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Never mind a month, if they raised the £100m (which I agree, seems on the low side - maybe they're using the same advisor as with the gold reserves sale), it'd cover Treasury debt interest for about 15 hours going by the last Budget.Omnium said:This story caught my eye
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30165655
I'm not against selling off state assets, but these seem to be at rather knock-down prices.
Far more troubling is that Labour plan to 'reduce the deficit' by doing so, rather than reducing national debt. Now this may seem like semantics, but it seems to me to be precisely the sort of statement that means we should be very scared of Labour's economic plans. Sane people do not sell their cars to cover their credit card interest for the month.0 -
There's a lovely line in Dominic Lawson's column in today's STimes [I'm not allowed to even link to it here]
He quotes another along the lines of "Labour expounds really well how to do good society - what it fails to do is expound a good life".
I thought that rocked. The real quote is loads better - well worth spending £4 and reading it for yourself.Indigo said:
Being right is such as nasty Tory concept though, you need to move with the times, the zeitgeist now is to be spectacularly wrong, but in a well meaning, and sanctimonious way. I think the idea is that people wont mind that you are talking b*llocks, so long as its social aware, ethical and right-on b*llocks.Swiss_Bob said:
I believe he moved to Monaco some time ago.TGOHF said:@pollytoynbee: @DAaronovitch @tracey_crouch Shouldn't Hamilton fly the Swiss flag, as that's where he avoids paying UK tax?
As usual PT is wrong.0 -
Well I don't think anybody with any sense took it literally in the first place but it does make him a sitting target if and when he confronts Farage in a TV debate.bigjohnowls said:“The Prime Minister promised ‘no ifs no buts’ to reduce immigration to the tens of thousands, in 2010.
Theresa May has spent four years claiming she was on track.
David Cameron said in May 2014 the target for net migration - the difference between the number of people coming into the UK and those leaving - was "perfectly achievable".
Theresa May has said today.The UK is "unlikely" to meet its target for reducing immigration.
Oh well another broken promise for the list at GE2015
It's such an open goal for UKIP that you have to wonder whether DC will actually agree to a public debate. The other Parties will not of course be able to outbid the Tories on this issue and the likelihood of any of them being able to actually implement whatever manifesto promises they make on immigration is remote. But Dave's the one who is going to be skewered on this issue, and the fact that Ed and Nick will also be writhing uncomfortably is not going to comfort him much.
It makes me think he may seek a way out of the debates.
Btw, nice to meet you at DDs. Hope you enjoyed it. As a regular attendee, I can vouch that it was a particularly good turnout, both in terms of numbers and quality.0 -
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.
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Sometimes I genuinely worry if you spent too much time with Evostik as a youngster.
In the many stupid comments made on here - I will remember this one of yours.surbiton said:
Why did Harry congratulate him ? Why are we making heroes of tax dodgers ? Caroline of Monaco should have been there. If Grace was alive, there would have been a glittering reception when he returns "home".Swiss_Bob said:
I believe he moved to Monaco some time ago.TGOHF said:@pollytoynbee: @DAaronovitch @tracey_crouch Shouldn't Hamilton fly the Swiss flag, as that's where he avoids paying UK tax?
As usual PT is wrong.0 -
He isn't a scot so he doesn't count, he is also probably "thick as mince", quite possibly has dubious tax arrangements (which would be perfectly respectable in a scot), "just driving a car doesn't make you clever", forget any charity work you do (unless for a scottish charity I assume). Where as sitting on a couch in god's own country with a six pack of McEwans, hurling abuse with all the style and poise of a blind man with a shotgun, thats real class.Flightpath said:
Vitriol like calling a British world champion a 'rat'.CarlottaVance said:
Why? Need to up their game? Are you offering lessons?malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here
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Labour continues to eat itself. Another days headlines beckons...
Ed Miliband was right to sack Emily Thornberry from the shadow cabinet because she was “condescending and disrespectful” towards working people and damaged Labour’s election prospects when she tweeted a picture of a house decked out in St George’s flags, Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary, has said.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/23/emily-thornberry-damaged-labour-election-prospects-rochester-tweet
In some of the strongest criticism of the former frontbencher, Reeves said that Thornberry’s tweet was contrary to the values of the Labour party.0 -
Indigo said:
Could raise £100m ?! How many seconds does it take for the debt to go up by that much ( I think 100m is less than one day of the interest on the debt) ? In economic terms its a rounding error on a rounding error. Also assume the act of making the sale won't cost anything which would be a first.SquareRoot said:
That's because Labour have no idea of value or money or saving or anything about money bar spending it. They are first class experts at spending other people's money.Omnium said:This story caught my eye
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30165655
I'm not against selling off state assets, but these seem to be at rather knock-down prices.
Far more troubling is that Labour plan to 'reduce the deficit' by doing so, rather than reducing national debt. Now this may seem like semantics, but it seems to me to be precisely the sort of statement that means we should be very scared of Labour's economic plans. Sane people do not sell their cars to cover their credit card interest for the month.
Its all part of the ongoing govt progress anyway.Indigo said:
Could raise £100m ?! How many seconds does it take for the debt to go up by that much ( I think 100m is less than one day of the interest on the debt) ? In economic terms its a rounding error on a rounding error. Also assume the act of making the sale won't cost anything which would be a first.SquareRoot said:
That's because Labour have no idea of value or money or saving or anything about money bar spending it. They are first class experts at spending other people's money.Omnium said:This story caught my eye
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30165655
I'm not against selling off state assets, but these seem to be at rather knock-down prices.
Far more troubling is that Labour plan to 'reduce the deficit' by doing so, rather than reducing national debt. Now this may seem like semantics, but it seems to me to be precisely the sort of statement that means we should be very scared of Labour's economic plans. Sane people do not sell their cars to cover their credit card interest for the month.
The govt have actually saved £2.6 billion (thats 'billion') on closing and merging quangos - all opposed by labour.
I think the story is a misprint anyway - Labour want to sell off QEII.0 -
TGOHF said:
Bit harsh on Wings there malc - not forgiven him for his counterproductive campaign ?malcolmg said:
Harry , going to Scotland once for a holiday does not make you ScottishTGOHF said:
Happens in Scotland - hence Wings and I didn't get a vote in the referendum.richardDodd said:I was unaware that if you became ex-pat.. lived in another country and paid taxes there that you lost you right to be called British or English,Welsh or Norther Irish..Is this a new Labour Policy
Red Bull gives you ( flexible) wings?
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Hamilton's sin in the eyes of Toynbee , Malcolm and other guttersnipes was to proudly fly the Union Jack.0
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Emily is more authentic than Ed...
