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I am the same with the Titanic, have several books on it, fascinating stuff tbh But Kennedy thing there has just been so many theories that x did it or y did it or they both did it with help from z that the whole thing to me has become quite tedious, hundreds of programs/films/books all with different theories, no one will ever know what really happened that day

He is dead, no amount of speculating or tin foil hat conspiracy theories is going to bring him back to life

I would hope that the banks will be careful who they give mortgages to even with this 'subsidy' Given they are tighter than a ducks fanny when it comes to lending to small businesses one would hope they are ultra careful now

Mistaken identity, it was someone else

Nonsense I have always maintained people should only buy a house if they can truly afford it, In the thread i said several pages back that people should only take on a house if they have not just the deposit saved but another 6 months mortgage payments saved for a 'rainy day'

Nail on head deffo Was in hindsight an insensitive remark, especially in the light of what Severin posted above, although goes without saying that it was a careless remark as opposed to having any malice or intended racism behind it, a throwaway figure of speech rather than any bad intentions Happy to apologise without hesitation to anyone offended by it and will be more careful with wording in the future

Would love to see Adrian Chiles do it too I would vote on speed dial for the irritating twat to do every single bushtucker trial

She is much more of a bitch now, nothing in rules that say someone can't do it twice

Would love to see Katie Hopkins Richard Littlejohn Jeremy Clarkson Eddie Irvine Freddie Flintoff Kitty Brucknell Godfrey Bloom Baroness Trumpington

No chance of Chris Huhne, he would never get a visa Never heard of most of the rumoured list Would love to see the Kardashian's bitten by a poisonous spider, vile family

It was also used to describe in the media Gerry Cooney Gerry Coetzee Vitali Klitchsko Allan Wells Tommy Morrison Also in America Chris Christie the presidential candidate was described as 'the great white hope' to beat Obama Also Wayne Rooney. http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/fer...te-hope-3987049

Not at all Its a play on words on the term 'Great White Hope', a term used as a sporting reference throughout my lifetime including in the media Clearly as Townsend is BLACK that term great white hope can't be used

He isn't getting the service, he hasn't missed that many chances, just hasn't had the service to put the ball away, some of that could be down to bad positioning but the main problem is Andros Townsend Since his amazing England debut he is the media darling, the great black hope for Brazil 2014, the tabloids love him, AVB dropping him would be the media equivalent of shooting Bambi and AVB seems too cautious to do that Much as i love Townsend the guy is a complete and utter liability, he would rather try a pot shot from 30 yards and be the big hero again if it comes off, than lay on a through pass to Soldado when Soldado is in a good scoring position, Townsend would rather run at the full back and do a fancy stepover than pass to a team mate, 9 times out of 10 the full back owns his ass

It did start in the 80s but it does not mean people have to fall for it like sheep and be like that I was bought up to live within my means, only buy what i can afford, this has been my attitude throughout my life and i was 14 when Maggie came to power and 25 when she left so i was a product of the 80s

House ownership is what i feel is helping the economy, I would not describe desire to own your own home as materialism, when someone buys a house they have to buy furniture and a tv and lampshades and tables etc all of which really do help the economy The people i think are complete twats are people who take out a credit card to buy an iPad for example just because their friend/neighbour/workmate/brother has one or whatever and they feel insecure because they haven't got one or because they haven't got the latest one, a sensible person saves up, a complete bellend gets into debt to get it

What you say while you are right about some of the stuff about the bankers what you are saying is very simplistic and overlooks a lot of things The British public over borrowed, taking out lots and lots of credit and loans and credit cards that they could ill afford to do because they were too impatient and materialistic to save up and buy things 'i want it all and i want it now' culture is not the fault of the banks it was the fault of idiots who over extended themselves, banks should have been more responsible about who they gave credit cards and loans to but the public need to share a lot of the blame The banking crisis started in America with the collapse of Lehman Brothers and Barings so we would have been affected by the subsequent global recession no matter what It would have been suicide not to bail out the banks, if the government had just left Lloyds, RBS etc to go to the wall millions of people would have lost their life savings, pensioners who had saved all their lives for their nest egg in retirement, businesses who had accounts would Lloyds and RBS would not have been able to pay their staff and suppliers, the country would have literally shut down

I would be in favour of all the loopholes being closed but it would only work if all the other countries like USA, China, India, Singapore, Germany etc did the same too as businesses and foreign investment would just go to our rivals with less strict tax laws, and many jobs would be lost due to this Tax avoidance is wrong but it needs to be tackled on a global basis

Very possibly, which makes it a bad thing to up the rate to 60% or so like Simon was suggesting It would damage foreign investment and lead to more tax avoidance

HMRC said that revenues from those that previously were on 50p increased when it was cut to 45p, this was used by Osborne as evidence it should be cut further before Clegg vetoed it

Unless people work in the public sector every single job out there is out there because of an entrepreneur starting the business in the first place be it recently or a century ago, every business in this country was started from scratch. Start bringing in 'success tax' then it is unfair to the people who took the risk setting up the business Low tax encourages people to pay the tax, since cutting the top rate from 50p to 45p tax revenues from the high earners have increased according to HMRC, putting it up to 75p like the French have done has the opposite effect

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-24...nimum-wage.html

It is wrong to punish the rich / wealth creators / entrepreneurs, for the incompetence of politicians These guys have worked 15 hour days in many cases to create successful businesses, why should they be "punished" ?

I think he will still come good, not spectacularly good but a 15 goal a season man so neither a flop or a world beater, he has 4 in 10 atm, yes 3 are from the spot but penalties are easily missable so work is still needed to score We have plenty of money so can buy another striker if necessary

I put a wink next to the idea, i was not endorsing it as a potential government policy It would be unworkable

I am sure they will survive Whether the employees who lost their jobs will is a different matter