cosmicway

Look It's a wild exaggeration not a lie as such. Look, it always happens between close friends. It's three weeks now one of the home appliances broke down. I have a fb friend, who used to be an old friend and he is into the business of repairing the such equipment. In fb he is publishing wild stuff every hour "hang the tax evaders, long live Tsipras" and all the rest of it. Because I knew he was no leftie I talked to him about these things and he said "now I am". Anyway I say to my sister, look invite so and so to fix it. So he comes round, he fixes it and I also treated him with mashed potatoes from the oven. In the end he says ok I fixed it, that 'll be 100 euros and let's forget the tax receipt as that will make it go to 115. Takes the 100 euros, says goodbye and goes home ! Now they accused the doctors in the posh Kolonaki district. I 've been there once or twice and you have to go through twenty five nurses and sign lots of paperwork. Why not doctors in working class districts ? Petralona ? Nobody was caught in the end. Certainly not among doctors. It's appeaser propaganda but as you can see it boomerangs, because the whatever calls for solidarity from the other European nations go to deaf ears now. The referendum result was an unholy alliance between the pinks and the blackies. Opinion poll companies were caught with their pants down - I don't know why. Some rumours now that those poll companies knew the truth and they placed a lot of money in the betting exchanges (n.b. the market was upsided early Sunday afternoon). Now that "no" will turn into "yes". Wait and see. Like the "yes" on the Lycabettus hill of old. If you don't know what that was ask another Greek friend of yours.

Nonsense. Greece has stringent tax laws. Also electronic systems of surveillance since 2001 and draconian electronic systems since 2012. I know of a case of a criminal who was acquitted in 2008 because they could not open his bank accounts. The prosecuting authority could accuse him only if those bank accounts were opened and the evidence was obtained. The public prosecutor made a stupid mistake because he should have known the banks were not allowed to open the account of somebody unless he was already convicted for a crime. That is not the case any longer and we know that man was a criminal because it was an Al Kapone type of situation. Nowadays you can't escape. The high level of tax-evasion is a myth created by the socialists, in an effort to prove that their inflated public sector was innocent of it all and the tax payers were to blame. Lies. That eventually was used as a propaganda weapon against Greece and turned into a boomerang. In the recent euro-group talks however the Euro-bosses rejected Greek proposals for a "fight against tax evasion". When it came down to counting real money, they realised there is none to be had that way ! In writing all the above I assume that by the word "tax evader" we mean somebody who does not pay the full amount of taxes he has to pay under the law as it stands. Commonly the left calls tax evaders everybody, because they think taxes should go higher or there should be more taxes. But even if there should be more taxes, that is not a good definition of tax evasion. Tax evasion is when the current tax law requires me to pay 100 and I pay 50. Anyway Greece's system of taxation is punitive indeed. No foreigners come here to invest as a result.

Mostly correct. But he is lying about taxes.

Well, I think his mom actually was. Those years the Greek media used to Greek-ize all the players of the world. Thus Czechoslovakian Petras, the centre forward, was a make-belief Greek and others. They went up to Gunther Netzer once and asked him "are you really a Greek and you changed the Greek name Neser to Netzer" ? Netzer became angry and told them to get lost.

That's because the Cyprus community of London is in the north and they support the Spurs and the goonners. Arsenal used to have a Cypriot president if I 'm not mistaken and their old star Charlie George was also Cypriot. Near Chelsea, W. Ham, QPR there are n't many Cypriots.

This one is about the gluttony of some people. I hope it makes sense to you. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There was an Irishman once called Seamus and he went to the Vatican as a pilgrim. He visited Saint Peters, went around to see the other spectacular places and he also went to a church to pray. In the church he chances upon a cardinal, whom we call cardinal Gerrard and they started chatting with one another. The cardinal got to like the Irish fellow, so he says to him "my friend I will confide to you a great secret, the pope has died". But ... Seamus says, I know he was ill but died ? Why was it not announced ? The cardinal replies "yes, I know but we have bitter disagreements in the college of cardinals - what is happening is we are holding negotiations and when we reach an agreement by the end of the week, we will make the announcement and we will elect the new one". The cardinal continues "I know there is a bet on and the trouble is my position does not allow me to bet myself", "because you look an honest man I gave you the information - you place the bets for the day pope dies which will be on Saturday as per the agreement and we split the loot". Seamus replies "it's a deal". The days pass, Vatican does indeed announce the death of the pope and our cardinal proceeds to phone Ireland to claim his share. He does that, but no reply, several times. He tries again and finally a trembling woman's voice replies. Hello says the cardinal, is that mrs Seamus, I 'm the cardinal. Mrs Seamus when hearing this bursts into tears "oh it's you cardinal, my Seamus, my poor Seamus, he is in hospital with sedatives, tubes all over his body, oh my poor Seamus". Yes I understand that, replies the cardinal but what about the bet on the pope's day of death ? Was it placed properly ? To which the mrs replies amidst tears "yes your eminence, but he made it into a double with Real Madrid v. Celta Vigo and they drew" !

't was back in the 90s, we had drachma. Can't remember the exact conversion rates. Maybe it was 60 dr one pack of fags back then - maybe not. The other one was known to me, a race goer like myself and it was strange we collided with each other like that.

I was in a crossroads once and spotted a 20 drachma coin. It was across the road and midway between where I stood and the next crossroads. 60 meters distance. A friend of mine also spotted it and the position where he stood was the next crossroads ! Some sharp sight both of us ! It was six o' clock in the morning so only the two of us around. We dash, I try to step on it with my foot, he tries to nail it with his umbrella. I offered a split, but he was unhappy - he called it unfair.