That’s the thing about Emily, she seems like a real person. What I mean by that is, who she is as an MP is who she is in ‘real life’. I believe her when she says things. She connects with people. As an uber liberal barrister, her views are representative of parts of North London and those people deserve a voice within Labour. It shouldn’t be the only voice, which has been part of the problem of the last few years, nor the dominant voice, but it should surely be permitted to speak. And Emily does speak, and when she does, I often don’t agree with her but I feel she is sincere. I like that. We like that. And this is probably at least part of the reason why she was able to win her Islington seat when the Lib Dems were the toast of London in 2005, and why she increased her majority in 2010 when her seat was the Lib Dems top priority target seat. We cry out for authenticity in our politicians, yet when she did something that the more careful, studied politicians wouldn’t do in a million years she is publicly pilloried.
http://noramulready.com/2014/11/23/politics-and-people-bridge-the-gaping-chasm/0 -
Thanx - I'm a bit allergic to MKV as I can't ever make them play on either of my two W7 laptops after hours of downloading codec packs and fiddling. Same with AAC.
Just bought a 2T new one with W8 - let's see if that works. I'm turning my youngest old laptop into a full-time media server this week. That'll be a hoot trying to get everything I had transferred and feeling/looking the same. I get quite OCD about my favourite apps and Google has stopped supporting most of them years ago!Omnium said:@Plato
A recommendation re dvd capture on prev thread. (MakeMKV)0 -
I know....between you and me...I don't think malcolm is quite the full shilling....TheWatcher said:
He lives in Monaco. How is that changing nationality?CarlottaVance said:0 -
I see today's red faced resident angry Scot has spent the afternoon knocking back the Turps and spouting vitriol. What a sad specimen.0
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Theresa May says the known child abuse cases are the tip of the iceberg and is dismayed over the number of men that acted with impunity:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/child-abuse-cases-are-tip-of-the-iceberg-in-sexual-exploitation-of-young-people-said-theresa-may-9878051.html
Well, then why don't we have a national police investigation into it then, rather than leaving the investigations to the local police forces that failed last time round??0 -
Emily was right. Ed is a plonker...
@EmmaDixon_Green: Brilliant & funny by @Barristerblog on #Thornberry & why Ed is (as Holden Caulfield would say) a phoney
http://t.co/osTq5wDRxs0 -
malcolmg said:
Big jessie running crying to the moderator to say a big boy is calling him names and pulling his pigtails. Man up you jelly fishIndigo said:
@PBModerator: Maybe we can do with a few less personal insults, especially ones which are wrong.malcolmg said:LOL, If looking through a telescope makes you clever then I have been very wrong. Another sychophant wittering on about lawyers, get a life you dimwit.
Why has the sainted virgin not given one of her garages to charity as they are so meaningless to her. Then you crown it all by impersonating a donkey and state that as you teach some foreign people and employ some as skivvies no doubt that she must be great. I have really been taught a lesson, I bet you were also playing a violin when you were posting that.
I think you miss the entire point
On this site we respect each others views ( even if we totally disagree and commonly we do) but try so far as possible to avoid abuse. We all of us do resort to brief abuse just once in a while only human, but just about every single one of your posts have iI noticed included abuse.
If your not happy I am sure OGH would happily refund the cost of your membership fee for posting.
Best regards
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Christ, put your (no doubt massively swollen) gonads away please, it's embarrassing.Swiss_Bob said:
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.0 -
British people think that there are twice as many immigrants in the country than is really the case – and four times as many Muslims, according to a new survey by Ipsos Mori.
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And not new news.bigjohnowls said:British people think that there are twice as many immigrants in the country than is really the case – and four times as many Muslims, according to a new survey by Ipsos Mori.
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Have The Sun on Sunday YG tables come out yet?0
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It's not like he got most the way there. He hasn't got anywhere close. Only 5% of the gap has been solved. Even if EU migration hadn't gone up, he hasn't closed 30% on the non-EU side.Peter_the_Punter said:
Well I don't think anybody with any sense took it literally in the first place but it does make him a sitting target if and when he confronts Farage in a TV debate.
If we've got to the situation where promises politicians make can be hand waved away as "no one should have taken it seriously", then we should kick them all out for so brazenly lying to us.0 -
Not quite the full Groat would be more apt.CarlottaVance said:
I know....between you and me...I don't think malcolm is quite the full shilling....TheWatcher said:
He lives in Monaco. How is that changing nationality?CarlottaVance said:
He's probably posting from the library computer in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.0 -
The vast majority of the people on this site don't engage unilaterally in ad hominem attacks as you do.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
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*titters*
The idiosyncrasies of my SmartTV as it battles for supremacy with my Humax box vs streaming DivX/WMP from my laptop is most amusing.
I really wish I had a Pot Luck button on my remote - it'd make more sense to randomly pick something than me wandering about lost between 2200 music files and about another 1000 video files which appear to be randomly living somewhere on my home network - and that's before my PC/phone jumps in to tell me on Twitter that a conversation I've not participated in or even looked at has been retweeted 4x.
Honestly, I can keep a few balls in the air - but this is insanely complex. Maybe I should buy a goldfish and stick to that?!Moses_ said:Swiss bob
"Plato, here is a link to a list of devices that you might be interested in:"
This just is is one of those moments I wish I could post a shocked yellow smiley face
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I don't like taking abuse and smears. It wouldn't happen face to face (not for very long) but I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is and provide some entertainment for PB posters.Theuniondivvie said:
Christ, put your (no doubt massively swollen) gonads away please, it's embarrassing.Swiss_Bob said:
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.
What's not to like?0 -
BBC News leading with Hamilton news......curiously enough no mention of his tax residence status.....pointing out that he's the first Brit in 40 years - since Sir Jackie Stewart - to win two world titles.
They keep saying he's a "Briton" - malcolm claims he's Monaguesque.....0 -
Plato said:
Sometimes I genuinely worry if you spent too much time with Evostik as a youngster.
In the many stupid comments made on here - I will remember this one of yours.surbiton said:
Why did Harry congratulate him ? Why are we making heroes of tax dodgers ? Caroline of Monaco should have been there. If Grace was alive, there would have been a glittering reception when he returns "home".Swiss_Bob said:
I believe he moved to Monaco some time ago.TGOHF said:@pollytoynbee: @DAaronovitch @tracey_crouch Shouldn't Hamilton fly the Swiss flag, as that's where he avoids paying UK tax?
As usual PT is wrong.
Back in the 60's in school for junior projects there was a white paste like glue in a light blue container with a white top. The spreader was attached to the the lid inside. It smelt of almonds and we all loved the smell I mean we just all did......
Can't remember the name but whenever juniors took the lid off we all "sniffed it"
We're we the first glue sniffers?? Shock !!
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SCOTLAND SEATS SURBITONISED
I am taking the last 7 Yougov Scottish sub samples and aggregating them [ I know the pitfalls ! ]
Based on that, which now is: C 15.00, Lab 24.29, LD 6.29, SNP 43.71,
I apply the swings to the GE2010 results using UNS.
