Today I'm angry about.....

[Beefheart]

They can get away with it because people are always going to use electricity, demands relatively inelastic. Same goes for petrol/cigarettes/alcohol. That's why you know when the government are bullshitting when they pretend taxes on these things are pigovian in nature.

Well there's a word I've never heard before

even when explained I'm not sure I know what the fxck it is...
A Pigovian tax (also spelled Pigouvian tax) is a tax levied on a market activity that generates negative externalities.

So it's essentially a tax levied with the aim of influencing behaviour rather than just generating revenue. For example, if you tax a business on it's carbon emissions, (a negative externality) the idea would be that the business would aim to reduce those emissions in order to pay less tax. Notice also that beers seem to gradually be getting weaker over time (Stella has gone from 5.2% to 4.8% over the last few years) to save on duties.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Beer getting weaker is a negative internality, or so my body reckons.

[bobo the clown]

Angry may be a tad strong but has anyone else scratched their head when, after the National News at 6pm and there's a switch to local news the HD channel says "BBC One HD cannot yet show programmes from your area".

Which is fine, some things take time .... except the BBC One HD News is broadcast approximately 50 paces away from where the local BBC news for the North-West is broadcast.

Maybe it's me, but that just seems lazy.

[CrazyHorse]

Sky.
The usual reasons.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Pain.
It really, really hurts. I've got the tip of a tiny bramble thorn embedded in my typing finger. E v e r y s i n g l e l e t t e r is painful.

[boltonboris]

And yet, you accentuate it, by doing extra key strokes on unnecessary key strokes on the space bar..

[bobo the clown]

Pain.
It really, really hurts. I've got the tip of a tiny bramble thorn embedded in my typing finger. E v e r y s i n g l e l e t t e r is painful.

Only a man of our generation would refer to his "typing finger", singular.

I manage to use three on good days.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

And yet, you accentuate it, by doing extra key strokes on unnecessary key strokes on the space bar..

The spaces I can cope with using any of my other nine none typing fingers (as Bobo understands only too well). It's the letters that hurt. The spaces are painless.

[thebish]

Pain.
It really, really hurts. I've got the tip of a tiny bramble thorn embedded in my typing finger. E v e r y s i n g l e l e t t e r is painful.

I'm sure there is an ideal solution for all of us somewhere... if only I could just tease it out...

[TANGODANCER]

Pain.
It really, really hurts. I've got the tip of a tiny bramble thorn embedded in my typing finger. E v e r y s i n g l e l e t t e r is painful.

Old-fashioned remedy. Soap and sugar and cover with an elastoplast. Draw it out in no time.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Pain.
It really, really hurts. I've got the tip of a tiny bramble thorn embedded in my typing finger. E v e r y s i n g l e l e t t e r is painful.

I'm sure there is an ideal solution for all of us somewhere... if only I could just tease it out...

I know exactly where you're coming from

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Pain.
It really, really hurts. I've got the tip of a tiny bramble thorn embedded in my typing finger. E v e r y s i n g l e l e t t e r is painful.

Old-fashioned remedy. Soap and sugar and cover with an elastoplast. Draw it out in no time.

I used a slightly more brutal approach - I squeezed like hell while the most nimble fingered lass in the office (she's got good eyesight too) fished it out with a needle and tweezers. She harpooned it on about the fifth go just as I was about to give up. It still throbs a bit but is not as sensitive when I type.

[bobo the clown]

athiscIS your finger we're talking sbout, isn't it.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

athiscIS your finger we're talking sbout, isn't it.

You on the meths again, or is your finger as swollen as mine.
Yes bobo, fingers, nothing else of a lewd or perverse nature. Not where lasses at the office are concerned.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Fxclin double posting phone thing.

[thebish]

athiscIS your finger we're talking sbout, isn't it.

using your dictaphone again, Bobo?

[bwfcdan94]

I don't think I can describe how annoyed I am about this especially as I know a train driver who has had someone commit suicide under his train. I do not want to think how the driver of the train must feel. Feckin cocky w*nker trying to show off. http://travel.aol.co.uk/2013/07/26/vide ... eed-train/

[Always hopeful]

I don't think I can describe how annoyed I am about this especially as I know a train driver who has had someone commit suicide under his train. I do not want to think how the driver of the train must feel. Feckin cocky w*nker trying to show off. http://travel.aol.co.uk/2013/07/26/vide ... eed-train/

I sympathise with your train driver friend, but don't you suspect some video editing might, just might have been involved with this?

[Harry Genshaw]

I thought train drivers love suicide cases. They don't have to clean up afterwards and they get a day off

[thebish]

I thought train drivers love suicide cases. They don't have to clean up afterwards and they get a day off

i hope you're joking...