Hope you didn't get the 1.2, I rented one last year and while the car was nice the engine was terrible.
I'd like my mum back, but I suppose realistically I'll go for the government being less of a set of stupid dicks about gay marriage.
This christmas is going to be really sad either way.
This christmas is going to be really sad either way.
Oh I'm not playing any game that has quick time events, **** that. I started the first part of the single-player in BF3 and stopped when it immediately threw up a QTE. No thank you.
What a stupid thing to do. ****ing pointless.
What a stupid thing to do. ****ing pointless.
Far Cry 2 was gash. There were a few enjoyable fights in there but way too much tossing around, endless dull commutes from one location to another, no real explanation about what the conflict is about or what your role is or why your character is happy to work for anyone and switch sides at the drop of a hat (your character is a complete arsehole?), it was a real half-baked game.
I was thinking about trying Far Cry 3 because I'd heard it wasn't much like Far Cry 2, but now I'm hearing it's got a lot of the same AI problems from the original Far Cry which made the game frustrating. I might not bother.
Arsenal wouldn't be performing any better with a different manager. Look at his transfer spending over the last 10 years - very little money has been available to spend without selling players first, and yet they've qualified for the Champions League every season.
The team are under-performing at the moment and they would probably be a couple of places higher if they still had RVP but they don't, and that's not something Wenger had any control over.
Who would you replace him with and what would you expect the replacement manager to do to improve matters? The only other manager in England who's out-performed his budget as routinely as Wenger is David Moyes.
The team are under-performing at the moment and they would probably be a couple of places higher if they still had RVP but they don't, and that's not something Wenger had any control over.
Who would you replace him with and what would you expect the replacement manager to do to improve matters? The only other manager in England who's out-performed his budget as routinely as Wenger is David Moyes.
Yeah that's lame, trading on the brand, they'll end up being the sort of company that sells more T shirts than hardware.
I would love a Minimoog. I used to play in a band with a guy who had - I think - everything they'd ever made, and the Minimoog was my favourite. So easy to get brilliant sounds out of it. Keyboard was a bit cheap feeling but I'm not a keyboard player so I didn't care.
I would love a Minimoog. I used to play in a band with a guy who had - I think - everything they'd ever made, and the Minimoog was my favourite. So easy to get brilliant sounds out of it. Keyboard was a bit cheap feeling but I'm not a keyboard player so I didn't care.
So much more convenient than a Taurus unit though. Who really wants organ pedals? Silly Moog. They did a limited run of a new Taurus design a couple of years ago and I just thought, who's going to buy these?
Of course they sold out immediately. What do I know.
Of course they sold out immediately. What do I know.
Mmm special blend bacon...
Jibber wins the thread. I had a go on one of these in a shop recently and I ended up playing with it for about an hour! Awesome, awesome bassline synth, sounds so massive.
Spensive booze, that.
Waiting at a light getting off the M1 this morning I saw a Jack Daniels bottle lying in the grass at the side of the road, looked like it had been tossed out of a driver's side window.
Waiting at a light getting off the M1 this morning I saw a Jack Daniels bottle lying in the grass at the side of the road, looked like it had been tossed out of a driver's side window.
Just saw it on the BBC website. Well done Vale!
I think LFS might have been the first sim I played. Can't remember how I found it or why I went looking for it. I think I was looking for an Archimedes emulator so I could play Saloon Cars.
The situation can't be resolved while Western governments are still interfering. That's what caused the current situation and it's what's prolonging it.
Whether Israel can survive without its USA-funded military I don't know, but while it's a politically unwelcome thing to say, it seems Israel existing is the main problem.
Look at Rwanda and Sudan - sometimes the only solution is to let them kill eachother until they sort it out amongst themselves. Any intervention just prolongs the violence.
Whether Israel can survive without its USA-funded military I don't know, but while it's a politically unwelcome thing to say, it seems Israel existing is the main problem.
Look at Rwanda and Sudan - sometimes the only solution is to let them kill eachother until they sort it out amongst themselves. Any intervention just prolongs the violence.
When I see someone like Ibrahimovic on the ball it leaves me baffled as to why anyone has ever called Rooney 'world class'.
I actually think Carroll could develop into a player like him. Big, good with both feet, works hard, why not.
I actually think Carroll could develop into a player like him. Big, good with both feet, works hard, why not.