It is terrible for Labour. No wonder Ed got so angry with Emily. Labour will now need to become the "Aenglish" party.
So, SSS tonight is:
C 1 [1], Lab 9 [41], LD 2 [ 11 ], SNP 47 [ 6 ]
The two LD seats are Orkney and Ross, Skye. On current numbers, LD will lose Inverness 42% to 28%. Please note I am using UNS.
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Diane Abbott accused of being a racist by Finnish Nurse - Abbott comments the left pic, the response the right pic pic.twitter.com/hawgCMmBVT
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I'm sure Malcolm regards Sir Jackie Stewart as Swiss.CarlottaVance said:BBC News leading with Hamilton news......curiously enough no mention of his tax residence status.....pointing out that he's the first Brit in 40 years - since Sir Jackie Stewart - to win two world titles.
They keep saying he's a "Briton" - malcolm claims he's Monaguesque.....
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He can still be a brit even though he lives abroad. I've lived in several countries but am still a brit.CarlottaVance said:BBC News leading with Hamilton news......curiously enough no mention of his tax residence status.....pointing out that he's the first Brit in 40 years - since Sir Jackie Stewart - to win two world titles.
They keep saying he's a "Briton" - malcolm claims he's Monaguesque.....
There is no reason anyone should configure their financial affairs so as to pay the maximum amount of tax.0 -
Why does the government own the QEII conference centre?Flightpath said:Indigo said:
Could raise £100m ?! How many seconds does it take for the debt to go up by that much ( I think 100m is less than one day of the interest on the debt) ? In economic terms its a rounding error on a rounding error. Also assume the act of making the sale won't cost anything which would be a first.SquareRoot said:
That's because Labour have no idea of value or money or saving or anything about money bar spending it. They are first class experts at spending other people's money.Omnium said:This story caught my eye
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30165655
I'm not against selling off state assets, but these seem to be at rather knock-down prices.
Far more troubling is that Labour plan to 'reduce the deficit' by doing so, rather than reducing national debt. Now this may seem like semantics, but it seems to me to be precisely the sort of statement that means we should be very scared of Labour's economic plans. Sane people do not sell their cars to cover their credit card interest for the month.
Its all part of the ongoing govt progress anyway.Indigo said:
Could raise £100m ?! How many seconds does it take for the debt to go up by that much ( I think 100m is less than one day of the interest on the debt) ? In economic terms its a rounding error on a rounding error. Also assume the act of making the sale won't cost anything which would be a first.SquareRoot said:
That's because Labour have no idea of value or money or saving or anything about money bar spending it. They are first class experts at spending other people's money.Omnium said:This story caught my eye
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30165655
I'm not against selling off state assets, but these seem to be at rather knock-down prices.
Far more troubling is that Labour plan to 'reduce the deficit' by doing so, rather than reducing national debt. Now this may seem like semantics, but it seems to me to be precisely the sort of statement that means we should be very scared of Labour's economic plans. Sane people do not sell their cars to cover their credit card interest for the month.
The govt have actually saved £2.6 billion (thats 'billion') on closing and merging quangos - all opposed by labour.
I think the story is a misprint anyway - Labour want to sell off QEII.
Marlborough House might be more sensitive given its location (next to Clarence House) but you should be able to charge rent to a suitable organisation to use it.
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Boorish, macho posturing on the internet?Swiss_Bob said:
I don't like taking abuse and smears. It wouldn't happen face to face (not for very long) but I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is and provide some entertainment for PB posters.Theuniondivvie said:
Christ, put your (no doubt massively swollen) gonads away please, it's embarrassing.Swiss_Bob said:
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.
What's not to like?
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makeMKV is a good program.Plato said:Thanx - I'm a bit allergic to MKV as I can't ever make them play on either of my two W7 laptops after hours of downloading codec packs and fiddling. Same with AAC.
Just bought a 2T new one with W8 - let's see if that works. I'm turning my youngest old laptop into a full-time media server this week. That'll be a hoot trying to get everything I had transferred and feeling/looking the same. I get quite OCD about my favourite apps and Google has stopped supporting most of them years ago!Omnium said:@Plato
A recommendation re dvd capture on prev thread. (MakeMKV)
You shouldn't have ANY codec packs installed on Win7/8 all you need is mpc-hc and if it gets stroppy with any MKV file, possibly Haalli (Matroska) Spiltter.
These days with a decent graphics card, mpc-hc will play pretty much any common format from built in filters using hardware decoding on the graphics card. VLC will of course play absolutely everything using software and so should be your backup player.
I use anysoft anyDVDHD to remove the region coding on my drive, and it can rip to disk for you. Then you pass the files through makemkv.
If you can find a copy dvddecryptor for may work on your already ripped files.
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If you are prepared to admit believing that, I think you are eligible for compensationMoses_ said:TGOHF said:
Bit harsh on Wings there malc - not forgiven him for his counterproductive campaign ?malcolmg said:
Harry , going to Scotland once for a holiday does not make you ScottishTGOHF said:
Happens in Scotland - hence Wings and I didn't get a vote in the referendum.richardDodd said:I was unaware that if you became ex-pat.. lived in another country and paid taxes there that you lost you right to be called British or English,Welsh or Norther Irish..Is this a new Labour Policy
Red Bull gives you ( flexible) wings?
http://metro.co.uk/2014/10/12/red-bull-doesnt-give-you-wings-but-might-get-you-10-compensation-4902317/0 -
We're still shite.0
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The offer, if accepted will not be on the Internet will it? Not 'till afterwards.Theuniondivvie said:
Boorish, macho posturing on the internet?Swiss_Bob said:
I don't like taking abuse and smears. It wouldn't happen face to face (not for very long) but I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is and provide some entertainment for PB posters.Theuniondivvie said:
Christ, put your (no doubt massively swollen) gonads away please, it's embarrassing.Swiss_Bob said:
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.
What's not to like?0 -
Oh dear you really are beyond contempt.Swiss_Bob said:
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.0 -
Hilarious - you are the thick turnip. Thick beyond belief. And I mean literally thick and unintelligent with no sense of self awareness at all. Plus I conclude you are somewhat drunk at the moment.malcolmg said:
You thick turnip if that is what you think why are you constantly denigrating Connery because he chooses to live a broad. You have more faces than the town clock.Flightpath said:
He is not a tax dodger. There are no fraudulent front companies. He lives abroad like Sean Connery and he does most of his work abroad. A lot of his earnings will come from foreign companies. The company he drives for is German. Most of the personal visits required of him by his sponsors will be abroad.surbiton said:
Why did Harry congratulate him ? Why are we making heroes of tax dodgers ? Caroline of Monaco should have been there. If Grace was alive, there would have been a glittering reception when he returns "home".Swiss_Bob said:
I believe he moved to Monaco some time ago.TGOHF said:@pollytoynbee: @DAaronovitch @tracey_crouch Shouldn't Hamilton fly the Swiss flag, as that's where he avoids paying UK tax?
