
One for your lunchbreak maybe. Deeeeeeep.
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I thought 2009 was the final part.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 13:57, Reply)

i've not been hearing good things about the non-Victorian ones.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 14:21, Reply)

Warning - may contain words
tl;dr - the minister who claims it's morally wrong to pay cash in hand for work (you know, because it deprives the treasury of much-needed revenues), claimed upwards of ten grand in costs for his 2006/7 house move, including £8,550 in stamp duty, on his expenses.
If the excuse "it's OK 'cos everyone was fiddling it" works for MPs, then why not for others?
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 11:24, Reply)

The Minister can go fuck himself - the Govt. (not just this one) need to sort out the big companies \ huge earners who are either, not paying tax or paying less tax than is 'morally correct before he complain about the 'man on the street'. Cunt.
Cash is hand is very handy when a plumber recently did four hours of pipe work for me on a Sunday and charged £80 - ta v much, I don't earn too much these days.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 11:31, Reply)

A global conglomerate who offshores billions of revenue in order to avoid paying tax is acting fairly and responsibly within its rights.
Go figure.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 11:35, Reply)

who's job used to be creating "tax efficient structures for clients" at PWC, tax law is created by parliament and has nothing whatsoever to do with morals, therefore "efficient tax planning" is absolutely fine, morally and legally. That's the _successor_ to Dave Harnett, the chap who let Vodaphone off billions.
We're basically screwed.
/Edit: Found it. (Private Eye #1318 p30, for those following at home).
"...appt of a new chair for HM Revenue and Customs...Step forward Ian Barlow, who has built a career on tax scheming every bit as contrived as comedian Jimmy Carr's dodge - but far more costly tto the UK.
Barlow was head of tax and accountancy at KPMG from 1993 to 2001 and then became senior partner in London until 2008. Over this period he was directly responsible for selling some of the most aggressive tax avoidance schemes on the market, many of them already exposed by the Eye. Here is a taste of some that made it in to the courts..."
[snip synopsis of each dodge, many of which involve giving offshore child companies lots of tax free money, then borrowing it back from them]
"As a dyed-in-the-wool tax dodger, before it became unfashionable he wasn't shy about it. "There is no meaningful distinction to be drawn between acceptable tax planning and unacceptable tax avoidance," he declared in 1999. "Tax is an aftificial construct of legislation. If parliament deems something unacceptable, it can legislate against it. What is left is acceptable." Exploiting loopholes, however artificial, is fair same: so no room for "moral repugnance" there. What next? Bob Diamond for the Band of England no doubt..."
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 13:32, Reply)

Just because someone is a massive shit, doesn't mean you should be a tiny bit of a shit too.
Lead by example and send them to the tower
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I've no problem with the legalities of it - I think everyone knows if they get busted doing a foreigner then they're in trouble. It's when some kind of moral judgment comes into the equation that my hackles rise.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 11:44, Reply)

The problem with "leading by example" is that 1/ no one cares about the little people to follow & 2/ big business doesn't care about personal morality.
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safe in the knowledge that you're not some kind of terrible hypocrite
(which is where all these mps are going wrong)
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 11:58, Reply)

So you can't.
...and also, big business/MPs et al know that the hoi polloi have extremely short term memories.... I've not bought a Sunday Times since the phone hacking scandal kicked off, but their sales recovered nicely.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 12:02, Reply)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_Kingdom_by_circulation#Circulation_since_2000_2
The sunday times is heading south.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 12:09, Reply)

I can't find it (obv) but there was a short-term survey taken that showed the boycott of the Murdoch papers lasted as long as the general public's indignation/about a month.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 12:13, Reply)

"All signs point to 'No'".
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 15:16, Reply)

and do what the man is telling you...even though he's not doing the same?
how does following hypocritical advice benefit us?
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 12:00, Reply)

I appreciate I'm being foolishly optimistic, but I'd feel like a twat getting angry at companies fiddling their books if I was fiddling mine.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 12:10, Reply)

we say "everyone pays tax" thats when its a moral issue... right now its a class issue... if your rich enough or powerful you dont have to pay tax... therefore its a punishment for not being ambitious/cuntish enough...
so only the stupid and weak pay their fair amount of tax...
so when ikea is registered as a charity and the politicians tell you that your handyman neighbour is "morally wrong"
thats when its being a good little boy....
when the rich and powerful AREN'T doing it, yet saying everyone who isn't is morally wrong.
fuck that.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 13:02, Reply)

