Ken L

I can see the headline now. ""Prescription dog ate my children" - NHS to be sued"

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Sometimes, you can stay in the bath too long when you're shrinking jeans or denim shorts to fit ! That said, I'd guess that the only bath she's been near recently contained formaldihyde.

I don't agree with no migration. We should allow migration in much the same way as the Australians do, on a points system, based on the skills needs of the country. What we do need to do is impose effective boarder controls and reinstate the so call "prime purpose" legislation that was abolished by this government in 1997. This the legislation makes it possible for people to bring in forign nationals that they don't know and don't love as "husbands" and "wives". It not only neatly shortcircuits immigration rule, it also leads to a lot of young girls of asian decent being forced into unhappy marriges by their parents. We shouldn't ban asylum seekers either because we, along with every other stable country should take our share. What we should be looking at is an EU wide policy on assessing and placing asylum seekers that both distributes the load fairly among EU countries and restricts where these people can live to their assigned country untill they've been there for at least 3 years with at least two in full time employment. It would probably be a good idea to make this a probationary period so that if an asylum seeker engages in hate mongering or is convicted of criminal activity, not only do they not get their EU wide right of adode, they also get deported back to their point of origin, irrespective of their personal safety. With regard to the free handouts that make this country such a target, we really need to start closing down the options for a benefits lifestyle and shutting down the grey/black economies. We should also be getting people who send their kids to schools with no English skills (because no English is spoken at home to pay for the additional tutoring their kids need. If people need to access public services or a doctor but need an interpreter, they should pay for one themselves - like they have to in Spain. Advertizing, signs on or in shops and packaging of goods should always be in English or have an English translation with it - as it would have to have a French translation in Canada. Oh yes, and we should follow the French example of separating church and state. Not a police state, not an ultra right wing "send 'em home" agenda, just a few changes so that everyone can get allong and we can try to find a common British identity.

"As for your illegal immigrants wanting to come to Britain because of handouts (which by and large they don't get)" I know several people that work in GP surgeries and not one of those surgeries routinely asks for proof of entitlement to free medical care . This is a free handout. I don't know of a single case where anyone has been asked to pay for hospital treatment in the UK because they have been unable to provide proof of entitlement to free medical care . This is a free handout. The fee prescriptions that we hand out in this country to almost anyone (80% of all prescriptions are not paid for) are almost totally unpoliced. This is a free handout. Assylum seekers, people with restrictions on their stay and just anout anyone else that happens to be in the country can and does claim Income Support for themselves and their dependents. This is a free handout. Anyone who is recieving Income Support (and these people are recieving it legally) is entitled to free school meals, council tax rebates, cheap (or free) entry into local authority sports facilities etc, etc, etc. This is a free handout. These people can and do claim benefits that the law denies them by the simple measure of lying about their nationality. The system is so poorly policed (and in some cases incompetently administered) that they get away with it. This is a free handout. Lying and cheating to milk money out of the UK is the norm, as is falsifying documents - even the Brazillian guy who got himself shot a couple of weeks ago had a fake "indefinate leave to remain" stamp in his passport. On top of the suposedly non-existant "Free Handouts", there is a thriving black economy that allows these people to work as well as claiming everything under the sun. Yes, we have plenty of our own home grown liars, cheats, criminals and fraudsters but we absolutely can not afford to become any more of a magnet to every petty criminal and fraudster from easern Europe near Asia and north Afica. We need to start clamping down and activly closing down these income streams because at the end of the day, they are at some point going to be used to fund the very people that want to blow the godd citizens of this country to pieces. [ 06. August 2005, 07:05 PM: Message edited by: Ken L ]

Neither. It makes us legal migrants who choose our place of abode in accordance with an international treaty. "Asylum seekers" who have failed to claim asylum in the first "safe" country that they arrive in (As defined by article 4 of the UN convetion on refugies) and bogus asylum seekers who are in fact economic migrants from countries outside the EU are here illegally and should simply be deported. Of course it would be nice if we could get cosey with them all and treat the health problems of everyone who turns up in the country into the bargin, but resourses and space are both finite and we come first. [ 06. August 2005, 02:50 PM: Message edited by: Ken L ]

Look up. The banner ads seem to be offering the services that you're after.

A lot of them will hold both British nationality and that of their original country of origin. What we really need is the power to strip those with dual nationality of their British citizenship if the courts decide that it's appropriate to do so.

I ain't making these up ! I've either done them, had them done to me or know people who've done them. What's getting me woried is that me and my mates seem to be the only silly people on the bank, because nobody else is admitting anything

I reckon he must be the bloke in the bookies that used to give my grandfather tips about where the "smart Money" was going on the GG's.

