Quote: DaButt @ April 13 2012, 2:57 AM BSTNice "satellite launch" North Korea; hopefully your upcoming nuclear test is equally successful. Too bad your citizens can't feed upon failure or they'd be as chubby as their "Great Successor."
Did you see the satellite?
It's like a cardboard box and it was designed to play music.
DPRK would apear to have failed to imitate SPutnik. That's really quite unimpressive.
I could pick a fight with you on two points - as an about to be civil servant and as a trustee of a charity which does get substantial sums from the public purse. I'm one of few untitled ungonged people on the board (and I plan to keep it that way as I'm not impressed by honours). The reason why charity boards are stuffed with the "great and the good" is because they have address books with all their rich mates names in which the charity will hope to tap up because an individual donation could be in the several million pounds bracket. There is a lot of scrutiny of what goes on because trustees become personally liable if they are profligate with the charity's money. As far as I can see it's understaffed and generally we pay the minimum we have to in order to get the right people running it but to keep the wage bill down.
As to why government shouldn't run things, like the RNLI or do what the British Legion does, is because although we expect the State to provide this stuff, it depends who holds the purse strings. I used to live near Manston where there was an air sea rescue base which covered the channel - busiest shipping lanes in the world. The Tories cut that back in the 1980s and stretched the coverage further.
I think you're missing the scary bit - for Osborn to claim that he didn't realise that people evaded tax just shows how out of touch with the real world these people are. He ought to be placing a division of HMRC on company tax evasion so they make companies like Amazon pay tax on turnover in the UK.
Yes all this Tax crap!
Quote: sootyj @ April 13 2012, 12:13 AM BSTTimes up as PM for you Davey C time for you to swop with Silas the pig farmer.
Mucking out the pigs would do Cameron so much good. Better yet could we go for the full Black Mirror?
The problem with charities is they are not accountable or efficient.
If they had proper shareholders taking profits they would oversee the charities and place thedirectors on bonuses so they would be much leaner and fitter.
These are the values of commerce and freedom that have made our country what it is today. It's about time these sharing and caring charities moved out of the 60s and lived in the real world!
Quote: Tursiops @ April 13 2012, 11:05 AM BSTMucking out the pigs would do Cameron so much good. Better yet could we go for the full Black Mirror?
Its not fair on the pig
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-17701804
Tragic story about a woman who's violent boyfriend gouged out her eyes.
Of course, this had to appear:
Ms Nash told police there had been violence in the relationship before and that she thought she could change Jenkin.
She said there were previous occasions when she helped Jenkin get out of trouble for hurting her.
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Oh then it's definitely 100% her fault. He did nothing wrong...
Not news, but funny. http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/people-you-wish-you-knew-in-real-life
Quote: L.E. @ April 13 2012, 3:09 PM BSTNot news, but funny. http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/people-you-wish-you-knew-in-real-life
Quote: zooo @ April 13 2012, 2:07 PM BSTOh then it's definitely 100% her fault.
I'm not laying blame, I'm just commending her for being such a kind and loyal girlfriend. More women should take a leaf out of her book.
I don't know what she saw in him.
Quote: sootyj @ April 13 2012, 4:22 PM BSTI don't know what she saw in him.
Love is blind.
She won't be seeing anyone else anytime soon.
He really caught her eye.
She's not great in the looks department.
'My girlfriend is beautiful' said Jenkin, the beholder of the eye.
Did you see what I did there? (cuz she sure didn't)
He can't look her in the eye
They're playing our song, I remember you
He gave her the thumbs up
If you lot are going to make jokes about something so horrific, at least make them funny...