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.

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Autumn colour: The science of nature's spectacle

This year was recently described as having the strangest weather on record in the UK, from droughts to a dull and rain-sodden summer.

But there could be a ray of light at the end of the murky tunnel.

The Forestry Commission says the elements have conspired to give us a particularly spectacular display of autumn colour.

Here, Raef Johnson from the National Arboretum in Westonbirt, Gloucestershire, explains how different species of tree put on their seasonal show.

global warming by mankind is incorrect and now they have found out why weather changes it is down to the SUN .SAMPLES from greenland prove it is down to the suns hotspots they alter ever 300 years or so .
good programe on last week excellent to watch and learn.

A fair comment by Vince Cable last night on Question Time.

Whilst discussing GDP, some of the panel and audience opined that the latest figures must be wrong and could not be trusted. Cable commented that nobody questioned the previous poor GDP figures that confirmed the double dip recession!

Can't have it both ways but some will try.

Burlusconi sentenced to 4 years for tax evasion. He can appeal twice before serving any sentence.

I doubt he will ever go to jail. He knows too much for the appeals court to rule against him.

Here’s how a doctor explains it:

A woman in her late 20's came to the hospital today with her 8th pregnancy.

She said to me, "My mum told me that I am the breadwinner for the family."

I asked her to explain. She said that she can make babies and babies get money from the State for the family.

It goes like this:

The Grandma calls the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and states that the unemployed daughter is not capable of caring for all of her kids. DWP agrees, and tells her the children will need to go into foster care.

The Grandma then volunteers to be the foster parent, and receives a cheque for £700 per child each month.

Total yearly income: £58,800, soon to become £67,200 when the 8th one is born, tax-free and nobody has to go to work!

In fact, they get more if there is no husband/father/man in the home! The brother does not count.

Not to mention free dental treatment, free housing, free council tax free school dinners, free tuition fees at college or Uni, free eye care and glasses, free prescriptions and various other benefits...etc.

Total value of all benefits combined is probably approaching £100,000 per annum, which would require an income of around £148,000 to create.

That's about my salary as a senior consultant with years of experience and surgical skills in a central London teaching hospital.

Indeed, Grandma was correct that her fertile daughter is the "breadwinner" for the family.

This is how the politicians spend our taxes. When this generous programme was invented in the '60s, the Great Society architects forgot to craft an end date... and now we are hopelessly overrun with people who vote only for those who will continue to keep them on the dole...

No wonder our country is broke!

Worse, our Muslim brothers have been paying attention, and by mandating that each Muslim family have eleven children, they will soon replace the voting bloc above and can be running this country.

Are we alarmed yet, is anybody listening?

Sincerely,

Chuckles.

Wait for Q4 employment figures (Number of hours worked, rather than (employed and fiddled by using "part time employment" and "self employed" figures).

Although I wish it different, I will be surprised if GDP is higher.

this is me. yes it is terrible but the voters in the uk are stupid and turn a blind eye
and the reason for doing so is because they are stupid people .
the uk is now a nation of simpletons .
and the all MPs are to scared to speak out or do the job at hand stop family allowance now after second child .and make parents responseable for there children and make them pay .

There is nothing worse than people who live off the state for decades and give nothing back.

Help out the unfortunate when they need it, by all means - but give them hundreds of thousands of pounds because they won't get off their arse and do a proper job? Shocking.

As Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has rightly pointed out, it is"madness" for the state to subsidise large numbers of children born to parents who do not stop to wonder first if they can afford them.

And it would be fairer to the "vast majority" of responsible, normal, reasonable taxpayers to limit the amount they are made to cough up for these irresponsible breeders, who as soon as anyone suggests they're being a teensy bit greedy with the far-from bulging public purse start whinging about "fairness".

After all, IDS has promised to cut another £10billion off the state's handout bill and it has to be found somewhere. Obviously, the people who take handouts they don't deserve should be the first to take a cut.

So let's start by talking about someone who lives off the state and has little experience of the world of work you and I know.

