I thought it was just something in their water.

[Fade]

Maybe it is.

[GadgetMaster]

What has that got to do with what is in our water :-?

Anyway, you lot started it with all this spiking tap water malarky. :-P

Scary stuff


OT:
And to answer the Q in your sig...He inherited it.

[KennyR]

What do you want, Fade? When we try to do something about people living unhealthy lifestyles, you whine like we're a bunch of fascists. When we don't, you still whine.

[Fade]

What do you want, Fade?

Well Kenny, I would like the US allies to be somewhat sober!

[GadgetMaster]

Surely you mean sedated.  :-P

[KennyR]

And we'd like our allies not to be gunhappy gung ho cowboys. You don't always get what you want.

[Cyberus]

KennyR wrote:
And we'd like our allies not to be gunhappy gung ho cowboys. You don't always get what you want.

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This is one of the best nights on AO for months!

[Karlos]

:lol:

I'm just waiting for Kenny to contribute to the sock thread and my evenings entertainment is made :-D

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Fade wrote:
Well Kenny, I would like the US allies to be somewhat sober!

Do you actually know the history/present of your great leader :-?

[T_Bone]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

Fade wrote:
Well Kenny, I would like the US allies to be somewhat sober!

Do you actually know the history/present of your great leader :-?

Sure, he let the sober men do the enlisted thing while he was elsewhere.  :-P

[smithy]

I don't see what the problem is here.  Britain is basically a slave state, to the powers of globalisation (Blair's friends in industry) and the EU.

There are few satisfying jobs, people are working longer than ever, people are taking longer to get to work because of the rubbish transportation system.. what does the government expect?  Enterprise is discouraged, the politically correct nanny government has instilled the belief into everyone that they can do anything without working for it (well done for pointing this out Prince Charles).  In fact, you have to work hard for things - but this doesn't sit well with the socialist government's idea of equality of attainment instead of equality of opportunity, so we all suffer - we're all at the lowest common demoninator.

Setting up a business is impossible now - if you're half-successful you'll get sued out of your ass by Blair's friends in big companies.

It's no wonder we're turning to drink - there's nothing else to do.

[odin]

You could move to the US, buy a gun and blow your head off? All problems solved at once :-p.

[KennyR]

Smithy wrote:
There are few satisfying jobs, people are working longer than ever, people are taking longer to get to work because of the rubbish transportation system..

Oh, I wonder who killed all the industry in the country and reduced us to a call centre and office economy. Wasn't socialists, as I remember. Nor was it socialists who privatisted the transportation system and made it rubbish in the first place.

what does the government expect? Enterprise is discouraged, the politically correct nanny government has instilled the belief into everyone that they can do anything without working for it (well done for pointing this out Prince Charles).

Again, it wasn't the socialists that made five million people employed just to keep down inflation, and actually begin the way of life which we now know as "living off the social" which has become so endemic and symptomatic as the modern British way of life. Oh, which has been directly linked with the growth of the drinking culture. I'm just glad they didn't reduce us back to the days of gin halls and people dying in the streets like the old conservatives did.

In fact, you have to work hard for things - but this doesn't sit well with the socialist government's idea of equality of attainment instead of equality of opportunity, so we all suffer - we're all at the lowest common demoninator.

And once again, it wasn't the socialists who wanted to create a widely seperate middle class and force everyone else to be the lowest common denominator.

Smithy, you're blaming the wrong people. These are all symptoms of two decades of destructive conservative rule. Not only do socialists always seem to get blamed for these things, they get blamed even more when they try to stamp down on them. Tighten benefits or restricting binge drinking and its the same people who cry "fascist" as who caused the damn problems in the first place. No wonder conservatives are a joke in Britain now.

[KennyR]

OT: Just realised what that aristocratic leech Charlie Saxe-Coburg (a.k.a "His Majesty Prince of Wales") said. He said that "Britain's learning culture gave people hope beyond their capabilities".

You really don't believe in that elitist claptrap, do you smithy? Charlie doesn't have the right to tell ANYONE they're trying to get by without working, he lives totally off taxpayer's money and costs a lot more than any of us would!

[smithy]

@KennyR

Labour has been in power for 8 years and the transport system has only gotten worse.  They've meddled excessively with the train network, creating quangos, abolishing the same quangos a few years later, creating authorities, giving excessive amounts of money to train companies for poor services.   They've also created the "motorway for the elite" - toll motorways alongside regular motorways.  A shameful 2-class system if I ever saw one.  And one the Tories never tried in 2 decades and opposed when they Labour built them this year.

5 million employed (by the state) in unnecessary and token jobs - the public sector was riddled with wastage and bad management.  The socialists had spent so much money in the 70s that the country was bankrupt by the time Thatcher came to power.  The IMF refused more money without reform, there was no money to pay people in these unnecessary jobs.  There was no choice but to sell off some of the nationalised industries.

Then there was the Union Effect.  The militant unions destroyed British industry with excessive strike action.  Ship building in the north east was wrecked - why order ships from Newcastle when it would be over-budget and late because of industrial action.  People took their business abroad.  Same for steel, coal...

Instead of blaming the Tories for rectifying the situation, why don't you blame the socialists for creating it in the first place?!  The Tories didn't create 5 million unnecessary jobs paid for by the taxpayer.  This kind of wastage just isn't acceptable.

And "just to keep inflation down"??  Sweet Jesus man!  Inflation KILLS economies.  And it was already at record levels before Thatcher re-introduced some sensible economic policy to the UK.  Inflation kills people's savings and it weakens the value of the currency.  In 1972, Sterling was worth $3.75!!!!!! (imagine that today!).  Even the incompetants who run the Eurozone have at last adopted the British economic model of low-inflation.