Gonzo post girlfriend's bank account details and bra size for money transfer

I'm exempt from giving government any taxes bar VAT. Get your poor money from elsewhere.

I think we can all agree Gove is a fuckwit.

Also:

Lavatory Nites

Unlikely wrote:

So basically the people who run the country are VERY EVIL, right?  And it's as simple as that.  Phew.

Not only are they EVIL, they're sent by SATAN. And Cameron's a lizard.

Can't help it. Politics is complicated, innit?

I vote for the lizards. Wait, they're all lizards, shit.

Gove's a complete cunt. Basically wants the secondary education system to be less skills based and more concentrated on learning by rote. 

Being able to say when the Battle of Bannockburn was (from memory) is a really useful skill when everyone has Google on their smartphones. Er, not Google from here obviously, although he may well know when the Battle of Bannockburn was.

There's a place for factual knowledge but if that's at the expense of losing skills of analysis and processing, seems like a disaster in waiting.

From a point of view as a benefits frauding mentalist i can indeed say their austerity measures have been quite pointedly aimed at areas of benefits with typically very little fraud and their assessment of the ill has been moved to business and bonus hunting. The work of ATOS has quite stunned in its damage to the lives of the ill, to save money that is not, comparably, taken from the (typically nepotism-induced) riches of the possibly undeserving.

The government could be said to be evil for this i suppose, morally bankrupt certainly, because, proportionally,the punishment to the poor and ill has been grievous compared to the slidingly unpunishing tax breaks the 'rich' are allegedly coming to enjoy

You're playing devils advocate Unlikely, i'll try and indulge you as best I can, horseface would be able to inform better however she's practically a scholar in this area

I still think who you vote for should be something you never share.

I'd suggest a violent revolution but I could get put in prison for that.

Unlikely wrote:

You know, it's interesting that only a few people accuse me of trolling.  Very few, in fact.  People who, I guess, haven't appreciated someone disagreeing with them.  It's a little bit playground but I guess that's just how some people are.

I could have accused you of trolling before; it happens quite a lot. But I can't really be arsed when it doesn't concern me, and a lot of the time it doesn't. 

But anyway, your question directed at me wasn't for any conversational purpose, or to exchange views in a civil manner. You were searching for an opening to start acting like a twat and calling people morons again. I saw it coming, so hence the preventative 'fuck off'.

beano wrote:

I still think who you vote for should be something you never share.

I don't really get that. I'm happy to tell people. I'm also happy for people to tell me who the better option is. I want to vote for the best person.

beano wrote:

I still think who you vote for should be something you never share.

I'm the opposite. If you've got beliefs and principals, stand by them. At least until the point where it becomes exhausting, as I suspect it might if I decided to broadcast mine.

Diluted Dante wrote:

So who exactly do we vote for?

The Giant Douche or the Turd Sandwich.

Fair point. 

As for lazy, poor people sitting on their arses all day and not making a contribution, well, for a start I don't really believe that to be the case. But even if it was, I personally- and I expect controversially- I don't actually have a problem with welfare as a lifestyle choice (although it's not one I'd make myself). Perhaps without the assumption that everyone ought to be engaged in some form of mind-numbing drudgery for sake of propping up the shitty consumerist system- the likes of which many of us probably don't even want to be a part of- employers might actually be forced to create some meaningful opportunities, rather than simply the most profitable ones.