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It is where the moment skips the normal routine in the brain and goes straight to memory. Therefore it appears as a memory.

I think the best explanation of jack the ripper is the one shown in the johnny depp movie involving the royal family, nice movie that

I wish my last comment had gone through lol

Irish Red

Ed001 has Goldman-sachs behind him, don't
trust him. Ed033 gets my vote,i like the cut of
that mans jib.
JR {Ed033's Note - Thanks JR}

Dear Ed033 i tried your i promise to pay technique with Frankie claw hammer Mcrae
a local building firm owner. He could not quite
grasp the concept, i'm very sorry to say.
Anyway not long now and there'll have my testicles removed from my rectum.
JR {Ed033's Note - Lol. Don't take offence to the next bit. What about paying with God's love instead. Isn't God's love valuable? Who would not accept God's love?}

I think the cliché you wanted to use was
communism doesn't work. Does everyone of
a right-wing persuasion fall back on these baseless statements? After 20 odd years of arguing with torys, i've heard the same tabloid
catchphrases spat out, never a sniff of originality or independent thought applied .
Namless i challenge you to ignore corporate media for one month,BBC,SKY the red-tops and the broadsheets, the lot.Get your news from indy media, democracy now! Even RT.
You will see some bias(RT mostly)but nothing
on the scale of what we get in the mass-media
because there is no billioniare behind them.
Ps Have you ever thought of what things would still be like in this country WITHOUT SOCIALISM ?
Pps Try this and let me know your thoughts.
JR

That dr tublettee or whatever you call him , the american quack who collected private parts of - womens stuff.............lfc

I have red eyes and scaley skin , and frankly
Raz i feel offended . Alcoholism is a disease man.
JR

Ed that makes you the right person, in that you would worry. I doubt Dave or Gordon ever lay awake at night.

Agreed on the Lib Dem voting thing, it tends to be mainly students based on what i've seen. Tories will always do well in the South, labour in the North and its the Midlands that decides things as these Midland seats tend to sway from one to the other.

Puzzled cheers for the support on public sector. These people really piss me off on the news all this moaning about being made to do what the rest of us had to do anyway over the last 3 years, what makes them so special? They are there to serve me yet it often feels like i am serving them. And they are often awful to deal with, all rude and arrogant.

Yeah god forbid lol. Good chat Ed, think we should be running things! {Ed001's Note - last thing I would want to do is be in charge! Then I would have no one to blame but myself if it went wrong! Plus, I don't feel I would be the best person to do it, I would worry far too much about every decision, knowing just how much it really affects people if I make the wrong choice. In fact even the right choice will affect people.}

Ed001 well if most people who voted lib dem did so because they wanted neither Conservatives nor Labour in power as you say then all they were doing was lodging a protest vote since for the past few generations it has always been Con or Lab. As for making voting compulsory I am not bothered either way about that but if people cannot be bothered to vote anyway then all you get is another batch of protest or spoiled votes. More to the point those who don't vote shouldn't moan about how things in the country are going.
To the earlier poster on public sector pay and conditions...he is exactly right ...scandalous situation we are in..it is partly weak management in negotiating with unions (over very many years) bear
in mind councils don't have shareholders to answer to and partly Labour when in power creating their own 'pet voters' It is no coincidence that towns returning large labour majorities often have large government depts in the constituency.
'Keep the public sector workers happy and they will keep voting us in'

Puzzled {Ed001's Note - actually you will find that in a lot of constituencies they are either Labour or Tory. There is no way Labour will win in a Tory area or Tory win in a Labour area, so a lot of people will vote Lib Dem in the hope that they might get in instead.}

Yeah think thats what i meant. Something like a 500 quid bond isn't it? Half a months wages before the tax man has finished for me.
If they opened it up a bit more then we could see some changes but thats what they are afraid of so can't see it happening for a while. {Ed001's Note - I agree, last thing they want is MPs who actually truly represent the people they are supposed to represent.}

Agreed Ed voting should be compulsory, enough people have made sacrifices for the privilge.

Also agreed on banning them from having 2 jobs. Might ease up on the corruption.

Should also ban any family members from working for them, blood relations or by marriage as well. I know most of them marry secretaries but can always get another one.

