adjust back brakes

And so do some of those in the top 20% of salaries.

Clive George ( snipped-for-privacy@xxxx-x.fsnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

This is the 21st century - What's a "bank manager"?

is that one of those machines in the wall that gives us money???

Yes, they are.

It all depends what you mean by "rife". The statistics speak for themselves.

That's because it's thick.

You mean John "Two Jags" Prescott?

No. Medical insurance is administered by the private sector.

But see below.

In other words, paid for by taxpayers. As I originally said.

Your tax burden is taxpayers' money used to pay the worshy, not the VAT receipts from sales. Economics isn't your strong suit, is it, thicko?

It's oop north. Who cares?

What's there? The Yorkshire Sheep Exchange?

But it is Britain's second largest financial center after London.

Thick northern idiot. Largest city does *not* equate to largest financial center. DUH.

As a financial center, it's much bigger than Glasgow.

Too much.

Their choice.

No problem. When that happens, the growth will move to India/China/Brazil.

Self-restraint is urged!

Not as overweight as the poor people you never see!

All kinds of places: north. south, east and west.

At least three years in Catford, which (on a wet November Sunday afternoon) the travel writer Paul Theroux described as the "most dismal place on earth".

Probably stopped for something to eat.

Don't believe everything you see on the BBC.

Certainly not zero now, and growing.

Still a problem.

Nothing to do with the strength of the economy. It does your export sector (if any) no favors at all.

How long can a Third World shithole like yours survive on just the service industry? Especially when the levels of service are so dismal?