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I think what people on here seem to hate more than anything is easily available credit rather than excessive benefits. Ignore the housing benefit, cos they don't any of it....and if they do, it's a fraudulent matter rather than a legislative one. The Maximum Jobseekers allowance is £67.50 a week.... You get £20 a week for a kid and £13 a week for any kid after that one so a 3 child jobseeker gets £5902 a year. £490 a month £113 a week. £28 per person per week. £4 a day each. To feed and clothe the 4 of you. The more kids you have, the tighter those margins get. If they are daft enough to be spending on big screen TV's, these people aren't going to Fenwicks and putting down £1000 on a top of the range 3d TV. They're going to Brighthouse and getting crippled on 1000% interest for a shitty 2005 model plasma Of course you NEVER see the front page headline pumelling powerful financial institutions for their harmful lending practices....which do cripple the country. It's the weakest, poorest members of society with least sway on the powerful elites that are the problem. Utter garbage.....even if their kids do have a PS3.

Exactly Gemmill. It was 9 years between McQueary going to Paterno to say what he'd seen and any arrest. What did either think the bosses had done about it? McQueary is worse, primarily for witnessing a 10 uear old lad being anally raped and not intervening, but furthermore for thinking a word with coach is all that's required. Further action wasn't a legal obligation, but howay. This is how the catholic church has the problems it does. Bishops go to cardinals about their priests rather than to the police. There should be no excuse, and I don't see how ANYONE with a conscience can sleep for 9 years knowing there's a child rapist in their organisation, let alone half a dozen people in the same organisation.

spent a couple of hours on the beach at druridge bay. No lights but a few canny snaps of the stars. I'll hoy some up once i import them. Pleasant use of a clear night whatever the sun hoys out.

Following Alex's recommendation and off to Druridge Bay. Love Local Hero.

I think your muddying the waters here. ( I could be wrong ) It's one thing to say you know people struggling on a pittance, but I would be surprised if you know anyone personally getting £26,000 in benefits and struggling. In my humble opinion, any way you cut it, £26,000 is not a pittance. I'm sure there are people out there who get nowhere near this amount and struggle, but that's a whole different conversation really. so you're saying this is a political vote winning policy that will have little effect....given so few people actually receive 26k. strange to support something like that.

But you see the contradiction there. Deserving peoples benefits arent enough....but EVERYONE's benefit should be capped. When I see deserving people struggle on a pittance, I think they should get enough to cover them.

People on benefits, not working , with a council house which i'm paying for should not have a 50" plasma and skyHD no see that link i sent, within the first row of houses how many sky dishes can you see? oh woe is me, i need benefits, i can't afford this and that, but aye a £50 a month sky sub no bother, they can fuck right off. (Nevermind the fact they'll do anything in their power to avoid the work the polish and stuff will happily do here) i've a mate who works in the agency here and the stories she sends me are unreal like, Plenty of people in council houses work.

People on benefits shouldn't have a telly?

Missing my point that an across the board cap negatively impacts deserving and worthy people. You're not one to concern yourself with contradiction or nuance like .

that would be compensation, surely, in a different form ? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7716078.stm Disgusting

Should a soldier with 3 kids who comes back from Afghanistan without any legs get it?

Shutter Island As much as they telegraph the basic twist that's coming at the end, the devil is in the detail and they pull it off brilliantly. You can always tell Leo's gonna be 67, but always on the edge of your seat to find out exactly why and how that's the case. Like Fight Club, or Eternal Sunshine, I can't wait to see it again to check that it holds water knowing the full story, I'm sure it will, but it'll be equally enjoyable but for completelydifferent reasons.

It's no wonder all the astronouts come back believing there must be a god. Unbelievable watching it on a 5 inch screen. Can't imagine what it must be like in person. Unfathomable.

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Too slow grandad From whitley bay too. No need to go driving into the middle of nowhere. BBC say it'll be tonight and tomorrow... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16681732

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-16679422 Cannit believe I was watching Shuitter Island with the curtains shut and this was 5 minutes up the road.

