Happy Face

and i bet you said that with a straight face as well!! Probably not as straight as yours was when you said "its people that are dissmissive of said 'inflamatory bollocks' who are really scary"

But without illegal immigration the world would never have got Arnold Schwarzenneger.

http://rebelreports.com/post/217215838/hil...tch-for-crooked

end of the week...... When else!!!!!!! The end of the week. (Recurring) Good name for a song that.

I went to see Green Day on my crutches when i broke a toe. Good fun to wave them in the air.

Thank god for this. I'll text all me mates immediately. When can I say the deal will be done by?

I was mostly smiling throughout, laughed out loud a few times and one or two lines got polite applause rather than enthusiastic, but it really had the smell of cashing in about it....like he agreed to do a tour called Science but spent too much time on his films and flannimals, couldn't think of any science based comedy and whacked the show together in a week or two basing it on religion and animals material he cut out of previous shows. I was amazed when he did the "isn't it funny when you trip and do a little jog" bit. I saw Billiy Connolly do that bit 20 years ago. As he was saying it I assumed he was going to subvert a famously overused skit....but he just left it at that which was woefully lazy.

Register an alter ego and Christmas Tree will take your word for it.

Christ. That's worse than Dylan and he's a pensioner. Least we can get a few pints after. Cheers.

Do you remeber what time the support went on? I want to leave it as late as possible and avoid the city hall bar. Support went on around 25 to, maybe 20 to 8 and was done by around 8. Gervais is on at 8:20 and has a sign up saying "latecomers will not be admitted at the request of the artist". Don't think that was strictly applied though. So is he off by ten or does he have an intermission?

Do you remeber what time the support went on? I want to leave it as late as possible and avoid the city hall bar.

Don't do it Chris. Make a point of turning down the fat cunt. No-one with an ounce of sense should take on that job while he's there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/opinion/...tml?_r=2&em

Don't do it Chris. Tell him to stick his job security up his arse.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/co...icle194037.html I think Happy Face IS Simon Bird Now that is exactly the sort of reporting the local tossers should be doing Yep, just added to my twitter...

So the one solid definable goal in that is to cut staff by 25%. Another round of job-cuts to whack up the stock price, indicate the market has recovered and grow the wealth of the top 1%....while 25% of people who can't afford it are out of work. I'm not sure why that should lessen the outrage.

This is the unsustainable path we’re on, and it’s the path the insurers want to keep us on. In fact, the insurance industry is rolling out the big guns and breaking open their massive war chest – to marshal their forces for one last fight to save the status quo. They’re filling the airwaves with deceptive and dishonest ads. They’re flooding Capitol Hill with lobbyists and campaign contributions. And they’re funding studies designed to mislead the American people. … It’s smoke and mirrors. It’s bogus. And it’s all too familiar. Every time we get close to passing reform, the insurance companies produce these phony studies as a prescription and say, “Take one of these, and call us in a decade.” Well, not this time. The fact is, the insurance industry is making this last-ditch effort to stop reform even as costs continue to rise and our health care dollars continue to be poured into their profits, bonuses, and administrative costs that do nothing to make us healthy – that often actually go toward figuring out how to avoid covering people. And they’re earning these profits and bonuses while enjoying a privileged exception from our anti-trust laws, a matter that Congress is rightfully reviewing. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office...the-Status-Quo/ Though I give him credit while fully aware that the insurance companies are still going to profit from whatever gets enacted and are going over the top with their demands and negative campaigning.

Obama's on a roll... Story Continues....

So the banks and the borrowers continue to pursue their own interests and well intentioned., financially astute savers like you and me end up paying the price? If a bank fails, i don't want to see taxpayers bail them out, but i'd rather the bank didn't fail in the first place.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/co...icle194037.html

Agreed, should people be protected from their own stupidity? It's more a case of you and me being protected from their stupidity. It's been demonstrated that the banks don't lose anything when people default, so why would they stop lending to people that can't afford it? Agreed, so should banks be protected from their own stupidity? I think this one has probably been done before. When you said people i assumed you menat the borrowers. Borrowers and Lenders go into a deal with an agreed level of risk. A premium is added to reflect the risk/reward for each party. The government have removed this risk for the lender and left it solely with the borrower. yes, the lender should be left at risk and there should be no government safety net.

Agreed, should people be protected from their own stupidity? It's more a case of you and me being protected from their stupidity. It's been demonstrated that the banks don't lose anything when people default, so why would they stop lending to people that can't afford it?

He'll probably give a bit more opinion in his blog later on. He might have been the last person to get the picture, but i think even Ryder sees Ashley for what he is now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8313853.stm This is incredible (while also entirely predictable). The ONLY regulation to be brought in will be against the public. Banks can still offer whatever product they like to whichever individuals, they just have to make sure the customer earns what they say they earn, irrespective of whether that makes it an affordable loan. I hear that if this measure doesn't work they're going to legalise leg breaking for those that default. Capitalism marches on

Have I misused that word? Disingenuousness? The latter's correct, I don't think the former's a proper word. You have embiggined me with your cromulent response.