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Are MPs Worth Three Times What They Were?
In the mid-seventies MPs were paid in line with average wages, now they are triple average wages. Why?
In the mid-seventies MPs were paid in line with average wages, now they are triple average wages. Why?
It's not just MPs but quangocrats and fake charity fat cats too. Their salaries are rising on the back of our taxes as we are pushed further down. We are headed for a full-blown apparatchik controlled, single party (effectively) socialist state.
Because they are all a bunch of self serving parasitical bastards… Simples.
Why does l'Oreal hair colour cost 3 times what Shictczobalsy hair colour does?
Now excuse me but I have to pack up the HOC office as a rather arduous stint in the constituency beckons.
A few scout huts to inspect. A supermarket to open. Couple of fetes to show to. Local cricket team wants a boost. Got 5 surgeries planned.
That could be as much as a week of my 12 weeks hols used up.
Have you got a graph showing the earnings of BBC scum by chance? The point is EVERY SINGLE CUUNT in the public sector is a self serving overpaid fucker.
They all give each other huge salaries and massive pay offs. What was a total joke was cuunt Paxman on a million a year sneering at the BBC for massive pay offs. I bet if Paxo got the boot he'd have his money grabbing had out for his pay off.
to be fair they should probably get a decent wage so that they don't all have to be 'independently wealthy' like Gideon and Davey C. But pocketing an extra 8K whilst telling disabled children to take another benefit cut because there is 'no money' just makes you look like a Hunt
Historically, being an MP was supposed to be a part-time job (so as to avoid attracting career politicians). They were not supposed to get a full-time professional wage, but got themselves very generous expenses instead (as we know).
It depends whether you want a full-time MP being paid a suitable amount to make it worth their while, or part-time MPs (many would argue that is most of them) paid less.
If they are being paid more, expenses should to be curtailed.
Pro-rating their pay to attendance levels and time spent on parliamentary duties would be the easiest solution. It will never happen of course.
In the mid 70s MPs had far more responsibility for passing legislation,etc. Now most of that is done by our masters in Belgium. So they should be taking a cut in wages, gold-plated pensions and fiddled expenses.
As there has been a train crash caused by the French state-run railways does this mean it should be privatised given the argument, that when there was a crash in the UK run by Railtrack, it was considered good enough reason to renationalise it?
Yes I'm sure Labour will all vote against it. Fat chance.
Pay them too much and parasitic Labour types, who could never get paid that much in the real world, start tuening up, oh wait! they already have enough of those!
Fancy another bottle of Bollinger,Guido ?
The alternative would be, instead of paying them more, you'd have given 'em a free hand to make as much as they can based on the inside information they glean from their job. "Honest corruption," if you will.
There's honest corruption, which is voting for something good that you'd vote for anyway, but you figure out a way to make a few bucks on the deal– and then there's dishonest corruption, selling your vote to the "interests" and getting legislation passed which doesn't help anybody but the one doing the paying, and you. I've always practiced the first, and steered away from the second. I may have been a crook, but I always avoided being in anyone's pocket.
You sees your opportunities, and you seize 'em.
Some (mostly the recipients) argue they need to be paid the going rate but then again what is the going rate for incompetence stupidity and negligence?
The stark truth is the political establishment have mismanaged, squandered and plundered the coffers of the UK in the name of the people since I can remember, over the last 70 years and counting.
Their track record is so appalling that in so many situations the country would have been better off without them especially as it was their incompetence that so often caused crisis in the first place, followed by subsequent gutless finger pointing at others while continuing to bungle and fudge the issues themselves.
Utterly worthless would hardly cover it.
If payment on results were applied the the taxpayer should receive a substantial rebate from all Political Party Members their incompetent MP's and assorted hapless hangers on in the Trillions.
Rather than a pay increase I would like to see them invoiced for losses and negligence incurred by the taxpayer and/or imprisonment for a very long time.
I would not rule out corporal punishment for many….
IPSA claim that the MP's need the higher salary as otherwise ordinary people without vast bank balances wouldn't take the risk of being an MP.
perleese! For the vast majority of people, an MP's salary + expenses + fiddlable office expenses / staffing etc represents a MULTIPLE of their existing income. The ones who are moaning are either career politicians who just want to milk the taxpayer having never done a useful job in their life and spend their time brown-nosing to one and all or they are failed / end of career lawyers, accountants, solicitors, teachers, union types etc.
Clearly, if the present salary is not sufficient to attract 'talent' as the BBC would say, then if there is an increase, the present 'talent free' lot of useless jobsworths should all face deselection at the end of this parliament and lose the party ticket which means many get elected into safe seats regardless of what they do.
Reducing the MP headcount to 200, eliminating IPSA and making MP's follow the normal Inland Revenue rules everyone else has to regardless of whether they work away from home or in work in two places. They could also be introduced to voting via a web-based system and speaking via videoconferencing and modern technology eliminating the need for them to be in the House of Commons at all. Before anyone gets upset that we would lose the services of great orators, the problem with great orators, like great barristers is that wonderful presentation of a bad argument can cause a better badly presented argument to be overlooked!
Another issue is the way we compare wage increases, doing it as a percentage discriminates against the lower paid/poor.
Inflation linked wage increases should be linked to the living wage, so police, MP's, teachers, etc.. all get the same Inflation linked component that protects the part of the salary need to provide a basic living.
I would be very happy to see all the MP's asking for a pay rise just resign – often to me they are not the nicer MP's.
Thank god for MP's!
They've enabled us to get off the bottom rung of the most villified!
They get this triple salary increase because they're worth it, NOT. These sponging parasites along with most senior public sector skivers should have their salaries cut by at least 30% and frozen for 10 years. I'm feeling hugely enriched and adoring my super diverse multicultural eu dominated corrupt UK shithole of a Country and eagerly await another 10 million sponging immigrants.
There must be such a huge shortage of people who want to be an MP that the remuneration should go up so.
It's supply and demand. See?
Dan Hodges says Owen Jones's tweets are shameful.
Thank you for coming to this DWP employer interview. We can indeed help you with setting the 'going rate' for an MP. It is, like other jobs, the minimum that needs to be paid to find employees with the right skills. Now let us see what does this mean?
1. Qualifications – NONE
2. Experience – NONE
3. Honest – NOT NECESSARY
4. Career to date – NOT NECESSARY
5. Education – NOT NECESSARY
6. Speak endlessly about things you don't understand – ESSENTIAL
7. Prepared to Travel (often unneccessarily) – USEFUL
8. Vote with conscience rather than party line – NO
9. Have a conscience – NOT NECESSARY
10. Good Judgement – REAL HANDICAP
11. Continuous career development – NOT NECESSARY
Now, given all you have told us about the job of 'MP', I can advise that minimum wage would be most appropriate.
Often MP's are compared to doctors, maybe they should be paid in line with doctors a basic MP should get £53,000 going up to £81,000 for minister.
I am the crisis that will leave you homeless,
The heart attack you have through stress,
The reason the hospital you need is closed,
The prescription you cannot afford,
The food shopping you cannot buy,
The reason you feel ashamed to be disabled,
The reason you no longer have a job,
I am the reason you are called a scrounger,
I am David Cameron,
This is the Tory Party,
We are your crisis,
And we don't care who or what you are
I put hanging baskets on expenses. Because I'm worth it.
I think we are heading for even worse.
Long term we are heading for islamisation. It is creeping in very, very slowly day by day. More and more muslems are gaining positions of power and influence in all levels of government, quango and commerce.
Those in power are to busy with feathering their own nests and working their own scams to see, with any clarity, what is going on.
Hi girls! No one will ever find out the expenses Cherie and I claimed.
