reg seward
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Word play again...

I will keep this brief, but the other day, a politician, isn't it always, was on the radio saying trendyspeak things like this little dittie....
'We must go down to the butchers shop and see where we buy our sausages from'...
Any idea what it is about...mmm
It was about the upcoming elections ......

GM powerplay...

We, the United Kingdom originals, do not want genetically modified crops, why ?, well, we do not understand the technology and we do not like change probably, yet, the companies that promote their usage in the third world, and closer to home, keep on plodding away to persuade us to accept it.
The governments, to their shame, also support this global food shortage cure little realising that, yes, it is a faster growth rate, more yield, minimum defects and is supposed to be cheaper, thus

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More potent waffling....

There is currently a pay dispute going on. The union representative (first class nit), came up with a brahma of a situation status the other day...Words that went something like this :
"We ask you all to vote this time, much like last time. The time before, the voting was very poor, almost complacent even, so, if you vote this time, as you did last time we had a vote, then we will have no reason to have another vote."
Confusing isn't it..
"We ask that the

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The recession....

I was walking rather aimlessly around a nearby township only yesterday, whilst waiting for the little woman to catch up from her shopping trip. I was thrice assailed by "Merry Christmas, Big issue". One was a guy in a rather dishevelled looking overcoat, I suspect a drug addict from his eyeball appearance, plus, he carried on ignoring anyone who went to put a coin in his hands and continued calling his plaintive cry. The second was another geezer with a European accent, this time, dressed

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Favorite waffles....

Listening in to the political radio show the other day and some jerk was banging on with the new trendy speak again..."We must have total TRANSPARENCY".
Now that is one word, which, I will confess is normal in the usual patois from the Houses of Wafflers, but, then he went on, "It is essential to pick up the cudgel of transparency, and to supply meaningful growth rates to the people that matter in this idiom". Following him so far..???
"These growth rates are

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