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This is a link post Skateboarding filmed with a Phantom Camera
Lully
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:01, , Reply)
This is a link post Photos of the snow that hit the US earlier this year.
Fake. No Detroit.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:55, , Reply)
This is a link post Calm down girl!
Fan gets upset about Justin Bieber not winning an award.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post Leave Britney alone....
Oh
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post On account of that little tit.
My brother's film is having its release date put back a month.

FFS!
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sophia Bush... pffft

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post Not sure why she appears first in that listing...
since it's a very minor role...
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post so, who's your brother then?

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post Writer.
Very proud of him :o)
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post oh no, she's going to kill herself.
However will the world get by without another vacuous moron that identifies her entire existence by the success or failure of the latest pop sensation.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post Who will rid me.....
Thomas Becket was murdered on the altar steps of Canterbury Cathedral by 4 knights who had misinterpreted an unguarded comment by King Henry II.
I suspect that all it would take to see some poor unsuspecting soul torn apart limb from limb by hordes of his fans, would be an misguided quip from Mr Beiber.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post Isn't she a bit old to be a Beiber fan?
Shouldn't she be killing herself listening to My Chemical Romance or something?
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post I did think that.
Checked her video channel and it is ALL Bieber.

She probably needs to grow up a bit...
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post I have proceeded to give her shit on YT.
Cunts like this make my blood boil.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post She has
mental issues that should be addressed
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post Isn't she a teenager?

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:10, , Reply)
This is a link post Death By Stereo
RIP Corey Haim
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post Huh?
He died a year ago!
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post This is odd.
My brother came to me last night and said "The kid from the lost boys is dead".

I said to him what you just said.

What's going on???
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post I thought he had also
It's most read on BBC news... original story from May 2010, being a twat, I just thought I had imagined him already being dead.
Damn.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post Well...
...He was undead in Lost Boys 2;-)
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post theres a Lost Boys 2???

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post There's a lost boys 3!

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post he must've seen the
in memoriam film on the Baftas last night
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post It was definately last year
cos I sang "Whatver Happened to Corey haim" at karaoke that night

And I would NEVER sing that sing normally
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post The BBC news website can be a bit weird btw.
If for some reason an old story gets to the most read bit (mostly happens on a Sunday) it stays up there for quite some time as more and more people click on the link and keep it there.

It happened time and time again with a story about a African chap who was forced to marry a goat after being caught bumming it. It happened mid-naughties and hit the most read for several years.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post slight correction...
a African chap who me and I
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:39, , Reply)
This is a link post We're All In This Together!
David Cameron was accused of 'gross insensitivity' last night after it was revealed that internships with City hedge funds were sold to wealthy Tories' children for thousands of pounds to raise cash for the party.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post I made this last week
when I read about the tories trying to turn the UK into a corporate tax haven. Seems more apt for this story:

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post I really want to find out who did the 'F*ck the poor' photoshop during the pre-election compo.
It was absolutely great and I've not been able to track it down.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post brilliant
so true BUMP!
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post Just...
Horrendous.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post The whole 'Big Society'
thing is bollocks. It's the most dishonest name for a policy ever. It's basically the economics of Milton Friedman and Thatcher - the idea that if the state stops providing things, markets and individuals will provide it instead. It is absolute nonsense.

How they can play something up as a positive policy for society when it's basically saying -'You're on your own - sort yourself out' is disgraceful. Most likely, of course, it's because even if they didn't believe that it would work, nearly everyone in this government is rich and always has been.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post What has someone paying for their kid to have an internship got to do with
'the idea that if the state stops providing things...'
or 'the economics of Milton Friedman and Thatcher'?

Offensive; yes, idiotic; obviously, but nothing to do with the coalition.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post I think they meant it to be for the link below.........
The whole big society policy is that most things will be handed to the people to run, as he was saying, that state stops providing any input into local autorities and such. Saying tha they should be run by the people.

Its packaged as a good idea but in my opinion its a complete joke and would do nothing more than damage the organisations its pruports to improve for many reasons taht are far too long to go into in one post!

One thing that is good about the coming year though is I'm a photographer in london, stuff on fire looks great in pictures*....................


*caution, may be sarcasm.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:52, , Reply)
This is a normal post Emperor's New Clothes...

