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I would imagine there will be a percentage of families in the "bracket" who would greatfully recieve and cherish their lap top, but the other 95% would either break theirs within 6 months (and expect a replacement) flog it and then break into their neighbours and steal theirs and flog it.
This Labour party has to go down as the govt that wasted more money on jobs for the boys and silly vote enticing ideas than any other is history.
If I had 300m available this lap top idea would be nowhere near the top.
NHS
Armed Forces
Schools
Infrastructure (mind you we'd be lucky to get one road and that would have to be resurfaced within 6 months).
It's stuff like this I keep passing onto the wife when she gets homesick, mind you ther're no better down here in all honesty
This Labour party has to go down as the govt that wasted more money on jobs for the boys and silly vote enticing ideas than any other is history.
If I had 300m available this lap top idea would be nowhere near the top.
NHS
Armed Forces
Schools
Infrastructure (mind you we'd be lucky to get one road and that would have to be resurfaced within 6 months).
It's stuff like this I keep passing onto the wife when she gets homesick, mind you ther're no better down here in all honesty
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LOL, i would have guessed at social worker or unemployed advisor after Red Ken lost the London Mayorial election
i am just summising here but is there just a chance you do a lot of your work for the NHS and the government
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Never work in or for the public sector.
I am a capitalist pig I'm afraid
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Hummm...pints. I hear what you are saying. The closest I got to a "pint" was 580mls in an Irish pub in Wellington, NZ. If we had pints in Aus, then nothing would get done.
Sport. Pass...I wish that could be flicked off to pay TV. Get it off FTA FFS (But this is Aus, sport takes priority over EVERYTHING). Tennis, OK, I'll give the Williams sisters a break on that...*pherk*
Sausages? Are you still limited to "Cole" or "Wollworths"? There are, expensive, butchers about that can, and will (At a cost of course), deecnt sausages. You gotta look for 'em in your area.
Ah yeah, beaches. I was in Ulladulla, we had a summery 18c that day. Australia, summer? Al Gore must be near....
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Out of the large number of council houses I go in to fix their boilers, over 90% of them have at least one LCD TV that's oversized!! They're constantly logged into Facebook telling the world how they don't work and have a life of luxury, going on holiday or moaning that their boilers have broken and no ones been out to fix it (even though they get it done for free). The house stinks of weed, **** and booze but yet they can't afford to put any money on their gas meter!! These are the people who will get their laptops and take them straight to Cash Generator and spend the money on more of the above!!
Do something useful with the money, buy some grit and clear the roads for the few weeks that it's snowed this winter OR buy our Armed Forces some better kit and pay for them to have better comms with their families!!
Brown is a tit!!
*it's obviously not just council tenants that will get these laptops but is probably a very large percentage!!
Do something useful with the money, buy some grit and clear the roads for the few weeks that it's snowed this winter OR buy our Armed Forces some better kit and pay for them to have better comms with their families!!
Brown is a tit!!
*it's obviously not just council tenants that will get these laptops but is probably a very large percentage!!
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Snow? Well....I can leave it, unless it gets to 45c, with 90% humidity...then I move to the fridge.
Hummm...pints. I hear what you are saying. The closest I got to a "pint" was 580mls in an Irish pub in Wellington, NZ. If we had pints in Aus, then nothing would get done.
Sport. Pass...I wish that could be flicked off to pay TV. Get it off FTA FFS (But this is Aus, sport takes priority over EVERYTHING). Tennis, OK, I'll give the Williams sisters a break on that...*pherk*
Sausages? Are you still limited to "Cole" or "Wollworths"? There are, expensive, butchers about that can, and will (At a cost of course), deecnt sausages. You gotta look for 'em in your area.
Ah yeah, beaches. I was in Ulladulla, we had a summery 18c that day. Australia, summer? Al Gore must be near....
Hummm...pints. I hear what you are saying. The closest I got to a "pint" was 580mls in an Irish pub in Wellington, NZ. If we had pints in Aus, then nothing would get done.
