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I think you need 10 times the cost of the car to meet Fry's alleged price tag.

It's only sad because it reinforces the stereotypical, rabidly WASP, perception of Islam, and because sufficient people accept this imagery as truly representative of the entirity of the Muslim faith to make it viable as a political doctrine. It also insults the memory of the war dead - remember those that died in the European theatre died fighting fellow Europeans, and those in the far east were fighting the Japanese;in neither theatre were they fighting Muslims. Indeed, there were plenty of Muslims soldiers, from both the British and French colonies, who fought and died to defeat Nazism & the Japanese. However, to paraphrase; Whilst I completely disagree with what you say, I will defend your right to say it.

Us older techies remember 5 and 1/4" or even 8" floppies; technically the 3 and 1/2"ers are called 'stiffies'

It will look good, and may open a few doors, but as an 'old lag', ( nearly 30 years in the ICT business ), it just hasn't appealed to me, probably because it is only recently they have made it accessible to people on the basis of professional experience rather than needing to be an IT related graduate.

Do you live in an area where the church bells ring out for services, weddings, and funerals ?

They're just bitter the ToryGraph outbid them for the MPs expenses leak.

Actually, it was spread by The Sun. How far to the political right are you, if you think the 'currant bun' are commies ?

All PMs are 'non-elected'. You do not know, in advance who is going to win an election, nor indeed if there is going to be a party with any form of majority. The monarch of the day will invite, possibly with the advice of the Privy Council, who he / she decides is the most appropriate person to attempt to form a working government. What would happen, if for instance, a PM died in office, would you expect there to be an immediate full General Election, or would you be happy to see a successor appointed there and then ?

I've never come across a situation where not being a member has been a barrier, depite meeting all the necessary criteria.

a) Will of God b) Wrath of God :cool:

I heard that they are German ( so not REAL people at all ). ( How appropriate for our regional branch of the NSDAP ) These are also Yanks - funny they didn't pick the other pictures in this set, for instance the ones with the 'coloured' gentleman included.

Ahh, sorry, I work for a northerm 'met', so it's BYO.

Item 1 - Apologies for absence ( St David, Sundance, Scooby ) Item 2 - Minutes of the last meeting Item 3 - Debate the motion "Should there be a General Election ?" Item 4 - Post the results on SaintsWerb Item 5 - Any other business Item 6 - Date of next meeting

As Francis Urqhuart says in 'House of Cards' ; "You might say that, I could not possibly comment"

She can't, unless it is on the advice of the Privy Council, ( and look who that includes ). Otherwise it would precipitate a constitutional crisis equivalent to Edward the 8th or Charles the 1st, and probably lead to the abolition of the Monarchy.

Not another hijack...I'm sure that there are just as many examples of Tory financial mis-management. Can't we all just agree that the concentration of power at Westminster, with an overwhelming majority for the ruling party, ( the last 7 elections have yielded this, more or less ), tends to engender in MPs of all persuasions an attitude of indifference to public opinion, and a tendency to feel untouchable and unaccountable for their actions, ( until the damage is done ).

Of the 13 ( ! ) party affiliations stated for my region, at least 8 are immediately discounted due to some fairly obvious core policy disagreements, so it may have to come down to where I can most effectively place a 'protest' vote to block one of them.

There would be less 'wastage' if the politicians could resist interfering just because they need to be seen to be doing something. The number of policy changes, initiatives, and guidelines issued in the Health and Education sectors is mind-boggling, and much of this involves contradictions and corrections being introduced in attempt to put right last year's big plans, which have not been given enough time or attention to bed in and show a benefit.

But surely I should only vote if I support and believe in the party and it's policies. And that assumes that such a party has a candidate in my constituency. Voting simply for the sheer hell of it, or God forbid because it becomes compulsory, is worse than saying 'none of you lot are fit to get my vote'.

To do what exactly ? Form a BNP / UKIP / Greens coalition ? When it comes down to it, of the 35% of the total electorate who will bother to vote :30% will vote for the donkey with the blue ribbon, 30% for the donkey with the red ribbon, 20% for the donkey with the yellow ribbon, 10% for a minority donkey of their choice, and the result will be decided by the remaining 10% of lower middle-class, self interested, swing voters. Me, I'm thinking of the 'none of the above' option.

Either http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque ( Coombe, Cwm, or Corrie ) or a member of a Scottish folk group.

"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn "Candide" by Voltaire or the one that got my teeange son into the habit of reading 'proper' books "Brighton Rock" by Graham Greene

Yep, that's me. ( And stop calling me 'Honey' ! )

There might well be a few current MPs getting close to this already

FWIW, my two rabbits are called 'Hazel' and 'Geoffrey Boycott' - ( true ! ) Oh, and getting back to the point of this thread, my favourite animals are Killer Whales: Beautiful, sleek, intelligent, - and bl00dy deadly.