If one looks at the broadcasts from the House of Commons one could ask why we should not insist they clock in and pay them by the hour. Or better still take them to court for obtaining money by false pretences.
Why is the grey range of l'Oreal hair colour so much more expensive than others? Is it because it is bought by our public servants in order to give the impression of wisdom and depth, as well as to act as a foil to the expensively sanguine shades of facial complexion which they tend to disport?
Even at my great age, if I could manage to get myself elected to Parliament I think that I could manage to put in the odd half hour and do the whips' bidding at the ballot box. I could then make my way home to my constituency and hold an occasional 'surgery'. If any local party chairman (any party) is looking for lobby fodder that can be relied upon not to rebel, then they should look no further than me. Of course I should prefer that any request comes from what is at least hopefully looked upon as a good safe seat, and, since I am going to have all of that lovely lolly to spend, I would prefer a district that is well endowed with nice young ladies. Any takers?
And what are you going to do Bill, with your increase in pay, give it back or salt away in some off shore bolt hole?
Vote for an independent who has never stood before. He may be a scrounger and a cheat but at least you may not know that the day that you vote.
It is my view that we should only be represented by those who are prepared to deliver the calling for nothing. It is exactly because politics is looked upon as a career option instead that we have had such a plethora of expenses fraud concomitant with a lowering of legislative standards. Those who find themselves elected now think they have won the jackpot and, looking at recent experience, it is not that challenging to understand why.
If we went back solely to the House of Lords, as it used to be constituted a generation ago, they would run things more efficiently and with less overhead than any of the recent governments have.
The problem with the doctor analogy is that MP's need no qualifications, no training, no professional development, no GCSE's, no A Levels, no degrees – I see absolutely no reason to compare MP's to Doctors or indeed any other trained and qualified groups. One only needs to listen to the likes of the incoherent 'mouth of the humber' to appreciate what a lot of useless t*ssers they are.
In all walks of life be they politicians, senior directors and CEO's, higher management all consider themselves above the ordinary folk, even when they make a complete louse of it (thinking of a company that was worth at one time £40Billion the value was reduced to £400Million eventually nothing).
We are the ones who cut taxes for the rich so that cleaners paid more in tax than their banker bosses
The ones who introduced PFI contracts into the NHS which has left hospitals in debt to the tune of billions
The ones who knighted Fred Goodwin for services to banking
The ones who led the country into an illegal war that's killed an estimated million people
The ones who covered up the deaths of 1200 patients at Stafford because we didn't want to be publicly criticised and embarrassed
The ones who attempted to smear the spouses of Tory politicians with the collusion of our leader's personal adviser
The ones who under-equipped British troops, leading directly to needless deaths
The ones who called September 11 a good day to bury bad news
The ones who increased pensions by 10p
The ones who gave peerages in return for donations
The ones who put hanging baskets, dry rot repair, pay-per-view porn films and chocolates on expenses
The ones who detained a Holocaust survivor under the Prevention of Terrorism Act for heckling Jack Straw.
We are Labour. And if you criticise us, we'll smear you to death. Just ask Dr Kèlly and Mo Mowlam.
so the beeb is run by progressive liberalists.
What the devil are they when they're at home?!
Oh and let's not forget they weren't paid at at all until about 1910/1920. If they didn't have a useful business or job out in the real world to support then they weren't regarded as of any use to parliament.
We need to get back to those days.
The BBC is pseudo progressive liberalists. Those at the top in the BBC hierarchy must be in the country's top 10% earners. At home they live the life of a tory toff, but at the BBC they pretend to be liberal. The BBC hierarchy care nothing for the license fee payer.
Patten et al lie with impunity.
According to your expenses one year you put up 60 hanging baskets for which you claimed, I believe at £12 a apiece, and then claimed for the cost of the gardener to come in and water them every day during the season from May to October.
Expenses are supposed to be for things that help you do your job efficiently.
How do 60 hanging baskets work into that scenario?
++++Shakes head in despair++++
May I wish the shower of shit masquerading as the England cricket team,the very best of luck.
Seriously,they are a bunch of losers and can forget any hope of being awarded the MBE.
Bloody useless.
Because the public allow it – for all the gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands, nothing really gets done. This is just the latest in a long line of incidents involving politicians seeing just how far they can push us.
If I were of a more conspiratorial mindset, I'd argue that they repeatedly push the boundaries to test the water for dishing out far more disturbing treatment in a decade or two's time.
Eee mee name is John Mann and I don't need any money for being MP. I can live on nowt, that's why I tek us 65k and give nowt to charity. Just call me a smug loud mouthed hypocrite just like mee mate Denis Skinner. I canna stand them tories that set up a business, wok hard and mek moneh, tax em, tax em big.
It's quiet on here today. It must be the weather.
All together now…
We have joy,
We have fun,
We have Guido in the Sun…
This idea that MPs have to be paid well in order to attract talent is completely ludicrous, and results in the of self-serving, career driven politicians that plague Westminster today.
They are there to serve, and serve well. If MPs can not function on £70000 expenses then quite frankly they are blithering, drooling parasites. I'd wager they could get by on £20000
Ian Duncan smith boasted he could live on £53 a week, and yet apparently MPs need a pay rise. Ridiculous
£66k IS a decent wage – anyone earning it is in the top 3% of earners in the country.
They are part time – name me another job where they only have to work 9 months of the year?
Cat, you are being silly now, the little darlings would scratch each others eyes out to become MPs, especially the nice safe jobbies for life constituencies, remember the squeals when there was the reduction of MPs was going down to 600.
Aye, int it grand – from ferry pint puller to t'ouse o' lords in just a few decades, and I never had to do an honest day's work to get there.
Fookin excellent.
" A comparison of the physical characteristics of the British soldiers who survived or died in World War I shows that surviving soldiers are on average nearly one inch taller than fallen soldiers. The average height of the surviving soldiers is 66.4 inches, while that of the fallen soldiers is 65.5 inches. Even in the small sample that is examined, this one-inch difference is highly statistically significant."
There is no justification for this unless one is going to engage in an honest and fair discussion on what inflation is really doing these days.
The quality of mp's today is inferior compared to the 70s : the real decisions are not being made here either.
We are broadly paying for a bunch of jumped up PR mongs who cannot make it in the commercial sector, and a healthy number of outright crooks who should be behind bars.
The populace should itself say: Let them eat cake – but ensure that it is sharpening the cake slicer and preparing the rope for what is coming next.
Dodd got a flavor the other day.
We've been thriving on the tribal stupidity of people like you and #44 below for years.
The more you allow us to divide and rule you through your stupidity, the more we laugh at each and every one of you insignificant little proles.
Please, do keep believing that your own mob, whoever they may be are flawed but better than the other lot – we love your votes.
Can imagine you putting your health in the hands of this lot, nay lad try again, set their pay to the level of the local job centre manager
But they're neither progressive or liberal. Yet more semantics from ghastly snobs who think they know what's best for us, and think that hijacking the odd turn of phrases fools everyone. Such a shame it does fool many.
The average Dick size in the labour party is 5'9" without shoes on.
This comment will receive cross-party support,when debated in the House on Monday.
I survived both the Iraq and Afghanistan war by being packed off to the USA to study my belly fluff at college.
I read this and I wondered if tall people tend to run away more or what percentage of short people managed to avoid war altogether.
I'm worth my weight in Gold.
Beckett found hanging baskets better than bra's for keeping her husband Leo off the goods.
It's just like bankstering, if you want the very best MPs, you must pay obscenely huge salaries with gold-plated pensions but have zero accountability for piss poor performance.
Cos they got caught fiddling expenses.. now they want to compensate for that
Minimum wage plus a bus pass – they deserve a little perk
I've always thought that too. I've suggested in the past that the country should be run by CoE clergy but thinking about it I'm not sure now that would be a good idea.
