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.

Iran will stay out. The US will be doing airstrikes from carrier in the area. We may well help with air attacks.

Have they now said they will do it then Hays the US?......hoping so.

Obama has said it may take a few days. I imagine that they have to designate targets. It could be cruise missiles or planes.

hmmmm the sooner the better.

iran is keen to re-join the fold as it needs to export oil to fill its exchequer

Iran won't be involved officially, but there are fighters streaming across the border. The terrorists have captured several large arsenals of weapons.

You reap what you sow...what a bunch of wankers we have in control.

Another excellent game (All Blacks vs England) but score at the end rather flattered England
Nevertheless, a lot still to play for next week .... I'll miss Tuesday's game as I'll be in Munich, but back for the last test in Christchurch

Munich? Nazi party political meeting?.

Yep all Blacks were a better side. Played far better than in first test.

but a really good, open and exciting match all round
excellent to see england far from overawed let alone overwhelmed, and both made a contrast to france vs australia, both of whom i thought looked very pedestrian

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munich, where a major client of ours is based, is a really nice and fun city ....
but it's also worth remembering that Dachau is only 30 minutes train ride from there
i won't bore you, other than to say i visited there a few years ago and even i had to walk out about 3/4 way round

I havent been to Munich most other German citys though, i love Dusseldorf, fantastic holiday there 10 year ago with my then german girlfreind.

hamburg is surprisingly pretty but the populace do tend to be on the dour side .... i suppose given the pretty vile winters up there - it can be bitterly cold and damp and really nasty - it's not altogether unexpected

Full of porn shops and strip clubs. Not my cup of tea.

depends on the areas you frequent, though perhaps you have rather given yourself away .... st pauli is certainly very tacky but around binnenalster and the rathausmarkt (no silly jokes please!) is really very nice

Dont go on the Repeerbahn or you will have trannys chasing you.

Never ever, ever bend down.

thursday night's rave may be ..... And they think it's all over; and it is!

isis / iraq / iran
at what juncture does my enemy's enemy become my friend?
quite shortly i'ld guess, as iran joins forces with baghdad and wades into the fray against isis

so far so good one thinks; bit of a trade off, but puts lots more oil back into the free market and brings iran (legally) back into the marketplace
however, this means that the sunnis are even more marginalised, and for whatever obscure reason, there is deep-seated and historic animosity between them and the shi'ites, so what happens longer term?

btw, isis has even been disowned by al qaeda as being too violent and uninterested in a "greater islam" but merely in gaining territory or similar - and supported heavily be whom, one may ask

No idea c.

But the one thing you can bank on, is that we will back the losing horse.

Dave and co are not up to the game.

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jun/14/taxpayers-should-not-fund-faith-schools?guni=Keyword:news-grid%20main-1%20Main%20trailblock:Editable%20trailblock%20-%20news:Position1

Taxpayers' cash should not be used to fund faith schools, say voters

Labour wants talks on teaching of religion as poll shows 58% of the public urge abolition or axing of state funds

Labour is calling for cross-party talks on how religious education is conducted and monitored in the state sector as a special poll for the Observer shows widespread concerns about the use of taxpayers' money to fund faith schools in a multicultural Britain.

The survey by Opinium shows that 58% of voters now believe faith schools, which can give priority to applications from pupils of their faith and are free to teach only about their own religion, should not be funded by the state or should be abolished.

Of those with concerns, 70% said the taxpayer should not be funding the promotion of religion in schools, 60% said such schools promoted division and segregation, and 41% said they were contrary to the promotion of a multicultural society. Fewer than one in three (30%) said they had no objections to faith schools being funded by the state.