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From: T Wake on 18 Nov 2006 15:45 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:455F66B8.60CD39A6(a)hotmail.com... > > > T Wake wrote: > >> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >> > >> > I use cash fairly rarely these days. >> >> Same here. Buying the paper is about it. > > It comes in handy in the pub too ! Fair one, although I dont go out very much anymore. Seem to have lost the habit and not sure why. > I'll normally pick up magazines and stuff while shopping at the > supermarket and > put them on the card too. Yep.
From: Phineas T Puddleduck on 18 Nov 2006 16:51 In article <Ma6dnZaaIbwT7cLYnZ2dnUVZ8v2dnZ2d(a)pipex.net>, "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > > I think unsettled is stuck around the 1960's. > > I would be interested to see where council housing is available (granted > they are cheap), most people have some serious waiting to do. > > All he is doing is hand waving, he throws out what he thinks are "worthy" > phrases (look after the pennies... rags to riches.. etc) but in reality none > of it conflicts with what is being said and often supports it. The waiting list's for local authorities in my neck of the woods are around five years IIRC. -- Thermodynamics claims another crown! http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/heacon.html -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
From: T Wake on 18 Nov 2006 17:30 "Phineas T Puddleduck" <phineaspuddleduck(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message news:phineaspuddleduck-5D5E1B.21515718112006(a)free.teranews.com... > In article <Ma6dnZaaIbwT7cLYnZ2dnUVZ8v2dnZ2d(a)pipex.net>, > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > >> >> I think unsettled is stuck around the 1960's. >> >> I would be interested to see where council housing is available (granted >> they are cheap), most people have some serious waiting to do. >> >> All he is doing is hand waving, he throws out what he thinks are "worthy" >> phrases (look after the pennies... rags to riches.. etc) but in reality >> none >> of it conflicts with what is being said and often supports it. > > The waiting list's for local authorities in my neck of the woods are > around five years IIRC. > Seems about the same as most people I have spoken to.
From: unsettled on 18 Nov 2006 18:40 Don Bowey wrote: > On 11/18/06 3:03 AM, in article 24cd1$455ee873$4fe7264$10515(a)DIALUPUSA.NET, > "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > > >>T Wake wrote: >> >>>"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >>>news:455E8724.FDDA2465(a)hotmail.com... >>> >>> >>>>unsettled wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>T Wake wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>A nationalised health service only requires that the central control >>>>>>gets a >>>>>>doctor anywhere in the country. The doctor then does his job and makes >>>>>>people well again. >>>>> >>>>>Doctors don't make people "well again." >>>> >>>>They do sometimes. >>> >>> >>>I have been to the doctor in past, unwell, the doctor has treated me and I >>>was well again. Once more unsettled is simply wrong. >> >>A person is never quite as well as they were before the illness. > > > Again, logic fails you, or you fail it. You cannot expand an individual > case to a general case. All cases, bub. > Yes, some illnesses leave permanent damage, but not all do. You seem to > dwell on the negative. > > Don I'll repeat my dad's philosophy. I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist. If you want to believe that all illness doesn't take its toll on a human body I'll gladly support your right to that sort of religious belief, or any other flavor of the day you might prefer. >>>More importantly, that was not a crucial part of my post - even if it is >>>true and doctors dont make people well again (ever), the fact remains /BAH >>>was incorrect. >>> >>> >>> >>>>>The best they can do is delay death for a while longer. >>>> >>>>And that too. >> >> >>>I wish they wouldn't do it to unsettled. >> >>Classic Marxist-Leninist dishonesty. > >
From: unsettled on 18 Nov 2006 18:51
T Wake wrote: > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:455F677D.8567FD7E(a)hotmail.com... > >> >>unsettled wrote: >> >> >>>T Wake wrote: >>> >>>>The reality is, living on minimum wage, it is impossible for "them" >>>>with all >>>>the planning and good intentions in the world. >>> >>>Rags to riches is a common enough a theme in the USA. > > > Yeah, unsettled may well think it is common, however I dont rate 1 in > 100,000 as common. > > Even still, it isnt relevant. That person on minimum wage may be the richest > (wo)man on the planet at age 80. However, as they cant afford a place to > live or decent medical care, odds are they wont make it. > > >>>I can see why a socialist Brit like you would think >>>the way you do. Why bother buying when a Council house >>>is available so cheaply. >> >>Council houses ( social housing for those not common with the term ) are >>not easy >>to come by these days. > > > I think unsettled is stuck around the 1960's. > > I would be interested to see where council housing is available (granted > they are cheap), most people have some serious waiting to do. > > All he is doing is hand waving, he throws out what he thinks are "worthy" > phrases (look after the pennies... rags to riches.. etc) but in reality none > of it conflicts with what is being said and often supports it. Shall we look at what Wake's ad hominems have added to the discussion? (Looks around this post, behind the furniture, under the rug....) Oops, nothing. |