[InOne]

Originally Posted by lostalex

ONly once. My parents dragged me there when i was 15 for a week to look at churches and tourist traps. I wanted to go to disney world.

Well, at least you can say you've been to the greatest place on earth at least once

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by lostalex

Well you can't blame me for that. American TV is DIRE.

I cannot believe my eyes!

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by InOne

Well, at least you can say you've been to the greatest place on earth at least once

yes i did eventually make it to Disney World. How did you know?

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I cannot believe my eyes!

I only speak the truth.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by lostalex

Remind me again how many brits feature in the top ten of the Forbe's top 10- richest list?

That's a good start. If we wanna talk about posh.

More running away from questions and muddying the water.

I really am beginning to think you hate Europeans particularly the British with a vengeance. Did we hack you off in a previous life or something?

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Shasown

More running away from questions and muddying the water.

I really am beginning to think you hate Europeans particularly the British with a vengeance. Did we hack you off in a previous life or something?

Now THAT's hilarious. YUr actually accusing me of being anti-brit?? As an American on here, i find it HILARIOUS that you'd accuse me of anti-european, you must be new. Read through the threads here, and tally the anti-American comments, to the Anti-european comments... then tell me again that you think that YOU are the victim. lol

Gimme a break. Get real. Learn how to count, plzzz.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by lostalex

Now THAT's hilarious. YUr actually accusing me of being anti-brit?? As an American on here, i find it HILARIOUS that you'd accuse me of anti-european, you must be new. Read through the threads here, and tally the anti-American comments, to the Anti-european comments... then tell me again that you think that YOU are the victim. lol

Gimme a break. Get real. Learn how to count, plzzz.

You are the one coming onto a predominantly British forum and making ignorant comments, then you expect people not to point out the errors of your ways.

Not only that but every time someone points out your ignorance you change your argument and go off on a different tack.

Incidentally join up dates are shown on the left of the page under the users name and avatar.

[Beastie]

Originally Posted by Omah

Nor was he posh :



http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/featu..._and_Tim_now_/

Tim spoke posh.

[dremm]

Sorry guys, your all wrong . No go, I'm beginning to think it was another reality show, perhaps around the early BB3/4 time? Anything else on UK TV at the time like the Jungle stuff or something?

All I remember was he was middle aged and in the press a lot after as a bit of a cad.

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Shasown

You are the one coming onto a predominantly British forum and making ignorant comments, then you expect people not to point out the errors of your ways.

Not only that but every time someone points out your ignorance you change your argument and go off on a different tack.

Incidentally join up dates are shown on the left of the page under the users name and avatar.

what did i say that was ignorant? the royals are inbred. that's a fact. they live in a palace. That's a fact. They are "on the dole" (they receive money from the taxpayers) that's a fact.

What exactly am I ignorant about?

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by lostalex

what did i say that was ignorant? the royals are inbred. that's a fact. they live in a palace. That's a fact. They are "on the dole" (they receive money from the taxpayers) that's a fact.

What exactly am I ignorant about?

The Royals receive money from the civil list, thats slightly different than the dole.

Its a bit like saying Obama receives national assistance. After all he receives his money from the taxpayer.

[Omah]

Originally Posted by thebeast

Tim spoke posh.

So can anyone, even Michael Caine in Zulu .....

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Omah

So can anyone, even Michael Caine in Zulu .....

And got a VC for his efforts.

[Omah]

Originally Posted by dremm

Sorry guys, your all wrong . No go, I'm beginning to think it was another reality show, perhaps around the early BB3/4 time? Anything else on UK TV at the time like the Jungle stuff or something?

All I remember was he was middle aged and in the press a lot after as a bit of a cad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles..._Baron_Brocket

Charlie Brockett, AKA Charles Ronald George Nall-Cain, 3rd Baron Brocket (born 12 February 1952), is a peer, former prisoner and television presenter in the United Kingdom.

An Old Etonian, Brocket served in the 14th/20th King's Hussars as a Lieutenant in Germany. He became known as a playboy, and collected classic cars, once owning forty-two Ferraris, which he became known for in the eighties and early 1990s. He was convicted of insurance fraud in 1996 and sentenced to five years in prison, of which he served two and a half years. In 2004 he was a contestant on the third series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. Finishing in fourth place, his new found fame made him a popular TV celebrity, making almost £1 million in offers.

