British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates

[Chrisjay]

and according to you in this 21st century women are not equal.

I have recently retired but before that I ran my own successful business, before that I was a lawyer investigating miscarriages of justice and before that I taught IT in university - I have five degrees including two Masters and a Doctorate

Your turn, don't be shy!!!

[jack sparrow]

My, what clever person you are. What has how I make my living got to do with anything? It is none of your business until I choose to tell you. What has female inequality got to do with "language" (PLEASE watch)?

[Chrisjay]

When you make a statement "A lot of fat, lazy, useless [censored]s will have to get a shovel in their hands and work for a change! there is a valid point in asking if you indeed get a shovel in your hand and work - however we can all draw our own conclusions as the old 'put up or shut up' springs to mind.

And before you go on about free university as I am "a clever person" I worked my way through university and paid all my own tuition fees and never had a grant.  My parents were unknown to me and I left the orphanage at 15 to work so I did indeed work with a capital W.

Female equality has nothing to do with language but manners do!

[Papaumau]

Jack......

I am saying that without the reasonable trading of wares and finance this modern world WOULD go back to the dark ages.

Yes there ARE a lot of flaws in international trading and the profit motive drives these flaws to become Capitalistic disasters in many cases. While I am not against the Capitalist ethic per se, I do think that the world regulations for such trading in goods, services and currencies is far too weak. It was this weakness that caused the world money-markets to crash more than once in the years gone by.

I guess that what I am in fact saying here is that we really cannot do without this international trade but that we should ensure that it is properly regulated so that such unfair practices are held to an absolute minimum.

( NOT getting trapped in a slanging match BTW ).