As usual PT is wrong.
The team itself is based in Brackley and is a significant British business. It and he are good news for Britain.
I suppose one day you will wake up and find yourself in the real world. One where labour are not threatening to tax people at a total of over 60% of their earnings.
I do not care tuppence about Connery or anyone living abroad. But here are you applauding the leading celebrity scottish nationalist who lives in a tax haven and at the same time slagging off and calling a 'rat' a British international racing driver, who lives in a tax haven.
Currently the BBC news is showing the hundreds of UK workers that support Hamilton in his UK based team.
What an upper dope you are.
What a shambles this site is descending into.
FWIW on topic - is it so surprising that panel based polls containing people interested enough to join would have an inbuilt bias?0 -
And you're a weasel, a cowardly weasel who smears people and then runs away.bigjohnowls said:
Oh dear you really are beyond contempt.Swiss_Bob said:
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.0 -
Belated congratulations to the tax dodger !!CarlottaVance said:BBC News leading with Hamilton news......curiously enough no mention of his tax residence status.....pointing out that he's the first Brit in 40 years - since Sir Jackie Stewart - to win two world titles.
They keep saying he's a "Briton" - malcolm claims he's Monaguesque.....
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It's all a bit 'ed is angry' on here today
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I am astonished that people who happily throw around casual insults, and defend it on the basis as normal rough and tumble of political discourse I guess, with great regularity, are able to mentally identify who definitely began the latest barrage and so who is most to blame for getting upset about it, ie not them, because it's inconceivable that maybe we should all just try to not insult one another, rather than defend one's own use of insults as not as bad or hypocritical as the other person's.Socrates said:
The vast majority of the people on this site don't engage unilaterally in ad hominem attacks as you do.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
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And Sean Connery as Bahamian?MonikerDiCanio said:
I'm sure Malcolm regards Sir Jackie Stewart as Swiss.CarlottaVance said:BBC News leading with Hamilton news......curiously enough no mention of his tax residence status.....pointing out that he's the first Brit in 40 years - since Sir Jackie Stewart - to win two world titles.
They keep saying he's a "Briton" - malcolm claims he's Monaguesque.....
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I've missed you.
That Yellow Bloc avatar is so distinctive.frpenkridge said:What did you do in the Great Klass War, Daddy?
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What happened to Mr Pork? Still "getting out the vote"?Theuniondivvie said:
Boorish, macho posturing on the internet?Swiss_Bob said:
I don't like taking abuse and smears. It wouldn't happen face to face (not for very long) but I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is and provide some entertainment for PB posters.Theuniondivvie said:
Christ, put your (no doubt massively swollen) gonads away please, it's embarrassing.Swiss_Bob said:
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.
What's not to like?
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DVDshrink and dvddecryptor are easy to find on the net. I still prefer the old-fashioned dvd method with anydvd and clonedvdmegalomaniacs4u said:
makeMKV is a good program.Plato said:Thanx - I'm a bit allergic to MKV as I can't ever make them play on either of my two W7 laptops after hours of downloading codec packs and fiddling. Same with AAC.
Just bought a 2T new one with W8 - let's see if that works. I'm turning my youngest old laptop into a full-time media server this week. That'll be a hoot trying to get everything I had transferred and feeling/looking the same. I get quite OCD about my favourite apps and Google has stopped supporting most of them years ago!Omnium said:@Plato
A recommendation re dvd capture on prev thread. (MakeMKV)
You shouldn't have ANY codec packs installed on Win7/8 all you need is mpc-hc and if it gets stroppy with any MKV file, possibly Haalli (Matroska) Spiltter.
These days with a decent graphics card, mpc-hc will play pretty much any common format from built in filters using hardware decoding on the graphics card. VLC will of course play absolutely everything using software and so should be your backup player.
I use anysoft anyDVDHD to remove the region coding on my drive, and it can rip to disk for you. Then you pass the files through makemkv.
If you can find a copy dvddecryptor for may work on your already ripped files.0 -
Does he or does he not live in Monaco which ensures that he does not have to pay tax in the UK, thus he has avoided paying UK tax. How can anyone get into trouble for stating the above obvious fact.CarlottaVance said:
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You don't need any codecs installed if you use XBMC either. I systematically rip every dvd/Blu-ray I buy - then play them through XBMC. It's not quite a perfect solution, but the best I've found. (Takes a lot of storage though)megalomaniacs4u said:
makeMKV is a good program.Plato said:Thanx - I'm a bit allergic to MKV as I can't ever make them play on either of my two W7 laptops after hours of downloading codec packs and fiddling. Same with AAC.
Just bought a 2T new one with W8 - let's see if that works. I'm turning my youngest old laptop into a full-time media server this week. That'll be a hoot trying to get everything I had transferred and feeling/looking the same. I get quite OCD about my favourite apps and Google has stopped supporting most of them years ago!Omnium said:@Plato
A recommendation re dvd capture on prev thread. (MakeMKV)
You shouldn't have ANY codec packs installed on Win7/8 all you need is mpc-hc and if it gets stroppy with any MKV file, possibly Haalli (Matroska) Spiltter.
These days with a decent graphics card, mpc-hc will play pretty much any common format from built in filters using hardware decoding on the graphics card. VLC will of course play absolutely everything using software and so should be your backup player.
I use anysoft anyDVDHD to remove the region coding on my drive, and it can rip to disk for you. Then you pass the files through makemkv.
If you can find a copy dvddecryptor for may work on your already ripped files.
For audio I use dBpoweramp as a ripper to create lossless (and perfect) copies, and then play everything through Squeezebox. It was trying to achieve something similar for video that lead me down the current path.
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If you expect us to know which is which between "highlighted" and "other" then you ought to choose colours other than black and grey...0
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Who have I smeared, people who have called me a cowardly gobshite weasel?Swiss_Bob said:
And you're a weasel, a cowardly weasel who smears people and then runs away.bigjohnowls said:
Oh dear you really are beyond contempt.Swiss_Bob said:
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.
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If you are referring to Boris's tax issues with the US, then he absolutely needs to pay the bill.surbiton said:
Belated congratulations to the tax dodger !!CarlottaVance said:BBC News leading with Hamilton news......curiously enough no mention of his tax residence status.....pointing out that he's the first Brit in 40 years - since Sir Jackie Stewart - to win two world titles.
They keep saying he's a "Briton" - malcolm claims he's Monaguesque.....
I think Boris now wishes he also was a Monagasque !
