goldfinger
- 09 Jun 2005 12:25
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.
Haystack
- 11 Nov 2013 11:15
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I just watched the remembrance ceremony at the cenotaph. It reminded me of when Michael Ffot turned up there in a green donkey jacket. He managed 24% popularity, which was the lowest since polling began. It would be a long wait until Brown polled a lower figure. Socialism doesn't seem too popular in the UK.
cynic
- 11 Nov 2013 11:22
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MK - i don't know, but i don't the "rules" anyway, but i take your point ......
that said, if £100k only merits a mortgage of £3/400,000 then you won't get a lot in london unless you go as far out as say walthamstow, or perhaps in places likes brixton or harlesden
on the other hand, if you live in truro or even newcastle, then you should find something very nice for the money - though of course, salaries in those areas are generally far lower than in london
cynic
- 11 Nov 2013 11:39
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Congress threatens fresh Iran sanctions
Kerry on defensive after criticism, while Iran blames France for blocking a historic agreement and Israel denounces US strategy on Tehran
about par for the course from all 3 mentioned above!
aldwickk
- 11 Nov 2013 13:52
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Israel only as one strategy that's to bomb Iran , Has John Lennon said give peace a chance.
cynic
- 11 Nov 2013 14:16
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it's a shame that no american president in decades has had the balls to put israel in its place when warranted
Fred1new
- 11 Nov 2013 14:29
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Which place would that be?
cynic
- 11 Nov 2013 14:43
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back in its box (as warranted)!
aldwickk
- 11 Nov 2013 15:44
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Is that because of the Jewish vote and their money ?
TANKER
- 11 Nov 2013 16:03
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no it is because they are a great country
cynic
- 11 Nov 2013 16:03
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it's certainly to do with the vote, but it really is a totally lily-livered approach to a most important international political issue (and others in the past)
TANKER
- 11 Nov 2013 16:34
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Another Calais politician has launched a scathing attack on Britain for its policy on immigration which he claims attracts hundreds of illegal immigrants to the French Channel coast as they attempt to sneak into Britain.
Deputy mayor Philippe Mignonet, the man tasked with solving the problem in Calais, called UK policy on migrants 'grotesque and hypocritical'.
'Britain says we don't want immigrants but does nothing to prevent black economy employment yet two million people work on the black in Britain,' he said.
Read more:
cynic
- 11 Nov 2013 16:47
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so what do the froggies do about re-exporting them whence they came? ..... not a lot
Stan
- 11 Nov 2013 17:03
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It's not about the Jewish vote more like Zionist pressure, thought that you would have known that Jeremy after the Thread we have on the subject.?
cynic
- 11 Nov 2013 17:11
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it's an interesting question as to when a jew who is interested in israel and its welfare and continuation, becomes a zionist - which is too often a pejorative term from a goy who supports hezbollah and the like :-)
just for the record, i am proud of my jewish ancestry, though i am embarrassingly ignorant of jewish history and custom, and even my grandparents' family history - records of which have long been destroyed in poland by one bunch of thugs or another
for all that, i absolutely will not support jewish charities, nor those for african countries, though for totally different reasons
Fred1new
- 11 Nov 2013 17:19
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Manuel,
It would be more important to know whether your ancestry is proud of you. But it is good to know you had grand parents.
Have to change my opinion of you.
8-)
Chatting with friends over the weekend with 230 years of history between us, I was reminded of many of the misdemeanours I committed 50-60 year ago. I am glad my near ancestors didn't know of them, at the time.
cynic
- 11 Nov 2013 17:24
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heaven forbid that you should change your opinion of me, lest perchance it should be for the better
MaxK
- 11 Nov 2013 17:56
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MaxK
- 11 Nov 2013 18:03
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Former Wren to ex-minister: You Sir are a disgrace
Former Royal navy engineer Fiona Laing embarrasses Sir Nick Harvey after Remembrance Day service
By Agencies
4:38PM GMT 11 Nov 2013
A Royal British Legion worker approached a former Armed Forces minister following a Remembrance Day service and 'reimbursed' him for £7.20 in expenses he claimed after attending a previous ceremony.
Fiona Laing, 45, marched up to Sir Nick Harvey, 52, in front of other dignitaries, officials and members of the public, and gave him an envelope containing the money.
More:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10441802/Former-Wren-to-ex-minister-You-Sir-are-a-disgrace.html
Stan
- 11 Nov 2013 18:16
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Brilliant! Yet another "Con" Party embarrising exposure moment today... Dorries on the fiddle this time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24902813
cynic
- 11 Nov 2013 18:53
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i wonder what she would have written to bambi had she been serving in iraq