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Post by sunfrog on Jan 19, 2011 21:25:38 GMT -5
I heard inflation rose in the U.K. as well.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 19, 2011 22:09:21 GMT -5
Whuts Inflation? Splain!
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Post by sunfrog on Jan 20, 2011 9:35:15 GMT -5
Inflation is when people raise the price of goods like Kate Middleton tea cups from 5 pounds to 6 pounds. This takes money out of the economy and makes the general population poorer. Then other people raise their prices so they can buy teacups again. Soon everyone starts raising prices so they can continue buying the stuff they like. This causes the general population like you and me to become poorer because we can't afford to continue paying so much for everything over a long period of time unless our wages go up. Wages don't go up of course because our bosses have to pay more for their stuff too and they are trying to save money. This causes a death spiral that doesn't end until there are so many unsold Kate Middleton tea cups sitting on the shelves that they drop prices in order to get rid of them. Soon everyone has stock sitting on the shelves unsold and starts dropping prices too. Then it's over and we all say, "Phew, that sucked." www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jan/18/inflation-december-2010-record-monthly-increase
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 20, 2011 10:31:36 GMT -5
Accck, good explanation. [PLite shuddurs at the horror of millions of unsold Kate Middleton teacups.]
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Post by sunfrog on Jan 28, 2011 20:14:15 GMT -5
When are you going to riot like Egypt?
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 28, 2011 20:27:26 GMT -5
I dont know. I think we each haf to lose 5 stone and sell fake antiquities before we decide we are miserable & wish for Democracy & free US foreign aid.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 29, 2011 15:23:14 GMT -5
Waaaaggghhh, Spain unemployment rate is over 20% ! I guess all those windmills didnt much help the economy. (Spain is covered wid windmills becuz of their *going green* policy.) Its all those bullfights and 2 hour mid-day naps, God is Displeased.
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Post by dragrat on Oct 3, 2011 20:55:33 GMT -5
Saw this documentary last night about children in the UK who live below the poverty line. Poor KidsBy True Vision Productions They're brave, they're funny but they're dealing with a system that doesn't seem to care. It is easy to talk about poverty, easier still to make judgments about why people are poor. Now True Vision Productions take their cameras inside the lives of children so they can tell their own story, as they struggle to survive. Sam is 11 years old and lives in Leicester. His mother walked out on him, his sister and his dad when he was just two. His family survives on around $150 a week. Sam is one of nearly three and half million children in Britain living in poverty. He goes to school but he is forced to wear his sister's shirts as hand-me-downs and the other kids give him a bad time because of it. Despite his father's best efforts he and the family can only go out if the entertainment is free. Sam can watch television but, like the electricity his family uses, he must pay for it by dropping one pound coins in the slot. Money is so tight his birthday party is plunged into darkness when the coins run out. Paige is 10 and she lives in Glasgow. It is the poorest city in Britain and in some districts every single family is living below the poverty line. For Paige her greatest dread is being cold and feeling sick because of the mould that grows like a carpet through-out the flat her family lives in. Her dream is simple; to live in a house that is dry and clean with a backyard. At first glance these children and others like them might be seen as victims of Britain's latest massive economic downturn. But this type of poverty and the massive gap between rich and poor began many decades ago. Successive Prime Ministers including Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair promised to do their best to break the cycle of poverty but all the latest evidence suggests those leaders and their policies simply cemented the problems or made them worse. [Sourced from ABC's four corner]
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Post by PigsnieLite on Oct 15, 2011 17:34:42 GMT -5
I know its easy for me to say but poverty is relative. These poor things are actually lucky that they dont live in North Korea, slowly starving to death widout being noticed at all. OR THe childrun of Manila or Thailand or Cambodia who have their limbs deliberately broken by their masters so they can look more pitiful as they beg.
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Post by dragrat on Oct 16, 2011 17:42:53 GMT -5
I agree.. It is relative to where a person lives in this world.. An idea is that we in the richest countries in the world are allowing poverty to develop. In the long run this will harm the very fabric of society. As we've seen in England civil unrest will cause more harm for the country.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Oct 16, 2011 19:16:38 GMT -5
Poverty & hunger can never be eradicated, Im afraid, even in First World countries like ours. There will always be slums & favelas & Dickensian horridness. All we can do is relieve the poverty as much as we can, by donating whut we dont use and collecting moneys when disasters happen. I do have to admit that I dont think much of my poorer fellow Englishers becuz so many of them blow away their lives through drunkenness & meanness and its just hard to feel sorry for them. (Old people are exceptions.)
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Post by sunfrog on Oct 28, 2011 20:26:08 GMT -5
U.K. can has queens and Roman Catholics! Now we can get married Pea! But sadly, we can't have children, or sex. Lol. ;D Why didn't you like Roman Catholics? Why do you like us now that we are about to turn evil? What if Kate's baby is born with both male and female parts? Can it still become queen/king? What if they can't have babies at all? Do they adopt one?
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Post by PigsnieLite on Oct 28, 2011 21:37:13 GMT -5
Whut? Who says i dont like Catholics? Im about as Papist as one can get. And its about time, we Catholics get up on that throne. Church of Englond is one of the most Boring Religions ever! I mean, seriously, they dont even have their own Original Bible wid their own Genesis & OT & NT. Damn Protestants just steal from us Catholics all the time. Bleech.
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Post by sunfrog on Oct 28, 2011 22:20:03 GMT -5
I don't know who said it. The news thing I read today said royals were now allowed to marry Roman Catholics and Kate's baby is allowed to be queen. I can't find it, I just looked again. The Queen announced it today in Australia I think.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Oct 28, 2011 22:58:11 GMT -5
Oh yeah, thats the new Policy of PrimoGirlyture. If Kates FIRST baby is a Girl, she will be Queen! Before this new shocking Policy, it always had to be a MAN who wuz the Monarch, even if there wuz an older girl. Only Firstborn Royal Males could be King. The only reason the 2 Queen Elizabeths I & II & Queen Victoria became Queens at all wuz becuz they had no brothers or at least, the brother died of *mysterious causes.* Heh. Hodderwise, Englond had a king most of the time.
PS. Victoria wuz a special case. I do believe all her da & male uncles were eligible to be King at one time or another, and then they all died youngish, and she wuz the only one left wid the most Blue Blood running through her veinies.
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