http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44527 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 19:28:26 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44527#post-127485 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:57:19 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 127485@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>They're probably just working through a backlog Mandy. Once everything is caught up I'm sure we'll see a whole load of your stories on the FP. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44527#post-127479 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:53:33 +0000 writinginbsl 127479@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>yep</p> <p>stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44527#post-127469 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:44:11 +0000 Duff 127469@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent. Great throughout but for me the stand-out line "draconian and possibly Herodian".</p> <p>5 Stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44527#post-127466 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:42:24 +0000 Mandy Lifeboat 127466@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>That's weird VCG. Never tried NewsThump but loads of stuff I've posted here over the last 6 months hasn't been used either. Spooky eh? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44527#post-127451 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:29:32 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 127451@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Newsthump slow at replying again today Gary? It happens sometimes doesn't it? I sent them something about 6 months ago and they still haven't replied to say it's being used. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44527#post-127404 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:32:52 +0000 Sinnick 127404@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You should have brought it here first !</p> <p>Only 4*, for wandering off without permission. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44527#post-127399 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:15:15 +0000 butagirl 127399@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>One of the other sites you submitted this to has already given your article a FP.</p> <p>Cracking stuff, though! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44527#post-127393 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:50:36 +0000 custard cream 127393@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Just great, real satire - biting! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44527#post-127388 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:29:57 +0000 Gary Stanton 127388@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I have as a matter of fact - Zurich for 4 nights. Stayed at the Hotel Neufeld on Friesenberg Strasse. Upgraded to a suite, but they didn't charge any extra. I would have probably left a favourable review on Trip Advisor if it wasn't for the fact that somebody had appeared to have driven a car into the side of the hotel. On Saturday I experienced something called a "jazz brunch", featuring local musicians. Locals had to pay $40 for it, but as we were late down for breakfast we got it for free. That said, it pissed it down in Lucerne and there was a barely coherent madman wearing a wizard outfit pretending to be a stand-up comedian on the train. I could only make out "Ich liebe dich, Schatz. Ich liebe dich nicht " before he vomited over a ticket collector.<br /> Beer was £6 a pint and wine even more expensive. </p> <p>As for this sub, it's been taken up elsewhere sorry, but you can still comment on it if it pleases you. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44527#post-127385 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:12:46 +0000 dvo4fun 127385@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nice work Stanton. Been away? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=44527#post-127378 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:52:57 +0000 Gary Stanton 127378@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>In a radical overhaul of the welfare system, David Cameron has set out plans for a measured policy of infanticide that could massively reduce the UK deficit, according to experts. The proposed scheme, which will initially target northern cities with a high proportion of working class people, would bring an abrupt end to the ‘culture of entitlement’ to a child.</p> <p>The elimination of poor northern children under the age of two, if successful, could eventually be extended to less impoverished kids in London and the South East who eat fresh fruit, get driven to school by their mums in big fancy cars, bath more than once a week, and have never used an outside toilet. </p> <p>The proposals are seen as ‘red meat’ to traditional Tories eager to put some clear blue water between themselves and their coalition partners, even if the water is teeming with thousands of screaming babies floating downstream in Fortnum &amp; Mason hampers. </p> <p>Last night Nick Clegg accused the Conservatives of a ‘lurch to the right’, slamming the policy as draconian and possibly Herodian. He suggested as many as three of his MPs could abstain from a Commons vote , adding, ‘Many of us Lib Dems are planning to sit on the fence on this issue , assuming the fence hasn’t been used to prop up some kind of mass grave. I’d definitely have a problem with that.‘</p> <p>But Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, who engineered the policy, countered </p> <p>‘As well as saving the country an estimated £50bn over the four years of ‘implementation’, it would mean less chaotic supermarkets, fewer 4x4s on the road, and an eerie silence when absent-mindedly walking into a creche. </p> <p>‘We’re admittedly a little unsure how this will play with the public, but nothing could have prepared us for the shitstorm we kicked up when we suggested middle class pensioners could lose their free TV licences’ </p>