Well you're not gonna do it with a kestrel Robbo sure but quite easy really. Attack squadron of Sea Eagles is all you need, more than up to it. What you do is, you send just a couple of 'em in first to perch on its antlers. That'll weigh its head down a bit, what with 'em being the biggest birds of prey in the UK and all, and they can peck at its eyes a bit for an added distraction. Then, while its busy tossing its antlers about trying to get the buggers off and not looking about so much the rest of the flight steam in. Like being hit by a train is a full complement of Sea Eagles at full tilt mate I assure you. Knock the wind right of it. Then, once it's down trying to catch its breath rest of the job's easy innit, all over in seconds. What are you, some kinda townie or summink that you didn't know this? Country ways Robbo, country ways fella.
Is it? Only been running six months but quick Google of basics card not working is revealing. It would appear too soon to say whether it works or not Blue?
Don't seem to be rolling it out so well. Given the appalling record of Govt IT projects likely to be required for this I reckon we'll do even worse than the Aussies.
Bullshit. It won't happen, mainly cos it would be totally unworkable. By way of analogy, milk tokens. Meant to be spent only on milk for the kids aren't they? You'll find any number of local shops in an impoverished area with lots of young mums and families on benefits who will accept them as if they were cash for pretty much anything. Same will happen with these cards. Govt aren't gonna insist on an itemised receipt every single spend are they, shopkeeper ain't gonna provide one, it will be a simple debit of the total amount spent from the card without showing what it's been spent on same as with any debit card receipt but even if a receipt was demanded a workaround will be found.
Forget any moral argument, it's a complete waste of time, a none-starter. Publicity seeking fluff piece from a newly elected MP hoping to make his mark in the party by appealing to the Tory right, no more.
Of course social mores change with time, of course we quite often ignore social mores and define our own moral code for ourselves independently of what wider society says, our membership here being a case in point. It is however possible to say whether something is morally right or morally wrong objectively. You look at the impact, who wins, who loses, and how great the disparity between the win and the loss.
If it could be shown that companies like Starbucks, Google, whoever who use tax avoidance schemes of this kind damage a greater number of people, or damage nations / national economies as a whole so that a relatively small number of owners / investors / shareholders / whatever can maximise their profits at the absolute expense of the losers in this scenario it should be quite easy to determine whether that is morally right, or morally wrong. It's really not that difficult.
Actually Blue, GnV the analogy is a poor one. It's not the same thing at all in the case of companies like Google and Starbucks.
If I save money on one item I have money left over I might not have had as change that I can then spend on another item. Exchequer gets two bites at the cherry, the total VAT take from the £100 in my pocket remains the same so long as I spend that £100 on VATable items here whether I spend on one item or many, agreed? And the net goes towards goods and services in this country supporting local economies.
What happens when companies are moving their profits offshore? The exchequer is denied his cut, and the cash isn't even being reinvested in the local / national economy. It's a loss every which way. They are avoiding any and all obligation to pay back into this country some measure of what they take out of it in funds, their business being supported by tax-payer funded infrastructure, services and benefits. It's immoral, simple as.
Now now Star. The last time you made that assertion it was shown to be total bollox with a quick Google that provided links to successful prosecutions of black on white and black on asian racist offences, wasn't it, remember?
Difficult Jed. The Act doesn't define what 'hostility' means but is a couple of fans waving an Albanian flag, even if they're trying to wind the player up with it as overtly hostile as the player rounding on them and giving them a mouthful? I'm not sure it is? One's kind of passive-aggressive, the other's aggressive plain and simple.
Saying that I'm sure these fans would have been giving it some verbal too, probably is six of one, half a dozen of the other in this case but seems the Alabanian fans made a complaint which the police now have to investigate, Kolarov apparently didn't, or hasn't yet at least? Other than a bit of disciplinary for rising to any baiting from the club I doubt it will go anywhere.
As for English, Irishmen and Scotsman jokes, etc the key word is hostile. It's about the intent. Your freedom of speech and right to tell off-colour 1970s jokes if that's what you're into is not curtailed, it would need to have some real aggression and hate behind it I think in a way that constitutes a verbal assault.
Which is one of the reasons why I'm not daft enough to use my real name on there Paddy. Most unlikely they'd find me, but even if they did there's always the privacy settings. Not the tightest but would still give little away to anyone not on my friends list.
It would never occur to me to be anything but upfront. We're talking sex with those we might not know very well. Informed consent is key. Anything but informed consent is potentially very, very dangerous ground indeed. Even more dangerous than pretending to be single risking the mr / mrs finding out what we're up to.
I could never insist everyone is honest in their off-site, real life. Who am I to judge? How would I know anyways? We've all got out crosses to bear. What I expect though is that members of this site are honest with the rest of us. If that means the numbers of potential playmates shrinks to a fraction for them, that's the price of honesty. Those that remain though will be the ones worth talking to, who haven't been so quick to judge.
/Realises this is a slightly off-topic reply not being in the target audience. Oh well, wrote it now innit?
Your profiles good mate. Ticked off everything relevant to your interests will help the site do some matching up for you where it can, you're upfront what the score is right there for anyone to read it and give a good account of yourself in the write-up. It's all good mate. I didn't look at grammar amd spelling that hard but nothing obvious leapt out and I tend to pick things like that up, it could be trivial anyways if there so who gives a fuck, noone will care. ;)
Do more socially things, IRL or here, use chat or forum more. Will get you to the IRL stuff much better than firing off random emails and waiting for one to land. Doesn't work like that ever for most blokes so another approach def the way forward. I know you get that, so not patronising you there. ;)
Of course Star they contribute through wages to treasury and to local economies in spending power. That's their major net contribution to the economy, yes. Noone argues with that. Just when you look at what kind of employment practices these companies demonstrate driving down costs and weakening bargaining power they pay the barest minimum they can get away with, often requiring the tax-payer support their piss-poor wages directly with state funds we all pay into as our safety net to even make working for them even remotely viable for them in the first place. We can't afford the safety net anymore, it has to go to keep these companies going here cos they fucked us all right up the arse they did. They are parasites. Simple as. By any definition of the word they are parasites on this nation's wealth and very lifeblood and we sit and watch them do it and do nothing? Madness. Absolute madness.
Attributed to Einstein, I think incorrectly : insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Have you looked at rescue Star? There's specialist GSD ones all round the country quick Google tells me, plenty even down your way. Might have to wait for a pup, might drop lucky, often breeding line can be traced cos even the unscrupulous breeders out there look after their KC reg certs, where their value is, and genetic defects are often screened for by the rescue. You'll not be able to breed from them in all probability but that's not your concern is it?
Away with the pixies us Staggers fella clearly? ;)
Too many in rescues in need of a home innit Stevie. No need to buy one ( though there may be rehoming fees from a rescue, not quite the same thing ), and encourages more breeding by the unscrupulous who see it purely as income with little in the way of dog welfare in terms of care shown to the dog, or the selectivity of their breeding as far as genetic defects go in pedigrees, beyond that which that generates a profitable sale.
Not a comment on the good breeders out there that BTW, just for the avoidance of any doubt.
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