Water is more expensive than alcohol in the UK

According to the Times Online........Supermarkets have been accused of encouraging binge drinking by continuing to sell alcohol more cheaply than bottled water.

Tesco, Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s are among those selling beer at just over 5p per 100ml. This contrasts with a typical price of about 8p for 100ml of brand-name mineral water.

Campaigners claim such retailers are “irresponsible”, using cheap alcohol to lure customers, while ignoring warnings from senior health figures that selling it at rock-bottom prices leads to more drinking.

My question is......Why are people not asking why bottled water is so frikn EXPENSIVE......

A Little Snow in Belgium...is a BIG Problem

A small amount of snow in Belgium, can cause big problems, as they are not really used to dealing with it. Eurostar trains were delayed here for hours Monday and Tuesday, although most of it seems to be leaving this afternoon.

VIDEO OF MORNING RUSH HOUR

France and the UK got hammered though, with areas in the UK getting more snow than they've had in 20 years.......

Anybody seen Al Gore this winter, or is he buried under the rising polar ice cap?

Hot for Teacher

It seems a while back, a 24 year old teacher, named Sarah Green made an promotional video for Scruffs Safety-wear. Now her headmaster has suspended her from her teaching post.
The advertising video is now on the Internet and it's a bit naughty, ever since her students started passing it around on their cell phones. though Sarah Green has said, "It's no worse than a Carry On movie."
About the suspension, the headmaster, Andrew Chicken, (yes that's real) has said, "The suspension implies neither guilt or innocence." Good to see that education is run by such decisive and positive people! I bet Scruffs had had a recent sales spike lately though!
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Canoe 'widow' seized by armed police!

I don't know if any of you have been following the case of the "canoe widow", the woman who's husband disappeared for five years so she could collect the insurance money? The dysfunction level here is off the charts, but it makes for some interesting reading.

Turns out the guy even had time to go to the States in the middle of all this to get some stray internet nookie....with the little womans approval of course. Some of the more interesting facts below, but read the Daily Mail

• HID in a bedsit in the adjoining house when family and friends visited the "widow"
• WAS literally next door when his grieving sons Mark and Anthony returned from his inquest
• INSISTED Mrs Darwin put the telephone on to loudspeaker when their sons rang so he could hear their voices
• BETRAYED her by flying to America to meet a woman after an internet flirtation;
• FINALLY returned to Britain and walked into a police station because he wanted to see his sons

EU decides to tax the handicapped

Nasty EU: "People who rely on motorised scooters to help to cope with disabilities are to be hit with a 300 pound tax, after an EU ruling that they should be categorised along with "leisure vehicles".

The electric power-driven wheelchairs with flexible handlebars are used by people with severe mobility difficulties, such as disabled ex-servicemen.

They are now taxed in the same class as snowmobiles, jet skis and racing cars. A personal appeal has been made to Gordon Brown to intervene, but there has been no response from Downing Street, according to Jim Dooley, who runs the Mobility Bureau that provides motorised wheelchairs and scooters for hundreds of Service veterans.

Under the EU ruling the scooters are now subject to a 300 pound import tax on top of their 2,000 pound cost. The decision by the EU was made in 2001 but it was not properly implemented by Revenue & Customs until this year, after a complaint from Belgium that the required 10 per cent import tax was not being enforced by Britain."

I only use mine to get through the casino, but that's gotta be a bitch if you really are handicapped.