Posted by Ben @ August 6th, 2011 8:20 am. Filed under: ...Or Else!,Anything I Want Should Be Legal,Clearly You've Thought This Through,Commas,Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me,Lord Knows I Ask Not For Myself,My Other Car Is Another Car,Presumably The Prime Minister Is Not Too Busy,Really REALLY Bad Ideas,That'd Be Nice — Tags: Ben Spiller —
Apparently getting rid of that that twelve-second period of waiting at a crossing when there’s nobody there is absolutely vital:
by Ben SpillerThe Prime Minister should make an announcement saying that there are no cameras on any pelican crossings in the country. Then, tell everyone that if the light is on red, and there is nobody on the crossing, just GO! This would save Billions of pounds to the economy, increase our standard of life and reduce carbon footprint.
What, Ben, is your problem? Is your schedule so important that being held up by a red light for a fistful of seconds is enough to throw your entire day out of whack? Here’s some advice – if you find yourself at Pelican Crossing while there’s a red light and nobody waiting to cross the road, just take a deep breath, count to ten, then… ah, fuck that. Just write another angry note to the Prime Minister. Your inability to cope with minor delays is exactly the reason he got into politics, after all.
Posted by Andrew @ December 28th, 2010 5:09 pm. Filed under: Anything I Want Is A Human Right,Exclamation marks!!!!,Gibberish,Oh Yeah? Let's See You Write A Better Petition!,spelin an grammer — Tags: Lawrence "Larry Cavelle" Cavill —
I got this message on Facebook a while back:
Larry Cavelle 21 December at 23:29
do you run www.wetheundereducated.com?
What’s happening? We’ve certainly never posted a petition from a Larry Cavelle. We posted one by Angela Cavelle once, could it be about that? Best get to the bottom of this.
Anyway, the conversation is long and ongoing, and therefore hidden behind the fold. (more…)
Posted by Ben @ September 14th, 2010 8:35 pm. Filed under: I Accidentally The Whole Thing,I Must Be Of Something,I'm Religious So You Have To Do Everything I Say,Oh Yeah? Let's See You Write A Better Petition!,spelin an grammer,Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful,What Would Idiot-Jesus Do? — Tags: angelsforce —
ALL of it and return
to God’s LawWhy the contribution is important
Because if everyone followed the 12 Commandments there would be no need for any legislation and in fact God’s Commandments specifically prohibit us from making our own laws or adding to them so that by making any legislation you are breaking God’s Commandments — think about it
I have thought about it and I’ve concluded that you are a crazy person.
Posted by Andrew @ September 11th, 2010 9:06 pm. Filed under: Anything that passes the spellchecker must be what I meant,Gibberish,I AM TALKING! — Tags: roypitt —
I think the first sentence of this hits the nail on the head:
by roypitt on September 10, 2010 at 02:31PMLAWS TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM DOING THINGS THAT ARE PERMITTED WITHIN THE LAW IS WRONG
FREEDOM IS ALL ABOUT SELF DISCIPLINE & BEING TAUGHT RIGHT FROM WRONG IT IS NOT BEING DICTATED TO BY GOVERNMENT OR INDIVIDUSLS
PROHIBITION ONLY DRIVES THINGS UNDER GROUND INTO THE HANDS OF CRIMINALS YOU ONLY HAVE TO GO BACK A FEW YEARS AND REMEMBER THE SILLY PROHIBTION LAWS OF AMERICA
HIDING CIGARETTE DISPLAY UNITS WILL DO THE SAME HIDE IT AND THE YOUTHS OF TOMORROW WILL WANT TO TRY IT JUST TO SEE WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS ABOUT SMUGGLERS WILL HAVE A FIELD DAY { ALSO IF ITS NOT ON DISPLAY HOW WILL ANYBODY KNOW IFTHE DUTY HAS BEEN PAID } & DON’T FORGET THESE SMUGGLED TOBBACO ITEMS MAY BE MANY TIMES MORE TOXIC THEN LEGAL BRANDS
Why is this idea important?
LAW BREAKERS DON’T CARE WHAT LAWS THEY BREAK ITS IN THEIR NATURE , WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH PROHIBITION IS THE CURTAILMENT OF SOCIAL INTEGRATION & THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE CRIMINAL ELEMENTS TO PROLIFERATE {IE SUPPLE & DEMAND}
The theory seems to be “if we make it slightly inconvenient to buy cigarettes people will turn to criminal fag-dealers who will cut the tobacco with rat poison”.
