Paul McCartney

[rtodd31]

too access the internet you do not need a house phone you get a usb modem where it is pay as you go you top it up and plug it into your computer/laptop and thats you or you pay it monthly and thats how to access your internet with no phone

[hugh]

"Would you check to see that the wounds on my hands are real?"

"-I simply state facts- how unfortunate that you perceive this as sympathy seeking."

Are these two statements - inherently antagonistic - or are they simply - a dialectical contradiction?

Anyways, Sir Paul, if you're reading this ... ( hey, it could happen.)...thanks! Band on the run was a cracking album and your flip sides were better than anything Oasis ever did. Please forgive us our forum as we forgive your Frog Chorus.

P.S. How did you get on with those tomato plant seeds I sent?

[ionnsaigh]

hugh, no contradiction - the wounds hands quip - was a angry knee jerk response to a post - that cast doubt on the severity of the matter. I'm not the kind to seek - nor wanting of sympathy.

Anyways - Sir Paul - if you're reading this.. I would hazard a guess that a soil analysis - of the land you own - would prove benificial - along with the positive growing climate - be ideal for the production of Hemp. The raw materials combined - with relatively cheap factory space - and an enthusiastic workforce - await in Kintyre. Hemp has a new-age - green organic factor to it . Paper - soap - clothes - hemp is a highly versatile wee plant
I can see it now - McCartney's natural products - hand produced in Campbeltown.

[WC1]

am bankrupt blacklisted

I drank four bottles of Catalonia Estrella beer followed by six bottles of American Budweiser. International taste buds.

Settled down to watch Man Utd v Celtic.

I'm not a singer, unless I've swallied a bottle of Laphroaig.

As far as paying my way is concerned - you can't get blood from a stone.

[Govangirl]

Anyways, Sir Paul, if you're reading this ... ( hey, it could happen.)...

Hugh, for all you know, Sir Paul could be on this forum every day in the guise of Ionnsaigh... hey, it could happen!

[Ninja Mania]

Band on the run was a cracking album and your flip sides were better than anything Oasis ever did.

Hugh this is very true but Oasis make better soup than the beatles ever did, and You Get a Roll With it...

[Govangirl]

... and You Get a Roll With it...

Groan! but very clever!

[Jock Strap]

No wonder you have big blocks of chips on your shoulders! You can't expect sympathy for such arrogance? Why shouldn't you pay Poll Tax?

So you are moaning about Absentee Landlords not paying their way when in fact you are not prepared to pay your way? How ridiculous.

The Poll Tax was a tax were - the poor paid more - and the rich paid less. To me and many others - this represented an attack on the poor. An earlier post suggested - that I had made personal gain by refusing to pay. Whereas in reality - I have suffered financial hardship. By replying - I simply state facts - how unfortunate that you perceive this as sympathy seeking. As far as arrogance is concerned - again you wrongly attribute my defiance - as something other.
As far as paying my way is concerned - you can't get blood from a stone.

So why pay any local tax if that is your trail of thought? Your statement about the poor paid mre and the rich paid less isn't true. I stayed on my own during the Poll Tax years and was better off that the previous rates system. I was on income support for 8 months and I paid very little due to a rebate. By simply refusing to pay you were making your own bed and for that I have no sympathy.

My initial point was you are on here pointing out about complaining about absentee landlords not paying their way when you are not prepared to pay yours. Do you honestly believe we should pay nothing for the services we get?

[hugh]

You Get a Roll With it...

Aye, and that's probably more than Macca's pal Ringo could manage on a drum kit.

[ionnsaigh]

Jock Strap, Four low waged adults sharing a one bedroom - in a damp ridden, high-rise, slum flat -in depressed, Govan Glasgow - paid considerably more than Malcolm Rifkin in a huge comfortable mansion - in the leafy suburbs of Bourgeois Morningside, Edinburgh.

The perceived fairness of any given tax is prerequisite - to successful collection. The poll tax failed to take into account people's ability to pay.

In all honesty - I would willingly pay my entire income to taxation.

The price of our decision not to pay - has been considerably more - than if we merely paid something - we found to be inherently unjust - and as such - morally repugnant.
See for the first time in my life - it felt good to be able to stand - and say no to them.
Mick Donoghue - Anti Poll Tax Union ( Scotland ) .

[bill]

Though we tend to disagree on most things Ionns, I always hoped you at least knew that nothing is certain but death and taxes.

[ionnsaigh]

Aye your right enough bill, however unlike death - taxes can be avoided. ( Corporation Tax ).

[hugh]

Here's a thing I'd personally like to thank Paul for; pre-McCartney people would ak me where I came from, and I'd say "Campbeltown, Argyll". I'd then be treated to a quick chorus along the lines of "Ock Campbeltown lock ah wish yew were wisky, ock Cambeltown lock, ock aye" now I usually say "Campbeltown, Kintyre." and I get immediate interest. Thanks for that too, Sir Paul.

P.S. P McC may not read the Forum, but I just realised that Ringo used to read and contribute, so I'd just like to say that the drum roll crack was a poor joke. Peace and love, peace and love.

[ionnsaigh]

After the song - people where generally favourable in their comments - regarding my yellow submarine - parked outside my door. The Sheriff Officers arranged to have it towed away - until they discovered it was armed with nuclear missiles.
Peace and love Man. Oh another thing I would thank him for - raising awareness of Cannabis.

[EMDEE]

Here's a thing I'd personally like to thank Paul for; pre-McCartney people would ak me where I came from, and I'd say "Campbeltown, Argyll". I'd then be treated to a quick chorus along the lines of "Ock Campbeltown lock ah wish yew were wisky, ock Cambeltown lock, ock aye" now I usually say "Campbeltown, Kintyre." and I get immediate interest. Thanks for that too, Sir Paul.

P.S. P McC may not read the Forum, but I just realised that Ringo used to read and contribute, so I'd just like to say that the drum roll crack was a poor joke. Peace and love, peace and love.

It does make it easier to explain where Campbeltown is to people who have never heard of the place. Mention Mull of Kintyre and they have heard of it.

What I don't like is being requested to play Mull of Kintyre. It's not one of my favourites, although it was hugely popular at the time, and it's a song, not an instrumental . I prefer to leave that to others.