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  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    OT Not a Cheers fan myself - but IIRC there are a few budding comedy writers on here and thought you may like this

    http://kenlevine.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/what-cheers-outline-looked-like.html

    Read the comments - this appears to be quite a rare treat.
  • foxinsoxukfoxinsoxuk Posts: 23,548
    BenM said:

    Mr. Flashman (deceased), that's a ridiculous idea.

    "Lord Puttnam, producer of the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire, said his tax plan would not only give HMRC extra revenues from offshore gambling companies, but also curb their “worrying” rise. "

    So, if his idea works it'll reduce online gambling and, er, decrease the funding he wants to subsidise the stuff he likes.

    Er, regardless of the impact on online gambling (and if that "industry" disappeared I'd lose no sleep) wouldn't he be receiving a stream of funding where he hadn't before?
    Steady on! This website is eevoted to gambling. Without a bookie to take our money, we would be in trouble.
  • SouthamObserverSouthamObserver Posts: 39,667


    TGOHF said:

    BenM said:

    Mr. Flashman (deceased), that's a ridiculous idea.

    "Lord Puttnam, producer of the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire, said his tax plan would not only give HMRC extra revenues from offshore gambling companies, but also curb their “worrying” rise. "

    So, if his idea works it'll reduce online gambling and, er, decrease the funding he wants to subsidise the stuff he likes.

    Er, regardless of the impact on online gambling (and if that "industry" disappeared I'd lose no sleep) wouldn't he be receiving a stream of funding where he hadn't before?
    Wait - so Labour hate bookies in the high street and online gambling - what kind of gambling is ok ? Casinos ?

    Bossy middle class Labour don't think the lower orders should be able to do what posh people do.

    casinos good, bookies bad
    weed good, ciggies bad
    wine good, beer bad


    if you let common people do what they like, soon there'll be nothing left to order them about on.

    Are you suggesing that the lower orders do not go to casinos, smoke dope or drink wine? If so, I fear you may be a tad out of touch!

  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    We don't see many limericks now Mrs B has been busy at work - thought this was quite good - he does some excellent tweets

    Mick Twister @twitmericks
    A teacher ran off with a teen
    With whom he was having a scene
    Tracked down in Bordeaux
    The chap will now know
    The pleasure of HM the Queen.
  • taffystaffys Posts: 9,753
    Labour are more wedded to the notion of the NHS as a socialist badge of honour, than what it actually delivers in practice.

    Let's face Labour have had the tories by the nuts on health and public services in general since 1997. Scare stories about privatisation are like Kryptonite to the tory vote share.

    Is Hunt changing the game? the left think not, but if he is it is very serious for them, potentially.
  • AlanbrookeAlanbrooke Posts: 25,441
    tim said:

    @CD13

    I've just posted the new issues index which backs up what I'm saying.
    The international comparison is a national embarrassment, even if it is largely down to a tragic scared worldview among Tories we cannot put it down to just that.

    tim you're a spanner.

    Poland's hardly going to be worrying about immigration is it ? The German's have just dicovered they have 1.5 million immigrants less than they thought. The country beating the UK on the concern is France - the other high immigrant target country.
  • AlanbrookeAlanbrooke Posts: 25,441


    TGOHF said:

    BenM said:

    Mr. Flashman (deceased), that's a ridiculous idea.

    "Lord Puttnam, producer of the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire, said his tax plan would not only give HMRC extra revenues from offshore gambling companies, but also curb their “worrying” rise. "

    So, if his idea works it'll reduce online gambling and, er, decrease the funding he wants to subsidise the stuff he likes.

    Er, regardless of the impact on online gambling (and if that "industry" disappeared I'd lose no sleep) wouldn't he be receiving a stream of funding where he hadn't before?
    Wait - so Labour hate bookies in the high street and online gambling - what kind of gambling is ok ? Casinos ?

    Bossy middle class Labour don't think the lower orders should be able to do what posh people do.

    casinos good, bookies bad
    weed good, ciggies bad
    wine good, beer bad


    if you let common people do what they like, soon there'll be nothing left to order them about on.

    Are you suggesing that the lower orders do not go to casinos, smoke dope or drink wine? If so, I fear you may be a tad out of touch!

    worse than that SO - they do, and in doing so are encroaching into middle class preserves.
  • GrandioseGrandiose Posts: 2,323
    Concern about immigration is clearly higher higher, but some of the other issues other countries are faced with don't really apply here - in the context of a "Pick three" question this effectively frees up space for immigration to be chosen more. So you can "the exodus of young and talented people" for example. Even so, clearly raised.

    Just as interesting is the diversity of opinions in the respondent countries. So compensation of CEOs is massively raised in Germany and France than average, taxes in Italy, Corporatism in Germany, the exodus in Spain, and so on.
  • PBModeratorPBModerator Posts: 664
    NEW THREAD
  • FinancierFinancier Posts: 3,916
    edited June 2013
    tim said:

    Financier said:

    Plato said:

    WTF Mr Forrest the teacher who ran off with a 15yrs old who's besotted with him has got 5.5yrs - Stuart Hall who groomed pre-teens and fessed up to about a dozen victims got 15mnths.

    The world has gone mad.

    Agree, the difference between willing consent and non-consent seems to have been missed. If there was consent did he really abduct her (except from the theoretical parental responsibility).

    How can someone under the age of consent give consent?

    @tim.

    In strict legal terms they cannot consent legally, but in human terms they can consent or else it would be rape. Anyway if the police and prosecutors are so keen on prosecuting the male in a case of sex with a female who is under the age of consent, then are we to expect a queue of cases at the magistrates courts for the males who were responsible for all girls who conceived under the age of 16 - somehow I think not!



  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,413

    Tapper said:

    Not a bad result. 4.8 against the Conservatives 7.7. At the GE UKIP were 3.5% nationally.

    " There were 12,000 postal votes requested for the #Aberdeen Donside by-election, and 6,000 returned "

    I'd be interested to see the break-down of the postal voting numbers for the Aberdeen Donside by-election.
    6000 Labour votes
  • Mick_PorkMick_Pork Posts: 6,530
    Watch out scottisg tory surgers, now we have Farage's lost deposits on PB.

    Poor old kippers what a shame.
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