I'M NOT SURE THE EUROZONE WILL BREAK UP!

I've been following this debate about the Euro for well over a year now, as I am waiting to complete on a small house in Spain.  

I am no longer convinced that  the Eurozone is going to break up.  Alth ough the € has gone from £1.10 to £1.25, which is great for me, I don't think it is an economic decision any more but rather a political one.

I watched tonight a programme I had  taped where Michael Portillo goes to Greece and all parts of Germany to ask if they want to stay in the Euro and to a man and woman, they did.

When you are on the continent for any length of time your attitude to Europe and the Euro tends to change.  We in Britain have a sort of snobbish, standoffish attitude towards Europe and the Eurozone.  Now, while I am in Scotland, I don't want to see us joining, but when I am in Spain, it somehow seems ,OK.  How can that be?

MY TWOPENCE WORTH ON MINIMUM ALCOHOL PRICING

BEER SHAMPOO HITS £10 A TUBE!

Minimum alcohol pricing, there's a quandry.

We have to face up to the  fact that we in the UK and more particularly in Scotland, have a big problem with alcohol.  When you go to Spain or France the only drunks you see are Brit tourists or occasionally a North European.  Some of the scenes in our city centres on a Saturday night are a disgrace.  Some people will say that is because drink is so dear that people get hammered in the house before they go out.  So should we make drink cheaper?  Would that bring in a more responsible attitude to drinking?  Personally I doubt it. But, then I suppose you could say that it is much cheaper in Spain where I drink a reasonable wine for £0.65 a litre and Spaniards don't get pissed, even at the football.

Now I speak as one who has drunk like a fish for most of his life, so I think I might have some input here.  I do in principle support minimum pricing but I do believe that £0.50 a unit is too dear.  How, if it gets through the courts, can we charge £0.50 when in England, they are looking to bring in a price of £0.40.  Ridiculous.  And why should we hand the supermarkets a £100 million bonus?  Those bastards have ravaged our town centres, turning them into 'tesco extras', charity shops and bookies.  I'd clobber any multinational in an out of town centre till they felt their orange pips squeeze.  

Is it possible to take this money off them and use it to pay for alcohol education for our young?  I don't know.  But, I will tell you one thing.  This is what a responsible Government means to the people of Scotland.  The SNP and it could be rightly or wrongly in your estimation had this policy as part of their manifesto despite the fact that Labour, the Tories and the Libdums were against it in the last parliament and they know it will lose them votes, but they have the interests of Scotland's people at heart.  Suddenly of course, CamaClegg have decided they are in favour so the Libdums and the Tories have changed their tune.  So in other words, they are not interested in the health of the people of Scotland, just in their narrow Unionist policies.  Plus ca change as my French brothers say!

SPAIN- A DIFFICULT PLACE TO DO BUSINESS.

Strikers in Galicia

There was a general strike in Spain today with trade unions saying there was an 80 percent turnout and the right wing Government saying that it was 30 percent.

As usual the truth will lie somewhere in the middle.

I think I have a little insight into Spain and the Spanish people.  The Spanish worker has a very different attitude, in general, to the British.  A Spanish worker wants to work for the civil service and retire with a good pension.  There is not the same emphasis in Spain on climbing to the top of the greasy tree and being career orientated over their quality of life, particularly, family life and that for me is one of the many charms of the country.  Unfortunately, it also makes the 'entrepreneurship' of the Spanish economy less than what it might be.

Workers in Spain, have what we would call, fabulous employment rights.  They currently get 45 days pay per year of employment if they are made redundant, although the current Government wants to cut that to 33.  That equates to 7 in the U.K.  Spain however, is one of the hardest places in the world to start a business.  They also have this weird notion that when business turns down like now in the recession, instead of cutting your profit margin from what you made in the good times to increase business, you increase your prices to make more profit from the dwindling customers you still have!  Very strange.

