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.

ah!!!! really good BFG is delicious, but rarely found

a spliff, i discovered very late in the day (it was still a joint then), made me feel seasick, but then i wasn't a smoker either, so i guess the effect should not have been unexpected

Could not begin to explain my one and only experience - sea sick was not in it, had to hold the cooker grill handle whilst trying to cook pork chops and then wow - I didn't know whether I was on dry land or which land. My other half which was then walked in and could not stop laughing, he was made up as I could not speak, that was a first!!! Never again, good on you Cynic for picking up on my innocent remark of "spliffing New Year" - may be I should have refrased it but at least you have admitted that you are not as perfect as you proclaim (laugh please - not meant as an insult). Been there done that and got the t-shirt. Mine was supposed to be to relieve pain -prefer the pain than that experience. Life is a learning curb and we are never too old to learn.

A happy New Year to you all.

Putting Mnamreh on squelch for the sole reason that I am fed up opening this thread to see what he has to say and just seeing (.).
Just cant see any point in his posts.

An firm example needs to be made of these creatures, it is clear that no lessons have been learnt as the rapes in Delhi continue to make the news.
AY LEAST INDIA STILL HANGS SUB HUMANS hang em high in the middle of
DELHI

Seven Pakistan aid workers - including six women - executed by Taliban for 'distributing polio vaccine'

Six women aid workers and a male doctor shot dean by gunmen
Gunmen removed child from vehicle, shot adults and put child back
160 aid staff have suspended work following the killings


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Met Office: 2012 was UK's second wettest year on record

The past 12 months were the second wettest on record in the UK, according to data released by the Met Office.

The total rainfall for the UK during 2012 was 1,330.7 mm, just 6.6 mm short of the record set in 2000.

Benefits cheat who claimed he was blind and disabled is caught DRIVING after being given £100,000 in handouts over six years
Married Kelvin Kalloo, 34, of Dunstable, Bedfordshire, eventually caught
Spotted driving three different cars and working at a market in Watford
Told two councils he was partially blind and car crash left him disabled
Arrested in October 2008 but it's taken four years to bring him to justice

Found guilty of 10 counts of fraud and will be sentenced later this mon


deport the immigrant they are all at it raping the uk

There are calls for the winter fuel allowance to be means tested. People are not generally aware that UK pensioners living abroad in warm climates also receive it.

how do you know he's an immigrant and not second generation?

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and those already living in warm homes :-)
actually i agree; it's a total nonsense and should be easy and cost effective to tighten up, even if it becomes a taxable allowance or similar, just as pensions are already

It may be simpler to recuperate by raising personal taxation than the administration of a "means" test.

That is what is done to a certain degree anyway.

Although it is nice to get an cash "allowance" but not realise you are paying for it.

It is Baloney.

What flavour?

they are proving once again if you save and work hard and go with out
in the end the ones that just spend all there lives and do not save but enjoy there fruits end up getting all the hand outs
and because they pay no taxes and end up better off thans ones that saved there money
the government are sending out the wrong signal
the family allowance is a disgraceful piece of law the people breeding like rats get it for all there kids .
and the people who work hard to get on lose out get nothing
what a cock up big time
the gov are telling those on benefits to breed like rats

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SeHaystack 03 Jan 2013 13:35 - 19824 of 19827
There are calls for the winter fuel allowance to be means tested. People are not generally aware that UK pensioners living abroad in warm climates also receive it."


That offends me far less if they have paid their taxes previously, rather than extraditing ill-gotten gains to Islands in the Bahamas.
If the “pensioners” have paid their expenses throughout their “working period”, good luck to them and I must admit in the climate we have in the UK at the moment I envy them a little.

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Skinny,

I think you mean Poloney.

A sausage made of pulverised meat scraps and old carcasses and had more colour than flavour.

My dog turned up his nose when offered one.

baloney, boloney [bəˈləʊnɪ]
n
1. Informal foolish talk; nonsense
2. (Cookery) Chiefly US another name for bologna sausage

The predicament is that the country needs more children for their contribution to future tax receipts in order to pay for the growing army of pensioners. Unfortunately where there are many children within a family claiming benefits other than child benefit, it appears that many (not all) such families are prepared to be lifelong claimants. What the government needs to do imo is restrict child benefit to the first 2 children only.
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2517,

Not all claimants are "unemployed", many are working in hard in "low paid" jobs and subsidised out of “general” taxation.

Also, I wonder if a society can, or needs to sustain itself by increasing its younger population.

The base of the triangle is just producing a larger and larger apex. (Bound to topple over.)

Also, hope of “full” employment seems to me to be a unsustainable “myth”, with more and more unnecessary junk being produced, out of reducing supply of “resources” and "raw" materials and detriment to "wellbeing".

Strange old world.

I didn't say all claimants were unemployed.

The younger population provide the tax revenue of the future.

Without the above, the triangle becomes inverted, try stopping that from toppling over

Agree

Agree
2517

Does anybody remember an interview with Tony Blair when he was Priminister and he was asked was he going to accept child benefit for the child which was born whilst he was in office and he smiled and said "Of course we are"!!!!! That beggered belief from where I was sitting. From what I remember parents didn't get anything for their second child years ago but hey ho - I am an old git.

I must be older, when our first was born we got nothing. Only when our second was born did we get 'Family Allowance'
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