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.

Plenty of people do go into banks wearing the burka. I say people as you cannot be sure they are women. There is an area quite near where I live that has a large population of Muslim women from Algeria and Somalia. The Somalis are easily spotted as they wear longer and fuller clothes, but rarely wear the veil.

i assume you mean a full burqa rather than a chador
if the former, do these women go into ordinary high street banks and have no trouble being served?

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tanker - i don't really expect answers as the questions are almost rhetorical ..... however, i have a pretty good idea as to why (c) and an inkling as to (b)

Ticks the wrong box, too often.

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They go into the local banks fully covered and have no trouble being served. The same applies in the Post Office.

Performance targets do not take into account (or not much) how hard the op is.

So difficult/dodgy ones need to be avoided to keep the bean counters happy.

so when they take their driving test who is at the wheel . or who is driving the car
who is claiming benefits how many names are they claiming benefit for .
and they go on about fraud.

the burka is used for fraud to claim benefits in others names

Some good points made by Tanker and hays re-burka.

IT SHOULD BE BANNED IN THIS COUNTRY along with HOODIES and sunglasses used for security manipulation.

Right the new PM ELECT is speaking.

Hays have you noticed how far you have fallen back on the YouGov/Sun poll 8% today.

What went so wrong??????????

MK - no ..... the answer to (c) is that very terminally ill patients are much more likely to die within 30 days of the operation ..... in such an event, there is always an enquiry, and much more importantly - at least for the doctor and the hospital - is that the death will show on the doctor's performance records

with regard to (b) the perception (true or false) within the medical profession is that because junior doctors no longer work the hours that they did say 20 years ago, they do not get the exposure, experience and knowledge .... thus, when it comes to complicated surgery, there is a likelihood that they will not have the confidence (or perhaps the knowledge) to perform it

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now try asking a proper question to which one can give an answer as opposed to a pile of "marshmallow fluff" that seems to have no substance

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N.

I see you are living with hope again.

But it is too difficult for Cynic to understand rhetoric.

As can be seen, he is a limited little fellow and has little understanding of proportionality.

I almost put him in the same bag as Ald and The Tinker, but that might be a little unfair to him.

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Ed is making a speech which appeals to his party.

Interesting policies, appealing to many but far too liberal some little Englanders.


What is a little Englander?

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gf
A combination of the usual margins of error and Labour conference. Wait until after the Conservative conference.

The trend is still with the Tories.