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Is on a bus with a woman wearing a RIP Michael Jackson T-shirt. #fb
is in a pub on Saturday night watching @ooohbear and @mirshad playing on their mobile phones
Smells barbecue food from the flat behind the fence. Must throw one someday. If anyone would turn up! #fb
@LJRICH I'm pretty sure Imli ALWAYS has a special offer on. Which doesn't make it particularly special alas...
@canton_everhard I'm not. But my Dad is. Welcome to life as a Chinese person ;)
@canton_everhard Not particularly. Look at countries like Burma, North Korea etc. Of course, now you're about to prove me wrong...
@canton_everhard Not supporting it. It's just a fact, especially in Third World countries. Where they have no state-sponsored welfare system
@canton_everhard Except that in most poor cases, a kid increases your earning potential. Because they can go out and earn money for you.
@MsLaudanum @_Irene_Adler @canton_everhard I take it Silence of the Lambs: The Opera is old-hat to you three wise ladies?
can't decide whether to stay in with the laptop (it's cooler) or sit in the back garden shade with the laptop (it's sunnier)
@MsLaudanum @jamesmoran My mum, upon first meeting @shaleneshimer decided to talk to her about the state of my hair and impending baldness
@MsLaudanum Must work on upgrading my status from dodgy bloke to something else...
@duality1 Fantastic pic! Shame it's not available in desktop background sized proportions :D http://www.flickr.com/photos...
@darrenwaters What's a Monster Hunter Gathering Hall for?
@ifenn Well, it's a heatwave. Just threaten to do the Tooting Stairs trick...
@ifenn Doesn't that happen, like, all the time? ;)
@euan The Health & Safety forms on that shoot must have been a NIGHTMARE ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch...
@euan The Health & Safety forms on that shoot must have been a NIGHTMARE ;) http://bit.ly/10KMaN
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@canton_everhard Without the compulsion element, we're back to 1800s England, where the rich fed the rich, and the poor didn't. Hang on...
@canton_everhard Human beings, left to their own devices, will generally look out for themselves. History is proof. So is Somalia.
@waltzingalong Who's this Andy Murray dude anyway?
@canton_everhard Inevitably there's corruption, mis-spending, bad decisions. Better that than letting everyone fend for themselves. IMHO.
@almostwitty Inevitably there's corruption, mis-spending, bad decisions. Better that than letting everyone fend for themselves.
@canton_everhard But imagine a world without taxes. Sure, you keep 100% of your money. Then you spend 75% of it trying to protect yourself.
@canton_everhard Well since I'm ok with mandatory taxes to provide health and education for all citizens, I say more taxes! ;)
@canton_everhard But isn't that a health system run by the government? Must learn to read properly one day ;)
@canton_everhard and if they can't afford to pay the bill for health services they didn't ask for but needed in a critical situation?
@canton_everhard FWIW, I'd prefer general taxation over insurance to fund health. That's how it works over here! No choice either way!
@canton_everhard If someone without insurance gets run over and treated, who foots the bill? If no-one foots the bill, no-one gets treated?
@canton_everhard But it's not a real choice. If people don't pay health insurance, and are run over, should society leave them alone to die?
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