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post So people's personal actions
and what they find acceptable ethically in their own lives has no connection to their broader politics?

The fact that they think this sort of thing's okay has no connection to them thinking that a free for all with reduced state intervention is okay?

(Although, admittedly, it was meant as a reply to the below, but the point stands!)
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post This makes a lot more sense as a reply to the last link.
I would have just stuck with that rather than struggling to make it fit.

The way the Conservative party raises funds has to appeal to people that give the Conservative party funds, it doesn't have to reflect their policies, not that we have a Conservative government anyway.

As for criticising politicians for their personal actions rather than their professional accountability, personally I'm against it.

I think the coalition has been doing a pretty good job so far and that the cabinet (I can't speak for the idiots that make up the backbenches) have remained remarkably principled and coherent throughout an unexpected and unique set of circumstances.

I totally agree that this stupid fundraiser is horrible and degrading but please don't use it as an opportunity to deride a collaborative project for which a lot of politicians have risked their careers and the future of their political parties to help undertake. Big Society is pretty much hated by the old-school of the Conservative Party, its ridiculous to criticise it for being the creation of that party and its association with that party.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post the coalition is working well
as cover for a same as they ever were tory government.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post Respectfully, I disagree
but then again, I'm only 27 so I don't really have any first hand experience of the Conservative party being out of opposition.

Does anyone know how many Conservative MPs were MPs the last time the Conservative party were in power? I'd be interested to find out.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post fair enough.
i'm not much older than you. i'm not sure i see what the number of long standing tory mps has to do with it. it's still the tory party, they are still mostly racist and homophobic and still hold poor people entirely responsible for their poverty. (also i was also a bit wide in a response to you further down the page, sorry about that, i kind of knew it was wide and did it anyway. i could blame tiredness but it's more likely to have been the cunt in me getting loose {loose cunt :)} sorry again)
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post I try not to judge people according to labels
Saying that people are racist and homophobic because they belong to the Conservative party is inconsistent with the way I assess people and in fact with my personal experience of Westminster.

As for their political views, I may not agree with them but I don't count them as hateful as making value judgements about people based on ethnicity, sexual preference or political ideology.

Never apologise for arguing on the internet though, I of all people can take it.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:49, , Reply)
This is a normal post i didn't say that people are racist/homophobic because they belong to the tory party.
i didn't even say that they joined the tory party because they are racist/homophobic. i said that tories are mostly racists and homophobes. i'd rather you criticize what i say rather than what you would like me to have said/thought i said. also i find it odd that you are lumping together ethnicity, sexual preference and political ideology in terms of value judgements. ethnicity and sexuality are not a matter of personal choice. ideology is. are you saying i can't make a value judgement of an ideology? if we were talking about the bnp i doubt you would be trying to make this flimsy point.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post
it's still the tory party, they are still mostly racist and homophobic

Sorry but I'm not going to have an argument with someone who says things like this, its pointless. I know that isn't true and I think its a lazy, stupid thing to say.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 18:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post you don't
know the tory party as well as you think you do. they suddenly stopped being a overtly nasty racists around 2003. prior to that there are a wealth of news stories about various tory mps and councillors being blatent racists and homophobes. so either they've all changed their opinions spontaneously or they realised that their racist and homophobic opinions were losing them votes. look at their voting record on gay rights for fuck's sake. refusing to discuss it with me is lazy and stupid.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 0:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post I want to run a school
I have no teaching qualifications
no CRB check
no money
no building

where do i sign up?
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sorry, I know we promised you that new school
but we didn't get elected and we didn't have any money anyway, sorry, lols.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post If we're given the 'power' to form schools, hospitals and other services ourselves...
...then what the fuck are we paying politicians for?
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post Politicians don't run schools or hospitals
I don't think I want to know if they run 'other services'.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:23, , Reply)
This is a link post Architect of Big Society finds volunteering for 3 days per week a bit too much to ask.
Gem of a metaphor for the whole steaming heap that is Big Society.

/lilbitopolitics...
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post mmm delicious.
poetry in motion. With this and Monkey's link above, it just shows what a bunch of self-serving arseholes the tories really are.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post I thought the Government push for volunteering was aimed at people out of work.
Not someone with a desk in the cabinet? (although I'm ready to be proved totally wrong)
I'm staggered that Lord Wei is able to do any voluntary work at all.

