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General Discussion Area / Re: Bring out your slops!...

« on: 12 October 2009, 12:17:26 »

The answer might be for every family to keep a pig or two then the slops and billions of £worth of food thrown away in Britain each year just cos it is out of date would be put to good use.

mmm pigs

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General Discussion Area / EU tobacco growing subsidies!

« on: 11 October 2009, 11:57:22 »

There are fields of tobacco growing not far from where I live. It got me thinking where does it go and what is it used for (bespoke cigars maybe).

A bit of investigating on the net shows that Italy and Greece are the main producers.

How much EU subsidy was there in 2007 to farmers growing tobacco? ( a substance apparently injurious to health!)

For the answer click on http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm081014/text/81014w0009.htm

Varche

PS I wonder if I can apply for a subsidy NOT to grow tobacco! That might be a nice little earner.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Well Done Gordon............

« on: 09 October 2009, 15:15:24 »

Got unwanted euros to sell?

 call 0800pittanceforeuros

  This advertisement is brought to you by Varcheuros Brokers. We pay the best prices for Euros sometimes as much as 5 for a tenner.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What adverts get on your nerves

« on: 09 October 2009, 11:31:12 »

All of them.

Rattling a stick in the swill bucket of life I am afraid.

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General Discussion Area / Re: George Gideon Osborne

« on: 07 October 2009, 11:51:20 »

Did we have anyone slagging off Peter BENJAMIN Mandelson? 

I didn't see much in what the Tories were offering that will actually hit the wealthy but plenty to hit the poor. Just one example. Retirement at 66. Poor person has to keep working but rich person has his portfolio of personal pension plans to exercise at whatever age (after 50). Perhaps they should be changed to 66 too?! 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Should we adopt the Euro?

« on: 07 October 2009, 11:35:27 »

Very good.

A euro will soon only be worth a pound so no doubt that will be when it is "adopted". At least people won't then be ripped off changing money back and forth to just visit another part of the EU!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Thankyou Mr, Cameron

« on: 06 October 2009, 16:52:57 »

Oh 66 will just be the start of it!

I would like to know where the Conservatives are going to get the money to"restore the link to earnings" for pensions. Isn't that going to cost more? Mind you they haven't come out and said they actually will and they could still then renege on it.

Spanish neighbours cannot believe how little, and that it is a flat rate, a state pension is in Britain for such a rich country (their words not mine).

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General Discussion Area / Re: This wont get us new members

« on: 03 October 2009, 11:09:10 »

Why doesn't someone just ring him and ask?

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General Discussion Area / Re: You all should watch this

« on: 05 October 2009, 18:51:10 »

talk about the tories?

What Cameron and a referendum. ?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Had a laugh earlier

« on: 02 October 2009, 18:12:46 »

"Owners      bark all the time"

I guess they must be taking after their pets!


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General Discussion Area / Freeview retune - another "service enhancement"

« on: 02 October 2009, 10:50:16 »

As expected, I have two distant elderly relatives who have had their TV viewing disrupted by" a service enhancement". The last time was when they lost their perfectly good analogue service where they could watch one channel and record another at the same time to the digital service that they lose when there is bad weather and they can only watch or record the same channel.

I just wish I could make the "bunch of marketing/technical whizz kids" responsible for these changes go round to my folks house and experience there reailty. No amount of onscreen messages or "retune your box" can help elderly people not au fait with technology! I guess when this elderly generation die the future will be people who are confident with technology.

In the meantime the people at Freeview will be clapping themselves on the back and telling everyone what a marvellous job they have done etc.

Rant over

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General Discussion Area / Re: BAE - only in Britain!

« on: 01 October 2009, 12:29:41 »

Zulu - interesting sentiment but I don't think you can blame it on Brussels!

The Spanish, French and Germans have all kept their national ID's and are proud of it but have still embraced the EU. No this problem is firmly a British one. The sad fact is that the Brits lost their British ID. Years and years of avid consuming of anything "foreign" at the expense of buying British first. Ye reap what ye sow.

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General Discussion Area / BAE - only in Britain!

« on: 01 October 2009, 11:07:32 »

I know corruption and bribery to win contracts isn't right, particularly with a country closely aligned to terrorism. I suspect many other EU countries do or would do the same to secure big contracts but probably hide the trail better.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6729489.stm

The difference is that only Britain would out the company and risk future contracts and thousands and thousands of jobs etc etc. Sadly it is symptomatic of many problems facing Britain.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Someone is telling porkies!

« on: 01 October 2009, 09:48:21 »

This is what really gets my goat. We're talking about the future of the planet here. That means our future and our children's future. Surely, there can be no more important issue.

But, someone is telling lies, either that, or they are talking out of pure ignorance:

COPENHAGEN, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara warned on Wednesday the 2016 Olympics could be the last Games, with global warming an immediate threat to mankind.

It could be that the 2016 Games are the last Olympics in the history of mankind," Ishihara told reporters at a Tokyo 2016 press event ahead of the vote.

"Global warming is getting worse. We have to come up with measures without which Olympic Games could not last long.

"Scientists have said we have passed the point of no return," said Ishihara.

http://us.mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/AnyArticle/p.rdt?URL=http://www.reuters.com/article/olympicsNews/idUSLU38985020090930



"...global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning. No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth – quite the contrary. And this means that the projections of future climate are unreliable,” writes Henrik Svensmark, Professor, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/10/svensmark-global-warming-stopped-and-a-cooling-is-beginning-enjoy-global-warming-while-it-lasts/



Now, I'm getting increasingly exasperated by all this. These are two diametrically opposing views. Which is right?

My own view is that we should take the latter more seriously for two reasons:
a) it is scientifically more likely, IMHO.
b) heat is less damaging to humans than cold, so the trillions the world's governments are currently spending on propping up the global warming hoax should be spent on ensuring we get through a cooling phase.
With Copenhagen (big global warming summit in December) coming up, the world needs to ensure that we are addressing the right problem.

I'm sorry to bang on about this, but I want my kids to have a good future.

Humans are pathetically poor at coping with extremes of heat or cold. We lead a very precarious existence. A global drop or increase in temp by more than a few degrees would have far reaching consequences.

We live in what I call the exponential society. Each DAY someone has to come up with something more amazing, earth shattering, faster, bigger, more economical, impressive and so on than yesterday. Marketing led of course. The scientists are just caught up in this. To do worthwhile studies requires gathering proper data over a representative time (say another 100,000 years). One big problem with that is that todays Eminent scientists will be well dead by then so feel they have to come up with something now!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Education or propaganda?

« on: 27 September 2009, 16:39:33 »

Back to the original topic. Great example of dumbing down and king has got no clothes on.

More and more kids get better and better school results each year. Everyone involved pats themselves on the back (and gets paid more money) for doing such a great job. Yet in my experience most cannot spell or do mental maths when they leave skool.

If you do have bright kids in school and they can choose to learn one or more languages get them to learn Chinese and Spanish in that order. The world would then be their oyster. Forget French and German.

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