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Did anyone see this article yesterday? We should sent this to anyone who complains we are sick and ghoulish for posting on this site. However my collection of Terry Pratchett Signed first editions are not for sale before or after his death.

The average CEO has an easier job than the guy at the bottom, he has a large degree of control, the little guy is a powerless cog. The average CEO certainly doesn't work 16 hrs a day. Even when they fail, the worst that happens to them is they are let go, usually with a big fat severance cheque. When you're at the top of the executive ladder failure is often rewarded, when you're at the bottom failure is never rewarded.

Mother of GOD. Why? Why? They should show this pic to sex addicts, that'll cool them down for a while........ ... Jesus! *gouges out eyes*

Just got back from the gym. They've got a new machine in. Only used it for half an hour, as I started to feel sick. It's great, though. It does everything...KitKats. Mars Bars, Snickers, Potato crisps, the lot...........

Hehe, if it's a son, they'll call him Duncan or Malcolm.

Who ate all the pies??? "We don't serve pies Mr Blackadder my Frenchies don't eat pies" Probably the Huge suspicious looking sausages.

This headline in the Daily Mirror annoyed me. This is scaremongering at its worst AS has frequently said iScotland would still have the Queen as head of state. Is anyone placing bets on new Royal baby being called Elizabeth if it is a girl?

Not necessarily true. Yes, some CEOs have began their careers shovelling shit before climbing to the top where they get others to do it but not all. The prevalence nowdays is for the young pretty things to go to University, get a business degree and walk straight into top jobs on the basis that they are A) Young Z) Have a degree C) are utterly ambitious and D) ruthless. Many have not a fucking clue how the business they head actually runs and nor do they really care. Their pay packets are irrelevant to me, life is unfair, unequal and we have never lived in a social utopia and nor will we. Ive got no time for idealists tbf, throughout human history we have tried pretty much everything to make all and everybody equal and fuck all has truly worked, communism, capitalism, you name it, its never really worked, infact the average "ism" is not to be trusted. All we can ask for is a bit of fairness, if the CEO earns £1 million a year, fine, I don't care but just don't fucking short change me, pay me a decent salary and don't treat me like a cunt. That's not too much to ask for, right?

It's not about moral highground, it's about a more balanced society. Do you really think that the average CEO of a FTSE 100 company should earn 160 x more than the average salary? How do such vast inequalities benefit society?

Did you know that naive is Evian spelled backwards? 'The average CEO' has responsibility for an entire company, tens, or hundreds, or thousands of people depend on his decisions and stewardship for their livelihoods, a board holds him to account for their financial interests and the law holds him to account for the practices of those below him. His job is to be, at all times, working for the advancement of his company and you are naive in the extreme if you think people are just given positions like that for no reason. Its usually the result of years and years of dedication and service to a company or a past record of excellence elsewhere. Guy on the bottom has responsibility for making sure the water is hot enough in his bucket to clean to floor and putting out a sign to warn others the floor is wet. He goes home at night and forgets about the place he just walked out of until he has to leave again to go back the next day. And I'm far closer to the mopper than the CEO, believe me. I just don't buy into the false notion that the little guy has some moral highground over the big guy because he gets paid less. Its bullshit.

I'm wondering if the apparent surge to yes is all it appears to be. Reminds me of the bouyant Labour Party almost celebrating victory at a Sheffield rally before John Major won an overall majority in 1992. The fallout made it clear lots of people told pollsters on thing and then thought only of their bank balance and long term security in the privacy of the polling booth. Most people intending to vote yes seem aware they're voting for more financial uncertainty. In that final split second, I wonder if they'll continue to think that financial uncertainty worth the bonus of never having another Conservative leader.

Let me guess: by scribbling something on a slip of paper, sticking that paper in an envelope and mailing that envelope to some government agency. regards, Hein

I liked him in The Marriage of Maria Braun. I wonder how many male Fassbinder actors are still around. There're a lot of premature deaths among the cast of his films. This question got my interest, I've seen several of Fassbinder's works. I tallied the following, from his first three films, from Wikepedia (insert veracity warning here): Love Is Colder Than Death Ulli Lommel (alive) Hanna Schygulla (alive) Rainer Werner Fassbinder (died 1982) Hans Hirschmüller (alive) Katrin Schaake (alive) Peter Berling (alive) Hannes Gromball (alive) Gisela Otto (unknown) Ingrid Caven (alive) Ursula Strätz (unknown) Irm Hermann (alive) Les Olvides (unknown) Wil Rabenbauer (died 2007) Peter Moland (unknown) Anastassios Karalas (unknown) Rudolf Waldemar Brem (alive) Yaak Karsunke (alive) Monika Stadler (unknown) Kurt Raab (died 1988) Thomas Hill (unknown) Liz Söllner (unknown) Howard Gaines (unknown) Franz Maron (unknown) Gottfried Hüngsberg (alive) Wolfgang Gmoch (unknown) Katzelmacher Hanna Schygulla (alive) Lilith Ungerer (died 2000) Rudolf Waldemar Brem (alive) Elga Sorbas (alive) Doris Mattes (unknown) Irm Hermann (alive) Peter Moland (unknown) Hans Hirschmüller (alive) Rainer Werner Fassbinder (died 1982) Harry Baer (alive) Hannes Gromball (alive) Katrin Schaake (alive) Gods of the Plague Hanna Schygulla (alive) Margarethe von Trotta (alive) Harry Baer (alive) Günther Kaufmann (died 2012) Carla Egerer (alive) Ingrid Caven (alive) Jan George (alive) Lilo Pempeit (died 1993) Marian Seidowsky (unknown) Yaak Karsunke (alive) Micha Cochina (unknown) Hannes Gromball (alive) Lilith Ungerer (died 2000) Katrin Schaake (alive) Rainer Werner Fassbinder (died 1982) David Morgan (unknown) Thomas Schieder (unknown) Kurt Raab (died 1988) Irm Hermann (alive) Peter Moland (unknown) Doris Mattes (unknown) Eva Madelung (unknown) Ursula Strätz (unknown) Then I got bored. regards, Hein

Aha! regards, Hein

The longer we go with no news of Clarissa Eden or Mary Wilson the more I begin to think their deaths may have gone tragically unnoticed. There both very old and on the fringes of fame in modern terms, Clarissa Eden being Britain's first lady before the majority of people alive today we're born. Have gone unnoticed? Nope. Eden published her memoirs last year. Lady Wilson was still politically active at the start of the year, still known to folk in the Labour party, and apparently still a terrifying firebrand. Both will get reasonable coverage when they go.

The longer we go with no news of Clarissa Eden or Mary Wilson the more I begin to think their deaths may have gone tragically unnoticed. There both very old and on the fringes of fame in modern terms, Clarissa Eden being Britain's first lady before the majority of people alive today we're born. Mary Wilson was a published poet as well, so I can't see her not getting an obit. Neither of them were ever "First Lady", incidentally. The UK is a monarchy, so if that title were to be used, it would be held by the Queen [/pedantry]