Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Great idea m, not much oil in this neck of the woods. lol

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Petrol station joke

A man is filling up his motor at the petrol station when he loses concentration and puts £20.03 in the tank. "B*llocks!" he shouts. The guy behind the counter sees what's happening. As the man goes to pay the cashier says to him, "I see you went a little over, don't worry about the extra." The guy hands over £10 and says, "Nice one, cheers mate!"


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ohhhhhhhhhh - Fill the car with diesel joke

What's the difference between petrol and diesel?

Nothing whatsoever, if you're a woman.


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Quit smoking joke

"There are various ways to give up smoking - nicotine patches, nicotine gum. My auntie used to pour a gallon of petrol over herself every morning."


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"Gormless", "Stupid", “Daft”,

Perhaps such judgements “could “, “should” be based on awareness and of consequences.
Although the “dangers” of petrol is apparent to many it does not mean to all.

The opinion that the “informed” think that the “uniformed” are stupid may be a fallacy.

I know many supposed intelligent people with large “data bases” of “facts”. Many of them I wouldn’t trust to make “beans on toast” for me.

When young I use to handle “detonators”, (fulminate of mercury) and could use them with little danger to myself. I can remember the excitement of them exploding.

However, the dangers had been shown to me, before I was allowed to handle them. I was cautious.

With the society we have at the moment with it safety precautions, rules and regulation many are not really exposed to the dangers of commonplace hazards.

That is why Maudica’s suggestion about “storing” fuels was stupid.

He may know how to store and handle such material, but he made an assumptions that “all” others “do”.

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Would anybody like to see the poisons in my garden shed?


Free tasting for some.

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Round up kills only green things ? just a thought

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N,
Not feeling heavy at the moment, just irritable.

Never been very PC for its own sake.


But, I do reflect at my own dumbness I got "away" with, while trying to make unstable "halogens" as a teenager, consider myself very lucky. Others were disappointed with my luck.

Also, recall distilling alcohol from “rice and potato wine” smuggled into the school chemistry lab.

Haven’t the rules changed!

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I am going to check with an elderly sister, whether "louse" was used by my father when somebody was "two ounces short of a pound".

Yep m, anything green. Green grass, green plants,envious or jealous,immature or gullible, green people concerned with enviromental issues, green vegetables. :-))
Anything that moves that is green come to think of it.

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N,

No offence taken.

I am just wondering.

But "we" is "all right", or "alright".

Depends when or where.

8-)

Have a good "weekend"!


I hope I got that right.

Fred
The list of what Scargill did wrong is quite long. One is that he would not call for a strike vote.

I thought and still think that the local community charge (or what you call the poll tax) was an excellent policy. It would have meant that the amount of tax paid by a household would be related to the number of income tax payers (people with jobs). If you were unemployed you would have had benefits to cover the tax. Why should an old woman living alone pay as much rates as a family next door with four tax paying adults who consume at least four times the services?

Hays,

I quite agree, Scargill should have had a mandate of the whole union. That he did not was wrong and he was rightly condemned for failing to do so. Probably, he would have got his mandate. But at that period there was some disarray within the unions and lack of "unity" or "trust" between areas and also between the unions of other industries.

Many unions did not agree with Scargill or his motivation for his actions.

(Perhaps, two deranged leaders were on the stage at the same time.)


This is beginning to worry me.

The Poll Tax, again I agree with you are argued its was more sensible than portrayed.

But it was again a stick, which was wielded by many "tory" party members, to rid themselves of Maggie.

Also Scargill took money from Gaddafi. And he still hasn't given back the mansion that was provided by his union as part of his job .