However you have to remember that Spain is a fragile democracy which until a few years ago was under the Franco dictatorship.  I have a friend who has told me of what that was like for his family.  His Grandfather was denounced as a 'Rojo', (Red), by a neighbour who coveted his fields.  He was arrested and only through the auspices of the village priest was he let go.  Many people disappeared, never to be seen again in those times and the Catholic Church being in leagues with Franco, wielded enormous power.  He had to move to Germany to escape after being released from prison.Many old people even yet when asked what they think of Franco will be non-committal for the fear of being locked up, even in their own heads.

So, you have to remember that the Spanish people have fought hard for their democracy and their liberties, although like in the first sentence the way forward for Spain lies in the the middle somewhere.  Somewhere, where they can develop their own particular traits and economy free from the constraint of the Euro-Zone and the ECB and in particular, the Franco-German axis, who do not understand how economies like Spain work.

ALL THE BEST AT THE BELLS!

Another year in.  Another year of talking shite with all you daft bastards that contribute your comments to this blog.  As you can see I am in Spain, as most of you knew.  Now I know the pic was taken in October, but I've been sitting in the sun in 20 degrees of heat all afternoon.  I spent yesterday in Cartagena.  Some things really struck me.  Spain is supposed to be on it's arse.  Well, you wouldn't know it.  The streets are spotless, the shops are busy and everyone looks prosperous.  Now, you could argue, that this is because of the money that the EU has pumped in over the years and I wouldn't disagree.  But, other things are also evident.  Spanish people take pride in their country and their society.  Go down any main street in the UK and all you see are rubbish strewn streets, full of young, fat lassies who shag like rabbits and consequently are dragging or pushing in prams, their cheeky, sullen kids, who cost the taxpayer a fortune because they can't keep their knickers on until they get a ring on their finger or at least some commitment from the morons who haven't got the brains to put on a gongy to stop their worthless seed penetrating the sluts.  (How was that for a sentence).

Could it be that the Spanish are in the main still Catholic, if not in religion at least in ideals?  Yes, and I know all about priests shagging weans, I don't know, but I would guess that it's still seen as shameful to have a kid out of wedlock.  Is it because they are still a reasonable young democracy, having lived under Franco for so long?  Anyway, I hope we all have a good and prosperous New Year and as we say in Scotland,

AW THE BEST AT THE BELLS AND LANG MAY YIR LUM REEK WI ITHER FOWKS COAL!

WHY ARE DJs SUCH SCATHING TALENTLESS FUCKWITS?

Here I am sitting in Spain, half pished listening to TOTP2 on the BBC and the commentary is by some fucking, scathing, talentless, failed musician called Mark Radcliffe.

Now I don't know, who the fuck he is, but I believe he is some DJ on Radio 1, a station I never listen to but he is one annoying bastard.

Why do arseholes like him get paid fortunes for being hopeless?  I'll throw in another name, Chris Evans, another talentless prick.

You'd have thought that sitting in the sun for two hours a day would have mellowed me?

THE TROUBLE IS NOT WITH PENSIONS, IT'S THE WAY THEY ARE ADMINISTERED!

TWO TWATS IN A ROW, THIS TIME A GINGER TWAT!

I've followed all this shite today, about the public sector employees fighting for their pension etc, etc and the difference between public and private pensions.  So here's my take on it, for what it's worth.

I believe that if you start a job and they tell you the conditions are such and such, then you are entitled to expect that to be the case. For public employees, the majority of who, don't get huge pensions, that should be what happens.  I coming from the private sector have never understood, why because, you work for the Government, you should get a final salary pension.  But apart from that,  I spent some time in the pensions industry in the 90s and the one thing, I could never get my head around was, that in a money purchase scheme you had to turn your pension pot over to some fucking insurance company!

Now if I had a final pot of say, £100,000, (which I don't), why should I say to some insurance company, " I want to buy an annuity, please take my money, pay me a pittance, if I die at age 67, give my wife a half pension and if she dies at age of 68, then just you take the rest of the pension pot and invest it, into your profits"!

