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badgerx16

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  1. Define poverty by standard of nutrition, housing, and domestic welfare - it exists, even if some choose to sweep it under the carpet.
  2. Yes I am - based entirely on my wife's experience in teaching primary school children in Fleetwood. I'm sorry if that doesn't match up with your rose-tinted view, but it is the reality. They may not be 'poor' in the third world experience, nor possibly when compared to Dickensian pen portraits of Victorian rookeries, but in comparative terms there is a great deal of poverty in some parts of this 'Green and Pleasant Land'.
  3. You need to take off your blinkers Whitey.
  4. http://www.trusselltrust.org/stats "The Trussell Trust has seen a 76 percent increase in the number of foodbanks launched since April 2012" "346,992 people received a minimum of three days emergency food from Trussell Trust foodbanks in 2012-13, compared to 128,697 in 2011-12 and up from 26,000 in 2008-09. Of those helped in 2012-13, 126,889 (36.6 percent) were children." "Only four per cent of people turned to foodbanks due to homelessness; 30% were referred due to benefit delay; 18% low income and 15% benefit changes (up from 11% in 2011-12)" http://uk.news.yahoo.com/one-food-bank-opening-uk-every-four-days-012533480.html#xEaW7MH In 2010 there were 79 food banks in the UK. Now there are over 200 - 199 of them run with the help of the Trussell Trust .
  5. £6.99 on AMAZON
  6. What about #1, #2, and #5 ?
  7. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532923/Michael-Gove-blasts-Blackadder-myths-First-World-War-spread-television-sit-coms-left-wing-academics.html Apparently everything we know about WW1 is a left wing conspiracy.
  8. Which therefore means that both will be going nowhere.
  9. Good job he's not a Villan.
  10. The only score that matters is the one at the final whistle.
  11. Peter Capaldi is coming for you.
  12. Gotta have a scapegoat.
  13. 'Morgan Shneiderling'. Got back in from my lucky 43 mile bike ride, put on my Saints shirt and cardigan ( I am old enough that my daughter bought me a cardy for XMAS ), turn on Radio Lanky and the first thing I hear is "Clyne shoots - GOAL !".
  14. Related story - what a surprise, Yorkshire Police fabricated evidence against miners. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25550053
  15. Exeter & Wycombe, for 2. One thing about the skates, I think they're the lowest placed 'fan owned' club in the FL.
  16. I thought you'd left the 'playpen'. "In the last 40 years close to 20% of the Amazon rainforest has been cut down..." - http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/habitats/last-of-amazon/ "Brazil says the rate of deforestation in the Amazon increased by 28% between August 2012 and last July," http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-24950487 Not sure of the direction of this point, but I reckon that chopping down a 300 foot tall tree and replacing it's 'footprint' with a couple of square yards of grass won't balance the carbon cost.
  17. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/C7F/7E/ch_25_reversing_emissions.pdf Go to Figure 25.1 on page 2.
  18. Australia's first innings scores : Brisbane: 100-5 to 295 all out ( Haddin 94, Johnson 64 ) Adelaide: 257-5 to 570-9 dec ( Haddin 118, Clarke 148, Harris 55 ) ) Perth: 143-5 to 385 all out ( Haddin 55, Smith 111 ) Melbourne: 164-9 to 204 all out ( Haddin 65 ) Sydney: 97-5 to 326 all out ( Haddin 75, Smith 115 ) If we could only have found a way to get Haddin out early.
  19. Says the man who uses such constructive phrases as b0ll0x, nerd, wacko, and 'mental case', to counter differing opinion. Oh, and he also claims to be 'a f()ck sight smarter' than other posters.
  20. We'd be behind you in the queue.
  21. Is this of any use ? http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/article/heart-rate-monitor-training-for-cyclists-28838/ I did see one cycling forum where a similar discussion of HR effectively stated that you worked out your maximum by monitoring your heart rate and exercising until you either got dizzy or threw up - your safe maximum would be just below the rate you had reached.
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