Who...

Fcuk me.. a septic candidate that talks sense!

Er, Riser, careful there, that's a thin-ice remark if ever I saw one...

...oh to hell with diplomacy, let's go with my first instinct...

Your country loves to inflict its 'enlightened' way of living on other countries, without even being asked for it, on the rare occasion that it doesn't just attack, grab, and destroy. You have no objection to this. Yet you object the moment someone suggests a reversal. Double standards, perchance?

This is wholly the reason I hold the United States of America in utter despite. The collective arrogance and overweening pride has inflicted far more damage to that country's image worldwide than the smear tactics used by every actively anti-American country throughout history.

Seriously - it might do America some good in the world's eye to actually pay attention to what non-Americans think, instead of ramming their American ideas down our throats with a big stick.

Discuss.

We have our share of problems just like everyone else. Our society has become decadent off the hard work of the generation before last.

Dipshit, he's not telling you how to live your life or what you can or can't do. He's saying that you can't live like that and not expect others to criticize.

I'm a smoker. I expect to get dirty looks when I'm smoking. I'm over it.

I'm a bit over weight. I would expect to get some stares / laughs if I took my shirt off at a beach or ball game, so I don't.

I'll be happy to rate your moobs.
If you're hot I may even fondle your moobs and ask wingy to take pictures.

@AV: Oh sod off.

@everyone else:
Freedom? What's that? Discuss.

*dives for cover*

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Oh Rise, you are top entertainment, you know that?

* wipes tear from corner of eye *

*disappears, with bleeding ears, to the sound of a caterwauling pervert*

Haven't had a good riot here since eighty one.
***ponders for a while***
***decides to start riot in Moscow tomorrow night***
It'll be worth the travel to see Mancs and Cockneys killing each other.

Those are some lazy Rioters. "To the Riot... a fcuk it, let's just do it here"

And to Mugz: if our government loves to inflict its 'enlightened' way of living on other countries, it doesn't mean that all Americans agree with it. It seems with our current administration that despite what the majority of the public feels, or even what they constitution says, they will do what they want anyway.

Probably right, eighty percent of the tickets arrive by post with a map and directions to Manchester included.

Fixed.

It's always the same - after the disaster that is Bush jnr, people will be inclined to vote the other way. A term or two of a cr*p democrat president and it'll go the other way.

Likewise, I am fully resigned to our next government here being a Conservative one. They'll be cr*p. Really cr*p. But people will be so relieved to have dethroned Labour that no-one will notice quite how cr*p at first.

The main problem we have with politics at the moment isn't that we are voting for the wrong parties, but that very few of them are actually any good.

Yeah, I'm hoping McCain picks up Romney on his ticket. Get a business leader in there and someone who understands an economy.

Whereas Obama has absolutely no experience in anything except working with the lower class. I respect that, but you're running an entire country. Talking about 'taxing the rich' gets you elected but it won't run a country that depends on people making money.
If Obama does somehow get elected, I'm certain the Middle East will flat out laugh at us when he wants to sit down and talk with them.
Its not exactly hard to know what they want: Israel gone and the land handed over to the people who had it prior to WWII. Let's just take that Israeli economy out of the global market then and give it to people who have lost any idea on what to do beside blow stuff up these days.

I'm not against a black president. I'm not against any of that.. I'm against a lot of things he stands for which I can't believe people like what this guy is saying. Taxing the retired to give back them in social security is as retarded as it comes.

Again, I'm all for making social security private, or at least an option. I would go for it completely. If others don't want to go for it, then don't do it.

Taxing big oil is not the solution. It makes money. Drilling in ANWR and building new refineries in the solution for the US's oil dependency. It'll take 10 years for refineries to produce and oil to flow from ANWR. It'll take 10-20 years to get a truly viable solution away from oil.

Oil is almost $130 a barrel. We need more refineries. We have oil in our backyard that doesn't cost $130 a barrel.

I found the long term solution. No short term solution available.

I saw an article about Liverpool boys going out and getting breast reductions today.

Is that a boob typing?

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liv [...] -20929575/

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liv [...] -20931682/

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=17974

Not just the country, the whole world!

Some people would say that Bush doesn't have the ability to run the country either, but he's been president for 8 years.

Dropping the gas tax for the summer will fix the oil problem once and for all!

I hope there was a heavy dose of sarcasm in that statement, either that or we have another one for felt shapes.

I'm in tit withdrawl.

Expert: from Ex, meaning 'has been', and Spurt, meaning 'Drip under pressure'.

*hides*

Most likely. The nice thing about being mental is that it's really everyone else's problem.

Kind of like the other day when my co-worker, out of nowhere says (while shaking his head is disgust): "You are goofy looking". I said that is your problem, you are the one that has to look at me.

Ok you truly are clueless. We pay $130/barrel on imported oil. Domestic oil will be cheaper to process into gasoline since a premium isn't being paid on it thus reducing the price.

The profit margin is the same whether a barrel is $60 or $130. There is a reason they say that the ideal market pricing for a barrel of oil is $60-$62.

Sorry, I see my mistake. Domestic oil will not be cheaper to process into gasoline. It will not have the $130 price tag to buy from an OPEC country, thus that price will not be passed onto the consumer.

Supply could potentially increase if the drilling happened since more oil would be available to our market outside of the OPEC pricing scheme since the US is not a member.

Politicians are all bought and paid for in one way or another by the very same companies you're trying to defend here. Republican and Democrat alike.

When was the last time big oil passed on a "savings" to the consumer, aside from a token amount? They sure do love to pass on cost to the consumer, but not savings. The current trend in oil has always been to pass on cost to the consumer, not savings. "Savings" becomes profit to them and there is no reason for them to pass that along, nor do they have to. In an industry where there aren't a whole lot of alternative sources that can produce the same thing, they can and will keep doing business as usual. If they could get away with it they would still charge $130 a barrel for "American" oil even if "ideal market pricing" is around $60 per barrel and it only cost them $20 per barrel "acquire" it. They would do it because they can and know that dumbass people would still pay $4 a gallon to fill up their fcuking Ford Excursion so they can take their one kid to soccer practice.

Big oil is going to wring every cent from every ounce of oil per quarter for as long as they can. They will essentially "rape" the oil industry and public in general without seriously considering the long term impact. Yeah they might throw the public a bone if they're allowed to drill locally or even open up a new refinery or two, but it will most likely be a token amount as they have done in the past. Instead of the "savings" we'll be hearing sad stories about the incredibly high (which it is) cost to build a new refinery or the extra expense of this new local drilling.