It's absolutely basic tax planning - it's why my (US tax domicile) wife doesn't own any of our UK house.
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Big mistake SB, lowering yourself to their level.. There are loons on the www. Nothing you can do to change that. They are WAITING for a reaction.. best not feed their trolling.Swiss_Bob said:
And you're a weasel, a cowardly weasel who smears people and then runs away.bigjohnowls said:
Oh dear you really are beyond contempt.Swiss_Bob said:
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.
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pass the sick bucket, we have a champion who used to live in the country but chooses to live elsewhere for financial reasons. I should be on my knees praising the lord that he was born in Britain so that clowns like you can claim Britain has a world champion, how desperate can you get.Flightpath said:
Vitriol like calling a British world champion a 'rat'.CarlottaVance said:
Why? Need to up their game? Are you offering lessons?malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here
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Once upon a time this was a pleasant site. In and amongst reasoned discussions of politics and polling, there'd be diversions into any number of abstruse and eclectic issues, from the formation of Saxon languages to the Irish Question in the time of Gladstone to hi-tech gadgetry. These discussions and diversions were possible because of a level of civility, tolerance and self-restraint which quite simply doesn't now exist.
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Only after you smeared them and ran away without justifying your comments, even when politely asked to.bigjohnowls said:
Who have I smeared, people who have called me a cowardly gobshite weasel?Swiss_Bob said:
And you're a weasel, a cowardly weasel who smears people and then runs away.bigjohnowls said:
Oh dear you really are beyond contempt.Swiss_Bob said:
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.0 -
I'd have stuffed her mouth with her knickers - what are they doing? It's terribly easy.
STOP TALKING ABOUT IT.
Ye gads. Isn't God's Own PR Man working for EdM these days? I'm assuming God is laughing himself inside out at this stuff.
I can imagine Greek gods all sitting round their political chess set and giggling to themselves right now.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/23/emily-thornberry-damaged-labour-election-prospects-rochester-tweetScott_P said:Labour continues to eat itself. Another days headlines beckons...
Ed Miliband was right to sack Emily Thornberry from the shadow cabinet because she was “condescending and disrespectful” towards working people and damaged Labour’s election prospects when she tweeted a picture of a house decked out in St George’s flags, Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary, has said.
In some of the strongest criticism of the former frontbencher, Reeves said that Thornberry’s tweet was contrary to the values of the Labour party.
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Swiss nob seek help, you are either drunk or just a stupid violent oaf. I have better things to do than brawl anywhere with low lifes. Retain some dignity for goodness sake.Swiss_Bob said:
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.0 -
I seem to remember Salmond hailing English resident Andy Murray as a great Scot.malcolmg said:
pass the sick bucket, we have a champion who used to live in the country but chooses to live elsewhere for financial reasons. I should be on my knees praising the lord that he was born in Britain so that clowns like you can claim Britain has a world champion, how desperate can you get.Flightpath said:
Vitriol like calling a British world champion a 'rat'.CarlottaVance said:
Why? Need to up their game? Are you offering lessons?malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here
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I should probably apologise to the other posters here. I have a short fuse for this type of garbage.SquareRoot said:
Big mistake SB, lowering yourself to their level.. There are loons on the www. Nothing you can do to change that. They are WAITING for a reaction.. best not feed their trolling.Swiss_Bob said:
And you're a weasel, a cowardly weasel who smears people and then runs away.bigjohnowls said:
Oh dear you really are beyond contempt.Swiss_Bob said:
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.
Again, apologies, I will desist.0 -
You are obviously not very bright, I would not stoop to McEwans, it is half as bad as Carling and so not fit to drink. I am a bit more upmarket than that old fruit.Indigo said:
He isn't a scot so he doesn't count, he is also probably "thick as mince", quite possibly has dubious tax arrangements (which would be perfectly respectable in a scot), "just driving a car doesn't make you clever", forget any charity work you do (unless for a scottish charity I assume). Where as sitting on a couch in god's own country with a six pack of McEwans, hurling abuse with all the style and poise of a blind man with a shotgun, thats real class.Flightpath said:
Vitriol like calling a British world champion a 'rat'.CarlottaVance said:
Why? Need to up their game? Are you offering lessons?malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here
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Then the slysoft anydvdhd or dvddecrypter route to make perfect protection free copies is a start, then you can convert into other formats if you need, but standard for most bluray rips is MKV or mp4 if you can live with just basic video.Omnium said:
You don't need any codecs installed if you use XBMC either. I systematically rip every dvd/Blu-ray I buy - then play them through XBMC. It's not quite a perfect solution, but the best I've found. (Takes a lot of storage though)megalomaniacs4u said:
makeMKV is a good program.Plato said:Thanx - I'm a bit allergic to MKV as I can't ever make them play on either of my two W7 laptops after hours of downloading codec packs and fiddling. Same with AAC.
Just bought a 2T new one with W8 - let's see if that works. I'm turning my youngest old laptop into a full-time media server this week. That'll be a hoot trying to get everything I had transferred and feeling/looking the same. I get quite OCD about my favourite apps and Google has stopped supporting most of them years ago!Omnium said:@Plato
A recommendation re dvd capture on prev thread. (MakeMKV)
You shouldn't have ANY codec packs installed on Win7/8 all you need is mpc-hc and if it gets stroppy with any MKV file, possibly Haalli (Matroska) Spiltter.
These days with a decent graphics card, mpc-hc will play pretty much any common format from built in filters using hardware decoding on the graphics card. VLC will of course play absolutely everything using software and so should be your backup player.
I use anysoft anyDVDHD to remove the region coding on my drive, and it can rip to disk for you. Then you pass the files through makemkv.
If you can find a copy dvddecryptor for may work on your already ripped files.
For audio I use dBpoweramp as a ripper to create lossless (and perfect) copies, and then play everything through Squeezebox. It was trying to achieve something similar for video that lead me down the current path.
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Pfftshshittffsss
I had to clamp my hand over my mouth whilst reading that - and almost covered the keyboard with plonk.
*cackles long and loudly in a most unladylike way for two minutes*
http://noramulready.com/2014/11/23/politics-and-people-bridge-the-gaping-chasm/Scott_P said:Emily is more authentic than Ed...
That’s the thing about Emily, she seems like a real person. What I mean by that is, who she is as an MP is who she is in ‘real life’. I believe her when she says things. She connects with people. As an uber liberal barrister, her views are representative of parts of North London and those people deserve a voice within Labour. It shouldn’t be the only voice, which has been part of the problem of the last few years, nor the dominant voice, but it should surely be permitted to speak. And Emily does speak, and when she does, I often don’t agree with her but I feel she is sincere. I like that. We like that. And this is probably at least part of the reason why she was able to win her Islington seat when the Lib Dems were the toast of London in 2005, and why she increased her majority in 2010 when her seat was the Lib Dems top priority target seat. We cry out for authenticity in our politicians, yet when she did something that the more careful, studied politicians wouldn’t do in a million years she is publicly pilloried.
