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vinceayre

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  1. Thing is if you make an album as great as Jagged little pill you don't really need to do much more. Nevermind by Nirvana is another iconic album that springs to mind and no matter what they did after that it was never going to be as good.
  2. Burma I think but not sure now, the person who told me how he had his men kill the terrorists is long dead but it would have been just after the war.
  3. Israel has to kept onside because the west is relying on it to bomb Iran once they have nuclear bombs. The state of Israel has always taken a hard line on its security, any moron would know what the outcome of this would be, im quite surprised more people didn't die. In Ulster we ran a shoot to kill policy that even involved the SAS grabbing terrorists from across the border and then killing them on home soil. Of course when this became know it had to be stopped, but while it ran it was quite successful at stopping the terrorists. We also used this policy very successfully all over the world especially in Burma with the communist backed terrorists. It would seem Israel has a similar policy.
  4. Yeah because you see so many Chanel glasses in ED don't you. oops!
  5. Except now people who used to buy and sell shares for a living use spread betting instead as all gains are tax free.
  6. The only way Labour got elected was because they had a conservative leader to be PM, without that they are unelectable in England.
  7. AlParsons Wrote: --This mess is just > beginning. We are not going to get out of it > without a great deal of inflation and, following > that, an even worse recession/depression than we > have just experienced. Without a decent bout of inflation we are all done for as the debt is ?800 billion and the public sector pension deficit is ?750 billion and growing by the day at an exponential rate. Inflation is the only way out now. Glad to see the Euro is crashing as that gives us some protection for the time being, sadly though this means the pound will crash in about nine months time once the markets have finished with the Greek economy they will start on the Portuguese and then the Spanish. Once that's done its our turn. If you want some boring financial info on this check out the spread for credit default swaps on national debt. This market is pretty much unregulated so you get the true picture of what the worlds financial markets think of the risk in lending European States money. The CDS market is the one that will blow open the world economy not the debt market. This is the reason AIG have so far borrowed $100billion off the US Treasury because they are effectively a hedge fund insuring tens of $trillions of world corporate bonds. If they went bust ( and they wont be allowed to) thousands of the worlds top company's would not be able to get insurance for their debt and would call it in creating an absolute catastrophic spiral of bankruptcies.
  8. I bought the box set of The Wire to watch when my family went on holiday for the two weeks over Halloween half term and I was here working. I have never been so addicted to a tv show. Brilliant writing, brilliant acting and absolutely compulsive. I watched it back to back and got totally immersed in it. In a way it has ruined cop shows for me because nothing compares to it now. I shall watch Luther to see if it comes up to scratch.
  9. I have never understood why they have never abolished all tax bar VAT which would be applied at say 35% on every single purchase be it a paper or a house or whatever. The collection of the tax would be done by the retailer/lawyers. I you are very rich and buy silly priced things you pay vast sums of tax, if you are of modest means and careful you pay small amounts of tax. People ion benefits would see an uplift of 35% to cover the new costs. The gov would get virtually all the tax in and see an uplift in income.
  10. " sister killed her baby cuz she cant afford to feed it and were sending people to the moon" Seems Barrack Obama is also a Prince fan as he has cancelled to moon trip.
  11. In the past versions of windows I have used any "nearby" drivers and found that it worked ok. Try using another laserjet driver . the 1010 is quite an old machine, I have two of them so i know how good they are but it may be time to say goodbye.
  12. When I was a baby and toddler in an orphanage there was a particular nun that looked after me and we kept up contact through out my life and I recall after my father died having a conversation with her as I had decided god did not exist and she said the bugger about her job was that she wouldn't really know either until she died. I don't personally believe in god but I would like to be proved wrong.
  13. ?10 per week for both kids (10 and 12) into their bank accounts.It doubles if they work on Saturday I no longer buy anything for them, if they want it they buy it with their own money. Music, dvds, clothes, whatever it is they buy it. It is quite amazing how many things they decide they don't really need when its their money they are spending.
  14. Would that be the same McLaren that was slicing the ends of children's fingers off in the States but didn't bother to tell us over here until a child got their finger amputated.
  15. Sounds like your bald mate got off lightly, the dicking and ribbing are euphemisms right? Sounds like you were a very disturbed youngster.
  16. If you look at the address bar at the top of the screen it is http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,427621 This is the URL of this page so your website title should read http://mysportrelief.com/malleymooanddaughterruningforsports relief/
  17. Exactly the same Develo experience for me, except i was the one getting killed.
  18. There are some good schools near us but I was educated privately as was my wife and I would feel it would be unfair to them not to give them the best start possible. Yes it is expensive and it does cripple me financially each time i pay out a terms fees but it was the choice we made and we will stick to it. Only eight more years to go, not that im counting mind. AS far as I can see there are three types of private school parents. The first are professional / city types who earn pots of cash and think nothing of ?5k a term, these people invariably have a school fund full of cash from some bonus or other and the school fees are set for life. In many cases so are the grand kids still yet to be born. Secondly there are local business people of varying degrees of success who pay fees from earned income, some with ease and some find it tough. Thirdly, and this was a shock to me, there are the parents who cant afford it but the Grandparents can. So its not all Little Lord Fauntleroy by any means and you do get a broad range of society in the class rooms. I personally think we would have a better society if all children of primary school age had to attend the local state primary school. "mentally and emotionally detrimental for the children" or getting them ready for a competitive life. I cant think which golfer said it but he said " Its funny the more I practice the luckier I get"
  19. Here is an insight from a parent who sends both my kids to private schools and how super competitive it is for yr 7 places. I was at a beauty parade last night at my sons prep school. All the Heads from ten local private senior schools were there to sell their school to us prospective customers. My son will sit for five schools (at ?80 each sitting)to achieve two places hopefully and we have already started the toadying up to the heads last year at open days, this is for September 2011 by the way. I know parents who sit their sons for over twelve schools just to see what happens, if there were no non refundable registration fees virtually every one would be sitting for all the local schools at the same time. This is what happens at the local grammar, the top grammar had over 1500 kids sitting for 100 places a year or so ago. My little angel sat for a school in January a year in advance on the basis that if he got a place they would keep it open, I sat him in the fair knowledge that he wouldn't get a place just yet but i wanted him to get the experience. Half of the year five boys in the area also turned up that day for exactly the same reason. Needless to say he didn't get in but I spoke to the headmaster of that school last night and he insisted I ring him next week to discuss his scores for the three exams he sat with a view to gaining a place next January. One of the boys who did get a place and who is at a very good school at the moment, where he can stay all the way to A level, his mother was speaking to my wife this week at the gym and said the only problem was that she had to ring the headmaster up and ask for her son to be shown the school as he had never been to see it. For her it is simply about bragging rights and playing the game. I never wanted to be part of this game as we are not pushy parents but I know every child in my sons year has had a private tutor for the past year and a half on Maths English and most importantly Verbal Reasoning, they will sit for all the private school that are recommended by the Head because she knows which schools will do deals to get her pupils and I know virtually all of his year will sit for the grammar this September but only half of them will have any intention to send their children there, the other half will use it as practise for the January exams. From Easter onwards they will do SATS and entrance exam papers every day and have at least an hours of exam homework a night. A week before the September term starts this year they are holding booster days for our kids and it is expected that they will attend. When my son left his nursery to go to prep school I was shocked at what went on and didn't know what the game was about then. He didn't get into his prep of choice but we soon learned how to play the game, if we wanted this type of eduction for our child you had to be willing to do all this for him to have any chance of getting into the schools that are best for him. It is hyper competitive out there. If you get three good offers then you can negotiate the fees downward by quite a lot so it is worth paying the registration fees in the beginning because you will have a far better chance at getting your cash back in the end.
  20. vinceayre

