First UK Sony set-top Blu-ray Disc player to cost arm & leg

[GeorgeTuk]

I agree, how many active members do we have?

Campaign it is.

We shall fight them in the aisles,
We shall fight them at the checkouts,
We shall fight on the internet, in the bargain bucket and on the market stalls.
We shall never surrender!

[Steve B]

they may take our pounds, but they shall never take our freedom?

[wheelus]

Like it or not, the variation in pricing between Uncle Sam and EU is due to taxes and not so much profiteering even though exceptions are there. Profiteering is the aim of every kleptomaniac who starts a business because the world of commerce is not run by any special catergory/breed of humans. It’s you and I, when given the opportunity to live a life of screwing as opposed to being screwed [though some might like it that way]. In reality, commerce is about fairness, not opportunity but then, ask yourself that if given the chance to “win” some dosh, “just like that”, would you find a justification to deny it? No? Then you’ve finally found the answer and that is by looking at the mirror for the truth of the matter.

By having a conscienable social program to keep “the trodden down” from emerging onto the streets to riot at any given opportunity, [yes, it’s their turn now to “opportunise” – and yes, there is such a word … I ‘fink], not that in France, currently, it is doing any good but then the French are always more direct in matters not pertaining to d’amour le art-fart, like separating their monarch’s head when the opportunity arose [vive la France !!], most EU governments have shown that it actually works. Not that the cunning cretins within humans are not finding a way to worm their hands onto the “Social Loot” and such beasties are called … The Politicians.

Yes, me hearites, live long and prosper and accept that in exchange for a higher cost of living [but not standard], you walk the streets safer … but only just, “Boy”, so the over-indulged Yank retorts. Why? Because they are more free … to indulge in whatever fashion that takes their fancies but only because their idea of demoncrazy is actually abandonment. “Y’all hear now, ‘cos nakedness on yore telly is cummin’, Boy”. Ah jest kaan’t wait !!! With an Irish slang-drawl, if yore don’t mind. [What do you mean it’s already here… where … please..]

Open your eyes and trace the costing route [pronounced as “root”] of any goody you are feasting upon and you will find that, like gasoline [Ja], it’s ALL to do with taxes. WTBH are EU governments doing with all the surplus cash? To “balance” the budget [or as any beancounter will tell you, to “cook zer books”]. And why? Because that’s the way any ruling mob maintains their position as well as cooking schemes to ensure their outright victory at the next election. And you thought that “Democracy” is alive and well. A political manifesto is called “The Guide to Vote Buying” in any sane language. Wake TH up will yer. Humans cannot find honesty nor instill honesty in others. Not when they themselves are so ignorantly thinking that they know enough to “elect” the best party and we have the gall to slander “bananna republics” for vote buying or outright dictatorship.

Humans are addicted to hypocricy because they seldom look at their own weaknesses and egomaniacs are especially reluctant to peek at themselves because everyone knows what kind of mess they’ll see within themselves. This particular game is called “Guilt & Anger”. They look to others instead and through the comparison thereof, they can then find ways, consciously or subconsciously/unconsciously, to justify the wrestling of power for their self-promotion. Now, those clever Romans have a term for that and it is Caveat Emptor. It doesn’t just mean what it reads. It also means that the only way to find the truth in any given matter, is to be closest to your enemy and that entity is the cheat/hypocrite within every human. In a given battlefield, it is mostly that cheat within, be it an idiot or a lunatic, that gives the game away and living on a day-to-day basis is a warzone existence for most, not that we have to be over-aware of it. If a Green-Ray goody is screwy on price, must you really have it? You must? Then what the hell are you complaining about. Just climb onboard the screwship “Enterprise” “and serve those dumb natives right if my demands for indulgence ends up at their laps”. [Si senor, eet always does]. Male or female, nobody needs a dildo to derive satisfaction, but if I do, I don’t need the pure Afgani white to go with it, but if I do, I don’t need that lubricant of the stars called “Whale O’ Slosh” to go with it but if I do, it’s time to get screwed royally. The answer to finding honesty, integrity, sincereity and Love in others to be that ourself first and thereafter, no idiot, lunatic or malice can touch us. Not even the taxman. Honest.