I hope this man is being ironic! But I worry that he is very serious!

Re: the London Marathon, bitterness, bitterness and even more bitterness... like the bit about attention seekers in the last comment. lol how much are you going to get out of 32000 runners?


Why don't all the runners have to pay a congestion charge? They block the roads all day and then block public transport when they have finished trotting round the streets.
It will be a damned good day when all this marathon mania comes to an end.

atomjohn LEE, derby, United Kingdom

While I agree that such events raise money for worthy causes, I cannot for the life of me see why they have to be run on public roads causing inconvenience for everyone else. There are plenty of parks that could be used by these 'unselfish heroes' who would never dream of boring the pants off everyone for months on end by explaining how they "got through the WALL", "feel a great sense of personal triumph", "helped the needy",etc!!! GIVE THE REST OF A BREAK PLEASE.

John McIntyre, Runcorn



I think all sport is a bit of a nonsense. I would rather that the attention seekers flogging around the streets of London would be better employed driving a large treadmill and generating electricity. As to the myth of Charity, very little reaches the intended recipients. Charity is a vast business enterprise employing hundreds of thousands of people all of whom receive wages, company cars and the rest. A complete waste of time and effort.

John Hyett, Sudbury, United Kingdom

Does John Hyett actually think that 'Charity' is an actual company?

Perhaps he tried to get a job with them and didn't get it??

Here's one from the HYS archives regarding forced marriages. All i can say is




More taxpayers money being wasted on more propoganda with this anti-men government at the heart of it. In order to be 'forced' into marriage someone would need to be permanently kidnapped and presumably raped every day and as we already have laws against kidnap and rape this campaign is nonsense. Behind this nonsense is the anti-men feminists in the government yet again who are against the concept of heteroseuxual marriage full stop let alone arranged marriage. Is feminist ideology in the West the new unquestionable superior religion to be enforced on the world?

Cedric, UK

The anti-men feminists in the government?

They're nearly all men!

Complaining about the marathon blocking the roads when you live in Derby or Runcorn smacks of people with too much time on their hands. It's a Sunday morning, Jeez.

I am clearly working for the wrong charity. Where is my company car, why am I earning less than the national average wage (and much less than other graduates from my course) if charities are not giving money the "needy" ?

John Hyett doesn't sound a very cheery chap does he.

My guess is that atomjohn LEE is a bitter motorist who thinks that anything which favours pedestrians is POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD.



And John McIntyre is a lardy bugger who is envious of anyone fit enough or brave enough to try to run 26 miles. Me too, but at least I don't attempt to hide it behind whining.




And John Hyett is a selfish bastard who never gives to charity. He probably likes to say "charity begins at home", particularly when overseas aid is mentioned. He's secretly ashamed of this, so he invents this myth of a vast charity scam.

What a joyless bunch these three sound.

The scary thing is an awful lot of people on HYS sound like the above 3... it's the place to be if you're a reactionary windbag.

At a time when the BBC and their evil masters - New Labour - are doing everything they can to erode every single thing that might be regarded as English, it is heartneing to know that the BBC has its priorities in order. I'm glad that the BBC can foment debate about the traditional KAF, that noble bastion of Englishness that has existed for little more than 50 years, while at the same time, encouraging people to slaughter everything else right down to the flag. Still, in this mad cap world, I am not surprised that it's only mundane things like this we candiscuss without someone screaming 'racism!'

Michael James, Birmingham, United Kingdom


Words fail me...... is he being ironic??

The idea of the BBC as evil minions to the government of supervillains that is New Labour gives me an attack of the LOLs. Is Tony Blair perhaps like Dr. Evil? Perhaps he has a big fluffy cat that he likes to stroke while sending hard-working tax-payers to their doom in the shark pit

It's odd really because the BBC were brutally attacked by New Labour and it does seem the BBC are making it hard for them, I'm sure they'd rather see a Murdoch run media than an indepent, intellectual critique of the current government.

_________________
February the 6th 1958

'How can you lie back and think of England when you don't know who's in the team?'

"Vote Black Shirts"-Daily Mail on Mosley's fascist army

on the subject of the improvement of the tax credit system...


Easy, stop paying it and make people pay for the things they want instead of taking more and more from the middle masses who do actually get up and go and do a days work.

A Man with a view, UK

Recommended by 92 people (most recommended what a surprise)

On the subject of male contraception out come the mysoginists

A lot of unhappy women now I presume?

No more babies (unwanted by men) in exchange for free housing, benefits, tax-relief and exuses for not working!

Bring it on!!!

GREAT!!

No more unwanted pregnancies by women becoming "suddently" pregnant, only to claim free housing and benefits!

Less tax being spent on scroungers with 15 annoying, dangerous "happy-slapping" teenagers!

Can we make this compulsary please? I happily get my taxes spend on that!!

stefan verstraelen

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Would I use male hormonal contraceptives? Damn right I would. No more torn condom worries, no more "yes I'm on the pill" followed by "oops, I think I'm pregnant" then 20 years of stumping up cash to the CSA for a child that should never have been conceived. Bring it on!!!

Andy Robson, Lytham, United Kingdom

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Fathers have absolutely no rights compared to mothers so why would any man NOT use it?

If this makes it to market most men would use it in a heart-beat rather than risk being burdened with a child they never wanted for at least 18 years.

Women can't be trusted to use contraception so it's only fair that men should have more choices open to them.

Drew Peacock [you gotta be kidding], London



Are you crazy?!! NO WAY! there is tonnes of contraception out there. The female pill and condom has worked great together. No chance of me taking any male contraceptive just cos some spotty Phd student says so. I value my fertility!
Raj, Southall

(and does Raj not think the pill for women might affect them... talk about I'm alright jack)

haha, he's advocating a completely free market economy. Private police and fire services and the like. Genius.