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.

Should charity bosses be paid six-figure salaries?

New research reveals that the number of chief executives receiving six-figure salaries at the 14 leading foreign aid charities has risen by 60% in three years. Do they deserve it?


theguardian.com, Sunday 22 December 2013 12.15 GMT


Theres no story with this article, it looks to be an excuse for DEBATE.

READ THE COMMENTS:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/poll/2013/dec/22/charity-bosses-six-figure-salaries

fawlty - we have no idea who or what your parents were, but it is abundantly clear to all that you're closer to the bull than the tail I sometimes cook ..... i'll re-phrase that so you'll understand it ..... i think you're an absolute arsehole (and it takes one to know one) and i'm amazed how many here concur with that view

that is why I rarely bother to read any of the hopelessly partisan nonsense you post here, for we all know exactly from where it's angled, and if anyone disagrees with you - which most seem to - then they are classed by you as being total buffoons or worse

oh dear; we're so upset we'll all go into the garden and eat worms - hahaha!

"The Conservative MP Anna Soubry has rekindled her war of words with Ukip leader Nigel Farage by suggesting that his often animated facial expressions come from the fact that someone has “put their finger up his bottom”.

Unbelievable that coming from Soubry, as anyone watched her in the house of commons, she pulls the most ridiculous faces and is such a silly women.

Always sits on the top right hand side on the back row, you cant miss her. What an ass licker of an MP she is.

Cant stand her.

Cynic.

Returning to form.

Doesn't read the post but forms an instant opinion about the contents.

But I admit to thinking of you as a buffoon and would suppose you know more about the orifice you often seem speak through than I do.

By the way I knew both my parents. Did you?

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GF.

Similar opinion of the lady concerned.

Would add McEvey to list of torrid lovelies.

surprisingly, it doesn't take long to recognise an arsehole and what it produces, so further intimate inspection is not required, unless you are of the type who really cannot believe its own eyes after the first several investigations

strangely some arseholes cannot recognise themselves even when viewed daily in the mirror

Is your opinion based on, or reflection, or formulated by experiences at your old school and past.


Just asking?

mine is a carefully considered opinion of you having watched you here for the last 1/2/3 years

i may not write very eloquently, but then i lack your suave, pontificating pomposity that you have honed over the years .... on the other hand, my meaning is clear and set out with brevity

merry xmas.

I SEE MARKS AS KILLED THE TURKEY WILL NEVER GO IN THEIR STORES AGAIN
a company run by filthy management with no brains .the CEO WILL RESIGN NEXT YEAR AND A PROFIT WARNING COMING

a company by filthy what?

Merry christmas TANKER.

Dave Camoron ‏@EtonOldBoys 1h
The last time The Red Cross provided Emergency Food Aid in the UK was during World War II, something for the Tories to be very proud of

goldfinger mery xmas to you and a great new year
and your family

my family have shopped in M/S for as long as I can go back
we will now BOYCOTT the stores . will never go in again disgusted .

No sense of humour TANK :?O)

CC I will never spend a penny in marks again disgusted with their silly policy
muslims should not GAMBLE they are the biggest GAMBLERS in the uk

that about sums them up and break all their religious rules
go to their corner shops selling beer and pork they only talk religion if it does not hurt them

now good bye off to the sun .

hays hays hays, now what did I say about Interest Rates!!!!!!!1


Cable warns rates may have to rise to tackle 'raging housing boom'
23 Dec 2013 | 08:39
Nick Paler

Business secretary Vince Cable has warned interest rates may have to rise to hold back a "raging housing boom" in London and the south-east.
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, he said if interest rates were not increased by the Bank of England, there was a danger that large parts of London could end up being inhabited only by foreigners and bankers as house prices spiralled.
He added that, on the other hand, if interest rates were increased it would have a negative impact on UK manufacturing since exchange rates would rise, making exports harder.
It is the first time Cable has spoken so openly about the possibility of interest rates rising due to the imbalance in the economic recovery.
He again called for the government to rethink its Help to Buy scheme, which he said was conceived in entirely different circumstances.
Cable said: "There is a raging housing boom in London and the south-east, and not in other parts of the country.
"The danger of raising interest rates is that you hit those parts of the country which are not yet fully recovered, you push up the exchange rate and that hits manufacturing.
"We don't want that. On the other hand, if you do not increase interest rates - if that is the way the governor and the Bank of England go - then this boom that is taking place in housing prices gets out of control and the only people that can afford to live in large parts of London are foreigners and bankers, and we don't want that either."

Quote:

Consuming alcohol is forbidden in Islam, and some Muslims refuse to handle it at all.

An unnamed customer told the newspaper they had tried to buy a bottle of champagne from an M&S store in London, but the member of staff, a lady Muslim, "was very apologetic but said she could not serve me" and asked the customer to use another till.

A spokesperson for M&S said: "Where we have an employee whose religious beliefs restrict food or drink they can handle, we work closely with our member of staff to place them in suitable role, such as in our clothing department or bakery in foods.

This lady has indeed acted in a quite ridiculous manner. The alcohol is inside the bottle and so she was not able to touch it anyway. She might as well determine not to touch the floor of the store over which the alcohol was carried or the road outside on which it was delivered and transported.

She is a non-compromising bigot. IMHO, her attitude on this is as daft as Tanker's, who has similarly acted idiotically over this and shot himself in the foot with a Lose/Lose promise to himself just because someone managing this lady Muslim put her on the tills in the food department. The lady Muslim has also shot herself in the foot too by restricting herself to where she can now work in the store.

confess i have no problem at all with this lady's scruples, and indeed i have come across it myself ..... it causes no particular inconvenience, any more than if there is a sub-18 on the till who also cannot put through alcohol ..... is that any more silly?

that said, you could ask if a strict muslim should travel in a taxi or aircraft where perhaps someone has been sitting and actually consuming alcohol or pork
i'ld be genuinely interested to learn how the line is drawn and why

by the way, i think calling this lady a bigot is far-fetched indeed

gf
You surely don't believe Vince Cable. He is a lefty in disguise.