THE BRITISH THREAD II

Three major UK private healthcare trusts refuse to meet the cost of sorting out dodgy implants.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/09/breast-implants-refusal-free-replacement?INTCMP=SRCH

Exactly, it's goverment handwringing.

I once wasted my pub social bonhomie for over a week on a lady trying to persuade her not to have her tits done. She had them done.

I bet she's in a right muck-sweat now.

You're all heart, Spendy.

He's an inspiration to all of us.

Somebody once showed me a book which listed all the known porn movie performers. In the LADIES section, much the longest by the way, which is interesting in itself, there was a asterisk against the names of the ones who had had tit jobs.

In the editorial it had commented that those were the least popular.

This new high speed rail link eh? It's another South East rip off like the Lottery and much else. We are all to pay for it of course but the businesses in London will benefit at the expense of businesses up North. Hotels, shops, shows etc. Even the whores. No doubt our MPs will vote for it having been sucked in to the corruptions of the capital just like in Ancient Rome.

I hope they don't ask me to drive a train into a tunnel at 250 mph.

How will they make it secure from terrorist attacks? It would be a splatter job if a tunnel roof got blown half way in, or even a quarter way in, and a pile of rocks stopped the thing suddenly at that speed. And you can be absolutely sure (tautology for emphasis) the bastards are lying through their teeth when they are telling us what it will cost.

So do I mate.

I'm not disputing anything you've said, but I do enjoy seeing the Tory nimbys despairing that their pile in the country is now going to be worth considerably less.

That's a given.

Would you eat a sausage roll if you was a patient in a West Sussex hospital?

Who cares about ******* NIMBYs. They have all been on jet planes to exotic locations waking up the poor sods who can only afford to live under the flightpaths. They are a distraction because they have not one leg to stand upon. Bums of the month. Set up to knock down. One I saw had four double chins and was standing in an acre or two of well tended gardens. Four car garage. One might imagine the sympathy.

It's the rip-off on the provinces I'm bothered about. Don't allow yourselves to think that because the NIMBYs lose the argument the provinces are avoiding another ******* over. That's as bad as thinking that the chap who rescued you from the evil had no disrespectful intentions himself.

As far as the argument about it focusing wealth in the capital and away from the provinces, I've yet to be convinced. That's not to say you're wrong, but I could see it moving the other way.

The result of driving a train into a tunnel at 250 mph would be about the same as if it were 120 mph or 70 mph, if the tunnel were blocked.

I think the speed of trains entering tunnels will be moderated anyway, due to air movement effects. And the tunnels will have cctv and radar sensors, so the driver has timely warning.

Probably not, I'm quiite dubious about some sausage rolls anyway.

The matter in hand izzy is the "net" capital.

I tend to go on Yossarian's "what's shithead up to now?" Shithead being Lieutenant Scheisskopf putting up a notice.

I thought it the book's key line. Mailer had a version. So did Miles Copeland. Many others too. Kingsley Amis had whole books about it.

It led me to a belief that authority initiating action dropped me in the **** in some inscrutable way that there was no point in trying to understand because the initiative itself was inexplicable if I wasn't being screwed.

I'm aware that such a principle only applies to zero sum situations but it might be the only antidote to the onset of totalitarianism and thus a positive function of paranoia.

Hutber's Law. Parkinson's too.

It's a general orientation exercise which is easily proved foolish using specific cases.

Regarding the matter in hand, which is the hs rail link. I have yet to be convinced by either argument.

Who is initiating it is where I start.

Do you think that the non-flying taxpayer is being forced to subsidise the flying taxpayer?

No, but there is the issue of greenhouse gases. If you're asking whether or not the railways should have been sold off, then the answer is no.

Is the cost of the security alerts at airports factored into ticket prices. It's factored into Inland Revenue demands.

I don't know mate. Have you thought of writing to your local MP?