chrisp65

sounds like a great life.......what's the CV for?

Without wishing to go full anorak, I don't see (or hear) where that backs up your case?

The example also presumes the vineyard would be in capitalist control and not a co-operative. It also presumes no worker would ever be prepared to pay more than the hourly production rate for an item, which is a bit of a crude year 1 version of Marxism.

My version is definitely better. My version allows art appreciation and individuality.

 

 

... I'm a civil servant on a poultry wage...

You must be quackers.

 

Don't get me started.  I was going to confront "her" but felt like chicken tonight. 

 

cock

they were well lubricated

Parma have failed to find a buyer, have officially been declared bankrupt and will start next season in amateur division 4

busted

 

 

Parma are set to begin next season as an amateur club in Italy's fourth tier after failing to find a buyer to pay off a debt of 22.6m euros (£16.2m).

a night tube to Stockwell should go straight on the tourists 'things to do' list

at first I nearly choked on my supermarket knock off version of Alpen

then I watched it

now I'm ready to face Monday with a smile and a '**** yeah!' attitude

'thanks for posting' as they say on youtube...

 

 

Oasis on another level? Basement and penthouse.

77m albums sold worldwide will buy you one hell of a penthouse

 

 

Popularity isn't everything. Justin Bieber has probably sold more.

 

between them, Cliff Richards and the Spice Girls have sold over 300 million

yet with the exception of 'Devil Woman' and '2 become 1', much of their output has been mediocre 

I'll let that criticism of Oasis pass chrisp65, as you're going to sort me out with Charlotte Church in the near future.

Aahh I was only dicking around to start a mini war, both bands are perfectly fine and nobody's musical taste is better than anyone else's.

The first Oasis album is a stand out piece of work, excellent. But then, first listen to some of those Roses singles* as they came out, oooh man.

*they'll be up in the attic somewhere, I'm sure they've got postcards of art and whatnot tucked in them, from memory.

there's a world difference between the art of The Stone Roses and anything Oasis have managed to knock out that's not instantly recognisable as a rip off of someone else's work

I believe it's an unwritten rule that postmen wear shorts, like a badge of honour kind of thing. Anyone who does their round in trousers is seen as a bit of a second-class citizen.

Do they make the second class one's do the afternoon delivery?

(That's an age related joke - in olden times your first class post turned up in the morning, second class post turned up mid afternoon. Now of course, all post turns up mid afternoon, some of it with more stamps than others)

Islington,

It's on the 'Light in the attic' label.

I've ended up with a couple of things from there and it's pretty much turning into a label you can buy something unknown and it will be good. 

Just to doubly prove my left wing credentials I shall blame that apostrophe on the rather louche 10:00am glass of port I'd just knocked back (I was cooking up a stock for the beef and had run out of red wine, so used port).

I think it's ok to drink 2007 port in the morning providing the glass started out life as a nutella pot.

I'll be honest, I have had a brief nap this afternoon.

straight on to the Scott's website - sold out!

lovely, lovely album, second side is just sublime

 

Back in the day, when I knew everything and still had teenage spots, I had a badge on my two tone harrington jacket that read 'Ferrari's for everyone.'

 

The put down 'Champagne socialism' just isn't thinking hard enough. Champagne for everyone is a perfectly decent goal.

 

The problem is that Marx's labour theory of value predicts that it would not be possible and not even desirable.

 

The reason Champagne is expensive is that the traditional method of making it is very labour-intensive, especially the remuage process where each bottle is turned a minute amount by hand and le dosage where wine and sugar are added for secondary fermentation.

 

Under a socialist system, wasting precious man-hours on such a decadent and frivolous product, when the manpower could be used to produce essential goods, would be total anathema.

 

If you want Champaign for everyone, you need a capitalist system where large amounts of capital is invested to automate the process, which would lower the price, and make it accessible to all.  

 

Having read a little bit of Marx and around Marx (enough to blag it in some company) I'd have to disagree.

What you're quoting is the bolshevik end of the communist interpretation of Marxism. Rooted in a 110 year old take on a 150 year old idea.

The World has moved on since the 1800's, my champagne for everyone version is a great improvement. But not to be taken literally. For 'champagne' you can also slot in fancy looking cars, Bruce Springsteen, gardening or cake. Not in the let them eat cake way of the tories. But in the way where there is more than enough to go around if we all have one cake. It's when somebody wants to corner the cake market that we have problems.

Ferrari for everyone would actually be fantastically easy to provide. It really would. Whether it fits a skewed 2015 view of original Marxist thought, well I just don't know about that.

I was watching the Class War and Communist Party twitter feeds.

They're an interesting bunch! 

Back in the day, when I knew everything and still had teenage spots, I had a badge on my two tone harrington jacket that read 'Ferrari's for everyone.'

The put down 'Champagne socialism' just isn't thinking hard enough. Champagne for everyone is a perfectly decent goal.

Church is your typical champagne socialist. However, I'd bang her harder than a flimsy barn door in a hurricane. I do find the Welsh accent sexy*

 

 

 

 

* on women, not bearded ex miners 

She shops in the same Waitrose as me (waitrose champagne £19.99), would you like me to pass on the message?

If you don't ask you don't get.

depends what it is

a decent whiskey and I'll drink it straight and take an hour over it

a cheap rum and I'll splash half a tumbler of cold pepsi max over it!

Charlotte Church is ok by me. 

full time, we battered them, 2:2

now fighting over who gets the World Cup for the first 6 months

World of difference in attitude and professionalism today in the closed season grudge match played on a neutral ground between Barry Town Fans vs Port Talbot Ultras.

Barry have turned up in the kindly donated league team's kit from last season - a couple of them look a little tight admittedly. Port Talbot have a kit best described as 'wear something mostly blue'.

It's also noticeable that Barry have 11 players on the pitch and P'Talbot have 14. Apparently that's allowed because some of them are only small.

Half time, 1:1

oooh, just the picture put me in the mood - too early to start......right?