The wealthy have family trusts to protect their wealth and property. The middle class have scrambled into the lifeboat of success and pulled the rope up behind them. How do ordinary workers ever bring...
Went into butchers today and congratulated them on their excellent cocktail and chipolata sausages. Told them they were the best yet. Miserable bleeder said "Your missus must have finally learnt...
The rise in VAT to 20% was announced, I think, last October (it may have been earlier). The day before yesterday the news headlines (certainly on the BBC) were that shoppers were making last minute...
Twelve different 'stories' since December 28th! The latest report is sheer speculation based on a rumour: http://www.dailymail....-imagine-bought-.html Surely Middle England has run ou of feelings of...
My friends ex partner is in Crown Court this month for charges of Battery, ABH (Which the Judge is raising to GBH) and Criminal Damage (Valuing under £5000). We found out today the Judge is...
My girlfriends shower is playing up!! its a fitted unit, not the typical shower above the bath set-up. basically its shower in a cubicle. whats happening at present is the water is not coming through...
I hear that there will be a strike on the LU on Boxing Day, and just wondered what other Abers think of this. I have only read a couple of brief news reports, and it looks as though the strike is...
First of all a merry christmas and a happy new year to ABers every where. Now secondly have the Boss and I missed something? After walking Max, the Boss who was making one of her rare early morning...
http://tinyurl.com/293ub9n Having read a Daily Mail link supplied by another ABer , I did a Google search to try and get another National Newspaper's report on it, but surprise, surprise I could not...
Merry Christmas! I would like to collect together as many rubbish christmas-cracker style jokes as we can. Remember, they've got to be short enough to go on an unreasonably small piece of paper in...
Some time ago I had a rant here about barter vs haggle and it seems that they are broadly interchangeable now (sigh). HOWEVER Sliver and slither are not the same, they are different parts of speech...
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To all those who thought that the Wikileaks revelations were a good thing, and the public should know everything, I now ask do you still think the same?...
Assuming that Julian Assange is somehow extradited to the USA to face whatever charges they can dream-up, do the authorities really believe that the leaks will stop (appearing on Wikileaks)? Surely...