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.

No one could envy the Rostas family. They live in three broken-down cars with flat tyres on a patch of mud beside a disused factory hidden away on the outskirts of Paris.


Every night at eight o’clock the French police turn up, check the names of the 11 members of the family and then tell them to leave France. ‘Go back to Romania,’ say the officers. ‘You are not welcome here.’


Now, the Rostas have their final marching orders. The police have given them a deadline to pack their few miserable belongings, including the battered pushchairs of the two children, a girl called Diana, five, and a ten-month-old boy, Armando.


This weekend, the cars they live in — a Renault, Citroen and Suzuki — will have been towed away by the Paris authorities and the Rostas will be homeless.

thank god the French have a gov and police

aldwick yep I totaly agree with you she was playing the audience, and the Labour MP although he has a growing reputation (Tristron Hunt?) was useless as was that chap on the far left of the panel.

Yep the UKIP politician was the best of a bad bunch imo.

About time labour MPs got nasty when these Tories keep using the past as excuses for their dissmal performance now.

Amazon alienates customers as ‘…recommends’ function becomes honest


Customers were left confused and upset this week after Amazon.com’s famous ‘Amazon recommends…’ function was adjusted by the site’s designers to be more frank with their consumers.

Despite ‘honesty is the best policy’ having a certain ring to it, the initial reactions to this new approach have led to quite a lot of negative feedback, even including comments from some people posting under their real names.

Anyone viewing the TV & FILM section of the site is recommended to ‘keep up with the times’ by getting it for free on one of a selection of Amazon-recommended torrent websites.

Those who purchase romantic novels are now directed to various dating websites and told; ‘Amazon recommends… you get out there and really give life a go’, while those who had purchased ‘fifty shades of grey’ are now directed to proper pornography websites and places where spanking paddles can be discreetly bought at rock-bottom prices.

People who are considering becoming a fan of Tolstoy are being directed to the ‘War and Peace’ spark-notes page and told ‘Amazon recommends… you stop kidding yourself you’d ever finish it’, while customers expressing interest in Dan Brown’s complete works are offered ego-boosting adult education courses instead.

Business analysts suggest this new departure could actually backfire and hurt sales for the internet giant, but were waiting to see how things go for a while. Early indications don’t bode well, though, after one customer who’d bought everything Amazon told him he would like for three years was left in a state of confuson for eight days and unable to spend any money at all after receiving a message saying ‘Amazon seriously recommends you don’t do what Amazon recommends’.

TobiasBV

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10373105/Ministers-urged-to-forget-about-saving-failing-cities-and-towns-such-as-Hull-Hartlepool-and-Burnley.html

Ministers urged to forget about saving 'failing' cities and towns such as Hull, Hartlepool and Burnley
Ministers have been urged to abandon "failing" cities and towns across the north of England such as Hull, Hartlepool and Burnley and concentrate instead on helping the locals to get jobs elsewhere.

Botttom dollar they are all labour MPs and councils.

Typical that, isnt it Stan who follows Burnley?????.

Strange aswel how all Tory councils get more money than labour ones.

31323

Hays you know your stuff, know anything broadly about post 31323?

There is no law or even likely to be one. It is just people calling for a law. It is quite clear that any such law would be unworkable for a large number of reasons. A possible law had to do with service providers and BB web sites having to reveal real names to people being defamed.

Don't forget that there may be no 'real' name. I can set up an email while in an internet cafe or connected to a public WiFi hotspot and then post that way. How would anyone know who I was or where I lived. I might even live in a country that had no such laws.

Hays thanks.

"A possible law had to do with service providers and BB web sites having to reveal real names to people being defamed."

I thought this happened now were you applied for a court order if they wouldnt do it volountary and they then had to hand over the persons identity or IP number etc etc.

If this is correct can you sue someone for infering you have more than one poster name and you are using that poster name in conjunction with your usual poster name in order to partake in deception and therefore create a ramp in order to benefit financially??????.

Your knowledge appreciated Hays.

31331

Hays your post above 31331........

I agree with this bit..........

Michelle Dewberry, the Hull-born winner of BBC's The Apprentice in 2006, told the Daily Telegraph the article was an "insult".

She said: "For people to give up on an entire city, it's insulting to the people. We have the BBC there, Siemens, there's lots more investment.

"The people shouldn't be told to get out but they should be helped, the entrepreneurial spirit should come from within. The city deserves a say when the ambition for it dies."

A spokesman for Hartlepool County Council added: "We know unemployment is high but there are tremendous amount of positives. We know what the problems are."

You wont get working class people leaving their roots. The jobs have to be brought to them and not the other way around. Its in their culture the way people are brought up.

I went to Uni in both Liverpool and Manchester and have worked outside my home town/village of Holmfirth but I always wanted to return at the nearest opportunity.

I believe, well in fact know most others are the same so any attempt to introduce this new policy im sure would fail, all imo.

To be honest you could always get the IP address of a poster with a court order. ADVCN have had to cough up the details in response to court orders for years (at least 7 years ago). I would think that you have no chance of suing anyone who implies that you have aliases as the implication is not necessarily derogative. But as I said, the poster may be completely anonymous so you would get nothing from your court order.

Do they have pay as you go internet capable devices?

Pointless in other words, cheers Hays appreciated.

Perhaphs management here should be tightening up. Ive noticed they dont police this board as hands on as they used to, and alot more are joining.

Too many newbies coming in and acting without manners.

You having a dig gf?

I think that, by and large, people on here are very well behaved. I think you will find it is as well monitored as it always has been. If there was any extreme behaviour it would be stamped on pretty fast.

Do not like the squelch idea though. Why should it be left to the poster who is being abused to have to squelch and then be taken the ---- out of. That's where moneyam could do more. The abuser in many cases is not being dealt with. Something that you see time and time again which could quite easily be nipped in the bud by moneyam.

So do you think you have any manners goldfinger? You posted on a thread yesterday in an effort to trash it with a stupid twitter comment. You are the last person on this bulletin board who should be sitting in judgement about "manners" since you quite obviously don't have a clue what the word means.

DC yes youve hit the nail on the head.

Hays and then this is an example of what I have come up against when I made a query to a fellow board member whose judgement and integrity I trust........


goldfinger- 14 Oct 2013 22:13 - 70 of 85

This ones against the trend today with house builders doing well 3 monkies, 7% down any specific reasons as I was getting interested in going long.


doodlebug4- 14 Oct 2013 22:29 - 71 of 85

LOL, that's pathetic gf, even by your standards. You just stick to buying CR's tips and you will do okay.:-)

You and blackdown seem to be singing from the same hymn sheet and on the same threads - what a coincidence

LOL Max your a trusted and established poster.