    The Pound

    Rhinestone, What do you think will happen to the pound versus Euro. Will it be saved by the Euro being viewed as a worse bet than the pound or is it all equally as bad as each other and we are all doomed. Which i guess means if the dollar gets stronger against both currencies gold will decrease in price. It would be interesting to know what a professional thinks as from a purely amateurs point of view I would have thought the pound will be saved by the euro zone being so much worse off than we are with the PIGS being in the state they are, at least after the election that is.
  21. I think they have done very well in difficult times, but it must be said the majority of the profits have come from Barclay's Capital on Wall Street which bought up, on the cheap, the rump of Lehman's. Good luck to them they deserve all their bonus as they took a huge risk and its paid off.
  22. I can hardly contain myself I am laughing so much at your attempt at humour. How are the colonies today?
  23. I don't live in ED but in Chislehurst another so called "desirable" area of south London and was contacted by an estate agent a couple of weeks ago to see if i was interested in selling. A day or so later the manager came round a valued it at ?100k more than my best guess. Easily back to 2008 prices, i asked him how so and he said it is simply a fact that he has five buyers chasing each house and even though millions have lost their jobs none of them live round here as its full of bankers and brokers and they are all making more money than ever. I can concur with that because I have never seen so many brand new Bentley convertibles and Ferraris in the High Street, they have completely taken the politicians for a ride. As for a run on the pound it will be saved by the run on the Euro that is about to happen, George Sorros and his mates (according to the Wall Street Journal) are betting against it and we all know what happens when he does that. Put your bid in at the higher end if you can because ED will continue to rise in value, I bought 15 years ago in a "good" area and the value has more than tripled. There will be no "bargains" about if you wait because if the past three years hasn't ruined it then nothing will.
  24. vinceayre

    Moral maze

    We were on holiday in France some years ago and went into a local bank to change pounds into francs whereby they gave us ?2,000 worth of francs back for the ?200 we had given them. I bought my wife a watch with the extra cash we had. I bought a flat in 1988 in a good area and lived there for 8 years upon which i sold it for ?20,000 less than I paid for it. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, if you happily accept the losses you should also accept the gains. Keep the tenner and by your loved one something nice with it.
  25. Ctrl and Alt plus the arrow key to rotate All at the same time.
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