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@chocolate wrote:

I stand by my philosophy that chocolate is vegetable!

I got admonished in the chatroom the other day for comfort eating….I told him chocolate was a vegetable and that all diet plans say eat as many vegetables as you like….he didn’t agree with me but huh, what does he know, he’s a man who doesn’t eat chocolate…..

(that sounds so wrong when the poster before you has the name of chocolate…..)

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@pete wrote:

Ok i’ll lie about your health too… hows that

OK….then we can both stuff our faces with chocolate in the name of research…. :lol:

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@pete wrote:

I’ll just lie about my health :P

ah I’m just too honest for my own good……

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ermmmm do you want to give us a little more to respond to tictax, or is this just health and safety in general?

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elaborate

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The things that affect me are:

• Alcohol taxes to go up 2% from midnight – putting the price of the average pint up 1p

No, I don’t drink pints, in fact I don’t drink much at all, but that occasional bottle of wine, bubbly or G&T will now be a tad more expensive….no big deal tbh.

• Fuel duty to rise by 2p per litre from September, then by 1p a litre above inflation each April for the next four years

Couldn’t see that one coming….if you have a car this will affect you so yeah, but my mileage is quite low so again no big deal.

• From next month until March 2010 motorists to get £2,000 discount on new cars if they trade in cars older than 10 years

Doesn’t affect me, but it might encourage the other half to finally ditch the jalopy that he calls a car!

Things that don’t affect me but I thought I’d comment on anyway!

• Income tax for those earning more than £150,000 to rise to 50% from April 2010

I wish I was earning enough to complain about it!

• £1.7bn extra funding for Job Centre network

Is that for all the people who are going to be made redundant? Cos they sure won’t be providing any more helpful advice than they do at the moment…..I’ll stop now before I sink into an angry rant!

• £250m funding to help people get work experience in growth industries

And what growth industries are these exactly? Training more carers for our aging population and those new job centre staff they’ll be taking on?

Given the state of the economy right now, I was disappointed that there wasn’t more to help the small businesses (or maybe I missed that, I haven’t looked in-depth yet). So far all the initiatives to help business are only any good for the medium size business, and little help to the very small businesses who are struggling right now.

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A belated happy birthday Yvonne…..sorry, I can’t do siggies, got mine from a nice young lad called Pete….

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I’ve never had a pervy pm……btw woohoo I liked your “internet carbooters” – can I use that in the chat room next time a keyboard gangster kicks off please? Just don’t want to be accused of breaching copyright…. :wink: :D

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Happy St George’s Day all you English people (although no-one wished me a happy St Davids Day humphh [-( )…..a belated happy St Davids Day woohoo and fellow welsh people (now thinks hmmmm should I also be saying happy St xxxxxxx’s Day to all the other nationalities who use this board? could take forever…..)

It’s nice to see all the flags up in town, I don’t remember seeing so many in previous years and I wonder….are people more willing to celebrate events when there’s so much doom and gloom in the media?

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And you add soooooo much value bad manners……. :-

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