Immigration backlog? What backlog? Just tick the box that says 'Denied' and 'apply to all', press enter. Done.
The problem with CoE clergy is that they are dogmatically led, at least some of them actually believe in God… not the last Archbishop, of course.
The good thing about the HoL, as it used to be, is that almost none of them needed the money. Therefore their deliberations were made in the light of what was in the best good.
It has been fashionable to deride them as being out of touch. In law making, you want gradual change. What you most certainly do not want is the Gunfight at the OK Corral.
What's ironic is that the loudest complainers are BBC staff – and how much are THEY on?
Old Dude
Then ship the black/brown asian muzzies out.
Whites can be reassesed.
Then shipped out.
Are they proposing efficiency savings?
Do we really need 650 of them? And 900 lords ffs?
Then there's the Welsh Assembly, the Scotch Parliament, whatever they have in bigotland, plus local government. Plus the world's biggest quango, the EU.
Just how many representatives do we need?
Wages on a national level are fairly level over time. With globalisation a few key workers have seen their wages rise to global levels. Doctors (just because of the NHS). Airline Pilots. Actors. Politicians (its just a job). Gas engineers.
Joe average is competing against Jun Akasai these days. His wages have fallen. Fuck him. He needs to learn to compete and not just do what his dad did in the town he grew up in. Labour are for losers.
UK Immigration Backlog '37 Years Long'
Hire another 37 officers and clear the backlog in 1 year. Simps
Mmm, a shower of shit – sounds like my kind of night! Shall I bring a bottle?
Up the werkuz !!!
Union leaders enjoy bumper pay-hikes and 'golden goodbyes' http://t.co/9zVyicrwwi
— Telegraph Politics (@TelePolitics) July 12, 2013
And you sold the equivalent of a few hundred Golden Diane Abbots, and in your defense got a good price. A good price for a Diane Abbot, however, not for the Gold.
Diane Abbott needs this money to pay for all her cream cakes.
Your not a troll, but the real McCoy SC – so am intrigued by that statement.
Nothing to do with Fabricate ?
I notice the BBC mongs are still going on about some daft Cricket game and should the (WHITE ENGLISH) batsman have walked.
Of course when an 'efnik' player refuses to walk the BBC don't wet their pink g-strings over it.
Fuck off you BBC mongs.
The blue line seems to go up before 2010 and down afterwards. Has anyone managed to work out what happened to cause that?
That's the unmentionable truth.
The Mvslims (mainly Pakistanis) are outbreeding the pre-1960 UK ethnic population.
It is irreversible and it's simply a matter of time before the UK is an Islamic state.
This seems to have been engineered rather than happening by accident.
The question is why?
Things the plebs should learn to do in order to compete rather than whinge about 'no benefits':
i) Learn how to solder a socket onto a wire. (Should take 1 day to become master)
ii) Learn how to over mold : Watch some uTube, read a short book. Understand: Melted plastic inject into steel mold holding piece at pressure (use air) and monitor temperature. Will take practice.
iii) Figure out how to design mold and mill from steel.
Once done – source in components and start manufacturing stuff like HDMI / USB cables locally and sell for cost with 40% markup.
Total capital investment for machinery / skills developing, if done cheap – sub GBP 15k : For which you may be able to get a government grant.
You could do this in a council flat type environment – rather than running a grow op – with a hand operated injector.
If plebs can get smart with mold making and soldering, they could move on to those fancy USB hubs in the shape of a dog etc. Or, actually design and manufacture something useful which people will pay them for.
I think the above is part of how manufacturing economy should work.
Just Sayin'
"'I think England have erred by using a heavy roller first thing this morning because when you use that it deadens the pitch down and the ball will keep lower. They obviously did it with their quick bowlers in mind, but with so much rough out there, Guido Fawkes could be the key and he doesn't just want bounce, he wants turn as well'."
I think you'll find that most of the HOL's deliberations at the time were in light of what was best for the landed gentry and the aristocracy.
Whilst I broadly support your view, if it is taken to it's logical conclusion then only the very wealthy will have a say. That's not what you intended, surely?
Devil: Welcome to Hell…you're trapped here for eternity, burning in the flames fuelled by your sins.
Owen Jones: "What's your WiFi password?"
There are no absolutes in life (acknowledge that I have just attempted to make one) but I suggest that the wealthy will often consider the poor more than the poor will consider the wealthy. Those who have had the best educations will at least have been taught something of ethics. Some may even remember what they have been taught. As for the state educational establishments, …
We do not believe in stereotypes, so in BBC La-La land:
– homos are not simpering puffs caught sucking cocks or bumming each other in the public convenience, but intelligent members of the community that everyone relies on; doctors, nurses, etc, etc.
– black people are always innocent, never deal drugs, never steal, always set up by the cops and are intelligent members of the community that everyone relies on.
– ditto asians; doctors, nurses, etc, etc.
– all white people are complete nutters who hate gays and blacks, are totally stupid and must be lampooned at every opportunity.
– Labour voters are nutters who hate gays and blacks, are totally stupid but are exempt from lampooning.
– Christians are murders who run around cutting the heads off blacks, Asians and homos.
– Nick Griffin shared a platform with Margaret Thatcher and Adolf Hitler and the BBC must take every opportunity to promote this.
– The IRA are friendly bunch of Guinness swigging jokers.
– The Police & Army are nazi bastards
– 1% of people think that the BBC Poll Tax offers good value while the other 99% are fucking mad.
Not hard to work out. The left always pay inefficient and even unproductive people more than they are worth. What you are seeing here is a (moderately) good sign. It would be better if the drop were rather steeper, especially in the upper echelons of state employment.
I have known two very wealthy individuals (small sample I admit) and I'm afraid I don't agree with your proposition. Perhaps there was a time when the elite cared more for the common man (perhaps by serving in the forces with them in two world wars) but I get the distinct impression that today's elite couldn't give a flying fuck for the poor except when they are resources to be exploited.
Whilst the third umpire continues to use divination and not the recording of the match, I should expect no other response.
Simple answer, the pocket liners are masters of their own destiny, want a pay rise? lets vote for that one!!
Want a change of law to evict criminal Lords, ah, bit tricky that one, you see (said in a patronising, you just don't understand tone) that would require a change of law and we are not going to upset fellow members of the "Westminster Club"
The graph does not show MPs as receiving triple average wages. It looks as though they receive £66,000 and we receive £29,000 – approximately 2 and a quarter times as much; nowhere near three times as much.
Guido does this with graphs, alas. I wonder whether he was a climate scientist at one time.
We are not talking about the wealthy so much as the ennobled. I am not making a case that it is foolproof, far from it. But that on balance they would have done better than the current paid lot. I have come into contact with a great many people who either were in the House of Lords or would have been had the rules not been changed. 100+. So my sample is somewhat larger than yours but still, I admit, anecdotal.
The majority of the population neither knows nor cares that the BBC is a leftwing mouthpiece.
Today's generation mostly lacks the ability to think in a critical fashion. They are simply unaware and unconcerned that they are being lied to and propagandized. They just want their shiny baubles and 'prole feed' media.
Critical thinking and political awareness has been relentlessly bred out of the UK population since the late 1960s.
Most people of my kids' generation consider you something of an oddball if you actually care about politics or the future of the country.
The HoL these days is stacked to the hilt with uddins, sugars, foulkes, martins and other horror troughing stories fom the labour camp.
Landed Gentry retired to the country to efficiently run their businesses and farms years ago.
That's probably part of the reason that government is now in the mess that it is!
…..as in "The solution to the problem of producing cheap, safe, clean, unlimited energy is
That's probably because the majority of the population never watch it!