I struggle to fit in 2 days of voluntary work a week and I'm a student!
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post ^this

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post that guy's job as a volunteer big society tzar
is to find ways for working people to make time to volunteer. that's what that article says at any rate. so you are totally wrong. just as well you were ready eh?
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post In that case, I was totally wrong.
Thanks for clearing that up.

Although, presumably if it was already possible for working people to volunteer their time, there wouldn't be any need for someone to find ways to allow people to do it... OH WAIT!

ZING!
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post personally i think they're tripping
and mixing up the voluntary sector with volunteering. there are loads of qualified professionals working in the voluntary sector and in public sector jobs. untrained volunteers are not going to be able to replace them.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post Big society = do it your bloody selves paupers

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:57, , Reply)
This is a link post Winter Kiss I made this!
Happy Valentines day, a man creates a body for his true love...
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:17, , Reply)
This is a link post Browse the intertubes while you drive! WIN!
A handy steering wheel attachment allowing you to use your laptop while your drive. Brilliant.

lol-tastic reviews.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post I think you'll find
that many of those comments were from B3TA people about a year ago.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post are you saying this is GC?

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:13, , Reply)
This is a link post B-Movie, "Exit through the gift shop" (NSFW Banksy documentary) NSFW
Ronseal title description. A GC search showed a shorter similar video
posted last October, but this is the full 13m:41s version.

NSFW for the occasional "F" bomb.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:51, , Reply)
This is a link post Aircraft flies past Westminster clock tower I made this!
New video I made yesterday. I apologise in advance to any Americans that take it the wrong way, as I'm sure some will.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post TOO SOON!!!
nice though...
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post clearly brought down with explosives!
are you sheeple blind???
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post Thats fookin brill haha

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post hahaha

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post Haha!
That's superb
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post tee hee
This Turner pic was my Desktop wallpaper for a while, before this kind of thing was popular (trendsetter that Turner was).
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:52, , Reply)
This is a normal post Nice
Woo
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 16:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post I liked the way
you shopped out the fluffy white kitten
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 9:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post Kitten Kong!!!!

(, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 0:08, , Reply)
This is a link post Misery Bear Goes To Work I made this!
We tried to sum up what our Mondays often feel like. I think we pretty much got it.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post I love him
so much.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post Bitter Sweet
Ace

Shared with a friend - hope she doesn't reach for the revolver

:)
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:49, , Reply)
This is a normal post Brill.
Poor Misery Bear.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post Poor Bear
You're not alone *hug*
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post aww poor little misery
bear. When will the world have the good graces to end it all?

Loved the sandwich - too bloody true!
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post whinging little fucker
at least he's got his own office to keep the cunts at bay!
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hahah!
Just another day in the office then
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post ace
I didn't know these were done by a B3tan

Top work sir/madam (delete as applicable)
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'm a sir, thanks!

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 18:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post fyi
The song is Interpol - Untitled


from their first album
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post Click etc
Bonus points for having the Newtons cradle sync nicely with the music.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah...
...that was an accident.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 18:46, , Reply)
This is a normal post so
clever. Absolutely love this. Nice job!
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 17:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post The bit I most related to,
other than the crushing misery, was the sandwich. Virgin Trains are the worst offenders - all the filling is arranged along the cut and the rest of the butty is an echoing void with only a molecule-thin smear of butter-substitute-substitute.

Oh, and the bear fight. I love a good bear fight.
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 17:21, , Reply)
This is a link post graphics showing (and listing to be honest) the amount of UK debt.
To think that a Labour administration encouraged this to happen is fucking shocking.

