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Bwoddy ‘ell (I get that from Benny Hill), Alley cat – that last sentence was a bit complicated – (syntactically complex to the posh).

No problems anyway, mate. It was an interesting discussion.

Gizzajob.

@Terry wrote:

@sceptical guy wrote:

that’s a really crude view of wealth creation, Terry..

Are you saying it’s conceptually false..?

Yes, it’s too narrow.

Read my post. No modern economy can survive without credit.

I’m no fan of Gordon Brown. His policies were based on teh belief that we had solved all out economic problems, and that the banks…[Read more]

@OMalleyTheAlleyCat wrote:

Thanks to all who contributed :) I needed some ideas for a web-based questionnaire I was asked to cobble together – and this has helped a lot.

Thanks again
Dan

Alley cat, next time you want work done for you, could you say at the start rather than at the end? That way we know what we’re doing. T’ank oo

that’s a really crude view of wealth creation, Terry..a version of the 17th century notion of merchantilism. Have a read of some Economics textbooks on teh divison of labour, and especially its international aspects (Ricardo)

A wealthy nation is a nation which lives on credit – future money – and it’s when credit can’t be realised, can’t get paid…[Read more]

being a member of the Bullingdon Club is posh…

I once saw a prominent member, who goes under the initials of BJ, push his head out of a college windown and in a fruity voice tell someone that they were a little p i ss pot. I’d never see anyone look more like a Toby Jug outside a cheap Bowness gift shop.

He was the proof, along with the other…[Read more]

a combination of wealth, social confidence, odd accent (listen to Christchurch students at Oxford – a weird accent all of their own), birth into the top drawer of society, centre of a fawning social circle, the employer of personal servants, top public school (Eton or Harrow, Winchester for the radicals) and university (Oxbridge or Sandhurst) are…[Read more]

maybe he should have been paying more attention to that Blue Moon of Kentucky than gorging himself on MacDonald’s Hamburgers

Aloha, Girls, he waves with a smug smile

President Nixon was basking in Elvis’s praise of him. Glory Glory, Hallelu-u-u-u-ja, His Truth yeah it just Goes maaar-chin’ On

until she saw him evolve from his leather jacket to his soldier’s uniform to his strange cape and Macdonald’s Hamburger size, and wondered whether he could survive without a wooden heart, and sighed loudly that “there’s no strings attached to this heart of mine?”

I really can’t believe the stupid censorship on this site.

The author’s name was Philip K D i c k, not Philip K Richard.

Sheesh!

How did Irish Lucy know who Tom was??!

I don’t have any truck with Tom’s politics (he says he went in to far-Right politics for “fun” but got hooked, like the pox doctor who lost his nose), but I don’t like anonymity being broken.

“that’s not your.. av–erage kindabear”

for anyone who remembers Yogi Bear in The Adventures of Hucklebery Hound

which means – not many

“I hate them meeces to pieces”

I was told that bears in the USA are getting cancer now.

They have developed a taste for human instant food and trashy sweets, go raiidng people’s houses to eat it, and get cancer.

There’s a lesson there somewhere, though probably not eating bamboo shoots, urinated on or otherwise.

Words, take care of your luxury yacht, in case a bad bear…[Read more]

@Sgt Pepper wrote:

@panda12 wrote:

@Sgt Pepper wrote:

Jaysus..
Being an Irishman and a Catholic, I must rank somewhere next to primordial ooze in Tom’s estimation :?

But from personal experience, I know that’s not true. In fact I’ve always enjoyed a pleasant and good humoured relationship with Tom in chat. We get on grand.
One must take into account…

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he’s right, Ms anc..it’s spelled grandma

@Tom wrote:

And?

Please provide proof where having fun and not conforming to artificial and fictitious rules of an oppressive society is illegal and explain, point-by-point, as to why it is morally wrong to have fun and enjoy life.

Failure to provide such proof or list such reasons will be taken as a tacit agreement that you do not understand…

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The Snowman

One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter

Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is…[Read more]

I really can’t remember…

I must have had some idyylic moments in life. I’m sure I have had some. Not fair otherwise.

But I just can’t remember any… :-({|=

@Tom wrote:

I’m actually gay, sceptical, but thanks.. :?

The signature is an animal rights activist, I am an animal rights activist and merely supporting her actions.

Really?

well, gay straight, or whatever, you do come across as incredibly immature – to be generous.