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.

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.

I did initially post 'as old as' but thought I'd change the posting to reflect cynic's original wording.

Hugh Heffner asked out one of the bunnies. She said, "I have never been out with anyone over 23".
He replied, "Neither have I".

1) Yes
2) Yes

He has started a process and should await the decision of the UN Security Council, but not necessarily abide by the decision.

Await Russian present debate and suggestions.

3) they will moan and groan and test out their new weaponry by supplying them to Syria.

Russia will not like that. Already said it will be a terrorist attack by America.

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Syria: US Gathers Support For Airstrike Plans
Sky NewsSky News – 4 minutes 54 seconds ago
Russia has urged Syrian President Bashar al Assad to hand over his chemical weapons to avert a US-led military strike on Damascus.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on Mr Assad to put the arms under international control so they could be destroyed to avoid a conflict that he warned would cause an "outburst of terrorism" and spark a new wave of refugees.

He said he had already conveyed the message to his Syrian counterpart, Walid al Moualem, at talks in Moscow, who welcomed the move to "prevent American aggression".

British Prime Minister David Cameron said such a move "would be a big step forward", but warned the international community needed to ensure that discussion of the idea did not become a "distraction" to "the problem on the table".

Earlier, Mr Assad warned America "to expect everything" if it attacks in retaliation for his alleged use of chemical weapons that killed more than 1,400 civilians.

Speaking in an interview to US television network CBS, Mr Assad denied he was behind the chemical atrocity on August 21 and said the US had provided "not a single shred of evidence" that his forces were involved.

When pressed by CBS correspondent Charlie Rose about what would happen if the US attacked Syria, he replied "every action".

Asked if that could include the use of more chemical weapons, he said: "That depends. If the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have it, it could happen. I don't know. I'm not a fortune teller to tell you what's going to happen..."

America has urged Mr Assad to hand over his chemical weapons, saying it was the only way to stop a military strike against his forces.

US Secretary of State John Kerry made the demand after flying into London for talks with British Foreign Secretary William Hague in the latest stage of his diplomatic tour to garner support for attacking Mr Assad's regime.

He told a news conference at the Foreign Office that the US "was not going to war" with troops on the ground, but was instead planning a "very limited, very targeted, very short-term" strike.

But, conversely, he added: "Let me be clear, the United States, President Obama, myself, others, are in full agreement that the end of the conflict in Syria requires a political solution. There is no military solution, we have no illusions about that."

He again set out the evidence America claims it has that the Syrian government was behind the Damascus gas attack, saying the "risk of not acting is greater than the risk of acting".

Mr Kerry also stressed the importance of the "special relationship" between the US and Britain and said the two countries were "enormously tied together".

Mr Hague said the US has Britain's "full diplomatic support" and supported "mustering a strong international response" to Mr Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons.

US politicians are set to discuss backing for military action against Syria as President Barack Obama prepares to make a series of TV appearances on six US TV networks later, ahead of delivering a live address to the nation on Tuesday, to push his case.

Congress is set to start debating the issue today and is expected to vote later this week on whether to authorise force against the Syrian regime.

While the White House believes an endorsement from the Senate could be within reach, Mr Obama faces a wall of opposition from both Republicans and from many of his Democratic allies in the House of Representatives.

The White House has refused to state whether Mr Obama, elected in 2008 promising to end foreign wars, would order a strike even if Congress votes "no".