Right am fucking raging! The price of fags has gone up 11p a packet. Beer is up 4p a pint, cider 3p a litre, wine 14p a bottle and spirits 55p a bottle. We are gonnae get charged for plastic carrier bags from the super market and we already get taxed to fuck on our earnings and on fuel (4 cars and our houses if u have oil heating)

It seems like only the rich people can no afford to smoke and get pissed, fucking wankers. They say that all this tax is going to help fund winter heating allowances for pensioners and increase child benifits, which are great ideas by the way, its just a shame that most of the funding from this comes from north sea oil. SCOTTISH NORTH SEA OIL! Cunts. As the price of living rockets through the roof in not-so-great britain, it appears to me that people who don't work can live a fairly good life, after all, why work for minimum wage when by the time u get your tax and national insurance deductions you're just as well being on the dole and claiming benifits?

We are being shafted by this government who couldn't organise a piss up in a fucking brewery.

Why raise the price of fags 11p a packet?? The rest of europe seems to do ok without taxing smokers to hell and back. Are we second class citizens for having an addiction to nicotine? The government know for a fact that while some people will stop smoking, alot of people won't and they are quite happy to keep taxing ciggies because they know the likes of muggins here will keep buying them. soon its going to be cheaper to buy a lump of resin and roll yourself 20 joints, rather that nip 2 the shop for 20 fags.

They complain about binge drinkin in society, well am sorry but thats just the way the people in this country are. We all like 2 drink. Scots Irish English and Welsh all like getting pissed. It will never change. So the government will quite happily keep raising tax 2 "discourage binge drinking society" Bollocks. They've just spotted another great way to make more money. Tax whatever people have a great demand for. Fags. Fuel. Alcohol. If they really want to cut down on drink related violence, why not raise the price of strong cider, the likes of frosty jack's, white lightning, white ace, all that crap. Thats what alot of underagers drink to get pissed because its strong and cheap. Why tax people who like to have a pint while watching the footy or going out with mates to a club, usually people who already pay taxes oan their earnings. Why not tax the little shits who get bevvied up oan cheap wine and cider, and end up stabbing some poor cunt in the street for no reason??

So we get taxed on fuel, fags, booze, our earnings, our cars. What else do people use alot and could make the government a nice wee pile of cash? Plastic carrier bags from supermarkets! What a load of fucking bollocks. Why not charge the supermarkets to find bio-degradable bags which we can carry our messages home in? Well maybe its because the people on the board of directors of these supermarkets make donations to labour and maybe they wouldn't do that anymore if the government made them spend more money than they would like, cutting into their already massive profits.

We are gradualy being denined our civil liberties. We should not be forced to cut back on our alcohol or nicotine intake just because we can't afford it. If people want to stop smoking, let them stop smoking through their own choice. Don't try and force them down that path by raising taxes on cigarettes. Nicotine has been proven to be one of the most addictive drugs in the world. In 2000 a report carried out by the govenment showed that a higher percentage of people managed to come off heroin than came off nicotine. The government know that people have smoked for hundreds of thousands of years, people round the world have smoked coco, cannabis, opium, tobbacco. Smoking, what even plant is popular at that certain point in civilisation, will continue forever. 2 hundred years ago

Sunday 1st
I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.
My heart is very sore because I know that I have broken my poor mother's heart, and my home is struck with unbearable anxiety. But I have considered all the arguments and tried every means to avoid what has become the unavoidable: it has been forced upon me and my comrades by four-and-a-half years of stark inhumanity.
I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.
I believe and stand by the God-given right of the Irish nation to sovereign independence, and the right of any Irishman or woman to assert this right in armed revolution. That is why I am incarcerated, naked and tortured.
Foremost in my tortured mind is the thought that there can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.
I believe I am but another of those wretched Irishmen born of a risen generation with a deeply rooted and unquenchable desire for freedom. I am dying not just to attempt to end the barbarity of H-Block, or to gain the rightful recognition of a political prisoner, but primarily because what is lost in here is lost for the Republic and those wretched oppressed whom I am deeply proud to know as the 'risen people'.
There is no sensation today, no novelty that October 27th brought. (The starting date of the original seven man hunger-strike) The usual Screws were not working. The slobbers and would-be despots no doubt will be back again tomorrow, bright and early.
I wrote some more notes to the girls in Armagh today. There is so much I would like to say about them, about their courage, determination and unquenchable spirit of resistance. They are to be what Countess Markievicz, Anne Devlin, Mary Ann McCracken, Marie MacSwiney, Betsy Gray, and those other Irish heroines are to us all. And, of course, I think of Ann Parker, Laura Crawford, Rosemary Bleakeley, and I'm ashamed to say I cannot remember all their sacred names.
Mass was solemn, the lads as ever brilliant. I ate the statutory weekly bit of fruit last night. As fate had it, it was an orange, and the final irony, it was bitter. The food is being left at the door. My portions, as expected, are quite larger than usual, or those which my cell-mate Malachy is getting.
Monday 2nd
Much to the distaste of the Screws we ended the no-wash protest this morning. We moved to 'B' wing, which was allegedly clean.
We have shown considerable tolerance today. Men are being searched coming back from the toilet. At one point men were waiting three hours to get out to the toilet, and only four or five got washed, which typifies the eagerness (sic) of the Screws to have us off the no-wash. There is a lot of petty vindictiveness from them.
I saw the doctor and I'm 64 kgs. I've no problems.
The priest, Fr John Murphy, was in tonight. We had a short talk. I heard that my mother spoke at a parade in Belfast yesterday and that Marcella cried. It gave me heart. I'm not worried about the numbers of the crowds. I was very annoyed last night when I heard Bishop Daly's statement (issued on Sunday, condemning the hunger-strike). Again he is applying his double set of moral standards. He seems to forget that the people who murdered those innocent Irishmen on Derry's Bloody Sunday are still as ever among us; and he knows perhaps better than anyone what has and is taking place in H-Block.
He understands why men are being tortured here -- the reason for criminalisation. What makes it so disgusting, I believe, is that he agrees with that underlying reason. Only once has he s

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2)How can u hear urself think?

3)Where in d nursery rhyme does it say humpty dumpty was an egg?

4)Y does 'Fat chance' and 'Slim chance' mean d same thing?

5)Y is it called a building if its aleady built?

6)Y is d word abbreviate so long?

7)If a person who suffered from amnesia was cured, would they eva remember they 4got?

If you died wit braces on would they take them off?

9)Is it possible to get addicted to counselling? if so, hows it treated?

10)Do fish sleep?

11)Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak?

12)Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

13)Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?

14)Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"?

15)Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?

16)Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?

17)If money doesn't grow on trees then why do banks have branches?

1 Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

19)Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies
wake up like every two hours?

20)If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a
hearing?

21) Why do u have to click start to turn off ur computer?

22)Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They're going
to see you naked anyway.

23)Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?

24)What do you call male ballerinas?