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Coke revenue 2014 equals 47 Billion U.S. Dollars VillaTalk - Would Not Bang

A sunny bank holiday Monday so crazy crowds queueing to get to the sandy beach over the Island. So we spent a day out the garden and then went for a walk over Porthkerry to walk under the viaduct and throw stones in the water at a near deserted pebbly beach. Smug Result!

It's definitely not a blanket fact, it's what I suspected and I think it's what I proved - they are after the core vote and not 'the others'. So yes, I'd concede I haven't told anyone that we weren't voting, so what they are doing is ignoring the opposition. But it's my experiment, so when I write up the paper, it'll say they ignore non-voters. As yet, absolutely no sign of the UKIP or Lib candidates, not a poster or a leaflet.

On the subject of whether the main parties are interested in the votes of non-voters. To date in this election, my own little social experiment suggests not. Three of the parties have been around here canvassing a couple of times with the Labour and tory lot doing a fair bit of doorstep chatting. I've told both that I'm not very likely to vote for them, but my wife is. As a result, my missus is now receiving a couple of mail drops a week from them both. I told Plaid I would probably vote for them but there was no way my wife would. Subsequently, I've been sent leaflets and been asked to put up a poster in the window (I haven't). That looks to me like they are all lining up to rely on getting their low hanging fruit / core vote definitely mobilised and out to vote. Once you say 'no thanks' there appears to be zero effort to persuade you over to their cause. So being a non voter appears, so far around here in this election, a sure fire recipe to be ignored.

yay! that was great! very relaxed atmosphere - you could smell just how relaxed from the end of the street a proper mixed crowd, to the point of there being families, mohican punks, mods, skins, students and a good proportion of balding dads carrying a bit more timber than they did back in the day

All hail the spaghetti monster! p.s pretty sure KFC is open today if you are desperate for a bargain bucket I'm so posh, I've never eaten a KFC. I've never sat in my car and ordered a disposable bucket of fried food via an intercom. That's how posh I am.

Ahh, Ismail, there are some guys on here with some pretty high standards. Impressively so. The bar is set a lot higher these days. These days arm hair can be a turn off. Back in the early 80's you just had to be fairly confident they weren't dead or hiding their own penis.

Perhaps we could be grateful that a couple of times a year life can be kicked back a little bit and not be quite so 24/7 for quite so many people. Whether you want to be religious or not is your personal option. For my part, I'm happy to have a couple of days a year when I can't buy shit from Argos or KFC. It's like family can be chilled and not just rat running and consuming. If a quiet day off was announced to celebrate the spaghetti monster, do you know what, I'd embrace it and take the slower paced day. Even if it meant I couldn't go to Wilkinsons to buy paint until tomorrow.

yeah, it's a rare day I print anything I've had to print a ticket for a gig this week, but usually they'll let you in via a ref on your phone. I had to get the printer out from the back of a cupboard. Even when the office have 'demanded' I send them a print out of my insurance I've invited them to look on my account to see the insurance. They said they needed a paper copy so I e-mailed them a pdf and said they could print it themselves. If I've got drawings or reports or anything for a meeting I'll send them out in advance by e-mail and invite people to print them and draw their corrections and ideas over them in advance of the meeting rather than spend the meeting sat there reading 'em. It's like science fiction for some Clients that like to be handed out some paper to file or throw away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbO2_077ixs

stop giving him drugs you bastard

yep, like that, there's some fine versions of summertime blues around First version I had was on the first record I had - a pass me down album of Eddie Cochran from my old man, I had the Cochran album, and something else I'm racking my brains to remember. Elsewhere on the Cochran album...Somethin' Else https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgQg4ze1_KU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WanF1fMic8w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4o9OMKSURg

ahh, the sound of it firing up on 50 seconds. My old man's little BSA motorbikes don't quite make that sound (!), but the sensation and taste of firing them up in the garage and sucking in the smell of oil and petrol just came flashing back to me there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=32&v=Bok_llu14bA acoustics 'test' for new gig venue First gig coming up Sunday night, Lee Scratch Perry - so nobody will know if the acoustics are any good until the second gig, I guess!

premature inkjaculation we've all been there mate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=texZll4Ls0M

yeah, rum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlWGsaorj6U

I know he put it off for ages before finally getting round to making it. I've been meaning to say, nice touch that it took you a day to post that.

woah!!! teetering on the edge of spoilers for those of us catching up...

Cameron didn't make a Vat promise He just said we've no plans to increase it at this time Then that time passed but it's not a broken promise like say promising a referendum and then not giving it It's virtually impossible to keep all your manifesto promises in a coalition by definition, as it will involve negotiation and giving up certain policies to get an agreement, especially on taxes and spending. It's why I've always had a bit of sympathy for Clegg and his getting hammered non-stop for 5 years, at least he's helped to create some sort of functioning government when it could have been chaos. If its virtually impossible to keep a promise (and I agree with you on that), then why do it? We have to lie to win, once we've won, we'll give you the truth. That's a bit shitty isn't it? We are treated like children by politicians that squabble, we are lied to by the top of the establishment and we are told to take cuts by people that earn 2,3, 4 times the average wage and get pay rises, hansom expenses and incredible pensions. This farce at the moment of members of both the red team and the blue team criticising the other for not categorically ruling out this or that potential coalition - then refusing to answer the same question themselves. It's all a bit sad and appears to lack a genuine desire to work for us, rather, it suggests their main aim is to get into power as the main aim. What happens after that is just admin..

I think I'd rather be executed by random concoction of chemicals to try and mimic a lethal poison than by stoning. I like the idea of writihing for a while not quite dead until I'm given a second or third injection in my groin to induce a heart attack. So I'd be better off being executed in the U.S. than Iran.