Whitey Grandad

I'll think about it. What flavour popcorn?

I suppose the colours would hide all the puke dribbling down from the windows.

Indeed they do, but brick and stone will weather slowly and nicely. Concrete never looks good but anything with artificial colouring will fade. The ultraviolet degrades the pigments.

For the right person I make exceptions.

Date?

Unless it's vitreous enamel I would say it's almost guaranteed to fade in UV light.

You'd like to think so but I don't think there are any checks on those coming here. Sometimes I think that's a main reason for them wanting to come here.

Self-indulgent narcissistic pile of trash. It's going to look awful in a few years. In fact it looks awful now.

And when you sell you will only get a refund of whole months but when you buy a new one you have to pay the full amount.

And mis-hit the ball into the goal, I suppose? Edit: does this swear filter need hyphens in everything? What's wrong with mi****?

You're ignoring the number of contributors who don't live long enough to collect their pension. My wife's sister at 54, my business partner at 64, my colleague at 63, my dentist at 55, I could go on and on... The life expectancies you quote are for different sets of people. The contributions that they made when they started work at 16 (15 in some cases)weere sufficient at the time. The confusion now is that there are different classes of pensioners, those who contributed all their lives and have never lived off the state, those who have never contributed anything yet still get a pension and a whole range of people in between.

It is to do with you if you vote for the wrong party.

Yes, we've been through all this before. Going back over half a century these payments were 'earned' by NI contributions and the amount you received was dependent on these. Then successive governments have gradually tried to integrate them into the general welfare budget and people like Pillock Brown made things even worse by intoducing credits. The fact remains that when contributions began they were not classed as welfare. If only these contributions had been properly invested instead of being raided to pay current government spending then the older generation might have a better living standard. As far stealing from pension funds goes there's no difference between the government and Robert Maxwell.

He wasn't talking to you

State pensions are not welfare. In most cases they have been paid for by contributions. Successive governments have tried to lump them together but that only applies for those who have never contributed over their working life.

Government spending is determined several years in advance. Borrowing was always going to rise no matter who was on power. It would have risen a lot more under Labour and less if we didn't have a coalition.

It's a different world, completely different. Nation states are a relatively modern invention and are now being superceded by supra-national companies.

Very sad.

Well said.

Yep. Yellow card unless it prevents a goal scoring opportunity. In this case he didn't because the ball ended in the net so it should have been a goal and a yellow card. I haven't actually seen the incident so a reference would be useful.

Indeed. All we can hope for is that we get those who do the least damage.

The design and layout must have been approved at an early stage and there are regular inspections. It would need an,almighty balls up but not impossible.

As I always say, you can't generalise...

Indeed he did, at the Dell against Leeds, I think. I was there

A wink is not necessarily a smile.