It's increasingly difficult to tolerate Catholicism.
Sorry to be the internet grammar nazi but words that end in S do not routinely require apostrophes. It's simple enough to understand where they belong, just look it up and spend five minutes reading about it.
All that chart shows you is how little 50% of people in the UK make.
It's a chart showing what the proportion would be if those people all paid the tax they were supposed to pay. Did the top 1% actually pay 50% on all their income?
If they did, I will give you a Bentley.
It's a chart showing what the proportion would be if those people all paid the tax they were supposed to pay. Did the top 1% actually pay 50% on all their income?
If they did, I will give you a Bentley.
This is entirely down to pictures of tits, not political opinions.
Can anyone here say that they think, for example, Ed Milliband; David Cameron; Nick Clegg; Harriet Harman; Gideon Osborne; Boris Johnson; John Redwood or for god's sake Jacob Rees-Mogg are trustworthy and honest, and the best people to run the country?
Becky with regard to business owners - I see nothing wrong with being self-employed or employing other people (or I would see nothing wrong with it in the fairer society I would build). Yes a solution as off-hand as excluding millionaires from parliament is difficult in practice and arguably somewhat questionable in principle too, but unfortunately those people have too large an advantage over other potential candidates, in elections as in any other aspect of life.
It was just an off-the-cuff proposal to fix something that is obviously wrong, maybe there are better ways to do it. Step one in any case would be to attempt a true grass-roots campaign to provide at least one independent candidate in every constituency in 2015, a local who is trusted by his/her peers, and use the web and the media to see how much we can shrink the domination of the major parties, and hopefully provide better representation of women and minorities at the same time.
It's not a radical idea at all I know that, but now is obviously the best time in history to attempt it.
Becky with regard to business owners - I see nothing wrong with being self-employed or employing other people (or I would see nothing wrong with it in the fairer society I would build). Yes a solution as off-hand as excluding millionaires from parliament is difficult in practice and arguably somewhat questionable in principle too, but unfortunately those people have too large an advantage over other potential candidates, in elections as in any other aspect of life.
It was just an off-the-cuff proposal to fix something that is obviously wrong, maybe there are better ways to do it. Step one in any case would be to attempt a true grass-roots campaign to provide at least one independent candidate in every constituency in 2015, a local who is trusted by his/her peers, and use the web and the media to see how much we can shrink the domination of the major parties, and hopefully provide better representation of women and minorities at the same time.
It's not a radical idea at all I know that, but now is obviously the best time in history to attempt it.
In a free market you pay your labour force as little as possible - they're just another supplier. If you don't realise this then you are very naive. Why do you think Tescos were taking on 'apprentices' to work in their warehouses for £2 an hour? Is that the trickle-down in action? That is one slow ****ing trickle.
I don't either. I also don't think they should be given the keys to the UK and told to do what they want with it.
Do you actually know anything at all? Anything?
When the 50p rate was introduced, the most right-wing tories argued that this would put the burden of raising over 25% of income tax on the richest 1% of the population, and declared that this was unfair.
Did those people actually pay over 25% of income tax revenue for that year? Was there ever any likelihood that they would even if the exchequer required them to? Of course not. The top earners in the UK take the vast proportion of their incomes through dividends, leaving their businesses to pay corporation tax to cover their profits instead at a considerably lower rate (24% at most), and indeed they are unlikely to even pay that - look at how the tax affairs of the multinationals have been exposed in recent months.
If you want to talk about what's fair: The fact that a few hunded thousand people are even capable of paying a quarter of the income tax for a given year is unfair.
Anyway, you've got enough threads that you've turned into a soapbox for your half-baked ideas about how the super-rich are doing us all a massive favour, maybe you can **** off to one of those threads so I don't have to call you an idiot in this one.
It's simply a proposition to keep people who may be (or you could say 'who demonstrably are') tempted to govern with their private financial considerations in mind, out of office.
There are already people who aren't allowed to be electoral candidates. Police officers and soldiers for a start. I think it might extend to all civil servants actually.
You also have an odd definition of the word 'success'. It's used by rich people to glorify rich people and skip over the bit where they exploited a lot of poor people and kept them poor in order to make a massive financial gain for themselves. And you're ignoring those who inherited their wealth or made their money by using inherited wealth. And you're ignoring the fact that these independently wealthy people were all fiddling their expenses and arguing that there should be no regulation in the financial system. I wonder how they arrived at that decision...
