It's his idiom. The Grumpy avatars past and present should be a primer.
I thought it was sort of amusing but I could see how other people would be offended. However if offense was terminal I would be typing this on a Ouija board.
I should probably tone it down a bit. I should have realised that British mates-down-the-pub style humour can come across as bad taste sometimes.
For example, all these people telling jokes about the missing Malaysia Airlines flight. That's just plane wrong.
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Moth3r said:
I should probably tone it down a bit. I should have realised that British mates-down-the-pub style humour can come across as bad taste sometimes.
For example, all these people telling jokes about the missing Malaysia Airlines flight. That's just plane wrong.
That belongs in the thread started by the sock you haven't banned for some reason.
TV's Frink said:
That belongs in the thread started by the sock you haven't banned for some reason.
@ Silverwook ......... this is why I half listen to any mod that says "they're all gone" or "no socks here anymore".
Gotta love the irony.
:)
My bad, he's finally been banned.
Rest well, sweet Cookie Monster. Somewhere, somehow, vfp is sad.
Cookie, may the wind be at your back.
I doubt it, unless someone makes high protein biscuits.
Unilevil more like.
One for the Bee fans.
A village post office.
If you are a NHS user or use a similar scheme you may well have sympathy with this petition.
If you don't agree with your country having socialised medicine you may still agree with the principle that if someone has already paid for something via taxation they shouldn't be charged for it again.
Also if the model is going to held up as example it should stand on it's own feet without added surcharges.
One really for UK residents and a subject close to my hearts.
Bingowings said:
If you are a NHS user or use a similar scheme you may well have sympathy with this petition.
If you don't agree with your country having socialised medicine you may still agree with the principle that if someone has already paid for something via taxation they shouldn't be charged for it again.
Also if the model is going to held up as example it should stand on it's own feet without added surcharges.
The socialist-totalitarian mentality would be HYSTERICALLY funny if it wasn't for...
If the new revenue is for the purpose of closing a budget deficit, it cannot be said that anybody has already paid for it.
The great thing about minimal government involvement is minimal concern about what the government is doing.
When you walk into a grocery store for a carton of milk, does the cashier say "You have twice as much in your wallet as Bob, so you have to pay twice the amount."? Food is far more immediately necessary to society than health care.
If you can find a petition that divides the NHS budget per capita and then requires that a third goes to catastrophic insurance and two thirds into an individual health savings account, you'll have this Yank's sig.
The tax payers have already paid for it via the National Insurance scheme. Unfortunately successive governments, including the current Liberal/Conservative coalition, keep pinching from the scheme to do arguably more Socialistic things like nationalising failing banks.
Banks which failed because of greed and incompetence of the financial sector classes, ironically deregulated by the Labour party which used to be a Socialist party.
Utopian politics, be that a Free Market or a Socialist Utopia, are to some degree reliant on people not being greedy bastards. Which history proves is optimistic at best.
Aneurin Bevan says :
Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community. Now can someone please un-glue my hands from this table?
Here is another one I signed of a Nigerian flavour.
I signed this one today.
I signed a petition this morning to get a bond measure for a new freeway interchange into the preliminary planning stage.
USA! USA! USA!
It is ironic that Harrison's ankle is being fixed thanks to the taxes that Vodaphone (with their Yoda adverts) refuses to pay.
Nice. One more reason why, soon enough, they won't have me as a customer no more.
I've been with them for more than 10 years (although to be fair when I first got my SIM card it was still called Omnitel) and now they send me an sms telling me they'll change my plan starting next month. "Call me back" and "Recall", which used to be free, will cost 6 eurocents a day when used. And for a person like me that really could do without a phone, that's too much. I don't care if they offer me "Free Sunday" for three months free of charge (which they have), I'm changing provider.
I hope these insolvent bastards go bankrupt.
Telecoms truly are Satan incarnate.
Keep Circulating the Tapes.
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(It hasn’t happened yet)
This seems a particularly cruel and pointless deportation and I was happy to sign this one.
Indeed. And at the same time they've decided not to deport a repeat criminal out of the U.S. (at least I think it was the U.S.) because he claims he's gay.
I assume only residents of the U.K. can sign that petition, though, since it doesn't accept my postal code as valid.
