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12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - 300 jobs to be lost in... · 0 replies · +3 points

If you have a sinking currency, your imports get dearer, your exports get cheaper. Fine, except if all your products are being exported, the local price has to go up as well to ensure some stay at home. When Argentina's currency collapsed, poorer locals found they could barely afford food. The same happened in New Zealand in the early 2000s when their dollar went down and foreign countries bought more of their farm products.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Top rower Kate Richard... · 0 replies · +1 points

wow

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - It\'s time to unite ou... · 1 reply · +4 points

my goodness what nonsense

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - The Bank of Mum and Da... · 1 reply · +2 points

So why's it so dear in NI? I'd like to see this explained.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Let\'s talk about drug... · 0 replies · 0 points

Eamonn , smoking cannabis kills in the same way as tobacco - slowly. Tar is inhaled, which contains carcinogens. It's impossible to attribute disease to cannabis alone since most smokers also use tobacco. Also, it burns hotter and is held within the lungs. This causes respiratory damage.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Privatisation will cra... · 0 replies · +11 points

So instead of social housing we'll have antisocial housing , where private landlords squeeze home buyers out and get paid in housing benefit. Stinks.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Ministers discuss all-... · 4 replies · -13 points

Ravenhill, Croke, Lansdowne, Thomond. Is that enough for a World Cup? Could go on a while.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Ian Paisley\'s explosi... · 0 replies · +9 points

There already is a reformed free presbyterian church, apparently.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Protesters picket Ball... · 0 replies · 0 points

No. The point about recessive traits is they appear in the offspring but not the parents. Cystic fibrosis has not been bred out.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Protesters picket Ball... · 0 replies · -2 points

You fancy a dead woman? You're disgusting

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