A powerful flare erupted from the sun Thursday (Jan. 19), unleashing a plasma wave that may supercharge the northern lights for skywatchers in high latitudes this weekend. The solar flare occurred at about 11:30 am EST (1600 GMT) and touched off a massive solar explosion — known as a coronal mass ejection — aimed at Earth, space weather experts and officials said. The charged particles from the sun explosion should reach Earth by Saturday night (Jan. 21), and could amp up northern lights displays when they hit the upper atmosphere. "Forecasters say strong geomagnetic storms are possible when the cloud arrives during the late hours of Jan. 21st. High-latitude (and possibly middle-latitude) sky watchers should be alert for auroras this weekend," the skywatching website Spaceweather.com announced in an alert. RELATED: Are you scientifically literate? Take our quiz! Several space telescopes recorded photos and video of the solar flare, including NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). [Photo and video of the solar flare] According to the Space Weather Prediction Center maintained by NOAA, Thursday's solar flare erupted from an active sunspot group called Region 1401. Another solar hotspot, called Region 1402, is also fired off a flare, the center reported. Auroras occur when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth's upper atmosphere, releasing visible light in the process. The particles are funneled toward Earth's polar regions by the planet's magnetic field, with the northern auroral displays known as the aurora borealis, or northern lights. The southern counterpart is called the aurora australis, or southern lights. Thursday's solar flare rated as a powerful M2-class sun storm on the scale used by astronomers to measure flare strength. M-class storms are powerful, but mid-range, types of solar flares. They fall between the weaker C-class flares and the most powerful X-class solar storms, which can pose a threat to satellites and astronauts in orbit, cause widespread communications interference and damage infrastructure on Earth when aimed directly at the planet. SDO mission scientists have said that sunspot group 1401 has been unleashing solar flares almost daily as the sun's rotation slowly turned the solar hotspot toward Earth in recent days. On Wednesday (Jan. 18), the region unleashed an M1.7-class solar flare, they said in a Twitter post. The sun is currently in the middle of an active phase of its 11-year solar weather cycle. The current sun storm cycle, called Solar Cycle 24, is expected to peak in 2013, NASA scientists have said. http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0120/Northern-lights-Huge-solar-flare-may-trigger-Saturday-night-show Maybe missed the best of it by now

Anyone see owt last night? They reckon there'll be activity tonight too. Supposed to be another clear cold night as well so thinking of driving a little north out of town. Where's the best spots? Takes an extra hour to get to/from Kielder, so would prefer to try Bamburgh castle way. Suggestions gratefully accepted.

Just bought a Tivo box to thank Dickie Was paying a fiver a month for V+ so £3 a month for Tivo is a saving. Dunno why I waited so long. Was it more expensive before, I had a look last year but didn't bother. Not being fixed up until March like

He only cost us £1m more than Gary McSheffrey went for in the same window. Don't see it as marquee at all.

Can't it also be argued that players like Duff, Boumsong are marquee signings on inflated wages? Duff by virtue of reputation, Boumsong by virtue of the fee paid? We have, under H&S, spent a lot of money and offered high wages. Often to secure players who who may have chosen the London clubs or Manchester/ Liverpool if it weren't for those deciding factors? I don't believe that we only ever paid over the odds, but I'd say that we did so more than a lot of Premier League clubs in our position. Is Duff making Fulham synonomous with marquee signings? I don't think he is or should to us. Relatively cheap for an experienced premier league player of proven quality. Boumsong...maybe. But more brown envelope than marquee imo.

Aha, I missed that Gus had worked it out and still didn't get why he walked away from the car. Cheers for that. edit: he's a twat though, like tony soprano or to a lesser extent Don Draper. That's what makes them 'the man'

Only found out the reason he did that recently. Takes away the joy of it a bit. Summat to do with being threatened with death once they got back home. They were disparate not to concede....or did I dream that?

Breaking bad series 4 what a twat Walter is.

About a quarter as good...still mint though.