The 7th UK South-East "Everyone's a Winner!" Gossip Thread (All Welcome)

I must say, the NUJ certainly win the award for most confusing website design!

Kaben wrote in post #9373749
I must say, the NUJ certainly win the award for most confusing website design!

no lie there - but you can't go telling that to a bunch of journalist who, between them, know everything from solving the world's energy problems to bringing about world peace

Just revisiting some stuff from November...

Mike wrote in post #9373849
Just revisiting some stuff from November...

Nice ones, Mike! It's Dover isn't it? I really want to get there this Summer.

It is indeed. I think we put you off going to Dover last year didn't we?!

Mike wrote in post #9373894
It is indeed. I think we put you off going to Dover last year didn't we?!

I hear that they have allot of those spiders that come across in banana imports there at the moment. Best that you wait for 2011 Chris.

ThisOldHag wrote in post #9373824
no lie there - but you can't go telling that to a bunch of journalist who, between them, know everything from solving the world's energy problems to bringing about world peace

Lol!

Kaben wrote in post #9373984
I hear that they have allot of those spiders that come across in banana imports there at the moment. Best that you wait for 2011 Chris.

Lol!!

Kaben wrote in post #9373039
You will probably get more "new guests" at this time too, sinces all of the birds are foraging extensively now, as they have less hours of daylight to do it. Plus they require more food to keep body temps up.
I really want a bird table and bath for the garden, but they seem quite expensive & our windows are not clean enough!

this is the one I've got...

http://www.amazon.co.u​k …en&qid=12632535​25&sr=8-12

it's a really good system, has lots of options to add new platforms and even a water bowl... less than £20! cheap for free photographic subjects!

Kaben wrote in post #9373497
Why do parents even need to monitor their progress at school online? Thats a f*cking huge waste of £300m.

The idea is it's more for the kids to use and get used to having a computer lest they fall behind educationally. With the computers being made available for the poorest of the poor. Downside I see to this is that it's really more about people who care/don't care about computers that are the issue for children not having computers, Netbooks are so damn cheap now that the poor whose dole pays for christmas lights on their council house for a few months of the year and sky subscriptions and mobile phones can really afford one of those. They need to convince the luddites as to why a computer will help their child.

Kaben wrote in post #9373497
All the while these things keep happening, i cant help but think that Labour are trying to mess everything up as much as they can before the (conservatives?) get into power.

Why not, worked for the Tories in the 90s. If you make enough mess you can even blame it on the incoming party, ala the Millenium Dome being blamed on Labour by the Tory party that started it. Nontheless if the Tories do get back in we'll not see anything improve as the "New Labour" party just copied 90% of their stuff from the Tory party handbook. Problem is you need a balance of left and right wing to keep the country on an even keel and for the last 30 years we've leaned mostly right.

It's about time someone stood up in parliament and pointed out that public services should be nationalised and part funded by the government. They want people on the busses and trains then maybe they should make them cheaper than driving. Never going to happen while the private companies need to show a profit. Similarly the postal service, if they didn't need to try and pull a profit from somewhere and lose loads of money doing the hard work for "competitors" then we might get an efficient system back where the post was delivered before you went to work and you even got a second post in the afternoon.

Hmms, sorry, climbed on my soapbox again.

SwitchBlade wrote in post #9374018
The idea is it's more for the kids to use and get used to having a computer lest they fall behind educationally. With the computers being made available for the poorest of the poor. Downside I see to this is that it's really more about people who care/don't care about computers that are the issue for children not having computers, Netbooks are so damn cheap now that the poor whose dole pays for christmas lights on their council house for a few months of the year and sky subscriptions and mobile phones can really afford one of those. They need to convince the luddites as to why a computer will help their child.

Why not, worked for the Tories in the 90s. If you make enough mess you can even blame it on the incoming party, ala the Millenium Dome being blamed on Labour by the Tory party that started it. Nontheless if the Tories do get back in we'll not see anything improve as the "New Labour" party just copied 90% of their stuff from the Tory party handbook. Problem is you need a balance of left and right wing to keep the country on an even keel and for the last 30 years we've leaned mostly right.

It's about time someone stood up in parliament and pointed out that public services should be nationalised and part funded by the government. They want people on the busses and trains then maybe they should make them cheaper than driving. Never going to happen while the private companies need to show a profit. Similarly the postal service, if they didn't need to try and pull a profit from somewhere and lose loads of money doing the hard work for "competitors" then we might get an efficient system back where the post was delivered before you went to work and you even got a second post in the afternoon.

Hmms, sorry, climbed on my soapbox again.

All good points

Oh dear look what I started...on that note off to bed as I can't wait to get to work tomorrow

adrian5127 wrote in post #9374091
Oh dear look what I started...on that note off to bed as I can't wait to get to work tomorrow

Oi get back here you trouble maker!

SwitchBlade wrote in post #9374018
The idea is it's more for the kids to use and get used to having a computer lest they fall behind educationally. With the computers being made available for the poorest of the poor. Downside I see to this is that it's really more about people who care/don't care about computers that are the issue for children not having computers, Netbooks are so damn cheap now that the poor whose dole pays for christmas lights on their council house for a few months of the year and sky subscriptions and mobile phones can really afford one of those. They need to convince the luddites as to why a computer will help their child.

Why not, worked for the Tories in the 90s. If you make enough mess you can even blame it on the incoming party, ala the Millenium Dome being blamed on Labour by the Tory party that started it. Nontheless if the Tories do get back in we'll not see anything improve as the "New Labour" party just copied 90% of their stuff from the Tory party handbook. Problem is you need a balance of left and right wing to keep the country on an even keel and for the last 30 years we've leaned mostly right.

It's about time someone stood up in parliament and pointed out that public services should be nationalised and part funded by the government. They want people on the busses and trains then maybe they should make them cheaper than driving. Never going to happen while the private companies need to show a profit. Similarly the postal service, if they didn't need to try and pull a profit from somewhere and lose loads of money doing the hard work for "competitors" then we might get an efficient system back where the post was delivered before you went to work and you even got a second post in the afternoon.

agreed!

Actually I'll add a quick addendum to what I said. The Labour party have leaned to the right with their main policies while leaning left with their unemployment/etc policies. Can't accuse them of being right there. Downside is I think we need to reverse that, left wing the issues that effect everyone, over tax the rich people (as much as they can moan, someone earning over 100k on their own in a year won't really notice 5% extra tax), and chuck the money in education and healthcare. That said I'd get rather right wing on the dole junkies by making them work for their dole handout. Unskilled workers built most of our rail and road infrastructure in the past, they can get to work improving it now, and if they don't want to do that then they can get a job elsewhere.