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.

They are keeping me in reserve.

The question of Fred going cannot be considered because of his well thought out considered and intelligent posts.. I'm afraid he just can't be spared, and then there is his valuable contribution to Money AM's profits to consider, The advertising ticks that he generates being substantial.. So Tanks what do you say?

British Airways to Offer Stronger Tea for High Altitudes

British Airways (IAG) said it plans to introduce tea with with stronger flavor to serve aboard flights to make up for the muting effects of high altitudes on people’s sense of taste.

The carrier and Associated British Foods Plc (ABF)’s Twinings brand cooperated on the new blends, which will be offered in all cabin classes starting Feb. 1, the London-based airline said today in a statement.

Stan,

Remind be to buy you a pint.

8-)

Done -):

Football Match abandoned after just 2 minutes! http://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/news/article/youth-game-on-300113-627884.aspx

Apparently the wind caused such a stink, it left them with little choice.

USA had George Bush,

We have David Cameron and a poor parody of Tony Blair.

Hope he doesn't cause as many problem in Algeria as he is responsible for in the UK.

Yes, George Bush said that God told him to go to war with Iraq and Tony Blair thought it was a good idea as well. What a legacy those two have left behind.

Hallelujah!

Ticketmaster dumps 'hated' Captcha verification system



The world's largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human.

Captcha - which asks users to type in words to prove they are not robots trying to cheat the system - is used on many sites.

But Ticketmaster has moved to ditch it in favour of a simpler system.

It means users will write phrases, such as "freezing temperatures", rather than, for example, "tormentis harlory".

Oh good, about time.

Blimey! Tanks and his twin brother have gone into the music business http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5eBT6OSr1TI

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peterfoster/100200861/the-us-gun-debate-is-no-longer-anchored-in-reality-if-it-wasnt-so-tragic-it-would-be-funny/

It is good to know we have the UK's two best over paid second hand car dealers wandering around the Middle East looking for contracts.

Tony Blair and ?

Cameron and Osborne, thats three. I doubt that Blair would dare wander around those parts for obvious reasons though.

Thinks this Tory idea of welfare cards is wrong.(instead of cash)

Unemployed account for just 3% of the Welfare Budget. Thats a fact.

Might aswel dress them up with pink anoraks and yellow boots.

(b)DONT forget one day u might end up unemployed. (/b)

goldfinger...well said!

Do you think us pensioners could have a Berghause jacket, that would also let everyone know we no longer contribute as much....and help to keep us warm when we can't afford to switch the c/h on ;-)

The last government left problems behind, and suggested at the time of the election it may have been a good election to lose.

But I think the social consequences that the present "governing" idiots are probably going to leave as their epitaph will create far more problems for them and the UK.

With a bit of luck Libya may detain the car sales man.

What about a Yellow Cross instead of Welfare Cards.

That would make them more obvious, and shamed them.

Perhaps, it could be extended to the plebs in the cabinet.

Who was that guy who had that rousing cheer at the Olympics.

Reuters News Agency
Release Date: 30 January 21:48:12

LONDON
STRIKING SUICIDE BOMBERS

Muslim suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a three-day strike on Wednesday in a dispute over the number of virgins they are entitled to in the afterlife. Emergency talks with Al Qaeda management have so far failed to produce an agreement.

The unrest began last Tuesday when Al Qaeda announced that the number of virgins a suicide bomber would receive after his death will be cut by 25% next January from 72 to only 54. The rationale for the cut was the increase in recent years of the number of suicide bombings and a subsequent shortage of virgins in the afterlife.

The suicide bombers' union, the British Organisation of Occupational Martyrs (or B.O.O.M.) responded with a statement that this was unacceptable to its members and immediately balloted for strike action. General secretary Abdullah Amir told the press, "Our members are literally working themselves to death in the cause of jihad. We don't ask for much in return but to be treated like this by management is a kick in the teeth."

Mr Amir accepted the limited availability of virgins but pointed out that the cutbacks were expected to be borne entirely by the workforce and not by management. "Last Christmas Abu Hamza alone was awarded an annual bonus of 250,000 virgins," complains Amir. "And you can be sure they'll all be pretty ones too. How can Al Qaeda afford that for members of the management but not 72 for the people who do the real work?"

Speaking from the shed in the West Midlands where he currently resides, the Al Qaeda chief explained,

"We sympathise with our workers' concerns but Al Qaeda is simply not in a position to meet their demands. They are simply not accepting the realities of modern-day jihad, in a competitive marketplace. Thanks to Western depravity, there is now a chronic shortage of virgins in the afterlife. It's a straight choice between reducing expenditure and laying people off. I don't like cutting wages but I'd hate to have to tell 3,000 of my staff that they won't be able to blow themselves up." He defended management bonuses by claiming these were necessary to attract good fanatical clerics. "How am I supposed to attract the best people if I can't compete with the private sector?"

Talks broke down this morning after management's last-ditch proposal of a virgin-sharing scheme was rejected outright after a failure to agree on orifice allocation quotas. One virgin, who refused to be named, was quoted as saying "I'll be buggered if I'm agreeing to anything like that........it's too much of a mouthful to swallow".

Unless some sort of agreement is reached over the weekend, suicide bombers will down explosives at midday on Monday. Most branches are supporting the strike. Only the North London branch, which has a different union, is likely to continue working. However, some members of that branch will only be using waist-down explosives in order to express solidarity with their striking brethren.