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.

Touché Fred!

Any of you Con artists on here then? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21536171

Go on someone tell cyners it was Maggie Thatcher who stopped the free school milk.

Wouldnt mind but later she said ' let them eat sandwiches'.

Fat Carol her daughter obviously didnt.

Typical entrenched Tory view that to the poor.

Bit pathetic that they could only come up with 9 names on the list. Even more strange that only 2 of the 9 have southern addresses - clearly tax dodging is a northern thing. That's socialism for you.

Fred no pole fishing for roach on the appartments complex I own.Its for residents really and just restocked it so wanted to see what was doing........ie, nothing. Plenty of cans of stella tho.

Dont need a license.. Really out of season well old season.

GF,

I thought all fresh water fishing needed a National Licence.

Has that been change?

Caught a few perch on a fly.

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Used to have a hip flask of brandy for the cold weather. (Nice but stupid. My fishing mate used to drive, so he couldn't drink. But serves him right, he always caught fish, I rarely did, but I had the best, rods which was even dafter.)

When the warm weather comes, must try it again.

PS.

But I enjoy baiting Cynic.

He does wriggle a bit, too much sometimes.

Stan,

It good to see that they may be beginning to catch up.

Also, good to see they are beginning to look overseas for tax evaders and more countries are beginning to open their books.

EU rules and regulations will be changed, perhaps a reason for some in the UK wanting to stay outside the EU.

hey sticky, did no one ever tell you that harold wilson assuredly did not come from working class stock, was grammar school educated and that his flat hat, flat accent and pipe were no more than acquired props to promote his (false) image?

i confess i am a great fan of margaret thatcher's albeit that she went rather bats towards the end ...... inter alia, it was good to have a pm who was seriously tough - we haven't had one who could hold a candle(??) to her since - and who brought that virtue to bear not only against eu and argentina, but also against the communist-led/backed unions who were doing their level best to bring the country to its knees

fred - if you caught perch on a fly, then it must have been a lure, and assuredly not "the real thing" :-)

btw, i have no problem with anyone having a pop at me, whether seriously or in jest ..... unlike some, i am happy to live with the dictum of, "if you dish it out, then accept it back" ...... i only (eventually) draw the line with the real nasty spiteful few like MJ/MRSI ..... even Clubman (rip) had a good and humorous side once you got past the porcupine bits

Yes Cynic,

You couldn't have had a better mother.

A bit like Huhne and Pryce, both deserving one another.

maybe, but i always did wonder who my father was

I will start lol -

CC
I thought the big wall was to keep the ones who use their baths to keep the coal in from gaining access to the green and pleasant land of the south.

Once again gf is wrong with his facts. Margaret Thatcher did NOT stop school milk. She voted in cabinet against it. Free school milk was stopped for over 7s and she advised against the policy on the grounds it would "arouse widespread public antagonism". She was over ruled and as Education Secretary she had to implement due to common cabinet deep nsibility. Claiming incorrectly that Thacher stopped free milk is just the usually left wing tactic of misinformation.

Labour's Harold Wilson withdrew free milk from secondary schools in 1971.

She could have resigned.

Many wished she had done so earlier, before her own party chucked her.

(I hope I spelt that properly.)

out of curiosity, on what grounds did 'arold reckon the milk should be stopped?

You can't resign every time you disagree in Cabinet. It has always been a policy of all governments to accept joint responsibility in Cabinet. Otherwise everyone would insist on having their own way. It is called democracy.