Fair's Fair for your Fair Share

Generali

FTBFun wrote: »

"Flaming galah" surely?

Yeah, that too.

ILW

Generali wrote: »

The boss is a flaming idiot though. A complete mother-flamer in fact. And a bully.

Same here, and I am self employed.

Graham_Devon

Wouldn't the monarchy take the lot in the UK?

Generali

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Wouldn't the monarchy take the lot in the UK?

Why would they? The Queen owns all the land in the Uk, Aus, Canada, NZ etc. I don't think she has a claim to other assets though.

kabayiri

I'd fully expect to receive no less than 3 carrier pigeons on my window ledge the day after the 'mega blow up'.

Why a full day delay? Well, it takes a pigeon a long time to fly from Nigeria to the UK.

Unravelling the tag on each pigeon would reveal a note similar to the following :

"Dear Sir/Madam/President

I am shocked totally at the computer collapse. My client - Princess Polleee Toynbee-Mudalla - is in desperate need to move her considerable bars of gold to a safe haven in the Orkney Isles; and we have identified your shed as an ideal drop zone.

Please send several hundred £20 notes tied to the pigeons legs. This is necessary to buy them enough pigeon food here to carry the bullion to you.

Your urgent attentions is appreciated."


... anyone got a good recipe for pigeon pie?

Generali

kabayiri wrote: »

I'd fully expect to receive no less than 3 carrier pigeons on my window ledge the day after the 'mega blow up'.

Why a full day delay? Well, it takes a pigeon a long time to fly from Nigeria to the UK.

Unravelling the tag on each pigeon would reveal a note similar to the following :

"Dear Sir/Madam/President

I am shocked totally at the computer collapse. My client - Princess Polleee Toynbee-Mudalla - is in desperate need to move her considerable bars of gold to a safe haven in the Orkney Isles; and we have identified your shed as an ideal drop zone.

Please send several hundred £20 notes tied to the pigeons legs. This is necessary to buy them enough pigeon food here to carry the bullion to you.

Your urgent attentions is appreciated."


... anyone got a good recipe for pigeon pie?

Post of the day.

PasturesNew

I'd just sign on, develop an anxiety order to get extra benefits and rent a 1-bed flat... with a master plan of never working again because it turned out to not be worth it and I was sold a pup.

Jimmy_31

Lots of people would be removed from their homes by people who are capable of a higher level of violence.

I would just go and build a house on some of the queens land and say it was always there.

The queens land:rotfl:.

The queen owns some of a planet hurtling through space:rotfl:

Graham_Devon

Generali wrote: »

Why would they? The Queen owns all the land in the Uk, Aus, Canada, NZ etc. I don't think she has a claim to other assets though.

Dunno, it's why I asked. I'm just assuming as they already hold so much land, it would be seen as easier for them to take the lot.

tartanterra

Generali wrote: »

What would be the 'fairest' or 'best' way to resolve the situation?

I'm sure a fair way - acceptable to the majority of British people - would be suggested almost immediately.

It would then go before Parliament, who would ignore the wishes of the British public, and it would be debated, changed, compromised and generally messed around with until it was unrecognisable as the original concept.

It would then proceed to the House of Lords where a bunch of unelected old duffers would further tinker with the solution.

After around 10 years, it would finally become law after dozens of frivolous legal challenges by the usual bunch of self interest minority groups.

The only likely outcome after all this, will be that those who had previously contributed the least to society will emerge as the biggest winners.

In fact, it will make very little change to our society at all.