"Brown to create 100,000 new jobs"

[minestrone]

I know he was !!

I was trying to be nice

[Cyberman]

I was trying to be nice

I was reading an interesting article a few weeks back that stated that people with the first stage of alzheimers did not understand irony. I fear for a few people on this board. You sir and I, though, have no worries!!

[eliquant]

It's early in the morning. I'm tired and stressed out. Irony is not caught easily in a tired state of mind.

I prefer sarcasm because its the lowest form of wit.

[Francko]

It's early in the morning. I'm tired and stressed out. Irony is not caught easily in a tired state of mind.

I prefer sarcasm because its the lowest form of wit.

"Recent research at the University of Haifa claims that sarcasm is a complex high order skill needing an ability to understand other peoples state of mind and emotions. Its low because it targets chiefly the sensitive, inarticulate, unsophisticated and powerless.
Paul Roberts, Lake Cathie"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4566319.stm

"By comparing healthy people and those with damage to different parts of the brain, they found the front of the brain was key to understanding sarcasm.

Damage to any of three different areas could render individuals unable to understand sarcastic comments. "

[Ruprect]

[TimberWolf]

"By comparing healthy people and those with damage to different parts of the brain, they found the front of the brain was key to understanding sarcasm.

That is good research they did there. They should win a prize or something.

[Doggy Styles]

Do you get the feeling that he's just clutching at straws and pretending to help out people ?

He was "one" of the great causes of this financial crisis problem...

Thanks to him, the UK is worse-placed to ride it out than anyone else. We could be repossessed! By the Normans probably.

[swamp]

I listened to GB on the radio this morning, and it seemed to me that he was blaming the Americans at every opportunity for the current economic woes.

Would we still have a world financial crisis if the American sub-prime thing had never happened? I think yes.

[TimberWolf]

Would we still have a world financial crisis if the American sub-prime thing had never happened? I think yes.

Would we have economic booms and busts and a recent house price boom and bust if NL had never happened? I think yes.

[swamp]

Would we have economic booms and busts and a recent house price boom and bust if NL had never happened? I think yes.

I agree. And actually the Tories would have revelled in booming house prices and may have fanned the flames even more than NL, but the UK wouldn't have anywhere near the current level of debt and spending commitments so we might have been better able to climb out of the hole.