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.

hays - i was asking about the source of "They say it turned and dropped to a level below radar. The hand over air traffic control in Vietnam unfortunately did not complain about the lack of a handover. In fact its whereabouts was not queried until after it should have landed in China"

CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/23/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/

Military radar tracking shows that the aircraft changed altitude after making a sharp turn over the South China Sea as it headed toward the Strait of Malacca, a source close to the investigation into the missing flight told CNN. The plane flew as low as 12,000 feet at some point before it disappeared from radar, according to the source.

The sharp turn seemed to be intentional, the source said, because executing it would have taken the Boeing 777 two minutes -- a time period during which the pilot or co-pilot could have sent an emergency signal if there had been a fire or other emergency onboard.

Manuel,

Was your mother or father a parrot!

quite extraordinary!
at 12,000 feet, an aircraft is comfortably within radar view so knee-jerk reaction is that it casts a dark pall over the professionalism of vietnam air-traffic control

The Vietnamese handover is now disputed. The air traffic controllers say there is no _'dead space' at handover., Vietnam claims it asked two other planes to contact the flight as the code hadn't appeared on their system, presumably because the transponder wasn't on.

pass the buck time gallops into view

Do I see Hazy One and Manuel?

Or more apt!

Hear there might be a U-turn on Pensions!

"Angry relatives of passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines plane have clashed with police outside Malaysia's embassy in the Chinese capital, Beijing."

Although some of the reactions of the families are due to true grief, loss and group hysteria, I wonder whether some of the reactions are orchestrated and based on hope or expectancy of future compensation.

Although, unless a definite cause of the plane's demise is known, there maybe legal difficulties in pursuing for possible settlements.

bloody hell! .... and i thought i was the cynical one around here

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/25/jeremy-clarkson-twitter-malaysia-airlines_n_5025734.html?ncid=webmail2

His excuse that he was on a plane at the time, and didn't know that all on the plane had died, dosen't make any diffence , it was still a missing plane with 227 people on board. What if it was your family Jeremy ?

No subject should be taboo for humour.

Saying that, I haven't seen any Malaysia plane jokes yet. There were plenty of Princess Diana and 911 jokes around and lots were very funny.

house prices
this bit was interesting ...... Excluding London and the south east of England, house prices were up 3.8% in the year to the end of January

i really can't bothered with the sort of silly political comments that fossy and sticky will no doubt attach, but i think the ebbsfleet development is quite exciting ..... that said it will be almost certainly too expensive for legit first-time buyers, unless some sort of artificial ceiling or similar is put on a good number of those houses

it would certainly be good to see a significant proportion built at ~£100k or even a bit less in a mixed development, as there's more of a chance that those could be afforded by the prudent ..... unfortunately, far too many are brought up with champagne tastes and beer incomes - i.e. they want 3 bedroom houses with gardens from day 1

UKIP have taken more votes from the Lib Dems than most think


Clegg's party has lost more than 500,000 voters to Farage since 2010.


by George Eaton Published 25 March, 2014 - 15:04



A Liberal Democrat poster promoting the debate.



Ahead of the first debate between Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage tomorrow, many have predicted that both men will win. This is because, as the Telegraph's Benedict Brogan writes in his column today, "the two parties are not competing for voters – they draw support from different ends of the spectrum." In the case of tomorrow's head-to-head over EU membership, this is undoubtedly true; Clegg is bidding for the "inners" (a group larger than the Lib Dems' current base), with Farage bidding for the "outers".




More: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/03/ukip-have-taken-more-votes-lib-dems-most-think

Manuel,

And many of the London elite want low wage community to sustain their own bloated standard of living.

But eventually that may lead to suffocating themselves and distribution of the problem to other places in the country.

I understand the reasons for London "weighting ratings" etc. but even back in the 50s and 60s thought the policy would eventually cause problems.

I think what both Clegg and Nigel (not the tory bad boy, but the crazy one) want, is that the party debates, before the next election, will incorporate both of them and force Cameron to debate with them in front of the media, rather than hiding behind his press office and prearranged questions.

Unless of course, Wavey Dave ducks Fauxpage as is expected. That should go down well with the right wing up and at 'em of the tories.

Could be fun to watch.

That orange object in the Indian Ocean wasnt a Orange Life Raft(hays report yesterday).......it appears the chap scanning the sea had is magnification set up all wrong.

It turned out to be a packet of Kraft Cream Crakers.

And you manuel stop complaining about this thread.

You the individual sets the agenda and debate at any one time. If you dont like a subject tip toe around it.

Some people on here like politics including your bum chum Hays. And I also note your 78 political posts in the last 14 days. So to say your fed up of politics beggars belief, perhaphs its just when the politics doesnt suit your ideals that is the problem.

WARNING SIGNALS..........

The ONS also said house prices in the U.K. surged 6.8 percent in the year to January 2014, up from 5.5 percent in December last year. In London, where the property prices continually hit record highs, the cost of housing soared by 13.2 percent year-on-year.