Feisty Hexus!

[menthel]

Blimey, I pop back after god knows how long and look what is on the 1st page of GD! Bloody Feisty!

[Ice Tea]

I've noticed that the Mods on here are getting very Egotistic.

[sammyc]

^ ingratiation ftw

I got round to making my post (about suspected malware issue) on SpywareInfo forum yesterday, and hey presto this morning: "SpywareInfo Forum will be unavailable for a while. Our server is being reformatted". Followed now by "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage.." I b0rked the site.

[MadduckUK]

I've noticed that the Mods on here are getting very Egotistic.

yup, it's been noted

[Ice Tea]

/me bows to MadduckUK

[Funkstar]

I had to post this.

[mycarsavw]

Bump!

Papal visit to the UK, estimated cost of £12m to the taxpaper.

I'd like to conduct a short straw poll - who actually wants him to visit?

In the words of the great Robert Llewellyn (when discussing Cardinal Walter Kasper's (The Pope's wingman) comments), "Racist red dress wearing bigotted old ****, no apologies."

[MaddAussie]

No!

Bankers' best guesses about the Vatican's wealth put it at $10 billion to $15 billion. Of this wealth, Italian stockholdings alone run to $1.6 billion, 15% of the value of listed shares on the Italian market. The Vatican has big investments in banking, insurance, chemicals, steel, construction, real estate. Dividends help pay for Vatican expenses and charities such as assisting 1,500,000 children and providing some measure of food and clothing to 7,000,000 needy Italians. Unlike ordinary stockholders, the Vatican pays no taxes on this income, which led the leftist Rome weekly L'Espresso last week to call it "the biggest tax evader in Italy."


Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...#ixzz0zh1Apcoy

Surely its an expense and the Vatican should be paying for it out of its own pocket.

[Muns]

holy ancient thread batman! someone please summerise

Funkstar - I watched that all the way through Wanted to stop but it kept looking like it was going to end soon :|

[chuckskull]

Paying for the worlds largest corporation's publicity tour.

[jim]

Really couldn't care less.

Don't understand why we're paying for it though. Considering some of the measures they're taking to cut the budget (getting rid of NI cards!) it seems a bit daft to chuck it away on something fairly frivolous.

[Brucelles]

I dunno. We taxpayers don't have to cough up when other entertainers come to town. Why can't he just charge for tickets?

[nibbler]

Tickets are £20. That's what people at school were saying today anyway.

[MadduckUK]

holy ancient thread batman! someone please summerise

what? no

[nibbler]

Summary would need to be released in several (roughly 200) volumes imo

[chuckskull]

Thread summary;