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My sense of smell, in contrast, is working fine. There is a list of epic fails associated with Marxism, as is also the case with Capitalism. Failure by some ruling group to implement an ism at a particular time and place does not (as you imply) deliver objective proof that the ism is flawed and unworkable. I may as well cut and paste your own arguments to show that the events of 1929 and 2007 "prove" that Capitalism can never work.

I am sure we are familiar with global politics where oil-rich states are invaded or otherwise covertly destabilised and messed with? Examples are Irag, Libya, etc.

Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves on the planet. It's like having the house with the most gold under the mattress in the village, basically you are a big honking target. Anyone who thinks Venezuela just fell apart by itself (because of an -ism you are ideologically against) doesn't know much about the real world.

How could you even think of hiding huge lumps of gold at an airport. I mean metal detectors and all that.

Don't get me started on itunes. When the kids first got Apple ipods they wanted music putting on them. Back then I had the only household computer and I thought no problem, plug in MP3 player, an E: drive appears, copy music on, finished. No - you need itunes which was a monster of thing which tried to take over my entire "media management experience". Horrible thing.

I didn't intend making it into a quality issue and I agree with your point that Apple phones last a long time. So however do all brands of mobile phone. I have a 10-year old Nokia which is still in daily use with a geographic-number SIM as landline replacement, also several 6-ish-year-old ZTE and Huawei smartphones which I no longer use but could if I charged them up. The trouble is, who really wants a 6-year-old phone? By today's standards it will be slow, with tiny storage space, grotty small screen, no fingerprint reader, no NFC, doesn't support your important app, I could go on. The extra Apple value just isn't there when you look beyond the marketing.

" Presale will be hosted by Gearbest and will begin on January 22nd offering a special discount coupon." Wasn't on gearbest when I looked just now. Hard to see how such a phone could retail for $169.99 when it does appear. Lovely thing though if it works out. Xiaomi for me until it does.

All the people I know who like Apple products are young and fashionable whereas I am neither really They (friends' kids and so on) don't do things by halves as all their stuff is Apple, except where some equally fashionable bit comes in for example Sonos. They frequently get cross because they can't interact with someone like me in an Apple-proprietary way as easily they do amongst their circle of friends. I don't like it when people characterise me as a "tight *******" - I don't mind paying out but I do expect value. When they tell me Apple is best and I should get on board they seem unable to explain where that value is. I mean why exactly their £800 phone is better than my $250-from-China job. Have come to the conclusion that buying Apple is purely buying status and chic image. Happy to be proved wrong. But if there comes a serious recession/crash then the supply of people with spare money for chic will dry up like ->that<- (insert muted popping noise.)

Because when you went to rent a video all the pr0n was on VHS. Brilliant move really.

Things must have changed then. Many years ago I took my usual route down a country lane but then realised thanks to rain I had no chance to drive through the ford. Panicked, tried to do a three point turn to go back the way I came, and got stuck in the mud. Waded to a pub payphone and standing there cold and soaked as the AA laughed themselves stupid and billed me for everything they could think of, call-out, towing, the lot. I was very young and it took months to get straight after paying for it all. I am looking forward to having a good deep laugh myself when they spectacularly go out of business. May it be soon and as painful as possible.

We are all Spartacus. Would have to try hard to find someone on this site having a fundamental disagreement with any of that speech.

Of course they have debt, 2.7 billion doesn't go very far when you need to run a few hundred yellow vans

When the parasites were found to be fiddling their expenses Corbyn's name was remarkably absent from the list and in fact he wasn't even claiming what he was legitimately entitled to. I don't care for private education but I don't see a reason to blame the actual people who had it. Presumably aged five or so he wasn't able to put up much opposition. Honestly he is the cleanest dirty shirt in Westminster and if you consider him unfit for office then you consider none of them fit for office. Which may be your opinion, it more or less is mine although I have no answer to "what shall we have instead then".

Yes I had a fabulous time in Czech drinking their amazing blueberry beer. They probably recruited me as well without me noticing.

In many countries houses are literally built of bull shit. Newsflash: the world is not running out of ******** - crisis averted!

Impossible to please some people. Corbyn says Die Banker Scum and here we go, ehh bet he doesn't mean it, etc. What the hell more do you want.

It makes no sense though for them to do it "as long as they can." Imagine if you are them, you'd want to do it before then, have some sort of wiggle room, some sort of control as you bring everything down. I mean rather than just wait until it all crumbles and you actually lose control altogether. Remember these people are in general giant ego control freaks.

Brexit is the saviour/ruin of the UK. Oh no it isn't. Oh yes it is. Oh no it isn't and you're stupid. Oh yes it is and you're an idiot. [repeat 20000000 times]

You could boost their visitor statistics by 100% if you dropped into one of their places.

Definitely agree. I lived in a "proper" snowy place for a while and it was actually illegal not to put your winter tyres on after October November sometime. Made a huge difference to driving in snow. Almost pointless here in UK. Especially if you're a renter as you are less likely to have storage ability for your out of season tyres.

I am not going near that toxic thread. A year and a half of "you suck, no YOU suck" proves that (whether you are pro or anti) the whole thing is a shitshow. My personal opinion - TPTB know that the global mega-crash is imminent and just playing for time until it happens and everyone forgets about Brexit because they are much more focussed on where their next rat sandwich is coming from.

Haha good one. I love the blame-the-Russians-for-everything meme which seems to be everywhere. Don't like someone who got elected for something? It's the Russians. Car won't start? It's the Russians. Weather forecast sounds like we better be a bit more deferential to people with lots and lots of gas in their back garden.

I don't understand restaurantes full stop never mind not understanding their commercial property deals. It's a kind of paradox; when I eat in a restaurant I am no longer surprised at the cost. It's not difficult to guess at the cost of ingredients of something familiar like say quiche and chips, or plain pizza. The much larger menu price obviously includes rent, heating, wages, and so on but in general you would think a menu price which was a multiple of 5x or 6x should cover everything and make a profit. Even more so with drinks especially soft drinks. The reality seems much different and restaurantes are struggling. I got an email from Zizzi today containing a 40% off voucher which I suppose indicates they need to attract business. So when you pay 40 quid for a simple meal for 2 where does the money go? Especially when they add a separate charge for "service".

Sounds quite a lot like the gradual progress which happened in Europe except we started several centuries ago and now further along the timescale.