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Shasown

The Royals receive money from the civil list, thats slightly different than the dole.

Its a bit like saying Obama receives national assistance. After all he receives his money from the taxpayer.

Umm, but Obama actually has national duties. You know, he's a democratically elected leader, not just an inbred monarch.

Do i really have to explain the very VAST differences?

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Omah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles..._Baron_Brocket

Good one, you beat me to it.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by lostalex

Umm, but Obama actually has national duties. You know, he's a democratically elected leader, not just an inbred monarch.

Do i really have to explain the very VAST differences?

And the Queen and all recipients of funds from the civil list carry out official duties, the payments being in line with the amount of duties they perform.

Sorry you dont agree with what they do, or how much they earn, you dont pay taxes over here so your opinion means squat on that one.

[Omah]

Originally Posted by lostalex

Umm, but Obama actually has national duties. You know, he's a democratically elected leader, not just an inbred monarch.

Do i really have to explain the very VAST differences?

Every year, the cost for presidential campaign has been increasing significantly. As a matter of fact, if the costs being shelled out by both the Republican and Democratic parties for their campaigns are added the cost will reach more than twice than that of the cost eight years before. As an example, in the year 1996, the cost was $448.9 million and in 2000 it was $649.5 million. In 2004, the cost soared to $1.01 billion.

Imagine that huge amount of money. You can actually run a small country with it, or finance some third world universities, or help relieve the hunger in Africa.



http://english.sina.com/world/1/<b>2...15/141641.html

The outcome of the 2008 White House election remains up in the air, but one thing is certain -- the bid to succeed President George W. Bush will be the most expensive race in history.

Common estimates of this year's total outlay have tended to come in at around one billion dollars, and Fortune magazine recently upped its overall cost projection to $3 billion.

As a historical comparison, the campaign two decades ago that saw Republican George H.W. Bush succeed Ronald Reagan at the White House cost 59 million dollars.

Historians believe that the nation's 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, spent 100,000 dollars in his bid to take the executive office in 1860.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Omah

Imagine that huge amount of money. You can actually run a small country with it, or finance some third world universities, or help relieve the hunger in Africa.

Or you could just hype up what is simply an election of one more official into a massive borefest.

Ooops thats what they have done.

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Omah

Every year, the cost for presidential campaign has been increasing significantly. As a matter of fact, if the costs being shelled out by both the Republican and Democratic parties for their campaigns are added the cost will reach more than twice than that of the cost eight years before. As an example, in the year 1996, the cost was $448.9 million and in 2000 it was $649.5 million. In 2004, the cost soared to $1.01 billion.

Imagine that huge amount of money. You can actually run a small country with it, or finance some third world universities, or help relieve the hunger in Africa.



http://english.sina.com/world/1/<b>2...15/141641.html

maybe you don't pay attention, he has to raise that money himself.

And unlike in Britain, we actually have primaries so that even the party leaders is a democratic process.

Remind me again who voted for Gordon Brown to be Prime Minister?? Oh yea, NO ONE.

Democracy??? lol

[Omah]

Originally Posted by lostalex

maybe you don't pay attention, he has to raise that money himself.

And unlike in Britain, we actually have primaries so that even the party leaders is a democratic process.

Remind me again who voted for Gordon Brown to be Prime Minister?? Oh yea, NO ONE.

Democracy??? lol

So what's one billion dollars used for in a US Presidential election ?

Oh, yeah, bribery and corruption ..... good ol' US democracy .....

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society...rty-rate-jumps

US adds 3.8 million more to ranks of the poor as poverty rate jumps

US poverty rate hit 14.3 percent last year, up from 13.2 percent in 2008. The jump bring the number of the poor to its highest level since 1959, five years before the Johnson-era War on Poverty.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...t=va&aid=20936

Is the US becoming a Third World Country?

During recent years, the gap between the rich and poor has increased at a staggering pace, systematically wiping the existence of the middle class from America.The United States is on the brink of sliding down to a Third World country, as it struggles with massive debts, rising unemployment and a deteriorating economy.