I’m not really buying it.
Posted by Ben @ August 31st, 2010 8:48 pm. Filed under: Batshit Mental Rants,Commas,Exclamation marks!!!!,I Am A Brain!,I Pay Taxes So You Have To Do Anything I Say,I'm Keeping The Whole Class Back,Is Research The Same Thing As Making Shit Up? Good.,It Says So In The Daily Mail,Not actual freedom -- just what I wanted. Which is basically the same thing.,Racism,Sorry, What Was I Talking About?,spelin an grammer,That's SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU!,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me!,We Don't Take Kindly To Your Type Rahnd These Pahts,We're British, Dammit!,Work Around My Delusions Dammit!,Xenophobia — Tags: JANET —
cancel human rights law, and get out of this e.u monstrous mistake!!!!!!!Why the contribution is important
To give this country the freedom, and rewards, that the true British deserve. The “so called human rights, seem only to work for illegal immigrants, who are known terrorists, thieves, and gang members. You have only to watch documentaries, or read the national press to see what I mean. All the time, you can see “illegals” given housing, some of them, mansions, that cost thousands of pounds ,in the name of human rights. Benefits should only be paid to people who have paid into this country, i.e. tax, and national insurance . We are a laughing stock. The last government, (and I use the word government, loosly) cut funding to universities, so that HOME students only have very few places, the rest of the places, of which there is many, go to foreign students. Only if you are financially independent, can you get a place in university. Some-one I know of, gained the marks at college, which he was told, that last year, with those very same marks, he would have been able to gain access to university, but now, like the funding,every thing has been changed! The worst thing was, he was told ” It’s a pity you cant go to Africa, for three yearsbecause then, you could have come back to this(his own country of birth) as an overseas university student.
You can’t argue with that. You really can’t. Not because it’s accurate in any way, but because doing so is like volunteering to have your frontal lobe slowly sawn off with a piece of rusty barbed wire.
Posted by Ben @ August 31st, 2010 3:01 am. Filed under: Charity Begins At Home,Clearly You've Thought This Through,I Must Be Of Something,There Their In They're House — Tags: jiina —
HI Their,I just wanted to draw the attention on 22% of the charity money that the charities deduct saying as administration fees. I think this is utterly wrong and it put me off from doing charity. Charity has to be volunteer and should not be looked upon as a business or carrier.
A Simple Example how i was put of from donating even one pound a month is one day a guy walked into my work place and asked me to help a boy in africa get clean water. He said it can be done by giving just £1 a month. I just asked him out of this pound how much money goes to africa he told me 78p goes to africa an 22p is deducted as administration costs.
It was about this£1 very small amount but imagine this Charity would be Raising 1 Million Pounds in charity and Simply keeping £220,000 with them as adminstartion cost.
I think charities have to work voluntarly and they should not deduct any money from the charity money given by any induvidual.
Everyone involved in the charity business should just work as a volunteer and not take any money. Even the companies invoved like the money exchange comapny, The Banks, The business providing the materials should be free and should not incurr any costs.
I am sorry if anyone is offened but i think if we make it more clearer it will encourage more pleople like me to do some charity.
Regards to everyone.
Why the contribution is important
This idea put off lot of people from doing charity s i feel that UK might be raising nearly a Billion pounds in charity ever year but 220 million pounds are lost out. It can be used for better causes as it is a lot of money and can be nearly 80 times more in poor countries.
Every charity everywhere, shut down in an instant. Nice. Well done, jiina.
Posted by Ben @ August 5th, 2010 5:12 pm. Filed under: Abolish This!,spelin an grammer,Thinking Things Through Is Just Not British,We're British, Dammit! — Tags: chriswilson —
stop british companies from being asset stripped and then closed downWhy the contribution is important
it seems that when a british company is bought, it is asset stripped, moved abroad and the workforce made redundant. its one reason we have lost our manufacturing capability + its just wrong.
Yes! This sort of thing just wouldn’t happen if it weren’t for all those damned laws enabling it to be so!