Which makes the debate over the license fee very important. Why are we being forced by law to pay a fee for a service the majority of the population no longer want?
Why do some people think that if we give MP's more money, they will do their job better, stop claiming outrageous expenses or stop taking backhanders off lobbyists ??? It will just make them even richer, thieving bastards !!!!
I know everyone needs a Willie but really!
Being a pale, interesting, strawberry blond,I have no interest in bright red peni.
Quite right, nell, and you know I am not talking about these worthless characters.
Good grief. You're not the toilet attendant in the HOL are you?
Sorry, I digress.
Whether the 'toffs' would do a better job is debatable. Maybe they would. Trouble is, the public wouldn't wear it. This is a supposed democracy after-all and what you are proposing is more or less an oligarchy.
Don't remember too many oligarchys working out well for the common man.
Are you suggesting that the BBC know about cricket? I don't think so!!
I have conversations at my FKK site with all sorts, including some of the most ravishing women I have ever seen. Curiously, whilst I still notice the goodies, the best conversations are not suggestive at all but, to use your word, interesting.
You can't make a silk purse out of a pig's ear.
And let's be honest – the HoP and the HoL are the biggest example of pigs ears you are ever going to find!!
I have but how do you toast the underneath?
I am too old to stand on my head for long and I don't want a spit up my ars3
I was not even making a statement that we should go back to those days. It was a comparison between one category of person at one time with another category of person at another time. That we will never be able to achieve that does not invalidate my view.
I think a lot of people still do watch it and listen to the radio output.
You are correct however, the license fee is indefensible (especially as more and more horror stories emerge about how the BBC urinates the money up the wall).
The thing is Nell, no political party has the guts to take on the BBC. They are all too afraid of its power and influence.
If the Conservatives announced tomorrow that they would scrap the telly tax, can you imagine the shit storm of lies and smears the BBC would create.
The wheels fell off the Labour Ponzi scheme and a lot of people were put out of work.
NB Austerity also hit Europe properly which affected UK economy negatively.
No criticism, just intrigued: Not in looking at exposed Willie's in the Sun, but more to the point you have raised.
If two exposed genital stories is a week: Guido should start a 'Balls Out' thread ;-)
Another imaginary bomb plot. They are like buses. You don't get one for years, then ten come along at once.
Q. What has Owen Jones and a Potato got in common ?
A. Red Rooster
(Cannot be bothered putting it into ASCII art)
I think you should have saved that pearl of wisdom for your forthcoming HoC appearance.
Spending review time ?
Bit like when License Fee comes up for debate and BBC makes token effort to improve output and adhere to charter.
But the wine and the bong
Made the blogging turn out wrong
That twat Brown did his bit though. He took the PM salary for 3 years then the day he waled from Downing St using his family as. Human shield he cut the PMs salary by 25%
That was of course 30 days after he increased the highest rate of Tax to 50% after 13 years at 40% just so they could fuck whoever came after. Now of course Labour scream tax cuts for millionaires despite the fact it's higher than those bastards had it got 12 years 11 months an a day.
Utter utter utter CNuts Fuckwit Brown and all Labour
Yes, but it was very encouraging to see the Public Accounts Committee on the Parliament Channel last night laying into Patten, Hall, Fry and other smug BBC executives. MP's actually doing a great job of calling these arrogant troughers and squanderers of taxpayers' money to account. Let's hope the Committee goes all the way and the rotten BBC culture of secrecy and cronyism is blown wide open once and for all.
A loaf of nonsense.
Ay those were t'days. You could get a loaf of nonsense and two Woodbines and still have change from a bob to go t' pictures.
When they caught that mouthy cow Hazel Blears with her tabs in the till she simply waved a cheque for 13k to pay it back. If it was honest she would have stood her ground. Should be in jail not the HOC earning a pay rise
Cicero said something about silver haired statesman being marginalised by the 'new men of Rome'
He meant the impetuous young had arrived and weren't going to wait for dead men's s sandals .
Can't remember the quote. But then Cicero rarely ever shut up. Until Clodia? Fulvia?
Had his tongue nailed to the senate door.
Something that should be applied to Diane Abbott's tweeting thumbs one day.
Hope the people responsible for the French train crash are not the same ones bidding to build our nuclear reactors.
Oh! Nous sommes desole as they say in Peckham!
Some into offshore. But most stays in UK. I find it best to ask my labour colleagues where they stash theirs.
Wherever it is the socialist wealth tax rises are unlikely to fall there.
She also said she had b een told to claim the money by some civil servants.
Well in my book that is not very civil at all.
Needless to say she never named them so conveniently we cannot ask any really trenchant questions.
I suspect the servants are either still working or retired with the taxpayer topping up their unfunded pensions.
Still best to say nothing about all this because we don't want another riot on our hands do we.
Must be a bundle of laughs.Len McCluskey' Bob Crow speaking at Durham Miners' Gala. Strewth, I didn't know there were any miners left in Durham.
One of the Dewsbury b*mb plotters gets sparked out in nick. No sound, but a good quality right hook.
Because, to a man, they are all highly talented, educated, intelligent top-level people who could all earn, oh, triple what they get in Westminster if they 'went into industry'.
Troughing doing feck all in 'Parliament' is just a lot easier, that's all.
Sounds a bit like the pot calling the kettle if you ask me.
Still, I think the fightback has begun in some small way.
Since the UK is now under the yoke of Brussels, our Members of Parliament are little more than local government bureaucrats. Their role is simply to endorse decisions made in Brussels, tinker around the edges and posture over marginal issues. If any power is exerted it's simply theatrics – as we witnessed over Quatada. Bored and aimless, they frolic & fiddle, booze and gorge their appetites in the London Village. They mouth party political platitudes & every so often stir up some vestige of class hatred whilst dining together and sharing the same sense of past glories.
They receive huge rewards to compensate for their ennui & lack of importance. They vote this for themselves, confident that no one else would.
Are you fucking nuts?
Who manually solders high-density connectors onto multicore cables?
If you think airline pilots are well paid these days then you need your head looking at.
The hours pilots have to work are extreme and your social life is non-existent.
You forgot some elements:
1. The emissions system needed
2. The planning permission for the above
3. The cut for the licensing of the HDMI USB logos
4. The storefront charges for the online sales channel.
5. The data protection registration for customer details
6. The trading company and PAYE registration
Fail any one of those hurdles, and others, and the legitimate supplier will make sure you never get any chance to trade again. They have lawyers.
There are better ways to make money if it is to be done illegally. If you take someone else's profits it is considered more illegal than being a common criminal.
why ??
because most of them are troughers who have never had a private sector job in their lives , have been weaned on university , political research , spadism leading to mp – dom and who have never ever nor wish ever to be …. separated from sucking from the public teat .
how the hell d you get hold of that footage man…presumably from secreted iphone . well done !!
Fatal: They can not afford to stop the "telly tax". Just think, after it was scrapped, who would the public blame? At present we have the choice. It is our duty to stop paying for the services.
Biased: To lay into some one in a committee is the same as a Chiwawa taking a stand against a Rottweiler. All show and nothing will happen. But it obviously pleased you and made you feel secure in their hands. Job done.
Hovis: Your optimism is is like a uncooked loaf of bread. One small knock and you will see it fall like a deflated balloon. Let me predict we will have another problem with the BBC. Again there will be words said. It will give a further boost to your idea of their effectiveness each time. Yet it will never stop.
what are you Cat ?
Man , woman , heterosexual, homosexual, metrosexual , transexual or aesexual ?
We d all love to know.
So more than twice as much but not thrice as much.
What degree of accuracy should Guido use?
Following on from above (177)…. of the two lines plotted in the above graph, the gradient of the red line appears steeper between each of the points.
If it is a private company, they can do what they like. That is freedom.
