Davidthebard

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Davidthebard replied to the Jokers Corner board. 18:13

Re: An Irishman ...

OMG - balloons! 12 years have drifted past - OMG.

Well, they will do if they weigh 0mgs.

DtB

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Davidthebard replied to the Jokers Corner board. 18:07

Re: Word play

I'm Dyslexic and have no problem with people joking about it. Far better that, than it being ignored / not understood, when I was a child - I'm now nearly sixty. My early Schooldays (in particular) were made a misery by teachers who thought I was [more]

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Davidthebard replied to the Political Fools board. 15:07

Re: One Spare Room ?

Potential bedroom tax loop to be explored by Highland Council

http://www.strathspey-herald.co.uk/News/Potential-bedroom-ta......

...Almost 2,900 residents [more]

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Davidthebard replied to the Does Anybody Know? board. 15:00

Re: Something or other

he might have just been curious to see what happened, having no empathy for fellow human beings.

Yup, this is the bit I don't understand. Why that and not say, jumping off a tall building to see how it felt.

DtB

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Davidthebard posted to the Does Anybody Know? board. 12:18

Something or other

I don't know what to call this, so excuse the above please.

I heard on the radio of a young man who had driven his car a a group of women and children, and then reversed over the person he hit. It was said of him that he had no feelings [more]

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Davidthebard posted to the Christian Fools board. 07:49

Jesus reborn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abOI3MToWn8

I listened to this person on BBC Norfolk, he is very personable, what he teaches sounds good. Is he Jesus reborn?

We were warned by [more]

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Davidthebard replied to the Jokers Corner board. 19:48

Re: Bulletproof

Apparently, the Popemobile has three inch thick bulletproof glass...
There's faith for you.

You're behind the times, he doesn't use it.

DtB

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Davidthebard posted to the Political Fools board. 07:34

You can't trust 'em.

The waiting time at A&E has risen above the target, so why is that? <credulous>It's all the fault of the Labour Government </credulous>. Just what is the opinion of this government regarding us voters. Just how stupid do they think we [more]

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Davidthebard replied to the Political Fools board. 08:42

Re: Are Scots racist then?

Is that fair? Am I - are we - invoking an amount of prejudice when we reference 'little Englanders'?

Who cares - it's a bit of the rough and tumble of politics. Aiming at 'middle Englanders who yearn for an England that never existed...in [more]

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Davidthebard replied to the Oil & Gas - Companies board. 10:29

Re: GKP & PCI - common factor is Kurdistan

Not being ADVFN, one usually expands a little.

Are you able to back up that statement with relevant facts?

Buffy

BBC news, so I can't tell you more just what I heard.

DtB

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Davidthebard posted to the Aviva plc board. 10:27

No comment?

Well, I hung on to my shares, mind you I bought at £2.89 so I wasn't loosing as yet but today is a nice rise. Any one know why the went up so much?

DtB

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Davidthebard replied to the Oil & Gas - Companies board. 07:28

Re: GKP & PCI - common factor is Kurdistan

Not wishing to claim any expertise in mattes of oil takeovers but is there any reason why BP would be willing to make a move now for an enlarged company with many assets in which i assume a major would lack interest but didnt before the merger [more]

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Davidthebard replied to the Political Fools board. 08:41

Re: The New State Pension.

Do you have a link to a definitive source for the change in the 2013 Draft Pensions Bill proposals Dave ?

No, it isn't being talked about very much, but here are a couple of extracts from an article.

The changes that will [more]

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Davidthebard replied to the Political Fools board. 22:49

Re: Conservatives break ranks

Mind you, if I say that about the Guardian too, or the Independent or the The Herald or the Scotsman, many of the readers of the other papers would label me a "leftie". Why do right wingers make it hard for themselves by not insisting on [more]

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Davidthebard replied to the Political Fools board. 19:11

Re: Worth listening to.

I'm betting we're paying an army of civil servants in excess of £150k p.a. to produce this junk.

S

The truth will set you free.

DtB

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Davidthebard replied to the Political Fools board. 15:35

Re: Conservatives break ranks

There is no 'allowing' people to know anything, and no discussion is 'banned'.
All that happens is that different fora give different viewpoints.

If you want to know the pros of being in the EU, read the Guardian or watch BBC [more]

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Davidthebard replied to the Political Fools board. 15:31

Re: Worth listening to.

http://www.ifs.org.uk/wheredoyoufitin/

This PDF is the wealth picture but a bit less fun than the calculator. The picture is sadly more like the US than would be good for [more]

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Davidthebard posted to the Political Fools board. 12:04

Worth listening to.

I found this very interesting and wondered what the equivalent for this country is.

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Davidthebard replied to the Political Fools board. 09:16

Re: Conservatives break ranks

The drip, drip of disloyalty and futility continues. Cabinet loyalists (so called) Michael Gove and Philip Hammond claim that they would vote to leave the European Union if a referendum were to be held now. The sensible rump of the Tories need to [more]

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Davidthebard replied to the Environmentally Green Fools board. 09:04

Re: Easy Come, Easy Go

It was true then and its still true today and perhaps always will be. It provides the strongest argument for limiting the public sector to those things that are really necessary, and keeping out of everything else.
And I worked in the public [more]