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.

Al Shabaab said in a statement the decision to kill Denis Allex, the codename for a hostage held in Somalia since 2009, was unanimous and followed three years of what it called "exhaustive attempts at negotiations" over his release.

"With the rescue attempt, France has voluntarily signed Allex's death warrant," the militants said in an emailed statement that was also posted on the group's official Twitter handle.

Edouard Guillaud, France's military chief of staff, asked to react to the statement, told Europe 1 Radio that Allex was presumed dead.

"We have nothing since Friday's raid on Denis Allex being alive. We think he is likely dead," he said.

On Monday, al-Shabaab taunted the French president, releasing pictures of the man lying face up on an orange surface surrounded by combat gear, including a caption with one photograph that said, "Francois Hollande, was it worth it?"
he usa uk should go in with france and wipe them out .

forget rules of war just go in and do the deed

surely your gunboat diplomacy should start simultaneously on the mersey, tyne and thames

the reason for kidnapping innocent people is because the west as allowed these terrorists to grow in power weak leaders have caused the problem
we need people like churchill and maggie to lead the world to fight these scum
it is time to destroy the terrorists

cynic you must be a yellow belly

i don't recollect either of those PMs using gunboat diplomacy, but then no doubt your great fund of ENGLISH history will teach us all otherwise

by the way, you never did manage to reveal how far back you had managed to trace your ENGLISH ancestry

I think we could send The Tinker to Holland to help the Dear Leader with his negotiations.

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Mind he could take the his tribe of 100 party followers with him.

my family came from wales and go back hundreds of years

May I apologise on the part of Wales.

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from wales? ..... oh so definitely not ENGLISH then ...... the Welsh were always just marauders, whose ancestry i think came from brittany or maybe even further east

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ah yes indeed .... the celts, among whom the welsh number, are a pretty nondescript bunch that came from central europe ..... clearly early illegal immigrants then

The pun conundrum

To pun or not to pun, that is the question. The lowest form of wordplay, or an ancient art form embraced by the likes of Jesus and Shakespeare, asks Sally Davies.

Optomistic, if you are around - the MF offer is due to finally end (again) this evening! :-))

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Cheers Skinny, rarely far away :-)
I won't be taking the offer up, even though it is the final offer I'm very stubborn in that I like to make my own mistakes ! LOL

Ditto!

I hate making my own mistakes.

It leaves me with nobody to blame.

Like to-day.

Fred - its the British way.

Damn! I didn't get that offer.Was it something I said?

Don't move to Cabot cove! How unrealistic is murder on television?

There is a great deal of fictionalised murder on television. But does it give us the wrong idea about crime?

Murder happens a lot less in real life than on television.

There were 636 killings in England and Wales in 2010-11 - that equates to 11.5 for every one million people - or a rate of 0.00115%.

Lotto line cost will double to £2

The cost of playing the Lottery is set to double - but more winners will share in the prize pot, operator Camelot has announced.

The price of a Lotto line will increase from £1 to £2 in the autumn, but the prize for matching three numbers will rise from £10 to £25.

However, the prize pot for matching five numbers will drop by £500 to £1,000 while the reward for matching five numbers and the bonus number will halve to £50,000. The prize for matching four numbers will increase from £60 to £100.

The price rise is the first since Lotto launched in 1994 and follows research which found that consumers "want more ways to win more money" from the game.