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I read the news today oh boy! Page 127

Quote: chipolata @ May 6 2010, 8:16 PM BST

Glad to see you base your opinions on single posts on messagge boards!

I've read the same thing in numerous media reports, but this was the first report by someone I "know." It's nice to hear what common people have to say about issues in their homeland instead of having to rely on the media's and government's talking points. For instance, I like hearing what you all on the BCG have to say about life in Britain as opposed to only getting my UK news from the BBC and Reuters.

For what it's worth, the post was made on a VERY liberal, left-leaning website.

An interesting article about tax cheating in Greece:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/36897497

In the wealthy, northern suburbs of this city, where summer temperatures often hit the high 90s, just 324 residents checked the box on their tax returns admitting that they owned pools.

So tax investigators studied satellite photos of the area - a sprawling collection of expensive villas tucked behind tall gates - and came back with a decidedly different number: 16,974 pools.

That kind of wholesale lying about assets, and other eye-popping cases that are surfacing in the news media here, points to the staggering breadth of tax dodging that has long been a way of life here.

Such evasion has played a significant role in Greece's debt crisis, and as the country struggles to get its financial house in order, it is going after tax cheats as never before.

Various studies, including one by the Federation of Greek Industries last year, have estimated that the government may be losing as much as $30 billion a year to tax evasion - a figure that would have gone a long way to solving its debt problems.

Frankly those idiots who killed 3 people, what are they thinking?

That the rest of Europe will let them off the hook? That's alright you 11,000,000 can have a bottomless pool of cash. Jeez grow up pay your taxes and bite your bullets.

That said it must suck being in the European rich boys club and still being the poorest kid.

Quote: Aaron @ May 6 2010, 8:03 PM BST

The civil unrest in Greece will spread across Europe. It'll be here by the end of the summer. It makes so much sense to cost your police and businesses thousands more in cleanup and security costs!

Nah the protests in this country have been getting weaker and more polite for years. People are genuinely scared of the police and their truncheons.

So they should be!

Traditionally, Tory governments and rioting go together well. Let's see what happens next.

Quote: chipolata @ May 6 2010, 8:25 PM BST

Maybe if the Conservatives had been a proper opposition during the early Blair years, instead of squabbling amongst themselves and electing useless bald men to lead them, the British public wouldn't have kept electing Labour.

If it were the case that it was just the Conservatives not getting into shape, then the Labour majority would have been not a fraction of what it was.

It was only one useless bald man.
The other one was quite good.

William Hague. Ian Duncan Smith. Michael Howard. 3 useless bald men. And I like William Hague, but he was useless and bald.

Michael Howard's not bald. Heavily receding, certainly, but he's not bald!

Don't split hairs!

Quote: chipolata @ May 6 2010, 11:49 PM BST

Don't split hairs!

Laughing out loud

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8665812.stm

The sort of mistake anyone could make. What on earth would make you think that there was anything strange about a rent boy?

A few days old, but easily the best headline hyperbole, and oddest standfirst, I've read in ages:

David Cameron's plans mean children will die
And that is a good thing. Young people must confront danger

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article7116140.ece

Honestly!!
At what age does a civilians gain the right to make decisions for themselves?

In my day, the only disclaimer a parent had to sign was permission to visit a zoo. Attending school in the East End of Glasgow, this would, in my opinion, be statistically less likely to result in death of subject.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LXH-TJYS5w

Here here as a fellow who ran himself over with a tractor aged 17 and has fallen off atleast one hill, nearly drowned.

They made me the man I am today.

Quote: Aaron @ May 6 2010, 8:23 PM BST

Ditto. But I fear it's unavoidable, with the crazy militant tendencies of people here, and their lack of reasoning in choosing to protest in the first place.

Really? The British people are notoriously well-behaved when it comes to such matters.

Quote: Aaron @ May 6 2010, 8:23 PM BST

Ditto. But I fear it's unavoidable, with the crazy militant tendencies of people here,

Really? If anything, what tends to characterise this country is a general state of apathy, it seems to me.

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