Now, if I am lucky enough to hit a pension age and I had a pension pot of £100,000, I would like to say to the Government, "OK, give me that money and I will do whatever the fuck I feel like doing with it"!  I may want to buy a new house, a new car, a new house in Spain (see banner!), or some 23 year old whore for a year, it's MY FUCKING MONEY!

Until they can solve the above question and stop taking donations and bribes from insurance companies, then politicians, if it was anything to do with me, you could shove your

PRIVATE PENSION, RIGHT UP YOUR ARSE!!!!

IS THIS THE START OF THE 4TH REICH AND A NEW WAR IN EUROPE?

 

Germany is reportedly pushing behind the scenes along with France for a smaller, more financially integrated EU within the EU with only the strong currencies allowed.

This can be viewed in a number of ways.  Perhaps the Germans are trying to get the UK to join the Euro, strange as it may seem, for fear of falling into a 2nd track Europe where our influence, (such as it is), is diminished or they are intent on setting up a new German Empire and 4th Reich.

The first scenario, is just not  going to happen, because Cameron would have a revolt on his hands, bigger than any Tory leader has ever had.  I think however, that the second scenario is more likely.  France knows that they are next in the firing line after Italy and perhaps Spain and their Gallic pride won't let that happen if they can avoid it.  By sticking in with Germany they think their currency will be protected and if this is the first step in German expansionary plans, it will save them getting stuffed by the Krauts for the third time in a row.

Whatever is going on and you can bet there is something we aren't being told about, there are some interesting times ahead!

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL TAX EVASION!

There are more Porsche Cayennes registered in Greece than taxpayers declaring an income of 50,000 euros (£43,800) or more, according to research by Professor Herakles Polemarchakis, former head of the Greek prime minister’s economic department.

Now that has to be some really good tax evasion.  It's no wonder the bastards are going bust.  Although I believe Spain and Italy are not far behind.  I remember going with a Spanish friend who ran a restaurant, 20 years ago to the Spanish cash and carry.  He gave me a trolley, he also took one and he split the purchased between the different trolleys.  When I asked him why, he told me his was the official one and mine was the 'black money' one and right enough at the till he paid his with a cheque and mine with cash.

I was reading somewhere else that workers in Italy cannot be paid off due to economic reasons and one of the Greek leaders wives, who is a teacher and retired on a full pension at 39!  Is it only the Northern Europeans who do any work?  Or are we the stupid bastards, who have no protection from our employers?  In Spain, practically everything is done on a cash basis.  I've just spent a considerable amount on building work at my new place and it was all cash to the builder and all his workers were being paid cash.  If no one pays any tax, how do they run the country.  Then again, I suppose they don't waste it on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, countries that have fuck all to do with us and where Pakistan, according to a TV programme I saw, has been working with the Taliban, big time, while receiving $billions from the Yanks.

Cash it seems, makes the world go round.  It is reckoned that by 2020, half the money in the world will be traded in 'system D', which is where everything is done in cash and no tax is paid.  Is this how we're going to finally get rid of our leeching banker scum?

WHY ARE THE POLITICIANS SO INEPT?

With the world about to dissolve into a financial crisis, can anyone tell me why our politicians on a global scale are so fucking hopeless?  

The Eurofuckers instead of taking the decisions that they should have on the crisis in Greece, i.e. let them default, continued to take their holidays.  Everyone knows it's going to happen and they should have made the decision instead of letting the rest of the PIIGS get dragged in.  Here in Spain, the regions, which are semi-autonomous are bust.  That is, in my opinion, because no one pays tax.  I don't know about Greece, but here the 'black' economy is huge.  As soon as you say you are willing to pay cash, whether to a builder or even in a department store, you can knock off at least 20%.  My council tax for a three bedroomed bungalow with lots of outside space is 124 Euros a YEAR.  How is that possible?  The roads are better than at home, the street lights are the same and OK you have to take your rubbish to the nearest bin instead of getting it picked up once a fortnight, so are we getting conned in the UK?