If the value of a company is important, then they had shareholders. They are as much to blame.
But having known some CEOs, they do actually care. Mostly because it is their money as well.
Yet Public servants are immune from their failures and the unwritten laws of never naming them is used to make sure they are safe. A Judge is on record for saying that the mistake was to name the public servants during a court case. It is just not done. Hence the recent report with no names.
The same person in a Private company has his full contact details available online for a small fee. His address even. Try getting the address of the corrupt public official. You will probably end up in a cell.
A Public servant always has a Trustee, Elected member, Minister to hide behind. They do not actually make decisions they make opinions and recommendations under delegated powers. But always some other person is responsible and most difficult decisions are explicitly voted through by others.
Never compare them. Public sector top management is just people management. They have no real responsibility.
(PS the lower level workers are a different matter. Imagine a job where you have no choice about dealing with certain customers. No freedom to trade. No ability to have a marketing department sell the value of your service. It is demoralising working in a situation that is always doomed to random change by each elected group)
And senior management of charities, especially fake charities.
man – yes
woman -no
heterosexual – very. Hideously so some might say nowadays.
homosexual – never
metrosexual – definitely not
transexual – categorically not
asexual – that would not be fun at all. No!
I cannot be clearer than that and am surprised you asked.
Vote for the most democratically disruptive choice. Thus obtain the most control.
We need to teach them a lesson. Vote for disruption. (The next best choice after the three main parties. The person must be a real local. i.e one who has local family and connections)
It still remains the situation that the majority of mp's appear to have considerably increased their wealth during the time between first elected & eventually leaving the HoC.
Not a statement that can be applied to the majority of the plebs that provide the tax money from which the mp's draw their wages,expenses & allowances.
Well it's your fault for not breeding enough.
Any nation that lets its reproductive rate fall below replacement level e.g. Swedes, Italians etc – are just …. disappearing
Anon: The Committee have already caused the profligacy of the BBC to become headline news in all the papers last week. That is a start – making sure that what has been going on is brought to the attention of the general public (the people who are forced to subsidise this rotten, corrupt institution, which is apparently swilling with licence-payers' cash.) It will be very interesting to hear the evidence of Mark Thompson – we will see who has been telling the truth about who authorised what.
Bluto you are wrong in one thing – this is not socialism but fascism
We all have to accept that there are some problems in life which must remain insoluble. You are not the first to ask such a question. Alas, I can supply you with no satisfactory answer.
Whatever the considerable demerits of the Tsarist autocracy, what followed was even worse. Be careful what you would wish for.
Nonsense, I am worth every penny of this pay rise, even though I have not spent one day in Parliament so far this year, and am completely uneducated, cannot spell nor put a grammatical sentence together. In my whole 45 years in politics, without having ever had a proper job during this time, I can't remember one thing I have done for a constituent unless there was something in it for me. I have however done a lot of shagging at taxpayer's expense, and fully intend to continue doing so for as long as I can, that is why I need the pay rise. Boaz.
Mike Handycock. We have never heard of him.
Meanwhile it's the chosen Landers who actually do the stringpulling. Their string is attached directly to your wallet and to your computer. On Geedough it also attaches to his Willy.
Just finished reading 1984. We're around the end of part II. Room 101 is in the process of being constructed.
I don't normally approve of that sort of thing. After all, where does it say that convicted criminals can become their own agents of the law, being self selected judge, jury and executioner?
in this case I can make an exception though. And the bastard should have been wearing prison uniform instead of a bed sheet.
There is not much difference between the two, if any. One of the great deceits practiced by zealous socialists is to pretend they are vehemently opposed to fascism whereas in fact they are its greatest practitioners. Marcuse and the fact that so many modern British socialists deploy his approach tells you all you need to know.
Their criteria is "We are morally superior" therefore anything they do to further what they believe is right, regardless of the miserable consequences, is justified – by any means. There is not much room, if any, in their political tool box for dissent, hence the deployment of faux outrage when any public figure utters a personal view contrary to their orthodoxy. The thin edge of their criminalising wedge began in 1997 and will continue until it is not just hate crime and speech crime but thought crime too. We already have the situation where public figures, even on the right, are required to demonstrate their craven surrender to socialist cant. Redwood did it on QT in respect of immigration and it was nauseous to watch.
And the growth of the unelected left wing quangocracy and fake charity industry has cemented their power, helped along by Common Purpose which has facilitated their networking and self-perpetuation.
Pluralism in politics? Don't make me laugh. They are already busy de-legitimising UKIP. Diversity? A joke.
They are fascists alright and of the very worst kind.
The Coke story about the HoC in today's papers confirms your viewpoint Grim
I agree 100%. They have paid themselves more for doing less. Why? Because the arrogant twerps think they are worth it.
Snouts in the trough Guido?
More like snouts in the white stuff, doncha know?
Why is no-one looking at the level of expenses paid to county councillors? Surely the next scandal
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TMZ reports that Janet Jackson is working overtime to prepare a spectacular Michael Jackson tribute for this year's VMAs, which take place on Sunday. The tribute piece will reportedly involve 20 backup dancers, trained by world-class choreographers such as Frank Gatson and Travis Payne. According to Kryiss Grant, one of the dancers, rehearsals for the tribute have lasted up to 15 hours a day, and when people see what Janet has in store for them, "there won't be a dry eye in the house."
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Milan Lucic sends handshake message that, while it's not cool to bully, it's okay to threaten to kill
Based on his on-ice performance on Wednesday night, one might legimately ask who really penned Not Cool to Bully in School. According to the cover, the book was written by Boston Bruins forward Milan Lucic, with help from Jon Goode and Cleon Daskalakis. Available for purchase at www.notcooltobully.com/, it encourages children to "Read and learn about his journey as a young hockey player that taught him the core values to let him follow his dreams."
Presumably, those core values include following long-established codes of conduct. Like (and I'm quoting @Steve_Dangle): "If testes are near give them a spear."
And, even more egregiously, using the handshake that comes after the final game of a series to act like a complete asshat.
As those who watched the Montreal Canadiens defeat the Boston Bruins on Wednesday night are probably aware, Lucic isn't exactly going to win the Jarome Iginla award for the classiest man in hockey. He is however a new frontrunner in the category of Man Most Likely to Unseat Brad Marchand as the Most Hated Man in Hockey.
Unless you count flexing his muscles at Montreal's P.K. Subban on the bench, and beating his chest like an enraged ape after scoring empy net goals, Lucic didn't do much of anything in the series. He did plenty to get himself noticed in the postgame handshake.
One of the most time-honoured traditions in hockey (and the strangest in professional sports), the handshake that comes at the end of a series is where players prove that they are indeed the gentlemen who arrive at the arena wearing suits, as opposed to the toothless knuckle-draggers you often see on the ice.
It's where, having just done horrible things to each other in a protracted war, players put down their weapons and congratulate each other for a battle well-waged. At the end of the Boston-Montreal series, you had Shawn Thornton wishing Subban well, despite the fact they'd spent the previous two weeks in a vicious back-alley brawl (this including Thorton being fined by the NHL for squirting water on Subban and visor from the bench in Game 5.)
It was all good until you got to Lucic meeting Canadiens fourth-liner Dale Weise in the lineup. Weise managed to get under Lucic's skin in the series, mocking the Bruins' chest-beating routine after scoring a goal in Game 6, and aping his arm-flexing in scrums on the ice.
The hockey code dictates that Lucic congratulate the better man for having won. Instead, he took the opportunity to look at Weise and utter what the Canadiens forward described later as disrespectful things. Lucic then reportedly uttered the same threat to Montreal's defenceman Alexei Emelin.
