I posted recently in Art's welcome thingy about Eastern Europeans coming to this country and taking advantage of our Social Security, well I looked into this.

WARNING RANT.

I had no idea what was going on with this situation. Eastern Europeans have the cheek to arrive in our Country, claim they have nothing, so how did you get here ?, and have the RIGHT, yes the Right, to claim Social Benefits to the tune of 40 grand a year, tax free, to line their own pockets.

Not only that, most of them then go home and transfer the money from their British bank accounts to their own in what ever Country they live in.

We are paying for this out of our HARD EARNT money in the form of Taxes to our own Government. Now, I don't mind paying these Taxes if it will benefit our own, but I'm damned if I'm will support someone who isn't contributing to our Country in any way.

This is wrong, really WRONG and it needs to be stopped.

What would happen if I was to go to their Country and claim I was broke, what would they say. Can you imagine.

Right Cameron, sort this out NOW, no wonder this Country is nearly Bankrupt, don't make me come up there and give you a Slap.

Makes my Blood Boil.

Rant Over.

Might make for a good topic heading. You know, when you've seen a movie some while back (or like me, yesterday), and simply can't recall the name of it.

Give a fairly brief description of the movie naming any particular actors is possible...just the gist.

Saw the one with a family (dysfunctional as they might seem) who inherits a wonder mansion. Within the house there are walls of huge glass panels each with some kind of inscription in what looked like Latin or some such. The house was probably one of the first "smart" homes as the panels could slide about creating new accesses and blocking previous ones.

At first they were amused but later found it to be...well...Haunted is somewhat of an understatment as things unfolded!!
The guy who played Shaggy in the Scooby Doo movie played in it. (No...I did NOT see Scooby Doo...thank you very much!).

Any takers? TIA.

Thought this was fantastic...go full screen and highest res...

I've noticed that some of my friend across the big pond use different country names to describe where they're from.

Some indicate England, UK, Republic of Ireland, etc. But isn't England part of the UK (I think) so why differentiate between them?

Perhaps this chap can better explain to us Yanks and maybe some of ye as well!

Now I know this is anm old article, but it's the first time I have come across this idea, and it is a pretty good one too!

http://www.gizmag.com/go/3060/

With recent sucessful testing of the revelutionary Sabre engine it seems that a final push for funding is required for the Skylon spaceplane project.

It also seems that it is being taken seriously this time:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18784866

Needed a place to post a pic for another forum.



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