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Ballistic Banana

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14,706 posts

294 months

Friday 27th December 2002
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Was watching Fox News today as i like to see how are Yankee cousins percieve things, and they had an interesting articule about People buying cigerettes on the black market.They are more than lickely to be lining Al-Quedas pockets as most of the cigerettes are from Afganistan??
Dont know how True that is but a Something to think about when you are tugging on your next Cancer stick.

BB

HarryW

15,974 posts

296 months

Saturday 28th December 2002
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Not a lot different from this lot over here, 'tone and his cronies', anyone importing fags or booze is automatically depriving the NHS/Education/lining the pockets of terrorists or what ever heart string you want to pull today .

Me I have absolutely no compunction as to buying the cheapest I can get, reduce the tax you thieving morons, just like prohibition it will change.

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Nearly fell off my stool the other day when I read about Derry Irvines' (the Lord Chancellor) pension, 7 years in the job and he has already amassed a fund that'll pay him £90K a year for the rest of his natural, whilst the rest of us worry about ours, tone and his mates are busy lining their pockets, pigs to the trough . He would have needed to have paid nearly £3m of his own money to do that, but no WE pay it , spend THAT money on NHS/Education before asking me to dip in my pockets, you theiving..........
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Harry

PS Soz about the rant BB
I wouldn't line the pockets of the job dodgers that sell cheap fags anyway, as I only live 30 minutes away from a ferry port

rpguk

4,514 posts

311 months

Saturday 28th December 2002
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Its all propaganda, its in the same vein as the 'all pirate videos are made by the IRA' thing a couple of years ago. It seems that by linking anything to terrorism to anything it is instantly socially unacceptable, same with any sort of drug (true of heroin maybe, but I'm not so sure that every illegal drug comes from the poppy fields of Afghanistan)

How long before we're told radar detectors were developed by Saddam Hussein for the gulf war and his selling them to us now to feed his baby eating habit?

>> Edited by rpguk on Saturday 28th December 13:00

deltaf

1,384 posts

284 months

Saturday 28th December 2002
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Last thing i heard was that speeding motorists are linked to Al Quaida too.
They treat us in much the same manner....