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    http://www.speedtest.net/result/527955750.png

     

    LOL

     

    But seriously, ISPs SHOULD state the average speed expected, but consumers should realise that (imo) there is no need to have a massive internet speed :S. I've had download speed at around 0.09Mb/s and even then i put up with it.

     

     

    :o That's slow Harve. Is your IP Profile stuck? The BT Speedtest gives you it and if it's stuck you'll never get above what it's stuck at! Ours was stuck at 135kbps after the storms two weeks so we only got 0.134 kbps maximum and the engineers had to re-set it in the exchange. IP Profiles fluctuate automatically but can stick sometimes.

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    well said.... and Rob, too.

     

    Perhaps bone-idle laziness can often be misconstrued as depression-led lethargy, maybe?

     

    The one I feel sorry for in all this sorry story is Chris's other half... who he says is in training, if I'm right, to be a social worker? Imagine the shame when the other girls on the course show off their presents from their fellas, their holiday snaps, turn up in the trendiest clothes, with the smartest haircuts, snazzy cars.... and when the chat turns to hubbies, boyfriends and jobs.... and she has to explain that, well, ummm... my other half spends all his time messing about on the internet, watching daytime telly.... and claiming free state handouts for some apparent illness. She must be mortified.

     

    I just hppe there's no benefit-raised kids in the middle of all this.... because if you're too sick to go to work and hold down a job... how on earth could you stand the constant din and hassle that are kids in your home all the time?

     

    Chris... you've played around with lame, impotent excuses for long enough... make her proud for Gods sake... get a bloody job and treat her to something nice... sounds like she well deserves it.

     

     

    I never said she was training to be anything! She's a nanny actually, looks after a 3 year-old girl in Central London. It is a bone of contention with her that I don't work but I keep explaining to her that I'm deemed unfit for work by Dr's and I do have an income each week to contribute to the family budget. She married me in '92 when I was on IB so can't say she didn't know. Think she thought it was just temporary though. We have a 13 year-old daughter.

     

    Oh and the only daytime TV I watch is Jeremy Kyle and nothing else. It doesn't go on again until evening.

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    it's the layabouts on IB who SHOULD be targetted..... too sick to do what? Learn a skill in an office? Go shopping for the elderly? Man council helpdesks?

     

    Get real, Chris... you, like the majority of sick claimants simply can't be bothered to work... ANY work.

     

     

    How can we do such things that you mention when we're ill, sick? I had a DWP questionnaire to fill in early in June, as I do every 2 years, and so did my GP. She also had a phone call she says to ask if in her opinion I could do ANY WORK, to which she says she answered "an unequivocal NO", her words exactly. I attended a "medical interview" with a DWP Dr. early this month and had the final decision just yesterday, that my Incapacity Benefit "continues for the foreseeable future" Do you honestly think we can fool our own GP, a DWP qualified Dr. of many years' standing and also the DWP who make the final decision? Are you more medically qualified than them? I think not!!! :D

    That sort of "national service" was military though Chris, and I agree, that has no place in 2009.... Community Service though, I think, does..... So long as it's not seen as some kind of excuse for cheap labour though, I do think that these kids should be paid the National Minimum wage.......

     

     

     

    Yes exactly Scott, not for some daft £10 or £20 more than the benefit. Honestly who's going to bother getting up for that? If they paid them the minimum wage then maybe. Should be compulsory of course for anyone not on incapacity benefit.

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    No I totally disagree with National Service being brought back. We only get one life and no-one should have to do anything they don't want to in this world. National Service belongs in the 30's and 40's but has no place in modern seociety.

     

    What do these training schemes you talk about pay exactly? You say they're free but if you get the same or a bit more money than the benefit rate, do you blame kids not turning up? It's like when I was just unemployed in the early 80's and not on incapacity benefit. This daft woman at the Jobcentre sent me on some scheme, "Community Programme", working all week clearing a canal. She said it would get me out of the house, give me experience and a reference for my next employer. They gave you £10 a week on top of your dole. WTF! I just didn't turn up the first day. Honestly it was like a full-time job for your benefit plus a tenner a week. A joke man. Pay the going rate for these daft schemes at least, then people may turn up!!

    I think that proves that all this talk of "Quantitative Easing" and "Recovery" is just plain cr@p..... :lol: Looks like Darling is about to get another pasting in the Press..... :rolleyes: The facts are, they were projecting a contraction of 0.3%, instead, they got almost 1% contraction in Growth, this is a pretty big setback to the Chancellor and Broon, whatever way you cut it.... And the jobless figures keep rising..... And credit still isn't getting to the areas where it's needed in order for Growth to occur.....

     

    Never mind not being out of the woods yet, this country's economy is still in the middle of the bloody Bavarian Black Forest...... :rolleyes:

     

     

    It'll all start to be sorted out next June with Prime Minister Cameron and Chancellor Osborne.

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    Yes I did and still do. It wasn't Blair's war either as the whole Cabinet and in fact Parliament voted for it. You make it sound like Blair took the sole decision whereas no PM does that.

     

    I'm agreeing with what Danny said about him having more sympathy for soldiers dying at the beginning of the campaign whereas now a lot will have signed up to be in the Services longer even though they know the risks. Read his post again. Is it 5 or 7 years they serve and can then get out or sign up for longer? Danny's one of the few here that actually talks a lot of sense.

    I would have more sympathy for soldiers dying due to dodgy equipment near the beginning of the campaigns. But by now, surely anyone who signed up before Afghanistan/Iraq will have now already fulfilled their minimum service, and so, will have had to renew their commitment to the armed forces in full knowledge that they would likely have to serve in either of these wars (I'm not an expert on how long "minimum service" is, so I may be wrong, please correct me if I am). With that in mind, given these people have effectively endorsed these wars (again, I'm assuming) which are illegitimate, and that these soldiers have directly or indirectly contributed to killing innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq, I'm not going to lose sleep over any of these soldiers dying. I'm not GLAD they're dead, but I consider helping truly innocent families hit by the recession in this country to be a higher priority than people who are fuelling illegal wars. Jmo

     

     

    Well said and spot on. Agree with every word.

    cheers..I noticed that on play.com but thats alot of money to pay. I only really want the extended versions and bonus tracks so I think I'll wait and try and get it second hand.

     

     

    I'd buy it if it was available at a reasonable price, like you, just for the third disc really. Wonder if they'll re-release it?