Total Personal Debt: £1,545 billion.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post fuuuuck
by having meagre savings... that makes me... rich! Hooray!
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY:
i dont have any personal debt, nor does my partner, or any of our friends, this is because we are not all fucking numpties who think the objects we own reflect our status in life...

no one put a gun to your head and told you to take on personal debt....
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post ^ this
Also - how the hell is this attributable to the labour government?
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post personal debt at the end of the previous administration was
£300 billion. this is 5 times that figure. labours lax regulation of finance, and allowing debt companies to push debt. encouraging huge fuck off mortgages etc etc.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post "encouraging huge fuck off debt"
THAT YOU DIDNT HAVE TO TAKE:

"allowing debt companies to push debt"

How much debt are you in AVAST, and who is to blame except yourself?

lets just cut to the fucking chase shall we....

sometimes the only one to blame is yourself.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post i aint in fucking debt u moron, this is not about me ffs.
wow, when u aint got a coherent argument you resort to personal attacks? that is fucking lame.

there are people out there who aint bright, cos education has been on a 30 yr decline, and these people don't properly understand how this stuff works. is it ok for them to be conned/ripped off/led into debt by banks, companies etc etc? and who governs the regulatory climate in which this is done? the government.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post hook, line and thinker.
there are people out there who aint bright, cos education has been on a 30 yr decline, and these people don't properly understand how this stuff works. is it ok for them to be conned/ripped off/led into debt by banks, companies etc etc? and who governs the regulatory climate in which this is done? the government.


actually most of the people i'm talking about who weren't stupid enough to take on personal debt fall into the group you just described...

But your right, the poor and uneducated do need protecting from the evil nasty world, and by the look of it, your just the sort of person who would be perfect for that job... you could be like the modern day robin hood, guiding those poor feckless losers to the path of light.

or are you just posting links on message boards?
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:46, , Reply)
This is a normal post you're not your.

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post lol
LOL
(, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 12:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post cos avast is
a tory.

trolling dont have a cow.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post i aint a tory mate ffs
after 17 years of education cuts to state schools and laws designed to help priviledge private schools i am hardly gonna vote for them. However labour have ran up a fucking massive debt, and used the odious PFI system to suck money off the poor to give to the rich. e.g: £11 billion of hospitals will cost $65 billion over the next 30 years

see: www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/aug/13/nhs-pfi-65-billion-bill-repayments
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post Totaly agree
PFI is a travesty. You should join the Labour party, there are alot of members that would agree with you. Its only by getting involved that the majority progressives can stop the rightwing of the party getting control. I mean look how close it was between the Millibands, one side of the party vote for what they want the country to look like, the other half vote for what they think the fictional 'middle england' want the country to look like. The most unpopular policies of Labour were the right wing ones, yet we still get a Tory government who end up being worse. Something needs to change, and it starts inside the party as far as I'm concerned.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post we could all go down to our local city square and protest about it
but top gears on iplayer.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post you don't have to be a tory to criticise labour

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post yeah like i said
its monday, im just fanning flames.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post I've paid off my mortgage
Don't owe a thing. What do you think of that, then? Eh?

Absolute bollocks. I'm so screwed I'm thinking of selling a kidney
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post i'll buy it
will sell it on ebay as "used meat"
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post How do you buy a house
without personal debt? I had a nice job (10 years or so), I got married and we took out a mortgage. Then my partner went to prison so to keep my home (why should I lose it? I had done nothing wrong) I had to pay all the bills where they had been previously shared. I took on two extra jobs, and just got by.
But then I got made redundant from my main job. The redundancy just carried me over until I managed to get another job, less money. Three years later: redundant. I got another job. 5 years later? Redundant. This time, finding work was even more difficult so I took what I could. I ended up a qualified areospace engineer working in a clothing warehouse... that is, until I was made redundant. Now I run a charity and the council have just announced a 30% cut in our grant.
What I'm getting at is although I have worked hard all my life and have never signed on or claimed a benefit, I am still up to my ears in debt. There wasn't really any other way to survive.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post Labour are in no way responsible at all for the state of the economy
no, not at all, definitely not.
At all.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post Good for you.
Aren't you so fucking perfect.

I hope your attitude is the same when you suddenly lose your job and can't get another that pays nearly as much and you discover that your income does not balance the books and your mortgage is now too large to pay but you cannot move as the housing prices have dropped.

Some people take on massivly large debt on cards for things they dont need, and they are idiots, but some just do what they need to to live and get screwed by circumstance.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post I am in the black.
I have savings. I spent the last 10 years paying off student loans, loans i took while being a student, and expenses I ran up while starting my career and moving to london. Now I'm well into the black again...So i can put a deposit on a house.....

