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.

Prostitution is legal in UK. It is soliciting and running a brothel that are illegal.

I do not want to see it 3m.lol trust you!!!!!!!

Has Mr C gone for his tea ? I will turn the lights out

a very interesting case in the papers a few weeks back ...... an escort agency owner escaped the "controlling prostitutes" charge, or along those lines, even though the girls' services were advertised on line ...... the defense was that she acted as the girls' agent and they were free to go elsewhere ..... the judge agreed, partly on the basis that the girls were +/-30 and were clearly offering their services without coercion

nope ... still at the office working, but shall adjourn shortly to go home to cook

What the girls/men offer over and above what the agency offers keeps the client sweet and the agency stays within the law. Everyone happy as to say.

Tell a lie perhaps the IR not happy about cash for extra duties. :-))

Skinny,

Saumur is beautiful. Stayed there quite a few times and drifted through the whole of the Loire Valley.

France is beautiful and have often teased the French that they don’t deserved to live there.

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Dreams,

If she was a drag queen there must have been a lot more confuse men out there than I thought.

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Cynic,

I used to advance a defence of "sexual prostitution" as the rights of individuals to earn a living, or pursue a life style as they so wished, as long as it does not make unreasonable impositions on those who do not agree or like the occupation.

Also, thought that legalising the practice and having “licensed” premises, would remove the pressures on those engaged in the trade, as well as the opportunity to check the “health” and remedy “problems” of those involved in the chosen trade.

Unfortunately, although many, who participate in the trade do so willingly and are not coerced other than by themselves, some would continue to be “pressured” by “partners”, or “pimps” lurking one step away. (Licensing premises may reduce this coercion.)

The problem I think is that many of those involved in the trade appear trapped because of “inadequacies and patterns of behaviour” developed in childhood as a result of lousy “parenting”.

Also, the problem would be of “children” sexually abused, corrupted and “deformed” by adults into believing that the pattern of behaviour is the norm and to be expected.

They often see themselves as trapped, but “feel” incapable of making the changes and necessary alterations in their relationships, or their form of “lively hood”.


“Slavery” in general is a form of abuse, sexual prostitution can be just another variant of abuse.

But there are many males and females who are “amoral” and their sexual services are of no more consequence to them than another deal.


As far as living off “immoral” earnings it depends whether the profits are from abuse by one of another.

Also, provision should be available for those who wish to change their occupation and earn a living in a different way.

Heavens above cynic, it must be wonderful to spend most of a "working day" playing on talk to yourself thread!!!!! Gosh I bet you have to tell the other half what a hard day you have had and that you have never stopped. Mind you a man of your intelligence could probably use one hand typing whilst occupying the other doing whatever (phone) etc.

post 20190 -''Mind you a man of your intelligence could probably use one hand typing whilst occupying the other doing whatever (phone) etc''


That sounds rude 3m,lol

Did you not have a fish about Fred and find out. lol

PS how comes I only get a half line answer, edit stick with the half line thats to much . :-))

Oh! Really dc., I always get things wrong.!!!!!!!!!!

Perhaps its me, did I interpret your post wrong 3m ? :-))

Very interesting for this to resurface as to speak.

Natalie Wood may have had bruises before drowning, says coroner

Actress died in 1981 during a boat trip with husband Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken
By Ben Arnold | Yahoo UK Movies News – 6 hours ago

A Los Angeles coroner has said that actress Natalie Wood may have had bruises on her body before she drowned.Wood... bruises may have been caused before she drowned (Copyright: Rex)

Her death was originally ruled accidental, but scratches on her neck, bruises on her arms and grazes on her face led her death certificate to be amended to cite the cause of death as 'drowning and other undetermined factors'.

[Related story: Washington was planning film with Tony Scott]

Wood drowned in 1981 while on a boat trip with her husband, actor Robert Wagner, and Christopher Walken, her co-star in the film 'Brainstorm'.

She had been drinking, and it is thought that she had slipped while trying to board the boat's dinghy.

But the case was reopened in 2011 when the captain of the boat, Dennis Davern, told a US TV programme that he had heard the couple arguing, had lied to the police, and believed that Wagner was responsible for her death.

“The location of the bruises, the multiplicity of the bruises, lack of head trauma, or facial bruising support bruising having occurred prior to entry in the water,” said Chief Medical Examiner Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran in the report.

“Since there are unanswered questions and limited additional evidence available for evaluation, it is opined by this medical examiner that the manner of death should be left as undetermined.”

Wagner said in his book 'Pieces of My Heart' that he had argued with Wood on the night she drowned, but the authorities have said that he is not a suspect in his wife's death.

Wood, who was 43 and had been nominated for Oscars in 'Rebel Without a Cause', 'Splendor in the Grass' and 'Love with the Proper Stranger', was found floating near Catalina Island in California.

So have you any snow yet? Have you seen all the poor elephants murdered again in Africa - sad?

no 3m, like all good girlies, i can readily multitask .... and also, being the guv'nor, i can do as i choose .... and no, Beloved and i do not really discuss biz at home, except (usually) in the most general of terms

Well you did admit to being a tart on here the other day when you were discussing your car!!!! You could have been peeling an orange in your pocket with your other hand - dear.

-6 here tonight, the snow has had a good melt today. Only a thin covering, talk of more on the weekend.

No elephants in this neck of this woods. :-)) being serious thats sad news.

Neigh Neigh! Horse meat found in Tesco beef burgers

HORSE meat has been found in large quantities in a sample of beef burgers sold in Tesco stores in Ireland.

Tesco, which has apologised to its customers, said the two frozen beef burger products in question were sold in both Ireland and the UK.

Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has revealed the presence of horse and pig DNA in a high proportion of products tested in a study examining the authenticity of beef burger, beef meal and salami products available from retail outlets in Ireland.

Traces of equine DNA were also discovered in ‘beef’ products in Dunnes Stores, Lidl, Aldi and Iceland stores, in Ireland, while 85 per cent of samples tested contained pig DNA.