In message 
          Cynic  wrote:

> What makes you believe that a drug becomes magically harmless because
> a doctor prescribes it?  IMO the huge number of zombie children when
> Ritlin was the flavour-of-the-month drug would have been far better
> off having a beer in the evening instead.

It doesn't become harmless, but the harm that it does is known about and
carefully controlled by precisely regulated dosages - at least, that is the
theory. Like you, I think that Ritalin is a disaster; the children who have
been prescribed it are not in need of medication but of discipline and of
parents who cared enough to take a reduced standard of living while mother
stays at home with the kids.
 
> >All your waffle about stress is just so much hogwash. You don't drink or
> >smoke or snort (or whatever your drug of choice requires) because you are
> >stressed, but because you want a buzz. If you really did need something for
> >your digestion and your blood pressure, you would go to a doctor.

> You have completely failed to understand what I was explaining.  Tell
> me, do you eat food every day, or do you starve until you are
> malnourished, and then see a doctor to get cured?

And what parallels do you see between food, a necessity for life, and drugs?

Ken Down

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Hi.



After 3 years we finally have our holiday let business up and running.

We are situated on the outskirts of the Snowdonia National Park and
have
2 Cottages (4 Star), a farmhouse (4 star) and a Visit Wales approved 
caravan. - more 
informtion can be had from www.cottage-breaks-wales.co.uk

Thanks for your time

Allan

On sat, 12 jan 2008 09:49:33 +0000, "Allan" <nospam@invalid> wrote:

>Hi.
>
>
>
>After 3 years we finally have our holiday let business up and running.
>
>We are situated on the outskirts of the Snowdonia National Park and
>have
>2 Cottages (4 Star), a farmhouse (4 star) and a Visit Wales approved 
>caravan. - more 
>informtion can be had from www.cottage-breaks-wales.co.uk
>
>Thanks for your time
>
>Allan

You have posted to a special newsgroup set up by
the the NuLabour Government to plug the gaps created by 
the abysmal failure of the Psychiatric Care in the Community Policy. 
which was implemented by the last Tory Government. This
policy was  not only continued but also expanded by this 
NuLabour Government. 
 
The uk.local hierarchy was devised to provide an outlet for
individuals who would otherwise be spending their days sitting
at home wearing an aluminium foil hat waiting for a full moon
to rise. It was hoped that this would reduce the incidence
of nutters out there howling at the moon and frightening the
shit out of their neighbours. Another of HMGs aims and 
objectives was to provide a distraction to take their minds
of the problem of who they were next going to knife to death.
Unfortunately, this group has been taken over by the 
articulate lower middle classes who have succeeding in 
driving HMGs target audience away. Independent research has
shown that it was the amount and quality of the inane drivel,
called small talk which the middle classes are adept at, which
had the effect of doing their heads in. They left to protect what 
was left of their sanity. This has happened to the whole of uk.local.
hierarchy.  This newsgroup in particular is a very good example 
of another HMG failure

I trust this post will help guide you in your future dealings with this
newsgroup.

Thank you.

Why? we live here.

"Allan" <nospam@invalid> wrote in message 
news:0gOFOCFyJhslfEfznospam@invalid...
> Hi.
>
>
>
> After 3 years we finally have our holiday let business up and running.
>
> We are situated on the outskirts of the Snowdonia National Park and
> have
> 2 Cottages (4 Star), a farmhouse (4 star) and a Visit Wales approved
> caravan. - more
> informtion can be had from www.cottage-breaks-wales.co.uk
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> Allan

On Jan 12, 9:49 am, "Allan" <nospam@invalid> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> After 3 years we finally have our holiday let business up and running.
>
> We are situated on the outskirts of the Snowdonia National Park and
> have
> 2 Cottages (4 Star), a farmhouse (4 star) and a Visit Wales approved
> caravan. - more
> informtion can be had fromwww.cottage-breaks-wales.co.uk
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> Allan

Not short of a bob or 2 then.

In uk.local.north-wales on Monday 14 January 2008 20:28, OM SHIVA!108 wrote:

> On Jan 12, 9:49 am, "Allan" <nospam@invalid> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> After 3 years we finally have our holiday let business up and running.
>>
>> We are situated on the outskirts of the Snowdonia National Park and
>> have
>> 2 Cottages (4 Star), a farmhouse (4 star) and a Visit Wales approved
>> caravan. - more
>> informtion can be had fromwww.cottage-breaks-wales.co.uk
>>
>> Thanks for your time
>>
>> Allan
> 
> Not short of a bob or 2 then.

Which means that his inability to employ a decent web-designer is all the 
more puzzling. I had to switch off stylesheets to view the page in Opera 
without the text overlapping. Also, fixed 800x600 layouts are _so_ 1990's.

Also for some reason the whole thing awakens memories of Not The Nine 
O'Clock News's parody of the Coal Board Advert.