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.

An interesting take on Scottish independence

John Major: Scottish Independence Would Be 'Folly On A Grand Scale'

Scottish independence is a "folly on a grand scale" that would significantly weaken global influence, Sir John Major told MPs.

The Conservative former prime minister said the UK would understandably be seen overseas as "damaged and diminished".

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/16/john-major-scottish-independence_n_4454467.html?1387221527&utm_hp_ref=uk

I don't think Wee Eck gives a toss about UK's standing in the world, nor methinks do the jocks in general care about the UK.

They want to be an independent country within Greater €uropa, mad as that may sound.


ie, to cut a long story short, they want it all ways!

Don't mistake what Salmond and his party want with all Scots Max.

Manuel,

You seem to be shooting your mouth off again.

Read what I wrote again.

I drew your attention to what I thought was a sensible article. I did not write it was or was not my opinion.

As far as her credibility is concerned, I would prefer to judge her on what she produces rather than her sexuality, age, or which university etc. she attended.

After all some may consider you a failed taxi driver and done very little of use after being discharged from an education which failed you.

Have a nice day.

and as i wrote, you posted a dud link!
further, perhaps you should try looking in a mirror to contemplate why so many others have the same opinion of you as myself
at least i know i'm an arsehole and happily own up to it; clearly you have yet to reach that point of self-enlightenment


btw, it was not the educational establishment that failed me, but rather my own lack of application and stupidity in not recognising the multitude of opportunities presented

as for driving a mini-cab part-time for several years, it certainly taught me my way around london and, more importantly, kept food on the table - so hardly a failure there

Mini Cab Drivers were considered Yuppies during the Dot Com Boom!!!!!!!!

it was well before that - something like 1972 to 1975

when i started, though i lived in shepherd's bush, i scarcely knew where shepherd's bush road was, let alone the North Pole (a different story!)

Is the north pole boozer still there?

i guess so, but it was to exactly that pub that i was asked to take someone
not surprisingly, when this chap asked to be taken to the north pole, i assumed he was taking the piss!

Manuel,

Referring back to P 34146 and dud link.

You can see now what appears to me to be two identical links.

I cannot see the difference between them.

The "second" being in the original post and the first another attempt to provide a link after you posted as a dud.

The link now seems to be functioning properly.

(Interesting to know what the difference is?)

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However, it is good to see you admit to your own stupidity, which at least leads to a chance of improvement.

I have tried to review and reflect on my "political" and "philosophical" stances regularly, and unlike some recognise they are not fixed in stone and can be change or modified as circumstances change.

Again, you are entitled to chose whichever orifice to "think" with, or communicate through.
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Have a better day.

arseholes are not necessarily stupid, as you should recognise in your own reflection

i've now read that article and have not changed my mind that it is anything other than a complete load of codswallop, concocted by an ivory-towered academic who has never dared chance her arm in the real world

it starts with a typical nonsense where she keeps talking about "the state" doing x, y and z, conveniently forgetting that "the state" is actually the electorate - well, perhaps not in north korea and the like - and can you ever see the electorate putting up with a serious political party proclaiming from its platform and manifesto, "the state is a risk-taking courageous investor in the areas the private sector avoids"

thank goodness one doesn't have to take up room in the recycling bin with such garbage

A well thought out criticism and opinion seemingly based on little knowledge of the subject, or person concerned.

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With your abilities I can hear echoing in the recedes of my memory, one of my headmaster saying frequently "Boy you should go far!"









Admitting, under his breath the "the further and farther away the better".

fawlty - if you want to accept that woman's stuff, then that's your call .... you are such a pompous prig (i think that is sufficiently accurate) nearly all the time

one assumes your headmaster was actually addressing himself to you, in which case, he was quite a sensible chap

The article is a hymn to Keynesian economics and therefore state intervention. This is the mantra of the left. One of the realities of university life is that it is populated by militant left leaning academics teaching Economics and Politics. They seem to be people who could not cut it in the real world. My son is studying International Politics at uni. One of his lecturers announced at the start of the term that he was a Marxist and would do his best to convert them all.

He had a very subtle humour and was very tolerant but challenging.

Taught me to question false premises and flawed arguments, and not make false deductions.

Pity the present nancy boys cabinet didn't have such a tutor at the Old Boys' Crammer.


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8-)

Hays,


I would put the comment down to Welsh Humour.

By the way what is your real world?

Haystack "One of his lecturers announced at the start of the term that he was a Marxist and would do his best to convert them all."

Not such a bad thing, the analysis of crisis in capitalism v's the credit crunch we've just experienced is a valid arguement, proven you could argue by the US massive QE exercise still happening..

shame you didn't absorb those lessons then ..... indeed, some may consider you a complete numpty who did very little of use after being discharged from an education which failed you

Cynic,

In spite of being dyslexic and being told I was lazy and scraping along the bottom of the result tables until in my twenties. Then, I recognised my problems and found ways around the problem and did surprisingly well academically and was more than expectedly rewarded for what I did.

Talking with school day friends the other day, they said they couldn't understand my supporting role in the class results table. (Other than sciences.)

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One thing which did annoy that head and others was that I could beat them at chess. (Even when playing with my left hand.)

Pity, they didn't look at the reason for my "paper failings". (Other members of the family had dyslexic traits, but recognised and have done well academically.)

I still can't spell "academically" properly the first time.

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PS.

I blame myself for my "failings" unlike this failing government and you seem to do.

It seem it was always somebody else's fault, perhaps Mummy's or Daddy's.