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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
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Afternoon, perusing the local newsagent I happened to espy the headline of the "Sunday Sport"
"Man has sex with a Tesco value lasagne"
It was the "value" that got me.
"Man has sex with a Tesco value lasagne"
It was the "value" that got me.
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Cheap date?HindleA wrote:Afternoon, perusing the local newsagent I happened to espy the headline of the "Sunday Sport"
"Man has sex with a Tesco value lasagne"
It was the "value" that got me.
I'm here all week.
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Well it clearly was, wasn't it?HindleA wrote:Afternoon, perusing the local newsagent I happened to espy the headline of the "Sunday Sport"
"Man has sex with a Tesco value lasagne"
It was the "value" that got me.
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Cheap git!HindleA wrote:Afternoon, perusing the local newsagent I happened to espy the headline of the "Sunday Sport"
"Man has sex with a Tesco value lasagne"
It was the "value" that got me.
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I forgot to greet you all earlier, it has just occurred to me. Sorry - terrible manners!
Good afternoon.
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Had a delicious Sunday roast dinner, now sat on the sofa in front of the fire watching Quatermass [[Sp?] and the Pit. Or at least that's what Mr Ohso said it was called.
Hate the darker days, but sometimes there are compensations.
Hate the darker days, but sometimes there are compensations.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
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Going to see a Mr.Skinner in a Chesterfield book shop in a couple of weeks,due to popular demand he is appearing again in a book signing session.
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I would wait to see who replaced him, and would urge anybody who thinks like the above to do the same.pk1 wrote:Hey guys & gals, we're not alone !
Page 5 of today's UKPR has quotes from people declaring that they joined Labour because of Ed M & if he was to be forced out, they would resign their membership !!
The post on page 4 that prompted the comments said:
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archi ... ent-944644" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Come on. You’ve gotta be joking.
Oh and who exactly is going to replace Ed and lead Labour to victory next May?
If Ed, who I voted for, is replaced then I’ll cancel my membership.
I can’t be the only Labour Party Member who feels this way.
BTW, I joined in May 2010 to register my opposition to the Coalition.
Mr Wells has banished me to the naughty step (again !) for arguing with a right-whinger (wot d'ya mean I can't spell ?!) yesterday so I've had to 're-invent' myself over there today
If it was one of the Blairite/minimalist tendency, though, then game over. Have to say the Greens would look rather attractive to me then
"IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS???!!!!111???!!!"
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SUSAN SIMPSON @smartysue 29m29 minutes ago
Cannot believe @CarolineLucas was on TV joining in the Ed witch hunt this morning .. Any admiration I ever had has gone !
Cannot believe @CarolineLucas was on TV joining in the Ed witch hunt this morning .. Any admiration I ever had has gone !
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Quatermass [double Sp?] and the Pit ? - is it a history of the conservative party ?ohsocynical wrote:Had a delicious Sunday roast dinner, now sat on the sofa in front of the fire watching Quatermass [[Sp?] and the Pit. Or at least that's what Mr Ohso said it was called.
Hate the darker days, but sometimes there are compensations.
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Yes, there are - I agree with that. For one thing it allows me to indulge and imagine indulging in all kinds of 'heartier' meals. I've been sitting here pondering what I can conjure up for tonight that justifies me making onion gravy .... just got that craving.ohsocynical wrote:Had a delicious Sunday roast dinner, now sat on the sofa in front of the fire watching Quatermass [[Sp?] and the Pit. Or at least that's what Mr Ohso said it was called.
Hate the darker days, but sometimes there are compensations.
It's my birthday today but I'm not letting Mr Riots near the kitchen. His latest culinary episode - 2 nights ago - left the kitchen and me feeling rather battered. He was late to start ... a typical and usually ominous sign. Then - already quite hungry - I heard a series of expletives which got louder and louder. I put my head into the kitchen - 'the f****ing bottled gas has run out' was snarled at me. I withdrew. (The bottled gas lasts for years - so, yes, a pretty bad catch on the rare night he cooks.) A short while later more expletives and serious bashing sounds. I ventured into the kitchen doorway. He was kicking at the vent system on the Rayburn, slamming down the hotplate lids and hissed at me 'f****ing Rayburn, why does it always take so long to rev up'. I suggested it might be quicker to use our camping hotplate (proved invaluable on anti cull duties ...). Incoherent hiss - something along the lines of - yes, I'm not daft, I can work that out for myself thank you, I'm doing it my way and won't be opting for that now unless it's an absolute last resort ...
Shortly afterwards I heard the flick, flick of the camping hotplate being lit.
I would have eaten virtually anything - and said not a word about it - by the time it was delivered. And I did.
