tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post7514231113838438490..comments2024-02-06T07:57:54.467+00:00Comments on underdogs bite upwards: Creation, EU style.Leg-ironhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-352462884134112712010-05-01T10:01:31.654+01:002010-05-01T10:01:31.654+01:00I'm not sure hitting your kids teaches them an...I'm not sure hitting your kids teaches them anything, except the acceptability of violence to get what you want out of people. Hitting kids is an evil, stupid idea.<br /><br />That said, the EU rules will be used as an excuse by the state to intervene into and break up families.Ronanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354769607942288540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-85299493629048372182010-04-28T19:54:06.309+01:002010-04-28T19:54:06.309+01:00"taping 240-grit Emery paper to their windscr..."taping 240-grit Emery paper to their windscreen wipers" - That's one I haven't heard before....<br /><br />"You learned to read and to count at infant school" - My, how times change. Many of them can't manage that even after leaving secondary school.<br /><br />Four cm seems a very odd size, but our local DIY used to have 2x2" and 2x3" cut into 1.8mtr lengths....microdavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-6971333459499336262010-04-28T18:43:50.362+01:002010-04-28T18:43:50.362+01:00"Of course, my chances of winning the lottery...<i>"Of course, my chances of winning the lottery would be improved if I bought a ticket. But not by very much."</i><br /><br />The number of evenings I've spent trying to convince the statistically challenged that very concept...<br /><br />...wonderful statement sir!<br /><br />wv: dicodult<br /><br />Some sort of Ann Summer's hard core promotional code?Beware of Geeks bearing GIFshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01593142105719207212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-38310331336340618192010-04-28T13:57:45.324+01:002010-04-28T13:57:45.324+01:00"One of them said that they didn't mind &..."One of them said that they didn't mind 'cos they got benefits from the state, but they paid tax on their ciggies, so it was give and take"<br />They sound quite economically literate to me, you hear a variety of that argument from public sector workers, chancellors, and economists. So they've done well to paraphrase it for their situation which is a plus for the education system. <br />Unfortunately as we're following that path as a country, we can only end up with bankruptcy or hyper inflation as this view has no interest in nor understanding of wealth creation. <br />For a blog that covers these ecconomic issues from a UK perspective have a look at http://cynicuseconomicus.blogspot.com/<br /><br />fiatpeteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-40095764850420826032010-04-28T13:05:11.964+01:002010-04-28T13:05:11.964+01:00Somewhat off topic, but I haven't seen this on...Somewhat off topic, but I haven't seen this on any blog...<br /><br />I was listening to Minitrue (BBC Today on R4) where thay asked some NEETS (code for chav, I gather) how they felt about living of benefits.<br /><br />One of them said that they didn't mind 'cos they got benefits from the state, but they paid tax on their ciggies, so it was give and take<br /><br />FFS!<br /><br />These people will be eligable to vote this time. I wouldn't trust them to come inside when it started raining.Gendeaunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-74996218214595064852010-04-28T11:43:38.704+01:002010-04-28T11:43:38.704+01:00Despite being in the top 5 at primary school I was...Despite being in the top 5 at primary school I was dumped onto a Comprehensive school after labour scrapped the 11 plus. A quirk of fate meant I missed the chance of going to the academy by a year. Upward mobility stopped in it's tracks by Labour nearly 40 years ago. And I've hated them ever since.Liebour scumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-29297983968884746592010-04-28T11:17:55.093+01:002010-04-28T11:17:55.093+01:00Yes Greece is the blueprint downfall of the EU.
It...Yes Greece is the blueprint downfall of the EU.<br />It's not sustainable for the poorer nations.<br />The Germans will have trouble convincing their electorate to pay for this.<br />Not sustainable sounds familiar in the UK brand of so called governance as well.<br />This smacking thing is merely an illustration of the absoloute bonkers way the EU does things.<br />Some lefty burke pushes a crazy idea like this through and gets away with it.<br />So how many more prisons and care homes for children do we build because someone smacked an unrully child. <br />Time to get out of this EU farce.<br />Politicians need to be accountable to their electorate ,not some looney quango in Brussels.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-62917834287978209862010-04-28T10:36:07.233+01:002010-04-28T10:36:07.233+01:00The big parties will change, though not through ch...The big parties will change, though not through choice. They'll change the same way Greek Government will change: because they've run out of money.<br /><br />The reason the modern generation are clueless wastrels is because they don't perceive much of a downside to being wastrels; they see a clear choice. Lots and lots of hard work and eventually you might, just might get a passable income, or alternatively piss it up the wall every night and save nothing, and those nice people in Government will look after you dilligently, pay you extra money for basically fucking up your life, and even pay you handsomely to breed lots more clueless morons. All this, any you don't even have to learn to read, since some nice person down the social will read things out for you, and even help you fill in forms if you can't do it yourself. If you booze yourself into ill health, or stuff yourself into porcine obesity, then they'll deem you to be ill, and give you even more money.<br /><br />That is why the little darlings don't try at school; there's no downside to it, and lots of upsides.<br /><br />The cure is this: remove a lot of benefits. Remove child benefit, or limit it to the first two live births (token BNP policy there; if you've married a first cousin and are producing verminous greks that die in infancy, you get two shots on the State coin then that's it). Rigorously test incapacity benefit, and remove curable illnesses such as obesity and the like from this benefit. Keep a short-term out-of-work dole, then when this runs out, substitute in Government work programmes. In short, do everything you can think of to prevent people languishing on Government charity for life.<br /><br />For Government work, I'm talking of things like sorting domestic refuse for recycling, street sweeping, ditch-clearing and the like. Mucky, miserable jobs that nobody much wants to do, paid poorly (abolish minimum wages; they do far more harm than good) and paid by the hour the person works. Turn up late, and you get paid less.<br /><br />The net effect here would be to give a massive incentive to jobless people to find work, any work that was better than Government work. Local minimum wages could be enforced after a fashion by how much Government work pays, permitting minimum wages to be set loosely and set by area; employers paying less than the pittance paid by Government work would find few takers.<br /><br />Finally, increase the basic tax-free allowance to around 10K per annum, and institute a flat tax above that. The purpose of a tax is not social control but to raise money for the Government; this should be done as cheaply, simply and painlessly as possible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com