Sport. Pass...I wish that could be flicked off to pay TV. Get it off FTA FFS (But this is Aus, sport takes priority over EVERYTHING). Tennis, OK, I'll give the Williams sisters a break on that...*pherk*
Sausages? Are you still limited to "Cole" or "Wollworths"? There are, expensive, butchers about that can, and will (At a cost of course), deecnt sausages. You gotta look for 'em in your area.
Ah yeah, beaches. I was in Ulladulla, we had a summery 18c that day. Australia, summer? Al Gore must be near....
There's an Irish bar in Darling Harbour that does pints
I was close by to Ulla "duller" a couple of weeks back (Lake Tabourie),took the kids in a few times, its like a bloody retirement village, the shops were bizarre, my favourite being a combo of an old peoples hairdressers, 2nd hand book shop and a cafe, it was lik soeones front room from the 60's, Batemans Bay way nicer.
I know what you mean about the butchers, found a decent one down at Como till hard to replace the Parmesan and Pancetta's I was so found of
.That said just got a text from one of my best mates, being stuck in hospital for a routine minor op, he waited 8 hours for a pre test and they then sent 11 people home due to lack of beds, he was lucky he managed to get a bed, albeit not on the ward the wanted him on
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When it comes to this sort of nonsense they are behaving like a bunch of prats trying anything mindlessly to get a bit more support.
When Flash promises suport to Haiti or similar, then I will support that completely.
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When Flash promises suport to Haiti or similar, then I will support that completely.
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These laptops are now on Ebay ....
NuLabour 'Bribo' laptop pops up on eBay ? The Register
"The conditions further warn: "This Bribo laptop is an aspiration, not a pledge. We aspire to send it to you, but if you win it, you may not receive it. Stocks are limited and there's currently a rush to get them to as many 'low income' families as possible before the next election is announced. In the case that we are unable to adhere to this aspiration, any moneys that you have paid will not be returned, they will be hosed over poor families or bankers." ..."
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NuLabour 'Bribo' laptop pops up on eBay ? The Register
"The conditions further warn: "This Bribo laptop is an aspiration, not a pledge. We aspire to send it to you, but if you win it, you may not receive it. Stocks are limited and there's currently a rush to get them to as many 'low income' families as possible before the next election is announced. In the case that we are unable to adhere to this aspiration, any moneys that you have paid will not be returned, they will be hosed over poor families or bankers." ..."
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For me it makes me feel hugley grateful to live in a part of the world that is politically, climatically and geologically stable.
These poor people have suffered too much already. I do not want words from my government on this I WANT ACTION!
These poor people have suffered too much already. I do not want words from my government on this I WANT ACTION!
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So to compare the position on earth of the UK and Haiti is rediculous. But rediculous has not stopped you before.
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I guess, humm, if you live in a hurricane prone area, you will, errrmm...suffer hurricanes. And, as I discovered since the earthquake, they live in a quake prone area too.
So to compare the position on earth of the UK and Haiti is rediculous. But rediculous has not stopped you before.
So to compare the position on earth of the UK and Haiti is rediculous. But rediculous has not stopped you before.
I didn't make the comparison if you bothered to read properly
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Well our Gordo has promised £6M or something. But he promised £6B (that's 6 billion!) to help out countries hit by climate change. Didn't realise that more than a thousand times more people were hit by climate change than earthquakes .... 
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Martin I know is is easy just to blindly jump on the climate change bandwagon but there is a little more to this.
The Carribbean has 1 major earthquake (7.0 or above) of that size every 40-50 years or so, the region has done for the last 500 years.
It is earthquake prone, OK every 40-50 years but it is regular and has been for a considerable time.
People have short memeories it seems, not knocking the people in the earthquake but it should be remembered that if you live in a region that has earthquakes, sh*t happens.
This is not about climate change or global warming, it is about a consistent geographical problem.
.The Carribbean has 1 major earthquake (7.0 or above) of that size every 40-50 years or so, the region has done for the last 500 years.
It is earthquake prone, OK every 40-50 years but it is regular and has been for a considerable time.
People have short memeories it seems, not knocking the people in the earthquake but it should be remembered that if you live in a region that has earthquakes, sh*t happens.
This is not about climate change or global warming, it is about a consistent geographical problem.
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