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.

Just started to snow here, very white sky.

Optomistic - I see the MF offer is back :-)

Thanks Skinny....a bit like the old MFI sale!! LOL

Goodness only knows how this country would cope if we had a bad winter.

UK snow: Schools and transport hit by disruption

Going back to the Romania issue, whilst in Austria over New Year, our hotel had their safe stolen - fourth time it's happened, and they're blaming it on an influx of Romanians, say the problem is getting worse, but the politicians are burying this sort of news because it doesn't fit with the 'United Europe' dream.

I have just created a new website for female drivers. Problem is, it keeps crashing.






"Have you ever seen a twenty pound note all crumpled up?" asked the wife.

"No," I said.

She gave me a sexy little smile, reached into her cleavage and pulled out a crumpled twenty pound note.

"Have you ever seen a fifty pound note all crumpled up?" she asked.

"No," I said.

She gave me another sexy little smile, reached into her knickers and pulled out a crumpled fifty pound note.

"Now," she said, "have you ever seen 30,000 pounds all crumpled up?"

"No," I said, intrigued.

"Well, go and take a quick look in the garage. at the car"

if it's an office safe, they weight a few cwt, so how did they manage it?

Weather's worsening:

EU GLOSSARY OF ENGLISH/GERMAN MOTORING TERMS

ACCIDENT - Der bludimessen
BONNET - Pullenob und knucklechopper
BREATHALYSER - Die puffintem fur pistenarsen
CLUTCH - Die kuplink mit sclippen und schaken
CYCLIST - Der pedalpushink pilloken
ESTATE CAR - Der bagerroom fur shaggininauto
EXHAUST - Spitzenpoppen bangentuben
FOOTBRAKE - Der edbangeronvindschreen stoppenquick
GEAR LEVER - Biggensticken fur kangaroojumpen
HEADLIGHTS - Das dippendontdazzelubastad
HIGHWAY CODE - Der wipen fur arsen
INDICATORS - Die plinken tickentocken
JUGGERNAUT - Der fukkengretten trukken
LEARNER - Die twaten mit elplatz
NEAR ACCIDENT - Der fukken nearen schittenselfen
PARKING METER - Der tennerpinscher und klockenwerr
PUNCTURE - Die phlatt mit bludyfukken
SEATBELTS - Der klunkenklicker frauleintrapper
SKID - Der bannanan waltzen
SPEEDOMETER - Das Egoboozta mit Digitsundneedle
TYRES - Flattenfahrts
WINDSCREEN WIPER - Der flippenflappen muckenschpredder
FIRE ENGINE - Der Trumptonwagen

Cynic, no idea - just heard it from the Austrian hotel owner's English wife. Didn't go into details.

and of course, why should it be romanians who stole it? ..... did they leave their passports to prove the point? ..... no cctv in the hotel?

Oh please - don't let some facts spoil my prejudice :-) I'm well aware there are huge holes in my 'hearsay' comment.

From the cctv :-

nah! he's the austrian strudel-eating champion

he is a she! :-)

it's the steroids that do it!

Greene King bought Ridley's which is not a million miles from Adnams.

Plenty of choice nowadays
As of the end Nov. there were more than 1000 microbreweries in the UK
and rising. There are more than 30 in London,5 of them in Hackney .
So much so that JDW are featuring many of them all over London in
the next two months.
edit.
We are of on the big fish swallowing the smaller again.
Molson Coors swallowed Sharps recently and Franciscan Well in Ireland
(maybe connected to Sharps) was swallowed by a big Co.

cwt?

you're too young! ...... oz, lb, st, cwt, ton ...... thus 16 ounce = 1 pound; 14 pounds = 1 stone; 8 stone = 1 hundredweight; 20 hundredweight = 1ton

we could then get into bushels, but that is dangerous ground ...... however, a bushel of corn (i think different with other grains) weighs 56 lbs = 4 stone