Usually because only a married partner would benefit from any compensation which was paid out in the event of death or injury. As those rules have been relaxed over the years then things have changed.

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Reclaiming "methinks" for the nation

Latest blog post - 2011 - a review (updated 07/10)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1lL1OyjcI
He's obviously never googled "UK's gay capital".

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Sick Left-wing Zealot.

I'm guessing that was the joke....

Could be, but it's hard to tell with Mailtards.

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Sick Left-wing Zealot.

He was a cunt then and he's now proved that today he is an even bigger cunt.

I can't believe it took some people so long to figure that out - I've always hated that cunt, and his shit overrated pop band.

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"Now get those trousers off before someone dies!"

At least in the old days you could make plant pots out of albums when the band/singer turned out to be a cunt. How can you recycle a download?

You're right. Hardly a shock.

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MY COMMENTS ARE FROM THE HORSES MOUTH AND ARE ALL FACTS

I am guessing ........ tax....

You know the thing you lived off before you found out your brother had talent.....

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You may say I'm a dreamer.... but I'm not the only one....

Actually, come May 2015 and a quick retrospective might well prove him right (although a speed-read of the article would suggest that he didn't quite mean that Gideon and Dave are fucking the UK even harder that Thatcher thought possible.)

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Brigate di Transizione

I wonder how selectively Noel Gallagher is being reported. The headline certainly doesn't match the text.
I think what he actually meant is that in the Eighties there was still some hope left, in-spite of Thatcher. Some people, like him, who were condemned by the Tories to a life on the dole were less apathetic than now and were motivated to go off do something and "great art was made". Thirty years later, their children are even more downtrodden and have had the motivation beaten out of them.

The government we have now is far more extreme than then and I don't believe that even the most cynical on the Left foresaw just how devastating the consequences of Thatcherism would be. Then there was a Labour opposition who offered a real alternative, now we have a Labour party which has accepted most of the changes which Thatcher introduced - so of course there's less hope around now. In that sense I agree with Gallagher, the Eighties were less shit than now.

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

It would be nice to think that Stevo was being ironic but I just can't be sure.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1ldTOq7iC

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

Don't think that making a positive comment about women will dilute your homophobic "real man" nonsense Blow Job Deller, you are still a c**t.

Using the term real man twice in such a short sentence, makes me wonder if there's a particular need for B J to convince himself of his manliness...or he's just poorly read and badly educated.

In fact that could very well be the case anyway.

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"Now get those trousers off before someone dies!"