In a postgame locker-room interview, an agitated Lucic told reporters it was none of their business asking what he said, arguing that what happens on the ice stays on the ice.
Weise also declined to get into specifics, but sports analysts and trained lip-readers have reported that his message was this: "I'm going to fucking kill you next year."
As he skated away from the Canadiens, Lucic reportedly then winked at the camera and said, "Don't forget to pick up your copy of Not Cool to Bully in School".
(1) Sociopath -- see "Lance Armstrong"; these guys will never, ever be sincerely sorry for anything they ever do that contravenes societal norms. They will however, be sorry (and blame others) that they get caught, and work to make themselves out to be the 'victim'
(2) Stupid -- this didn't 'leak' because Weise said something. Someone was ALWAYS going to zoom in the video on those two Lucic "grab and talks" with the two individuals he had run-ins with over the recent past (play-offs / regular season), being Weise and Emelin. Lucic is stupid if he thinks he can get into a multi-angle video'd handshake line, hold two (only) guys for a discussion, and have those two people be his run-in people (Weise and Emelin), and yet not expect multiple people to do a lip-reading investigation for their own interest and/or purposes.
Note: someone ran lip-reading on Markov who appears to have told Lucic in line to "look the player in the eye" (when you shake hands). Neither Lucic nor Markov 'leaked' that.


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I'm experimenting with creating "virtual" filesystems. What I"ve done so far is simply made an ext2 filesystem in a file called "filesystem" that fits onto my 128 mb thumbdrive.
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Mounting a loopback device through stdin.
Now, I'm doing this to experiment mounting this filesystem through an encryption program of mine. It's pretty easy to simply store the decrypted version of the file somewhere, but right now I'm trying to find a way to simply load the decrypted data from memory.
The first thing I tried was making a named pipe with mkfifo. I would decrypt the file to that named pipe, and then try to mount that named pipe with
Code:mount -o loop -t ext2 named_pipe mount_point
Code:ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argumen
So my question is: What is the reason that this won't work, and how might I accomplish what I"m trying to do? I thought about making a RAM disk and decrypted the data to that, and mounting that, but I don't know how to do that at all, and I"m still wanting to experiment with stdin and stdout.
Just to clarify what I"m doing here...
I have an encrypted 128 mb ext2 filesystem that I want to mount. I don't want to have to decrypt the whole file to another location on the disk first, and would like to find a way to to send the decrypted data to memory, mount that data, without having to have the decrypted data ever sent to disk.
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Don't take my word as the truth, but it would surprise me if there's a way to mount a fifo. Filesystems are entities whose access model is completely random, where fifos are queues, and don't permit random access, they can only be read on a secuential fashion and when you read something the data is consumed.


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Work schedule best suited for: Very flexible during training and housebreaking period.
Leash manners: Needs to learn!
Crate Training: Working on it!
House Breaking: Working on it!
Degree of training needed: High. PoPo is just a baby puppy and needs to learn basic commands and housebreaking. A positive, gentle methods training class is required.
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The following property transfers were recorded with the Bryan County Clerk of Court, Oct. 25-28:
Catnip N Biscuits owners and staff, as well as members of the Richmond Hill-Bryan County Chamber of Commerce and city officials, marked the opening the doggie day care and luxury pet hotel in Richmond Hill with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday.
The Coastal GA Area Community Action Authority is still assisting eligible households with heating bills.
If you have kids – or even if you don't – you're probably aware that Halloween is fast approaching. Of course, you may find the ghouls, witches and creepy impersonations of celebrities to be more amusing than alarming, but as you go through life you will find some things that are generally frightening – such as investment moves that are misdirected or go awry.
Recently I have been talking about the benefits of having access to the Floridan aquifer for our water needs. Those needs are not just for domestic water use in our homes, but for commercial and industrial use as well.
Members of the Richmond Hill-Bryan County Chamber of Commerce and employees at Cellular Sales marked the opening of the authorized Verizon Wireless retailer Friday. The new showroom is at 70 Exchange St. in Richmond Hill. Regional director Brian Synder attended and chamber board members and store associates were on hand to celebrate. Cellular Sales is open 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. For more information, call 756-2330.
ATLANTA - One of the nation's largest utilities says energy sales show that economic activity is picking up in the Southeast industrial sector, but it's offset by job losses elsewhere.
SAVANNAH - South Carolina environmental regulators will allow Georgia to plead its case for deepening the shared river channel to Savannah's booming seaport before the neighboring state decides whether to finalize its rejection of a permit for the $600 million project, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON - The richest 1 percent of Americans have been getting far richer over the last three decades while the middle class and poor have seen their after-tax household income only crawl up in comparison, according to a government study.
Richmond Hill's newest coffee shop, Hill House Coffee Café, marked its opening Friday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The owner is Ann Crockett. Hill House Coffee Café is open 6 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday serving coffee, breakfast, lunch and more. For more information, call 445-5256.
The following property transfers were recorded with the Bryan County Clerk of Court, Oct. 17-24:
IGA Supermarket in Midway hosted a grand-opening ceremony Oct. 8 in conjunction with the Liberty County Chamber of Commerce.
Several years ago, a book titled "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" was quite popular.
SAVANNAH- United Community Bank-Savannah has announced that James Magness has joined the bank as vice president of business services and will be located at United's White Bluff office.
SNF Holding Company subsidiary Floquip Engineering Company, which manufactures water-soluble polymers and has a Riceboro operation, will expand its business in Liberty County.
We've just begun the new year, but the next academic year still is months away. Nonetheless, if you have a child who will be attending college in the fall, it's not too soon to start thinking about what might be a vital component of paying for his or her higher education: financial aid.
GAINESVILLE -- Port of Savannah officials have their hands full with an ambitious deepening project, but they're also watching how the transportation funding debate plays out in the Georgia General Assembly.
The Richmond Hill-Bryan County Chamber of Commerce's January Business After Hours event, hosted by RE/MAX Accent, featured an oyster roast and chili bar from 5:30-7 p.m. Thursday. The festivities, co-sponsored by South State Bank and held at the RE/MAX building on Richard Davis Drive in Richmond Hill, included door prizes, a raffle, refreshments and networking opportunities for attendees. Despite the cold, wet weather, the event was well-attended.
Last week's freezes were not nice to many of our landscape plants, especially the tropical ones of which we are so fond.
Complete.MD Medical Care held a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house on Friday at its Richmond Hill location, 9665 Ford Ave. Staffers Kerri Cook, RN, and Dr. Sidney P. Smith welcomed community members, local leaders, elected officials and friends to the facility, where light refreshments were served.
Lesley Francis Public Relations has been appointed to work with The Whitman to raise the mansion's profile amongst residents and visitors to Savannah.
The following property transfers were recorded with the Bryan County Clerk of Court from Dec. 18-31:
If you're an investor, you probably had a pretty good year in 2014. But what's in store for 2015?
Now that 2015 is here, you may be thinking about making some New Year's resolutions.
Complete.MD Medical Care will have a ribbon-cutting at 9:30 a.m. Friday, followed by an open house from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at its Richmond Hill location, 9665 Ford Ave.
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Quoted from claymesser We are leaving for Indy this AM for the weekend. This will be our first away from home experience on the BTD, this should be interesting.
Quoted from Brighid45 Hang in there Diann and Claydaddy. As you go along you'll find it's a bit easier to avoid the avoids. Five minutes of tasting good on the tongue is just not worth days full of pain, fibro fog, fatigue, and being cranky. Or as my twin Peppermint Twist says, "Nothing tastes as good as health feels."
