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You expecting me to read your posts now?!

I read your reposts so it seems fair.

^^^^I don't get it. Does it mean he gets a track bike to use in prison?
or just with a freewheel?

He gets foffa branded prostheses for the same price of the blades but with custom colour options

Poor bastard. He will really get picked on for that.

it's alright dani / danni will stand up for him
and justify it to the other prisoners

I'd also like to make sure people know what progressive tax means. Because it's amazing how many people don't get it ("there's no incentive to earn more because you actually make less!").

^This + ftfy

Not being funny, but if I was in charge the first thing I would do is charge double tax to anyone who says "Not being funny, but £156k is not a huge amount"

Given that a footballer can earn that in a week, it is not, relative to truly staggering salaries, a lot, is it?

I am ashamed to have issued a small yet disceranble lol:

'Chubby Checker sues Hewlett-Packard over app to measure penis size.'

Chubby Checker app has caused 'irreparable damage' to singer of same name, say lawyers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/feb/14/chubby-checker-sues-hewlett-packard

one of the most amusing things I have read today, the comments are swell, too

I'd just kill anyone who starts a sentence with "I'm not being funny."
These cunts couldn't be funny if their lives depended on it.

Thank you. I had not realised that £156k *"is not a huge amount" *relative to sums much bigger.

In fact, now you come to mention it, however big something is is is not that big compared to something bigger. My understanding of the world has just taken a great leap forward.

That's quite heart warming, I'm glad that you've learned something today.

These no-legged gags are awful guys...

That's putting it mildly. This is a tragedy. Leaving aside the issue of whether similar 'jokes ' would have been made about a non-disabled runner in a similar incident, the focus on Pistorius' disability is disablist and discriminatory. Poor show, Clive.

^ All of this.

the focus on Pistorius' disability is disablist and discriminatory.

No it isn't.

Meteorite in russia!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-0iwBEswE&feature=player_embedded

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/15/meteorite-explosion-shakes-russian

puts on tin foil hat

nice link here-
http://rt.com/news/russia-meteor-meteorite-asteroid-chelyabinsk-291/

That's putting it mildly. This is a tragedy. Leaving aside the issue of whether similar 'jokes ' would have been made about a non-disabled runner in a similar incident, the focus on Pistorius' disability is disablist and discriminatory. Poor show, Clive.

squints

There is something weird about this - it comes off as protectionism based on assumption.

Not being funny, but if I was in charge the first thing I would do is charge double tax to anyone who says "Not being funny, but £156k is not a huge amount"

And yet, given the amounts that some people "earn" (footballers, Simon Cowell, 'the rich bankers', emergency plumbers, etc) I am genuinely surprised that a mere £156k is enough to put you in the top 1%. I expected it to be ten times that.

that makes me think alot of the top top earners do not declare there income in this country

I suppose its 1% of people, so unless they are claiming to earn less than £156k that wouldn't make any difference would it?

there was a survey about a year ago which asked a question something along the lines of

what do you consider to be a very large salary

multiple choice answers included
£1,000,000 and above
£500k -1,000,000
150 - 500k
100k - 150k
most answers were in the 150k to 500k bracket, some poeple even putting down 100-150k

a million still seems to be a vast sum in this day and age
i guess it all is based on your persepective / your job / the people you socialise with

i can't remember where i saw it but i was quite suprised by the responses

That's interesting dicki - if you remember the link please share.

I think you're right that a lot of it is to do with who you socialise with, people on large salaries can be made to feel poor relative to others in some circles.

Also again I think a big factor is where in the country you live.

Honestly i would put down 80-150k as a large salary, but mainly because this is large compared to what i earn, i would think that most the majority of people think in a similar way, ie comparing to what they earn rather than looking at what directors etc chief execs etc earn

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the survey was a UK based survey asking people what they thought about UK salaries
you could shift the decimal point a couple of places if you start looking at other countries / third world countries

Dicki, was that the article interviewing rich people bemoaning their poorly ways?