The Health Service, I am told, is far superior in Spain, although I don't want to test that theory!  The way of life is also better.  It rained last night for the first time in 3 months, yet water is plentiful and cheaper than what you English pay and only slightly more expensive than in Scotland.  Power is also much cheaper.  Why have our politicians let the power companies fleece us year on year.  We all presume to know the answer to that and probably Tony Bliar is the living proof!  

It's time we changed the system and got rid of the whole fucking lot of our 'Global' politicians and got back to more localised politics.

Anyway Amigos, enough moaning, back to the sun!

THE EU IS A FABULOUS INSTITUTION

Hola Amigos!!


I admit it.  I was wrong.  The EU is a fabulous  institution.

It has brought all us deadly enemies like the Germans and the Brits, together in one big happy family.  I have made so many new amigos out here of all nationalities, that I think we are being insular in Britain.  We must foster our relationships with our new neighbours and friends.  So what if they are feckless fuckers like the Greeks?  We've had to put up with the English for hundreds of years!  What if they are domineering Germans, lazy Spaniards, goat shagging Cypriots, sauna shagging Scandanavians, greasy  French wankers, garlic breathed Portugese, bunga-bunga Italians? 

It seems to me there is a lot of shagging and garlic eating that we don't participate in.  So I say, "take up the cudgels for a free Europe" and let's join in the shagging and garlic eating.

I'll just go and suggest that to my wife and see what she says!

HASTA APPROXIMA AMIGOS_ESTOY IENDO A ESPAÑA.

It is with a heavy heart that I have to tell you that I am off to Spain tomorrow for six weeks to try and catch the last of the summer that we didn't get in Scotland.

Away to Mazarrón, near Murcia to do the house up, so I won't get much time to sit in the sun, much.  Hopefully this time, my fucking laptop won't blow up and I have turned the 'data while roaming' off on my phone, so I won't get a £500 bill from Orange when I come back.

Once I get a phone line of sorts, or at least what passes for a phone line in Spain, I'll be back to being the annoying bastard that you all know.  As we are driving there is WIFI in most of the hotels we are staying in and the neighbours have just put a satellite phone in so I might be able to nick some of his.

Please keep the arguments going in my absence and I'll try to keep up!  Oh and I've been promised tickets for the Spain v Scotland game in Alicante in October.  If anyone is looking for a cheap house or good cheap accommodation, give me a shout and I'll scout something out for you when I'm over.

TOO MANY IMMIGRANTS IN THE UK?

Seven in 10 Britons believe there are too many immigrants in the country, an Ipsos Mori poll showed.

Three in four agreed that immigration has placed too much pressure on public services while three in five agreed that it had made it harder for Britons to get jobs.

Just one in four thought immigration had been good for the economy, the survey of 1,000 people showed.

I don't think there has been too much immigration into the UK, I think it's been the wrong immigrants.

Let me explain what I mean.  Immigrants from the third world, i.e. outside of  Europe, have very little compunction to integrate and adopt the host culture of the UK.  Many are black and whilst this shouldn't make a difference, most of the population of the UK is not.  Many are devoutly Muslim, which is different to the 'Christian' religion of this country.  Their experiences and customs are different to ours.  What tends to happen therefore is that they end up in enclaves all over the country.  Places like Bradford and Blackburn are testimony to that.  In Glasgow, the poorer Asian immigrants congregate around the Allison Street area, until they earn serious money and then they move out to the 'South-Side'.

Left-wingers will tell me, they bring employment.  Er, no!  They tend to employ other Asians who are married off to various family members.  I have experience of some elderly women who have been here for 40 years and can speak no more than six words of English.  