Becky's right - it's the private interests getting their claws into public servants that create a crooked government that doesn't serve its people. Party funding is a big problem but when a minister arrives in the commons and he comes replete with his own private financial interests it's not a good place to start. They should not be allowed the power to govern because they cannot be trusted not to use it to further their own interests.
The current crop of MPs are the least trustworthy I've ever seen.
Becky's point about party whips is another accurate point, but personally I would rather go further and abolish the formation of political parties in the first place. The whip is a problem but party politicking is made much easier when the party dictates which candidates will stand in every seat - you rarely need to coerce your MPs to vote to support the party when you've hand-picked your MPs in the first place.
I suppose it would sound like that to someone who doesn't know what communism or socialism are.
I'm proposing a more democratic house, so if you were unhappy about the government leaning to the left you could actually do something about it. Y'know - how it's supposed to work.
Voting reform on its own would change the proportions of each party's representation but in most seats you'd still get a candidate put forward by one of the three major parties. The ability of the major parties to dominate control of the commons is the big problem, and they clearly can't be relied upon to reform their own club.
While I think a PR system would be good to have just because it's a very honest way of selecting a government, but it's difficult to put into practise. As an ideal I like it though. First job though would be to take the power back from the major parties.
While I think a PR system would be good to have just because it's a very honest way of selecting a government, but it's difficult to put into practise. As an ideal I like it though. First job though would be to take the power back from the major parties.
Well I was thinking of a few simple rules that would make parliament more representative, and I thought excluding the independently wealthy and those with large private sector investments would be a good start, and excluding anybody who has a parent or partner who is/was a parliamentarian (whether an MP or a peer). I suppose the question of heredity in the house of lords would have to be brought up as a secondary consideration. We could also make it illegal for MPs to sit on the boards of private companies.
Naturally we'd have to get rid of the monarchy, and - while probably a bit impractical - it would be nice to abolish political parties. That would mean there would be no large political bodies for private interests to get their claws into. Campaign funding would need to be reformed too, with very low limits on the maximum size of donations being the very least you'd have to do.
I can't see any other way of reversing the current trend of the commons becoming a playground for the wealthy. Is there anyone from a working class background in the current Labour shadow cabinet? Something's very wrong.
Naturally we'd have to get rid of the monarchy, and - while probably a bit impractical - it would be nice to abolish political parties. That would mean there would be no large political bodies for private interests to get their claws into. Campaign funding would need to be reformed too, with very low limits on the maximum size of donations being the very least you'd have to do.
I can't see any other way of reversing the current trend of the commons becoming a playground for the wealthy. Is there anyone from a working class background in the current Labour shadow cabinet? Something's very wrong.
This will be a bit political (UK-centric)...
Maybe it will get closed. Anyway:
The older I get the more I get tired of the idea of a 'ruling class' and the prevalence in Parliament of millionaires with considerable private business interests, and dynastic political families propped up by tycoons.
Yeah it's an old complaint, but the situation is becoming firmly entrenched (compare the occupancy of the Commons today to that of 30, 20, 10 years ago) and I suppose now is a better time than ever to try to change it.
There have been some quite successful smaller parties campaigning on single issues (UKIP for example) that reflect the public mood. I wonder if a political movement, not necessarily a party but potentially a coalition of independents, campaigning on a policy of parliamentary reform, might be a popular movement.
It's easy to assume that apathy would prevent a campaign like this from being effective, but I suppose that's an apathetic assumption in itself. What would we have to lose but a £500 deposit?
The older I get the more I get tired of the idea of a 'ruling class' and the prevalence in Parliament of millionaires with considerable private business interests, and dynastic political families propped up by tycoons.
Yeah it's an old complaint, but the situation is becoming firmly entrenched (compare the occupancy of the Commons today to that of 30, 20, 10 years ago) and I suppose now is a better time than ever to try to change it.
There have been some quite successful smaller parties campaigning on single issues (UKIP for example) that reflect the public mood. I wonder if a political movement, not necessarily a party but potentially a coalition of independents, campaigning on a policy of parliamentary reform, might be a popular movement.
It's easy to assume that apathy would prevent a campaign like this from being effective, but I suppose that's an apathetic assumption in itself. What would we have to lose but a £500 deposit?
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