People on Radio Five Live Five Live Five banging on about potholes not being filled ' Because I pay enough road tax so why isn't it being spent on the roads ?'
Probably for the same reason that my income tax isn't being spent on improving my income !
Ass 'oles.
Quote: DaButt @ March 25 2010, 8:59 PM GMTYou can't lock them up until the crime has been committed, right?
Which is why I say, give phrenology another chance.
Quote: chipolata @ March 25 2010, 10:52 PM GMTWhich is why I say, give phrenology another chance.
That Minority Report offered some exciting potential policy ideas too.
Quote: sootyj @ March 25 2010, 8:18 PM GMTThat's so gay it's French and Lib Dem at once.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ March 25 2010, 9:13 AM GMTI grew up in The Lake District
Ooo, me too! Whereabouts?
As for flags (sorry to go back a bit...) would anybody actually want to fly the Union Jack even if it wasn't connected to the right-wing? I don't think I feel any particular attachment to my country. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else and I think I'm sort of proud to be British in some ways but I wouldn't really say I was patriotic. Didn't think we were much of a patriotic people, really (particularly not in England).
Quote: sglen @ March 26 2010, 6:12 AM GMTwould anybody actually want to fly the Union Jack even if it wasn't connected to the right-wing?
Billy Bragg is anti right-wing but pro-flag.
I think it's interesting that all countries feel they need a flag, and very often, the flags are the same basic design, and even the very same colours but in a different order. Where's the originality?
If I had a country, then instead of a national flag, I would have a national smell. All stamps would smell of it. Coins would be smelly. As would the troops. And I would call it; France.
I believe we should all be required by law to fly the Union Jack outside our homes. Those found fying other national flags would then be sent home to that country. Those not flying flags at all would be conscripted into the army until they learn what patriotism is. What has happened to this once proud nation?
TTPYO: Earnest Australian girls.
I dunno. I'm not sure what I'd be celebrating really. The nation's far too varied to feel pride for it all.
I think the Union Jack represents a lot of stuff I'm proud to be associated with and it looks cool.
Besides whats wrong with being right wing?
Quote: Nogget @ March 26 2010, 7:08 AM GMTBilly Bragg is anti right-wing but pro-flag.
Billy is anti-Union Jack, but pro-St George. 
Quote: Nogget @ March 26 2010, 7:08 AM GMTpro-flag.
That made me laugh for some reason.
Quote: sglen @ March 26 2010, 6:12 AM GMTOoo, me too! Whereabouts?
Cockermouth. Yes, it has a funny name.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ March 26 2010, 8:55 AM GMTCockermouth. Yes, it has a funny name.
No. What's funny is that it has a pub called Oily Johnnies on its outskirts.
(How do you get to Cockermouth? By Oily Johnnies. - see? - no)
Not too far from me then. Egremont.
Quote: sglen @ March 26 2010, 8:57 AM GMTNo. What's funny is that it has a pub called Oily Johnnies on its outskirts.
(How do you get to Cockermouth? By Oily Johnnies. - see? - no)
Not too far from me then. Egremont.
My god, are you all like that up there? I thought it was just Melvin Bragg but now I can see it's all Cumbrians. Must be the lack of people and over abundance of sheep.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ March 26 2010, 9:00 AM GMTMy god, are you all like that up there? I thought it was just Melvin Bragg but now I can see it's all Cumbrians. Must be the lack of people and over abundance of sheep.
I'm sure the Cumbrians would be very disappointed if I was seen as their representative.
And no, they're not all like that. They're mostly scum.