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.

makes a change from blaming the irish and the rest of the catholic world, let alone the chinese

time for another armageddon like WW1 followed by a flu epidemic as in 1918 ..... the black death killed off 30-40% of uk population (probably much the same in europe) and of course there were regular outbreaks thereafter .... for sure there was one in england as late as 1702

BBC (phone in on Radio 5 now) and gutter press commenting on Prince Harry. Pathetic.

the BBC should be sold off .

Congratulations to Georgie Boy and the C. for picking the right path.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21141201


22 January 2013 Last updated at 10:55


UK public sector borrowing rises slightly in December
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The government borrowed slightly more than expected in December, fuelling fears that the UK could lose its coveted AAA credit rating.

UK public sector net borrowing, excluding financial interventions, hit £15.4bn in December, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

That marked a small rise from the £14.8bn borrowed in December 2011.

The headline figure was slightly worse than expected - analysts had forecast borrowing of £15.2bn.

December's figure takes total borrowing so far this financial year, excluding a transfer of Royal Mail pension assets, to £106.5bn, some £7.2bn more than for the same period in 2011.

Investec economist Philip Shaw said he still expected the deficit to overshoot the Office for Budget Responsibility's forecasts from the Autumn Statement last year.

"There are no signs of progress in the public finances," he added.

However, a Treasury spokesman insisted that the economy was healing and said that the figures indicated a gradual recovery.

The pound fell against the euro immediately after the data was released - trading 0.2% lower at 1.1872 euros.
Negative outlook

The data showed that government receipts rose 3.6%, while spending grew 5.4% in December compared with a year ago.

The broader public sector net borrowing measure - which includes the cost of bailing out the UK's banks - rose to £13.2bn in December from £12.6bn a year ago.

I have been in many places, but I've never been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can't go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone.


I've also never been in Cognito. I hear no one recognizes you there.


I have, however, been in Sane. They don't have an airport; you have to be driven there. I have made several trips there, thanks to my children, friends, family and work.


I would like to go to Conclusions, but you have to jump, and I'm not too much on physical activity anymore.


I have also been in Doubt. That is a sad place to go, and I try not to visit there too often.


I've been in Flexible, but only when it was very important to stand firm.


Sometimes I'm in Capable, and I go there more often as I'm getting older.


One of my favorite places to be is in Suspense! It really gets the adrenalin flowing and pumps up the old heart! At my age I need all the stimuli I can get!


I may have been in Continent, and I don't remember what country I was in. It's an age thing. They tell me it is very wet and damp there. Also some bad odors.



Life is too short for negative drama and petty things. So laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly!

We are in a similar club then stable - well written.

Very good stable, and for the younger element the place to be is in Jeopardy because that's where all the jobs are.
2517

PARIS (Reuters) - A cloud of harmless gas smelling of sweat and rotten eggs leaked out of a chemicals factory in northwest France and wafted across the English Channel as far as London on Tuesday.

The leak occurred on Monday morning at a Lubrizol France plant near Rouen, 120 km (75 miles) northwest of Paris, and winds blew the invisible gas cloud south over northern France on Monday night and then up into England on Tuesday.

it is indeed very nasty smelling stuff, and leaks of this stuff have been known to shut ports ..... it's very volatile and "searching" and has to be carried in exceptionally well sealed containers ..... someone is in for a whopping fine

Could smell something on the lines of the above taking the dog for a walk earlier.
Have not turned green yet.

The only way things will change is when this kind of email translates into voting results at the polls -- as of NOW -- PENSIONERS outnumber ANY OTHER type of voter even by race - religion - or age -WHEN ARE PENSIONERS going to wake up and understand WE have the power to shape legislation all WE need is the willpower to do so--
PLEASE SEND THIS TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS -- MAYBE THEN THE "GREY REVOLUTION" will begin --- MAYBE !!
POLITICIANS PLEASE PAY ATTENTION !


FORWARD THIS TO EVERYBODY !!!



‘Entitlement’ my arse, I paid good money for my State Pension and other benefits!!!! Just because they borrowed that money, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout!!
Gold plated MP pensions and Civil Service Government benefits, aka free healthcare, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, 20 weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days, now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call me a 'greedy pensioner' and my retirement, an‘entitlement’ !!!!!!...
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What the HELL's wrong with us???
WAKE UP BRITAIN !!!!

Someone please tell me what the HELL's wrong with all the people that run this country!!!!!!

We're "broke" & can't help our own Pensioners, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,???????????
but spent 1.2 billions of £££'s for G-20 events!
In the last few months we have provided aid to India, Greece and Turkey. And now Afghanistan, Pakistan ...... home of Bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of POUNDS!!!

Our retirees living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our Government and religious organisations pour Hundreds of Billions of ££££££'s and tons of food into foreign countries!
They call Old Age 'security' and Healthcare 'an entitlement' even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when it’s time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government borrow it in the first place?
We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.

GREAT BRITAIN: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, hospitals being closed, average income families who can't afford dental care, elderly going without 'needed' med's and having to travel 100's of miles for medical care with no reimbursement of cost, vehicles we can't afford fuel for, lack of affordable housing, and mentally ill without treatment - etc., etc.

YET.....
They have a 'benefit' for the people of foreign countries ... ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents, clothes, bedding, doctors, and medical supplies.
Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.

Sad isn't it?

and nothing to do with immigrants

Foul odor stinks up northern France


PARIS — A foul-smelling cloud of gas escaped from a factory in northern France on Tuesday, making life unpleasant from the outskirts of Paris to Britain’s shores and prompting scores of emergency calls.

France’s Interior Ministry released a statement saying the gas escaping from the Rouen chemical factory is harmless. Among other uses, mercaptan is added to otherwise odorless municipal gas to alert people of leaks.

Winds carried the smell across hundreds of square miles.

Police in the coastal English town of Hastings reassured residents in a tweet with the hashtag “noneedtopanic” that mercaptan from Rouen was the likely cause of the odor. London police also said they’d received reports of a gas smell from several parts of the city.

The factory in the northern city of Rouen is owned by Lubrizol, a subsidiary of investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.

More immigrants! - just seen this on MarketWatch.com - it made me chuckle:

'Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly wants to move to London to avoid Socialist President Francois Hollande’s punitive 75% tax rate.

London’s Daily Mail reports Sarkozy — and supermodel wife Carla Bruni — hope to escape France in order to to set up a billion pounds plus investment fund. The Daily Mail report cited investigative news site Mediapart.

Sarkozy may also hope to escape from investigations he is facing over contributions from L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, as well as other probes he faces in France, according to the report.'

Dreamcatcher - "Could smell something on the lines of the above taking the dog for a walk earlier." I had the same problem with my dogs until I put them on Arden Grange dog food. :-)

stable good post but you will not get any joy on this thread full of immigrants

including celts who came from middle europe as illegals, but are now in denial :-)

Haha :-))

Rumour has it that you have Welsh ancestry Tanks, therefor you should from now on be referred to as Taffy Tanker.

Cynic,

You lot can talk!

Stan,

Be careful, I might buy you a pint!

Someone mention a pint! :-)