanks for the gold, lads, thanks for the diamonds. We had a whip-round and got you a fishing rod.” A lot of racism comes from projection. White Americans have a stereotype of black people being criminals purely because they can’t acknowledge that it was actually white people that stole them from Africa in the first place. Today, you have the spectacle of black men being gunned down by cops who, by way of mitigation, release footage to show that the victims were running away. This is what happens when you don’t understand or even acknowledge history. You end up in a situation where, when slavery is the elephant in the room in your relationship with African Americans, you think it’s OK to say that you killed one of them because he was trying to escape. Britain is in a similar place with colonialism. We have streets named after slave owners. We profited from a vile crime and feel no shame. We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them. For much of the rest of the world we must be the focus of bitter amusement, characters in a satire we don’t understand. It is British people that don’t learn languages, or British history. Britain is the true scrounger, the true criminal." :lol:

Half of the population are below average intelligence.

One man’s quest to meld Adam Smith and Marx – by creating an Uber for jobs http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/apr/16/one-mans-quest-to-meld-adam-smith-and-marx-by-creating-an-uber-for-jobs

You pay peanuts....

Really like that album Gemmill, you mad hipster you.

http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/work-and-pensions-committee/benefit-sanctions-policy-beyond-the-oakley-review/written/16465.html

Back in 2010 people were predicting that Austerity would cause double and treble dip recessions. As the basic definition of a recession is 2 consecutive quarters of negative GDP, then what we were predicting was a prolonged period of around 2 years of reduced GDP. It was somethig like 4 years before the economy started to grow again. Economists had to make up a new name for the Great Depression which of course finally ended but leaves the economy shirt of the level of GDP it was at in 2008. So no, you saggy-titted shite house, austerity has not worked. It was such a failure that it was in part abandoned (which was never admitted by Osborne) and the only reason a narrative which ran counter this reality was allowed to take hold was because the real idiots are the people like yourself who swallow the simplistic political headlines and who don't understand the broader picture and the reality of where we are. Falling living standards and a chancellor who sets fiscal policy based on an ideological reading of economics rather than a compassionate view of social welfare. Now I'm the first one to remind people that in order to redistribute wealth you have to create it first but what is the point in creating wealth if it's not to create a better society? I just don't agree with the idea that wealth creation is the end itself. Bill Gates spent his younger life becoming one of the worlds richest men. Once he gained all that wealth he sat back and realised what he wanted to do with it was to spend it on philanthropic projects. Why rely on the choices of the wealthiest individuals when you can build the principles of a fair society into a welfare state? Vote Miliband.

Great tune.

'Gemmill? More like Bollocks' works just as well.

No man, i think re-reading it you wanted to post a youtube link but it failed. Just confused me for a minute.

Good on Labour for pushing the point if it winds up idiots like him. Am just going to ignore those posts from Gemmill, they make less sense than Green Party economics.

I did read the Times yesterday. Finkelstein was giving Martin Freeman grief for saying that Labour are the party of compassion and fairness. It was written as a letter as a reply of some sort (possibly to a party political broadcast) and incredible for its self-delusion. Impossible to find and post now. On the same note, Its frustrating to see the non-dom arguments being countered by the (probably incorrect and definitely over-stated) fiscal arguments.

Watching 'why don't you?' on summer morning before being kicked out of the house to go an play. The intro to this is quite interesting. It basically says if a 2-bit TV actor approaches you in a Ford Cortina and offers you sweets, dont report him to the police, dont tell your mum there is a dangerous predatory paedophile driving around schools. No, in this case, just dont get in the car and fuck him. Just say no.

Don't be daft man, i wouldn't be seen dead in Sergio Tacchini.

That's not really a narrative, its more of a consensus. A narrative would be an explanation (based on loosely connected concepts, facts, ideas) of why he is a joke that is repeated by multiple sources. If you're going into politics, its important to be clear about these things. In all seriousness (and maybe because i only read the Guardian), i thought Miliband was making good progress over the last week of so.

You still cant save the files at higher than 90kps for off line use? Still no use to me at all.

Where are you Cath? Anywhere nice?

Might need some tit hypnosis to get back on the return flight. Good shout.

I thought the write downs were used to reduce tax?

Doing 'research'. I'm still shaking after my landing earlier this morning. We were bouncing into Zurich, to my mind, completely out of control when the pilot aborted the landing. I'd bought a copy of yesterday's Times (old school) and had read all the stuff about the Lubitz and the crash so maybe explains why I was shitting myself. Second landing was madness, plane was tipping through 40 degrees side to side and at one point my belt kept me from coming out of my seat (which is rare). Anyhow, the krauts were on their way from Munich for the meeting too and they also aborted but they went back to Germany without attempting the second landing. The French pilot obviously slammed his bitch into the Tarmac and minced off smoking a tab. I'm traumatised.

I mean, what the fuck is that about? UEFA have a minimum benchmark of behaviour, there are no brownie points handed out for doing better than that minimum but there it is on the website as a badge of honour. Fucking trolls.

"the Club continues to outperform UEFA Financial Fair Play regulations" :lol: