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.

Just for Skinny!
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The Traffic Warden’s funeral

As the coffin was being lowered into the ground at a Traffic Warden’s funeral
a voice from inside screams:

"I'm not dead, I'm not dead! Let me out!!!"

The Vicar smiles, leans forward sucking air through his teeth and mutters:

"Too late pal, the paperwork’s already done"

Duly forwarded Fred.

any one who worked for the gov or the bbc
was sacked for telling the truth.
global warming was designed to make money and boost the rich
it is a load of bollocks

they where telling people to turn there stand off buttons off .
then you see 40 buses and ccars and planes carring a bloody torch round the eu
what a bloody joke

There's nothing like a sweeping generalisation!

Jimmy Carr didn't have to pay the tax , no rule's or law's were broken.

Can we look after our own pension, and buy a house or something like that?
Any comment would be appreciated.

ahoj . I control my money RETIRED AT 54 . now 64 never put money into a pension .
that is for dimwits .buy good div shares and always sell before div .then buy back if when they drop twice as much which most do .put as much money as you can in to isa ever year tax free . no charges .if you arte married put them in joint names double CGT you will always get more shares after div so your stock goes up.

ahoj . and buy bank shares they are going to be a lot higher in 12 months at list double trust me on that.

Thank you Tanker. Very much appreciated.

ahoj - Government health warning on Tankers tips, ask him about RSA :O)

Don't mention the war! :-)

Ahoy,

There are many low paid workers. who have worked all their lives, paid their bills etc. and barely had enough money for what many of us consider "simple" pleasures.

There are others who are incompetent and unable for many reasons to think, or prepare for the future if things go A over T. like in the present economic chaos.

I am not sure which age group you are in, but if I had had a major chronic illness in my late twenties or thirties, by style of living and expectations of my family and others would have been different.

A paid for education, welfare, social and medical services paid for out of taxation are the basic needs of a civilised state.


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Tanker,

I hope you are right about banks.

I hold a embarrassing number of them!

Jimmy Carr.

I wish Cameron would be as condemning about members of his own cabinet and MPS who were "confused", when claiming more "expenses" than they were entitled and have off shore accounts in their own names and that of their wives or boyfriends.

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For "confused" consider "hypocritical lying thieves".

With them for examples, who wouldn't expect crime to be committed by the young unemployed.

Bank shares "double in 12 months"? At the expense of the tax payers presumably. Personally I wouldn't touch bank shares with a bargepole - they spend far too much money on advertising and sports sponsorship = what a waste. Mr Average Guy has to pay for all this indulgence. 81% of RBS is owned by the tax payers - were the tax payers consulted before RBS pumped £27million into sponsoring the Six Nations, were they consulted before they handed out lucrative sponsorship deals to Luke Donald, Jackie Stewart etc.etc. 600 staff to be laid off soon. The lunatics are running the asylum there and have been for too long imo.

The lunatics are running the asylum there and have been for too long imo.

As the only sane individual on this thread, I couldn't agree with you more, or less.

But I will hold Barcs etc. for the time being.

This is an odd thread, presumably fred1new was been ironic in declaring himself sane? A myopic view wishing cameron to condemn his cabinet members when in reality Cameron had to push Gordon Brown to come clean.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/dec/09/cameron-challenges-brown-mps-expenses
Selective memory or just plain sane?Odd very very odd.

Fred, Barcs also pump £millions, or £squillions, into sponsoring Sky Sports coverage of golf. It's outrageous that these banks pump money into corporate entertainment on one hand and then they say that the mortgage rates are going up because they are strapped for cash.

The thing is that the banks are a business. They are in the business of making money not being charitable about how they hand out money. From my experience of working within Banks as a consultant, I have found that they are unusual in that their main guiding principle is to be in business in two hundred years time. Eveything else is of marginal importance.

This looks like an easy job, if you can stand heights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HMWCDUfJMs&feature=related