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.

and where did you dig up that load of tripe ..... surely not even you can believe such preposterous and foundationless nonsense?

This will suit Manuel's cause:

fossy - let's try for a very simple answer from you, if your superior intellect can be bothered with such things .....
do YOU actually believe the premise propounded by the c+p article you posted above?

if you do, there is a more difficult supplementary ....
why?

What do you dispute about the article?

i consider it totally foundationless claptrap, not least because it ignores human nature and further, presupposes that the taliban would have been happy to leave well alone (patently they were not) and to allow the population to live peacefully with each other .... a very simplistic and brief way of putting it

i'll therefore ask you the same questions that i asked fossy .... though racing certainty that Mr Supercilious will decline to answer as per his previous record

Well, i'll have a go at the figs.

The $390 billion mentioned would work out at about $11600 per head of pop (31m)

@ the wages quoted, it would be a nice little earner for the punters, and I suspect, made for a more settled and peaceable population. But perhaps not.


I don't know c, but in my book we should never have gone in there. It's been tried and tested several times, with defeat for the police action troops.

Manuel.

Give this a miss. Too long and the words are difficult you to understand for you with your ageing grey cells.


As the torrid party is moved by its barmey right wingers and UKIPPERS to the far right of "decent" politics, I wonder if there will be an alliance between Lib/Dem and labour.

Could be winning alliance.


"Labour is blowing kisses at the Lib Dem".

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/12/labour-lib-dems-being-nice-to-each-other

Didn't No Labour and the Dim/Libs get into bed before?


The results were not encouraging if I remember rightly.

typical fossy ..... totally unwilling to answer a question of any kind
as i've said before, you're nowt but a pompous and supercilious charlatan who just likes to play very silly games, but doesn't much care for it when the ball gets batted back

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max - i almost certainly agree that we shouldn't have got into afghanistan shambles in the first place, those i accept that there were many reasons for so doing

$11,600 per capita wouldn't have gone far would it, ewven if it had reached the intended recipients, of which of course there would have been no chance

i don't like the arms trade, even the legit side of it, but at least it provides an awful lot of employment - as of course does the tobacco industry, which probably contributes even more deaths than the arms trade

For Manuel.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit,
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,

i suppose you can recite the rubaiyat from heart .... even if you can, it makes you no less of a pompous and supercilious charlatan .... all gob sums you up even more briefly

LOL.

I hope your trousers are buttoned up!

you really are so full of self-importance, and though i know you lay on much of it for effect, you are just dull and justly given the sobriquet of fossy

perhaps most fitting for your grave (may it not long delay) .....

Fred's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Now now girls :-)

Strange the Characters you chose.


Mine was Jaques.

=-=-=-=

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

-=-=-=-=-==-

That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Which age are you in?

Labour lead increases........

UK - YouGov/Sunday Times poll:

LAB 40%
CON 31%
UKIP 14%
LDEM 9%

out, damned fossy! out, I say! :-)

For the Ukippers and BCR.

Just viewed Blair on TV.

What will he do for another buck?