As an Englisher in Scotchland
I'm less inclined than most to have anything positive to say about Scottish Nationalists ... but in this case, they mostly aren't getting annoyed. They're doing what the rest of the sensible world should be doing and not giving the tiniest shit that two over-priveledged inbreds have managed to do what the parents of every single other one of the 7 billion of us on the planet have managed to do. All power to them. Until next week when I'll go back to calling them idiots again.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Jul 2013, 11:22, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

i would like to see the maths next year as to what it cost
and what it did for the economy. if they are right and it adds £56M to the economy, then fine, they can put it in a few papers. nobody else's crotchfruit can do that!

if that turns out to be bollocks, then might as well kill it, and put its head on a stake at tower hill.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Jul 2013, 11:25, Reply)

There is no right or wrong about that kind of maths
because it's made up on the spot and demonstrably impossible to verify. It'll be based on rubbish like "£5M spent on champagne by people celebrating" but that's not added a penny to the economy, because had there been no baby that £5M would have been spent on Stella down the Dog & Mod-fingering on Friday instead anyway.

It's just horseshit put in the papers because otherwise they have to admit that there is genuinely fuck all newsworthy about a child being born.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Jul 2013, 11:33, Reply)