The other argument we hear is that there has been immigration into Scotland for a thousand years.  Well, yes, but from Europe, where the people tend to have a similar culture to us.  Where have you been in Europe that feels distinctly different from the UK, apart from the obvious differences like language.  There is a current case before the courts of a woman who is being barred from bringing her husband over from India, because he comes from a small village, (a cousin) and can't speak English.  She says the ruling is against her human rights.  Well, IMO, it's against our human rights to let her husband in, if he doesn't want to integrate in this country.  She could always go over and join him in India!

As some of you know, I am hoping to emigrate to Spain at some point, (thanks anonymous, it will be good riddance).  Now I don't know whether or not it will work out.  But, I do know one thing it won't be because I'm not willing to integrate into Spanish society.  I'm brushing up my Spanish which I learnt some years ago and fully expect to take part in Spanish traditions, like fiestas.  I don't agree totally with bull fighting, but that's got fuck all to do with me, as is the case with the Roman Catholic religion which I fundamentally disagree with because I don't like any religion.  But, religion is in many ways the thing that makes Spain such an attractive country, so my lips will be sealed!

For too long in this country, immigration has been one of the 'elephants in the room'.  It's time we brought it out in the open and at least discussed it without us being labelled as 'racists' for doing so.

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT FOREIGN EXCHANGE-THE EXPERTS TALK SHITE!

 

As some of you may be aware, through a bit of bad and good luck, we have purchased a property in the Costa Calida in Spain, near Mazarron, (available to rent shortly at keen prices)!

Now that is not the point of this post, but as we have a really good 'rent to buy deal', I have 18 months to move the money across to Spain to complete the purchase.  Some of you won't, I am sure, be aware of the fact that if you do it through your bank, the fuckers, will screw you on the exchange rate, so it is better to use dedicated foreign exchange companies.

As you would expect, I have, ploughed the Internet, taken a plethora of info in, about how the exchange rates will work.  It makes a big difference to me because it could make a difference of around £20k in the purchase price, depending what the Euro is doing.  In such times of flux, one is looking for a bit of good info.

I've come to the conclusion, however, that they don't know what the fuck they are talking about!  Since I was in Spain in May, the Euro has fluctuated between 1.12-1.14, fuck all of a difference, yet I am bombarded daily, (by my own insistence granted), with all this info about the pound being influenced by unemployment figures, inflation, factory output, consumer confidence, etc, etc.  All of which it seems to me, means fuck all!  You would be better sticking a pin in a bit of paper.

I remember meeting my Brother-in-law in the City of London, just after the crash and seeing brokers, pissed up to their eyeballs at lunchtime and thinking to myself, "fuck me, it's no wonder there was a crash"!

IS IT JUST ME-OR IS ANYONE ELSE PISSED OFF?

It's not the easiest thing in the world running a blog, even a shite one like this.

At the moment there just seems nothing worthwhile writing about.  Oh, yes, we've got the hacking scandal, but I think everyone is bored to death with that.  Libya?  Gaddafi lives in a tent and the most sophisticated of weapons that NATO have, can't find him.  Fuck off!  Its OK bombing Gaddafi forces who are of course, of his tribe and loyal to him, but not the Muslim extremists that make up most of the rebel forces.

  

The weather?  Pish, as usual.  Scottish Parliament?  In recess.  Sport?  Football not started yet.  Celebs?  No, can't be arsed.  Greek debt crisis?  If you've got any money, get it into gold bullion that you can hold in your hand, (gone up 7% this year alone).

Me?  I'm thinking of moving to Spain on a permanent basis.  I love Scotland, but the weather is getting me down and if I don't make a move now, I'll probably regret it for the rest of my life.  

Ach well, moan over!

IF ONLY THE BRITISH WERE AS AWARE AS THE SPANISH!

