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LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:21 pm

Flight of the Concords is dross.

Genevieve · Post by **Genevieve** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:25 pm

Yeah, there's nothing funny about Seinfeld.

surface_tension · Post by **surface_tension** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:27 pm

Magma wrote:The welfare state was the most important social invention of the 20th Century.

lol. Yea, it's impact is currently being felt, that is for god damn sure.

magma · Post by **magma** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:44 pm

Surface_Tension wrote:
Magma wrote:The welfare state was the most important social invention of the 20th Century.
lol. Yea, it's impact is currently being felt, that is for god damn sure.

And the Free Market's isn't? Perspective, mate... everything leads to everything, there's never a single cause. The Free Market has plenty of plus points (and was probably the best social invention of the 18th Century - thankyou Mr Walpole), as does the Welfare State. The trick is finding a balance.

Of course, I wouldn't expect all our cousins on the other side of the pond to be as pro-Welfare State as us Europeans - since McCarthy it's seemed pretty difficult for anyone to say anything remotely socialist over there without being branded a "Red" - but to say that it's just there to make you a "vassal of the state" is not only paranoid, it's pretty short sighted and, well, underthought, too. The Welfare State is something that was forced into existance by popular movements, it's something the "State" has had to accept, not something it created to make you it's bitch.

james fox · Post by **james fox** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:56 pm

bassmonk wrote:Fiona Bruce has ruined the Antiques Roadshow.

YOU WHAT MATE

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:58 pm

I'd like to ruin Fiona Bruce

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:58 pm

an opinion which is quite unpopular with her

Genevieve · Post by **Genevieve** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:26 pm

Magma wrote:
Surface_Tension wrote:
Magma wrote:The welfare state was the most important social invention of the 20th Century.
lol. Yea, it's impact is currently being felt, that is for god damn sure.
And the Free Market's isn't?

What about the market is free? To a lot of people, the EU is embodiment of free trade, but I don't see what's free about it at all. Capitalism doesn't equal free market. The market is highly regulated.

surface_tension · Post by **surface_tension** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:27 pm

Magma wrote:
Surface_Tension wrote:
Magma wrote:The welfare state was the most important social invention of the 20th Century.
lol. Yea, it's impact is currently being felt, that is for god damn sure.
And the Free Market's isn't? Perspective, mate... everything leads to everything, there's never a single cause. The Free Market has plenty of plus points (and was probably the best social invention of the 18th Century - thankyou Mr Walpole), as does the Welfare State. The trick is finding a balance.

Of course, I wouldn't expect all our cousins on the other side of the pond to be as pro-Welfare State as us Europeans - since McCarthy it's seemed pretty difficult for anyone to say anything remotely socialist over there without being branded a "Red" - but to say that it's just there to make you a "vassal of the state" is not only paranoid, it's pretty short sighted and, well, underthought, too. The Welfare State is something that was forced into existance by popular movements, it's something the "State" has had to accept, not something it created to make you it's bitch.

Nobody currently living has ever witnessed a truly free market, so any talk about the pro's and con's of the free market is theoretical. And I think you have far too much naivety when it comes to the good will of the hand that feeds you. Those in power would murder you like a dog in the street for 1 good day in the news cycle. Put that in perspective.

miscreant · Post by **miscreant** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:38 pm

LEQ wrote:Flight of the Concords is dross.

if flight of the concordes isnt funny then what is

leftdub · Post by **leftdub** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:35 pm

pk- wrote:I'd like to ruin Fiona Bruce

unfortunately i second that.

spooKs · Post by **spooKs** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:40 pm

pk- wrote:I'd like to ruin Fiona Bruce

You did this!

djelements · Post by **djelements** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:42 pm

spooKs wrote:
pk- wrote:I'd like to ruin Fiona Bruce
You did this!

I find that strangely attractive.
I disgust myself.

leftdub · Post by **leftdub** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:46 pm

I take back all previous fiona bruce comments

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:01 pm

LeftDub wrote:I take back all previous fiona bruce comments

i don't

dunkno · Post by **dunkno** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:05 pm

^she looks quite chung there

spooKs · Post by **spooKs** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:08 pm

She's a little bird of prey-like though isn't she? A little hawky?

silentk · Post by **silentk** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:13 pm

spooKs wrote:She's a little bird of prey-like though isn't she? A little hawky?

true, a very sharp face, she could do with a bit of rounding off.
am i the only one who cant stand her voice though?

nousd · Post by **nousd** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:06 am

big dig:
hawk like MAH
preys on the pretty boy producers.

+ [emoticon showing piles of shit landing upon startled nerd]

echo wanderer · Post by **echo wanderer** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:23 am

LeftDub wrote:
pk- wrote:I'd like to ruin Fiona Bruce
unfortunately i second that.

I give her....4 pints.

Okay,3 pints.If only for those legs.

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