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.

That bloke is a fake.

Lets face it everything handed to him on a plate, a comission at Sandringham, his father saw to that, and then he marrys his fathers mates daughter Betsy who just happens to be a millionairess.

Then he has the cheek to talk about non strivers.

Biggest bull shitter of the lot and that includes Camoron.

Alzheimer’s treatment breakthrough: British scientists pave way for simple pill to cure disease

Historic ‘turning point’ hailed as UK researchers discover how to halt death of brain cells, opening new pathway for future drug treatments


Charlie Cooper

Thursday 10 October 2013





Scientists have hailed an historic “turning point” in the search for a medicine that could beat Alzheimer's disease, after a drug-like compound was used to halt brain cell death in mice for the first time.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/alzheimers-treatment-breakthrough-british-scientists-pave-way-for-simple-pill-to-cure-disease-8869716.html

Iain Duncan Smith MP ‏@IDS_MP 7 Oct
As the nights draw in it's important you check on elderly neighbours, to report if they have vacant spare rooms before it's too dark to see.

Iain Duncan Smith MP ‏@IDS_MP 6 Oct
Save money by telling your kids the tooth fairy was a benefits cheat and is now in jail for committing fraud.

Iain Duncan Smith MP ‏@IDS_MP 5 Oct
Keep elderly relatives warm this winter without straining your budget by smearing them in deep heat.

Is it get id's week?

Yes, as they potentially lead young people into real cigarettes. E-cigarettes are quite popular with kids. It also can make you addicted to nicoteen. Then there is the potential link to cancer. In fact I would make the controls stricter than real ones.

It is interesting to see that the conventional cigarette makers are now making e-cigarettes due to the addictive potential. Just when cigarettes are reducing in numbervsmoked partly due to legal and social pressure, we have a new addictive item that may be as dangerous as cigarettes.

cynic - I am probably trying to knit fog in your case, but my point is that I assume that you tried cigarettes when you were younger and luckily for you decided sensibly to stop or not get started? well done you. I can only talk about myself in respect of a desire to stop smoking having realised the obvious dangers, government legislation has helped in some respect by the banning of smoking in pubs and restaurants, employers have done their part re smoking in offices etc,etc.

Having smoked myself for some forty three years, I realise that the main problem is that I have become addicted to nicotine. Having witnessed my wife stop smoking cigarettes and her use of e-cigarette, she no longer smells like an old ashtray, is healthier, the air in our flat is cleaner (because I am banished to the garden), she claims her food tastes better. Great benefits. The bottom line of course is that she is still addicted to nicotine. Her choice. Until proven otherwise she is not harming anybody else.

What is going to be next, a ban on drinking alcohol? You could use the same argument.

Personally re smoking the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, but i am determined to crack it. My opinion, my choice.

Well done Chris. Itl be very hard work and the temptations will arise, but I envy your self determination.

Max, just find the parody MPs very funny especially the IDS one.

CC - Don't give up! You will definitely feel the benefits. The only downside is that you will probably put on weight as nicotine is an appetite suppressant and also you will feel the need to snack instead of lighting up! Smoking related diseases or obesity related problems??? Tricky choice! ;o)

I smoked about 40 a day for many years. I gave up when we were trying for kids and so did my wife. It has now been about 19 years that I have stopped. I tried to give up many times, but always slipped back. I suppose that I had not made my mind up as completely as I thought. When I last gave up I found it fairly easy as I knew that it was for good. I have never had a puff since as I know the risks of starting again. My wife gave up a few months after me. That period was difficult as she was smoking and I was not.

I had a friend who drank too much and smoked too much. He was on 100 a day, lighting up each cigarette with the previous one. He gave up drinking and smoking on the same day and never touched either since. It shows you what will power can do.

Thanks Guys.

I am also a qualified hypnotherapist. Hypnosis can help in giving up smoking. The underlying process is that it helps to focus your mind on the will power aspect of the problem. If you had really made your mind up then you would already have stopped, so will power is the problem. Think of things you have done in the past that required a lot of will power. It might have been saving up for something, it could be running a marathon or doing something that was frightening. If you can get a grasp of that past feeling then apply it to the task of stopping smoking. The best way to stop is a resolute attitude.

Call me dave will have to send someone on a fact finding mission to see how it's done.



Azerbaijan releases election results… before the polls even open

Electoral commission accidentally publish results showing a victory for Ilham Aliyev, the country’s long-standing President, a day before voting

Alec Luhn


Wednesday 09 October 2013


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/azerbaijan-releases-election-results-before-the-polls-even-open-8869732.html

Just for info. - EDF are offering a fixed deal tariff, no price rises until March 2017. You can get a free online quote on edfenergy.com/fix

Since you can't really do much about them, you don't need to worry about energy prices.

What you do need to do, is to make sure you've ALWAYS got the best deal.

The best way of doing this, IMHO, is to join the MSE 'Cheap Energy Club':

Details at: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cheapenergyclub

First off, get together your current likely usage details in kWh for both Gas and Electricity. Then, fully armed with all the info', duly click on the link.

They say:

How does Cheap Energy Club work?

It's designed to fix the problem that when you switch tariff, you risk that provider upping its rates. Even if it doesn't, the cheap rate normally only lasts 18 months or so before it ramps prices. That means it's hard work to stick with the cheapest. So we're going to do that work for you. There's a three step process to it:

Step 1. We find you the cheapest deal. Register for the Club and we'll check you're on the cheapest deal. If you are, great - move to step 2. If not, it'll do a full market comparison to find the cheapest (with lots of guidance) and we'll handle the switch for you. Plus to encourage you, there's up to £30 cashback if you switch via the Club, which you wouldn't get direct.

Step 2. In the background, each month we do a comparison for you. Energy prices change - yours may hike, others could get cheaper. So without you doing anything, whether you switched or not, from then on we do a comparison for you in the background each month, to check you're still on the cheapest deal.

Step 3. Alert you when it's worth switching again. You tell us what 'worth it' means. If you tell us you want to save £100/yr once you can we'll email you; and without you entering new info (unless it's changed), we'll tell you what the cheapest is, and let you shift at speed.

PS from ExecLine: Also investigate doing the provider swap through Quidco. You might get a better Cashback rate.

chris - i have read what you said, but it does not seem to me that you answer my question as to whether or not, in even simpler language, people should be allowed to smoke e-cigarettes in restaurants and similar

my view is unequivocally that they should not as I see that as a retrograde step for all sorts of reasons

I have never said that e-cigarettes should be banned, as I don't much care one way or another

Cynic You never ever answer other peoples questions so why should people answer yours.

Anyway youve always made your mind up what the answer is anyway before people reply.

Cynic,

I am beginning to understand you.

You agree with state intervention on occasions when it is for your personal and the public good.

uuunmhhh!

You are sounding like a Marxist.

What do market forces say about situations similar to this?

You should be ashamed of yourself.



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