In the news

seen this?

Old lady beating of jewellery theives (not like that, with a handbag - its not dirty).

The scrapping of paying tax on foreign earnings for large businesses only.
I'm more shocked about this than the stupid racist crap from the Tories. How is this helping to reduce the deficit, or build the UK economy?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/07/tax-city-heist-of-century?INTCMP=SRCH

that's fucking shocking.

The scrapping of paying tax on foreign earnings for large businesses only.
I'm more shocked about this than the stupid racist crap from the Tories. How is this helping to reduce the deficit, or build the UK economy?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/07/tax-city-heist-of-century?INTCMP=SRCH

fucking horrible. I'm getting really physically angry at our government. I can only hope people realise they are dismantling our country and selling the pieces to the highest bidder and get them out of power before they cause too much damage.

So is this a kind of smokescreen or something?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/08/bank-levy-increased-george-osborne

Robinson to the rescue:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2011/02/its_the_symboli.html

Peston providing another view:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2011/02/chancellor_raises_additional_8.html

Chill out mate:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12388540

classy!

it's so easy to lose your head in the heat of the moment though.

Better to cut your losses I suppose.

it's certainly preferable to putting your own neck on the line.

He was just trying to make some headway.

Erm, that story is about a woman who was brutaly murdered and beheaded. Good puns like but a little harsh considering the sercomstances.

you're right of course, the internet is a little too disconnected from reality and it's easy to overstep the line without a little self-control.

thanks for the heads up.

Time to get the fuck out of this country.

If I wanted to live somewhere LIKE Switzerland, I'd live in fucking Switzerland - at least their trains run on time and they have mountains.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/07/tax-city-heist-of-century

Erm, that story is about a woman who was brutaly murdered and beheaded. Good puns like but a little harsh considering the sercomstances.

Very true, apologies.
Not a good idea to take the piss about something so sever severe.

Not sure if this counts as news, but a colleague just fwd it to me:

a picture of a shark fin crossed with a ladys' naughty bits?

new to me too.

That's the Arfica <---> Italia part of the crime map

infographics.. mmm

[B]Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson hits out at cyclists: "Work hard and get a car"[/B]

http://road.cc/node/30733

Where Clarkson's paradigm of working hard involves parodying a thick degenerate moron.

You cant take anything on top gear seriously. None of it was even close to as offensive as the mexican stuff either.

Its funny that Hammond was silenced by the road tax question though, we all know there is no such thing.

The terms "car tax", "road tax" and "vehicle tax" are commonly used when referring to "Vehicle Excise Duty".[25] Road tax has an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Some cyclists, cycling organisations and cycling publications in particular object to use of 'road tax'. Peter Walker, a journalist at The Guardian explains "I've always felt the road tax argument supports a more general feeling of entitlement among too many drivers. Those who trot it out often seem to genuinely treat cyclists like we're interlopers who should be pushed aside".[26] The Cyclists' Touring Club argue 'most adult cyclists do pay for the roads, even though they impose minimal wear and tear on them'.[27] The Cambridge Cycle Campaign suggested that "Arguing that cyclists therefore have less right to use the roads is like arguing that smokers should take precedence for medical treatment, because non-smokers don't buy cigarettes and therefore 'don't pay hospital tax".[28]
The direct use of taxes collected from motorists to fund the road network was opposed by Winston Churchill predicted "It will be only a step from this for them to claim in a few years the moral ownership of the roads their contributions have created".[29]
A single issue campaign, 'I pay road tax' started by a cycling journalist in 2009 to challenge the use of the term 'road tax'.[30][31] The campaign has received support from Edmund King, President of The AA.[32]
In a BBC report on Look East in May 2010 about a cyclist who was knocked off his bike by a car the presenter read out a series of emails from viewers expressing the view that 'cyclists should pay road tax' if they wish to use the roads. After receiving a 'huge number' of complaints from viewers following publicity created by iPayRoadTax, the BBC broadcast a second piece which clarified the fact that roads are paid for out of general taxation and reported the incorrect[33][34] assertion that 'road tax as such does not exist'.[35]
When challenged by iPayRoadTax, Which?, the British consumer magazine, defended its continued use of the term on the basis that "road tax" was more commonly used than Vehicle Excise Duty. A spokesman also said that while they would not stop using the terms 'car tax' and 'road tax' online that they would endeavour to also make appropriate reference to the full name of the tax.[36]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Excise_Duty

You cant take anything on top gear seriously. None of it was even close to as offensive as the mexican stuff either.

Its funny that Hammond was silenced by the road tax question though, we all know there is no such thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Excise_Duty

Congratulations on your first interesting post.

Whether or not it was worth the wait remains a moot point...