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.

Here's a measure of just how bad this disease is getting to be:

Police chief is now too scared to go into town

Seeing as how you've been reading the Mirror, Doc, I'd have thought the bum baring bridesmaids story would've been more your tasse de thé.

:-)

Yeah, I did check it out, Hils, but I'm damned if I could actually find any bare bottoms.

Bummer!

Here's what happens when someone 'loses the disease of mysticism and gets themselves a dose of reality'. In this case, that someone is an American traffic cop:

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Hays your post above have I said Im any other thing other than a capitalist.!!!!!!!!!!

My form of capitalism is responsible truthful capitalism, not the ARTHUR DALEY form of capitalism you and the far right preach here.

Hays,

You do write rubbish.

I, and many others who would be considered moderates by the more informed, believe in responsible capitalism and its necessity in order for a society to be successful and in order to advance.

Many of those who consider themselves to belong central grouping in politics have an acceptance and are pragmatic about responsible capitalist "philosophy" in practice.

A functioning society needs some of the so-called drive "forces", which originate from self-gain or self-advancement.

However, many object to rampant irresponsible capitalism, which seems based on pure greed and often based on "unjustifiable privilege" and lacking in a sense of social responsibility.

The protagonists of so “called capitalist ideology” often dismissive or unaware of the "needs" of the less endowed or fortunate and often the latter as unnecessary encumbrances.

Your form of capitalism seems, to me, the prevailing attitude, which at the moment you and the present tory elite cabal represent.

The practice appears maybe momentary and personally gainful and self-serving of greed, in the long term as it does not advance the majority of society, and ultimately be found to be self-defeating.

The production of wealth of a society is dependent on the "endeavours" of all those in a society.

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so said Clement Attlee, or along those lines, back in 1948 at a miners' gala in durham

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10937868/European-Court-of-Human-Rights-upholds-French-burka-ban.html

European Court of Human Rights upholds French burka ban

France's controversial ban on face coverings does not infringe Muslim women's rights and is justified in interests of social cohesion, Strasbourg court finds

The European Court of Human Rights has upheld France's ban on wearing a burka or a niqab in public, ruling that the 2010 law on religious headgear does not breach Muslim women’s human rights.

The Strasbourg court ruled in the case brought by a devout French Muslim that there had been no violation of her right to respect for private and family life, no breach of her right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, and no breach of the prohibition of discrimination.

Yes, but a British ban would be racist.

The item was sent to me by a Turkish Muslim friend of mine. He hopes Turkey would bring in a ban as well. This Burka business is a Saudi thing to keep women under control.

"There are some of us people today around the place, who come from a different era," so a '60 or so years old' lady told me, whilst I was taking my dog for walk this afternoon.

She explained how she and her husband have returned to the UK after a few years out in Spain. Jokingly she told me, that after reading 'the Rolf Harris stuff' in the paper her husband is worried he might be up for getting his collar felt for all the bottoms he ever squeezed in the Spanish bars whilst they were out there. She reckons 'It was a lot different then.'

I reassured her that the 'Harris bottoms' mostly belonged to 13 yr old girls and the like. This isn't entirely true, I know, but I could see where she and her husband were coming from. Today's take on it does all seem a tad hypocritical to me. Drunkenness and louche hedonistic behaviour are rife, particularly of a late weekend night. Surely it cannot be that side of society, which is condemning Harris? No it just cannot be.

I am quite sure Rolf Harris was a 'bad 'un' and deserves everything he is going to get at the end of this week.

But I am confused - just like the lady (and her husband) from this afternoon.

This Burka business is a Saudi thing to keep women under control.

absolute twaddle!

What's happened to the football thread ?....best world cup since 1974 in my opinion....lucky Brazil and Argentina...

Yes, it is twaddle.


The burka is a universal method of keeping wimmin down.

It also helps with the mufti's absolute fear of comparison.

Nobody interested in football then ?....

Bravo Goldfinger-Carson....

Saudi Arabian cleric declares babies should wear burkas

A Saudi cleric's declaration that babies should wear burkas to protect them from sexual attacks has drawn widespread criticism.

I feel sorry for women forced to wear the burka in order to placate their religion or others.

I feel sorry for them wrapped up on a hot day parading after a likely clad partner.

I think it is b. stupid, but feel, if it is voluntary, that it is their right to do so, unless it covering up "criminal activity". This problem could be circumvented in different ways.

But, I also find it offensive to see little boys dress up in the Etonian garb. They all look alike.

But they have a perfect right to look like penguins, or the women wearing the burka to advertise their beliefs or culture.

(Don’t like Nuns’ habits.)

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