Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Manuel,

You would appear to devalue my "right" not to vote, if I chose not to.

Would you also like to instruct me what, or whom I should vote for?

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"it is also a long-standing fact of life, that many people buy or move house to ensure that they fall into the catchment area of good state schools ...... you might not like it, or even claim with some justification, that that is unfair too .... so it is, but then so is life"

I understand the reasoning and motivations for such actions.

I think it advantages the "few" at the expense of the "majority" and I see the necessity for "evolution" not "revolution" in the the education system.

The latter remark "so is life" is the bedmark of the complacent who benefit from the "status quo".

The same was said of children working underground, slavery, education for the masses etc.

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Perhaps, you should remember your place and return to your previous "trade".

fred - life will always be unfair; that is an inescapable fact of life except in Cloud Cuckoo Land ..... inevitably and as in sport, some win and some lose

btw, which do you consider my previous trade?
white slaver?
rag and bone man?
brothel keeper?
restaurateur?
gun runner?
"shipping"?
drug baron?
low-life denizen of brick lane and whitechapel?

Is that a confession or an aspiration, Cyners?

Just to butt in here Cynic, but your parents didn't do a particularly good job with you did they? But I appreciate that they probably came from a very difficult time and environment... OK right wingers you can carry on with your insults again now.

It seems to me that cynic's parents did an excellent job with him. He seems to have a pretty balanced set of opinions and uses logic to form views on difficult subjects. He also seems to be pretty mild in putting forward his views.

Who rang your bell, I was addressing Cynic not you.

This is a public forum. You have to put up with people posting for whatever reasons they choose.

Thats only true if the poster does not use a name, which I did, so it seems that your parents also didn't do a very good job with you either... Your not related to Cynic by any chance are you H/S?

Haystack 9999999999999999999 Stan -500

People on here can contribute anyway that they wish. They can interrupt, make comments, join in conversations whether invited or not. There are no rules here. It is very difficult to insult me. I only regard myself as insulted if I have a good opinion of the person attempting the insult.

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Yet again you have chosen to miss the point.. And not for the first time.

There is no point. What you are suggesting is just plain stupid.

So how are you two related then?

It looks like The Royal Mail is at last being privatised. Apart from train drivers, it is one of the last bastions of union trouble making.

Yes, we could do with 25 years of Conservative government to rid the country of trade unions once and for all!

Cynic,

The choices you offer seem to be those defined by many of the occupations chosen by psychopaths.

Is this your natural tendency?

Which of course you would resist.

Or would you, if the balance was seemingly in your favour?

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Hays,

Your remark, "It is very difficult to insult me." seems be very true and surprisingly self perceptive of you.

Are you a self made man?

Hairy one,

You hope.

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did i have wonderful parents?
no
did i have bad parents?
no

my parents did what they thought best, as do most (certainly not all), and after that is is very much down to the individual what he does with the hand he has .... and i'm afraid an awful lot of people from all sorts of backgrounds will not accept responsibility for their own actions and similar

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fred - is it "unfair" that i created a business that happens to have worked, at least to a modest extent, and that i draw a salary and dividends considerably in excess of what i pay my employees?

of course it isn't ..... i benefit from the risks i have taken and pressures i have accepted, and conversely, my employees don't have the worries of what happens if the biz goes belly up, taking me with it

"my parents did what they thought best, as do most (certainly not all), and after that is is very much down to the individual what he does with the hand he has .... and i'm afraid an awful lot of people from all sorts of backgrounds will not accept responsibility for their own actions and similar" Agreed.

Ed: But how are you related to H/S then -):