It's not being a "good little boy"
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so i' argue that while the deficit could be filled by the corporate big boys paying their share...instead we are being asked to "shop our neighbour"
thats exactly being a good little boy.
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you dont make the corporations play ball by forcing the average man...
you go the other way round....
you make sure the big boys are paying up and THEN you go for the little guy...
if a boat had 4 holes one hole with a surface area twice the size of the other 4 holes... you wouldn't say the best solution would be to plug the smallest hole would you?
(fluid dynamics will tear this metaphor apart... but you get it)
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Not all tradesmen want to fix the books for whatever reason yet will be undercut by 17% anyone that does.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 11:47, Reply)

...which would have netted the treasury over 21 trillion in revenue. What's your fucking problem?
Yours sincerely
John Vodafone esq.
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That's the job of preachers, philosophers and my girlfriend.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 13:14, Reply)

Roy Kroc's personal message (2:56) is a highlight.
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"For your health!"
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...Mickey Flannagan and Richard Pryor
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 12:27, Reply)

...but Burger King do it remarkably similar.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 13:07, Reply)

So I may still be coming to terms with which way up to hold an iPhone whilst shooting video under the influence of scrumpy, but you may at least enjoy the audio from this.
Murray Lachlan Young at the Port Eliot Lit fest in
St. Germans down in Cornwall sings about the pleasures of dogging in a folk style.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:58, Reply)

Dunno if this one will get taken down like the Jubilee one did, as it features Olympic logos and so on.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:38, Reply)

You should be the Limpets Organising Committee's official Satirist. That would make satire fun, making it officially bonded and all that.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:42, Reply)

'Look, get some burgers or get eaten by bears'
Lovely stuff
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I love Boris. He's such a privileged, well-meaning, upper-class buffoon. The world will be a poorer place when we, regretfully, put them up against the wall......
Cheers
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:47, Reply)

Ha, thanks. They can't do anything to me other than make me take it down...can they?
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 11:01, Reply)

If only there were some kind of button or checkbox that allowed me to express my feelings.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:58, Reply)

Well put. I hope it survives the YouTube Olympic Gestapo.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 11:42, Reply)

Not sure if I'm more terrified of McD's burgers, or bears...
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 12:02, Reply)

and good use of Chris Morris right at the end.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 12:40, Reply)

more than anything, is I get the feeling Boris would have happily read that out as a script anyway without a clue what he was actually saying.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 13:30, Reply)

I recommend chucking it on Vimeo before Youtube pull it, they seem to be more forgiving there and you can still embed it, etc.
( , Wed 25 Jul 2012, 17:34, Reply)

From almost a quarter of a century ago. Perfectly observed. What a loss.
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Nerdgasm.
(Keeps finger crossed that it doesn't display inline - as its huge)
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:43, Reply)

Battle Chess, Alone in the Dark, BioForge, Decent, Magic Carpet, Tera Nova, SW Tie Fighter, Ultima Underworlds (My top game of all time), Wing Commander & Monkey Island.
*hugs*
Everyone forgets about Corporation though, don't they ?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_(video_game)
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:53, Reply)

had completely forgotten about it
www.mobygames.com/game/corporation/screenshots
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:54, Reply)

By the time the file came back from the US on a single 720k disk I had completed the game ...
Other glaring omission are F16, Commanche and Gunship 2000 ;)
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:04, Reply)

May have to spend the weekend hunting for some of these
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making it to an airstrip bouncing all over the place cos yer shot to shit... flying at 20 foot :) glorious times
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Even though I've since heard that it could be completed pretty quickly if you knew what you were doing.
Maybe I was too young for it at the time.
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I'll be checking this out when I get home though. Nice one.
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I think I might end up trying to get a hold of some of these
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www.gog.com/gamecard/realms_of_the_haunting
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I tried to get 7th guest to work on windows 7 the other day but failed
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portableapps.com/apps/games/dosbox_portable
there's probably a non-portable version
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:34, Reply)

There's a PS3 version IIRC.
Defiantly a PC one.
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www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?letter=num
7th gust is there...
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That had some frankly amazing cut-scenes, and some wonderful atmospheric levels with all the nipping round the solar system. Those golems smacking you on the bonce!
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But that might have been crap. I have fond memories though. Does anyone remember that?
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:32, Reply)

Spent ages on Descent II.
Even got the space orb 360 to play it.
www.cwonline.com/store/view_product.asp?Product=1108
Worlds - Best - Gamepad.
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Was an awesome controller, made my wrist ache tho. Or was that something else.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:41, Reply)

Spent ages on that bloody thing and had a bit of a crush on one of the female actors in the fmv sequences.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:23, Reply)

Civilisation
Lemmings
Populous (crap)
Sim City
Syndicate (brilliant)
Still play Civ, in version 4. I'd love to see a new version of Syndicate.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:29, Reply)

Maybe it hasn't been released yet.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:39, Reply)

I recently tried playing the original again, and it wasn't as good as I remember... Oh, and Syndicate:American Revolt is still impossible.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:46, Reply)

was the ability to control each agent individually, with separate commands. I can't imagine it as a FPS, the whole point was that you had overview, but not direct, individual control all the time.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:48, Reply)