He is 58 years old and has suckled upon the publicly-funded teat for most of his life.

He's signed on the dole. He's had four children and received child benefit for all of them. He has put them each through private school, too.

His wife hasn't worked since they married, except for 15 months in which he got her a job paid by the taxpayer.

He and his colleagues eat and drink food you subsidise in a palace you pay for, he is driven around in a car you own, and when he is too old to 'work' any more you will pay for him to have a better pension than you, too.

He started out at the age of 21 with six years of taxpayer-funded military service, during which he acted as bag-carrier to a Major-General.

Then in 1981, aged 27, he left the Army and signed on the dole for several months.

He then began a period of ordinary work based upon the skills he had gained at the taxpayer's expense, and worked in sales for arms dealer GEC-Marconi.

He then moved on to a property firm, where he was made redundant after six months, and then sold gun-related magazines for Jane's Information Group.

After 11 years of this all-too brief career he succeeded in once again boarding the publicly-funded gravy train in 1992.

In the intervening 20 years he has been paid by the taxpayer every year more money than most taxpayers earn. He has topped it up, along the way, to more than six figures for a few years here and there by being more pompous than the other pigs.

In 2001 he helped his unemployed wife to have a suckle, arranging for you to pay her £15,000 to be his diary secretary.

These days he is given the grand total of £134,565 a year from the taxpayer.

He lives for free in a £2million Tudor farmhouse on his father-in-law's ancestral estate in Buckinghamshire.

He has three acres of land, a tennis court, swimming pool and some orchards, which is not bad for a life in the pay of the state.

'Who is this scumbag?' you might cry. 'Tell us his name, let the authorities know his address, let's get this guzzler out of the cushy life and show him what life is like for the rest of us,earning £7 an hour with a rise once every eight years and a pension consisting entirely of penny sweets if you're lucky.'

His name is Iain Duncan Smith, and his address is the Palace of Westminster, LondonSW1A 0AA.

It's not the insistence that the welfare bill needs cutting I object to; it's that the scissors have been given to people who really can't be trusted not to stab everyone else in the eye.

As IDS himself says: "Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?"

The trouble is he doesn't seem to have the capability to cut cloth any more tha

Cut and pasted from the Daily Mirror, Why can't he live on his father in law's estate?

I think the tories could copy the Chinese Birth Policy similar to those first introduced by Mao in the 50s and others at later periods.

Also, they could go in for more selective abortion, or would that go against the principles of family and marriage.

I suppose infanticide could be added to their repertoire of social manipulation, if all their other policies were seen to be failing.

Perhaps, these policies will be in their next manifesto, which will of course pander to the more moderate right wingers before the next election.

( A little sub-note, all these policies will be revised, and announced as U-Turn policies, if "we" ever get into power again. Maggie will be resurrected and state that she is due for turning.)


Should be an interesting election.

For those who can't remember Mao and his followers, they weren't the right wing of the tory party.


http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/fall07/Henneberger/History.html


Education, contraception, rising economy better social conditions seemed to be more influential, than beating the plebs with the whip of social deprivation.

What a surprise!

Former pop star Gary Glitter arrested

LONDON | Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:58am GMT

(Reuters) - Former pop star Gary Glitter was arrested on Sunday in connection with an investigation into allegations of child sex abuse by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, the BBC said.

Enjoy! - Cream "White Room/Crossroads/Badge" Live-2005

I am coming 65
and looking back to the 60 @70 the girls aged between 14 and 35 gave there bodys away to groups for a picture of them with them .they would sell there bodys for nothing I saw them drop there nickers at events to get the singer to ask them back stage . now they are all jumping on the bandwagon to claim abuse .the abuse was the other way round . funny how they are now coming forward at the smell of money .

Priceless TANK Priceless!!! :O)

football .why are FANS so thick these black players are taking the piss out of them big time .they are doing a good job taking over football .
soon will demanding only black supporters

Obsessional paranoia rules the day.

Could be seen as replacement for Nick Fauxpage.