..and be more in debt than I've ever been in my life.

Go figure.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post Oh no no no
you don't have to buy a house. Just rent one like every other country in the world.

I've got a lovely selection of rooms you might like to rent from me.
It's much better you give your cash to me rather than those horrible lying bankers. I'm just a humble tory voting millionaire landlord, m'huwa wa wa wa wa wa wa
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'm a Labour member (as probably mention too much on here) but agree to an extent.
Its not something that was isolated to New Labour though, this is a process thats been happening for a long while, ask your parents or grandparents about high purchase, the 'never ever' (never ever pay it off) and the boom in consumerism in the 50's. Instead of actually sorting out a fair pay scale (which would benefit everyone across class bounderies to my mind) debt was the way governments could artificialy boost growth etc, its nothing new. I think why its become more acute these days is because wages have begun to stagnate, the job market doesnt allow people to easily find new higher paying jobs. So yeah, Labours been part of the problem (alot of it down to Tory Blair, and Browns fear of moving back to the left) but its not all down to them. Im gonna sound like a complete idiological pinko idiot here probably. But this isn't going to change until theres legislature to encourage lowest wages to be in proportion to the highest wages in any company etc. Raise the wages of the lowest earners whilst 'marginally' reducing the wages of the highest earners (change the tax bands as well) you'll get sustainable growth and everyone will become better off. Obviously complicated to implement, but surely it should be an aim?
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post Labour bear some blame
But it was happening all over the place. The US has massive personal debt too. And it certainly wouldn't have been any better with the Tories in charge.

But yes - Labour bear some of the blame.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post first issue that stands out for me is,
The comparing of average daily savings per person vs how many cash machine transactions per day, they are 2 different figures, 530 million is in smaller figures below, divide that by the current estimate for UK population (61.8 million) which I'd assme is how they have done all of their "average person" estimates. This gives a per person average of £12 per person.

372 people declared bankrupt ever day, or to put it another way, 0.0006% of the population, I'd hazzard a guess that its not mush more now than its ever been.

Also, I would like to know whether the averages are mean or median averages? Both will produce very different results, to get a true reading you would need to also work out exactly how many people owe money, even if its just a fiver overdrawn, then work out a true average from there.

I don'y deny that personal debt is a problem but to atribute it to any one individual (be that a political party or a person themselves) is a sweeping generalisation and not adressing any of the underlying issues.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post Some of that appears misleading...
29,875 owed by each adult? Only until you read further where it says "in a debt management program." I suppose you don't go into a debt management program if you only owe 500.

I also wonder if some of those numbers include mortgages (see Average UK Household debt).
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:30, , Reply)
This is a link post Astronomy sounds dead easy
I love the casual way they describe how to detect it -

"You would have to modify (the telescope arrays) slightly - probably only through software, and then you combine the signals in a way that's never been done before," he explained.

"If we are lucky, we should see the twisted light stand out, and then we open a bottle of champagne or two."

Sounds easy enough. Can I have a go?
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post Piece of piss.
Why can't these guys earn their money?
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:14, , Reply)
This is a link post If you enjoyed the Grammy presenter brain melt
Here is another example, headphone/earpiece delay apparently melts your brain.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!
He says 'sperming'.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post I think it's' Spermingham's BbbbRRMMBbbb'

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post As a radio person...
...I can vouch for the disorienting effect of headphone delay.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post Fuck yeah!
He's right, haven't heard that tune in ages.
*Youtube*
:D
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:52, , Reply)
This is a link post As the Right pushes privatization as a solution to the economic collapse, one organization is teaching communities how to defeat corporations. ...
Interesting article about the privitisation of water in the usa. Although us-centric, the first part (about the disaster capitalism) is exactly how i feel: all the credit crunch and debt problems are our shock, so we let the corporations take over and run everthing.

"California's treasurer just announced that the state may need to begin issuing IOUs if the governor and legislature can't close the budget gap. And California's not the only place that's hurting. The Great Recession, hit not only businesses and individuals, but governments as well. The National Conference of State Legislatures estimated that 31 states are facing a combined shortfall for fiscal year 2011 of nearly $60 billion.

