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.

exec,

I have a solar panel on my motor home.

Very effective and runs the majority of my electrics.

Can be dodgy in winter but compensate by increasing number of storage batteries and also a back 15 amp generator. Rarely use the latter.

Gobshite of the year (recurring) has spoken! Obnoxious Twat!

Old Bollock Chops - 07 Aug 2014 16:45 - 44699 of 44703

Many seem to have the Putin concept of any opposing opinions are invalid and should be surpressed.

There's nothing wrong with opposing views whatsoever. That's all a part of life's rich tapestry.

But when you bore the pants off normal folk day in, day out with the same incessant drivel and verbal diarrhea, to the point that sensible people leave the board in their droves because of YOU, then you've got to expect it when those people who remain get pissed off and tell you that you're a twat.

Come on Fred!

Please drop the crap cartoons and try a bit harder to entertain us with something else. :-)

Fingers crossed.

eg. Google: "StumbleUpon" to get some ideas.

Fred: To give you an idea or two here's some alternatives to crappy cartoons:

Hairy One,

Postings on this thread over 44000.

Check your own threads and change your knickers.

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What I write may be boring to you, but not to all.

Squelching may help you or just ignore the postings, there are many other threads and if you feel neglected start another to your liking and ask the Greek to join you.

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By the way what are the odds on the conservatives failing at the next election?

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Anyone get the feeling we are going to get stuck with them?





It's Scotland's pound and we're keeping it, says Alex Salmond

First minister indicates independent Scotland would use sterling even if formal sterling zone was rejected by UK government



Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent


theguardian.com, Thursday 7 August 2014 15.58 BST



First minister, Alex Salmond, at first minister's questions in the Scottish parliament. Photograph: Ken Jack/ Ken Jack/Demotix/Corbis




Alex Salmond has provoked a fresh battle over his plans for the Scottish currency after independence by declaring "it's our pound and we're keeping it."

The first minister gave the clearest indication yet that an independent Scotland would use sterling after a yes vote even if a formal sterling zone was rejected by the UK government – an option known as dollarisation or the Panama option.

As his opponents distributed leaflets shaped like a pound coin with Salmond's head replacing the Queen in a bid to mock his policies, the first minister insisted the UK government had no moral right to stop Scotland using sterling after a yes vote. During an ill-tempered session of first minister's questions, he said that if the UK government ignored a democratic endorsement by yes voters, Scotland would be entitled to renege on its share of the UK's debt. That would force the Treasury to pay an extra £5bn a year in debt repayments, Salmond claimed.

"The reason we are keeping the pound in a currency union, and the reason we are so unambiguous about it, is because we are appealing to the greatest authority of all, that is the sovereign will of the people of Scotland," he told Holyrood. "It is Scotland's pound. It doesn't belong to George Osborne [the UK chancellor], it doesn't belong to Ed Balls [the shadow chancellor]. It's Scotland's pound and we are keeping it."




More: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/07/scotland-pound-independence-alex-salmond

Frankly I think the Scottish independence idea is a non starter.....it just doesn't make sense...the Scots know it...and it just doesn't add up at all....70% against..30% for will be at a guess the result....only thing left to do is give Alex Salmond a lordship of some kind....with an undisclosed wage (not too much)...and the possible prospect of Edinburgh hosting the winter olympics...(it is possible with the help of our Norwegian friends)...keep everybody happy...

Salmond sounds more stupid by the day. He can have the pound if he wants, but it will just be a name. It won't be our pound as ours is run by the Bank of England and is bound by our exchange rate. Our pound involves the BoE being the lender of last resort. Its use require acceptance of our Chancellor, our budgets, our interest rates, our monetary controls, our bank rules and many other stipulations. He knows all these things and is just trying to con the Scottish public. I am in two minds as to whether I want to be shot of Scotland anyway. Can't we have a parallel referendum asks ng us if we want to tell Scotland to get lost.

It would not be worth having a bet on it all as the odds are rubbish because we can't get rid of them. The answer is going to be NO!

Will they then change the name of the SNP.

The best odds for Scotland voting 'NO' to Independence are about 1/6

In other words, a £6,000 bet on it might well win you £1,000 less any expenses - but you would struggle to get that size of bet put on.

http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/scottish-independence/referendum-outcome

It seems like it's a 'Cert' they will vote against independence.

Anyone recommend any potential sizeable bets to make on it anywhere?

LAB ends the YouGov Sun polling week with a 5% lead
CON 33%
LAB 38%
LD 7%
UKIP 12%

What majority does that give the Labour party?

I am sorry the answer may be censored!

I don't know the figs, but it looks like the lesser spotted millibandus would be in number 10, and blighty down the shithole.


Up the workers.

on a less parochial front, FT has laid into Saudi in no uncertain terms ..... below is a short extract .....


Saudi Arabia not only exports oil, but tanker-loads of quasi-totalitarian religious dogma and pipelines of jihadi volunteers, even as it struggles to insulate itself from the blowback; and King Abdullah, in his end of Ramadan address, warns against the “devilish” extremism of “these deviant forces”. Jihadi extremism does present a threat to the kingdom. But in doctrinal terms it is hard to see in what way it “deviates” from Wahhabi orthodoxy, with its literalist and exclusivist rendering of Sunni Islam. Its extreme interpretation of monotheism anathematises other beliefs, in particular the “idolatrous” practices of Christians and Shia Muslims, as infidel or apostate. That can be read as limitless sanction for jihad.

About 80 seats outright majority Fred with labour on 38%.

Its only one poll though.

Think come the day itl be more like 30 to 40 overal majority to labour.

don't rush to open the champagne :-)

Not everyone is blind to it c, but you wont see it on news at ten.



Isis's slaughter of the Yazidi is a new Rwanda happening before our eyes


By Dan Hodges World Last updated: August 7th, 2014


http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100282699/isiss-slaughter-of-the-yazidi-is-a-new-rwanda-happening-before-our-eyes/

everyone deludes themselves about Saudi's stability
there's much underlying unrest and, more importantly, strong fundamentalist support

US President Barack Obama on Thursday night authorised air strikes to halt the advance in Iraq of Islamic militants and prevent a possible “genocide” in a substantial escalation of America’s military role in the country.

what is the view of this board?
do please not get sidetracked down the "gaza route", as that is not the question asked

for myself, i fear the consequences of both acting and of doing nothing at all.
on balance, i just about come down on the side of action, but am happy to leave the amis to do the dirty work