Odds on there's some other compound in the water that's recording a false positive. Anyone remember the chapies that had definatly, no question, absolutely been handleing explosives. Except that it could have been playing cards..... If it's true, it don't look good for the fishing. Everyone knows that cocaine make people paranoid and impotent, so those fishies wont be breeding and will be scared of eating in case their next meal has a hook in it..

When fishing with a mate using ledgered baits, tie some very light line onto his mainline half way up the rod whilst he's off for a constitutional. When he gets back, give the light line (and therefore his rod tip) a little twitch. Watch as he leaps up and hovers over the ummoving rod waiting for the slightest tap to hit. Two minutes after he's calmed down, give it another twitch, or two, or three, or four. Drop half a dozen burcock burs into someones net bag. They'll have hours of fun untanleing them.

Wait till everyone has pegged their nets up and walked down to watch the weigh-in then pull out some multicolouted spine covered monstrocity that you bought at the fishmarket (Birmingham has some very exotic stuff in it's fishmarket) and drop it in the net of one of the old duffer's in the club. Sit back and wait for someone to spot the imposter at the weigh-in. If someone accuses the old boy of cheating instead of seeing it as an obvious joke, Wait till the next match and drop a couple of the biggest herrings you can find in their net. Suitable comments about "Chernobyl Bleak" can them be made at their weigh-in.

For a real edge in a hard winter match, it's hard to beat four or five eels in a rod tube. Be warned though that whilst not many people will bat an eyelid if you take them home "for the pot" afterwards, they might start to smell a rat if those same four eels turn up in every match that you fish.

First time I've seen farmed lug for sale.

I didn't realize that Dame Edna needed to do that sort of cheap voice over to keep solvent.

I seem to remember that there is an "antidote" that can be incorperated into Paracetamol tablets that doesn't impact on the analgesic qualities of the drug but mitigates the toxic effects on the liver. For some reason, manufacturers declined to include it in their formulations.

Having had the dubious pleasure of talking to a fair number of pro Taleban, pro Bi-Laden muslim guys, the sentiments expressed in the film were no great shock at all. The only suprise was just how blatently these people are prepared to taunt the state that puts food in their mouths, a roof over their heads and educates their kids. I saw some BNP grafiti scrawled on a wall last week. It read "They Breed. We feed. Then they bomb us. Think about it!" When you see large families living on benefits and a proportions of them are getting radicalized to the point where they want to blow up inocents, you can see that that sort of statement is going to have a certain resonance. Maybe we really should be looking at wider social policy to make the sort of lifestyle highlighted by the grafiti less of an option.

No. I only ever saw them at their Powerhouse gig with "Joolz" doing the support slot. Poetry (even "punk poetry") really wasn't what the audience wanted. Afterall, you cant jump up and down hitting people to poetry can you ?

Looks like we were both at the same Sisters and NMA gigs. The sisters were always good for a live show, certanly much better than the reecorded works of the original lineup would indicate. The live cover of Hot Chocolate's "Emma" was always a highlight. This track did finally appear as a B side on one of their later 12"s and I took great delight in ripping a digital copy of it when I got the chance.

Forgot to mention "The Jesus and Mary Chain" at Birmingham's Powerhouse immediatly following the release of "Psychocandy". 15 minutes of nice little surf songs wrapped in screaming feedback followed by a full on indoor riot. Ah, those were the days ! Come to think about it, there was also a riot when "The Cramps" played Birmingham ODEON for just 15 minutes. It turned out that the frontman (The wonderfully well named "Lux Interior") had walked of stage to grab a drink, keeled over and been rushed to hospital.

It was liver at one gig. It was still there slowly rotting in high, hard to clean places next time I whent to the club. As it was a strip joint when no bands wre playing it was hardly hygenic and the flies must have been most impressive a couple of weeks later.

"SPK" at the Fantasy club in Birminghan in about 85. Great gig but they did set one of the punters on fire with an angle grinder. "Gay Bikers on Acid" at Birmingham Irish Centre, circa 1987. The loudest gig in the world ever ! Couldn't hear properly for three days afterwards. Any "King Kurt" gig. A band that does 20p haircuts on stage for audience members just has to be worth seeing. "Wham" at Birmingham ODEON in 1981 or 82. Complete cr*p. Six changes of clothing and George Michael pulling shuttlecocks out of his underware and batting them into the audience with raquets. My only excuse is that I was in thrall of a young lady who wanted to see them. "The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow" in Newcastle in 1991. Whoa, gross dude !

Yep, the link has changed but if you follow the link anyway, click on the video panel (about the abuse of army recruits at the moment) and when this opens, you can click on the bottom left panel entitled "Extreem Cause" Sorry but the BBC don't seem to want to make it any easier to link to none current content than that.

How's your neck ? All that star gazing just has to be bad for you