Some of the warning signs that indicate America's fantastic fall from a First World nation include rising unemployment and poverty.

According to Spiegel Online, the United States is recently faced with a new phenomenon called "the new poor."

In Ventura California - a luxurious resort city - about 20 percent of the residents are at risk of homelessness.

The once-rich, who have lost their homes, are now forced to sleep in their expensive cars parked in the city's corners, Captain William Finley, the head of the local branch of the Salvation Army said.

Another signal that marks the demise of America's so-called greatness is the disappearance of the middle class.

During recent years, the gap between the rich and poor has increased at a staggering pace, systematically wiping the existence of the middle class from America.

Income inequality in the US has reached a stage where only one percent of Americans own as much as 37 percent of the total national wealth.

[dremm]

Its kind of Charles Ronald George Nall-Cain but I can't see anything with his name online and I should be able to get a lot of stuff because this guy I'm after was in the paps a lot.

Imagine its like him, right sort of profile, but, I don't know, he can't have been part of big brother, but he was on a reality show and I remember him sitting at a table with some other people and (maybe) someone like Jade Goody was reading an article from a book and she kept stopping and starting and he said "oh for christ sakes" ...that and his apparent affinity with the interesting life of the other half got him a lot of coverage outside of the house.


I still can't find the guy, so it might have been the jungle game show or some other reality show.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by dremm

Its kind of Charles Ronald George Nall-Cain but I can't see anything with his name online and I should be able to get a lot of stuff because this guy I'm after was in the paps a lot.

Imagine its like him, right sort of profile, but, I don't know, he can't have been part of big brother, but he was on a reality show and I remember him sitting at a table with some other people and (maybe) someone like Jade Goody was reading an article from a book and she kept stopping and starting and he said "oh for christ sakes" ...that and his apparent affinity with the interesting life of the other half got him a lot of coverage outside of the house.


I still can't find the guy, so it might have been the jungle game show or some other reality show.

I am a Celebrity Get me out of here contestant Charlie Brocket aka Charles Ronald George Nall-Cain



Not the best picture in the world.

[dremm]

Its not, he's more reserved this one. I'd like to think I'd got the guy, but its not him, this one I'm on about is more reserved, like a cad.

I can't think why I've not found him.

[Omah]

Originally Posted by dremm

Its kind of Charles Ronald George Nall-Cain but I can't see anything with his name online and I should be able to get a lot of stuff because this guy I'm after was in the paps a lot.

Imagine its like him, right sort of profile, but, I don't know, he can't have been part of big brother, but he was on a reality show and I remember him sitting at a table with some other people and (maybe) someone like Jade Goody was reading an article from a book and she kept stopping and starting and he said "oh for christ sakes" ...that and his apparent affinity with the interesting life of the other half got him a lot of coverage outside of the house.

Reality show, posh, cad, Goody can only be James Hewitt on BTR :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hewitt

In 2003, Hewitt took part in the Five reality TV show Back To Reality and eventually won it.

Events included the threatened walk-out of the contestants after Nick Bateman was referred to as "Nasty Nick", the planned addition of Jade Goody's then boyfriend Jeff Brazier (from the reality TV show Shipwrecked) as a thirteenth contestant, Uri Geller walking out, the suspicion of Josie D'Arby being a mole (and the subsequent arguments and divides), the love interest between James Hewitt and Sarah Kozer, the rushing of Jade Goody to hospital and the "Ricardo Incident" when the flamboyant cross-dresser Rocardo Ribero argued with other housemates and then proceeded to destroy the kitchen. The show ended when the public voted The Games star James Hewitt to be the winner with Maureen Rees coming second.

In July 2004, Hewitt was arrested outside a restaurant in Fulham with Alison Bell, a CNN journalist, on accusation of possessing cocaine. A drunken Hewitt had .36 grams of cocaine in his pocket. He was given a warning, and Bell was released without charge. As a result, he was refused reinstatement of his gun licences because of his "intemperate habits" after police found a disassembled 16-bore shotgun on his living room floor.

He's your man .....