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(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:20, archived)
# little red winkey :)
(waxdart hello., Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:21, archived)
# wasn't that prince song?
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:37, archived)
# Hahahaha...
Nicely Barbie! :D
(I helped save b3ta! Ninj, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:22, archived)
# Ha ha!
How apt when I just read this:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8551528.stm
(AMadDayYes, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:24, archived)
# I wonder why the BBC have placed New Jersey in the middle east
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:27, archived)
# I spotted that.
I actually had to double check I had posted the correct link :)
(AMadDayYes, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:29, archived)
# Sexualised? What are they thinking?
(jflinden wifflewaffle, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:45, archived)
# Thats the sexy.
Right there.
(AMadDayYes, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:19, archived)
# North west, shirley
Middle East would be Utah and Omaha
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:49, archived)
# That's David, not Venus de Milo YOU IDIOT!
*smashes pens against the wall*

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f3d5ZdE4vY
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:30, archived)
# oh, "pens"

carry on
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:30, archived)
# Arf!
Why do people always misread what I type!?!?!?!?! ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:33, archived)
# :D
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:37, archived)
# Well I feel I have to...

(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:31, archived)
# Tut! Did I say it WAS Venus de Milo?
I merely thought that covered up nudey sculptures was a similarity on this occasion

;)
(AMadDayYes, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:33, archived)
# Yeah, I know ;)
Anyway, who cares. It gave me an excuse to post some television :D

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbunmCbTBA&feature=related
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:35, archived)
# I rather enjoyed that YouTube clip. Never heard that track before.
And I did an actual lol at the vitriolic capitalisation of "YOU IDIOT"!

:D
(AMadDayYes, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:36, archived)
# They were an ace band!
Marguee Moon and Television albums are well worth buying.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:42, archived)
# How silly!
Only in the Middle East, eh...
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:39, archived)
# Fucking hell

(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:51, archived)
# hahahahaha, supercock
Carrying on from Tom's standing for parliament, anyone want to explain the tiers of power?
It's always puzzled me how the change over of parties actually happens. You couldn't empty Microsoft out of an office and completely replace it with Adobe staff who've never sat at the desks or know where the coffee machine is and expect it to carry on with Windows tech support and developing Operating Systems.
So how do people think changing political parties changes the actual running of the country which is clearly being taken care of by someone else.
It's something I've never really put much thought in to or asked for fear of looking stupid and it not really being anything I can change. but it's friday, what the heck, I'll look stupid.
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:27, archived)
# Some staff have to wear a different colour tie.
(I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:31, archived)
# Civil servants do all the real work
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:32, archived)
# I may be wrong,
but I believe that what it is is that the politicians are just policy makers, and they essentially dictate what Civil servants do isn't it?
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:33, archived)
# Civil servants are always waiting for the most gullible government to come along
so they can get their brain-addled schemes on the statute books
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:34, archived)
# Yeah, but at least they are polite.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:36, archived)
# Yes, but how do these new bosses have the faintest idea who to call, deal with, check over etc etc
do they have like a teacher training day?
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:36, archived)
# as in any type of upper management, it's mostly about shouting at people very loudly until things are going your way
(I helped save b3ta! pzyko Query failed., Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:40, archived)
# It's all in a convenient pamphlet entitled:
"Do your best to not fuck this shit up you bunch of shitcunts!" published by the Department for Cunts and Warthogs, available fior download at www.shitcunts.gov.uk/suckonthisfucknugget.php

Or something like that ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:41, archived)
# :D
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:50, archived)
# The civil servants tell them what to do
Watch Yes, Minsiter. It's all there.
It got me my politics A Level
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:51, archived)
# elephants
(I helped save b3ta! pzyko Query failed., Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:35, archived)
# Very basically
The Government, the executive 'think' and formulate policy which Parliament (the legislature) vote on.
The Civil Service then 'do' and put these policies in action.
It's a lot murkier than that though, and I haven't even mentioned the Lords.
When one Government gets kicked out they will bring in a team of advisers etc but it's not like a big office move - most people i.e the civil service stay where they are.
(mrmatt is staging a 'dirty protest' on, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:35, archived)
# I just can't believe anyone can expect any new party to make changes to such a deep rooted system
You would never build a new house on fucked foundations, yet every single time....
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:39, archived)
# The 'fucked foundations' part is spot on ...
Most governments (world-wide) don't have the balls to make radical changes.
Look at how Obama is getting butt-fucked over MediCare etc.
(mrmatt is staging a 'dirty protest' on, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:42, archived)
# Although there is an element of similarity,
the system in America works very differently from ours doesn't it?
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:48, archived)
# Aye, very much 'interest' lead
Lots of money greasing the wheels of power. The President actually has very little power without support from the
2 legislatures there - he can make war without their initial support though.
(mrmatt is staging a 'dirty protest' on, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:10, archived)
# particularly, Lord Mandelson would like to stay where he is
and continue to fuck everything up for us cos his mates have asked him to
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:41, archived)
# His motives .... are yet, unclear.
I fear him.
(mrmatt is staging a 'dirty protest' on, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:48, archived)
# watch A Very British Coup
it sort of answers this, and is excellent and worth watching anyway.

relevant bit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oOW_TNJqnQ
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:36, archived)
# Or Yes, Minister :)
(mrmatt is staging a 'dirty protest' on, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:37, archived)
# I shall make a mental note to do so next time it is passing
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:37, archived)
# adding to the collective wisdom
the party in power comes in with ideas that are then turned into plans with schedules. there may even be targets. they will bring in a few cronies from industry or university dorm-room days to put a bit of stick about. but the same civil servants then get told they have to implement the vision and come up with feasibility studies, budgets, review periods and success criteria.

it's a little bit like NCOs and other ranks in the forces - the bedrock of the executive - vs. commissioned officers, the temporary direction-givers.

oh and I just made all that up out of whole cloth.
(I helped save b3ta! revmoola was thinking about a software problem, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:40, archived)
# hehe
nice hair
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:27, archived)
# Thanks, I washed it only yesterday...
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:33, archived)
# excellent
spiffingly done
(I helped save b3ta! revmoola was thinking about a software problem, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:33, archived)
# top spluff sir
(I helped save b3ta! god save the queen making another unremarkable comeback, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 16:28, archived)