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 suppose Captain Marvel with sergeant IDS will have to deflect attention by riding into battle as a "cheer leader" for another "war".

Iv'e seen two reports now of illicit cigarettes being found in shops . The contents contain rat droppings , rat poison , human waste , blood . It stated in one report Immigration were involved.

Victim,

Have a look at the content of dry spices and the foreign body tolerance before you eat another curry.

I'll just go back a few years to when at a local village Chinese Takeaway , the contents of a recipe were analysed and found to contain seven different male semen . I think they closed it down.

Very tasty.

Should have given it to Tinker!

Disbelief as Tony Blair given philanthropist of the year at GQ awards . Mail online.

He will be Pope yet, or if he can walk on water; leader of the tory party!


8-)

fred - very strange; we were cycling around moulins last week, and it was was always warm though not boiling, with just one grey and drizzly morning ...... most evenings it was warm enough to eat outside, perhaps with a thin sweater

Cynic,

At the end of July the weather in Paris was good (sunny but not too warm) and allowed me to show my grandson the Pont Alexandre III bridge, (near Invalides) which I had slept under approximately 57 years ago. (Perhaps that accounts for my present state.)

He was not impressed!

The Dordogne wasn't too bad for the first couple of weeks, but did put the central heating in the morning and prefer to eat breakfast indoors.

Also had thunderstorms, which seem to blow themselves out very quickly and fascinating if on top of the hills and watch them sweep up the Dordogne Valley.

The landscape was very green and some crops not harvested.

Lac D'Orient was similar but colder, but all in all a very good holiday execept for a front wheel blowout at 10pm in the rain and being instructed to drive around Troyes at 1 am in the morning by my grandson.

Quite funny the next day, as were his comments, especially when he suggested that he wanted veal goulash for lunch.

Never-the-less he now has learnt to ride his bike, and swim. Also improved his chess, and I now have to play him with my right hand.

But the French are lucky B.s. to live in France.
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Keep out of trouble.

Her Majesty will be bound to say, "We are not amused. One does not prat about whilst guarding one's palace."

As sure as eggs is eggs, this guardsman is 'for it' for sure.

Who was the thin sweater you were with ?

Someones edited that Video , you can spot were they did it.

It is an unfair media fight over the tumour boy. The doctors are bound by confidentially but the father can say what he likes.

This may help to explain the reaction from the hospital

Dr Wilson said that while Southampton General was aware of this "at no stage did the family say to us that they were going to take Ashya and go to Prague".

"When we found that he was missing from the trust, we were at first slightly surprised, and then very very worried," he said.

"There's quite a lot of information surrounding this case that we've not been able to share with the media that made us worry for Ashya's safety.

The medical team at Southhampton hospital seem to be sharing the medical details now.

Was it done at the guardian of the child's i.e. parents' permission?

I think there seems to be a certain degree of ineptness being shown on the medical team's part.

I think they should "shut up" and consider their actions carefully and apologise
for clumsiness of "management".

Also, I would like to see the what was the "proposed management" of the "case", before the parents absented themselves with their child.

But Southhampton and NHS seem to be digging a bigger hole for themselves.

Sad when both sides probably wanted the best outcome for the child!

Grow up, it's a pissing contest.


"When we found that he was missing from the trust, we were at first slightly surprised, and then very very worried," he said.

Meanwhile....


Tony Blair named 'philanthropist of year' at GQ awards

The former Prime Minister is recognised for his 'tireless charitable work'



Tony Blair with the philanthropist award at the GQ Men of the Year Awards Photo: Richard Young /REX



By Hannah Furness, Arts Correspondent

10:30PM BST 02 Sep 2014


Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister and UN Middle East envoy, has been named as GQ magazine’s “philanthropist of the year”, in recognition of his “tireless charitable work”.


Mr Blair, who has launched three foundations, was awarded the prize at the magazine’s Man of the Year Awards last night, as he attended a glamorous ceremony surrounded by the world’s celebrities.


The peace envoy, who was last week revealed to have advised Kazakhstan’s president on how to manage his image after the slaughter of unarmed civilians, accepted the prize from an employee of his Tony Blair Faith Foundation, on stage at a lavish dinner at the Royal Opera House.




More sickness here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/11071113/Tony-Blair-named-philanthropist-of-year-at-GQ-awards.html

To think people actually subscribe to this magazine.

"Laniakea" from the Hawaiian: 'lani' - sky, heaven' and 'akea' - broad, wide, spacious, immeasurable.

Many thanks to: R Brent Tully, Helene Courtois, Yehuda Hoffman and Daniel Pomarede who wrote the paper "The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies".
See: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v513/n7516/full/nature13674.html

I'm sure most people know our planet revolves around the Sun and the Sun sits in the The Milky Way, which is a is a member of the Local Group of galaxies.

Now have sufficient data on the distances and motions of galaxies to be able to describe a much larger level of organization in our corner of the Universe — a supercluster 160 megaparsecs across and containing 1017 solar masses.

Brent Tully et al. use a new catalogue of 'peculiar velocities', line-of-sight departures from cosmic expansion caused by gravitational perturbation, to develop a map representing the distribution of matter. They identify a 'home' supercluster that they name Laniakea — from the Hawaiian lani and akea ('heaven' and 'spacious'). It includes the Virgo cluster, the Norma, Hydra and Centaurus clusters (also known as the Great Attractor), the Pavo-Indus filament and a number of voids.

This is the related video to that paper. Apparently, we appear to be 'somewhere in the suburbs'......

Israel to supply natural gas to Jordan
Deal will ease an energy crunch in the kingdom and marks the biggest such bilateral agreement that Israel’s nascent offshore industry has yet seen


very interesting and good to see collaboration between israel and one of its more dovish neighbours

Yoooooooo Excelent.