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.

Hi everybody, been on holiday for two and a half weeks, what happens 'Gobshite of the Year (recurring)' has managed to weave his evil spell once again, even Aldrick (or was that Aids) has given up on that magnetic poster that we all know affectionally as our Freddie. Before I went away I promised to turn over a new leaf and not swear, seems I no longer need to,The Twxt is back (sounds great to music). DC your the man captured the left wing pillock in all his glory, Chuckles you have him worked out to a tee. Thing is guys we all know he is a complete knob! Leave him be, let him rant his deluded never ending speel, just don't bite. Poor Welsh pillock is more to be pitied than laughed at! Life really is to short :O)

You do have an art with words Chris. Luv it.

Spot the error

You must be my date!

Or upside down.

But he does look younger.

London ZLOZ

Tom Daley Twitter abuse: Police arrest boy in Weymouth

A teenager has been arrested by police investigating abuse of Team GB diver Tom Daley on Twitter.

After coming fourth in the men's synchronised 10m platform diving event on Monday, the 18-year-old received a message telling him he had let down his father.

Daley's father Rob died in 2011 from brain cancer.

Daft.

Arctic sea-ice levels hit record low

Faster climate change rate than expected.

As much as climate may be changing, we are only now heading back to te temperatures of the Roman era. Don't forget the 'Little Ice Age' that occurred after the 'Medieval Warm Period'. Farms and villages in the Swiss Alps were destroyed by encroaching glaciers during the mid-17th century. Canals and rivers in Great Britain and the Netherlands were frequently frozen deeply enough to support ice skating and winter festivals. The first River Thames frost fair was in 1607 and the last in 1814. There was even a little ice age in Central America and Africa.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/feb/23/world-headed-toward-mini-ice-age/

February 23, 2012

A report released at the end of January by British climate scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit showed that the Earth’s average temperatures have dropped to the same levels seen back in 1997 before the so-called “big warmup.”

The average global temperature in 2011 was 0.68 degrees above normal. In the previous decade, the average temperature on this planet was 0.81 degrees above normal.

The British scientists agree with many Russian and Japanese climate scientists that the world could be headed toward a mini ice age sometime in the near future.

The new climate study suggests that the next significant cycle of cooling may rival the 70-year period in the mid-1600s that saw “frost fairs” held each winter season in London on the Thames River, which froze solid in January and February.

'Quiet traffic' - quiet retailers.

Olympics 'hits London retailers as shoppers stay away'

Shops in central London saw a sharp drop in visitors at the start of the Olympic Games, figures have suggested.

The number of people going to stores on Friday ahead of the opening ceremony were 10.4% lower than a year ago, said research group Experian.

It added that customer footfall levels then fell a further 11.7% on Saturday.

Olympic sailing 'not benefiting Weymouth retailers'

Retailers have complained that Weymouth, which is hosting the London 2012 sailing events with neighbouring Portland, is a lot quieter than they expected it to be for the opening of the Games.

Sorta makes you proud (not) to be British - London 2012 Olympics venues still showing empty seats – in pictures

The women's beach volleyball never has empty seats!

Often, they seem they are amply filled.

Interesting comments from "Digital Look".

Perhaps, the Europhobes should not cheer at the possible demise of the Euro.

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"Four leading economists have called on the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee to cut interest rates from their already historic low in an attempt to kickstart growth. The members of The Times’ Shadow MPC — Michael Saunders, UK economist at Citigroup; Sushil Wadhwani, of Wadhwani Asset Management; Sir Steve Robson, the former second permanent secretary to the Treasury; and Charles Goodhart, of the London School of Economics — urged the Bank to cut rates by a quarter point to 0.25 per cent. “The economic outlook has worsened since the July meeting and inflation prospects have improved further. More stimulus is needed to prevent inflation falling below target over time,” Mr Saunders said before the MPC’s two-day meeting, which begins today. Wadhwani and Mr Saunders also voted for more money to be pumped into the flagging economy through quantitative easing.

Britain’s heavily indebted economy would suffer a deeper slump than Germany’s in the immediate aftermath of a break-up of the euro, a leading consultancy has predicted. Fathom Financial Consulting estimates that the UK’s economic output would drop by 5.2% in 2013 in the case of an implosion of the single currency and a full-blown banking collapse. That compares with a 5% decline in gross domestic product in Germany and a 4.3% drop in the United States. The UK would suffer disproportionately in part because of its large financial sector and overvalued housing market. A flood of cash into sterling would also drive up the pound and crush exports, Danny Gabay, a director at Fathom, said. Speaking at the consultancy’s Monetary Policy Forum, he said that the Bank of England would have to print £1tn in its quantitative easing programme to stop the pound from skyrocketing, The Times reports."

Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today's kids make of it?

It is 30 years since the Commodore 64 went on sale to the public.

The machine was hugely successful for its time, helping to encourage personal computing, popularise video games and pioneer homemade computer-created music.

Nothing compared with the Sinclair QL a few years later. (1984) Super QDOS and unreliabity and an amazing memory micro tape of stretchable 128K.

Where you had to open the box and push the chips in.

For somebody with dyslexia, it was amazing liberation, one could write and corrrect and correct and correct before printing a letter out.

Remember the old Sinclair rubber keyboard ? never owned one , bought the Amstrad with the built in cassette , another about the same time was the BBC B

More Church Bulletins:

The eight-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7pm. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.

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