i'm sure you would also like the fuel allowance to not be a universal benefit, because an old person in a house that is expensive on paper should just sell up and go into a home.
― whateverface (c sharp major), Friday, 12 July 2013 11:21 (eleven years ago) link
If it's subtext you're looking for, I can help you.
What would you say is your favourite book?
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 12 July 2013 11:22 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, public money goes towards subsidising toys and luxuries pretty much all of the time? Why are you so eager to jump on it when it's, specifically, women?
― whateverface (c sharp major), Friday, 12 July 2013 11:22 (eleven years ago) link
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 12 July 2013 11:23 (eleven years ago) link
tell me about your fav book marcello
― conrad, Friday, 12 July 2013 11:24 (eleven years ago) link
I don't actually need an answer to that question; I have, after all, known you on ilx for ten years
― whateverface (c sharp major), Friday, 12 July 2013 11:24 (eleven years ago) link
marcello, just make up a book and attribute it to me so you can get to the terribly ~damning~ riposte you've thought up.
― whateverface (c sharp major), Friday, 12 July 2013 11:25 (eleven years ago) link
Do you know the reason why you didn't just tell me what your favourite book was?
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 12 July 2013 11:25 (eleven years ago) link
If the affluent mother is married to a controlling bastard...
― aldi young dudes (suzy), Friday, 12 July 2013 11:31 (eleven years ago) link
My Favourite book was "The Bridge" by Ian Banks.
I thangyew.
― Mark G, Friday, 12 July 2013 11:40 (eleven years ago) link
oops, missed an important i in the name there.
― Mark G, Friday, 12 July 2013 11:41 (eleven years ago) link
Yep, that's a good one.
Suzy xp: the affluent mother should throw the controlling bastard out of the house but as with Lawson/Saatchi it's still happening the other way, much too often.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 12 July 2013 12:32 (eleven years ago) link
Back to Steve Voice again..
― Mark G, Friday, 12 July 2013 12:34 (eleven years ago) link
ugh awful man. What is it with rich UK or UK-based guys who go around like medieval feudal lieges, expecting everyone else (including wife/partner and children) to be serfs?
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 12 July 2013 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
My favourite book is Animal Farm, the animals on the farm have a revolution and drive out the farmer and the other humans, but then the pigs who are the most intelligent become like the humans and the other animals even worse off than before makes u think
― MILLIONAIRE KING OF RAPPERS! (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 12 July 2013 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
xpost was tempted to say it wsa the drugs, but..
― Mark G, Friday, 12 July 2013 13:17 (eleven years ago) link
If you read Chas Saatchi's Standard column (which I note he continues to write and get published) before he moved on (or was moved on) to talking about weird photomontages, he was obsessing about crack, heroin and the Dignitas Clinic, so much so I'm surprised he doesn't have a loyalty card.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 12 July 2013 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
lex, lex, lex
i don't want have to ask the mods to intervene in order to prevent your relentless ad-hom attacks. i'll ask you nicely to stop.
ps i have not been arguing itt, one doesnt argue with a group tantrum tbh
― dub job deems (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 July 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
darragh your non sequitur arguments are so fucking basic, as are your ~arch~ ripostes
― lex pretend, Friday, 12 July 2013 10:39 (2 days ago)
this isnt ad hominem
― the most promising US ilxor has thrown the TOWEL IN (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 14 July 2013 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
i watched this programme
― the most promising US ilxor has thrown the TOWEL IN (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 14 July 2013 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
what's gonna happen to dr who?
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 14 July 2013 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
ah it's the snide non-engagement across a couple of threads nakh, it's pure bullying, it's right back to the bad old days if we don't nip it in the bud imo
― dub job deems (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 July 2013 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2omb_4O5DkQ
― the most promising US ilxor has thrown the TOWEL IN (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 14 July 2013 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
one doesnt argue with a group tantrum tbh
^ WOUNDING ^
― MILLIONAIRE KING OF RAPPERS! (Bananaman Begins), Sunday, 14 July 2013 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
winding
― dub job deems (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 July 2013 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
whodini
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 14 July 2013 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
csm missed a trick not answering "taipei" imo
― ^do not heed if you rate me (wins), Sunday, 14 July 2013 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
i actually agreed with marcello until i read him trying to make a case for it.
― caek, Sunday, 14 July 2013 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
I do get the 'point', but the alternative is...
It's "Child Allowance" not "Child Benefit"
anyways...