Posted by Ben @ July 15th, 2010 9:55 pm. Filed under: I Am A Brain!,I'm Keeping The Whole Class Back,It's Just A Little Request...,spelin an grammer,Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful,These Kids Today With Their Modern Haircuts And Hippetty-Hop Music —
Are Lollipop people really needed?How the idea could be implemented
Plenty of Zebra crossings and Traffic Lights for Children to Cross at.
Jonestly, if an 8 year-old schoolboy hasn’t figured out how to cross the road by now he deserves to be hit by a car.
Posted by Ben @ July 14th, 2010 9:11 pm. Filed under: Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me,I Am A Brain!,I AM TALKING!,I'm serious!,It's Just A Little Request...,My Other Car Is Another Car,Really REALLY Bad Ideas,spelin an grammer,Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful,That's SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU!,There's No Time For Thinking!,Unintentional Irony,Unworkable Ideas,Work Around My Delusions Dammit! — Tags: appleton306, ChurchCrawler, TJ102 —
Abolish the “Get Set” stage of our traffic lights, leaving Red (On your marks) and Green (Go!) operative only. Amber will only light to signal the lights are changing to red.Why the contribution is important
This increases road safety, and stops those idiots from gambling by starting to pull away at Red & Amber whilst other idiots are speeding through at solid amber from another direction.
I can’t wait to see all of the accidents that pop up as a result of people reaching the junction just as the light turns red and slamming the breaks on.
The 70 mph speed limit on motorways and dual carriageways has been in force since December 1965.Over the time since it was introduced, there have been substantial improvements in vehicle and road safety measure
According to the Association of British Drivers, in 1965, 70 mph represented more than 80% of the maximum speed of average cars, wheras now it represents only 60%. They estimate that at present, 56% of car drivers exceed the motorway speed limit.
Why the contribution is important
Drivers know their own limits and the limits of their vehicles. They should be concentrating on the quality of their driving, rather than an arbitrary 45 year old speed limit.We should abolish the speed limit and concentrate on preventing dangerous driving.
Seriously? Are you serious? How can you be for “preventing dangerous driving” but against the speed limit? Are you daft or something?
WE WANT TO USE THE FULL POWER POTENTIAL OF THE VEHICLE WE BUY!!AUTOBAHN IN ENGLAND!
INTRODUCE TOP SPEED LANE ON MOTORWAY!!!!!!!!
Why the contribution is important
SAFER AND FASTERSAFER= NOT SHITTING YOURSELF CAUSE THERES A SPEED CAMERA UP AHEAD CAUSING YOU TO BREAK SHARPLY AND UNNECESSARY!
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Posted by Andrew @ July 12th, 2010 11:42 pm. Filed under: "Making Britain Great Again",Batshit Mental Rants,Can't someone else pay the VAT?,Clearly You've Thought This Through,I AM TALKING!,It's Just A Little Request...,spelin an grammer,Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful,We Petition The PM To Climb This Wall Of Text —
Well. A day or two ago I discovered the Secret Fourth Category: “how can we rethink public services to deliver more for less”. Although presumably it wasn’t all that secret because there are already eleven fucking thousand “ideas” on it.
Long story short: you’re getting another big bumper post.
by LIFETANK on July 06, 2010 at 01:52PM
THE GEORGE TAX
Current taxation systems throughout the world were developed for a physical currency transaction, this means it is a tax system that can easily be avoided and is inherently corrupt in that the richest can avoid tax through highly paid Lawyers and Accountants finding loopholes in the system, and cash only business can avoid tax by not declaring transactions.
A digital age taxation system would allow the Government to collect tax electronically at a centralised point of transaction, and would also allow the government to deploy algorithms to calculate a ‘Real Time’ tax rate which could adjust dynamically to the expenditure requirements of government, rather than the government being forced to go cap in hand to the bond markets or raise taxation retrospectively on budget day.
IMPLEMENTING THE GEARGE TAX
The starting point for a digital age taxation system would be to abolish the entire UK taxation and cash transaction system and start from scratch.
Algorithms would need to be formulated (A.) to determine the value of all financial transactions carried out in the UK and between the UK and Overseas and (B.) Projected governmental expenditure for the year calculated in real time.
To collect THE GEORGE TAX, centralised electronic transaction hubs would be built and developed throughout the UK and each of these would be connected in a network to each other and to a master hub connected to the banks where tax is collected as a percentage of each transaction passing through the hub.
