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I'm looking for a new broadband deal to go with my new flat. Anyone know of a pareticlularly good provider, that is cheap?
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 13:16, 4 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 13:17, Reply)

they said that the treasury has been losing 130 million pounds a year.
They haven't been losing anything, if it's a legal way of not having to pay a tax then it's just the treasury's fault for having such a complicated tax system with so many easily exploited loopholes.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 13:23, Reply)

When no one was buying CDs from the internet.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 13:25, Reply)

Given that buying CDs is not a new idea letting it go on for this many years is just incompetence on their part.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 13:26, Reply)

It was initially created to enable Channel Island companies to sell items such as cut flowers on the mainland where the end user was likely to incur costs in collecting them. Removing the VAT balanced out this extra cost and allowed them to remain competetive.
Yes it was incompetent for previous governments to allow this to continue past it's relevance and allow companies to exploit the loophole by setting up subsidiaries in the Channel Islands. But New Labour at the time were a) experimenting with the Tory tactic of getting into bed with big business to try to remain in power; and b) too busy starting wars all over the place to bother about tax loopholes.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 13:35, Reply)

I give my friend a couple of CDs every month because despite owning a ludicrously expensive stereo, he only owns about 50 CDs. And one of them is a disco remix of the star wars soundtrack.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 13:27, Reply)

apart from the bit that I want to die as it's growing through our fence. I know I could chop it down, but I actually quite like the tree, just not the bit which is damaging my fence.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 13:35, Reply)

it will mysteriously die. well, mysteriously provided that you remove the nail after the event. like trees that are the subject of TPO's all over the country.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 13:50, Reply)

If you think those adverts are annoying, I have two words for you.
*dons tailtsuit and dodgy moustache*
GO COMPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 13:24, Reply)

how shit is that
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 13:24, Reply)

But if you want speed you don't get that with a cheap provider.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 13:27, Reply)

Unless you have cable or BT have run fibre optic along your road, then 11Meg is very good.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 13:28, Reply)

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( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 13:39, Reply)

Swipe, I know you and I have had our differences, but I'd like to thank you for only getting annoyed with me over something genuinely offensive, not just me forgetting to say thanks for something.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 13:52, Reply)

Only thing I wish I could have gotten was a static IP but only a few people need that.
( , Mon 2 Apr 2012, 13:28, Reply)
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