Also the price should have been 20-25 million. Someone said Cech is worth twelve (12) extra points to the goonners ! When did Diego Costa or even Didier Drogba give us 12 points ?

There is an unpleasant tradition of giving away some of our great players. Greaves - Hudson - Cook and even Ossie went to Southampton towards the end of his carreer after a dispute. Now Petr. Could we not have given him to Spurs at least ? They need a goalkeeper, they are a team that goes places in Europe and are less of an imminent antagonist in the league. Petr Cech has six full years infront of him. Courtois can be considered better but only because he is taller.

There should be freedom of movement in Europe. There has always been after the war. Re. Greece-Europe too. A small interval from 1970 to 1975-76 existed when [a] immigration laws were enacted in Britain, Greece had failed to make it to the EEC because of the known events of that period. But my father had many students in the 50's who became scientists-engineers in the UK and they were writing letters to him. So if a retrograde step is taken, it is like a relapse into barbarism and inevitably hostilities will begin. One point where the critics are right is participation in the social assistance programs of a country other than one's own country. If this happens it is because the old law makers of Europe neglected it or did not consider it important. So it creates imbalance. In a similar vein the VAT laws need changing. If I buy something from UK then the VAT should be owed to Greece (the point of consumption) and not UK. The opposite also. Again in the days of the old law makers, the e-market did not exist so they did not consider it important.

Once upon a time there was a postman who was very good in maths. A lady says to him I will give you a riddle to see how clever you are. I have three daughters, the product of their ages is equal to 36 and the sum is equal to the number of the house across the road. What are the ages ? The postman was unable to answer and so the lady says I 'm going to help you by saying the eldest one is a blonde. Hearing this, the postman instantly gives the answer. What was it ?

The one strange law I find useful is that of UK concerning relieving one's self in public places. The law states that if you cry in pain three times, the police cannot arrest you for doing damage to the environment. It's a law made by the ancient kings of Britain, who were always democratic unlike those of the continent.

What he says is true. I 've seen the demise of many great teams. On many occasions it happens when their star has to go because of age. On other occasions because they reached the limit of their budget and decline followed. Some great teams of the past lasted for two-three years, e.g. Ajax 1971-74. We are in the second category, if we decide to do nothing. But I think it is logical to go for a 10-15% improvement rather then spend billions of euros. I agree with Madmax's suggestions.

With Schurrle I think it was United's equalized that caused him to fall into disfavour. Among the goals of the season surely Willian's against Everton deserves a mention:

Cuadrado makes assist to Falcao. 1-0 to Colombia against Costa Rika.

Colombia v. Costa Rica is being broadcasted live now. Falcao plays for Colombia. It's 0-0 now.

FT is three sheets in the wind. Their articles on Greece since 2008 read like Beano, The Greek issue is howeve the minor issue in the present context. The bigger issue is the revival of antieuropeanism, spearheaded by the two opposite extremes. If God listened to the crows we 'd be all speaking German or Russian now.

The most unlikely of men -Buffon- gives the title away. Unsporting action by the Barcelona players in the last minute.

The neo-marxists ruling Greece are a ludicrous bunch of imbeciles. The neo-marxist liars as well as their erstwhile friends abroad want Greece out of EU, out of the western alliance. Who were the original members of the western alliance ? Greece and the UK. Not even America, because they were still neutral. Not even France, because France capitulated. The enemies of Europe should be housed in Guantanamo.

https://twitter.com/MichaelEssien/status/605487296016723971 One of my opponents. Thank heavens though he did not go to Piraeus.

This tinkery-pokery brings bad luck. It will take us seven years to win another championship.

The current prophecy is the electronic death of the human race. Do you know when I wrote my first computer program ? It was in 1976. It was to solve a simple quadratic equation and the difficulty this thing has for the beginner is, as the savvy among you will understand, to get the call conventions to the computer system right. So we did that in the class and the teacher said now I will take your cards to the central computer of the university by car, on Tuesday I will let you know if your program runs and those among you who made mistakes will have a chance to do this exercise again next Friday ! Do you know when I saw the first hand calc ? It was in 1971. The proprietor of a billiards hall had a four op calculator and he showed it to me with pride. It costed him 10,000 drachmas - a sum equal to or just a little under the monthly salary of a secondary school headmaster those days - Make it 500 euros, thereabouts ! I said "it can't do square roots" and he replied "come on now, you think I run a space lab here !". Now we can talk and see each other if we want and we can also watch entire matches. I can see all the world's league matches without leaving my desk. In 1970 to see the Greek results in London was almost impossible. The Times-Telegraph newspapers every time they remembered had a tiny column in the last page of Monday's edition. Sometimes they forgot. The drawbacks are significant however. We have big brother now. The taxman is in your house, like a modern day Nigerian email scammer and he sees your entire belongings at the flick of a switch. Also takes money away from you if it so amuses him. The knowledge of what political party you support is old hat to them. Who cares ? We take his money and bob's your uncle he says. Let him vote for Barny the bear. So gradually we become little cogs in a machine. The socialist big brother is everywhere, In your closet, in your washbasin. Eventually he too will go away and a soulless electronic protocol will govern everything.

It's birds or eggs. If he fully recovers this season and we have signed him it will be great - a new chelsea superstar. If not then sh*t happens. It depends on the money to be spent.