tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post1889275316021325339..comments2024-03-29T08:01:51.705+00:00Comments on The Pub Curmudgeon: Nanny in a bunny suitCurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-26272796586713461432015-02-01T21:56:52.465+00:002015-02-01T21:56:52.465+00:00Don't be silly. They're not Communist at a...Don't be silly. They're not Communist at all.<br /><br />Wish they were!Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-36366439104981620602015-01-29T17:04:12.696+00:002015-01-29T17:04:12.696+00:00Here's an article with a different take on the...Here's an article with a different take on the Green Party<br /><br />http://www.monbiot.com/2015/01/28/the-lamps-are-coming-on-all-over-europe/PaddyMicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-29918151293699281502015-01-28T08:05:16.405+00:002015-01-28T08:05:16.405+00:00I think that's been on since the summer. I was...I think that's been on since the summer. I was in there in October and had a pint then.pynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-58129150414672824242015-01-27T23:07:43.242+00:002015-01-27T23:07:43.242+00:00py is my favourite too.
By the way py, just spott...py is my favourite too.<br /><br />By the way py, just spotted Punk IPA on keg in the Champion, one of Cambridge's proper drinkers pubs, which would be a good thing if rolled out by G King. Shame I had a lacklustre Abbot.Martin, Cambridgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-66233039400999484052015-01-27T17:25:03.513+00:002015-01-27T17:25:03.513+00:00Curmudgeon, while it is in their manifesto to slow...Curmudgeon, while it is in their manifesto to slowly increase alcohol and tobacco taxes buy 50%, a total ban on alcohol advertising is not in their manifesto and seems to have been made up by the Telegraph. Here's their manifesto, and alcohol is mentioned five times, and alcohol advertising is not mentioned at all as far as I can see. I'm not supporting their policies, as they seem to be a bit fruitcake, but lets look at actual policies shall we, not pretend ones. Saga Of Nailshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08891668833405154713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-67511489317769695232015-01-27T15:27:42.779+00:002015-01-27T15:27:42.779+00:00Back to more mundane matters - just out of interes...Back to more mundane matters - just out of interest I've been keeping a record of every alcoholic drink I've had in January.<br /><br />198 units so far - that must be 99 pints.<br /><br />Should I seek help ? Or just round it up to 200/100 ?Professor Pie-Tinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-85633874316958421712015-01-27T11:01:00.805+00:002015-01-27T11:01:00.805+00:00There is a limit to how much Mudgie can bang on ab...There is a limit to how much Mudgie can bang on about smoking bans, boring beer and crappy pubs. He needs to expand into the bigger issues of the day. Like how the ongoing Euro crisis affects crappy pubs or summat.Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-64718902278613525902015-01-27T09:35:19.195+00:002015-01-27T09:35:19.195+00:00*grits teeth* - I agree with py*grits teeth* - I agree with pyJohn Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00132845616834779091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-48588009503606286422015-01-27T00:15:27.582+00:002015-01-27T00:15:27.582+00:00fucking hell, you can tell its an election year. e...fucking hell, you can tell its an election year. everyone's gone off their rocker.<br /><br />more largely inconsequential arguments about craft beer, wetherspoons and sparklers please mudgie, that's what I pay my subscription for.pynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-71313585311070915712015-01-26T17:44:57.935+00:002015-01-26T17:44:57.935+00:00Clarkey could not be more wrong, this is the heigh...Clarkey could not be more wrong, this is the height of political debate.<br /><br />More on the Green defense policy 'ere<br /><br />http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/green-party-defence-policy-is-to-be-really-annoying-2015012694760Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-40083194924635265032015-01-26T12:23:05.252+00:002015-01-26T12:23:05.252+00:00Yeah, it's odd innit? Who's the discredit...Yeah, it's odd innit? Who's the discredited documentary maker? I got lost there. Andrew Neil?StringersBeerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12573068197944669997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-58003632931146997442015-01-26T11:15:08.343+00:002015-01-26T11:15:08.343+00:00David C Brown,
"Communism has only being giv...David C Brown,<br /><br />"Communism has only being given an extended trial in places where failure is inevitable.."<br /><br />Like Germany? Failure was inevitable with Germans and on German soil, even though the rest of Germany did fabulously?<br /><br />Or Korea? What's the difference between the quality of land in North and South Korea?<br /><br />or China? Is Taiwan so different to Mainland China, Hong Kong do different to the land a few miles away?Tim Almondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13369256383976094670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-42287737546411854942015-01-26T11:10:51.996+00:002015-01-26T11:10:51.996+00:00Tyson,
