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.

French leaders sound alarm over planned Mohammad cartoons

PARIS | Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:39am BST

(Reuters) - The French government has called for restraint after learning that a satirical weekly plans to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday just as an anti-Islam video has ignited Muslim protests around the globe.

The Paris offices of the paper, Charlie Hebdo, were firebombed last November after it published a mocking caricature of Mohammad, and in 2005 Danish cartoons of the Prophet sparked a wave of protests across the Muslim world in which at least 50 people were killed.

7 questions on movie one-liners

You're an elderly person who is deemed to be in need of care. The government says they are going to sell your house to pay for your nursing care. So what do you do?

This plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot four Politicians.

Of course, this means you will be sent to prison..... where you will get three meals a day, a roof over your head, central heating, air conditioning and all the health care you need!

Need new teeth? No problem. Need glasses? That’s great. Need a new hip, knees, kidney, lungs or heart? They’re all covered.

As an added bonus, your kids can come and visit you as often as they do now.

And who will be paying for all of this? It’s the same government that just told you that they cannot afford to pay for your nursing care.

And you can get rid of 4 useless politicians while you are at it. This will keep the rest on their toes!

Plus, because you are a prisoner you don't have to pay income tax.

...Is this a great country or what? -):

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I wasn't being serious MN... Anyway nice to read you back -):

Jesus had a wife?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/jesus-had-wife-newly-discovered-gospel-suggests-202727064.html

Don't be such a lazy Tory H/S, make it active.

Stan.

8-)

I wondered why you were buying that gun.

I am not sure about having N..... in the next cell.

Hays,

Poor B.

I have got one of those too.

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I have just ducked.

.. Been practicing on the Squirrels Fred -):

Stan
I did it that way as I posted it from a tablet and it is more difficult. I have edited it on a PC now.

Fair enough H/S, I didn't know, humble apologies.

Haystack - that last post says so much about your (our) age! :-)

"Jesus had a wife?" Good job you put a ? at the end H/S or you may have started another war in the current climate -):

Is Stockwatch up the spout or is it a very slow day today?

I could ask whose wife di he have, but I wouldn't dare.

Interesting to see France slamming on its security.

I thought Tanker was provocative, but Charlie Hebdo is exceptional!

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19646748


France in embassy alert over Prophet Muhammad cartoons
Stephane "Charb" Charbonnier, editor of Charlie Hebdo, answers questions in Paris, 19 September Charlie Hebdo's editor defended his magazine's decision to publish the cartoons

Charlie Hebdo and its satirical role

Security is being increased at France's interests abroad after a French satirical magazine published obscene cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

French embassies, consulates, cultural centres and international French schools in some 20 countries will be closed on Friday as a precaution.

Amazing - Baby birth shock for soldier on Afghanistan deployment

A British servicewoman has given birth to a baby boy in Afghanistan having not realised she was pregnant.

"Mother and baby are both in a stable condition," said the Ministry of Defence, following the birth on Tuesday in Camp Bastion, Helmand province.

The woman, a Royal Artillery gunner who has not been named by the MoD, only learned she was about to give birth after complaining of stomach pains.

The child was conceived before she arrived in Afghanistan in March.

Electric car money benefiting 'handful of motorists', MPs say

Government spending of £11m to encourage people to drive electric cars has benefited only a "handful of motorists", MPs have said.

They also warned the scheme was being used to subsidise second cars for more affluent households.

In a report, the Transport Select Committee questioned whether this represented a good use of public money.

The government offers grants of up to £5,000 towards the cost of plug-in cars in a bid to reduce carbon emissions.

New Apple maps app under fire from users

Inaccuracies and misplaced towns and cities in Apple's new map software have provoked anger from users.

In June Apple announced it would stop using Google Maps in favour of its own system, created using data from navigation specialist TomTom.

Apple is yet to comment on the complaints about the software, which comes already installed on the new iPhone.

TomTom said it provided only data and was not responsible for how it worked.

Some stunning photgraphs here, especially the series starting @5:20 :-

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2012