Reply to: Your tax £££ at work

[lambrini_socialist]

Tried to read all that, but fell asleep from boredom. Sorry.

*sigh*. i think i know what your M.O. is now. disappointed that i got drawn into it.

let me know when you've passed the Turing test.

[sasguru]

thanks.

right. i didn't say it's OK, because i don't think it's OK. as far as i can tell, nobody spent £500k on teaching vets to play bongos, right? however much they did spend on bongos is, of course, too much, since such exercises are always a waste of someone's money (and time). so my main points are (1) this is really just another rabble-rousing sensationalist headline and (2) there are much larger, less morally defensible wastes of taxpayer money that by and large get ignored, at least around here.

as an aside, it does seem that any spending of public funds is too much according to some of you lot, but do correct me if i'm wrong on that. looking at you DP and you Sasguru in particular for clarification on that one.

finally, i notice with some delight that ruprect is now publicly declaring love for me in his forum sig but has, in a cowardly climbdown, changed his avatar from the picture of a penis he's been proudly sporting for the last few weeks. something must have got to him.

Tried to read all that, but fell asleep from boredom. Sorry.

[lambrini_socialist]

It's okay to waste £500K of taxpayers money because there is bigger waste to get worked up about.

thanks.

right. i didn't say it's OK, because i don't think it's OK. as far as i can tell, nobody spent £500k on teaching vets to play bongos, right? however much they did spend on bongos is, of course, too much, since such exercises are always a waste of someone's money (and time). so my main points are (1) this is really just another rabble-rousing sensationalist headline and (2) there are much larger, less morally defensible wastes of taxpayer money that by and large get ignored, at least around here.

as an aside, it does seem that any spending of public funds is too much according to some of you lot, but do correct me if i'm wrong on that. looking at you DP and you Sasguru in particular for clarification on that one.

finally, i notice with some delight that ruprect is now publicly declaring love for me in his forum sig but has, in a cowardly climbdown, changed his avatar from the picture of a penis he's been proudly sporting for the last few weeks. something must have got to him.

[DimPrawn]

The leftie brain

It's okay to waste £500K of taxpayers money because there is bigger waste to get worked up about.

[lambrini_socialist]

any chance of getting the thread back on track sas?

[Ruprect]

You two still at it?

[sasguru]

in that they didn't get elected, yes

You know voting Green is a waste of time

[DimPrawn]

I'm sure Pomagne Leftie is alright Jack.

[lambrini_socialist]

Yes the party you voted for turned out to be a complete crock of tulip, eh?

in that they didn't get elected, yes

[sasguru]

that's not what i wrote at all, honestly, re-read it.

Yes the party you voted for turned out to be a complete crock of tulip, eh?

[lambrini_socialist]

Not necessarily... if Lambrini would like to explain why it was a perfectly good use of half a million pounds?

that's not what i wrote at all, honestly, re-read it.

[sasguru]

Here we go again....another thread hijacked...

Not necessarily... if Lambrini would like to explain why it was a perfectly good use of half a million pounds?

[DimPrawn]

Babycham Socialist is the anti-CyberTory.

[Ruprect]

Yes the country is so rich due to Labour's superb management of the economy and brilliant foreign policy (i.e. Iraq), that it has plenty of tax money to fritter away.

You really are a received-wisdom, non-thinking, knee-jerk, left-wing cretin, aren't you?
Kind of a mirror image of the right-wing cretins around here.

hello sailor! you've been waiting all day to call me a cretin, haven't you? careful there, you got some on the keyboard.

Here we go again....another thread hijacked...

[sasguru]

you've been waiting all day to call me a cretin, haven't you? .

Bit of a tautology I admit.