Comments on: don’t hold your breath

By: red

red — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:33:17 +0000

You’ve linked me to Mandel**n?

No, you wouldn’t do that to me…

I think you’ve turned your screen name into an un-link though. Probably by zapping your URL out of the form.

Or I might have broken something. I was fiddling with the comments template – don’t know what that does to poor unfortunate commenters who get caught in the works. Eats them, possibly…

By: Queenie

Queenie — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:07:44 +0000

Oh dear, what have I accidentally tagged to turn comment 4 into a link? Soz…

*tiptoes out*

By: Queenie

Queenie — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:06:46 +0000

Oh, I just meant the word piss. So yes then.

Wonder if more serious profanities like Mandel**n would get censored though?

Oh so they do.

By: red

red — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:35:28 +0000

Queenie – can you swear? I don’t know how many times I can tolerate the word Treasury… or did you mean something that really did get zapped? If so, I will have a look to see if wordpress has been censoring things for me. Eek.

I actually think there will be a hint of the sting to come in this budget. But well buried in the paperwork. I will have a look after Wednesday and see what I can find.

£400 for grub, with no receipts needed! Bloody hell, I missed that one.

Spins – hello! It’s lovely to see you here.

That’s interesting about California – the kind of news we get here about the US rarely deals with stuff like what is happening to public services. Credit default swaps indeed… every time I think about the banking loonies, my mind turns into spaghetti.

By: spinsterwitch

spinsterwitch — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:43:57 +0000

Ah, yes, balance the budget by penalizing the elderly, ill and poor. That’s what we’re doing in the fine state of California. In Home Supportive Services are being slashed. State run medical coverage is being slashed. Funds for paratransit services are being slashed. And now cuts to public schools are being made meaning more programs for children will be lost.

But, yes, by all means give money to the rich bastards who knew that credit default swaps were worthless to begin with and bought them anyway. Yoohoo!

By: Queenie

Queenie — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:53:59 +0000

Can’t help feeling we’ll have an election budget, then an absolutely vile mopping-up-the-Treasury-largesse budget that will see tax rates soar, both income and stealth taxes.

Think you’re spot on about benefit claimants and the least well-off being given a temporary (pre-election) leg-up, as they’re the ones least likely to squirrel it away into savings accounts. They’ll probably piss it away on pointless luxuries like, I dunno, dinner.

Can you swear on here? I hadn’t checked. Sorry if it gets bleeped.

We’ll definitely have enough money left for MPs to claim £400 a month on food though. THANK GOD FOR THAT. I was worrying they might get rumbly tummies, poor mites.

“You’re an idiot, Darling.”