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- Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:36 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 20533
- Views: 1801254
Re: The Politics Thread
Oh, and just for the purpose of clarity, the new electric Mini is being asembled over here, not built. It won't require significant investment over here to reconfigure the factory, so BMW have a get-out if we cock up negotiations. If, If , If. I agree with the more measured, less emotional Malc. Le...
- Mon Aug 07, 2017 9:37 am
- Forum: Match Thread Archive
- Topic: Commencing countdown, engines on (5, 4, 3 ...) - Leeds Utd (h) 06/08/17
- Replies: 85
- Views: 18698
Re: Commencing countdown, engines on (5, 4, 3 ...) - Leeds Utd (h) 06/08/17
You can't give any team in the Championship a two goal lead through sloppy defending then expect to win. However, in my opinion there are positives as we know Parkinson will work on waking up the defence where we were very poor in the first half. The new players have yet to gell into the team so it ...
- Wed Jul 19, 2017 11:13 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 20533
- Views: 1801254
Re: The Politics Thread
Interesting Monty but the article seems have missed the elephant in the room: - Room. Otherwise known as population density. I understand that Canada and, to a slightly lesser extent, the USA has rather more space for development than the UK. Generally, Britain has been tolerant to immigration over...
- Mon Jul 17, 2017 9:56 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 20533
- Views: 1801254
Re: The Politics Thread
The New York Times had an interesting article on how Canada has resisted the right wing populism found in other Western democracies. It included the following figures. The result is a broad political consensus around immigrants’ place in Canada’s national identity. That creates a virtuous cycle. Al...
- Sat Jun 24, 2017 2:35 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: Six Nations 2017...
- Replies: 63
- Views: 10894
Re: Six Nations 2017...
England's 3rd fifteen away can beat a strong Argentinian side under Eddie Jones. The four home nation's supposed best team get dicked by the All Blacks under Warren Gatland and his biased picks. Not to mention the lacklustre warm-up games performances and then shooting his mouth off about the All Bl...
- Sat Jun 17, 2017 9:54 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 20533
- Views: 1801254
Re: The Politics Thread
The good news about to 50's is we now have the WRVS running the country. "So Prime Minister, what do you say to those people who want answers?" "I immediately ran into the kitchen and baked a Victoria Sponge" "Is it fire retardant?" "No, but there's lots of hot sweet tea, too" "They called you a co...
- Sat Jun 17, 2017 9:07 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 20533
- Views: 1801254
Re: The Politics Thread
Might be worth a mention that back in 1945 (I was six and we had just endured six years of world war),a shortage of everything, including food - ask your grandparents- most of the walking wounded soldiers coming back home to who knew what, country grieving for its dead and a massive relief that it ...
- Fri Jun 16, 2017 4:03 pm
- Forum: Match Thread Archive
- Topic: Carabao Cup thread: Sheff Wednesday at home
- Replies: 161
- Views: 64838
Re: Carabao Cup First Round - Crewe away
Beefheart wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2017 3:58 pmOther than Milk and the new one the only ones I could come up with were:
Coca-Cola,
Worthington,
Carling,
Capital One.
I believe it may be the replacement for the Rumbelows Cup.
- Fri Jun 16, 2017 3:58 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 20533
- Views: 1801254
Re: The Politics Thread
Might be worth a mention that back in 1945 (I was six and we had just endured six years of world war),a shortage of everything, including food - ask your grandparents- most of the walking wounded soldiers coming back home to who knew what, country grieving for its dead and a massive relief that it ...
- Fri Jun 16, 2017 3:21 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 20533
- Views: 1801254
Re: The Politics Thread
The Queen is 91. She went. It's not political point scoring. It's just good decency. Now that I agree with. Perhaps it is best that all politicians who do not have a direct responsibility for the disastrous events at the tower block keep away. And do not speculate on what the causes of the fire are...
- Fri Jun 16, 2017 3:14 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 20533
- Views: 1801254
Re: The Politics Thread
At the risk of repeating myself, should Corbyn's "friends" ever get into power, people should beware the knock on the door in the middle of the night. Why? Is Corbyn planing on arming the pizza delivery guys or something? Ah, I see what you did there. Though why Corbyn should plane pizza guys is be...
- Fri Jun 16, 2017 8:34 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: National Beer Day
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1349
Re: National Beer Day
National Beer Day? I'm all for it unless it include lager pish as real beer should be termed ale.
- Fri Jun 16, 2017 8:28 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 20533
- Views: 1801254
Re: The Politics Thread
Evidence suggests that the younger people are the less they vote for personal gain and the more they vote socially for mutual benefit. Or at least that is how they perceive it. Whereas older people vote in their own self interests. It is why there is a perception that young people are more radicall...
- Fri Jun 16, 2017 8:08 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 20533
- Views: 1801254
Re: The Politics Thread
So the 'mask' is now slipping, Three tragic events, Two caused by folk either born here or chose to live here who wish to fight a terror war for somewhere they would never live even for all the tea in China and a basically real horror story of decades of neglect by successive governments of all col...
- Thu Jun 15, 2017 4:14 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 20533
- Views: 1801254
- Thu Jun 15, 2017 4:12 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 20533
- Views: 1801254
Re: The Politics Thread
Thanks for the sensible anwer Worthy. See, my reason for asking goes beyond any basic elasticty and " indications show"and takes into account that an 18 year old ( what's in it for me?) view, may well differ widely from that of a maturer 30 year old with a little life experience. How many for insta...
- Thu Jun 15, 2017 8:55 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 20533
- Views: 1801254
Re: The Politics Thread
Thanks for the sensible anwer Worthy. See, my reason for asking goes beyond any basic elasticty and " indications show"and takes into account that an 18 year old ( what's in it for me?) view, may well differ widely from that of a maturer 30 year old with a little life experience. How many for insta...
- Sun Jun 11, 2017 7:48 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 20533
- Views: 1801254
Re: The Politics Thread
The public sector has significant advantages over the private sector, e.g. income, pensions and an expectation that each employee can take 4 weeks sick leave per annum without even being questioned by their management. Huge swathes of this discussion is well above my head but I'm calling bulls*it o...
- Sun Jun 11, 2017 9:21 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 20533
- Views: 1801254
Re: The Politics Thread
Defined benefit is not final salary. It just isn't. It's exactly what it says it is. A defined benefit. Final salary is also just that. Your final salary. Career averaging, which is what most - though by no means all- of our public services are now paid under(I can go into tedious detail if you rea...
- Sat Jun 10, 2017 10:26 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: The Politics Thread
- Replies: 20533
- Views: 1801254
Re: The Politics Thread
Oh, and if you want discussion about final salary scheme, I'm happy. Why have you suddenly brought up defined benefit though? Do you not understand the difference or something? I believe you may be getting confused between defined benefit and defined contribution schemes. DB is final salary. DC is ...