Quote by willxx69
The cost of fuel in this country is indeed an absolute disgrace. What really made my blood boil is hearing a Treasury spokesman on Radio 4 last week dismiss the critics on fuel prices by saying that "More than half the fuel used in the UK attracts little or no duty at all." He went on to say that, therefore, reducing the duty wouldn't make much difference!!
Now, in terms of TOTAL fuel used, he is correct. But only because aviation fuel doesn't attract duty (and agricultural fuel is quite rightly taxed at a drastically reduced rate). However, to anyone who wasn't aware of the background it would have sounded as if the fuel we use in our everyday lives is not heavily taxed. This, of course, is absolute codswallop! After all, most of us don't use aviation fuel to run our vehicles and the vast majority of what we pay at the pumps goes straight to the Government. An outrageous piece of spinning. Creating a completely false impression without actually (techinically) lying.
On a VERY serious note. As I work away from home during the week, if there is a serious fuel shortage, I may not be able to get home to see my family at the weekend! :( :(

Quote by davej
Now if any of you find any large woodlice, can you keep em for me cos I want to make mrs davej a new necklace. If you scare the crap out of them, they curl up nose to tail, all they need then, is a quick squirt with hairspray, a splash of paint and a thread running through the centre of them and you've got an inexpensive bead necklace. If you just leave them without the paint, you get a sort of ethnic jewllery.
I did try and make a living out of it but my plans went to shit when I decided to capture the lucrative African market. I saw an oppurtunity when I was there on holiday and saw local villagers spend hours carving wooden beads to string together as bracelets and necklaces, to sell to the tourists. I figured that if I could save the time it took to carve the beads, by replacing them with curled up woodlice then a few quid could be made, so when I got home I wrote to our waiter at the hotel and told him that by getting hold of these creatures with reticulated bodies and turning them into jewellery we could make a fortune.
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Thats just the story i needed to hear after a shite day at work..........................excellent!
The money started rolling in as he got things under way for me, but unfortunately a German tourist died whilst swimming and the jewellery was blamed. I flew straight out there, but was completely fucked when I found out that they didn't have woodlice in Afrrica and that by following my instructions, they had been scaring, spraying and threading together Armadillos. Now these fuckers weigh upward of 20 kilo, so it wasn't much of a surprise that anyone diving in a swimming pool with a dozen or more Armadillos around their necks, was gonna struggle to get back up again.

Quote by Dino.
And here is the man himself :worship: