2 September 2010
21:1768517"Have to sell"? "Market forces"? Aren't they the same excuses used for prostitution? And as for the legal process for redress, get real. The costs and publicity and shit-sticks mentality will always mitigate against the ordinary guy. In the real world that simply does not work.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
2 September 2010
22:1868522Broadsheet or rag they all print the gossip, broadsheets are just more wordy with their reports.
Haig cuts down on expenses by sharing his room and all he gets is inuendo from the media.
Good job the media had no interest in my husband when he was sent on company courses, he always had to share a room and he was a seaman.
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DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
- Posts: 1,116
2 September 2010
22:2068523That can't be right Howard, a member of the Conservative being the victim of market forces!
I really couldn't care about his sexuality although I remember being told he was gay a number of years ago. I don't see why people hide these things or why it should matter.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
2 September 2010
22:2268524all good posts.
i was interested to read that the aide resigned because he felt uncomfortable in his position.
i will not read anything into that statement.
2 September 2010
22:4368527So Howard, you advocate totally the press publishing whatever they like regardless of whether it is substantiable or not? That attitude explains why the current crop of newspapers are full of rubbish, whether they sell or not. Could there be a clearer demonstration of the acceptance of dumbing down to meet the lowest intelligence level, and relying on the courts and public purse to persue potential wrongdoings?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
2 September 2010
22:5168531try reading what i have said about redress sid.
would you advocate pravda for us to read?
2 September 2010
22:5768536Howard, I don't advocate ANY newspapers. As far as I am concerned they should all be consigned to the gutter where they belong. They are nothing more than biased truth distorters usually with an ulterior motive. I have no time or money for them.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
2 September 2010
23:0468541where do you get you get your information from then sid?
2 September 2010
23:1168544Mostly the internet and BBC World News
3 September 2010
17:0368616There is NO redress for ordinary folk. Too costly, in money and in publicity and stress. Not worth it, therefore not likely to be pursued. The press therefore have us over a barrel. I need to be clear: I love newspapers, read as many as I can as often as I can. But that doesn't blind me to the bottom-feeders that often write for them and run them.
3 September 2010
18:0568629Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
3 September 2010
20:5868664Bob - that picture says a lot.
Two men sharing a double bed in a comedy sketch and no-one ever conisdered it odd.
Today a twin room is shared to keep election expenses down and every kind of inuendo is dragged up. I wonder what the reaction would be today if that classic Morcamb & Wise were to be made and shown, outrage hell and damnation I expect.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
3 September 2010
21:2468670different times barry, i doubt that you have shared a bed with another chap.
would have taken too long asking the ladies to leave.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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3 September 2010
21:4568683Not to forget that Laurel and Hardy shared a double bed to save on B&B expenses, and one kept taking the blanket from the other!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
3 September 2010
21:4768684The most hilarious Laurel ans Hardy act was when a man in the middle of the night flung a shoe out of the window at a howling cat, the shoe hit Laurel's head, and Laurel flung it back up through the window!
3 September 2010
22:0368694No Alexander. The most hilarious was when they totally destroyed a house. Just after they had finished filming the owners came home, and then they realised they had destroyed the WRONG house!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
3 September 2010
22:1068704Well, that smacks of New Labour's economic policies.
3 September 2010
22:1168706Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
3 September 2010
22:1468709Well Sid, can't you make a proposal to the Town Council about that 1 pound passenger toll, it is better than nothing, and I would back the proposal with another proposal for a fee on feight vehicles too.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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5 September 2010
11:4268850My favourite Laurel & Hardy sketch is when they start restoring a small boat, there is a moment when they somehow get the saw 'around' the main mast is a classic.
