Is that a deep-fried Mars Bar I see stuck between the second and third incisor? [/lazy regionalism.]*
*start of whole new debate.
I read the news today oh boy! Page 1,205
Quote: zooo @ April 28 2013, 10:28 PM BSTHee, I mistyped, I meant 500.
Ha! That gives me 3 more years to conquer the world.
Quote: Rob H @ April 28 2013, 10:30 PM BSTIs that a deep-fried Mars Bar I see stuck between the second and third incisor? [/lazy regionalism.]*
*start of whole new debate.
No. It's bloody matter. Mwa-ha-ha!
Quote: keewik @ April 28 2013, 10:20 PM BSTand it pisses me off to see people here with 2 cars in the drive and the mean bastards hop on the bus for nothing.
Quote: Oldrocker @ April 28 2013, 11:55 PM BST
*sends Secret Police to slash tyres*
Quote: billwill @ April 28 2013, 8:38 PM BSTReal pensioners don't travel anywhere near as much as that anyway.... So anyone saying £3500 is just inflating the figure drastically.
Its either an expensive back door subsidy or just a wheeze by private owned bus companies that local or nationally government have no direct leverage over.
There is a fair bit of logic to universial perks and benefits for pensioners that is not immediately apparent-
Means testing is expensive and cumbersome to administer as well reducing take up among pensioners who are still entitled (due to bureaucracy and stigmatisation).
It is essentially a de-facto tax on savings for middle income earners who see those who have saved nothing and not contributed as much getting more. On the question of paying for care even the Tories are moving away from the mean tested system.
To exclude people from a system they have paid into it encourages a culture of tax avoidance.
Providing benefits like free transport and TV licence can be a cheaper a less inflationary way of raising pension living standards than straight forward pension rises.
In reality Duncan-Smith is in favour of using the state to vastly increase the wealth of the richest pensioners, he just re-terms it as corporation, capital gains and income tax cuts.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/30/ukip-sushil-patel-candidate?commentpage=2
In his wildest fantasies, does he really believe that if UKIP had been in government at the time of the Uganda crisis, he would have been allowed into this country?
It's ok for Farage to say that they would have welcomed them. Easy to say when you are a fringe party.
Ken Barlow has been taken off set with a blanket over his head in yet another sex case caper!
Should Reginald D Hunter be allowed to use the word "nigger" in front of an audience of impressionable professional footballers?
It's up to him
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ May 1 2013, 11:06 AM BSTShould Reginald D Hunter be allowed to use the word "nigger" in front of an audience of impressionable professional footballers?
They should spit roast him, that would teach him a lesson!
Has anyone else mentioned Andrew stone off pineapple danve studio strangled his girl friend
Oh God, yes. I think we all knew it was just a matter of time before he went wrong!
And hes 40 I hope Louis Spence sorts him out
Generally speaking, strangling someone to death always seems such hard work. I'd prefer to push someone off something high. One shove and your done.