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.

fred - i heard the Red Brigade were after me and also needed to stash away a few million in cash in my secret offshore bank account where hmrc will never think of looking .... i'm afraid hays will have to paddle his own canoe for a day or two

Chris Carson, goldfinger played for united's first team in the 80s, didn't you know?

Aye what position inside out? :O)

Morning, first dip in the pool this year, feel great.

Windy but warm in down....town Holmfirth.

Now for 2 raw eggs and a grapefruit.

Looks like spring has arrived at last.


Going for a work out down the boxing club.

A potential game changer!

Super-powered battery breakthrough claimed by US team

A new type of battery has been developed that, its creators say, could revolutionise the way we power consumer electronics and vehicles.

The University of Illinois team says its use of 3D-electrodes allows it to build "microbatteries" that are many times smaller than commercially available options, or the same size and many times more powerful.

It adds they can be recharged 1,000 times faster than competing tech.

Hey thats brill, fantastic post skinny.

The startling revelation that some of the highest-paid civil servants have turned themselves into private limited companies to avoid income tax is the latest manifestation of something that began many years ago.

Margaret Thatcher, as we know, believed in inequality of income as a spur to ambition – but 1981, when the UK was in the grip of a recession worse than the current one, was no time to be upping the salaries of people who were already comparatively well paid.

Under pressure to raise MPs' pay, which was not keeping pace with inflation, the Thatcher government introduced the system by which their income was supplemented with generous expenses, thus laying the first seeds of the MPs' expenses

But Osborne's new rules – as KPMG makes clear – give "UK based multinationals an opportunity to significantly reduce their tax rate". In other words, using "tax arrangements abroad" the largest multinationals won't pay even the new all-time-low headline tax rates.

Through the "general anti-avoidance rule" and a regular stream of smaller specific anti-avoidance announcements, such as this weekend's move against a national insurance dodge, Osborne will sustain the illusion that tax avoidance is being fought on all fronts, confident that his bamboozled audience will never notice the abject surrender on the most important one of all.
osborne is a liar

Well I was a top civil servant tanker and pay in them days was below the private sector.

It was the generous pension they offered that attracted me, nothing else.

Must admit though some craking birds, and great at christmas partys.

Spot on about the tax avoidance in your second post. Osbourne is coning the electorate.

Fact is his number is up anyway.

Vince Cable is on the quiet rumbling against him.

gf i have many friends and all tory now we are leaving the party and voting for UKIP
osborne and cameron are just LIARS and not fit to run the party you can not have LIARS running the country they are worse than most in prison .
the conservative party will be wiped out
when you get voters like myself and friends who have voted tory all our lives switching to UKIP and most of the people i speak to in the clubs and pubs tells me UKIP are going to do very well the only problem is it couldopen the door to labour
but would now sooner have them than these LIARS


a ex right wing tory

terrible news from TEXAS

Tanker, how old was your daughter in 1982?

TANKER - 12 Apr 2013 18:20 - 23687 of 24115

chris carson my daughter was in the falkland war and was in port stanley
she does not say much about it as she sign to serve the queen and country
she was also in barain . did you fight for your country

17

she was a shinny bottom that is what they call them

Ohh indeed indeed Tanker never known a mp lie as much as Camoron.

she is 49 next month i am 66
she may have been 18 long time ago

skin and yes i married at 17 my wife was 16 and still happy and still very young at heart and fit .

now is time to buy gold

Your 66 same age as Cynic. Lot of oldies on here, last of the summer wine.

Im 42 now. Physicaly fitter than Ive ever been..... 6ft 10inch tall 18.5 stone.

Do a lot of walking briliant for your health.

Eat a lot of fish, and raw meat brilliant for your body.