― Mark G, Sunday, 14 July 2013 10:47 (eleven years ago) link
ah man, old ILX is BACK :D
― imago, Sunday, 14 July 2013 11:10 (eleven years ago) link
Mark's right: henceforth will refer to the payments by their correct name; using 'child benefit' just internalises the RW/Tory rhetoric/framing. But I will be caning the fuck out of 'bedroom tax'.
― aldi young dudes (suzy), Sunday, 14 July 2013 11:28 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah go4it
― Mark G, Sunday, 14 July 2013 11:36 (eleven years ago) link
8.5 million of us now rent our homes - as fewer of us can afford to buy. This generation has been called generation rent.
In this film we meet the new army of private landlords who are riding this rental boom, who own one in every five properties.
Some landlords like Jim Haliburton AKA 'The HMO Daddy' have found there is serious money to be made. His property empire stretches across the West Midlands and he houses around 800 tenants. His property portfolio is worth £26 million.
― Selena Gomez is very Neotenous for Caucasoids (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
The actor, who made his name in US crime drama The Wire, will present two hour-long shows with the working title Idris Elba: King Of Speed.
Private Eye editor Ian Hislop will present a three-part look at the British obsession with history and Fern Britton will challenge nine pairs of gardeners to grow their own fruit and veg on an Oxfordshire allotment before their work is judged in a country show-style competition.
There will also be a three-part series about cats and historian Andrew Roberts will examine the life of Napoleon Bonaparte.
― There are a lot of subjective opinions (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 25 August 2013 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
No motd2 tonight wtf
― firelance photographer (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 August 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
Bank holiday, biggest game of the weekend being played tomorrow.
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 26 August 2013 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
a three-part series about cats
Can't believe the Beeb is denying us details of who will present this. Hoping for Paul F Tompkins as Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber.
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 26 August 2013 10:50 (eleven years ago) link
― There are a lot of subjective opinions (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 25 August 2013 21:03 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the bbc is over
― which can be sold for meat if they are boys.. (sorry guys) (imago), Monday, 26 August 2013 10:55 (eleven years ago) link
These series would be infinitely more interesting if they just shuffled the presenters around.
― Stop the tape I got spittle all over my moustache. (Talcum Mucker), Monday, 26 August 2013 10:58 (eleven years ago) link
Private Eye editor Ian Hislop will present a three-part look at the British obsession with history and Fern Britton
― calumerio, Monday, 26 August 2013 11:44 (eleven years ago) link
irl giggles ongoing
― which can be sold for meat if they are boys.. (sorry guys) (imago), Monday, 26 August 2013 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
Cats will examine the life of Napoleon Bonapsrte
― Mark G, Monday, 26 August 2013 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24818769
the last line:
Sweetie will not be used again. She has done her job - showing the predators that they can easily become prey.
an opinion piece as the lead on the news website? or is it an opinion piece?
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link
that is just creepy
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
accidentally saw part of a documentary about Myra Hindley the other night and there was a clip of the BBC's Michael Buerk starting the report of her death with "Probably the most hated woman in Britain" and i thought really? on the BBC??
― . (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
Buerk's a bugger for that sort of guff, ever heard the moral maze?
― Defund Phil Collins (stevie), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 22:02 (ten years ago) link
occasionally, but this looked like it was from the ten o'clock news ffs
― . (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link
Britain on the Fiddle. 1/3. New series. The world of benefits cheats, who effectively steal millions of pounds in taxpayers' money every year. Reporter Richard Bilton goes on the frontline with investigators chasing a woman who won £95,000 on a game show but carried on claiming her `allowance'.
There seems to be a strategy in the BBC now to attempt to appease/appeal to the Tory/Daily Mail/UKIP lot.
― hewing to the status quo with great zealotry (DavidM), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 20:12 (ten years ago) link
dunno if any of you are young enough to still have dreams, but perhaps you know someone who really wants to be a journalist for the bbc.
if so: http://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/trainee-schemes/jts
this is how i got in - and now i am saving to do a totally different career but it definitely got the whole news thing out of my system.
seriously though it's a really good opportunity for your little brother or sister or whatever.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Thursday, 28 November 2013 11:01 (ten years ago) link
never too late: There is no age limit and the scheme welcomes career-changers who have ambitions to work in broadcast news but have been pursuing a career in other industries.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 28 November 2013 11:08 (ten years ago) link