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LOL, are you for real , the man is threatening to beat people up because his vocabulary is not up to having a civilised debate and you side with him and say there are loons on www.SquareRoot said:
Big mistake SB, lowering yourself to their level.. There are loons on the www. Nothing you can do to change that. They are WAITING for a reaction.. best not feed their trolling.Swiss_Bob said:
And you're a weasel, a cowardly weasel who smears people and then runs away.bigjohnowls said:
Oh dear you really are beyond contempt.Swiss_Bob said:
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.0 -
I think you're looking through rose-tinted spectacles, David. This site has always had its moments of being dominated by the angry, the intolerant and the unhinged. One particular Friday night a 'discussion' about race relations - led by tim and the elderly chap from Surrey - was unparalleled to this day in its bitterness and bile. (I had to leave for the pub.)david_herdson said:Once upon a time this was a pleasant site. In and amongst reasoned discussions of politics and polling, there'd be diversions into any number of abstruse and eclectic issues, from the formation of Saxon languages to the Irish Question in the time of Gladstone to hi-tech gadgetry. These discussions and diversions were possible because of a level of civility, tolerance and self-restraint which quite simply doesn't now exist.
Rather than advancing with age, it is as if pbc has gone from the SCR to the playground.0 -
He has really lost the plotbigjohnowls said:
Who have I smeared, people who have called me a cowardly gobshite weasel?Swiss_Bob said:
And you're a weasel, a cowardly weasel who smears people and then runs away.bigjohnowls said:
Oh dear you really are beyond contempt.Swiss_Bob said:
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.0 -
Most of the time it's ok. Sadly, once one person kicks off, others respond in kind and it is ruined for the eveningdavid_herdson said:Once upon a time this was a pleasant site. In and amongst reasoned discussions of politics and polling, there'd be diversions into any number of abstruse and eclectic issues, from the formation of Saxon languages to the Irish Question in the time of Gladstone to hi-tech gadgetry. These discussions and diversions were possible because of a level of civility, tolerance and self-restraint which quite simply doesn't now exist.
Rather than advancing with age, it is as if pbc has gone from the SCR to the playground.0 -
A sane voice from the wildernesskle4 said:
I am astonished that people who happily throw around casual insults, and defend it on the basis as normal rough and tumble of political discourse I guess, with great regularity, are able to mentally identify who definitely began the latest barrage and so who is most to blame for getting upset about it, ie not them, because it's inconceivable that maybe we should all just try to not insult one another, rather than defend one's own use of insults as not as bad or hypocritical as the other person's.Socrates said:
The vast majority of the people on this site don't engage unilaterally in ad hominem attacks as you do.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
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It would be interesting to discover how much respect weird Ed has for this particular flag flier once he is informed that it's an illegal flag flying, and that the guilty flag flier knows that "there is a lot of ethnic minorities that don't like it".Scott_P said:Emily was right. Ed is a plonker...
@EmmaDixon_Green: Brilliant & funny by @Barristerblog on #Thornberry & why Ed is (as Holden Caulfield would say) a phoney
http://t.co/osTq5wDRxs
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What's more, it was embellished with a West Ham decorations.MonikerDiCanio said:Hamilton's sin in the eyes of Toynbee , Malcolm and other guttersnipes was to proudly fly the Union Jack.
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Connery is American at the moment , living in New York last I heard. Been long time since he was in Bahamas. They all live elsewhere to avoid paying tax in the UK, good luck to them , if I had enough cash I would do it myself. However for some halfwits to be singing the national anthem and claiming he is a British world champion is laughable.CarlottaVance said:
And Sean Connery as Bahamian?MonikerDiCanio said:
I'm sure Malcolm regards Sir Jackie Stewart as Swiss.CarlottaVance said:BBC News leading with Hamilton news......curiously enough no mention of his tax residence status.....pointing out that he's the first Brit in 40 years - since Sir Jackie Stewart - to win two world titles.
They keep saying he's a "Briton" - malcolm claims he's Monaguesque.....0 -
In the past, we've given bans to posters who threaten violence towards other posters.
Also we've given bans to posters who have aimed abusive language to others posters.
So posters should bear that in mind.
The spam trap has been updated and it will now automatically ban anyone who uses seriously bad language/repeatedly bad language on the site, this includes swear words with asterisks/symbols in them.
Any comments on the tax status of Lewis Hamilton or Myleene Klass now needs to come with a link from reputable news site.
Anyone unable to comply with the above, may find themselves facing a long enforced break from the site.0 -
Do you ever read what you post or are you having a laughSocrates said:
The vast majority of the people on this site don't engage unilaterally in ad hominem attacks as you do.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
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I threatened no violence, malcolmg is lying.PBModerator said:In the past, we've given bans to posters who threaten violence towards other posters.
Also we've given bans to posters who have aimed abusive language to others posters.
So posters should bear that in mind.
The spam trap has been updated and it will now automatically ban anyone who uses seriously bad language/repeatedly bad language on the site, this includes swear words with asterisks/symbols in them.
Any comments on the tax status of Lewis Hamilton or Myleene Klass now needs to come with a link from reputable news site.
Anyone unable to comply with the above, may find themselves facing a long enforced break from the site.0 -
You claimed he changed his nationality not his tax residence.malcolmg said:
Does he or does he not live in Monaco which ensures that he does not have to pay tax in the UK, thus he has avoided paying UK tax. How can anyone get into trouble for stating the above obvious fact.CarlottaVance said:
You can state that about anyone from the UK that chooses to live outside the UK to thus avoid paying tax in the UK.
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I don't think I am, though I am talking about a long time ago, before tim joined. In any case, I'm sure it's been worse this year than any other.Stark_Dawning said:
I think you're looking through rose-tinted spectacles, David. This site has always had its moments of being dominated by the angry, the intolerant and the unhinged. One particular Friday night a 'discussion' about race relations - led by tim and the elderly chap from Surrey - was unparalleled to this day in its bitterness and bile. (I had to leave for the pub.)david_herdson said:Once upon a time this was a pleasant site. In and amongst reasoned discussions of politics and polling, there'd be diversions into any number of abstruse and eclectic issues, from the formation of Saxon languages to the Irish Question in the time of Gladstone to hi-tech gadgetry. These discussions and diversions were possible because of a level of civility, tolerance and self-restraint which quite simply doesn't now exist.