Quoted from Ribbit Alright, I just went and found my old "Safe Recipes" book that I wrote before we started the BTD. These can be changed as needed to comply with your type.Buttermilk Biscuits (hushpuppies when fried instead of baked)~~~~~~1 1/3 c. plain rice flour2/3 c. potato starch flour1 tsp. salt1/2 tsp. xanthan gum1 tsp. baking soda1/2 tsp. baking powder3 Tbsp. shortening (I used to use Earth Balance)3/4 - 1 c. rice milk + 1 tsp. lemon juice (can use water)Preheat oven to 400. Mix dry ingredients. Cut in shortening. Pour in "buttermilk." Mix gently. Let stand 30 sec. or so to absorb moisture. Roll by hand into 6 balls and flatten a little. Bake 15 min. or until lightly brown on top. If you want donuts out of this, just add sweetener of choice. Rice flour by itself without xanthan gum and potato starch will be crumbly. Add an egg if it fits in your diet. I've used 2 tsp. ground flax seed mixed with 1/4 c. boiling water as a nice binder when I can't use any other.Spiced Donuts (this has several avoids, but it could be manipulated with a little practice)~~~~~1 c. brown rice flour1/2 c. each potato starch and tapioca flour2 tsp. xanthan gum1 tsp. unflavored gelatin powder1 1/2 tsp. each baking powder, baking soda1/2 tsp. salt2 tsp. cinnamon (for strong spice only)1/4 tsp. each cloves, nutmeg, allspice1 Tbsp. Ener-G powdered egg replacer2/3 c. fructose1/2 c. rice milk1/3 c. applesauce1/3 c. honey or agave nectar1/3 c. soy yogurt, sour cream or mayo3 Tbsp. oilPreheat oven to 375. Coat mini-bundt pans or donut molds with cooking spray. Combine dry ingredients. Combine liquid ingredients separately. Stir together just until moist. Spoon into tins. Batter will rise a lot, so only fill half-way, and make two batches. Bake 20-25 min. each batch. Sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired.If you can use spelt flour, all your troubles will be gone. Just use it instead of all the other flours and omit the xanthan gum and gelatin.


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The new PT-60 from ASV is a high performance rubber track loader with exceptional power and versatility ideal for many construction, landscaping, utility and private owner applications. Like all ASV machines the PT-60 produces incredible traction and low ground disturbance. It features a patented Posi-Track suspended undercarriage, two-speed drive motors and many new refinements. A front mounted quick-attach interface gives the PT-60 the versatility of using virtually any industry-standard attachment. A choice of General Purpose, Turf (smooth), or Extreme Terrain Track options assures maximum versatility and productivity in all applications. Based on ASV™s 25 years of experience building rubber track machines, the PT-60 is one of our best yet. The PT-60 is one in a full line of rubber track loaders that includes more machine models and a wider range of machine sizes than any other brand available.
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Lucky Office Visit: AnnaSophia Robb of The Carrie Diaries
The Carrie Diaries, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage's much-anticipated prequel to Sex and the City, was officially picked up by The CW last week. No big surprise there, as we had no doubt that networks would be falling all over themselves to acquire a show about a young Carrie Bradshaw partying it up in '80s-era Manhattan. And yesterday, none other than AnnaSophia Robb—the 18-year-old who will be playing the young Carrie—popped by our offices for a chat.
Though dressed in a demure striped sundress from Juicy Couture for her visit, AnnaSophia confessed she'll be wearing far crazier costumes on her new show. " But Eric [Daman, the show's costume designer] calls the look 'aspirational authenticity,'" she explained of the wardrobe on set. "So he pulls stuff thats definitely not 'ugly '80s.'" In other words, expect lots of fluorescent brights, leather and polka dots...plus an odd Swatch watch or two.
Indeed, from the promo images I've seen so far, AnnaSophia's carefully-selected Carrie outfits are a far cry from the fashion mistakes the decade's famous for. So, I wondered, did the actress have any real-life style regrets of her own?
"I had a bowl cut for a couple years," she told me. "Didn't we all have one in the '90s? And when i was little, I definitely wore crushed velvet leggings with a matching top."
Fortunately, The Carrie Diaries' wardrobe team won't be forcing her into coordinating velour anytime soon. "I feel like the wardrobe team picked the coolest part of the '80s to bring back—the punky, the preppy and the neon," AnnaSophia said. "Although scrunchies are definitely there, too!"
Speaking of hair, how long did it take to create those Carrie-worthy curls? "My hair's naturally straight," AnnaSophia admitted, "and getting it perfectly curly takes about an hour and a half—plus, then they have to do touch-ups throughout the day because the curls keep falling out!" She told me she'd considered perming her hair for the role, but wasn't sure if the results would look authentic enough. "Honestly," she added, "I hope they end up putting me in a wig for the rest of filming."
To research her character, AnnaSophia's been catching up on all six seasons of Sex and the City—at 18, of course, she was too young to watch the racy show back in the early aughts. So what's her all-time favorite episode? "The one where Carrie farts in bed!" she laughed. "Because honestly, that's a woman's worst fear ever, and I love that they don't cover up things like that or pretend like the characters are perfect all the time. Carrie's so relatable." She added that while she hasn't yet met "original Carrie" Sarah Jessica Parker in person, she did receive a "very sweet" letter from the actress before filming on The Carrie Diaries began, wishing her luck on the project.
Since the new series will start airing midseason, around January 2013, AnnaSophia won't be heading back to the set until October. Still, the demanding fall filming schedule to come meant the actress had to defer her recent acceptance to Stanford University—a huge feat for any teen, whether or not they've got a future hit series on their hands. "But it's worth it," she said with a smile. "I can't wait for people to see the show, to get wrapped up in it."
Photo: Giovanni Rufino/The CW.
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Contributed by Josie Price of London-based ico Design Partners.
Gropes are unique lace-up leather handlebar grips. They offer the bike customisation enthusiast an individual and eye-catching alternative to the usual handlebar coverings.
The idea was inspired by original leather-wrap grips, but recreated with a twist. Gropes are the brainchild of London-based designers and bike lovers, Akira Chatani (who also works at ico design) and Ryo Yamada, and they are the first product to be launched by their company, Nonusual. The names Nonusual and Gropes are the result of some creative thinking by strategic writers Regard.
Gropes are handmade from high quality, vegetable-tanned Italian leather, selected for Nonusual by Ally Capellino. Chosen for its flexibility and softness, this leather improves with age and requires very little maintenance after an initial application of dressing. The leather is pre-punched with lacing holes and supplied with laces and cork bar end plugs.
Gropes are currently available in two sizes and eight colours, which include classic brown and black, or vibrant red and yellow. The laces are available in five colours, including a particularly vivid pink. Customers can mix and match the leather and laces to create their own colour combinations. The cork bar end plugs, bearing the G monogram, finish the look. Every detail of the product is thoughtfully designed, including the ingeniously simple packaging.
In order to achieve the exact look they desire, customers are encouraged to fit Gropes themselves. Although there are many ways to apply them, Akira reassures customers, "If you know how to tie shoe laces then you will be able to fit Gropes." If help is needed, there are precise step-by-step fitting instructions on the the Nonusual website.
About the brand identity
The idea was/is that Akira would use unwanted paper samples from designers orders that we had kicking about the studio at ico for his marketing materials.
This was not so much an economy drive but a reuse/recycle eco-type initiative. Hence the business cards and letterheads are different colours and textures, etc. Even the packaging tubes were made in this way.
However… we're getting close to running out of such supplies now! Thinking about what to do next to keep 'green'.
Akira is an anti 'fancy branding' as he calls it but what he really means is unnecessary packaging and materials. He likes simple, sleek design and prefers functional to flamboyant.
A good example of this is the fitting instructions for Gropes are printed on the outside of the packaging tubes, so no further inner paper or instructions are used. Saving paper, money, time and so on. He also is keen to direct people to the website where there are far more comprehensive fitting tutorials, videos and images.
