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2ndLoser

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  1. West Norfolk (where I live) at 7 o clock last night - they weren't so lucky in 1953.

     

    https://www.facebook.com/HunstantonShoppingbytheSea

     

    It was due to reach Gt Yarmouth (where Ogre lives) around 10 - 10.30

     

    A friend of mine, 12 miles up the coast, at Brancaster Staithe was flooded (living room ankle deep in sea water) but they live right on the edge of the salt marsh, so basically it will only have affected low lying areas

     

    Edit: friend's ground floor waist deep - poor sods!

  2. Not sure - the metrification board was abandoned long ago - that's why we buy fuel in litres yet we do miles per gallon and our cars are in miles per hour and our signposts are still in miles. We buy fruit and veg in kilos but everyone reverts to a kilo being about two pounds, thank god we still drink pints...

     

    Somebody didn't think this through did they?

     

     

    :D

  3. Not saying that anything American is right but President Clinton introduced a scheme where the poorest areas were given clinics that provided free education, contraception and abortion in return for which only one child would be supported by the benefit system - this cut teenage pregnancies in some areas by 75%.

     

    Then the republicans got in and shut them all down

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  4. My wife went to a meeting at the Jobcenter Plus today and found out some things that neither she nor I knew about current / future government policies:

     

    There are thirty families nation wide whose members are fourth generation benefit claimers that benefit agencies are currently targetting, some of whom have 13 children. These people are visited, often in the early hours of the morning.

     

    Single mothers who regularly have children by different fathers and refuse educational help when offered will be denied benefit for further children.

     

     

    That's not unreasonable

     

     

    :D

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  5. "Cor jesus you don't have much choice do you?"

     

    Unless you live in a city you don't have a choice...

     

    whats the Best unlimited broadband only deals?

     

     

    Enternet (ADSL24) - Broadband Only 19.00 per month

     

    Monthly Allowance: 30gig Peak, 300gig Off Peak + 1 month rolling contract (No Lock In)

  6. It's for the secret firework display finale - in keeping with the spirit that it's all got to be a collosal waste of money we're going to shoot down half a dozen attack helicopters at the end of the games!

     

    That'll be worth watching...

  7. Do we need the likes of Abu Hamza? If we don't let the yanks have him wouldn't it make a mockery of the extradition treaty under which you don't have to be charged with an offence in the UK, as has happened a couple of times already, - why should this low life be exempt?

  8. I'm just interested in why people think it's a lot. And why there is an 'if I'm not getting that much, why should they' attitude, rather than 'why am I not getting that much'?

     

    It's the same with the public vs private pay/pension argument....

     

    The governing classes are p*ssing themselves laughing at how easy it is to pit 'pleb' against 'pleb' whilst lowering the living standards of 95% of us...

     

    And meanwhile they are feathering their own nests to the tune of millions!

     

    You've got a point there - why aren't we all earning that much? 48k is peanuts to the ruling classes

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  9. We've booked a restaurant for lunch tomorrow as both my daughter and daughter-in-law are on strike and the local schools are shut so the grand children are coming too!

     

    And the government maintain it'll be a poor turnout - not where I live it won't be!

     

    Bonus...

     

    :D

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    Russia warships to enter Syria waters in bid to stem foreign intervention

     

    Report from "Haaretz" the pro-government Israeli newspaper - yeah they wish!

     

    The Russians are only trying to protect their interests as they have only one, never before used, naval base in the med and it's in Northern Syria. They couldn't give a toss whether Bashar Al Assad stays or goes, nor what happens to the US backed Israel, as long as whoever replaces him allows them to continue to keep their strategic naval base and maintain their oil contracts with the region.

     

    There won't be any "foreign intervention" the only way that will happen is if Israel is attacked...

     

     

    Zionist arseholes!

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