Wiki says it was well recieved, but I'm sure I heard a lot of negative talk on release...
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:53, Reply)

Multiplayer though, the easy way to do squad-based tacticals. And there's a lot of tactical play in there, as well as the old 'researching new weapons and abilities', hacking, persuadertron and suchlike.
It does have a bit of a reliance on throwing loads of opposing forces at you, but it does allow sneaky stuff if you're clever.
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The best praise I've seen it given is that it is a very well put together FPS, from a technical standpoint, but with no uniqueness to call it's own. Boring singleplay story and gameplay with a decent 4 player co-op mode.
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my brother spent ages fucking about with drivers and all sorts of shag to get it to play these games. we got it working. all i remember was playing inadiana jones and fucking about and dangling a fish. my brother also saved monkey island 2 just before lechuck would walk in the room, he didnt have enough time to do anything but die. hours wasted just dying.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:35, Reply)

I always used to make new saves for this reason... plus I was always wary there were other ways to go, easter eggs, etc.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:38, Reply)

'Cos that was ACE.
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www.gog.com/gamecard/cannon_fodder
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:47, Reply)

I *wish* you hadn't shown me that... BRILLIANT!!!!
I notice people were oohing about Syndicate, which is also available there,
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 11:00, Reply)

Death Rally
Raptor
One Must Fall
Grand Theft Auto
and Doom of course
Makes me feel I really missed out on all the ones with good stories, I guess I just loved to blow things up when I was a kid (I still do)
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:50, Reply)

Seriously, thanks. *click*
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 13:11, Reply)

I still play it, it really is a fantastic game, can't recommend it enough.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 14:46, Reply)

...Whenever it's overcrowded when i'm travelling by rail I have to say "GET OFF MY TRAIN" in a gravelly voice.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 23:53, Reply)

Oh, this is very much relevant to my interests. We have someone at work that preaches (even though I have suggested to him that it's not appropriate for the workplace, in the same way I would not contemplate sitting next to religious people and telling them their beliefs are shite).
This man tells me that when I went to Castleton and saw for myself the fossils that prove that the earth is millions of years old, that I was foolish to believe that evidence just because someone had TOLD me they were that old. The Earth is thousands of years old, and I should believe what HE says.
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*©Bill Hicks.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:33, Reply)

so people did live alongside dinosaurs and there were dinosaurs on the ark.
(c) The Jehovah's Witness who came to my door once.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:18, Reply)

I found out recently that a friend of mine is super-religious but you'd never know. He cooks his elderly neighbour a roast dinner every Sunday. Is that religion or is it just being 'nice'. Am I a cynic for thinking that he gets as much out of the good deed as the old man? Mind you, he did get into financial shit once so him and his wife prayed. And, this isn't a joke, they got out of the financial shit. I'm not saying you-know-what, but it certainly cemented their belief that they were on the right track. Meh.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:35, Reply)

Using it as a framework to create your own augmented rule base for living is fine. Just be nice.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:37, Reply)

Do things that make both you and the other person feel good. A mutual friend of ours was dumped by her fiance and he told her that he was going to pray for her. I not sure what the point of all that was about.
Time to phase out silly religions (the ones about gods, aliens etc) and time to bring in Nice Club (cynical cunts also allowed).
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:47, Reply)

I make a point of not committing murder. Not because someone told me that God summoned Moses to the top of a mountain and gave him instructions carved into a couple of slabs, but because I have decided that it's not a very nice thing to do.
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at how much crack Herbs is able to smuggle in her knickers.
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Whenever anyone points a camera at her, she tilts her head to the left and grins. Check out the photo gallery and tell me I'm wrong...
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( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 12:46, Reply)

Because poor people don't earn enough to pay tax, so they're not really avoiding anything.
What the fuck is a squeezed middle?
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 8:52, Reply)

And if you're earning over 8 grand a year then your paying income tax too.
[edit]
And what about the majority who aren't poor but not rich?
Ok i've read the story again can't find a mention of a squeezed middle.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 8:54, Reply)

I think they're basically people who earn enough to keep them out of benefits and on the income tax register, but aren't sufficiently rich to ignore the little costs and dance round the big ones.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 12:05, Reply)

you're depriving hospitals from funding as well as many other less important aspects of the society you constantly take from.
it's a tiny amount of morally wrong compared to the cunts in banks, but you're still being a cunt like them.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 8:45, Reply)

i get the feeling the tories are doing their best to have us lot fighting each other
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:03, Reply)

but why shouldn't we self regulate? Just because they're cunts doesn't mean we have to be to each other. Be the better man.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:10, Reply)

