Sean Penn

Lowaicue said:
One of the reasons I treat you with such civility, Tom, is that you are the only person I have ever met who reads the Mail. Even the journos treat it with scant regard and that atrocious woman, Ann Lesley, does her best to distance herself and she was their foreign correspondent for years. Perhaps she still is. She was made a Dame in 2006 and I cannot see her without imagining her as Dame in pantomime screeching, 'Has anyone seen our Jack?'
Imagine waking in the morning and finding that beside you! All you would be able to think would be, 'Jeez, how many bottles did I drink?'
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I used to think like you about the Daily Mail but then I started to read it and found that there are many good things about it. It is one of the few investigative papers left and that is because it makes money and can afford to do it. Did you know that they were vehemently against the 2003 Iraq War?

Ann Lesley became my heroine the other night on Question Time when she flat out accused Alistair Campbell of lying about the Iraq War and sending David Kelly to his death. The bastard has been trying to become a media personality and anyone who pricks his bubble is OK in my book. No, I wouldn't want to sleep with her and then again I wouldn't want to sleep with that bitch Polly Toynbee either. At least Ann Lesley is a proper foreign journalist whereas Toynbee is just a Harriet Harperson aka Harman clone. At the end of the day, it is what it is, a middle market tabloid with redeeming features. By the way, I buy the Guardian, Times, Telegraph sometimes but they can be incredibly turgid especially the Guardian.

The Mail has had many campaigns down the years and has been especially vehement about mixed race adoption and the incredibly PC approach of local authorities which has resulted in the lowest number of adoptions ever.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-process-restrictions-gave-second-chance.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...l-make-illegal-block-mixed-race-adoption.html
 
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Aoxomoxoa said:
I used to think like you about the Daily Mail but then I started to read it and found that there are many good things about it. It is one of the few investigative papers left and that is because it makes money and can afford to do it. Did you know that they were vehemently against the 2003 Iraq War?

Ann Lesley became my heroine the other night on Question Time when she flat out accused Alistair Campbell of lying about the Iraq War and sending David Kelly to his death. The bastard has been trying to become a media personality and anyone who pricks his bubble is OK in my book. No, I wouldn't want to sleep with her and then again I wouldn't want to sleep with that bitch Polly Toynbee either. At least Ann Lesley is a proper foreign journalist whereas Toynbee is just a Harriet Harperson aka Harman clone. At the end of the day, it is what it is, a middle market tabloid with redeeming features. By the way, I buy the Guardian, Times, Telegraph sometimes but they can be incredibly turgid especially the Guardian.

The Mail has had many campaigns down the years and has been especially vehement about mixed race adoption and the incredibly PC approach of local authorities which has resulted in the lowest number of adoptions ever.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-process-restrictions-gave-second-chance.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...l-make-illegal-block-mixed-race-adoption.html
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The Mail is interesting only when it is wrapped round three penn'th of chips and a bob's worth of cod. Jeez! That's going back a bit!
 
Some guys at work were discussing Sean Penn. Apparently, in the comments section of an article, a reader asked "when is Sean Penn going to give his Malibu estate back to Mexico?" :D
 
Lowaicue said:
The Mail is interesting only when it is wrapped round three penn'th of chips and a bob's worth of cod. Jeez! That's going back a bit!
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You're a good chap Low but you have a very rigid mindset at times. You profess to be socialist yet you choose to live in, red in tooth and claw, capitalistic HK, I have a friend like that, he lives in Switzerland yet espouses socialistic mumbo jumbo as if he was still an agitprop student.
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
You're a good chap Low but you have a very rigid mindset at times. You profess to be socialist yet you choose to live in, red in tooth and claw, capitalistic HK, I have a friend like that, he lives in Switzerland yet espouses socialistic mumbo jumbo as if he was still an agitprop student.
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I guess you are one of the many that believe equality can only be achieved by reducing everyones standard of living towards zero. I happen to believe that everyone is entitled to a level playing field and that socialism is the betterment of all. I came to HK, although at the time I was not fully aware of it, to avoid the final years of thatcher and to work to increase the exports of the UK to a place that had intrigued me since childhood.
I can help my country, economically, more in HK than ever I could by staying home. The same can be said for the thousands of people employed in thousands of offices round the world, whose job it is to produce export revenue and keep the factories (or factory) in the UK open and employing people.
I get pissed off when people label us 'non-doms' and undeserving. It just illustrates how little people really understand about how their own country exists. I sold millions of pounds worth of 100% British products and since I retired I have helped forge links between HK companies and UK (and US) companies by teaching business communications and business culture to the Chinese as well as being a 'Creative Consultant' (honestly I don't know why I have that honour) to a substantial HK exporter.
Before 1997 I was a regular speaker at the consulate to groups of British business men who honestly thought that all they had to do was appear in HK for the little yellow chaps to open their bank accounts to them. Hence my first question to them was always: 'How much money are you prepared to lose?'
So there you are. Too much information but no dishonesty, no turning my back upon the poor, no selling my soul to the Tory devil.
 