TOMA LA CALLE MEANS TAKE TO THE STREETS

All over Spain, people are protesting about their politicians and what the bankers have created.  The following is their manifesto.  If only the lily livered Brits who let their politicians screw them time after time, were as aware and brave:

We are ordinary people. We are like you: people, who get up every morning to study, work or find a job, people who have family and friends. People, who work hard every day to provide a better future for those around us.
Some of us consider ourselves progressive, others conservative. Some of us are believers, some not. Some of us have clearly defined ideologies, others are apolitical, but we are all concerned and angry about the political, economic, and social outlook which we see around us: corruption among politicians, businessmen, bankers, leaving us helpless, without a voice.
This situation has become normal, a daily suffering, without hope. But if we join forces, we can change it. It’s time to change things, time to build a better society together. Therefore, we strongly argue that:

• The priorities of any advanced society must be equality, progress, solidarity, freedom of culture, sustainability and development, welfare and people’s happiness.
• These are inalienable truths that we should abide by in our society: the right to housing, employment, culture, health, education, political participation, free personal development, and consumer rights for a healthy and happy life.
• The current status of our government and economic system does not take care of these rights, and in many ways is an obstacle to human progress.
• Democracy belongs to the people (demos = people, krátos = government) which means that government is made of every one of us. However, in Spain most of the political class does not even listen to us. Politicians should be bringing our voice to the institutions, facilitating the political participation of citizens through direct channels that provide the greatest benefit to the wider society, not to get rich and prosper at our expense, attending only to the dictatorship of major economic powers and holding them in power through a bipartidism headed by the immovable acronym PP & PSOE.
• Lust for power and its accumulation in only a few; create inequality, tension and injustice, which leads to violence, which we reject. The obsolete and unnatural economic model fuels the social machinery in a growing spiral that consumes itself by enriching a few and sends into poverty the rest. Until the collapse.
• The will and purpose of the current system is the accumulation of money, not regarding efficiency and the welfare of society. Wasting resources, destroying the planet, creating unemployment and unhappy consumers.
• Citizens are the gears of a machine designed to enrich a minority which does not regard our needs. We are anonymous, but without us none of this would exist, because we move the world.
• If as a society we learn to not trust our future to an abstract economy, which never returns benefits for the most, we can eliminate the abuse that we are all suffering.
• We need an ethical revolution. Instead of placing money above human beings, we shall put it back to our service. We are people, not products. I am not a product of what I buy, why I buy and who I buy from.

For all of the above, I am outraged.
I think I can change it.
I think I can help.
I know that together we can.I think I can help.

I know that together we can.

OBSERVATIONS ON FRANCE AND SPAIN-BRITAIN IS A SHITEHOLE!

Hola Amigos!  I am back to annoy you, fresh from my travels in France and mostly, Spain.  I apologise for my lack of communication but I had a system failure on my laptop which stopped me from being able to blog.  However, I am now armed with a new laptop and fresh vigour.

You know, in this country we are fucking idiots.  We knock our pans in at work.  Our pace of living is killing us.  Do we enjoy life?  I don't think so.  Look for instance at the Dayglows.  Their Supermarkets don't sell everything like ours do and therefore small businesses are allowed to flourish.  Their town centres are not like ghost towns, like many of ours are.  The Supermarkets and normal shops don't open on a Sunday.  Sunday is a family day when they got to church, (many of them) and then they go out for a meal as a family and have a relaxing day off.  It's accepted that the shops shut in the afternoon for a siesta.  They all do it, so people don't expect to shop in those 3 hours.  Instead they have lunch and a kip.

We were in France last Thursday and ALL the shops and most of the restaurants and cafes were shut.  I asked the guy in the hotel what the score was and he told me it was some sort of local holiday.  The streets were deserted because people were in their homes being families and with their friends.  Does that happen here on a so called holiday?  The only restaurants that were open were the British/American ones like Mcdonalds, Burgerking and Kentucky Fried Rabbit.  Does that really surprise you?

