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and some of the names of the Miss Englands Miss Pharmaclinix - what the hell

Christ is that really the 20 best looking girls in Southampton? No wonder the yoof have to get trollied first before pulling.

Stick them in a pompey shirt and put them in the Northam End.

I have got to admire her persistance.

Not surprising though seeing as a lot of daft rules start there. I see that they still haven't given up on the 6% budget increase. They are threatening to give themselves tax raising powers if they don't get their way in direct contravention to the Lisbon Treaty which they fought so hard to get (according to the press yesterday)

Try "An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years Of Upper Class Idiots In Charge)" by John O'farrel It is a Bill Brysoneque / tongue in cheek view of how we got to where we are. It is not going to help you pass a history degree, but it isn't dull and dreary like many history books.

These are the moments when I realise that the time I spend on this forum is not wasted

Thing to consider is will your girlfriend ever move away from hereford and if not (and assuming you see this as a long term relationship) do you want to spend the rest of your life there. Personally I would say go. If you relationship is strong enough it will survive. I have seen to many people make sacrifices in the name of love and live to regret them. For example one friend was pressured into leaving the forces ( a job he loved) for his girlfriend, two years later they split up and he is still bitter about it to this day

Blue Sky Conference - which basically means the CEO hasn't got a clue what to do next and it desperately casting around for ideas

It's not Daily Mail bile - I just fundamentally disagree with convicted felons having the right to vote. I also believe that prisoners should be rehabilitated - although I don't believe that an automatic right to vote is particularly helpful in acheiving this. If it was truely a rehabilitation measure then how about they can "earn" back their right to vote after, say, they have served 50% of their sentence without trouble and have participated in whatever rehab programmes sent their way. Surely that is better than carte blanche right to all convicts irrespective of their crime.

Kin-ell anybody would think its a leper Colony down our end of the ally, should we close the draw bridge and get a tow to Australia, If you do make sure you sail close to Somalia. With a stroke of luck you will be hijacked.

There seems to be a blurring of the line between human rights and civil rights. Human right,IMO, are the right to food, water, shelter, clothing. Civil rights, again imo, are about freedom, having a say, participating in society etc Prisoners are entitled to human rights irrespective of their crime. They should however automatically forfeit their civil liberties for the duration of their sentence. I heard on the radio that the potential compensation bill could run to hundreds of millions. Who said crime doesn't pay.

If they went down the "a" path then they would have to increase their prices by 30% thus making them uncompetative and eventually going out of business which result in even more benfits payments required. Or, assuming that the market could stand the price rise, the additional cost would eventually work is way through the supply chain until it was picked up by the consumer, you and me, aka "the taxpayer". Whatever way you package it the man in the street will pay for it eventually.

Judging by how I felt yesterday, I would go along with this.

So picking up the "life means life" thread... If this were the case, noone would confess, noone would plead guilty, noone would come quietly, no one would have any incentive to behave in prison. Would we actually be better off?

Actually there is a third group - they are the ones who want to work, but because of the screwed up benefits system will actually lose out if they did as their beneifts are removed. I don't blame them, I would do the same.

There are some in society who as you rightly say through no fault of their own, need help. That's fine - I am ok with that. It's when people do not first try to help themselves and expect everything handed to them on a plate that gets my goat. If they are not willing to help themselves why should I. Two different sections of society. The needy and vunerable and the professionally idle. One deserves help, the other doesn't.

This place is great. I was bought a book of beers of the world for a joke last birthday and my mate and i are currently working our way through it - this place has certainly hepled me find the more "exotic" beers. Really quick delivery as well.

Probably, although if you did that without any change of parole their would be no op;portunity for rehabilitation. It would probably be more humane to execute them.

This is exactly my point. IT companies should expect that a large percentage of there customers will want to look at porn and should adapt their products so it is completely compati8ble with said porn or the viruses it leaves behind.

The PC is upto spec although it is XP - have now activated at work so at least I am off and running. And now is won't connect to the mail exchange... Now I am not computer illiterate but I sometimes feel that you need a degree in computer science to acheive anything. Our It dept isas flumoxed as I am as to why it won't sync up - happy days. On the up side I have a good reason to give to the missus as to why we need a new state of the art pc

I have just bought an iphone 4 asw I thought it was about time I got with the 21st century. Now I have an old version of itune on the PC at home and the phone wants to be connected to it before it will work. WTF in the old days all had to do was to charge it and stick the sim in. plugged phone in and it wasn't recognised. After a bit of rooting around on the forums I found out that I needed the most upto date version of itunes - fair enough I thought. This is where life became really diffiicult. The latest version of itunes point blank refuses to install correctly. It merrily deleted the old version and will not work. After four hour of installing and reinstalling i have to revert to an old version of itunes - and guess what I cannot activate my new phone. Apple have been completely useless - the most helpful comment was "have you considered upgrading your pc". B*stards. I knew the iphone was pricy but I didn't expect to have to pony up for a new computer to run it on. Now I am faced with a pretty collosal argument to try and get the phone replaced with something more end user friendly. It is sh1te like this that will eventually do for apple.There arrogance towards customers is quite breathtaking. :x Deep breath: I feel slightly better after getting that off my chest

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Fireman striking on 5th November, that is a pretty low thing to do. Yes they might be using their leveage but they are playing with ,well, fire. If, god forbid, someone dies and it turns out that it could have been prevented if firemen were not on strike then they will lose a lot of the public support they do have. I suspect that public sympathy will be in short supply anyway ala BA cabin crew. Whilst I have no issue with the right to strike per se, I think that there needs to be some level of exemption for the emergency services.

Thats not what I said. You are trying to create a left vs right agruement when in fact I fall somewhere in the middle of this one. Some people get it right when they predict some don't. Krugman did in the 2008 case but that doesn't make him right now. That is the problem of forecasting. I tend to listen to all of it and make my mind up from there. Hence my statement that it will be somewhere between the government rosy optimism and the economists' bleak double dip scenario.