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Checked SUSAN SIMPSON and found this on her pageohsocynical wrote:SUSAN SIMPSON @smartysue 29m29 minutes ago
Cannot believe @CarolineLucas was on TV joining in the Ed witch hunt this morning .. Any admiration I ever had has gone !
Gracie Samuels @GracieSamuels · 38m38 minutes ago
#bedroomtax came in force 1/4/13. Miliband announced Lab wld repeal it on 25/4/13 where did Lamont's12mths come from? http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/103 ... ter_visit/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
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Happy Birthday RebeccaRiots2. Many Happy Returns.
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People stood and clapped as Badger Army Protest hit Oxford High Street. Strong feeling against culling @David_Cameron
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Happy birthday from me as wellHindleA wrote:Happy Birthday RebeccaRiots2. Many Happy Returns.
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Happy Birthday from me too!
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Ekklesia report on DWP fit for work service: who benefits
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/files/fit_for ... efits_.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Edited to add information.
Of interest to those in work but requiring time off for medical treatment/illness.
Comes into effect Novenber 2014
(Unsure exactly how this works and who it will affect.)
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/files/fit_for ... efits_.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Edited to add information.
Of interest to those in work but requiring time off for medical treatment/illness.
Comes into effect Novenber 2014
(Unsure exactly how this works and who it will affect.)
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How on earth can IDS substantiate £7bn UC savings?
http://ilegal.org.uk/thread/8835" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://ilegal.org.uk/thread/8835" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Thank you all muchly for the happy returns.
The irony is - would you believe it - I'm sitting here putting off doing the preparation for sorting out my f****ing tax return.
The irony is - would you believe it - I'm sitting here putting off doing the preparation for sorting out my f****ing tax return.
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Happy Birthday Rebecca
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Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
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Households are being left in the cold by prepayment meters.
http://www.independent.co.uk/money/spen ... 17524.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.independent.co.uk/money/spen ... 17524.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Happy Birthday RR2! hope you've had a lovely day, and your year will bring you all you wish for.
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I wish I understood those figures a bit better. I certainly get the general gist though ... the unanswered questions.seeingclearly wrote:How on earth can IDS substantiate £7bn UC savings?
http://ilegal.org.uk/thread/8835" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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No and sadly for Quatermass the government cut the funding for the British rocket project.AngryAsWell wrote:Quatermass [double Sp?] and the Pit ? - is it a history of the conservative party ?ohsocynical wrote:Had a delicious Sunday roast dinner, now sat on the sofa in front of the fire watching Quatermass [[Sp?] and the Pit. Or at least that's what Mr Ohso said it was called.
Hate the darker days, but sometimes there are compensations.
To date the UK remains the only country in the world to have developed the capability to launch satellites and then voluntarily discarded it.
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http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/o ... s-c4-drama" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Hope Mark Gatiss plays him a character from League of Gentlemen, and pity the poor bastard who take on the role of Nick Clegg in any
re-enactment of the days post 2010 GE, on a hiding to nothing.
Hope Mark Gatiss plays him a character from League of Gentlemen, and pity the poor bastard who take on the role of Nick Clegg in any
re-enactment of the days post 2010 GE, on a hiding to nothing.
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Yes, it is absolutely shocking.seeingclearly wrote:Households are being left in the cold by prepayment meters.
http://www.independent.co.uk/money/spen ... 17524.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Even more amazingly the UK Smart Metering project will, at DECC's insistence (DECC being run by big Energy), allow the remote disconnect of every home in the UK.
This decision has added a ton of cost ( paid for by consumers) and a shed load of security risk to the project, and the UK infrastructure. For what exactly?
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Penblwydd Hapus/Happy Birthday to RebeccaRiots.
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I agree. The smart meter stuff looks very very questionable - and will probably have more downsides than upsides for most people.TechnicalEphemera wrote:Yes, it is absolutely shocking.seeingclearly wrote:Households are being left in the cold by prepayment meters.
http://www.independent.co.uk/money/spen ... 17524.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Even more amazingly the UK Smart Metering project will, at DECC's insistence (DECC being run by big Energy), allow the remote disconnect of every home in the UK.
This decision has added a ton of cost ( paid for by consumers) and a shed load of security risk to the project, and the UK infrastructure. For what exactly?
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Oh well, I've just finished preparing dinner...son#s on his way back from the NFL at Wembley...we think it was his team that won in the dying seconds so he should be happy.rebeccariots2 wrote:Thank you all muchly for the happy returns.
The irony is - would you believe it - I'm sitting here putting off doing the preparation for sorting out my f****ing tax return.
Happy Birthday!
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seeingclearly wrote:How on earth can IDS substantiate £7bn UC savings?
http://ilegal.org.uk/thread/8835" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I have seen various statements; 9/7billion from more people going to work ;38 billion/35 billion overall over ten years.It must one of IDS's arbitrary figures.
