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.

I think the NHS need to become tougher, everytime I go to the doctors there's a big sign saying how many appointments were missed or people were late to in the last week. The figures are no joking matter. A few weeks ago I was behind some young girl who got an earfull of the receptionist as she had missed two appointments and was over an hour late to her current one. Her only defence for not letting the doctors know she couldn't attend before hand was that she'd run out of credit on her phone...

Its an old saying that people respect more what they have to pay for, maybe timewasters / drunks would think twice if it cost them something.

By the way Shortie if Cynic rudely interupts and makes comment on what I have said please ignore him.

I have him on filter now(permanently) after his antics of yesterday evening playing on my disability of Dyslexia. He knows I have it I have informed him so many times but he chose to cruely use it against me last night and at the same time bring in innocent posters who didnt know I had it.

How cruel and sick is that!!!!!.

Theirs plenty wrong with him medicaly but I certainly wouldnt use it against him and bring in others to help.

And it was because I was easily winning the debate on political points we were discussing.

No Im afraid I have to agree with Fred about his personality. I thought Fred was kidding or overcooking it but little did I realise what a nasty piece of work he is.

Shortie I hope you know in these figures they publish for missed appointments they include ones where the patient as phoned up and cancelled.

And remember this when you have to wait 2 weeks your either dead or better when it gets to the day of your appointment.

These figures shouldnt be included but they are.

You pay for salt and vinegar either way. In the price of the fish and chips or as an extra. We pay more down south for cod and chips.

My surgery has a notifications bit at the main reception where they put their own figures. The missed appointments numbers are simply those not turning up. Also I have never waited more than a couple of days to see a doctor.

I hope you weren't in the waiting room all that time, Shortie? :o)

Nick Clegg indicates he won't block in/out vote

Prospect of second coalition and in-out vote comes closer as Nick Clegg indicates he would not block EU referendum



By Matthew Holehouse, Political Correspondent

10:01AM BST 15 May 2014



Nick Clegg has indicated he would not stand in the way of David Cameron’s plans for an in-out referendum on EU membership as part of new coalition negotiations after the next election.


The Deputy Prime Minister said he does not consider the issue a “red line” and said he has greater priorities – such as “fairer taxes” – in coalition negotiations in the event of another hung parliament.


Mr Cameron has said he will not lead another government unless he can secure a commitment to an in/out vote by 2017.


Mr Clegg says there is no need for a referendum unless there is a major treaty change in Europe. However, he indicated it is not a “die in the ditch” issue.


"I am going to disappoint you by not now drawing great red lines," he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.




More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10832827/Nick-Clegg-indicates-he-wont-block-inout-vote.html

Is there a slight softening going on here with this Euro vote .

Clegg hedging his bets in advance. It wasn't long ago that he was against another coalition with the Conservatives. He knows that if he indicated that he would block a referendum, he would lose votes to the Conservatives. The in/out will be the critical item in the GE and the public will realise that there is only one way to get it.

GF - Can you give an ETA prior to the GE when you will no longer be Fred's bitch?

PS

Have you come to a decision to relocate from Old Trafford to the Etihad or go further afield to Stamford Bridge yet, next season? :O)

I think Clegg realises he's may a bit of burke of himself over it and is trying to move away onto something else.

Very good Hilary.. Btw what are your thoughts on a GJ short?

Shortie 2 days blimey, your very lucky. I just want some hay fever tablets and I have to wait for 2weeks and 2 days before I can see my doctor.

This is the norm aswel.

In fact last year in the summer it got to over three weeks and the local newspaper got hold of the news.

Soon had it back down to 2 weeks but thats far too long.

You can get an emergency appointment on the same day if you ring before 8.30 am but what is an emergency!!!!!!

Jesus have you seen the sell off on the FTSE 250..........stonking.

Wonder if its time to get my shorting boots on.

I hear Evil K today as borrowed more on Mothercare his biggest short for a few years.

My near neighbours, Paul and Sandra Dunham are presently in hospital. They were actually taken there this morning, the very day of their extradition flight to the USA.

They were due to present themselves at 10am to London police station. for extradition to the USA on a flight later today.

I have only just found out from a 'Comment' at the bottom of an Internet News article, and probably because his name has been kept in the background, that they have a very clever son, whose name is Dean Dunham.

Did you catch Freddie Starr on TV a few days ago? Freddy kept quiet and his solicitor did the talking. This was a day or so before Freddie was interviewed by Susanna Reid and got his name in the media again for walking out on her.

You can have only one guess at the name of this lawyer, who is one of the most prominent in the UK.

Here is the lawyer's web site:

http://www.consumeruk.co.uk/about.asp

I never take take me shorting boots off GF...

LOL, I probably wouldnt either but due to other business commitments I cant give shorting or intraday trading all the time I would like to give as in the past.

Chris, dont you worry bud, we'l be back next year,

Reckon it will be a double winning season.

Lower low and a higher high on the 5-minute, Shortie, but it's been tightly rangebound since yesterday morning's sell-off and the bounding lines are quite clearly defined.

It doesn't know if it's Arthur or Martha at the moment so, personally, I'd let it decide first and hop on board then once it breaks from the range. The market will still be there tomorrow or the next day or whenever it decides where to go...

You might have called it right, but it's just a gamble with a poor risk/reward ratio in my eyes while it's in that range.