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.

Some fascinating images here Snapping bugs: What can we learn from insect images?

I see Master Mind has announced his latest policy for another U-turn.

Also Leveson evaluation of "political" pressure was interesting.

Good to know the the GOVE was asking Murdock for advice on Education problems or was he just taking the Michael?

And we think Egypt has problems.

mmm yum yum - Japan sells first Fukushima seafood since nuclear crisis

Seafood caught off the coast of Japan's Fukushima region has been put on sale for the first time since last year's nuclear crisis.

The sale was limited to octopus and marine snails, as other species cannot be sold yet because of contamination.

The catch was sold at reduced prices in markets across the prefecture.

What do octopussies feed on?

Crustaceans? crabs are a favourite from memory.

Hope you are not retreating to your ancestors for that information.

In the stories I used to read, there were man eating varieties as well.

Keep out of deep or hot water!

David Attenborough :-)

9-)

Fred Scuttle

Looks more like a pickle to me.

It seems your muscle mass is taking over one of your vacant chambers.

Keep doing the press ups.

Spanish banks downgraded by Moody's

The ratings agency Moody's has cut the credit rating on 28 of Spain's banks, one week after the country asked for money to support them.

The move follows a cut to the Spanish government's own credit rating to just above junk status earlier this month.

Moody's said in a statement, that Spain's reduced creditworthiness "implies a weaker credit profile for Spanish banks."

Among the downgrades was a cut to Banco Santander

Queen Mary's used to be a fine hospital until it was saddled with debts as a result of PFI on the other two hospitals.


South London Healthcare faces being dissolved

An NHS hospital trust has been formally warned it could be declared bust - in the first case of its kind.

South London Healthcare, which runs three hospitals, had debts of £69m at the start of the financial year.

The health secretary has told the trust an administrator could be brought in within weeks. The trust could be dissolved and some services closed.

A spokesman for the trust reassured patients that services would be run "as normal" until a decision was made.

The trust runs the Princess Royal University Hospital in Orpington, Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup, and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich.

When the three hospitals became one organisation they inherited a large debt - mainly from the private finance initiative that had been used for the buildings at Orpington and Woolwich.

the hospital is owed millions by holiday tourist who have come here for treatment .
let them die or go back home we should act like ever other country like the USA
go to spain on hol and need a doctor he will say money first then i will treat you.
no money then go away.

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yes give them a tablet and send them on there way .
liberia girls having babys at 11 and 12 and dieing .
giving them money will make it worse till they become human
and think about what they are doing you can not help them

500 MILLION IS OWED TO NHS BY OVER SEA tourists .
why the hell are we not just putting them on a plane back home

There is an expression "may you drown in your own bile".


Not sure why it comes to mind when I read some recent postings.

The normally moderate British, thanks to recent governments actions/inactions have been I believe, fostering an anger and resentment against all things unfair which is coming to the surface during these harder times. It may be the unfair tax burden on the ordinary working folk, the foreigner getting a mansion, the rich getting richer, failure to deport illegals or a hundred and one other reasons, but anger and resentment exists, amongst the ordinary hard working British people.

Government policies (Con/Lib coalition and especially the last Labour gov.) have done nothing to deter this fostering sense of unfairness/injustice, thus creating tensions as witnessed by Tankers comments. Until this country emerges from the gloom we are in, I believe the situation will persist, and probably worsen.
2517

2517, part of the problem is that this small island of ours is becoming far too crowded - too many people, too many cars = too much aggravation. At times we all need our own space and it seems very difficult to find these days.

2517,

Have you visited an Ophthalmologist recently?

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I think the main cause of the public's "depression" is due to watching this stumbling government taking the country further and further into debt and tinkering around the outsides of the minor problems.

They have not sense of direction and do nothing but attempt to scapegoat the more defenceless in society as deviations from their own failures of policies.

I think the present UK government s is the most disastrous that I have seen in the last 50years.

My own feelings are, if Dave and Georgie Boy continue as they are doing, at the next election the tories party will be washed out. They will be left with a small rump or far right euro-phobic supporters


The “middle classes” are going to be the receptors of the bills for present disastrous economic policies.

Business and industry are not investing because they see the fallacies of the economic strategies. They have no faith in this government.

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Another set of U-Turns.

"Government cancels planned 3p fuel duty increase"

Borrowing up again receipts down.

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Bank's King says 'pessimistic' about worsening economy

Sir Mervyn King: "I am pessimistic and I am particularly concerned"
Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King has said he is "pessimistic" about the short-term prospects for the global economy.
He also said he had been struck by how much the situation had changed in the past six weeks.

Sir Mervyn said he was particularly concerned about the worsening situation in Asia and other emerging markets.

His comments followed official data showing the government borrowed more than expected in May.

Excluding financial interventions such as bank bailouts, it borrowed £17.9bn, compared
with £15.2bn in May 2011.

A 7% fall in income tax receipts contributed to the rise in borrowing.