Originally Posted by Zen10 (Post 10529759)

As you can see Your Honour, the defendant is clutching at straws. He is a desperate man. His defence rests on the fact that Zen10 made a comment about a swamp a full minute after he insulted him and defamed his reputation to a third party. It beggars belief, Your Honour, his defence rest on time itself running backwards.

Originally Posted by Zen10 (Post 10529759)

As you can see Your Honour, the defendant is clutching at straws. He is a desperate man. His defence rests on the fact that Zen10 made a comment about a swamp a full minute after he insulted him and defamed his reputation to a third party. It beggars belief, Your Honour, his defence rest on time itself running backwards.

Originally Posted by Grayling (Post 10529761)

Why don't you put me back on ignore?:rofl:

As if you ever did:rofl:

Originally Posted by pomikev (Post 10529749)

sitting on the sofa watching blue peter.

Originally Posted by Grayling (Post 10529766)

You really are self obsessed aren't you.....if you read posts properly you would see that the comment was about another poster.....not everything revolves around you and your bizarre view of the world...as much as you think it should

Originally Posted by Zen10 (Post 10529769)

So you say. I find it difficult to believe.

Originally Posted by Zen10 (Post 10529767)

If you put me on ignore, I will put you on ignore. Simple.

Originally Posted by renth (Post 10529768)

Sounds like an aspirational family, most council house kids would have been watching Magpie at the time.

Originally Posted by Zen10 (Post 10529709)

I know people from council estate. My wife's grandparents lived on one after the war. They were very happy there for many years until the 1990s when people started turning into scum, and then they were driven from the estate by the violent and aggressive behaviour of the new breed after forty years. I have lived a couple of streets away from a council estate, and I had to walk through one to get to school, and had to sit in school with the inmates from the estate. I stick my my dung-house comment, sorry.

Originally Posted by pomikev (Post 10529629)

I pay for a cup of coffee for the person behind me in the drive through so they are totally blown away when they get to the window themselves and find out a complete stranger has given in an act of kindness without the need for merit, the point of this is to spread a little good energy and remind people that they are not separate beings but are part of a human community.

My hope is that the act will inspire at least one in 10 people to really think about it and start doing the same thing, thus making the world a more pleasant, loving, caring and connected place.

Where did I get this idea ? - I was at the drive though once and was amazed to be told that the people in the car in front that had already left had bought me a coffee. so I know how it feels to have this happen and it inspired me to start doing the same.

It seems that some peoples attitude in this thread would be "why the hell wouldn't you just start buying yourself extra cups of coffee so you would be secure in the knowledge that you were a high achiever and had been clever enough to not only have more coffee than you could possibly drink and could sit there staring at the pile wringing your hands together like Fagin but you may even get the chance to rent out the cups to people who can't afford their own coffee."

Imagine being really poor and needing somewhere to live and out of the blue someone who you didn't know just gave you a house in an act of pure unselfish giving, because they had been fortunate on this turn of the wheel of life to have done really well and wanted to share that good fortune with their fellow man.

The world can be an amazing place, and the world I am describing is VERY different to the world of Stock Portfolios, Investment property fifedoms and anxious greedy scared people trying to beat the game.

There are no pockets in a funeral shroud, I'll take my wealth in smiles and hugs now thanks.

Originally Posted by Kim67 (Post 10529855)

I'm finding all these new posters a bit weird - philanthropic Maccas coffee gifting? That's all very nice and generous, but who on earth goes to Maccas anyway, not people that need a free coffee surely - go help out in a soup kitchen or volunteer to cuddle HIV and premmie babies at your local hospital or donate your $2 a week from the coffee to aid indigenous health and education. Really don't bang on about everyone else being capitalist scum, it is possible to look after yourself, your own family and be charitable, why is the assumption that people who want to make money from the property market or stocks and shares are somehow less generous than yourself in other areas of their lives? Would you reprimand Bill Gates for his greed purely because he's worked hard, made a lot of money and lives a very nice lifestyle? Or would you look at all the other things that he does with his money and call him a philanthropist like yourself?

Originally Posted by pomikev (Post 10529877)

It's got nothing to do with philanthropy, you miss the point entirely, I'm talking about doing small insignificant (to some) things that spread outwards with a ripple effect through the culture and play a tiny part in trying to change the way capitalist ideology has eroded a large part of the general humanity of mankind.

If you think one small thing can't make a difference try sleeping in a room with 1 mosquito.

And I think Bill Gates is a nob head.

Originally Posted by pomikev (Post 10529877)

It's got nothing to do with philanthropy, you miss the point entirely, I'm talking about doing small insignificant (to some) things that spread outwards with a ripple effect through the culture and play a tiny part in trying to change the way capitalist ideology has eroded a large part of the general humanity of mankind.

If you think one small thing can't make a difference try sleeping in a room with 1 mosquito.

And I think Bill Gates is a nob head.