Lowaicue said:
I guess you are one of the many that believe equality can only be achieved by reducing everyones standard of living towards zero. I happen to believe that everyone is entitled to a level playing field and that socialism is the betterment of all. I came to HK, although at the time I was not fully aware of it, to avoid the final years of thatcher and to work to increase the exports of the UK to a place that had intrigued me since childhood.
I can help my country, economically, more in HK than ever I could by staying home. The same can be said for the thousands of people employed in thousands of offices round the world, whose job it is to produce export revenue and keep the factories (or factory) in the UK open and employing people.
I get pissed off when people label us 'non-doms' and undeserving. It just illustrates how little people really understand about how their own country exists. I sold millions of pounds worth of 100% British products and since I retired I have helped forge links between HK companies and UK (and US) companies by teaching business communications and business culture to the Chinese as well as being a 'Creative Consultant' (honestly I don't know why I have that honour) to a substantial HK exporter.
Before 1997 I was a regular speaker at the consulate to groups of British business men who honestly thought that all they had to do was appear in HK for the little yellow chaps to open their bank accounts to them. Hence my first question to them was always: 'How much money are you prepared to lose?'
So there you are. Too much information but no dishonesty, no turning my back upon the poor, no selling my soul to the Tory devil.
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It is one of the many reasons I admire you, plus you got me hooked on Downton Abbey.
 
Lowaicue said:
The Mail is interesting only when it is wrapped round three penn'th of chips and a bob's worth of cod. Jeez! That's going back a bit!
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In many ways you are an old fashioned class warrior but instead of living in a council house on a sink estate, smoking rollups and drinking Carlsberg Special Brew you choose to eke out a miserable existence in HK instead.
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
In many ways you are an old fashioned class warrior but instead of living in a council house on a sink estate, smoking rollups and drinking Carlsberg Special Brew you choose to eke out a miserable existence in HK instead.
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The people I amagainst have absolutely no class whatsoever. Often they have scant regard for the truth, use money to support their lies, and, very often, have sociopathic tendencies. Most of them, not all I grant you, but most of them tend towards the right of the political spectrum. They exploit and see nothing wrong, they cause hardship and see nothing wrong, they are wrong but are sufficiently persuasive to hoodwink a majority of ordinary people.
They are sometimes, in the UK, aristocrats, but not always. More often they are the Ashcrofts of the world and the RBS money takers who this year have been forced to give up their obscene bonuses. They are now known as the 1 percent.
No class. Never had class. Wouldn't know class if it bit them on their fat constipated arses.
 
The UK's problems, IMHO, derive from our constantly alternating between two failed political ideologies.

Labour are incompetent. Their idea of managing the country consists of setting targets on every possible public work (delivered by public or private sector). People naturally work towards the targets and create little 'workarounds' to reach those targets. So you end up with a Soviet tractor factor problem, figures show we have exceeded tractor production figures once again but you can't find a tractor for love nor money in the fields.

The Tories are incompetently corrupt. They have a mindset that says if ever there is a social problem, one of their friends must make a profit out of it. So you end up with Emma Harrison at A4E earning £8.6m a year whilst her company performs significantly worse than the jobcentre.

As for the others, well the Lib Dems resemble rentboys who will sell their backside in a second for a sniff of power or even a decent shot in front of the TV cameras, UKIP moan about the EU constantly yet spend year on year milking the Euro gravy train, the BNP/SNP/ED are all racist morons without a braincell between them and the greens are nice to have around as our 'conscience' but would you really want them to have any real power?

We don't have a politician in the country worth listening to (or pissing on if they were on fire). Luckily, neither do most other countries.

And at least we don't have the Trout Lady of Buenos Aires....
 
Carlos Spicy Weiner said:
FYI, Low is a Non-Dom.
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Unfortunately the term 'Non-Dom' has been associated with people like Lord Ashcroft who have tangled companies designed to hide money and who pay no tax on their earnings in the UK. That does not apply to me. Indeed, only yesterday, I received a nice letter from the UK Tax people telling me how much tax I must pay on my pension. Something like 20% of everything above GBP10000 per year.
So yes I am non domiciled in the UK (although I do have a house there) but I do not, nor have I ever, avoided or evaded any taxation obligations I may (or maynot) have.
 
I don't care if he is a non-dom. His tax affairs are between him and HMRC.

You can't slate a Briton for living overseas. Brits leaving these shores for foreign climes made the modern world.
 
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