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Just followed Microscopic Images and scrolling down the page found this
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Never used it, but somehow its just how I would expect it to look ...
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Never used it, but somehow its just how I would expect it to look ...
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Well, whichever team he supports it was an amazing game.RogerOThornhill wrote:Oh well, I've just finished preparing dinner...son#s on his way back from the NFL at Wembley...we think it was his team that won in the dying seconds so he should be happy.rebeccariots2 wrote:Thank you all muchly for the happy returns.
The irony is - would you believe it - I'm sitting here putting off doing the preparation for sorting out my f****ing tax return.
Happy Birthday!
Equal biggest comeback in NFL history.
And I have never seen a team miss a field goal but get to take it again (5 yards further back) because they incurred a delay of game penalty.
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Hi all, still reading and lurking. My new job is challenging beyond belief - I have one more week with the incumbent manager who's going on a round the world trek - and then I'm on my own...
The number of subjects that I have to make sure I know: Active Directory, pivot tables, various import/export routines, cloud based email spam software and a Progress based ERP system (amongst the highlights) is absolutely terrifying. At the moment I'm reconsidering atheism on the basis that even vague promises of help from the supernatural might be handy.
Thanks to everyone who keeps posting. You're all stars. Keep kicking your local CLP (where appropriate). If enough of us get stuck Labour will change, as it will have to. I bet UKIP's recent rah-rahing and successes have turned the tables on the Blairites. No point tacking further rightwards, so where to go..? Answers on a postcard please.
The number of subjects that I have to make sure I know: Active Directory, pivot tables, various import/export routines, cloud based email spam software and a Progress based ERP system (amongst the highlights) is absolutely terrifying. At the moment I'm reconsidering atheism on the basis that even vague promises of help from the supernatural might be handy.
Thanks to everyone who keeps posting. You're all stars. Keep kicking your local CLP (where appropriate). If enough of us get stuck Labour will change, as it will have to. I bet UKIP's recent rah-rahing and successes have turned the tables on the Blairites. No point tacking further rightwards, so where to go..? Answers on a postcard please.
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Hello Ernst. Good to hear from you. Alive and definitely kicking here.ErnstRemarx wrote:Hi all, still reading and lurking. My new job is challenging beyond belief - I have one more week with the incumbent manager who's going on a round the world trek - and then I'm on my own...
The number of subjects that I have to make sure I know: Active Directory, pivot tables, various import/export routines, cloud based email spam software and a Progress based ERP system (amongst the highlights) is absolutely terrifying. At the moment I'm reconsidering atheism on the basis that even vague promises of help from the supernatural might be handy.
Thanks to everyone who keeps posting. You're all stars. Keep kicking your local CLP (where appropriate). If enough of us get stuck Labour will change, as it will have to. I bet UKIP's recent rah-rahing and successes have turned the tables on the Blairites. No point tacking further rightwards, so where to go..? Answers on a postcard please.
What is this extremely complicated / techy sounding job?
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Now to make myself really unpopular!TechnicalEphemera wrote:Well, whichever team he supports it was an amazing game.RogerOThornhill wrote:Oh well, I've just finished preparing dinner...son#s on his way back from the NFL at Wembley...we think it was his team that won in the dying seconds so he should be happy.rebeccariots2 wrote:Thank you all muchly for the happy returns.
The irony is - would you believe it - I'm sitting here putting off doing the preparation for sorting out my f****ing tax return.
Happy Birthday!
Equal biggest comeback in NFL history.
And I have never seen a team miss a field goal but get to take it again (5 yards further back) because they incurred a delay of game penalty.
In a proper football match it was a superb game and the best Manchester United performance for a since the end of season 2012-2013.
I'll duck now!
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Hey, don't go.rearofthestore wrote: Now to make myself really unpopular!
In a proper football match it was a superb game and the best Manchester United performance for a since the end of season 2012-2013.
I'll duck now!
I agree it was the best we've played this season & the point feels like a win, such was my belief that we were going to get dicked 4-0 !
City away next - gulp
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Happy Birthday Rebecca
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I used to hate pivot tables but since Excel 2010 came out they've been a doddle.ErnstRemarx wrote:Hi all, still reading and lurking. My new job is challenging beyond belief - I have one more week with the incumbent manager who's going on a round the world trek - and then I'm on my own...
The number of subjects that I have to make sure I know: Active Directory, pivot tables, various import/export routines, cloud based email spam software and a Progress based ERP system (amongst the highlights) is absolutely terrifying. At the moment I'm reconsidering atheism on the basis that even vague promises of help from the supernatural might be handy.
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Oh you mean Soccer, that game played by highly paid foreigners who roll around the floor like they have been murdered if somebody so much sneezes at them.pk1 wrote:Hey, don't go.rearofthestore wrote: Now to make myself really unpopular!
