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.

I don't like John Bishop as a stand up comic

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N,

Have you developed a stutter or a stammer?

8-)

Watched " A short history everything else " last night for the first time , was a bit put off by the title. But it was very funny.

That giant comedian [whats his name]on Have got new's 4u is very good .

egypt read about those men ripping the clothes off a young girl and doing barbaric acts egypt is now a country to AVOID let them starve

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mna if it upsets you do not read it ,
it will make you sick if you are human .
EGYPT is a country now to avoid .
if you have the guts read the mail.

I guess this is what you mean.

Student journalist assaulted in Tahrir Square

I take it you read the whole article?

One of Smith's friends, Callum Paton, told CNN the mob dragged Smith naked across the ground before another group of men stepped in to protect her.

Read Natasha Smith's account.

"There were several moments at which I thought she was going to die," Paton said. "And I think that really the fact that we are still alive, and especially Natasha's still alive, was because there were so many people who were willing to help us and were willing to risk their own lives and put them in direct danger to get her out of that situation."

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Two interesting programs relevant to present employment and social problems.
Can be down loaded for the car.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b01k2b12

Four Thought

Serial social entrepreneur Colin Crooks argues that politicians and the media are wrong to focus on youth unemployment.
Instead, he says, we should all be worried about the very high levels of persistent unemployment amongst the 'let-down generation' who were failed by poor education between the seventies and nineties. Teaching them the lessons of being in work, he argues, would not only benefit them, but their children, too.
And he believes that to make a meaningful impact in these unemployed people's lives, we should stop developing skills for jobs which often do not exist, and instead focus on creating real jobs where they live.
Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded in front of an audience at the RSA in London, speakers take to the stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our culture and society.
Producer: Giles Edwards.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b01k29ph

The Prime Minister David Cameron has this week called for a radical shake up in the welfare state. This wasn't just a speech about benefits rates, or dole scroungers - the PM was going back to fundamental principles - what is social security for and who should it serve? To William Beveridge it was about eradicating evil - the "giant evils" of squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease. To David Cameron it is about encouraging citizens to do the right thing - to work, to save, to take personal responsibility. The speech and the row it is causing, exposes a profoundly moral divide. Should social benefit payments be the mechanism by which the state seeks greater social justice, or should they be a mechanism by which the state seeks to promote individual morals? On the one hand you have those who argue that it is the moral duty of those in society who are better off to help those less fortunate. The best mechanism to do that is through the state and the tax and benefit system - everyone contributes, everyone is entitled and social solidarity is the result. To others that creates a system that rewards the feckless and punishes the prudent. Or as high Tory thinker TE Utley more elegantly put it "an arrangement under which we all largely cease to be responsible for our own behaviour and in return become responsible for everyone else's." This battle between the "strivers" and the "skivers" has dogged arguments about the welfare state since the Poor Laws. Now the issue of inter-generational justice has complicated the rhetoric as it appears benefits paid to those under 25 could be scrapped first, while universal benefits to well off pensioners will be protected. So the Moral Maze this week is, what is the welfare state for and who should it help?

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Do you believe it?


..Murderer escapes over prison wall
Press Association – 1 hour 4 minutes ago....

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View Photo.Convicted murderer John Massey, 64, has escaped from HMP Pentonville in north Lo …
....A "potentially dangerous" murderer has gone on the run for the third time after escaping over the walls of Pentonville Prison using a makeshift rope.

John Massey, one of Britain's longest-serving prisoners, made off from the category B jail in Islington, north London, at around 6.30pm on Wednesday.

The 64-year-old used a makeshift rope to escape over a wall and was not spotted in time by prison officers, sources said.

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"Done...for you big boy"- how emails nailed Barclays

(Reuters) - "Done ... for you big boy," read a message sent by a Barclays (BARC.L) banker to one of the lender's traders, who had asked him to fix a key lending rate artificially low.

"Dude, I owe you big time! Come over one day after work and I'm opening a bottle of Bollinger," a trader from another firm emailed a banker at Barclays, showing his thanks for the rate set artificially low.

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An oxymoron! No not anyone on this thread. :-)

What are these people on?

In case of alien invasion Americans choose Barack Obama over Mitt Romney

In an interesting piece of “news,” a survey conducted by the National Geographic Channel (Nat Geo) reflects in the event of alien takeover two-thirds of Americans think Barack Obama is better suited to handle an alien invasion than Mitt Romney. No doubt that would have gone to Chuck Norris had he been in the running.

According to a new U.S. extraterrestrial survey more than 80 million Americans are certain that UFOs exist. Many of those believe in tangible proof that aliens have landed on Earth and think that government officials are involved in covering up paranormal activities.

From Nazi to Terminator, Europe's media target Merkel


Demonised in Europe's media as a red-eyed Terminator robot, a flabby centre-fold pinup and a fleshy Roman god eating Greeks, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become the subject of a new wave of vitriol for her tough stance on the euro zone crisis.

Already a figure of hate in Greece for insisting on austerity in exchange for aid, Merkel has long endured montages of herself in a Nazi uniform, but the runup to this week's EU summit has unleashed particularly savage images and headlines.

Turkey has deployed troops and anti-aircraft rocket launchers to the Syrian border.

A first substantial convoy of about 30 military vehicles, including trucks loaded with anti-aircraft missile batteries dispatched from Turkey's coastal town of Iskenderun, was moving slowly towards the Syrian border 50 km (30 miles) away.

A Reuters reporter near the town of Antakya saw the convoy moving out of the hills and through small towns on a narrow highway escorted by police.

Early on Thursday, another convoy left a base at Gaziantep and headed for Kilis province, the site of a large camp for Syrian refugees. Video from the DHA agency showed the convoy, of about 12 trucks and transporters, filing through the gates of the base past the hanging Turkish red flag with white crescent moon and star.

Tanker, post 17209 - sometimes our words come back to haunt us! "Buy bank shares" = I don't think so and certainly not until they appoint people to manage banks who have some modicum of integrity. And certainly not until banks have some form of effective regulatory body in place. What has happened over the last few days with Barclays & RBS is just the tip of an iceberg.

Nice to hear responsibilities in Barclay's should go all the way to the top.

Pity the same principles don't apply in certain areas of this government.