chrisp65

death cult about to get about 50% of it's wish list dropped on it from a great height

yeah, but it's all linked in

You need to re think your attitude and the language you use, mutual respect buddy, mutual respect.

quote wars

very important there's a winner

Mine was a boys only school that way back then had only two purposes. One: provide 15 youth rugby players. Two: piss off Chris with petty rules.

Truth was, they'd already achieved number two by having rule number one.

absolutely hated school, I had a big problem with having to wear uniform

most of my imagination and energy went into working out how to subvert uniform and appearance rules

all these years later, and I'm most at home in a meeting wearing a pair of chinos a jacket and a plain light blue shirt - just like every other bloke in the room

ah well 

Yeah, Malmo looks an interesting place, a population smaller than Cardiff with 40% of the population being foreign born or having some non-Swedish background, almost half the population is under 35 and unemployment in the under 30's is around about 25%. 8 or 10 gang related grenade attacks since Christmas.

Sounds like a place with problems. Of all the 'incomers' amongst the top 10 foreign nationalities migrating into Malmo we have Danes, Serbs, Bosnians, Poles, Hungarians and Romanians. Though top (just ahead of the Danes by 1,000) is Iraqis.

To flood a city with unemployed migrant youth of any religion sounds like a pretty stupid idea.  

London, as a contrast, has half a million Indians, 220,000 Pakistanis, 220,000 Bangladeshi, half a million 'other' asian, 1,000,000 'black', 1,000,000 white non-british etc etc but to my knowledge no marauding rape gangs and no grenade attacks. 

So I just don't see the defining problem being immigration or, specifically, muslims.

Looks more like a really really bad bit of social planning followed up by really really bad policing.

All types of people can be good or bad.

But yes, Malmo looks like a pretty rough place to be.

I just read Auris as Airbus and spat out a little bit of my tea on the keyboard.

I think the problem might be, Ikantcpell, that much of what you post does skirt around the edges of having a racist undercurrent. Now it might be wrong on our part, but quite a few people have picked up on it. It might be, that if english isn't your first language then we are not picking up the nuance of what you want to get across, or you are not quite using the right words. But I don't know that, it's a guess.

But at the moment, a great deal of what is being posted, to my sensibilities, looks like it has a subtext. So people will call you out on it.  

I have never bought tartan paint, a left handed screwdriver or gap insurance

so far, I haven't missed any of them - the amount of pressure they will apply to get you to buy gap should give you some indication how much of it is commission

Morning Star still very much in print.

It's twitter feed is fantastic! 

You do sometimes have to take some of it with a slight squint of scepticism.

Another good one, Communist Party of Great Britain - London branch. CPGB - L is now up to about 3 members, so it shouldn't be long before they have an ideological falling out and split into a minimum of 4 new twitter feeds, mostly concentrating on rubbishing the other 3. Brilliant.

 who said that?

ha ha! look down there, it's like one of the Krankies!

Hopefully public transport is a temporary inconvenience, how much should an automatic gearbox for a Mercedes cost? Doesn't sound like a very expensive item to me? Bloody thing has only done a quarter of a million miles.

I sat NEL once, one of the european games under ONeil.

We were a block booking of about 6 seats in a row and every one of us was over 6' Subsequently you couldn't steal the legroom of the guy next to you so we didn't fit. Stewards constantly trying to get us to sit down, with us explaining that we weren't being awkward, we just plain didn't fit.

you could buy a fairly new car, from a main dealer, on a pcp

Let somebody else take the first year depreciation hit, keep the comfort of a relatively new car from a 'reputable' garage with an approved used type scheme.

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Have you considered a completely left field different approach? Get a brand new cheap car? You can buy a great big shiny new Dacia for £11k. It's new so it has the warranty, it's big and shiny. Absolute maximum loss at 100% depreciation is £11k over 4 years. So absolutely any value left in it in 4 years time is yours to spend on chips and beer.

I had to experience the delights of an Arriva commuter train this morning.

Getting on at one of the first stops, I made the mistake of pushing through the idiots standing in the entrance to avail myself of one of the many empty seats. On trying to sit down it very quickly became obvious why all the other blokes were standing. I didn't fit in the **** gap between their teeny tiny **** seats. Literally didn't fit, at six foot one and three quarters I was too freakishly tall for my legs to physically fit in the gap between their seats.

Light years ahead of Jeremy Corbyn, Arriva have developed and rolled out the female only train seat.

Trains - they don't start close to my house, they don't end close to my office, they cost three times more than the petrol would have and the seats are too close together to sit on. There were approximately 7,000 screaming refugees on board that later transpired to all be from the same local comprehensive school. I had to stand for the entire journey. Somebody had a cough. Somebody else let their toddler play with the novelty noises on their smart phone.

Other than that, **** awesome.

I had no idea!

bastard!

I **** knew it.

Yes, if I do pick up a newspaper it'll be the Independent, although that's sadly becoming more difficult to find.

Not a big deal for me, but their sports reporting is going down hill. They have a dick of a footy writer that keeps dropping into articles that Wales can now throw in the towel and merge with England, now they've (almost) qualified for something. He only does it to wind people up, but it wipes out a few other footy forums for 24 hours every time he does it.

On a shellfish note, I don't see the current situation helping the lazy limp David Cameron cajole his euro leader chums in to giving the UK more special concessions around our membership and what rules apply to us.

Germany has sensed an opportunity here, something that will be a grand gesture, that helps it's own economy, that gets a rule change on moral and christian values, that coincidentally does nothing to help its closest rivals  partners. 

In its own twisted way, this could see the UK much more likely to leave the EU. By leave the EU, obviously I mean still trade with it, still have to meet all its rules, still have to organise our services to match their standards, just not have a say in anything. Leave deciding the rules entirely to Germany, France and the rotation of nodding dogs from Malta and Lithuania etc..

With this being the dominant issue and us being out of step, I just can't see the political mastermind and detailed thinker and strategist that is David Cameron and his 'advisors' (yah, sounds great Henry, you sign it, I'm on holiday), being able to negotiate a deal for us that will appease the newspapers' need for petty victory.

I know it's a different topic really, but I think the last few weeks have seen us take a step towards leaving. The silent selfish majority have seen the future, they'll be scared.

The UK has committed to 4,000 refugees per annum.

As the last net migration figures were over 300,000 inward per annum, this doesn't look like a game changer to me.

working my way through all my old Small Faces albums, mostly rehashed versions of 'best of' but due to labelling glitches and incompetence, the occassional rare gem dropped in there too

Small Faces very much in my top three.