This is an interesting test I took after seeing it in another blog (sorry, can't remember where!) - no surprise I was a lefty libertarian. What was surprising is that I was very similar to Gandhi, though when he took the test I don't know!

Here's a photo of me that's fairly recent tho I've lost a few pounds since it was taken:

I am 43 and wonder if I am mutton dressed as lamb?

From The Times Online:

Downing Street today urged the public not to panic buy petrol as a threatened four-day strike by tanker drivers nears.

Gordon Brown's spokesman urged both sides in the strike to reach a resolution, to prevent petrol stations starting to run out of fuel from the weekend.

The Prime Minister's PR people clearly haven't a clue, have they? Anyone (certainly me for a small fee) could have told them that saying this will be reported on radio and TV as 'PM says, "don't panic buy".' People being like the dog on 'Far Side' will only hear the words 'PANIC BUY' and off they'll go, forgetting all their grouches about the cost of fuel, buying it at any price, from anywhere, as much as they can carry and a bit sloshing round in a jerry can in the back.

[snip explanation of government emergency measures]The haulage companies have offered to raise drivers' annual average salaries, currently £36,500, by 6.5 per cent to £39,000. Hoyer says that it has already increased pay by 27 per cent in the last four years, and that it is "disappointed" by the reaction of Unite, the drivers' union.

The union says that the £36,500 average salary includes a lot of overtime, and accuses Shell of putting pressure on the haulage companies to keep pay down.

Aaaah, diddums, poor drivers! Maybe, since they have such a tough life destroying the planet, they should instead pack it in and do something worthwhile, like, perhaps, nursing. Of course, they'd need to work plenty of overtime (often unpaid), do night shifts and unsocial hours. But they could at least look forward to a below inflation pay rise every year, staged so it's even less than the headline percentage. And crap percent of crap is crap.

Karen's Solution To Fuel Crazies

So her, at no charge and without an expense account, is my foolproof way to prevent panic buying. Forecourts should immediately be forced to impose a MINIMUM fill-up charge. During the last fuel shortages (entirely brought about by panic buying), many forecourts were imposing a maximum fill of £5. So drivers were going from place to place doing £5 each time and using up fuel as soon as it arrived. If a minimum charge of £35 were put in place (less than a full tank for small cars at today's prices), people would only top up when they actually needed petrol. Hence no panic buying, and no fuel shortage.

What's so difficult about that?