So, what's being done? "Cities and states across the nation are selling and leasing everything from airports to zoos -- a fire sale that could help plug budget holes now but worsen their financial woes over the long run," the Wall Street Journal reports. "California is looking to shed state office buildings. Milwaukee has proposed selling its water supply; in Chicago and New Haven, Conn., its parking meters. In Louisiana and Georgia, airports are up for grabs.""
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post aye
we're fucked likes. eventually we can take it all back again though. it'll take bloody ages.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:04, , Reply)
This is a link post Rastamous 'already annoying'

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post hahaha
they really should have a character on the show called Batty Mouse like he says. they won't though. lame bbc
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:58, , Reply)
This is a link post As Ireland is skink they have put Jedward up for their Eurovision entry

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post I have never seen those two before!
Heard of the name but didn't know what they were. Now I know they are a couple of wankers.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post could you not tell that from their name?

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post or thier stupid haircuts? or their stupid clothes?
culled? gassed more like.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post I thought it was the name of one person.
Pop singers can have odd-sounding names.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post what country do you live in?
Can i come?

I must escape these inbred, potentiously incestuous, talentless little shitcunts.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post Those two idiots need be culled

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:49, , Reply)
This is a normal post wow, they not only look horrible...
this is the first time I have heard them as far as I know.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post They look like Iced Gems...
...except Iced Gems are nice, and I want to see these two crucified in flames.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post Jesus wept.
I think that was the worst contribution to human culture I have ever heard.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post KILL IT WITH FIRE AND HORRIBLE DISFIGURING DISEASES
I hope they get AIDS in the face.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post bad indeed
but it wouldn't exactly stand out as conspicuously so at Eurovision, surely?
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:02, , Reply)
This is a link post i live and work in eastlondon
this is what im starting to think of cyclists...


(links a bit american...but im sure Kyle what-his-name from twin peaks turns up randomly in the middle
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post I used to live in East London
and walk into work in Central London. My hierarchy of aggressive road users (ranked by number of occasions when they nearly ran me over):

- Cyclists
- Minicab drivers
- Lorry drivers
- Black cab drivers
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post oooh thats a good one:
for me its:

Cyclists: mainly on pavements
bus drivers: but i do walk close to the edge of the pavement and have been clipped round the ear once or twice...

and then lastly people on fucking phones: LOOK WHERE YOU ARE GOING WE LIVE IN A CROWDED CITY
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post I ride a bike
and don't care what any cunting car driver thinks. (not aimed at you darwin dude lol!!) especially as some of them don't know what the fuck they are doing. indicator? whats that for then?
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ah yes
I forgot buses (how could I).

Especially bendy buses who park across junctions.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post i once saw a bendy bus
take 1 hour to three point turn on shoreditch high street....

a good stoned afternoon spent watching taxi drivers nearly lose thier shit at a laid back bus driver who just didnt give a fuck.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post The ending made me vom
I am a cyclist, and I think most cyclists are cunts. I also think they wa drivers treat cyclist is extremely cunty. I AM THE ONLY NICE CYCLIST IN THE UK.
I stop at lights, I illuminate my bike when its dark and if I am hyper prepared, I wear a high-vis, I try and leave room for cars to pass whenever possible and I use cycle-paths even if they are twice as long a route.
I have still had taxis extend their steps at lights as I am going past to try and trip me up, and people attempting to injure me for no reason other than they are utter cunts. Presumably they would do the same if they were walking and happened to be carrying an offensive weapon that could easily kill or maim.
I pay my road tax, and I happen to be aware that the money raised by that has no correlation to the upkeep of the roads. I happen to believe that a bicycle will make nearly fuck all difference to the condition of the roads.
I don't wear lycra unless I am doing at least 80 miles, and even then I only wear it so I don't get scabs and mad rashes for the rest of the month. I certainly don't wear it to upset white van drivers.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post well then
im sorry i have never met you.... i only met the other kind.

long live the good cyclist.... (im not implying the bad ones should die...but they probably will)
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post i live in North London and its the same...
its not the cyclists taking short cuts, etc that annoys me it just when people are rude and don't think... so that could be applied to anybody and any form of transport..

