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Universal credit starts today - a shambles

This very complicated change , which is meant to make the benefit system simpler (only a politician could think this up), starts today. It was meant to be a comprehensive 'test' of the new Benefit & it's computer systems, over 4 areas, covering all k...

Why does India not protect its people more ??

So very sad that so many people go to work without even the basic right to safety I know some say clothing companies should not use countries like this for garment making, but then so many people would be out of work in such poor regions, very hard t...

There is some good people around.

''This is a homeless guy who lives on a bridge in Dublin City. Last week his rabbit was grabbed from him and thrown into the river below.. the River Liffey. Which is one of the most horrible rivers in Ireland. The currents are really strong and it’s ...

th argument thread

for those who wish to argue their point instead of going off topic.

Audleys at it again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO1E0yTLJAQ Or not:-( He should have packed it in ages ago:-(

Another Tony Blair

WMD fiasco under Tony Blair has hit the West's fight against Assad in Syria, says David CameronBlair's false alarm over Iraq has stopped leaders tackling Assad says PMBritain and the US have accused Assad of using chemical weapon sarin Obama warned t...

She,s back in the News.

'I hold radio DJs responsible, make them pay for my mortgage': The suicide note left by nurse who hanged herself over Kate Middleton hospital prank callJacintha Saldanha, 46, blamed prank call presenters for her death in suicide letterMother-of-two n...

£10,000,000.00 for Thatcher's death? REAL cost revealed (roll eyes)

I knew it was bunkom. It's just been revealed the true cost is somewhere in the region of £3,600,000.00. All this £M10.00 figure being banded about was just hot air. And the cost to the Government will be even lower,because the Thatcher dynisty have ...

Its one way to get your hands on money..

Two Spanish men chopped off their own HANDS in £2million insurance scams - but get found out because they did it too wellThe unnamed men both thought they could pocket up to £2million Among a wave of desperados going to extreme measures since recessi...

Stupid people have to be warned that a bag of nuts may contain nuts :O

A supermarket chain has been forced to withdraw bags of nuts - for failing to declare they may contain nuts. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-22308165

Anybody see the deliberate mistake in this story?

Here is a link to it ..... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22251756 The following 2 comments don't seem to me to go together. Nine days later, an All Nippon Airways 787 had to make an emergency landing in Japan after a battery started to give off ...

I thought my world was coming to an end.

This is boring but it may help anybody that gets the same message on screen. I watch TV and view the computer screen using the same telly. In other words, it's either one or the other. Last night I was watching something on TV and when it finished, I...

Well lets start a new topic on this one....

Richard Dart, a white Muslim convert who hates us so much he wanted to kill us, and might have done if him and his two mates had not been twigged!!! He refused to go in the dock too,(first I've heard of that one) quite a hero Richard?! That will impr...

Until you watch this, you won't believe it's possible.

All you need to do now is figure out how a brain that can do this can be used in a way that will be of benefit to the world. http://www.wimp.com/threecubes/

Blacklist

Hi, should there be some form of list to save sellers, i.e a blacklist?

Would you contemplate buying shares in Royal Mail..........................

when they become available ? This is only my opinion but in no way would I even think about it simply because of the new postal rates which I think could spark off a massive downturn in the business they think they have a monopoly of.

Mismatch

Hello all whenever I use ebay I'm plagued by adverts for tacky a dating site called 'match' with the screen full of girls who look (as mother used to say) 'easy' inviting me to 'hook up' etc It seems like one step from prostitution and I'm astonished...

Bid retractions

I am bidding on a few items from the same seller. Now, I have had no problems with the seller in the past, but I went in today to see how my bids were doing and noticed one of them had lost a bid. It turns out the bidder had retracted a bid. No big d...

FREE KITTENS ..........

A pretty little girl named Suzy was sitting on the pavement in front of herhome.Next to her was a basket containing a number of tiny creatures; in her handwas a sign announcing FREE KITTENS.Suddenly a line of big cars pulled up beside her. Out of the...

What does this tell you about the country's leaders?

The death of bin Laden in his house in Pakistan MAY, I repeat, MAY have been aided by a team of health workers that may have taken DNA samples from the house where bin Laden lived. These DNA samples may have been the final insight into knowing the id...

Priceless.......

An airplane was about to crash; there were 5 passengers onboard, but only 4 parachutes. The first passenger, Holly Madisonsaid, "I have my own reality show and I am the smartest andprettiest woman at Playboy, so Americans don't want me todie." She to...

Chat laugh discuss debate

I have a facebook group which has 205 friendly members we chat and have great discussions and debates we help each other out when we can and we have a good old laught as well, so if anyone is interested in joining us just click the link or copy and p...

Inner Peace: This is so true

If you can start the day without caffeine,If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it,If you can understand wh...

Does Death Exist? New Theory Says ‘No’

VERY LONG THREAD What a load of rubbish butvsome may beleive it. Not I. Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory s...

Reporting system

I find it funny how eBay tries to automate everything and make everything work without any custom input, but then forget all kinds of important categories, whether in reporting items, in disputes, or whatever. You can't really choose any of the given...

Purchased. the washing of clothes by sellers

Several times recently I have had to wash clothes that had previously been washed by sellers . which is admirable but i wish they would use soap/or non smellie washing powders,.Some item seem to have been washed in the most fragrant floral powerful p...

So you just pop down the shopping centre and this happens

http://www.wimp.com/famouspainting/BrilliantThe Night Watch, has just finished a 10 year restoration, and has been rehung in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdamhttp://www.sullivanmovies.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/nightwatch.jpg

SIMPLY THE BEST.

YESSSSSSS, U-NI-TED, "CHAM-PI-ONS" :^O :^O :^O We Are The Champion!!! - YouTube

Priests again

85 priests were accused of abuse - Catholic Church reviews Bishop Philip Boyce was speaking as a review of the County Donegal diocese found "a significant level" of clerical abuse cases in past decades Continue reading the main storyRelated StoriesMo...

He turned $20 into $40,000

A British businessman who sold bogus bomb detectors to countries at war where hundreds of people were dying and injured by explosive devices was found guilty of fraud at the Old Bailey yesterday. James McCormick made massive sums of money selling nov...

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