buctootim

I gave up with patches with relatively little willpower by ignoring the instructions. Give your self double the time they suggest to wean yourself and make the reduction shallower by cutting the patches in half so the drop in nicotine isnt as steep. Once you deal with the addiction the habit part of smoking isnt so hard to deal with.

Dont know what forums you're reading but most of what Ive read praise the HH5. Ive got one and think its excellent - faster and handles multiple devices much better than HH3. Your problem sounds like a line issue - how long have you had BT broadband? For the first month or so after you get it they repeatedly tweak the settings to get the fastest speed. If you're new give it a while to settle down. http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/networking-and-wi-fi/modem-routers/bt-home-hub-5-1239932/review http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/networks/wireless-routers/1402896/bt-home-hub-5-review-the-fast-router-for-bt-broadband http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/broadband/bt-home-hub-5-how-get-maximum-speed-3593683/

I read once (no idea if true) that 40% of car accidents are caused by people dropping lighted cigarettes and then scrabbling around to stop it burning them / the car.

I dont mean this vote in isolation - you can see it in elections throughout Europe. The left and right are growing and the middle ground is disappearing.

No it wont - it will mean the tax saved on tax credits acan be used to subsidise the higher costs of childcare.

Markets only work if they are regulated. Unregulated markets quickly become monopolies. Not many people want a return to an absolute monarch with a few supplicant landowners and everbody else as serfs. If you had a grasp of some economic fundamentals you wouldnt write half the stuff you do.

There is a big difference between then and now. When Thatcher came to power there had been 30 years of 'socially progressive' policies under both Tories and Labour - creation of the NHS, massive council house building, workers rights etc, but a lot of industrial unrest. It was perceived that the pendulum had swung too far - although Id argue poor industrial relations were symptomatic of poor industrial policy, weak management and lack of investment rather than caused by bolshy workers. Since Thatchers election we have had 35 years of right of centre policies - prioritising corporations over individuals. Corbyn's election is a sign that people are wanting the pendulum to shift back - not a sign that the opposition is in la la land. Cameron will continue to shift more money back to the wealthy. Corbyn is unlikely to become PM, but UK politics is going to become far more divided than it has been since WW2. One nation is dead unfortunately, US style 'screw you, Im only looking out for my 50% of the electorate' nihilist politics is now the norm.

Delgado was a good player. Its was our medics who effed up, not our scouts.

My optimistic, full of wonder self imagines a free to use machine which will make you quality ice cream and pies on demand. Add in a beer tap and you've got the perfect three years. Sadly I doubt thats exactly what you meant.

Makes it worse not better surely?

Exhibit 1: Your posts.

Not sure if you're being sarky or not. On the outside chance you aren't, of course its a relevant issue for a referendum in a way which most other issues aren't. Death will affect all of us directly eventually and in the meantime affects us as friends and family die. Everyone has personal knowledge and experience which equips them with an informed opinion.

Not really. Much of the stuff which makes the front pages was so routine 40 years ago people barely commented on it. as the world gradually civilises people get more aware of / sensitive to the atrocities left.

This is exactly the kind of issue which should be decided by referendum

I think you are under-estimating the swings to both the left and right in the UK and across Europe. The era of the bland, stand for nothing but the status quo politician may well be over imo. After 35 years of moving the goalposts in favour of corporate capitalism people are ready for change - someone who dosent tell them they need to pay more tax and have fewer public services because they dont want to clampdown on corporation tax dodges. Some of Corbyn's policies will gain traction and become widely popular. Hes probably too far out out there on other issues to become electable as PM but some policies will be taken up by whoever his replacement is.

You sound like St George.

Hopefully thats a euphemism.

I hope they give him 2.5 years, learn something from his policies and public reaction to them and then blend those with someone with more conservative voter appeal, like David Miliband. It would be a huge mistake for Labour MPs to reject someone elected by popular vote and switch back immediately to clones who were rejected at the general election only six months ago. Thats not to say they arent stupid / self serving enough to do it.

mortgage

Not if you're Brazilian plumber. Oxford Circus, four lines, puts me in the lead.

Awesome. A thread winning A bomb of brilliance.

Surely you must accept there is some stop point - where individual rights to do as you want clash with the global reality of fixed land for food production and fresh water? In many countries around the world we have exhausted surface fresh water and are now pumping groundwater which took thousands of years to accumulate and will be exhausted in decades. Those Spanish tomatoes and grapes you eat, mainly gone in 20 years. California has the same problem. There were 2.5bn people in 1950 and will likely be 10bn by 2050. Massive population growth, climate change and finite natural resources (arable land, freshwater, wood for fuel) will cause a car crash within the next 100 years.

That's the root of it unfortunately. There were 5 million of us in total 5,000 years ago, now we add that number every month.

Captain

He couldn't shoot straight apparently.