That's just as bad.
Why does anybody take any notice. It's only words.
Quite amusing really.
Brian Appleyard's article in the ST Magazine includes this-
Quote:The former oil-industry executive Jan Lundberg reckons the crisis will be sudden. "Market-based panic will, within a few days, drive prices skyward," he says. "And the market will become paralysed at prices too high for the wheels of commerce and daily living." So forget the price at the pump: when oil becomes truly unaffordable, you will be more worried about the collapse of distribution networks, and the absence of food from local shops.
Obviously. Even a 10% risk is not worth taking.
I think that there's a lot more than Mathos who should take Pete's advice. He's only a bigger plonker because he has more money.
And they are into the actions causing this disaster which they are gleefully walking into and bragging about which is to say offering it up as a social behaviour worthy of emulation and admiration so that those who can afford it copy it and those who can't become enraged with frustration.
And it isn't remotely interesting compared to reading. It goes nowhere. Physical journeys end up back in bed with frazzled nerves. Mental journeys are much more adventurous. They don't yo-yo.
Curled up on the sofa with a good book is bliss. The trouble is that the millions who do it don't come on these sites.
When they allowed advertising on television in the 50s they wrecked our way of life. They employed the best pyschologists to f**k our heads off our shoulders and they succeeded.
Now the TV programmes are trying to clip 35p out of the audience as if it was Blackpool front. I gather the X Factor clipped 4 million 35 ps with a flashing light illusion and some hopeless amateur singers. E-mail us with your views. (50 p + network charges)
Load of bollocks.
"Askin' the cops wherever I go
Have you seen dignity?"
Bob Dylan. (An honorary Brit.)