In a proper football match it was a superb game and the best Manchester United performance for a since the end of season 2012-2013.
I'll duck now!
I agree it was the best we've played this season & the point feels like a win, such was my belief that we were going to get dicked 4-0 !
City away next - gulp
Man U were average, but they got lucky. Chelsea were far far better in the second half (but didn't score enough). The lad Shaw looks decent, but the Man U subs bench is embarrassing. By all accounts Chelsea were robbed of a penalty by Man U fanboy Dowd.
Sadly my preferred result (both sides lose) never happens. And no it wasn't as exciting as the finale of the NFL game (I don't care about those teams either).
Man City will probably murder Man U (best hire big Sam now).
Football it seems really is the opium of the masses.
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Ah yes, Soccer the name given to a game played and enjoyed by the rest of the world by a non-footballing nation.Oh you mean Soccer, that game played by highly paid foreigners who roll around the floor like they have been murdered if somebody so much sneezes at them.
I'd better duck again!
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A non footballing nation with a World Cup team that was considerably more successful than ours last time out.rearofthestore wrote:Ah yes, Soccer the name given to a game played and enjoyed by the rest of the world by a non-footballing nation.Oh you mean Soccer, that game played by highly paid foreigners who roll around the floor like they have been murdered if somebody so much sneezes at them.
I'd better duck again!
Edited to add
By the way how about the Women's game, not too shabby there either.
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In celebration of the Centre for Social Justice
http://www.conservativehome.com/thetory ... stice.html
Worth reading as a bit of insight into how others perceive their actions and consequences ... might have equally graced Lib Dem Voice.... IDS’s elevation is, in many ways, the CSJ’s. From the Universal Credit to tackling modern slavery to measuring “social value”, their work now inflects whole sections of the Government’s policy agenda. And, increasingly, it’s former CSJ staff who are called on to implement it. There’s a case that they have been the most influential think-tank of this Parliament. They are certainly the most necessary: a corrective to the persistent idea that the Tories are a party of, for and by the rich.
What next? One challenge that the CSJ might face in 2015 is a change of government. They will surely influence any Tory Party that emerges from the next election, but could they do the same for a Labour administration too? Their work is non-partisan, and much of emerges from their conversations with those in the charitable sector, so it should retain its potency. But the question remains whether Miliband & Co. will be able to see beyond the associations with IDS.
A second challenge is that of implementation. The CSJ cannot be blamed for Universal Credit’s difficult progress through Whitehall’s computer systems. No siree, that’s government’s fault. But there may be something in the idea of think-tanks working more closely with civil servants, or former civil servants, as they develop their ideas. The Dynamic Benefits report could barely have been more detailed, so I only mean this as a general point. It’s just that think-tanks do want to have their polices put into practice...
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Editing to add this quote from his post:Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · 3h 3 hours ago
New post
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My view is that with the main parties looking so weak then the personalities and records of individual candidates will matter more than ever before thus adding to the overall uncertainty.
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Corporations have become truly nasty & repressive. The problem with the status quo, as they say, is that it's not static. It's getting worse
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What I don't understand is how @picturehouses could make 92 staff redundant, without then hiring new people to do the same jobs?
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Hadn't seen Labour's Lyons Report on housebuilding.
Seems to have got a decent reception. Obvious problem that council's cap on borrowing won't be lifted, per Ed Balls, whose point I can see. But it's a mistake.
Seems to have got a decent reception. Obvious problem that council's cap on borrowing won't be lifted, per Ed Balls, whose point I can see. But it's a mistake.
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The CSJ is a bunch of cronies.
It's like Policy Exchange, picking its "experts".
It's like Policy Exchange, picking its "experts".
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Another of those Westminster never done a proper job in their life sorts selected.
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Ex striking miner (and in Nottinghamshire) and Deputy Leader of Sheffield Council.
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Ex striking miner (and in Nottinghamshire) and Deputy Leader of Sheffield Council.
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Re: Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th October 2014
Would have been talking about a year from when it was announced, or voted upon, I guess.AngryAsWell wrote:Checked SUSAN SIMPSON and found this on her pageohsocynical wrote:SUSAN SIMPSON @smartysue 29m29 minutes ago
Cannot believe @CarolineLucas was on TV joining in the Ed witch hunt this morning .. Any admiration I ever had has gone !
Gracie Samuels @GracieSamuels · 38m38 minutes ago
#bedroomtax came in force 1/4/13. Miliband announced Lab wld repeal it on 25/4/13 where did Lamont's12mths come from? http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/103 ... ter_visit/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
He voted against, didn't he? Worth saying that there was all sorts of money promised in the meantime. LAs found it wasn't enough.