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.

I can understand why some doctors would wish to be paid in cash before some consultations.

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so you mean the spanish doctors only accept cash-in-hand? ..... now why would that be?

i dare say similar applies for any building work or similar that you want doing there too, but then i dare say you don't have a residence of any kind over there

Dentists don't just take cash!!!! They are a dam sight cheaper in Spain than they are here. I know I experienced it only last September.

3 M,

But, they will take your gold if you don't pay them.

Burglars will take anything if they deem fit so there is no comparison.

Here we go again!


"President Barack Obama said last night that he would not negotiate with RepuHere blicans over raising the debt ceiling, declining to trade cuts in government spending in exchange for increasing the borrowing limit.

If the goal is to make sure that we are being responsible about our debt and our deficit - if that's the conversation we're having, I'm happy to have that conversation," Obama said. "What I will not do is to have that negotiation with a gun at the head of the American people," he told a news conference.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said that the debt ceiling will be reached between mid-February and early March. "

inevitably so i'm afraid ...... i don't think i need to repeat my comment about the weakness of the us system and the imbeciles (on both sides) whose only interest is getting re-elected

this is why i am happy to remain short dow, albeit that i got my timing a bit wrong

Cynic,

You as fast of the mark this morning.

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Depraved gang of men 'groomed girls as young as 11 for sex, trafficked them across the UK and attacked them with meat cleavers and baseball bats'
Nine men groomed and horrifically abused vulnerable girls a court has heard
It has been claimed they used 'extreme physical and sexual violence', often beating and burning them as they raped their victims
It was claimed the girls were often given so many drugs that they were 'barely aware'

The abuse is alleged to have taken place over a period of eight years


is this normal in there ountrys animals would not do what these sub humans do

they should send them back to pakistan for there crimes .
and hang them

Not only Pakistanis TANKER...and soon we will be getting a few million more problems from Romania and Bulgaria. It's going to be a great country we live in...I don't think!

op are you still in cna soon will go to 375p

so why don't the pair of you hold hands and skip off into the sunset in botswana or saudi or similar?

cynic fancy you saying botwana I spent 12 months working there with de beers

very nice people and proud of there country .

so go back there and do us all a favour ...... your children may well be glad to see the back of you too, for i would doubt (very much hope they do not) that they hold with your despicable racialist and xenophobic outlook that makes alf garnett look like a bleeding-heart liberal

Who's who?

Quick change of topic.... can we talk about this Java virus doing the rounds...

Am i right in saying its only a risk if you visit a potentially risky website while running java. Obviously what i'm asking is, are sites like IG (where you have to run it to view charts) safe?

Anyone expert in this kind of stuff...?

I have just read that there are Russian crews selling packs to hack your computer and place a password on your hard drive, demanding a payment before releasing the password. It was on CNN last night, so i know this is something quite serious.

I'm concerned in particular because they say Eastern block countries are targeted in particular.

Funnily enough the PC i run Java to view IG's charts on has started getting slow during the day... (

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