chrisp65

currently working out of Kings Cross a couple of days a week, still can't decide if I like it lunchtime for many appears to mostly involve standing outside Pret in a shiny suit talking very loudly about how important they are it just looks like the out takes from the Apprentice

I can read that and see what it means. it clearly does not say all people that raise the subject are all racists It clearly does, rightly, suggest that often the people raising the subject are racist. Even though they often genuinely don't believe they are. The sort of people, often, that would be genuinely offended to be sat down and told not liking somebody specifically because they are asian or Latvian without any other facts or background actually is a bit racist. The sort of people that will quite happily, most nights, go on tv on a vox pop and announce I'm not racist, but.... Not everyone, not even everyone that raises the subject, But a lot of people that raise the subject without actually thinking through the logic of what they are saying. The sort of people who, god love 'em, just like my dad, genuinely think we should send 'em back, except the nice ones that he knows personally, because some of them are alright. But perhaps in order to get this conversation going, we actually have to get a bit more thick skinned and converse with all people including those not up to speed on this week's list of acceptable words and descriptors, setting aside instant criticism and actually teasing out what they are often trying to say or ask. Would it be better around here, without an influx of people coming in and skewing the labour market, house prices and everything? Or would it actually mean no money for pensions and no carers in care homes? We don't know because people just shout stats at each other.

not forgetting... quite difficult to find a picture that didn't include a peek at knickers, ok for a poptastic kids bedroom wall poster, but worth penalty points in stalag von off topic

Have you by any chance been put in charge of a young man called Stefan? Keen, but a bit new, loves ringing the dinner bell (if you know what I mean).

listen very carefully, put your ear to the ground 20 metres down, wacko nut job survivalists are having a tinned food and bottled water party

hmmm hang on that's unfair if this was UKIP nutter they would actually have said "I'm not a racist, but, I don't play the Euro Millions, cus I don't want my money won by a foreigner.We're already full" it's a small but significant difference

Having got on an aircraft (sorry Tony don't know what type 'normal looking') at Mombasa feeling perfectly fine but then proceeded to have the most incredible shits all over Sudan and Egypt and end up laying on the floor in a Heathrow toilet wondering if I was dead, I do think we are kidding ourselves that infectious people would be contained by default. But I agree, it's more to do with stopping the hysterical types getting hysterical too early and buggering up the Christmas sales and GDP stats. On the upside, there's never been a cheaper time for an all inclusive holiday to West Africa.

That's not airborne. Just so people understand the distinction. The "good" thing about Ebola is that the symptoms become quickly apparent, there's very little time for the virus to spread before the infected are identified. As things stand, it would be contained very quickly if it ever landed in these shores en mass. are you sure about that having just spent a week on tube trains at peek commuter times I'm not sure I agree on this easy containment theory personally, I've stopped slyly licking the necks of other commuters, just to be uber safe

I consider myself very lucky that this has never happened to me. If anything I'm the opposite. No kids stevo? Nope. And glad of it. but who will chose your care home when you are old and dribbling ? the state will do it, using the tax dollars our kids pay selfish seedless bastard

ah, ok paint a pentagram in Nitromors stripper on her door and set fire to it

lonely neglected moms... sorry, drifted off for a moment there

Is it possible that some dickhead 25 year old 'estate agent' has told her that's her space?

sent the new guy 4 e-mails today nothing gonna let him go tomorrow

It's beyond anecdote, it's clear on every site. There are gangs of european tradesman, good and efficient at their job, that house share to keep costs down, work 6 months for next to nothing and then go home for a rest and a spend. Somebody with a Uk mortgage and a UK based family cannot compete with that.

yeah it's the one with the eye, which was bad enough, but it was the piano scene that really did for me I was watching it over my nan's house when I was a nipper, I think she'd presumed a black n white film couldn't be that bad! nightmare over that for years

I would never claim to be a film buff, I've got Casino, I could just as easily have gone for Goodfellas but didn't think there was room for both. Similarly, I've got Deer Hunter but not Full Metal Jacket and King Kong but not Un Chien Andalou which had a massive massive affect on me when I first saw it. A bit uneducated when it comes to film.

hmmm I'm fairly sure we've done this a few times before, my list should be fairly similar to last time King Kong (1933) Vanishing Point Casino Alien A Field In England This is England Fargo No Country For Old Men The Deer Hunter The French Connection I do appreciate that's quite a vanilla and blokey list, but it is what it is.

It was probably someone on the Top Gear team, hoping to get some mild controversy - but it has spun a bit out of control. Yes, that's how much I respect the integrity of the whole Top Gear set up. Juvenile cock worshippers all deserving of any petty stone throwing and cat calling they are subject to.

battling demons? The Braintree MP, who is married with five children, also said he would stand down at the next election as the Sun on Sunday published fresh allegations. He wrote in the Mail on Sunday he had been "battling demons - and losing to them. I craved adrenaline and risk." He resigned as a minister last month after sending risque pictures to a reporter he thought was a young woman. That story was published in the Sunday Mirror. In the latest claims, the Sun on Sunday said it had discovered that Mr Newmark had sent "X-rated" pictures of himself to a second person. The newspaper claimed the 56-year-old sent explicit pictures to a "young mum". new allegations that don't really add or subtract from whether Newmark was competent to be an MP, more the case that it probably gets Mirror off the hook as to whether he was unfairly set up

luckily it was only rugby world would be in meltdown if that had been a football match with celebrity footballers in it we'd have Cameron touting law changes, a shock special on ITV and helicopters over giving live feed over Lancaster Gate

I'm in that London tomorrow, by the end of the day I'll be downing full fat Pepsi and ketamine whilst b deep in a male pro and eating KFC. I limit myself to once a week unless I'm really stressed with my work as an MP.

You can allow yourself a cheat day once every few weeks or a month, to help with the cravings and is seen as a reward my nan does that with smack n speed

my first proper job was in a hotel half way up a hill I'd get paid from the till on a Saturday morning, walk to the bottom of the hill and spend the money on singles (50p each). It was quite interesting to see the money physically come out of one till, be clutched in my hand and within 10 minutes be deposited into another till. I know this sounds sad, but at the age of 14 / 15 I could see the obvious commerce generated in a High Street by interdependence. If the hotel isn't there, I don't get my fiver, the record shop doesn't sell his singles, the pub doesn't get his lunchtime pint. Circle of life, man, circle of life.