THE GEORGE TAX is essentially a transaction tax. Whenever a financial transaction is carried out, a percentage of that transaction is taken as a tax, the tax percentage is calculated in ‘Real Time’ and would be variable by miniscule percentage movements using an algorithm calculating government spending requirements for the tax year against projected UK financial transactions for the tax year.
All financial transactions including share dealing, bank to bank transfers etc.. would have to pass through the hubs by law, with serious penalties for non compliance.
For small transactions, pre paid cash cards containing say £10 in value could be purchased ‘TAX PAID’ at shops and supermarkets etc.. these could then be used to pay for small purchases in store and at temporary outlets and outdoor events etc. where terminal connections to the centralised transaction hubs cant be made.
The cards could possibly be top up cards or disposable depending on security issues, but this would negate the need for cash in today’s society, it would also mean that transactions could be carried out without a need for a connection to the main hubs or to a power source as payment tills could be battery or solar powered and would not need a phone line, all transactions taken through these cards would then be uploaded at a later date through a connected terminal to the main transaction hubs.
The benefits of THE GEORGE TAX, are that it is a simple one tax system, it can be collected at the time of transaction, it will reduce business costs significantly, would increase tax collection to near 100%, would be 100% fair, would reduce government expenditure significantly, and would reduce the overall tax burden on the individual significantly, cutting red tape and tax loop holes to pretty much zero.
THE GEORGE TAX is a progressive digital age tax system, that is simple and effective, it just needs a progressive and visionary government to implement it in its simplest form.
The basic rule is to keep it very simple, tax the transaction at a single real time rate, a one tax system.
I can envisage an extremely low tax rate of a percentage of 1% using THE GEORGE TAX , every single financial transaction in the UK and between the UK and Overseas would be taxed at the time of transaction, this amounts to a staggeringly huge sum of money available to be taxed against.
Because the tax is a transaction tax, both sides of the transaction are taxed, therefore a transaction of £1.00 is actually worth £2.00 for taxable purposes.
The benefits to society and the UK economy would be immeasurable!
THE GEORGE TAX – Should be this governments legacy to this great nation, i give my idea for FREE, in the hope that somebody with the vision of progress will take it forward.
Why call it the THE GEORGE TAX?
Well its my last name, its my idea, so why not!
Why is this idea important?
My idea will revolutionise this country, will increase profitability, increase productivity, decrease red tape, will reduce individual taxation, will simplify the tax system, will make tax fair for all, will allow great britain to become a global financial power again, will increases competitiveness, will encourage entrepreneurs and business.
Do i really need to go on ?????, anyone with an ounce of common sense can see the massive positive consequences that THE GEORGE TAX would bring to the table.
Lets get on with it, our children depend on it!
BE QUIET.
Posted by Ben @ July 12th, 2010 4:46 pm. Filed under: Clearly You've Thought This Through,Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me,spelin an grammer,What A Dick — Tags: shenden —
Scrap the whole lot. Its a lot a red tape which does nothing to give any of us any protection.I am so fed up with having to go through endless questions to check my identify every time I call anyone..(with the exception of banking who should have their own security protocols)
Why the contribution is important
Reduces buracracy and increased efficiency
Great. Lovely. Everyone would be able to call up utilities, cable providers, phone companies and what-have-you and say that they’re the customer but really they’re not, leading to situations where, for example, an ex-boyfriend/girlfriend calls their ex’s phone company and asks to close the account down. But hey, you don’t get asked security questions to confirm your identity anymore. Possible identity fraud is a small price to pay for ease of use, am I right Shenden?
Posted by Ben @ July 8th, 2010 7:55 pm. Filed under: Clearly You've Thought This Through,spelin an grammer,The PM Is The Bloke Who Runs The Football Right? — Tags: rich2020uk —
I feel the law on banning standing in football stadia should be scrapped, and the alternative safe standing terraces which are used widley in europe can then be introcuced.Why the contribution is important
Standing at football games is something that thousands of football fans feel passionately about, and in this day and age can be done in a safe manor. i.e the safe standing format by where each terrace has a barrier to prevent any kind of crush.
I’ve never seen someone so desperate to stand up for 90 solid minutes in my life. Also considering how larey the average British football fan can become do you really think it’s wise to put them in a position where other idiots could push them over or hurt them?
Also, “in a safe manor”? Ooh, so close.