Rather than advancing with age, it is as if pbc has gone from the SCR to the playground.0 -
The mkv format is just a wrapper. The video file from the dvd/Blu-ray is just taken from the dvd and placed in that container. So makeMKV does retain the full quality.megalomaniacs4u said:
Then the slysoft anydvdhd or dvddecrypter route to make perfect protection free copies is a start, then you can convert into other formats if you need, but standard for most bluray rips is MKV or mp4 if you can live with just basic video.Omnium said:
You don't need any codecs installed if you use XBMC either. I systematically rip every dvd/Blu-ray I buy - then play them through XBMC. It's not quite a perfect solution, but the best I've found. (Takes a lot of storage though)megalomaniacs4u said:
makeMKV is a good program.Plato said:Thanx - I'm a bit allergic to MKV as I can't ever make them play on either of my two W7 laptops after hours of downloading codec packs and fiddling. Same with AAC.
Just bought a 2T new one with W8 - let's see if that works. I'm turning my youngest old laptop into a full-time media server this week. That'll be a hoot trying to get everything I had transferred and feeling/looking the same. I get quite OCD about my favourite apps and Google has stopped supporting most of them years ago!Omnium said:@Plato
A recommendation re dvd capture on prev thread. (MakeMKV)
You shouldn't have ANY codec packs installed on Win7/8 all you need is mpc-hc and if it gets stroppy with any MKV file, possibly Haalli (Matroska) Spiltter.
These days with a decent graphics card, mpc-hc will play pretty much any common format from built in filters using hardware decoding on the graphics card. VLC will of course play absolutely everything using software and so should be your backup player.
I use anysoft anyDVDHD to remove the region coding on my drive, and it can rip to disk for you. Then you pass the files through makemkv.
If you can find a copy dvddecryptor for may work on your already ripped files.
For audio I use dBpoweramp as a ripper to create lossless (and perfect) copies, and then play everything through Squeezebox. It was trying to achieve something similar for video that lead me down the current path.
I've experimented with the slysoft route, but mostly I prefer not having all the menus to negotiate when I want to watch a film. (And Blu-ray menu support is tricky to find anyway)
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Didn't that use to be the other way round?
It's plausible that the online pollsters have applied some of their weightings too strongly in an attempt to correct for the "panel effect", so are now overdoing it.
Interesting that it's the two online pollsters who produce polls most often who are at the far extreme of the distribution. If you were to produce a similar plot with one bar for every individual poll for November so far then you would have a very different distribution skewed towards the polls that are conducted most often.0 -
i was told it was illegal to fly a Jolly Roger in my garden from my flagpole - how I could commit an act of piracy 5 miles inland remains a mystery. The last time I needed a jetty was about 200yr ago.
This just sums up the idiocy of where we now are - Kippers who get annoyed about this have my full and husband frightening backingBut whatever may be the done thing in Dartmouth Park, it is hard to see many other councils regarding a tacky, scruffy and assertive draping of flags over most of the front of the house as being in keeping with the neighbourhood. This is surely particularly so when, as seems to have been the case here, some local residents – apparently some of “the ethnic minorities” – have expressed reservations about them.
So even the England flags may be illegal.
But that is not the end of the matter, because Mr Ware is not only displaying two flags of St George, he is also displaying a West Ham Football Club flag.
Potentially this could land him in even hotter water for a number of reasons. The obvious point is that a West Ham FC flag is certainly not in keeping with local “cultural features,” (the local football team being not West Ham but the less glamorous Gillingham Town FC).
And although sporting flags can be allowed without planning permission, the rules about flying them are much stricter than the rules about the display of national flags.
Somewhat bizarrely, while the law surrounding the hanging of an England flag is a little ambiguous, there is no such fuzziness over the West Ham flag. It is illegal to hang it outside your house unless either it has been expressly authorised by the Council, or if it is flown from a flagpole.
The law could not be clearer, although it does take a little ferretting out. Under Schedule 3 of the 2007 regulations, as amended in 2012, a flag “bearing the device of any sports club” is deemed to have planning permission if, but only if, it is:
“attached to a single flagstaff ….”
There are some detailed rules about where the flagstaff can be put but these need not trouble us now. In the absence of a flagstaff, Mr Ware’s West Ham flag requires express planning permission. If he did not obtain it (and an online search of planning applications for flags in Medway does not reveal any such application) he is guilty of a criminal offence.Scott_P said:Emily was right. Ed is a plonker...
@EmmaDixon_Green: Brilliant & funny by @Barristerblog on #Thornberry & why Ed is (as Holden Caulfield would say) a phoney
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Never argue with an idiot.SquareRoot said:
Big mistake SB, lowering yourself to their level.. There are loons on the www. Nothing you can do to change that. They are WAITING for a reaction.. best not feed their trolling.Swiss_Bob said:
And you're a weasel, a cowardly weasel who smears people and then runs away.bigjohnowls said:
Oh dear you really are beyond contempt.Swiss_Bob said:
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.
They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.....
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what you been watching today degenerateTheWatcher said:I see today's red faced resident angry Scot has spent the afternoon knocking back the Turps and spouting vitriol. What a sad specimen.
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You wrote this earlier on, we feel it is unacceptable.Swiss_Bob said:
I threatened no violence, malcolmg is lying.PBModerator said:In the past, we've given bans to posters who threaten violence towards other posters.
Also we've given bans to posters who have aimed abusive language to others posters.
So posters should bear that in mind.
The spam trap has been updated and it will now automatically ban anyone who uses seriously bad language/repeatedly bad language on the site, this includes swear words with asterisks/symbols in them.
Any comments on the tax status of Lewis Hamilton or Myleene Klass now needs to come with a link from reputable news site.
Anyone unable to comply with the above, may find themselves facing a long enforced break from the site.
"How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once."
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Please don't add Cuckoo, or Turnip to the list, else we might lose Malcolm.PBModerator said:In the past, we've given bans to posters who threaten violence towards other posters.
Also we've given bans to posters who have aimed abusive language to others posters.
So posters should bear that in mind.
The spam trap has been updated and it will now automatically ban anyone who uses seriously bad language/repeatedly bad language on the site, this includes swear words with asterisks/symbols in them.
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Show me where Bob?Swiss_Bob said:
Only after you smeared them and ran away without justifying your comments, even when politely asked to.bigjohnowls said:
Who have I smeared, people who have called me a cowardly gobshite weasel?Swiss_Bob said:
And you're a weasel, a cowardly weasel who smears people and then runs away.bigjohnowls said:
Oh dear you really are beyond contempt.Swiss_Bob said:
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.
Seriously i only ever use derogatory words in posts that have been used against me as per my last post.
If I have overstepped that i apologise.
Anyway just had Toby Perkins at the door.
I nominate him to take my place in the ring in your proposed rumble he is a brick outhouse -for the avoidance of doubt this is a joke.
I don't do violence.
