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Was that the (in)famous “Affinity Groups” where you could get cheap transatlantic tickets if you joined the left-handed club or something and said you were travelling to meet fellow left-handers over the pond?

Shame he’s years of lies and time between the event and acceptance of responsibility.

Stupidity of it all is, accepting the points and fine at the time and no-one would even remember it now, plus I can’t imagine that it would have hurt his career much at all.

Yes, typical politician; cheats and lies for 10 years, then seems to be think he’s being virtuous or honourable in finally resigning. As a Liberal, he probably won’t find some aspects of prison life entirely to his disliking either… 😉

Best wishes, Mate.

A while ago I dreamt I was outside my house when a Mirage F1 and a Mirage 2000 flew over extremely low. The F1 pulled up, but the 2000 crashed into a shop. I’m ashamed to report that my first reaction was not to rush to help or even phone the emergency services, but to try (unsuccessfuly as it happened) to log on here and be the first to report it.:o

Nearly booked a package holiday involving Ryanair flights recently (though not directly through them) till it came to the baggage options, which were either no bags at all, or paying for all 4 of of us (inc a 2y/o and a 6 y/o) to have bags. No way would it just let me book one or two bags. Gave up in disgust and went elsewhere.

At the risk of going off-topic, how does an airline cope with the sudden withdrawal of 17 of its aircraft, ie how does it maintain its schedules?

Sun readers – here?? Surely not!!:diablo:

“Sun Reader” Classic oxymoron.

One question keeps recurring on these discussions:
How many innocent young and old people have to die before these doughwhackers come to their senses?

It will go on as long as people refuse to see what is staring them in the face. As long as people cling to a law that may have been appropriate 200 years ago (a time when slavery was also deemed acceptable), but is now a dangerous anachronism. As long as people duck the difficult questions about why gun crimes and murder rates are so much higher in the US than in any other comparable nation. As long as people bizzarely even deny any link between higher gun ownership and higher gun usage, compared to elswhere, and say “Guns don’t kill; people kill” As long as people make inane statements saying (in effect) guns are less dangerous than essentials like cars, aircraft, or even swimming pools (that was a classic :D) and that if you ban guns you should ban them too. As long as people refuse to admit that with so many guns in public ownership, they will inevitably keep falling into the hands of nutters, with the tragic results we see over and over again; remember, Adam Lanza’s mother was a “responsible” gun owner. As long as people take the immature line that being “anti-gun” means you are “anti-America” especially if you happen to be a non-US citizen; if for example, some US citizen tried to make some constructive criticism about our appalling booze culture, I certainly wouldn’t wrap myself in the Union Jack and cry “Foul!” As long as -just a few weeks after 20 innocent kids were murdered in cold blood- people think it fun to come on forums like this and brag about all the bad boy guns and ammo they have.

Rant over, and as they say on Dragons’ Den, “I’m out.” See you after the next massacre?