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.

The EU regulatory handbook on financial affairs contains around 4 million words. At an average reading rate of 130 words a minute it would an office worker over 3 months of work time to read it. That doesn't mean understand any of it or have a working knowledge of it.

Tim - As posted previously get back to Man U thread accross the road and carry on squelching. Your'e good at that! xxxxx

I'm sure they will find a use for it.

the Government is powerless to impose a ban on meat imports unless the contaminated beef is found to be a danger to people's health.
"Arbitrary measures like that are not actually going to help. Firstly we are bound by the rules of the European market," he told Sky News.
"Should this move from an issue of labelling and fraud and there is evidence of material which represents a serious threat to human health, I won't hesitate to take action."

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i'm sure that during the BSE scare, the french (and germans?) banned the import of uk beef, notwithstanding that it was not contaminated - in truth, it was purely to help their own totally inefficient farming industry ...... as an aside, the french (and germans) also denied ever having any cases of BSE, which assuredly must be a barefaced lie, but no surprises there then

anyway, there does not need to be a gov't ban .... the public will do its own banning .... it'll be interesting to see if there now an upsurge in vegetarian alternatives - e.g. quorn and tofu, or even more radical, a general swing towards a more vegetarian-based diet

Chris doesn't know what tripe actually is.

In years gone by the only processed food people ate was something like Spam or corned beef, mostly it was fresh stuff from a butcher and it was possible to see exactly what you were eating. If you buy processed food you have no idea what actually you are eating.

cynic your post above is good reading and fact .

Isn't it time for the pub Tanker?

this is very scary ..... what is MrT after that he suddenly agrees with something i post?

How our MEPs voted

ah - a PPB on behalf of UKIP ..... as with all things of this nature, it is probably not the entire truth ...... had this info been from an apolitical source with balanced attaching comment, then it would have carried more weight and i would have read it, rather than discarding it for the propaganda that it blatantly is

Cynic,

He understand you at last and showing sympathy to you in his own way.

May be Mr. T likes your new cook thread cynic!!!!

perhaps he'ld like to add some recipes!

Fish and chips and mushy peas may be, washed down with gallons of tea!! Good we can have a laugh and a few spelling mistakes along the way.

3m.

No.

He just reminds him of a poor man's Andouillette.

A little course fred.

Coarse - sorry.

mushy peas - unfortunately, most restaurants, though probably not north of manchester, now serve mushy peas made from frozen petits pois or similar, rather than from dried marrowfat peas ..... same difference as a "just steamed or boiled" crab and one of those tasteless pre-dressed things that are now almost universal

Went to Romford town shopping on the weekend. Saw a pie and mash shop near the
main market. Something I have never tried.

Superb fast food DC - although not so cheap any more.