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.

you must have been a long way away for the last 2/3 weeks!

cameron has already accepted parliament's decision that uk will not take part in any military action, but that does not preclude uk supporting the concept

i assume you have no moral concerns about supplying the promised humanitarian aid?

Cameron could over-ride the will of parliament, I suppose if new fabricated evidence came to light he may do just that anyway... For now though yes hes accepted parliaments decision not to take military action but so often this government has made a speedy turn around...

The humanitarian aid I'd have to say I'm ok with. Its the money we send India for their space project etc. that I object to.

you cynical old tart you :-)

Taking of old, how old is middle aged?

depends on how young your wife is!

53, according to a research paper published a week or two ago.

Or, in Hiltops Talk, another 21 years time. :o)

Haystack,

I can cope with cars not starting because of the immobiliser. It's things like auto stop/start, auto hold, electric handbrake and, probably worst of all in my psych, the car doors locking themselves as soon as you pull away that do my head in.

I read 53 also Hilary but that figure just seamed stupid (maybe not so silly though if your fast approaching your 50s). If male life expectancy is 79 in the UK and 82 for females then surely middle aged has got to be 40-41..

30yrs and old at 45yrs and over the hill at 50yrs, and waiting to push up the daises at 55yrs.

cynic - surely its how young your girlfriend is! :-)

But if you had a really young girlfriend, wouldn't that just make you feel old anyway??

So maybe in that sense its how old your girlfriend is??

If skinners had a really young girlfriend?

Blimey. I've heard it all now. :o)

Interesting read.



http://www.goldmadesimplenews.com/gold/real-unemployment-at-23-430bn-added-to-the-national-debt-and-still-running-100bn-deficits-a-year-there-is-no-recovery-george-osborne-11600/




Real unemployment at 23%, £430bn ADDED to the national debt and STILL running £100bn+ deficits a year – there is NO recovery George Osborne
Today George Osborne is going to come out and try and tell you how well the economy is doing, in fact the economy is apparently doing so well that George Osborne, the Fauxstere Chancellor (so-called because as we’ve been at pains to point out there has been NO austerity in the UK whatsoever), is now being tipped to take over from Cameron as leader of the Conservative party.
So before you have to listen to Osborne try and tell you how well everything is going, here’s some inconvenient truths about the state of the economy that show that the real problems for the UK economy lie in the near future and not the past.
First up let’s take a look at the employment situation in the UK, in short it has been dreadful. Here is what the official unemployment rate has done over the past few years.

Cameron although a fool is probably self serving enough not to go against the will of parliament over Syria.

In a fit of pique he said he wouldn't and has restricted his rights.

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Obama, is stuck, but may win his argument, but would be foolish to go against the will of congress.

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I hope he wins their support.

fred - ignoring the rest of your usual garbage :-) ...... if obama wins his vote in congress but with just a slim majority (say <20),
do you feel that that gives him sufficient authority to splatter the syrians forthwith
or
do you think he should wait for say a majority vote in favour by the security council following the inspectors' report?

and
do you think the russians will do other than make lots of loud noises once the americans have so splattered - assuming they do?

I dont think its anything to do with your age and your partners age re-to middle age.

As Hilary will know Im 39 but my girlfreind is only 28, its all got to do with your stamina and mind.

I stay in shape and keep my body 'A' plus, I tend to keep well away from all the alchol the likes of Haytrees and Cynic knock back every night.

I eat all the good and healthy food mostly salads veg and fish. Plenty of Zink and magnesium

No viagra for me like the two old gits mentioned.

If Obama wins by one vote, you can bet that he will be bombing Syria pretty quick. A yes is a yes.

How old is middle ages if you are a pensioner. In fact how old is middle aged when you are over 100. There was a guy over the weekend in the US that had a fatal shootout with a SWAT team after a domestic incident. He was 107.