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Your point isMonikerDiCanio said:
I seem to remember Salmond hailing English resident Andy Murray as a great Scot.malcolmg said:
pass the sick bucket, we have a champion who used to live in the country but chooses to live elsewhere for financial reasons. I should be on my knees praising the lord that he was born in Britain so that clowns like you can claim Britain has a world champion, how desperate can you get.Flightpath said:
Vitriol like calling a British world champion a 'rat'.CarlottaVance said:
Why? Need to up their game? Are you offering lessons?malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here
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Well, the previous post is a coincidence. I have just been banned from UK Polling.
However, that was for saying Ed Miliband is not fit to run the fish counter in the Co-oP.
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I replied to you several times asking you to point out my comments that would justify what you said which ascribed to me opinions I have never expressed.bigjohnowls said:
Show me where Bob?Swiss_Bob said:
Only after you smeared them and ran away without justifying your comments, even when politely asked to.bigjohnowls said:
Who have I smeared, people who have called me a cowardly gobshite weasel?Swiss_Bob said:
And you're a weasel, a cowardly weasel who smears people and then runs away.bigjohnowls said:
Oh dear you really are beyond contempt.Swiss_Bob said:
Another stinking hypocrite.malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here , yet when answered back in any fashion they cry like big babies. What is it about bullying right wingers that makes them such jessies when on the receiving end.
Mr Smithson, TSE,
How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once.
That's you malcomlg and you 'big' JO.
Seriously i only ever use derogatory words in posts that have been used against me as per my last post.
If I have overstepped that i apologise.
Anyway just had Toby Perkins at the door.
I nominate him to take my place in the ring in your proposed rumble he is a brick outhouse -for the avoidance of doubt this is a joke.
I don't do violence.
I'm not going to bother repeating it again but if that's some kind of apology it is accepted.
Let's move on.
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LOL, sad bitter twisted ex -Scot resorts to the personal insults she is always whining about, nice company you keep as you cannot get lower than creepy.CarlottaVance said:
I know....between you and me...I don't think malcolm is quite the full shilling....TheWatcher said:
He lives in Monaco. How is that changing nationality?CarlottaVance said:0 -
British sportsman Lewis Hamilton winning the F1 World Championship.malcolmg said:
what you been watching today degenerateTheWatcher said:I see today's red faced resident angry Scot has spent the afternoon knocking back the Turps and spouting vitriol. What a sad specimen.
You?0 -
they jsut make up swear words for me when it suits.Eastwinger said:
Please don't add Cuckoo, or Turnip to the list, else we might lose Malcolm.PBModerator said:In the past, we've given bans to posters who threaten violence towards other posters.
Also we've given bans to posters who have aimed abusive language to others posters.
So posters should bear that in mind.
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A child of five would have no trouble grasping my point. Are you OK?malcolmg said:
Your point isMonikerDiCanio said:
I seem to remember Salmond hailing English resident Andy Murray as a great Scot.malcolmg said:
pass the sick bucket, we have a champion who used to live in the country but chooses to live elsewhere for financial reasons. I should be on my knees praising the lord that he was born in Britain so that clowns like you can claim Britain has a world champion, how desperate can you get.Flightpath said:
Vitriol like calling a British world champion a 'rat'.CarlottaVance said:
Why? Need to up their game? Are you offering lessons?malcolmg said:It is quite astonishing the vitriol and hatred that right wingers spew out here
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yo malc hows life in caledonia ?malcolmg said:
they jsut make up swear words for me when it suits.Eastwinger said:
Please don't add Cuckoo, or Turnip to the list, else we might lose Malcolm.PBModerator said:In the past, we've given bans to posters who threaten violence towards other posters.
Also we've given bans to posters who have aimed abusive language to others posters.
So posters should bear that in mind.
The spam trap has been updated and it will now automatically ban anyone who uses seriously bad language/repeatedly bad language on the site, this includes swear words with asterisks/symbols in them.0 -
OK. I Won't do it again.PBModerator said:
You wrote this earlier on, we feel it is unacceptable.Swiss_Bob said:
I threatened no violence, malcolmg is lying.PBModerator said:In the past, we've given bans to posters who threaten violence towards other posters.
Also we've given bans to posters who have aimed abusive language to others posters.
So posters should bear that in mind.
The spam trap has been updated and it will now automatically ban anyone who uses seriously bad language/repeatedly bad language on the site, this includes swear words with asterisks/symbols in them.
Any comments on the tax status of Lewis Hamilton or Myleene Klass now needs to come with a link from reputable news site.
Anyone unable to comply with the above, may find themselves facing a long enforced break from the site.
"How about the next PB meet up in a boxing club? You could charge entry and run the book.
I volunteer to take both gobshites on, one at a time or both at once."
In fairness, offering a sporting contest in a boxing ring is hardly a threat of violence. I will not do it again.
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Wasn't that Marven [sp] Medium? Water soluble and very sticky but when dry you could spend ages peeling it off your palms?
I liked Copydex - hours of fun with that. It's very useful to blank out watercolours or places you want to keep out of an inked space when drawing or decorating.Moses_ said:Plato said:Sometimes I genuinely worry if you spent too much time with Evostik as a youngster.
In the many stupid comments made on here - I will remember this one of yours.surbiton said:
Why did Harry congratulate him ? Why are we making heroes of tax dodgers ? Caroline of Monaco should have been there. If Grace was alive, there would have been a glittering reception when he returns "home".Swiss_Bob said:
I believe he moved to Monaco some time ago.TGOHF said:@pollytoynbee: @DAaronovitch @tracey_crouch Shouldn't Hamilton fly the Swiss flag, as that's where he avoids paying UK tax?
As usual PT is wrong.
Back in the 60's in school for junior projects there was a white paste like glue in a light blue container with a white top. The spreader was attached to the the lid inside. It smelt of almonds and we all loved the smell I mean we just all did......
Can't remember the name but whenever juniors took the lid off we all "sniffed it"
We're we the first glue sniffers?? Shock !!0 -
surbiton said:
Belated congratulations to the tax dodger !!CarlottaVance said:BBC News leading with Hamilton news......curiously enough no mention of his tax residence status.....pointing out that he's the first Brit in 40 years - since Sir Jackie Stewart - to win two world titles.
They keep saying he's a "Briton" - malcolm claims he's Monaguesque.....
I think Boris now wishes he also was a Monagasque !
It's easy enough for Hamilton to claim that a Monaco base is most conventient for travel when he races all over the World.
It is hard to prove anyone's motivation for doing something. Proving Hamilton lives in Monaco for tax purpsoes rather than for ease of travel and the climate is hard to do - as it would be to show about anyone.
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Tim, you must be either a genius or a dimwit, thanks for educating me. I am not 5 years old , think you have ingested too much hormone laden beef over there and addled your brains.Tim_B said:@MalcolmG - the country where you live has no relation to your nationality.
If you are a high income earner it makes sense to have residence in a low tax domicile.0