Our way of life is shite and I don't know what we could do to change it.  Instead of cutting down the power of the Trade Unions, why don't we cut down the power of the big companies.  Let's tell them that they are not going to open 24/7.  Tell them to shut at 8 at night and they can't open on a Sunday.  Don't give me the tale about convenience and choice, because that is what is ruining what little culture we have left in this country.

It's pathetic to come back to Scotland and to see that 50% of the young girls in the street are, quite plainly, fucking obese.  In a Spanish supermarket, there is only about 3 feet of ready made meals.  The women in Spain still know how to take some ingredients and make a meal for their family.  Not that I'm saying there are no fat young women in Spain, there are, but not nearly the same percentage as here.

Can anyone tell me why, in an oil producing nation, our diesel is £1.40 per litre and in Spain it's £1.05?  Why is diesel dearer than petrol here, when it's cheaper to produce and diesel cars are more efficient.  In France and Spain, diesel is much cheaper than petrol, so why not here?

No my friends, this country, (UK),  is a shitehole in so many ways and unless we make a stand now, it's just going to get worse.

Oh, BTW, I've purchased a house in Spain.  Available for hire once I get it ready!

IS SPITTING STILL SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE?

A YOUNG FOOTBALLER GETS READY TO LET A 'GOB' GO!

I've got an admission to make.  When I was in my late twenties, I could spit for Scotland, or 'gob' as I'm told the modern parlance is.


I was reading a thing the other night on spitting, I can't remember where but it got me thinking about whether it's a socially acceptable phenomenon.  Obviously sports 'stars', footballers in particular are keen on it, unless it's directed at one another, then it's an excuse for a sending off or 'handbags at six paces'.  You very rarely see rugby players spitting, unless they're spitting out blood or teeth.  Maybe it's a working class thing?


What about spitting in the street?  Could that create infection?  With TB on the rise again, is it a health hazard?  Seemingly not, as the effect of sunshine kills the virus.  There used to be spittoons in the street and in Public Bars.  But I suppose with the demise of men only bars, a woman doesn't want to see her date coughing up a thicky and gobbing it into the spittoon with a ding, like an old cowboy film.  I remember a mate of mine telling me that just after he got in one of the new fangled, living flame electric fires with the red lights and the imaginary coals, his old uncle visited from up the North of Scotland.  His uncle was in the habit of sitting at the fireside and spitting into his fire and this new, electric fire was so authentic that he thought it was real.  Every time he spat into it, my friend sitting across from him, had to make a hissing noise as if the spittle was hitting hot coals.  He told me that about 20 years ago and it still cracks me up.  But, you have to know my mate!


So what do you think?  Ban it or not?  As someone who is fairly Libertarian in outlook, I would say no.  There are too many things banned already.  Find a woman who either doesn't mind you spitting or likes a good gob herself.  I remember teaching my recently deceased Mother-in-Law who was quite ladylike, how to spit from the balcony of an apartment I had in Spain, one night when she was half pissed and she was brilliant at it!

COLLAPSE OF THE EURO IS INEVITABLE SAYS TOP FRENCH BANKER

The European single currency is facing an 'inevitable break-up' a leading French bank claimed yesterday.
Strategists at Paris-based Société Générale said that any bailout of the stricken Greek economy would only provide 'sticking plasters' to cover the deep- seated flaws in the eurozone bloc.  The stark warning came as the euro slipped further on the currency markets and dire growth figures raised the prospect of a 'double-dip' recession in the embattled zone.

Meanwhile our MAN IN THE KNOW, the Business Secretary, LORD FONDLEBUM said earlier this week, "the EURO has been a remarkable success!  It is in BRITAIN'S INTEREST to join as soon as possible".  FUCK ME, let's hope he never gets his FINGER ON THE NUCLEAR BUTTON!

Trouble is after Greece, it will be Spain, Portugal, Ireland and then they'll COME FOR US!  The only consolation is that if the EURO collapses then the whole PARASITIC MONOLITH MIGHT COME TUMBLING DOWN!