As for Uni education, it is not you subsidising me, but rather you investing in me ...
as I'm bound to pay it back (and then some)

Until Uni my education was all private, so there was no subsidy there.
#As for Uni education, it is not you subsidising me, but rather you investing in me ... as I'm bound to pay it back (and then some) via taxes over my working life.
[TW]Fox;19086785 said:Provided you can find an interview panel full of people like you![]()
[TW]Fox;19086785 said:Perhaps some of the people in receipt of benefits will one day return to work and pay back more in taxes?
Explains the whole benefits thing, you've come from money and don't know hardship, try living in the shoes of the average British citizen and see if you still hold the same views as you currently do.
I have hardly come from money.
Again you don't know me, my life, or my family ... and I'm not about to post stuff that I have posted in the past on OcUK, if you want more info go find one of my 10k posts where I explained things in the past.
Was just channel surfing and had Road Wars on Sky3 (I think) on, and it had two 13 year olds who stole a scooter and were tearing around the housing estates and then off-road on it.
The police decided that they didn't want to put the kids into any sort of danger so didn't use patrol units to stop them but instead followed them in their chopper.
The police chopper happily watched as the two kids took the scooter into a field by a river, and then proceeded to dump it INTO the river.
Only once the kids were off the scooter did the police move in and arrest them.
Guess what punishment the kids got from the courts?
A fine of £200 ....
I'M SORRY BUT, what the heck are the police playing at happily allowing the kids to ride around on stolen property and then just sitting by as they dump it in a river thus totalling it.
I hope the owner (and his insurance company) went after the police to recover the costs of the scooter since the police failed to act to recover it (and in fact happily sat back until it was destroyed).
And what the heck are the CPS and judiciary doing only giving a £200 fine?
Last time I looked our fuel prices and taxes were comparable with the rest of Europe?
Current prices for petrol/gas in Luxembourg (provided by the Luxembourg Automobile Club):
(last update 19 April 2011)
SuperPlus (98 octane): 1.367 Euro / litre
Euro Super (95 octane): 1.344 Euro / litre
Diesel: 1.194 Euro / litre
My view is that criminals lose some of their rights the second they chose to commit a crime.
[TW]Fox;19086972 said:No rights for you next time you go out in your Toyota and drive like a prat then - you'd support the police smashing you off the road?
If police tell me to stop and I fail to do so ... then they are welcome to stop me by force.
Or instead people should perhaps expand their knowledge so that they don't need to come running to me each time they have to deal with a problem that affects Linux or Mac (and I never even used Mac until getting this job) as their only experience before was with Windows until the workplace started to support Linux/Mac.
It's not my fault that I learn things quickly and have an inherent understanding of them while others fail miserably at it despite being in a job longer than me.
I'm hardly a know-it-all, I know my limits of knowledge ...
and I certainly know a damn sight more than whoever is running this country, given the mess that has been the last 13 years.

SilverTongue, for one I had a scholarships (and before you say, that is someone subsidising you ... it is a choice for them to do that, I am forced to pay taxes to help others who I do not think deserve help often).
No, I have an opinion and a view on those things .. and I certainly know a damn sight more than whoever is running this country, given the mess that has been the last 13 years.