Akira says when he buys things he'd rather spend money on products themselves than the packaging, which ultimately gets thrown away. He's tried to carry this through in what he does at Nonusual.
Gropes are available to buy online at Nonusual and off the shelves at London bike shops including look mum no hands! and Velorution. They're also available in France, Germany, Australia, and Japan, with new stockists being added. A full list of official dealers can be found on the website.
ico Design is featured elsewhere on Identity Designed for the Karaway and ubyu projects.
6 appreciated remarks about "Gropes"
I think this is 100% awesome. Everything I see contributes to the brand as a whole: materials, colors, typography, photos, (didn't read the copy, though).
Just stunning, the whole lot works excellently! However, I thought this was a wine brand because of the corks! Not entirely keen on the name though, could be seen as offensive to some people, but it IS written with beautiful type, so maybe that won't be a problem :)
The little corks are such a nice touch.
Overall branding is sleek and fit together brilliantly. We love the idea of using old supplies for the business cards. The logo can be easily used on any surface or product without it being costly. Clever branding for a clever company.
Now this is branding!
Awesome. They should have punched holes into their stationery in the same way as the leather.


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We stayed at this hotel for a weekend trip to the Christmas Market and the location was perfect! The rooms were clean and spacious. The beds were very comfortable and we were able to request a non-smoking room. We were traveling with another couple and their newborn son and there was plenty of room for his pack n play and stroller in the room. - Anonymous
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very good standard of hotel - excellent b'fast. fairly close to market and shops. 15 min. walk to xmas market and 10 mins. to shopping centre - Jonathan
Very clean room. Larger room was assigned to us because we were visiting with two kids who is 9 and 7 years old. Our reservation was for double room with extra-bed without additional cost. But they assigned larger room to us, they are so kind. According to our experience, Holiday-inns are very kind for family with kids! - Tomoyuki
Great location by the airport. Room was very nice. Large room. Verycomfortable bed. - Richard
The staff were extremely friendly and helpful. Free internet in the lobby. - Anonymous
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However, if a driver has bugs there really isn't much the OS can do. A driver is sitting there in kernel space, and if it starts writing to random locations in memory or other funkiness it will bring down the box; this is true in most every operating system. Microsoft can not really be blamed for bad third party drivers when they misbehave.


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How can I tell a good window wrap job from a poor one? Is thin aluminum acceptable? Should there be air space between the old wood and the aluminum, and if so how much? Should it be caulked at the edge that meets the brick? Caulk at the corner seams? Where should nails be placed? Anything else I didn't think of? |
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- Posted by windowsonwashington (My Page) on Sun, Oct 28, 12 at 23:47
That is a pretty broad based question. There are no requirements for an air space behind the cladding and it would normally be sealed at the junction of cladding to brick. It does not need to be sealed at the corners. Nails are out of necessity and depend on the window details, size, and capping style. |
So, normally it is sealed at the junction of cladding to the brick. So, if an installer doesn't do that is it wrong? Also, if you can take your finger and press in aluminum somewhat, does that mean there is too much space, or just the aluminum is thin? Or is vinyl covered aluminum preferably. Everybody doesn't seem impressed with Window World's windows, but I liked their wrapping best so far, as it just seemed clean, sealed, and I think was vinyl covered. Or am I just being picky? |
- Posted by windowsonwashington (My Page) on Mon, Oct 29, 12 at 13:19
It is normally sealed at that junction. Can't say for certain if it being unsealed is wrong without seeing it. Most capping will not be tight to the trim and will have some air behind it as you describe. I don't prefer the vinyl trim coil stock but that is a personal preference. |
- Posted by HomeSealed (My Page) on Mon, Oct 29, 12 at 18:03
The capping job has nothing to do with the windows and everything to do with the specific installer's skill level. As WoW said, it is really difficult to answer those questions as every home is different, and the areas that require caulk will vary by installer, method, and home. For instance, often times installers will back-caulk some trim so you don;t even see a bead. Nails should be used sparingly and hidden when possible. On the trim types, the PVC coated aluminum is a nice product and offers a more "rigid" feel. The only complaint that I see with it is that the texture can retain dirt more easily than the smooth trim coil. |
- Posted by Jumpilotmdm (My Page) on Mon, Oct 29, 12 at 21:25
No wrap with coil stock is a good wrap. Junk. Maybe not now, but in the future.... |
- Posted by HomeSealed (My Page) on Mon, Oct 29, 12 at 21:42
I guess metal flashing and wood/aluminum windows must be "junk" as well... Please elaborate. |
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- Posted by windowsonwashington (My Page) on Mon, Oct 29, 12 at 22:21
Is all the rake and fascia wrapping junk took? Is another cladding better? Are clad windows bad as well? |
So, Jumpilotmdm. What makes coil stock junk? Is it because it's 'old school'? Not necessarily a reason not to use it. I just want it to look clean and keep the water from getting to wood, therefore am asking what to look for in order to make sure I get that. |
Some feel that wrapping with aluminum will eventually lead to rotted wood and you won't notice it untill it's to late because the damage is hidden.Pictures of the wrap before they caulk will often reveal the quality. |
- Posted by HomeSealed (My Page) on Wed, Oct 31, 12 at 12:28
I can't speak for others, but aluminum wrapping (much like vinyl windows and siding) gets a bad rap (pun intended ;)) due to how prevalent it is and its relatively low cost. There are a lot of hacks out there that do poor work and will actually direct water into the window opening rather than shed it away. A proper wrap job will 1) remove any rotted/soft wood prior to wrapping, and 2) be flashed/lapped in such a way that will not retain moisture, while accomplishing the goal of reducing maintenance. All that said, some people prefer the richer look of wood brickmold or cedar trim, and will sacrifice the fact that it needs a bit more attention and often comes with a higher cost if it is being replaced. There is nothing wrong with that option either, just depends on your goals for the project. To say that either method when executed properly is "junk", is just plain wrong. |
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A bar was typically the first thing that they visited upon reaching the town once more, as natural as human retreating back into one of their little hovels. Neit wasn't acting quite normal, through, or at least what counted as normal for her; There was no cigar in her mouth, and the drink in her hand remained practically untouched. The expression on her face was serious, silent, reflective.
"...I don' thinke its'a good idea stayin' savvy with Aryyna... Bitch will murder 'us first instance we starte lookin' unprofitable..." She finally spoke up, albeit whilst looking into the table. "...Other ways of doin' this, there are... My daughter is a priestess, you see."
An incredibly spiteful look suddenly overcame her whilst she looked at Alsiif, then Ryyna in turn.
Murdering your own daughter. That was certainly a thought. Lolth would love it, too.
Neit had intentionally kept her distance from the girl for years, and had only thought about asking the sow for advice at first, but now the certain drowy allure of that particular option was more or less all she could think about. That, and exactly why it made her feel so sick.
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Domestic Disturbance Shooting Leaves One Dead In Arlington
Arlington Police are investigating a fatal shooting that followed a domestic disturbance on the city's north side Sunday night.
Police Use Video To Negotiate With Suspect
Authorities at an apartment complex in Grand Prairie used unusual and high-tech methods to negotiate with a deaf man during a police standoff on Monday morning.
Police: Estranged Wife Shot Officer Before Suicide
An off-duty officer with the Irving Police Department was shot by his estranged wife during a domestic disturbance at his home in southern Tarrant County, according to authorities.
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The suspect involved in an officer involved shooting Wednesday night with Irving police has died.
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Police have released new information about a mysterious house explosion in Frisco early Tuesday morning, revealing that the incident was not what it first seemed.
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Police say a man died after being shot and the suspected gunman has been questioned in a domestic disturbance in North Texas.