RE: Social Functions
August 22, 2011 at 6:17 am
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2011 at 6:38 am by Godnose.)
(August 21, 2011 at 6:19 pm)Ace Otana Wrote:(August 21, 2011 at 5:01 pm)Godnose Wrote: Sorry - changed my mind.
Terrible habit you have there.
Yeah I know. Bad habits have plagued my life. Like the booze and fags (cigorettes) I mentioned before. And god woops goodness knows what before them (acid, hash, speed - the usual mis-spent yoof of the average baby boomer). Now it appears to be cantankerousness and changing me mind all the time. Deffo I shall end up a lonely sad old git if I don't mend my ways. But I'm gonna (try and) give it a real shot... to change my ways. here that is. Not generally. Why should I? But on this site, gonna try to be good. Woops - just made an edit there - now this one. Gawd 'elp us.
(August 21, 2011 at 4:54 pm)Tiberius Wrote: ... you could argue that practically everything is "free at the point of use". Paying for something and using it are usually different events.
You could but you'd be wrong. In the UK anyway it's a virtually (possibly "actually") official phrase used to describe how things like the Beeb and NHS are used vs how they are financed.
I understand that's a pretty alien concept in certain places - eg USA, where they made such a fuss about Obama's dipping his toes into a kinda similar system for health service provision. But here its a pretty standard idea. Don't worry though, nothing to do with communism or anything nasty like that.
