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The BBC asks, “Should we waste less food?” Now I would have said “Well, of course, what a stupid question”. But it looks like most of HYS are jamming their pie and mash down the sink tonight in protest against the nanny state.

I pay for my own food and if I want to waste it it has nothing to do with Gordon Brown.
robert ronson

I heard Gordon also advised us all, in line with E.U. directives and with the approval of the Muslim Council of Great Britain, not to jump under buses. Off you go then.

Conservatively there are 30m households in the UK. This multiplied by £400 = £12,000,000,000

Tesco takes roughly 30% of food sales in the UK. 30% of the above is £3,600,000,000 i.e. what Tesco stand to lose if every household eliminated all waste.

This level borders on impossible but even 50% which is perhaps believable equates to £1,800,000,000 less profit to Tesco each year.

Now what do you think Tesco might do when it’s revenues suddenly drop in this way… put prices up perhaps??
Simon Pittock, Ely, United Kingdom

Yeah, but you’d save a bit on bin-bags.

If you think about it, climate change is terrifying and fascinating at the same time. The mighty forces of nature clashing and finding a new equilibrium with no thought for the puny humans caught up in their wrath. Of course, if you don’t think about it, you end up with opinions like these.

The ‘greenies’ make me laugh sometimes. Smug in their hybrid cars,not realising the energy used to create and build their ‘green’ electric car cost the planet far more than a normal vehicle.When those batteries need to be replaced in a few years time do they magically disappear and new ones arrive? Take a cycle? If I wanted a death wish,and if you smugly saving the world on a cycle,just think of how much more fuel motorists are using having to slow down and accelerate past you. Very selfish.

Something Else, Bracknell, United Kingdom

Presumably the greenest thing you can do is just drive straight through them. As long as the frame doesn’t get caught up in your wheelarches you lose very little speed indeed.

Absolutely not!

The credit crunch hit me pretty hard and the last thing on my mind is the environment. We should solve one problem at a time instead of introducing more!

It’s like kicking someone when they are down!

Regards

John Williams

Exactly. Everything in the world is very simple and will wait for us to get to it. The notion that there could be a link between, say, rising oil prices and dwindling natural resources is difficult and therefore irrelevant.

For god’s sake would you kindly drop all this “green” nonsense, it’s all complete rubbish and I can’t believe that any educated adult can fall for such an obvious scam.

[speaking_my_mind]

That’s us told then. Pack up the labs, boys, you’ve been rumbled.

“Going green?”

Green with envy because others have something that I don’t? Nope.

Or did you mean green as in going mouldy and rotten? Nope, not that either.

Only other ‘green’ I can think of is a normal word hijacked to mean ever more control wielded by the minority over the majority using some crazy computer models that were designed to prove exactly what they did…surprisingly.

I’m cutting back on unnecesary expenses because the taxation level in this country is getting stupid.

[korat102], Milton Keynes

Those mad scientists! Don’t they realise these models are going to drown Bangladesh if they don’t stop making them so damn accurate?

This government doesn’t have a green message.
How can it possibly claim to be green when their open door policies have admitted more people than the nation can house and they’ve rubber stamped concreteing over and building on every square inch of green in this once pleasant land?
How can they claim to be green when they have changed planning permission rules to ok the building of wind turbines that are so inefficient we have to subsidise ALL the power they produce at the taxpayers expense?

[spannerdude], Union of European Socialist Republics, United Kingdom

This is one “END OF!” away from being the most perfect HYS comment ever.

How can we solve world hunger?

I’m a little unclear as to whether “angry man” wants wars and plagues or not.

I don’t understand why OPEC wasn’t invited as food production is going to suffer greatly given our future need for bio-fuels.

What the world really needs is a war or a plague. Lets hope that’s not what they are discussing and agreeing to at this summit?
angry man

I love the idea that we’re all going to be driving around in our vegetable-oil powered cars, desperately hunting for vegetables to eat. Sadly, it’s just about ludicrous enough to come true.

Banky Moon is an idiot. World population should DECREASE 50% by 2013.
Bob Hart, Perth SCOTLAND

I hope you’re going to do your little bit to help.

Sounds like the perfect excuse to drop ANOTHER tax on us….
Laird Kyle of Minogue, Minogue, United Kingdom

Did you say TAX!?!!! I knew this was another hoax, just like global warming or the NHS.

The ‘food crisis’ is a manufactured manipulation, along with fuel, oil, housing. I have proof.
james, sussex

You realise that “they” will be after you now? You’d best bury your shoebox full of proof in the garden and pray that nobody ever finds it.

Thanks to Phil. This smug fool’s tedious warbling seems to be channeling Timothy Claypole.

I am 61 retired .Have a degree in chemical engineering ,,,so have no background in tax matters ,,,But do understand basic Numbers ,,,Tis not beyond the whit of man to work out that the last budget ,,would cause problems ,,,To me now the change has been made ,,little difference ,,,I note one year only !!! ,, Tis all in events ,,yes and somethings just happen ,,I agree but Brown is a Disaster ,,,Does not even look like a PM ,,no . leading ,control
Methinks he should go ,, Now ,,,
W A Froud, Letchworth hers UK

I reckon that use of the word “methinks” on HYS is a 100% guarantee that the poster is an unbearably smug bollock. I challenge anyone to prove me wrong. Methinks you will fail.

Thanks to Laura for this one.

