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Most of it is either rank or so bland as to be tasteless. Tasteless like the 'iconic' chicken fillet roll. Machine recovered reconstituted chicken in a fake French baguette. Jambons are of the rank category, the smell of these culinary abominations alone is sickening.

Fussy, is he? Poodle?

Not shouting for Team Israel or Team Palestine and wading into the mire of whataboutery. I've had it with both of them.

Would have been mildly sympathetic to the Palestinian cause but I think they have lost the room with many after the latest attack. ISIS grade brutality. I'm not engaging with any replies to this so save your typing fingers and don't bother.

Mine….Child benefit should be means tested.

Would be up for that. I have my list ready. What sort of punishment are you thinking suitable? Asking for a friend.

Situations like the following:

Man A starts a fight (unprovoked) and Man B ends up seriously injuring him.

No punishment for Man B on the basis that he did not instigate the row. Man A to be convicted of assault.

Nurses are not the living angels they like to portray themselves. Many are lazy, disinterested in the patients and extremely patronising to older people . They have one of the strongest lobby groups/unions in the country, driven by their single minded self interest wrapped up in the pretence of being primarily concerned about others.

Isn't that just self defence?

Human priorities are an utter failure. We should be spending our time drinking and having orgies while waiting for crops to grow.

But no, we freak out and cause hardship over car bodywork, give ourselves high blood pressure over trivial issues in a job that is likely pointless and cripple ourselves with worry over providing shelter that every other species manages to do for free.

I hope Ireland lose tonight. The only thing worse than rugby as a sport is the tools endlessly talking about it for weeks, every work meeting, cycle spin, pub chat. I dont care.

People on the other side have all those disadvantages from the beginning but also face the prospect of unemployment and poverty or employment on low wages and poverty. Never owning a house, never having advantages to offer their children and being a burden on the state through benefits like housing even if they work. Not a brilliant prospect or incentive to work.

My partner and I both earn about bang on the median wage so we can't complain. We manage money carefully and we get by. But I'm not sure I'd be enthused by the prospect of working hard in a low wage job and still being in poverty AND still being called a burden on society.

The low wage people make the country work and keep nice things cheap for the rest of us. Even if you we don't want to make work pay for those people because it would make the things we enjoy more expensive, the least we can do is not consider them azzholes on top of it.

Not always. Retaliation can sometimes be delayed - the victim may leave the scene & later return with a weapon. They usually end up getting convicted.

....we ve created a very messy situation for yourselves, we re effectively sending people back into a new type of poverty, we have a rising number of well educated people heading towards deep sh1t territory, this isnt gonna end well, the extremes are coming, get ready! we better get busy trying to resolve this problem, or we re all gonna end up in the sh1tter! we ve ignored the so called azzholes for too long now, and theyve been running right, theyve endangered us all, including themselves....

...and again, yes some wealthy people have indeed worked extremely hard for their earnings, but many havent! its a complete myth that many rich have earned their wealth, again, many simply were born into it, and continued by maintaining influence in public policy in order to maintain this position, as is the case globally! for example, wealth is generally stored in the value of assets such as property, it is common that such asset owners will us their position to maintain such outcomes, for example by objecting to developments that may have negative effects on the valuation of their property etc....