Johnny Bognor

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...but when faced with extreme provacation, such as having a knife held to your wife's throat and believing you may actually be killed, even the most rational of people would be overcome with anger and hence chasing the bloke down the road is not necessarily vigilante justice, just a very natural reaction. In the heat of the moment who knows what one would do, but the fact remains that if the ****ebox didn't do what he did, then he wouldn't have received a cricket bat around the head. In my view, everything you do in life has consequences. If you can't take the consequences, then think long and hard about what you do. Simple really. In the Tony Martin case, ****head was still on the property when he was shot and that didn't stop Tony Martin from being prosecuted. After the event, ****head then sues Martin for loss of earnings...WTF is that about???? The career criminal didn't have a job in the first place and his only earnings were from ill gotten gains. Then take Mylene Class who had intruders on her property. She brandishes a knife to scare them off (remember she was a female on her own) and then gets a police caution for carrying an offensive weapon. No sorry, I don't buy this liberalist clap trap. If you are a hard working law abiding citizen, you are screwed in the eyes of the law.....

I have to say, I was surprised that I agreed with virtually everything Richard Madeley said.....does that make me a knob too?

What's more, is that we have an abundance of wind and wave energy. Swtizerland will never be able to harness wave power. I really believe in renewables (and actually applaud Mr Brown - for once- with his desire to invest in this area going forward) and I am not necessarily a climate change believer.

I can see your analogy, but I prefer this one (as in a global game of chess, the odds against are overwhelming). Just 300 Spartans held off an army rumoured to be in the millions at the Battle of Thermopylae. OK, they were all killed in the end, but they held off the Persians for 7 days. You can throw in the towel, or you can stand and fight and possibly change the course of history. We may all be pawns on a global scale, but pawns don't have to stay pawns forever..... believe!

That is why I would say Oil and Gas in the medium to short term, but once a critical point is reached the switch to renewals will accelerate and the man with the last oil well will not be able to sell a bean....I suppose he could convert it into a museum. I can't submit to that theory, because if I do, then what is the point in carrying on....where's my motivation going to come from? I may as well throw in the towel, jump on the bus and see where it takes me (and get a job in the public sector). It is possible to change the world. Take Bill Gates, 35 years ago he was totally anonomous. In that time he has changed the way we work and live. Everyone (in the Western world) is touched daily by his software and his contribution to the technical advancement of man. He was not part of the establishment or one of 'them' (i.e. those that control the chess pieces), but I bet your bottom dollar, 'they' rely more on his software than we could possibly imagine. Branson is another good example where he took on the big guy (BA) and was anti-establishment (in a business sense) and fought to create Virgin (despite BA's efforts to put him out of business) and has knocked a few chess pieces over in the process. You have to believe that you can change the world, or a very small part of it, otherwise there really is no point in setting the alarm clock tomorrow morning. Actually, I don't like calling it an alarm clock... I call it the opportunity clock, because when it rings, there is another day and another chance to make things better.

The law protects the guilty and ignores the victim. If you are awoken at 2am in the morning and there is an intruder in the property, you don't have time to google "reasonable" force and so you act on your instincts. If this means in a fit of rage you run down the road and kick the crap out of the intruder, surely there is some defence under extreme provacation? If anyone holds a knife to my wife or daughters throats and I flip my lid, they will get whats coming to them.... I'll act first and consider the consequences later. I think when you cross the line and violate someone or their property, you forego your civil rights. It is madness that criminals can use the legal system to their benefit. If I put up barbed wire and someone enters my property with the intention of burglary, but injures themself in the process, I would be sued and prosecuted. How is that fair?

Well someone's got to create some wealth to keep you in work

Technology is a tricky one as I think the biggest gains were made with the growth of the Microsoft's and Oracle's of this world through the 80's and 90's. I don't know what the next big things are and although I take your point about ISP's, hardware and infrastructure have not performed as well as software and applications. All the techies are now talking about slates / tablets (the next gen laptop), but until the killer application comes out, no-one is going to buy one. To make a serious gain, you are going to have to predict the next killer application. I have no inside knowledge whatsoever, but with a growing world population and an insatiable demand for energy (coupled with security of supply issues) resources will come seriously under pressure. If we forget the climate change debate for a minute, I think there will be a move into renewable sources as it just makes sense - unlimited energy sources has got to be the way to go. Therefore, investment in oil and gas for the short to medium term and renewables for the longer term must yield dividends. Disclaimer: I am not FSA registered and this is merely the opinion of some bloke off the internet who pupports to come from Bognor, but has never actually lived there....read into that what you will

I've held fortune oil for over 15 years. Got scammed into buying them at 5p in 1995, they shot up to 11p (within a week) and plunged to 2p a week later. As they were pretty worthless for years, it wasn't worth selling. After 2000 they moved very slowly up to 5p (about three years ago) and have been steady ever since (although they nearly touched 10p for a short while). Factor in inflation and costs of purchase, I'm still down. The only comfort factor is that the Chinese economy is growing and hence demand for oil will also rise, therefore in the long term it could be a good prospect. That's my view and my only dabbling in penny shares.

Floods pretty bad around the McDonalds roundabout. ****es me off when I spent two hours of a sunday cleaning the car.

To be fair, it's not even that good. I literally work less than a stones throw from Westhampnett -you must either work for Rolls Royce, WSCC, Philson or Bellway homes as there is literally nothing else in Westhampnett....apart from me of course (just round the corner)

RIP. Each sport has a commentator that is synonomous with the said sport, Bill is to rugby what Murray Walker is to F1 or Richie Benaud is to cricket....

Don't worry, I'm not grooming you, you're not my type

A large chunk of it fell into the sea recently, but Visions nightclub is still standing......just.

Just said on BBC News that he is suing them for £1.7m in owed bonuses.....

Wembley bound. COYR

Starting a Kenya appreciation thread are we????

"A man's gotta chew what a man's gotta chew"

To be fair, I did get two responses within 2 minutes of starting the thread and that was two more than I was expecting

Talking of Chocolate, Montezumas are made locally (http://www.montezumas.co.uk/), just outside Chichester. They do a Chilli and Lime Chocolate....sounds absolutely disgusting, but I have to say it was an incredible taste bud sensation.

I notice you are in Lavant - Don't live too far from there and I work in Chichester. Do you know that William Blake penned the words to 'Jerusalem' whilst sat out the back of the Earl of March in Lavant?

No wucking forries

John Cadbury founded the company, but his sons took it to another level. George is often credited with altruistic side of things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cadbury

I think the biggest loss will be how Cadbury treats their workforce along with the great work they do in their community. It is one of the shining examples of how a company should be run. Yes make a profit, but the central theme for Cadbury was George Cadbury’s altruistic belief that his workers deserved respect and a good quality of life. A sad day indeed.