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From: MasonS on 5 Dec 2009 16:07 On 5 Dec, 21:02, "PeterE" <pe...(a)xyzringtail.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: > <Mas...(a)BP.com> wrote in message > > news:0c2f34b5-12b2-4ab8-84aa-756320ec18a5(a)v19g2000vbk.googlegroups.com... > > > > > The entire known world oil reserves will last about 36 years at > > *current* consumption levels. > > Which is about the same ratio as it was at the time of the 1973 oil crisis. Luckily my esteemed colleagues keep finding it and cyclists like me keep saving it and all we get is abuse from the people who we are saving it for! -- Simon Mason
From: johnwright ""john" on 5 Dec 2009 16:20 MasonS(a)BP.com wrote: > Not all CO2 is the same. You are Duhg and I claim my �5. -- I'm not apathetic... I just don't give a sh** anymore ?John Wright
From: mileburner on 5 Dec 2009 16:25 "The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:kMxSm.12217$Ym4.1027(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... > mileburner wrote: >> "The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in >> message news:uUpSm.11996$Ym4.7207(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... >> >>> You have well & truly overstepped the mark pal. >> >> Don't you see the irony? >> >> Someone who fiddles their own tax who complains about those who do >> not pay the tax they are not subjected to. > > Once again you acuse me of tax fraund on a public forum. If you *really* think you are the only person who is "someone". Here's a few questions... Have you ever taken cash for a job and not declared it? Have you ever complained about people not paying tax which they are not subjected to? See...
From: Adrian on 5 Dec 2009 16:39 "MasonS(a)BP.com" <MasonS(a)BP.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >> > The entire known world oil reserves will last about 36 years at >> > *current* consumption levels. >> Which is about the same ratio as it was at the time of the 1973 oil >> crisis. > Luckily my esteemed colleagues keep finding it <looks at word "known" above> *ding*
From: Peter Grange on 5 Dec 2009 17:36
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 21:25:05 -0000, "mileburner" <mileburner(a)btinternet.com> wrote: > >"The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message >news:kMxSm.12217$Ym4.1027(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... >> mileburner wrote: >>> "The Medway Handyman" <davidlang(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in >>> message news:uUpSm.11996$Ym4.7207(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... >>> >>>> You have well & truly overstepped the mark pal. >>> >>> Don't you see the irony? >>> >>> Someone who fiddles their own tax who complains about those who do >>> not pay the tax they are not subjected to. >> >> Once again you acuse me of tax fraund on a public forum. > >If you *really* think you are the only person who is "someone". > >Here's a few questions... > >Have you ever taken cash for a job and not declared it? Frought with danger that. A true story from a few years ago:- A friend was wanting to build an extension. A local architect who did extensions was asked round to the house to look at what might be done. After a discussion about what was possible, my friend and his wife were standing in the kitchen talking to the architect chappie. "If we were to use your services, what sort of cost would we be talking about?" says my friend. "Well," he says. "it's not a big job so I don't think we need to worry about the VAT too much, if you could pay cash, (knowing wink) you're not a tax inspector are you (ho ho)" "No," says my friend, trying not to laugh "I'm not a tax inspector". His wife was though. > >Have you ever complained about people not paying tax which they are not >subjected to? > >See... > -- Pete |