"Scrapping the monarchy and a wealth ...Tyson,<br /><br />"Scrapping the monarchy and a wealth tax on assets over £3 million? That sound good to me. "<br /><br />Why should someone pay a tax on their assets? If I've gone out, been successful, paid taxes on my income and bought a Rembrandt, why should I then pay taxes again on that Rembrandt?<br /><br />The greens are just ignorant people in a middle-class bubble wishing the world were a certain way rather than dealing with realities.<br /><br />They have no serious idea about where their extra spending will come from.<br /><br />Taxing the rich sounds great, but we tried this in the 1970s and the rich just move to other, lower tax countries. And the greens want all sorts of taxes - taxes on popular music performers, an NHS tax, wealth taxes, <br /><br />Having asset and gift taxes is nuts. Again, it sounds great, but that's just going to create an army of bureaucrats trying to spot parents giving cars to their kids or husbands giving jewellery to their wives. And why should they be taxed again, when they've already paid tax on income to buy those things in the first place (oh, and generally VAT when buying it as well).<br /><br />They want to remove the charity status from private schools, but there's no mention of how they're going to find the money to pay for all the people who put their kids into state schools because the fees are now too high in private schools (the charitable status is because they're providing a public good).<br /><br />They want to cut advertising on TV and newspapers, even though newspapers live on (and have always lived on) advertising.<br /><br />The idea of getting rid of a standing military is weapons-grade stupidity borne out of ignorance that should be a red flag for anyone considering voting Green not to do so. What happens if a Russian sub pops up in the North Sea threatening to level London? We won't have seen it coming because we don't have a standing navy. We can't call on our NATO allies because the Greens will get us to leave NATO. What would the greens precisely do in that situation? Or do they think that we can have hands across the world where no-one will threaten us like that?Tim Almondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13369256383976094670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-29149170500544183852015-01-26T08:12:48.021+00:002015-01-26T08:12:48.021+00:00I'd hardly call this stuff "political deb...I'd hardly call this stuff "political debate".John Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00132845616834779091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-74618868310529192412015-01-26T07:03:49.527+00:002015-01-26T07:03:49.527+00:00Could it possibly be because you posted about poli...Could it possibly be because you posted about politics?Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-3931225875754844702015-01-26T00:21:43.639+00:002015-01-26T00:21:43.639+00:00Always good to see ad hominems on here.
And hopef...Always good to see <i>ad hominems</i> on here.<br /><br />And hopefully the Pol Pot comment is tongue-in-cheek, although with today's Leftists you never know...<br /><br />I have to wonder why this blog has suddenly become a focus of political debate.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-31081879463285591182015-01-26T00:13:45.037+00:002015-01-26T00:13:45.037+00:00By a discredited documentary maker, whose best arg...By a discredited documentary maker, whose best arguments about global warming have been scientifically discredited. A man who tries to make horse shit the responsibility if bulls whilst blaming grass. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-67215627866431985052015-01-26T00:03:09.000+00:002015-01-26T00:03:09.000+00:00I think pol pot may have had the right idea, peopl...I think pol pot may have had the right idea, people need to lose freedom to become free.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-10867143973121645772015-01-25T23:22:18.885+00:002015-01-25T23:22:18.885+00:00>Whereas Communism has been an abject failure w...>Whereas Communism has been an abject failure wherever it's been tried.<br /><br />Communism has only being given an extended trial in places where failure is inevitable.. The modern capitalist Russia, for example, is as inefficient and corruption ridden as was former communist USSR.<br /><br />Whilst a total command economy may not, in the short term, appear to work as well as a free market the difficulties with both systems suggest that some mixture of the two should work better than either alone. The mixed economic system practised in this country in the immediate prewar decades was such a system. It worked well though the fact that it started in such unfavourable circumstances tends to make it look less successful than it really was.dcbwhaleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02585310584555592882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-62801939112113978712015-01-25T22:58:13.296+00:002015-01-25T22:58:13.296+00:00Capitalism may have its faults, but it's deliv...Capitalism may have its faults, but it's delivered unprecedented levels of human prosperity and well-being. <br /><br />Whereas Communism has been an abject failure wherever it's been tried.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-17217696080421143162015-01-25T20:40:44.903+00:002015-01-25T20:40:44.903+00:00And yet capitalism is still behaving in exactly th...And yet capitalism is still behaving in exactly the way Marx envisioned, boom then busy with the cycles of boom and boost coming more frequently. Have you read the Economist recently and the general consensus of the world's best economists. Capitalism doesn't work. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-65726677617384441672015-01-25T18:21:58.871+00:002015-01-25T18:21:58.871+00:00Yeah, you can be arrested and sent to prison for b...Yeah, you can be arrested and sent to prison for being English. reference Stewart Lee Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-90078397628826090582015-01-25T18:14:45.113+00:002015-01-25T18:14:45.113+00:00England for the English too. Oh no, that's rac...England for the English too. Oh no, that's racist!John Bullhttp://www.englishdefenceleague.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-68248714866621479262015-01-25T17:50:22.460+00:002015-01-25T17:50:22.460+00:00Ireland for the Irish.Ireland for the Irish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-86216430701500381552015-01-25T17:48:04.506+00:002015-01-25T17:48:04.506+00:00"ripped a new one"? You are so down with..."ripped a new one"? You are <b>so</b> down with the kidz. "Apparently" you could watch it here (for the next month): http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04y8xtp/sunday-politics-london-25012015 (starts around 11:40) StringersBeerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12573068197944669997noreply@blogger.com