The £70bn the economy loses from shady offshore accounting equates to about £2.3k per PAYE tax payer.
It's not morally right for anyone to avoid/evade tax. But making the masses cough up the difference is sick.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:14, Reply)

And if this is a Tory plot then it's going to backfire.
How much you want to bet that cash paid AuPairs working for M.Ps are not going to be lining up outside max cliffords house this morning?
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:16, Reply)

it's about people not registering the transaction with the tax man
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:59, Reply)

I missed the "in the hope of avoiding tax.", just read the headline ;p
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Surely it's the tradesman being "morally wrong" by not correctly declaring their earnings ?
I would rather accept cash than, say Debit or Credit card which incurs a 5%+ charge. Or a cheque, which you can't guarantee with a card for small amounts anymore - and so need to guarantee via transax which costs. As does paying it in. Bank transfer is preferable, but even costs money for business accounts *IF* you can get the elderly couple who's guttering you just fixed to pay that way.
Fucking hypercritical cunt MP's. How many income taxes of the average tradesman tax dodger would the Amazon or Vodaphone corporation tax bill cover ? You cunts.
Obviously, IF the tradesman says "pay me cash to dodge income earnings" then you might think twice
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:04, Reply)

by companies is the minute I'll get excited about whether my plumber pays tax on the fifty quid he took to unblock my drain.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:49, Reply)

It wouldn't stay shiny for long.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:02, Reply)

i'm going to stop kicking people in the nuts.
A little "Reductio ad absurdum" but couldn't resist
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 12:30, Reply)

Well I learned a few things.
For people that already knew all this here's a cat viddy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2ypJRyfy-0&feature=youtu.be
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 8:38, Reply)

once told me Birmingham was actually the biggest city in the UK because London isn't actually a city, rather a 'metropolitan area' including two smaller cities, City of London and Westminster.
Did wonder if there was any truth in that.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:27, Reply)

The way I understand it, and what this video is pointing out I think, is that London is a City, however The City of London is not the same as London. You see?
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 12:56, Reply)

And now he's into sniffing aerosols and god knows what else !?!?
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 8:09, Reply)

This is a little stop motion animation that I made as a film clip for my band's second single 'Off the Rails'. This is my first attempt at a film clip.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 6:47, Reply)

(Nobel prize winning economist) made his name with a piece of research which led him to claim that no famine has been due to lack of food, but rather bad governance. Either deliberate from an occupying/dictatorial power, or incompetence. Some now question the evidence, but it's still worth a read.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:54, Reply)

Can't remember the cache service, so I'll just quote the cunts. They're claiming this is the poster for some sort of ultra violent video game. The clue's in the poster. You know, where you can clearly see words like 'Paintball' and 'The new DVD from..."
Here's them at their hysterical best.
"A former classmate from the University of Colorado suggested another cause for the killings, describing Holmes as someone who had lost touch with reality after becoming 'obsessed' with video games.
The classmate told the Daily Mail: 'James was obsessed with computer games and was always playing role-playing games."
"A poster for a video game called Soldiers of Misfortune is visible- and fitting considering both Holmes' interest in video games and his maniacal course of destruction that has torn Aurora apart."
They're idiots as well as cunts.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 3:33, Reply)

a quote on Sky News from the guy's gun club leader which said....
"Looking back, and if I'd seen the movies, maybe I'd say it was like the Joker."
I can't believe they kept the "and if I'd seen the movies" bit in.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:23, Reply)

No idea if you have heard about all the drama on reddit and such about MC Chris... but we made a song about it, using his video where he pretended to cry! OM NOM NOM MC CHRIS TEARS. OM NOM NOM :D
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 3:26, Reply)

but is that about MC Pee pants? he is still doing anything?!
anyway. have a click. even if i have my nerd rappers mixed up.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 3:42, Reply)

i think it's the same guy. i don't use reddit, i just know he's been talked about on there lol
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 3:56, Reply)

well i liked the tune! if it is him, i met him in 2007 i think. he was a bit of a dick.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 4:03, Reply)

has become the new "i don't have a Facebook" or "i don't have a tv"
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:06, Reply)

Why would I ever need to visit Reddit if I already browse /Links?
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 11:32, Reply)

i would like to think she off to another shuttle mission in the sky. goodnight/goodmorning/goodafternoon all.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 3:10, Reply)

I grew up with the space shuttle - I remember the first mission like it was yesterday, I was in secondary school and we all got to miss an English lesson to watch the lift off. And I remember the explosions, the images are clear in my mind. And I remember Sally Ride being the first woman in space. How a woman could become an astronaut before a speccy teenager from the Midlands I don't know. Sod you, NASA.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:04, Reply)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova
Very sad though.
( , Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:35, Reply)

Morningwood vs Dizzee Rascal feat. Billy Squier
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