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.

If you want a definition of racism then I can only give examples. I often hear comments about 'blacks' as a general term. I have heard similar things said and the target would be 'Jews', 'pakis', 'muslims' etc. I would regard it as making general derogatory comments about a racial or ethnic group.

Your sitting on the fence Hays.


What about the racism COMING THE OTHER WAY......?

EG, you go into a shop and the two black people speaking go from English to their Native toung looking at you and taking the -iss.

The most ignorant and racist ACTS going.

I agree. That is racism as well. It is not COMING NG THE OTHER WAY. It is just racism.

If they're talking in their own tongue, how would you know whether they were taking the piss or not? And, seeing as you're clearly incapable of speaking English, Fishfinger, it's highly unlikely that you'd be able to speak their language to be sure.

gf
Are you good at baiting your hooks when you go fishing?

Following picture began circulating in November. People are saying it should be "The Picture of the Year," or perhaps, "Picture of the Decade." It won't be. In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the U.S. paper which published it, you probably would never have seen it.

You might well shed an emotional tear when you read the story associated with it.



The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by surgeon named Joseph Bruner. The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother's womb.

Little Samuel's mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta. She knew of Dr. Bruner's remarkable surgical procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.

During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision to operate on the baby.

As Dr. Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon's finger. Dr. Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile.

The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The editors titled the picture, "Hand of Hope.

Little Samuel's mother said they "wept for days" when they saw the picture. She said, "The photo reminds us pregnancy isn't about disability or an illness, it's about a little person"

Haystack,

I'm pretty good at baiting my hooks when I go muppeting. :o)

Hilary
Is that a common sport in your neck of the woods?

On the contrary, Haystack. It requires an innate knowledge of where to find the biggest muppets.

Your in the right place here then hils! :O)

Before





After

Like the before picture hasn't been photo-shopped much. :-)

spoil sport :-)

Gotta love Googles self driving car. Who'd be seen dead in that Magoo contraption. .. lol

Am I getting old or is the burd in the red dress and brown hair on Bloomberg tv right now FIT....?????

Looks like someone I'd let in the door Shortie.

Hilary lets face it a slag like yourself filled with slap all over your face wouldnt be able to see or hear whenever a couple of people had changed their accent.

Must be a 2 hour job getting in and out of it every night and morning.!!!!!!!!!!!

Same with Christine Carson, their are rumours hes taking over on Benidorm from that tranny behind the bar.

Remember Chris Everton are a little club, outside Britain virtually unknown.

It all sounds so wonderfull, but can anybody spot the fly in the ointment? (if there is one)




Is this hospital a miracle cure for the NHS? It has a Michelin chef, happy patients and is run by doctors and nurses. And shock, horror, it's operated for the state - at a profit - by a private firm

The hospital is being run as a John Lewis style 'partnership' by its investors Circle

The hospital is expected to make a £2 million profit this year while improving patient care

Circle took over the failing hospital in 2012 and slashed the numbers in middle management

The company has a £1bn 10-year contract to run the hospital under the NHS 'brand'


By David Jones

Published: 23:52, 27 May 2014 | Updated: 09:02, 28 May 2014


Just imagine an NHS hospital whose standards match those of a top-quality hotel, with a welcoming reception area, polished floors, tasteful artwork on the freshly-painted walls, and menus inspired by a Michelin-starred chef.


A public hospital where the doctors and nurses — and even porters and cleaners — are free to decide what’s best for the patients, and to put good ideas into practice without waiting for the orders of some remote, out-of-touch mandarin.


Where the innovative working practices owe more to successful modern companies such as Toyota and Argos than a welfare state system created more than 60 years ago to cater for the needs of a very different Britain





In a week when the failings of the NHS have again been laid bare, with hospital trusts begging for bail-out loans to pay for vital equipment, and discharging thousands of elderly patients during the small hours to ease the pressure on wards, it sounds like a pipe-dream.


Unlikely as it might seem, however, last week I visited just such a hospital.


For someone like me, who grew up during the halcyon days of social healthcare in the Fifties and Sixties and has lived through its decline with mounting despair, my day at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, was enormously uplifting.


And it was all the more remarkable because, barely three years ago, a health minister wrote off this same hospital as ‘a financial and clinical basket-case’, and placard-waving trade unionists were camped at the gates in protest against its seemingly certain closure.


Much more here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2641055/Is-hospital-miracle-cure-NHS-It-Michelin-chef-happy-patients-run-doctors-nurses-And-shock-horror-operated-profit-private-firm.html