Park Life

Foster is a cunt. Windows are still falling out the Gherkin. Absolute fucking bollocks! Well they were about 5 years ago.

Happy days. Snatching the Wire and PL footie on the Chinese telly.

Foster is a cunt. Windows are still falling out the Gherkin.

Think they've got cash as well.

Strike back mothafuka! well it is all cos i am not a gay on acid or a girl who cunting jumps around all excited cos something uninteresting happened on big brother last night means i have no enthusiasm then I don't bloody want any if thats how they decide you have it where I work like I used to hate working in an office. Consequently having brandy in the morning coffee and smoking a joint before getting on the train made me realise that it was time to break out.

aye, its amazing how you re-appear when this particular subject surfaces. I was right though wasn't I ? You can fuck off again now. You were right Neef.

As much as I'd like this to be true sadly it doesn't work out like that, just doing some simple sums for what the current numbered squad gets paid brings the wage figure up to roughly £45m, that's before the youth team, un-numbered reserves and non playing staff and management/board are paid. The whole mess is down to Ashley getting us relegated, regardless of what figures the previous board put in place we were okay until we dropped out of the Prem. Basically we need a new owner to come in soon otherwise things will just get worse and worse because Ashley can't/won't maintain the squad as it is and certainly won't invest any money in to getting new players once he's attempts to lighten the wage bill by selling off our big earners. We're fucked and need a miracle. A miracle will come.

I really hope they go with that.

The total loss of leaving the PL is 42m The parachute payment comes in two chunks of 15m over 2 years. Collo is on 70k and Xisco 45k

Mrs P is an architect and we argue about this all the time. Practicality and such....I sometimes do silly drawings and act serious about them to wind her up.

When is this fukin cull happenning??

Strike back mothafuka!

Didn't think you'd want that.

Not a fan of Foster having written about some of his work. The Vidal for me.

Is there any way of telling what drugs say the NHS buys mostly? Yes. Could say GSK supply all the needs of the NHS under one umbrella for a fixed price/tender? *Chez's eyes light up*.

Is there any way of telling what drugs say the NHS buys mostly?

See page 15. It's a myth that pharaceutical companies only earn a fair profit on their investment if the vast majority of the investment is being pumped into research by private companies from the taxpayer. "Before its patent ran out, for example, the price of Schering-Plough's top-selling allergy pill, Claritin, was raised thirteen times over five years, for a cumulative increase of more than 50 percent—over four times the rate of general inflation.[2] As a spokeswoman for one company explained, "Price increases are not uncommon in the industry and this allows us to be able to invest in R&D."[3] In 2002, the average price of the fifty drugs most used by senior citizens was nearly $1,500 for a year's supply. (Pricing varies greatly, but this refers to what the companies call the average wholesale price, which is usually pretty close to what an individual without insurance pays at the pharmacy.)" You couldn't make it up basically. The average smoker spends more than $1500 a year on his recreational drug. Not if it wasn't taxed.

See page 15. It's a myth that pharaceutical companies only earn a fair profit on their investment if the vast majority of the investment is being pumped into research by private companies from the taxpayer. "Before its patent ran out, for example, the price of Schering-Plough's top-selling allergy pill, Claritin, was raised thirteen times over five years, for a cumulative increase of more than 50 percent—over four times the rate of general inflation.[2] As a spokeswoman for one company explained, "Price increases are not uncommon in the industry and this allows us to be able to invest in R&D."[3] In 2002, the average price of the fifty drugs most used by senior citizens was nearly $1,500 for a year's supply. (Pricing varies greatly, but this refers to what the companies call the average wholesale price, which is usually pretty close to what an individual without insurance pays at the pharmacy.)" You couldn't make it up basically. Parky, just cutting and pasting random factoids doesn't coherently add anything to the discussion. Do you actually have a point? Yes. Drugs companies take the piss and need cutting down to size.

See page 15. It's a myth that pharaceutical companies only earn a fair profit on their investment if the vast majority of the investment is being pumped into research by private companies from the taxpayer. "Before its patent ran out, for example, the price of Schering-Plough's top-selling allergy pill, Claritin, was raised thirteen times over five years, for a cumulative increase of more than 50 percent—over four times the rate of general inflation.[2] As a spokeswoman for one company explained, "Price increases are not uncommon in the industry and this allows us to be able to invest in R&D."[3] In 2002, the average price of the fifty drugs most used by senior citizens was nearly $1,500 for a year's supply. (Pricing varies greatly, but this refers to what the companies call the average wholesale price, which is usually pretty close to what an individual without insurance pays at the pharmacy.)" You couldn't make it up basically.

Maybe. But I wasn't referring to myself, I don't work for a pharmaceutical company and pretty much only have an outside knowledge of the private sector. Anyway, what length of patent would you like to see then? Indefinite? The US is spending $200 billion a year on prescription drugs and this is rising by 10-12% a year.

Just swapped to Firefox on the Mac. Wow!! I'd say about 5 times faster than Safari and much better for blocking shit.

I can't really see a total meltdown competitively as the CCC bar five or six sides isn't really all that.

I have little or no interest in saving human life anywhere on this wretched planet therefore don't give a fuck about the development of new drugs. I don't want to save the old, the infirm, the cluttered of mind or the people who are good at rubics cube. I want to see wrongs righted and people who have failed us getting what's coming to them in as manical and short termist way as possible...I hate what mankind has done to this planet across the board and have little regard for people who'll spend five min ordering a coffee and one minute thinking about the consequences of slaughter across five continents.

He doesn't like playing on the right of midfield.

I'm getting confused as to what's being discussed here. Don't we all agree something needs to change in the US? Am i right to assume you think someone who can afford treatment, however expensive, should get it via whichever super duper all inclusive coverage they can afford? I'm happy with that, and that's the way I thought the UK were heading with the story from the OP. I don't think you believe those that can't afford much should take whatever treatment they can afford on the most basic plan (even if it means no cover whatsoever - because you know people will always pay for food ahead of health coverage) either. But that everyone should have a basic level of cover that omits only the most expensive, short term remedies. Right? So isn't the question not whether a 'choice' needs to be made, as it's clear that whoever makes the provision for healthcare will have a choice to make on that score and will investigate the parameters as you say. Isn't the question who makes that choice...the government/indepentent non-profit organisation to ensure maximum coverage and affordability for the taxpayer, or a private insurer looking to ensure maximum profits and minimum costs? Well the US system isn't really a system its legalised death to the poor. 40% or summat with no cover whatsoever and if hanging around major cities with little money don't kill you they'll farm you off to some war zone or other to finish you off. I can hear them now in the Pentagon "If only the poor weren't so darn healthy"...etc... Hasn't the private/public partnership fucked up the water, trains, and underground?? Hasn't the free market fucked up the banks and education?? Hasn't our so called democracy led us into a pointless long term war commitment on two fronts costing 1billion a week?? Aren't politicians, bankers and insurance companies born liars and criminals?? Let's stop talking shit and this pretense of educated middle class coffee morning wanking this thread is turning into and buss some caps. I concur. "Needing to squeeze someone, most emerging-market governments look first to ordinary working folk -- at least until the riots grow too large". That "until" provision never seems to be triggered, which is why the behavior continues unabated. I asked a few people at work on Friday if they fancied a bit of a riot. Having received a third email asking us to take a paycut and being the day after AIG announced their record breaking profits I thought I'd get more support than was forthcoming. You have to set the scene first. Start spreading rumours their jobs are on the line and you saw the bosses drinking champagne and laughing in the boardroom.