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A person originally from Poland (I believe) suggested some people were 'inbred' - this is a a pretty nasty insult in English -- but I wanted to know if it has the same or similar or worse connotations in Polish?

Is it likely that the speaker translated it as a polish insult to english, or just did it in english straight?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH18Y60rNOc

In the UK, the introduction of collage/university tuition fees mean students need massive loans to pay for their education and often leave with tens of thousands of pounds of debt.

However muslims aren't allowed to receive or pay interest... so how do Muslim students fund their tuition fees?

Michelle Obama is visiting the UK with Barak for the G20 talks.

She visited a school here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/business/2009/...

It is a girls only school, which is a bit unusual, but ever more unusual there isn't a white child in sight!

I thought Barak ran saying 'colour is not an issue' - so why didn't Michelle meet any white kids here?

One of my sons has started keeping locusts - they are mainly fed grass freshly cut from our (untreated) back lawn.

Been going really well till today - with a number of deaths (eratic behaviour, falling over on side, cant right themselves, twitch for a time before dieing) - I think it may be down to some bran (put in as a backstop should they be short of grass at any time) - I didn't want to use purchased products, because of the risk or pesticide contamination, but the bran is 'soil association certified organic'.

I have now removed all the food and put in some new fresh cut grass.

Can I test the bran for pesticide (or have it tested)?

I am a bit suspicions because the bran has a warning 'packed in an environment containing nuts' -- if organic produce can be contaminated with nuts during packing, could it be contaminated with insecticide.

My boy is devastated - his carefully nurtured hoppers, having gone through several moults, twitching at the bottom of the cage :-(

As I understand it, the 'credit crunch' is a result of money being tied up in thousands or reposessed houses that cannot be sold.

The banks threw people out of those homes - now they want people to help them??

Seems to me the banks are no better than loan sharks...

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/China-...

Is it any wonder they want to control the internet in their country? -- it is such a shame western companies are prepared to prostitute our principals for the yellow dollar.

If a bank is in trouble because borrowers have defaulted on mortgages, then why should the taxpayer bailout the banks with extra money? why not instead bailout the borrower so they can pay the loan off?

Can it be right to make the taxpayer pays off a banks debits, just so the bank can turn around and chase down the taxpayers for their debts??

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7636014.stm

Everyone hates Brown - he has tried the 'I am blind in one eye' thing, then 'I almost lost the other eye' then 'look I have a normal wife - she cant be wrong can she?' -- now he is telling everyone about how he gives to charity...

Seems very desparate (not that he has much choice) - will it help?

If someone comes out as a big supporter of brown - does that make brown look better, or does it make the supporter look bad?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7634111.stm

The government say they will be fantatic; the public say they will be expensive and useless.

Isn't this the ideal way to find out who is right?

How is it that scotlands devolution is supposed to be leading to a 'socialist paradise', but their public servants have just gone on strike?

How often does a politicians view on the dawn of life matter?

If a politician thinks pretzels are a better snack than peanuts does anyone beleive they will be biased in their public duties?

Most people seem to think that if there were no laws then everyone would be theiving, murderers (themselves included, presumably).

Most people seem to think that if there were no government spending (taxpayer funded) on the 'needy' then people (themselves included, presumably) would let the needy starve on the streets.

It isn't the law that stops me being a murdering thief - it is my own morality; charities still get donations and operate despite state 'benefits' existing...

I don't get it - I only want the state to be involved where they can add efficiency - nothing else.

Do people really think they would be murding, theiving, heartless, selfish people with out the state? Or do they just think that everyone else would be?

I asked a question about some specific government spending, and most replies were along the lines that "it may be wasteful, but it is better than some of the other things the government could spent it on".

It didnt seem occur to anyone that if the government didnt spend it, then THEY COULD KEEP IT - i.e. taxes could be reduced...

Has the whole western world been conditioned to beleive that the government are *entitled* to take their property (money), even with out good reason?

Gordon Brown is trying to prevent a leadership bid against him by refusing to issue ballot papers to his party.

Can we expect the next general election to resemble zimbabwe - where the ruling party control who is allowed to vote, and control who they vote for?

Has Brown no shame?