a prime example of a dick.... www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/09/ukcrime
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post I commute to work by bike
And every day, I get cut up by a mum driving her kids to school or a white van pulls out in front of me from a side road or a BMW driver speeds past then cuts in front of more someone walking across the road on their phone. The common factor is people. People are cunts.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post youve hit the nail on the head
people are indeed cunts
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post I vote for a biological weapon. Let's just get the human race over with.
Honestly, no-one will miss us.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:36, , Reply)
This is a link post Daily Mail-o-matic - Generate your own Daily Fail headline

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 10:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post Is filth on television giving your house swine flu?
I'm sure I read about that last week
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post If you liked that...
...you may also like the Channel 5 documentary title generator: quinparker.com/channel-five/

Pre-Desmond, though, so probably not enough tits and charidee to work for these times.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post HAVE TEACHERS HURT YOU?
ARE FERAL CHILDREN CHEATING YOUR DAUGHTERS?
COULD THE UNEMPLOYED KILL BRITAIN'S FARMERS?
HAS FILTH ON TELEVISION DEVALUED THE CHURCH?
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post WILL FILTH ON TELEVISION IMPREGNATE THE MEMORY OF DIANA?

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post oh I do hope so

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post WILL BRUSSELS TURN PENSIONERS GAY?

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post COULD GAYS MOLEST HOUSE PRICES?

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:49, , Reply)
This is a normal post COULD MUSLIMS MAKE THE MEMORY OF DIANA IMPOTENT?

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:49, , Reply)
This is a link post Grammy coverage
incisive backstage coverage from last night's awards
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 10:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post She sums it up well...

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post Da Derp De Derp
Ta Tiddly Terp Ta Tum
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post and being a stapler
aint as easy as it loooks!
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post MnngBlarg Vlarg
Herrrrnnnnnnnnng
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post Oi! It's not fair to laugh
at someone having an on-screen stroke
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post it really does look like that
wonder if she's ok?
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:33, , Reply)
This is a normal post Na, she's off her face on Hooch

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post face didnt go though...
and she kept holding that mic....


place your bets:

stroke:
Pescription drugs:
Booze:
Blondeness:
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post Oooo
I'll go prescription drugs.

She's American and on TV, after all. They're all at it...
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post yeah man...
i agree....

they killed the Joker too.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post F.A.S.T.

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post that is such a bad anacronym...
i can never remember what it means

face arse smile tits

face arms smile toes

face and silly ticks?
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's easy:
F : Fart. Can they break wind without shitting themselves?
A : Arms. Are they still attached or fallen off?
S : Smell. Do they smell funny?
T : Trousers. Have they fallen down?
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 16:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hahaha

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 16:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post GLOL!!!
Fantastic.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 21:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post hahahah

(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post They use this test to establish if you are really hearing impaired of faking it.
The number one thing to fuck up your speech pattern is to hear your own voice with a bit of lag.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 11:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post imagine if u were in bed with her
and she started doing that.

also, poke dude, is that u coughin' in the background? take smaller tokes mate ;)
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post haha
this is ow all TV sounds to him.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hilarious.
And it's clearly a mic delay that's feeding back into her ear. You should try speaking while listening to what you said a second before. I'd forgotten all about it until I saw someone remind me about it (I used to do hospital radio)
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post Actually I know what you mean...
...I was doing some voice recording the other day, and left the feedback on, so I had an echo (pitched up quite a bit) for everything I said. Completely puts you off.

That said, if you can't work alongside the quirks of broadcasted reporting, then either get some more practice, or find another employment niche. Or better yet just keep giving us hilarious videos.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 12:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post i think if i was on live telly i might say something similar.
a very very hevay ah heavy de burtation tonight. We had a very darest darrison by lets gohead tarish tazen luz to the bet the habde pet.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post Actually, she may have had a stroke!
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8322966/Serene-Branson-hospitalised-after-Grammys-speech-problems.html
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post
oh shit that's awful....delete?
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post Nah
They're only testing.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 14:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post
curse the stupid telegraph and its super loud autoplay clips
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 19:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post that's bullshit
she was checked out by Paramedics on the scene and got a ride home with a friend. She's fine. They always add random shit into events that didn't happen.
(, Mon 14 Feb 2011, 23:21, , Reply)

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