I'd also like to see some sort of requirement as well that opens it up to more ordinary people. can't really explain this well, but it always seems to be the same poeple. laywers like Blair, toffs like Cameron or people like the Milibands who have never lived in the real world. If there were more people in there from say an ordinary background who had had to struggle for a living for a few years and had more of a grounding with what the people they reperesent required it might help. if that makes sense. not sure how you would do that though. {Ed001's Note - that's because no one outside of a privileged background can easily raise the cash needed to stand as an MP. That needs to be changed, you are right there, it is easy to forget that side of it.}

Ed i do see what you are saying and the political classes are full of liars, most of them being failed lawyers after all. But the alternative is what? Most people are apathetic anyway. {Ed001's Note - that is the problem, apathy, for starters voting should be compulsory rather than optional. Secondly any MP should not be allowed to have any kind of second job, if they have time for a second job they are not doing their job correctly as an MP. I don't have all the answers though, that would be a start, it would cut out the MPs who are purely there for money. After that, well who knows, but at least that's a start.}

Yes Ed it was a bit of a generalisation, i think no-one at all wanted a coalition but thats what we got thanks to the system of having 3 parties. The Lib Dems were always going to hold the balance of power. Which is why i voted against that AV thing because we would have been in this mess after every election.

The thing is there really isn't anything to be done about it apart from hoping that next time there is an outright winner.

But at the end of the day we couldn;t have had labour after the mess they made. And a straight Tory govt, well we know how that would have turned out. As i see it the Tories have the balls to make the unpopular decsions Labour couldn't or wouldn't make and we need the Lib Dems in there to act as some sort of conscience and rain them in a bit when they start frothing at the mouth.

But i still stand on what i said about the Public Sector. it is in desperate need of reform. Labour had their chance and did nothing to reform only throw money at it. The money needs to be better spent. {Ed001's Note - I don't see how having yet another bunch of liars in charge helps with that?}

Its still a democratically elected govt, popular or not.

the Miners managed to remove the Heath govt in 1974 through the general strike.

They tried to repeat the trick on Thatcher in 1984 and failed.

I do think the unions would love to have a repeat performance but this isn't a Tory govt its a coalition and popular support for the unions isn't what it was 40 years ago.

Try waiting for the next election.

You say most people don't want it. And i agree a coalition isn't the greatest. But i didn't want a Labour government and based on votes cast nor did most people in the country as the lib dems and the tories together got more votes.

The only people who don't want the coalition are the lazy fat cat public sector workers who are waking up to the fact that they will have to share some of the pain the rest of us have had to put up with over the last 3 years.

Take my place of work for example.

2008 no pay rise. %00 job losses.
2009 no pay rise
2010 no pay rise (delayed till new tax year)
2011 pay rise but at 50% less of what would have had in previous years. More job losses.

Throw in the soaring cost of living and the last 3 years have not been a picnic.

Yet look at the public sector. I mean we had binmen in Brum on strike cos they were moaning about too much work, and then we find out the average wage was 27k a year!! I'd love to earn that. A binman on 27k a year for gods sake, no wonder people are fed up with councils.

The bloody teachers are a joke as well. All those holidays and they still moan.

So no mate, things aren't ideal but its about time the public sector was dragged into order and made to run more efficently.

O and yeah stuff does need to ne cut but the labour ran councils are doing it in spite to make things look bad, like Manchester for example cutting libraries and swimming pools to hurt ordinary people when their sat oon 60 million in the bank and could easily just get rid of all the non jobs in the city hall.

Have you ever been in side a town hall or city hall? They even have a tea trolley lady. My place we have to make our own. Talk about pampered.

Another exampe. Coventry City Council. 950 Public sector jobs have gone in Coventry since the elction, half of that in the council alone. So if they can axe almost 500 jobs, then did these people need to be employed in the first place? i guess not. {Ed001's Note - I am not one of those, but I don't want the coalition government, so your generalisation is untrue. In fact I doubt there are many that do want this coalition, especially not amongst those who voted for the Lib Dems, most of their votes came from people who wanted neither Tories or Labour in power.}

On a less serious note, having watched V for Vendetta last night you could go and do that.

Hacking is just wrong plain and simple. i bet everyone on here, at some point, has had some sort of problem related to hacking. Its a nuisence and inconvenient.

Ok so he wasn't being a nuisence to ordinary people by going around planting silly or malicious viruses or anything or knocking out Sony or Blackberry. But it was still wrong. Still illegal. What if he'd got into some sensitive stuff and people got killed for it?

Or is because he has some syndrome people are prepared to cut him some slack? Because to me thats wrong as well. He knew full well what he was doing.

Maybe they detected buried alien tech like that cube thing in transformers? Maybe they found some sort of rare mineral buried that far down and had to go deep to mine it? maybe they have some really nasty toxic waste they wanted to dispose of? Maybe they were just really really bored one day? maybe they had a bet on how far they could get down? maybe they just bought a new drill?