St Guys Hospital has a ward with people who have diseases that cannot be cured and are infectous and they are all immigrants that worries me.
mowamed demon

If I had to guess, I’d say you were talking complete bollocks. Fortunately, I don’t have to guess as Laura works at Guys and assures me that you’ve got everything (including the name of the hospital) wrong. I’d also guess that you’re a racist simpleton who spends hours on HYS inventing bizarre lies about immigrants. Again, I don’t have to. Here they are:

People who say Immigration made America great are missing one thing - It was great before all the Immigrants got their and distroyed the Native people to the brink of extinqsion - this has happened in New zealand and Australia where immigrants have taken over and local indiginous people have been sacrificed - so which is it going to be a country of immigrants or native people as only you can choose.
mowamed demon

Only the other day, the Polish bloke at work gave me smallpox and then used his cavalry and guns to outmanoeuvre then massacre my foot soldiers. It was a proper shitter.

I have sat down with my neighbour and we have found that I get taxed £9 a week more on £14000 and he gets back £26 a week on £21000 plus benefit credits and to top it off he is on a work permit from africa for 2 years with his family and I am a single British born citizen. how can this be right
mowamed demon

Serious??! Did you write to the tax people and explain that he and his family are only forrun but you’re an actual person??? It might be worth writing to his employers as well to point out that they’re paying him more than you get! It’s almost as if they think he’s more useful, smarter, harder working and generally better than you in every way. It’s like they’re saying that someone who’s come from another (much poorer) country, with far fewer opportunities, has somehow succeeded where you, despite being afforded so much opportunity, have been so slow, stupid and generally shit that you’ve failed at everything and now spend your life whining on the internet.

Is there going to be any change for me after today or am I still going to pay more tax - How hard can it be to get a straight answer and nothing I have seen on the news has said who now is going to benefit who did not before ? - will the bbc tell me if on my £7500 and able to claim no benefits or credits I am worse or better off today or has nothing changed.
mowamed demon

These last two posts were written within a few hours of each other so I suspect that mowamed is lying again. Although it’s possible that his employers halved his wages after realising that he’s a useless arsequack.

I’m adding him to “The Regular Twats” because I reckon he’s going to keep coming up with the goods.

Is the new car-share lane a good thing?

Update: I changed this one slightly because somebody wanted me to and I do everything I’m told.

It costs me Over £100 in road tax every year, it also costs me nearly £1000 in fuel tax per year (estimated). If I wanted to drive into London, which I don’t, there would be another £20 charge each day, there is VAT on the cost of buying the vehicle, and on services and MOT;s. I must have insurance, but the government tax that as well. So tell me now, as I pay all of this money to obtain the freedom to drive, why should I have that freedom reduced in any way?
Stuart Booth, Northampton, United Kingdom

Yeah! You used to be able to park for free all round town. Now you have to pay! You used to be able to drink a stimulating G&T while you were driving but then the “PC Brigade” stopped that. You used to be able to enslave black people and make them pick your cotton but now you have to STOP AT ZEBRA CROSSINGS FOR THEM!

Why should you have your freedoms reduced when you are, quite obviously, more important than other people??

Maybe it’s because you’re a poorly sheep’s cunt.

I found this one in the debate about Heathrow Terminal 5.

Can we look any worse than we already do?

We are a dumping ground for the world where no one ever accepts responsibility for their own actions and criminals are treated better than war heroes and pensioners that have fought paid for and built this once great country.

We look like numbskulls because we are not allowed to be patriotic or religious for fear of upsetting the migrants we welcome into our land!
louis Cannell, Northampton, United Kingdom

I was impressed that anyone managed to scrape together the calories required to have an opinion about Terminal 5. Then I read your comment and realised that you didn’t. Here’s an idea: if you want to stop repeating yourself, why not write your one and only thought down and then wear it on your face? Print this out and cut some eyeholes in it:

Thanks to Julia. On Zimbabwe again.

WHO CARES! Surely we should get fair elections in the UK before we worry about any other countries political agendas.

We have the Welsh, Scottish & Irish voting for their own assemblies which protect them from the worst lunacy of Nu Labour and electing an English parliament too!

Fairs fair if they get to elect our politicians we should have a vote to elect theirs, why should a party elected in other countries with their own national assemblies be allowed to rob England blind!
louis Cannell, Northampton, United Kingdom

Why stop there though? Are you some sort of pinko commie?? You’re still being robbed blind by people who live OVER A MILE AWAY. Frankly, I’m pissed off that my taxes get spent on anybody other than me. What we need is devolved government for everybody. I’m sick of other people affecting my life.

Thanks to Gemma for this from the “Should you drink while pregnant?” thread.

Oh leave us in peace for God’s sake. Don’t we get enough of your sanctimonious whining on everything from a puff of smoke to the puffs on TV, from fatty bacon to fatty me, from Gordon’s dreams of realitee, (That’s a killer! (Spike Jones, cerca 1942!)). Why don’t you folk, whoever you are, go lock yourselves in your cellar, pour yourselves a nice gallon of petrol, and relax with a nice cigarette?
[RadioRogerL], Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom

I also found this one in “Do you struggle to contain your anger?”. I edited most of it out because it’s the same thing again. Roger is another of those poor unfortunates who, along with his constant, debilitating rage, also suffers from the common HYS affliction of only having one thing to say yet feeling compelled to say it, over and over again, whenever anyone asks you any question at all. I bet he has a fucking nightmare when he goes to the doctor.

In the last ten years I have felt extremely angry many times [...]
[RadioRogerL], Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom

No shit. Perhaps you need a hobby or something. Or maybe just a wank? Go on, treat yourself.

Thanks to Angel.

What is your reaction to Budget 2008?

Whatever happens, it won’t benefit me.

I drive a car to get to work every day to do a job I hate, so I can pay tax so other people don’t have to..

I’d leave if I had my own country to go back to.
Working Class tax payer, Bracknell

Hate your job? Hang yourself.