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Regarding the rioters and their social poverty : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025068/UK-riots-Middle-class-rioters-revealed-including-Laura-Johnson-Natasha-Reid-Stefan-Hoyle.html http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1456277_jailed-the-middle-class-yobs-who-joined-the-manchester-riots http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/dan-hodges/2011/08/middle-class-riots-jonnie I sure cancelling benefits payments and forcing them to find 'proper' jobs is an ideal solution for that lot.

Every person over 19 was a teenager for 7 years, and should remember that. Similarly, most of today's teens will in 30 years time be moaning about their own hormonally driven spotty oiks.

Looking at some of the other proposals, only pay benefits to the literate : "People could be forced to learn to read, write and count in order to continue getting benefits under welfare plans unveiled by David Cameron today." http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/learn-to-read-and-write-if-you-want-to-get-benefits-says-david-cameron-7880659.html

Doing what ? Not trying to be snide, but where does this "work" actually come from ? Who are they working for ?

But what are they ?

The problem is that doesn't amount to very much. Still I like the quote about the beefing up of the UK forces in the South Atlantic "Only one side in this argument has nukes". Whether that referred to the method of propulsion of the RN subs, or the warheads on the missiles, I'm not sure.

But at least we've still got Gibraltar and the Falklands.

You might ask David Lampitt.

Meanwhile the matter of 'club 12' draws to a head : http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18539483 [h=1]"Rangers newco will not get Aberdeen, Dundee Utd or Hearts votes"[/h]

At least it produces electricity - unlike that main despoiler of countryside, the golf course.

Excluding this thread of course.

How many other industries get subsidies and tax breaks ? How many 'economic development zones' exist only because these 'incentives' are in place ?

Bury market is the best place in the world for black puddings.

Complete rowlocks.

There does seem to be some small irony in the fact that a club notorious for deliberately flouting financial common sense to gazzump players from other teams is now complaining that it cannot even sign a free transfer.

Do they need an excuse ?

An interview he gave in April that doesn't quite reflect the above interpretation: http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/23/11144098-gaia-scientist-james-lovelock-i-was-alarmist-about-climate-change?lite "Asked if he was now a climate skeptic, Lovelock told msnbc.com: “It depends what you mean by a skeptic. I’m not a denier.” He said human-caused carbon dioxide emissions were driving an increase in the global temperature, but added that the effect of the oceans was not well enough understood and could have a key role. “It (the sea) could make all the difference between a hot age and an ice age,” he said. He said he still thought that climate change was happening, but that its effects would be felt farther in the future than he previously thought. “We will have global warming, but it’s been deferred a bit,” Lovelock said." " …..stressed that humanity should still “do our best to cut back on fossil fuel burning” and try to adapt to the coming changes. "

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For anybody 'concerned' about the lack of confirmed transfers, check out what all the other clubs have, ( or more accurately have not ), done so far : http://www.premierleaguetransfers.net/your-club-transfer-news

Matthew ( Le ) ...

Although I feel we may disagree on who qualifies as a 'benefits slob', though I accept they do exist, I otherwise totally concur with this statement

I thought this side story was more interesting from the perspective of a 'military enthusiast' : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/9258110/World-War-II-RAF-Kittyhawk-fighter-plane-found-in-the-Sahara-Desert-in-Egypt.html?frame=2215708

Exit and Let Down, but I prefer The Bends as a complete album.

A London cabbie picks up an American tourist, who asks to be shown the sights. First off, the Tower of London - the yank asks "How long did it take to build that ?", the cabbie replies "About 10 years". "Would only have taken 2 in the States" comes the retort. A little later they are going past Westminster Abbey, again the yank asks "How long did that take to build ?" and the cabbie replies "100 years more or less", to which the response is "We would have done it in 10". As they drive past Buckingham Palace, the yank asks "How long for that ?" to which the cabbie's immediate response is "Bloody hell, where did that come from ? It wasn't there this morning".

So you missed my previous 'location' : 2nd Floor, West Stand, Bloomfield Road Stadium ? ( Plus there is a clue in the current one ). It really is where I work; I live 12 and a half miles away, and in the school holidays, when not driving my wife to and from school, ( how wicked does that sound ! ), I prefer to cycle to work. The route up the prom is great, apart from the 1000s of grockles getting in the way, and you need to keep off the tram tracks. When you get past Cleveleys it gets a bit rougher due to the 'seams' between the concrete sheets, so you get a rythmic bump as you ride over them. Hopefully a sunny, and not too breezy day. However, I have to admit that contrary to Dune's assertion's, I don't own a burger van, so cannot provide a free lunch.