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.

i haven't listened closely, but it sounded like quite a sensible budget with some good stimulus, and a vote-catcher of tightening significantly the rules for tax avoidance

Wonderful English from Around the World

> In a Bangkok Temple:
> IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER A WOMAN, EVEN A FOREIGNER, IF DRESSED AS A MAN.
>
> Cocktail lounge, Norway:
> LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR.
>
> Doctor's office, Rome:
> SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES.
>
> Dry cleaners, Bangkok:
> DROP YOUR TROUSERS HERE FOR THE BEST RESULTS.
>
> In a Nairobi restaurant:
> CUSTOMERS WHO FIND OUR WAITRESSES RUDE, OUGHT TO SEE THE MANAGER.
>
> On the main road to Mombasa, leaving Nairobi:
> TAKE NOTICE: WHEN THIS SIGN IS UNDER WATER, THIS ROAD IS IMPASSABLE.
>
> On a poster at Kencom:
> ARE YOU AN ADULT THAT CANNOT READ? IF SO WE CAN HELP.
>
> In a City restaurant:
> OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK AND WEEKENDS.
>
> In a Cemetery:
> PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED FROM PICKING FLOWERS, FROM ANY BUT THEIR OWN GRAVES.
>
> Tokyo hotel's rules and regulations:
> GUESTS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SMOKE, OR DO OTHER DISGUSTING BEHAVIOURS IN BED.
>
> On the menu of a Swiss Restaurant:
> OUR WINES LEAVE YOU NOTHING TO HOPE FOR.
>
> In a Tokyo Bar:
> SPECIAL COCKTAILS FOR THE LADIES WITH NUTS.
>
> Hotel, Yugoslavia:
> THE FLATTENING OF UNDERWEAR WITH PLEASURE, IS THE JOB OF THE CHAMBERMAID.
>
> Hotel, Japan:
> YOU ARE INVITED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CHAMBERMAID.
>
> In the lobby of a Moscow Hotel, across from a Russian Orthodox Monastery:
> YOU ARE WELCOME TO VISIT THE CEMETERY, WHERE FAMOUS RUSSIAN AND SOVIET COMPOSERS, ARTISTS AND WRITERS ARE BURIED DAILY, EXCEPT THURSDAY.
>
> A sign posted in Germany's Black Forest:
> IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN ON OUR BLACK FOREST CAMPING SITE, THAT PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT SEX, FOR INSTANCE, MEN AND WOMEN, LIVE TOGETHER IN ONE TENT, UNLESS THEY ARE MARRIED WITH EACH OTHER FOR THIS PURPOSE.
>
> Hotel, Zurich:
> BECAUSE OF THE IMPROPRIETY OF ENTERTAINING GUESTS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX IN THE BEDROOM, IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE LOBBY BE USED FOR THIS PURPOSE.
>
> Advertisement for donkey rides, Thailand:
> WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE ON YOUR OWN ASS?
>
> Airline ticket office, Copenhagen:
> WE TAKE YOUR BAGS AND SEND THEM IN ALL DIRECTIONS. (Just Like British Airways!!!)
>
> A Laundry in Rome:
> LADIES, LEAVE YOUR CLOTHES HERE AND THEN SPEND THE AFTERNOON HAVING A GOOD TIME

And finally the all time classic:
Seen in an Abu Dhabi Souk shop window:
IF THE FRONT IS CLOSED PLEASE ENTER THROUGH MY BACKSIDE…

Skinny,

LOL


A bit like Osborne's budget?

Mind he has done a lot for my TW.

Ed Balls is soooo funny.

Was this budget an apparition, or aberration from a failing hologram chancellor and representative of an expiring coalition which aspired to govern?

From the number of comments made on about it, it has gone down like a lead balloon.

I liked it very much. I have seen quite a few positive comments. Even Mr Cable liked it. Labour's views on the budget are about as silly as you would expect.

What is it about Australian women, even those born in Wales - Australian PM Gillard wins leadership vote unopposed

I know the House of Commons is like a kids classroom, but yesterday Ed Miliband went well over the top with his jumping up and down, waving his hands shouting, 'Is the prime minister going to gain from the 45% top tax rate, come on, come on, hands up, hands up anyone in the cabinet put your hands up if you are, or nod, come on nod'.

This went on for far too long and was so pathetically childish, that it was clear many on his own benches were embarrassed

Just think, that if Labour win the next election, this idiot could be PM.

One thing I would like to see on Budget day would be an opposition budget, as all that happens in the current system, is the opposition go through their regular name and policy calling.

If you want a laugh - Ed Balls on R4 NOW!

Here is a more painful laugh!


What amuses me about the budget is that once again the public purse is coming to the save the bacon of the failing capitalism, by bailing out the “private” economy.

Also, when many put the blame the failing of economy down to the overinflated housing market and “greedy” money being poured into it, the present government is stimulating this circle by directing money into “private” hands for private profit, rather than the stimulating “construction” being under local government and therefore back into the local and then general economy.

Also, the public purse could retain the some of the “value” of the “investment”, if done in this way and not make it susceptible to inflationary debt. Osborne is betting on
inflation to bail him out.

The old economic cycle is likely of being restarted, by Osborne’s actions.

I see you have got up perhaps more up off the floor after watching Ed Balls. Lol

Dreams,

It interests me why individuals, who would claim to be mature, still believe in the fairy tales they are told by their “dear leaders”. Perhaps, your self-enlightenment may cause a realistic depression

When is the economic recovery going to take place?

Is the con head office is putting it back again to 2030?

I suppose it will be after they run out of U-Turns.

Cameron’s ducking and weaving with the Leveson report seems to have help the press’s opinion.

Laughable!

What did he expect?

Another ride with/ Rebecca?

I do find it laughable that Osborne thinks he can buy the beer drinking public for a penny a pint.

They may be daft, but they are not that daft.

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But, I have to admit the tories have been good for my finances.

It was more than a penny a pint, because there would have been a rise. He has also removed the automatic price rises on beer. Petrol duty rise cancelled, corporation tax drop, national insurance cuts, no tax on £10,000 income plus quite a few other nice measures. Nice budget with a pathetic response from Labour

Paper isn't dead :-)

Hays,

Buy the end of this government period of occupation the £10000 will be worth £7500.

Ie. the punter even with increases in pay will be paying a higher percentage of their income.
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I am not sure about the value of other "tax" cuts, but I certainly think the governments disposal of tax income should be revised and as said before go by a slightly different route into the general economy.


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The labour party are learning from the con party to make "populist statements", but reading the press to-day (tory press), it in general considered the budget as a failure to address correctly the present UK's problems.

You must have a special way of reading newspapers or just read the wrong ones.

Skinny,

Long live the Le Trefle.

I see the new 105th head of the English fairy believers is being installed and enthroned today. Another head of a different group of fairy believers was confirmed a few days ago in Rome. It is amazing how these strange ceremonies get on the news.

Religion.
Live in hope.
Die in despair.