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.

golf course!!!

ok, let you off. :-))

uk woman (to be?) jailed in dubai for having sex in back of taxi
i heard this story (again) this morning, and something tells me she isn't telling the whole truth.
everyone who goes to m/e should be well aware that certain things, even kissing in public, is unacceptable ...... in this instance, it would seem that she and her "pick up" had got pretty rat-arsed - seen it all too often at Friday Brunch - and then had a major argument with the taxi driver.
taxi driver alleged they were having sex in the back of his cab, and thus the story unfolds.
this woman has never said why the argument in the first place .... my experience there (i go 3-4 times a year) is that none of the taxi drivers are unpleasant, and more to the point, every single one of them is a foreign worker .... as such, he will be very afraid of losing his work permit and being sent home.

like i said, something doesn't ring entirely true with her story.

Never been to dubai cynic and in all honesty have no wish to.

i have a lot of biz in the region, but it's neither as great nor remotely as bad a place to go as some make out

So long as you enjoy and make money then so be it and gl.

op cna doing well .
buy OCG going to be good

schools closed its a good job we do not close hositals and power stations
why do the councils employ teachers that live miles away ,
if they do not live local then do not employ them .
or should we close down the whole country because of a bit of snow

your sweeping generalisation is almost certainly inaccurate as is much of your spew ....

however, i certainly get the feeling that a lot of teachers refuse to turn up from however close they live, purely because there is a good excuse not to - e.g. let's use the blanket fail-safe h+s excuse

as you say, nearly all those illegal immigrants who man our hospitals seem to make the effort to turn up - as does our postman and our own staff

if it was left to teachers they would shut down the country has long as it does not affect them .

Health and Safety jobs for the boys brigade, joke. I can envisage every tree in the country having a plaque with a risk assessment, do kids still climb trees? doubt it. Then of course we have the Compo culture, lawyers chasing ambulances. Countrys Fxxxxd! There you go TANK over to you, plenty of ammo there mate :O)

Time to dust this down again.


We were the lucky ones !!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN the 1930's, 40's, 50's, and 60's.
WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER!"

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank Sherry while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos...

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, bread and dripping, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer. Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, and not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. Take-away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and d idn't open on a Sunday, somehow we didn't starve to death! We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers and Bubble Gum. We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter, milk from the cow, and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day and we were OK. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in riverbeds with matchbox cars. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii , X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY, no video/dvd films, or colour TV, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no In ternet or Internet chat rooms.......... WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cuts, broke bones and teeth and there were no Lawsuits from these accidents. Only girls had pierced ears! We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time...

We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet because we didn't need to keep up with the Jones's!

Not everyone made the rugby/football/cricket/net ball team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that - Getting into the team was based on MERIT!

Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and threw the blackboard rubber at us if they thought we weren't concentrating.
We can s tring sentences together and spell and have proper conversations because of a good, solid three R's education.

Our parents would tell us to ask a stranger to help us cross the road.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law!

Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
　
And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives "for our own good".
Tell all this to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

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This thread is beginning to resemble the groans in a geriatric ward.

"beginning to" !

How so so true and wonderfully written brings a few of those wet things ddripping from the old eye.

Makes a change for a political broadcast for the Ffing Labour Party though eh, Prick!

skinny you are correct again ,
i am 65 fit as a fiddle and have been out this morning and have cleared
8 drives they are in there 80s
all these paths covered in snow and all the lazy people on the dole
the gov need to stop this put them on snow duty and if they fail to work stop there money you would soon find out who do not want work

Hope the eh, Prick was not referring to me chris carson.

Health and safety experts warn: don't clear icy pavements, you could get sued