RichB

5 years up there... couldn't agree more!

Similar position. Bottled it, and moved out to Staines. A lot cheaper, much more relaxed, and in many ways just more pleasant. Strongly recommend a looksee - drive up through shepperton and laleham - not down the main road through sunbury though!

Didn't he fall off a mountain and cut his wrists while scubadiving?

So... once you deduct 20% for VAT, then deduct 60p for duty, what is the price of the fuel? What is the percentage of that, represented by a 3p addition?

Interesting. Ta.

Macdonalds, Nestle and Mars you mean?

Ah, but then the average age shoots up rapidly - who's going to pay for that? All those extra folk sucking up the OAP care? For decades at a time. The obese 'treatments' and different kit for bigger folk are 2 separate issues. A 120KG rugby player will still need the over 100KG gear - and as there are very few dietary restrictions on growth these days, as well as a lot of influx from populations with a noticeably larger median size male, then this is only to be expected - even without the 'obesity' element. Specially if most of the kit is sourced from manufacturing and locales where the median size is smaller. Like the crappy commuter trains. What the NHS should do to reduce costs is simple - refuse to pay outrageous drug + equipment prices, but instead develop their own. I don't believe for a minute that the NHS isn't big enough to be a big pharma in it's own right if it wanted to - and it could quite comfortably afford to do the medical trials on substances that the pharmas can't touch because of prior art (folk remedies etc). But no - for some reason we have to keep the private sector fed by the beast, outsourced IT, parking, cleaning, building, feeding, porters, morgues, labs, etc etc, all raking it in with an apparent inability or unwillingness on the NHS side to negotiate a sensible contract. Focus on that, not the net cost neutral 'overweight'.

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I think the easiest, cheapest and fairest solution all around is to allow 'family units' to submit a joint tax. Ie everyones personal allowance, threshold brackets etc are pooled, and all income assessed against that pool. Every UK person gets their allowances as soon as they are born, so this seems to be an absolutely fair and equitable way of doing things. Obviously there would need to be some thought put into disrupted family units, and social care to avoid some of the more offensive abuses, but surely more workable than the current disaster.

Hang on - haven't they been deliberately and ostentatiously been taking a price them off the roads strategy for over a decade now?

Wonder how long that discriminatory covenant would stand up in court...

Aye, I have a pack in front of me now... 4.4g/100g Outrage.

I thought it was until you walk away.

Guess that depends on what you mean by landing, soft and employment. Also whether that matches what 'they' mean by the terms.

Try having the chicken for breakfast instead, and the porridge for late night snack

In order to keep pace with inflation, fuel costs would have had to fall by something like 5% year on year before tax.

Thanks, interesting. I am an overweight BS. I usually skip it because I feel rough in the morning and/or just not hungry - in fact the opposite of hungry, I feel full.

From personal experience, I would imagine that most people who don't get breakfast - especially kids - will be doing it on the quite deliberate exchange for an extra 10 minutes kip dreaming of the lass with big tits in the class above. All quite necessary as they were up till early hours perving on the hun.

Whoa, hang on there. Surely the only way people are going to be responsible for their lives is if they start out by getting their own damned breakfast like everyone else in the house... Really, how old do you have to be before you can pour some milk over cereal ffs?

Erm... something tells me that the UK would never tolerate the events that happened in Iceland. There would be blood on the streets in quantity first. Hard enough with a small, independent, isolated, strong community - but London? I don't think so.

I had just that thought as I read it... couldn't quite get my head around the 'plush' earlier though.

Shortly after the UK and US declared war on anyone smaller than them?

Ah, a paid squatter. That makes sense.

Round my way, they have been madly converting 2 bed and larger properties into 1bed/studios for a decade or more. It's pretty tough to find 3 bed places now.