whats goin on ere then?
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crackerjack
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Since Samizdat is populated by the kind of folk who regard a publicly funded health service as socialist totalitarianism it's not just the 'randomness' of that 'fact' that I'd question.
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craner
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It seems that I'm going to be £18 better off, alhough that doesn't make sense, because I am the person Gordon's trying to squeeze in this budget. He obviously got his sums wrong.
The most interesting thing about that BBC calculator is that it made me work out my expenditure on booze and fags and it was, uh, rather shocking. I will be £50 worse off next year because of my vices. Which makes it even more astonishing that the whole thing balances out the other way.
Economic voodoo.
The most interesting thing about that BBC calculator is that it made me work out my expenditure on booze and fags and it was, uh, rather shocking. I will be £50 worse off next year because of my vices. Which makes it even more astonishing that the whole thing balances out the other way.
Economic voodoo.
vimothy
yurp
Hey, I feel good - you feel good: we're all winners!
No, wait a minute, there's some sort of Rand Coorporation mind control technique at work here... dead economists are telepathically influencing me from beyond the grave... aaaggggghhh
Mr. Tea
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At the risk of sounding glib, Karl Marx continues to influence Cuba from beyond the grave...
vimothy
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I'm wouldn't argue with that! But, does he make the people there more generous?
Mr. Tea
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He makes them awesome at baseball, cigar and rum manufacture and infuriating Republicans.
crackerjack
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Four of mankind's more noble pursuits, I think we can all agree.
Mr. Tea
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Not too fussed about baseball, but I'm with you on the other three.
Mr. Tea
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In America they have loud music, huge monitor screens and fireworks (!) to make it more interesting.
Edit: or rather, to make it interesting.
crackerjack
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Noooo, baseball is America's sporting saving grace. I speak here as someone who has happily sat through all of a double header (though this was back when they sang Take Me Out To The Ball Game at the middle of the 6th. rather than America The Beautiful).
It's like a fast food version of cricket, one where you can actually see what's going on from the stands. It doesn't work on TV though, I admit.
It's like a fast food version of cricket, one where you can actually see what's going on from the stands. It doesn't work on TV though, I admit.
Mr. Tea
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My girlfriend went to see the White Sox play (and win, she was cheering them on), said it was pretty exciting. Maybe it's one of those 'got to be there' things. I don't watch sport at all, although I like it when the cricket's on telly in a pub, as long as the sound isn't up too high. It lends atmosphere.
crackerjack
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Talking of cricket, this just in. Bob Woolmer was murdered - his neck was broken. 'Kinell
Mr. Tea
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Jeepers! Guess cricket-loving yardies are not to be trifled with, eh?