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.

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.

Nice to see a tribute to very brave airmen of the second world war but the royal artillery have been sadly forgotten : they put in more hours and shot down far more enemy aircraft that the royal air force and never make the headlines : they also did not get bacon and eggs at the end of a shift....sorry, but the RAF are getting far too much credit !.

RF.
How much of the German military machine did
they destroy(apart from the planes they sent against us)
and what was their casualty numbers?(as a percentage))

RF The casualty list for Bomber Command was horrendous, they were exceptionally brave men as were the royal artillery I'm sure. Bomber Harris was cruelly ignored by Churchill and villified re Dresden, even though he sanctioned those raids but chose to disassociate himself from them. If Hitler had been succesful in building rockets ie Peenymundie (apologise for the spelling) our island would have been obliterated. It was shameful that those airmen were ignored for a very large part of the victory over Nazi Germany, and quite rightly has been recognised today.

Plan for on-court ‘grunt-o-meter' a scream

Maria Sharapova might look like a great tennis player to you.

Now go stand in front of a TV. Crank the volume all the way up. Listen for the “yowl” just before she hits the ball.

Typical UK re-action.

This was war and although its a childish re-action, but true, 'They started it'.
The bombing of civilians was started by the Germans and the only reason it stopped was because we gave better than we got.

I'm sure no tears were shed by Hitler for all the thousands that died in the bombing of UK citizens.
I live near Hull, which was the heaviest bombed city in the country per head of population.

Wars are never won by softly, softly approach.

Well done Bomber Command!

I respect the desires of those individuals and members of the families who died, or were maimed in conflicts and wars in the name of their country to have memorials to them.

It seems necessary, to have public and private recognition of the costs to those who have been, or are affected by such actions.

But, I would also like to see “memorials” to the “stupidity” of “wars” and the “reasons” given for failing to resolve ”problems”, without resorting to violence and bloody conflicts.

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"But, I would also like to see “memorials” to the “stupidity” of “wars” and the “reasons” given for failing to resolve ”problems”, without resorting to violence and bloody conflicts."

Good luck with that! You have more chance of striking a match on a rice pudding whilst walking on water.

Yeah brilliant, not sure Hitler subscribed to the 'I'ts good to talk' rhetoric. Chamberlain did try!

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