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The thing is none of this would matter if the Beatles had actually come up with something that actually had an emotional effect on the listener. The best music is that which has an emotional impact, that moves the listener into feeling raw emotion whether it's joy, sadness or anger, and I'm afraid the Beatles never did that. It's all just bland overfamiliar aural wallpaper with little depth or feeling. Don't get me started on the lyrics either. Talented songwriters are those who manage to put into words what people feel in a way that isn't cliched or has been said too often before. Just going "she loves you yeah yeah yeah" or "I wanna hold your hand" or in some cases not even bothering to write any words at all (such as the "na na na na" chorus of Hey Jude) show that Lennon and Mccartney were even worse at the words than they were at the music!

David Cameron recently said he wanted people to stigmatise absent father in the same way we stigmatise drunk drivers but I wish he would also encourage society to stigmatise single mothers. It shouldn't be acceptable for women of low morals to churn out child after child and be rewarded by being given a free council house and showered with benefits by the state.

Isn't this about a trade deal and nothing to do with all that human rights nonsense? Cameron's job is to do what's best for Britain not make moral judgments about other countries.

Work longer hours! The £3 reference was just an example, what I mean is that employers should be free to set whatever hourly wage rate they choose, that way they can decide for themselves how many people to take on and what to pay them rather than have it imposed by the state. If working class people work longer hours they'll also spend less time drinking smoking and taking drugs so they'll save money there as well and there'll also be less crime.

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Why all the jealousy anyway? It's not like the taxpayer is funding footballer's wages. If you think Man Utd for example are paying their players too much then stop supporting Man Utd!

If the minimum wage is stopping people working then we need to scrap the minimum wage. In a time of high unemployment it's better to have 2 million people working for £3 an hour than 1 million people working for £6 an hour and the other million people sat on their backsides!

So some pathetic attention seeking inadequate who spent his life encouraging impressionable teenagers to do stupid stunts and risk their lives kills himself doing a stupid stunt? I'd say that's karma. RIP to the innocent man he killed. Good riddance to Ryan Dunn.

I wonder why the Beatles fans are so obsessive that they get all upset when someone calls their heroes crap? I couldn't care less if other people don't like my favourite bands and call them crap, we all have the right to say what we want and no one person's opinion is more right than another's.

I'm not quite as obsessive as you but didn't the Beatles start off playing in Hamburg covering the rock and roll hits of the day? Who says simple songs are easy to write? That's like saying its more difficult to write "the cat sat on the mat" than War & Peace! Give an untrained person a guitar, teach them three chords and tell them to write some songs and whatever they come up with might be simple but it will also be predictable and unimaginative. Just like most of the Beatles output in fact!

I know you're trying to be sarcastic, but yes, I do think most of the songs you list were crap. Easy listening mediocre tunes, a succession of dull platitudes for lyrics. No wonder he packed in music to raise a family in the 1970s - even he must have realised he couldn't hack it any more!

That's because no-one cares about minority sports like rugby. You might just as well complain that chess players don't get paid as much as footballers.

Unlike your heroes Tony Blair and Gordon Brown then. Or those other Labour bullies Alistair Campbell and Ed Balls.

That's it in a nutshell. The trouble with people who don;t want to work is that as soon as you've proved their excuse is untrue, they'll just come up with another one. As the saying goes, if you want to do something you'll find a way. If you don't want to do something you'll find an excuse.

Sleep with your boss, then ask him.

I see from your location that you live in a big house in Fulwood, so clearly you're one of the champagne socialist hypocrites we're talking about. No wonder this thread touched a nerve for you!

Are people so thick that they think just because a handful of players at the top get paid silly money that all footballers are millionaires? The majority of professional footballers at lower league level get paid little more than the average office worker.

How about you swallow your pride and take any job rather than just one that suits you? There are always shops, fast food places and call centres taking on staff, so what makes you think you're above working there just because you have some worthless qualification?

As ever with socialists their principles go out of the window once they're offered wads of cash. The old line "some are more equal than others" is never truer than with the union leader hypocrites!

Why don't you just accept that the majority of people aren't interested in politics? It's not as if you can do anything about it, and whoever you vote for the policies would be the same so why get worked up?

I see from your location that as soon as you got a bit of cash together you moved away to a quiet town in a nice area with hardly any immigrants. So you want us to have to live amongst them but you're not so keen yourself? Hypocrite.

Alex, will you please stop hijacking this thread with your rants about some murder that has nothing to do with it? This is about the enquiry that found that police acted lawfully when removing the violent demonstrator Jody Mcintyre from his wheel chair for his own safety. And for those who argue that the enquiry was not impartial, the link in the first page shows it was held under the supervision of the IPCC. The IPCC stands for Independent Police Complaints Commission. Can you guess what Independent means?

Yes, we all know they're two different things, but the letters "BNP" have unfortunately connotations that this French company may not have been aware of when they were starting up. They could change it to NBP (National Bank of Paris) for example.

I'm glad that the staffy owners on this thread find staffy attacks on innocent children so amusing but let's be honest, this forum has no real influence in the wider world and a few bored users on a regional forum aren't going to have any major effect. However in the wider world, things are stating to happen. Thousands of people have signed a petition to reclaim our public spaces and get these dangerous dogs under control once and for all! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1392596/Dangerous-dogs-clampdown-petition-numbers-control-pets-soar.html