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akamaisondufromage wrote: toroddfuglesteg wrote: Hi Akamaisondufromage. We are here debating best case scenario from yesterday. Today, that is history and the screw on the Spanish Inquisition torture instrument we are all attached to now has been tightened tonight. I work myself in the public sector and I am in the 40s, age wise. If the retirement age when I and people of my age retire is not 75 and I am not paying at least twice of what I pay in today with a 20 % effective loss of purchase power , I will gladly call you God, build a religious cult around you and give you a shiny sports car as a sign of my appreciation.  The party is over. You can write resolutions until you get blue in your face. But the party is over and the screws on the   Spanish Inquisition torture instrument you and I is attached to will be tightened more and more and more. And there is nothing you can do with it. Nothing.   I hope you had a good demo yesterday. Staying fit and getting fresh air is very important. Even when doing pointless excersises like yesterday's walks.    A Porche would be nice toroddfuglesteg.  I look forward to having a religious holiday named after me.     You may well be right especially if the pensions become so poor that people begin to opt out.  Then the Tories really can say they are unaffordable.

I don't want to sound nasty or want to be alarmist. But you and the leftists sounds like you are still in year 2008 where we still had control. Believe my words, but this is not 2008. This is 2011 and we are one week away from a potential tipping point in the Euro. If we tip, your marching down the street was nothing but a useful getting fit and fresh air. You can march 50 million people through your local street with banners and paroles and it will still not be anything but an excersise in getting fresh air. 

Neither do I understand this Tory this and Tory that. The fact is that the government are in control of 35 billions of a total national economics of 1600 billions. That is not control by anyone's standards. Well, not according to the standards of those of us living in the real world. And in this real world, Labour would want the government "power" in 2015 as much as you would que up outside the local Post office for a bout of buponic plague.

2012........ Welcome to hell. And in contrast to Clarkson who was sarcastic and got 5000 complaints out of it; I am not sarcastic. I really mean it when I say we are staring down the abyss and into the dark dungeons of hell. So you can talk like you believe this is make believe year 2008. It is not. 

Do as I do. Get more education/certifications and get a better health. 

Equality 7-2521 wrote: You can pay teachers all you want. When your system of education consists of treating kids like prisoners, training them in rote memorization like dogs, teaching them to never question authority, etc. you not going to turn out anything.

It's a shame, I went to public school in a age and place where teachers got decent pay, the school facilities weren't crap, the curriculum was engaging and intelligent.  No metal detectors, we had bullies.  But...

knowing how to color by number is extremely engaging, though.

"You have people on the left who hate saying 'the war on terror,'" responded Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina. "They would never ever use the military and always insist the law enforcement be used because they don't buy into the idea that we're at war. They want to criminalize the war."  Hey jag off, if there are, name names.

I don't hate saying the phrase, it's just stupid.  And no, you shouldn't use the military in matters which are be the domain of law enforcement.  As a citizen you don't forfeit your constitutional rights just because you are suspected of something.

In other news that blows:
Violent Wind Storm Leaves Path of Destruction




Edited by Slartibartfast - December 02 2011 at 06:33

Equality 7-2521 wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: You can pay teachers all you want. When your system of education consists of treating kids like prisoners, training them in rote memorization like dogs, teaching them to never question authority, etc. you not going to turn out anything.  It's a shame, I went to public school in a age and place where teachers got decent pay, the school facilities weren't crap, the curriculum was engaging and intelligent.  No metal detectors, we had bullies.  But... The curriculum was never engaging and intelligent.

Keep in mind I am 46.

Dean wrote: Whenever has retail been idiot-proof?

No job is idiot-proof.

Snow Dog wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: Dean wrote: Whenever has retail been idiot-proof?  No job is idiot-proof. Village Idiot?

Village idiot isn't really a job though is it?

On second thought, never mind.


Edited by Slartibartfast - December 02 2011 at 08:01

Snow Dog wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: Village idiot isn't really a job though is it? You mean they do it for free?

There I was thinking they not called idiots for nothing... and apparently they are.

Edited by Dean - December 02 2011 at 08:07

Maybe I need to reconsider working in architecture.