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.

Where do I sign ?...
Anyway....I think that the Homebase bosses must be retired RAF people !...
Have you been to a store and asked for something ?...it goes a bit like this :
Customer : good morning...do you sell paintbrushes and where are they ?
Sales person (equipped with a mouthpiece..perhaps headphones)...and linked to various satellites across the globe....: just a minute sir.....come in roger delta bravo....do we have.. what did you say sir ?
Customer : yes ..paintbrushes..
Sales person...:..paintbrushes....(better in a geordie or scouse accent)...I know we were told about these things...never used one myself (small chuckle)...I shall have to check with headoffice and sales...(crackle...zip..in headphones)...come in Mexico...molto bene.. inglese burro...zip crackle..come in yankee doodle !....do you have sighting and confirmation of paintbrushes in store ?...
Floor sales help (also equipped with gadgetery and various satellite links)...yes sighting confirmed and we have pinpointed location...over...
Sales person...to floor sales help...thank you.. yankee doodle foxtrot bravo...and then to customer : a team of experts location pinpointers is on the way and will guide you safely to paintbrush location...
Customer : (about to expire)...thanks...aghhhh...
finally....at paintbrush location in store (just in the first aisle)...and discover that the brush you want is out of stock but they will have some more in stock in a weeks time....but they can sell you a luxury ensuite bathroom or some exstock garden furniture !
Sales person : (still shouting into mouthpiece ) did you find everything you came for saarr ?.....
Customer ; ggnnngggggrrrr.....

Did anybody see this film last night.


http://www.forbes.com/sites/jakezamansky/2011/10/25/margin-call-is-for-real/

8-)

Just the place where Cameron should find a job when he is made redundant.

Manuel,

My tennis partner for over 10 years sent his children to Marlborough.

His kids are two of the nicest kids and young adults I have known.

I think they owe much to their parents.

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Parents don't always ----- you up!

Yes. I did see the film. It was pretty good, really.

The comments made by the 'big boss' (played by Jeremy Irons) towards the end of the movie did make you think quite a bit, particularly when he reeled off the (big) list of all of the historical crashes and explained the one that he was creating was just yet another one.

"This is how money and the markets work. The numbers are different but the percentages are exactly the same. These things have to just keep on happening."

It also made me think that we must be due yet another market crash fairly soon.

My wife is bearing up but with great difficulty.....



This is the room where George Clooney spent his last night as a bachelor.

One has to query if Mr and Mrs Farage are truly sincere......

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage/11126430/Nigel-Farages-wife-bars-Press-from-EU-junkets-meeting.html

eg.

She was giving a talk telling UKIP supporters how to save a few quid on an EU holiday.

The European Union spends £25 million on the subsidies for tours arranged through Euro-MPs' offices.

Under the scheme, holiday makers are handed a subsidy of up to £200 in cash if they include a short visit to the European Parliamentary in their itinerary. That money can then be used to pay for hotel rooms, meals and transport.

Asked about the scheme, she said: "Every MEP is allowed to take visitors' groups over from their constituency or region, or councillors, or business groups they are supporting, or supporting them. It's an EU scheme."

She added: "It's a nice thing to do."

A colleague added: "We are not doing anything clandestine."

One five-day package advertised on a stand at Ukip conference, organised by a private tour operator, included a visit to the castles of Koblenz, a tour of Strasbourg Cathedral and a boat trip along the Rhine. The visit to the Parliament in Strasbourg lasts two and a half hours. After the EU subsidy, the holiday costs £389 a head.
Another seven-day Ukip tour takes in Verona, Lake Garda, an excursion to Venice and a tour of Vicenza, known as the City of Gold, before driving on to Strasbourg for a short visit to the Parliament.

Other taxpayer-subsidised tours incorporate visits to the tapestry at Bayeux and Monet's garden in Giverny before visiting the European Parliament in Brussels.

http://news.sky.com/story/1343701/farages-trip-to-ukip-defector-seat-cut-short

UKIP defector Mark Reckless has been forced to cut short a visit to his constituency by his new party leader Nigel Farage after the pair received a hostile reception.

A planned walkabout in Rochester, Kent, was cancelled after Mr Reckless was confronted with tough questions from members of the media and the public, said Sky's Darren McCaffrey.

The former Conservative was also met by ex-party colleagues as he visited a pub in his Rochester and Strood constituency with Mr Farage.

I stumbled across that film half way though it.....the acting is superb with a simple storyline about a bank in trouble.....did not see all of it...but the acting performance was first class....must see again from the start...

What is it with these blinkin' MP's ?....more scandals and god knows what....I cannnot believe the number from all parties that have to resign.....must be something about them.....having an affair or getting drunk at a party is one thing or putting liquid soap on yacht gangways in StTropez harbour in front of the cafes with people falling in....euuhh sorry not putting soap on gangways I mean...euhh anyhow........but sending naked pictures of yourself !.....some of them are just sick and it's a sorry state of affairs to say this....

"I cannnot believe the number from all parties that have to resign.."

I think there a lot more from all parties who should have resigned!

Then there is something fundamentally wrong with British politics....

Yes!

It is a fake democracy!

One for you Fred


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29404152

You know the problem, and you know the solution....




Labour heading for a comfortable majority, says Ashcroft

Tories have lost third of support and are only attracting small numbers of new voters, according to polling by former donor



Rowena Mason, political correspondent


The Guardian, Sunday 28 September 2014 15.51 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/28/labour-comfortable-victory-lord-ashcroft




Lord Ashcroft, pictured at 2012 conference, said all the ‘waffle’ about Europe and new homes would not do the party any good. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images


Labour is heading for a “comfortable majority” at the UK general election as the Conservatives have lost a third of their support and are only attracting a small number of new voters, polling by former Conservative donor Lord Ashcroft has suggested.

His analysis found the Conservatives can afford to lose no more than 22 seats to Labour but are trailing in 24 seats at the moment.

The detailed polling of marginal seats indicated that both Tories and Labour may each take eight seats off the Liberal Democrats, while two Conservative seats could fall to Ukip.

The rest are a battle between the two main parties that Labour is on course to win, it found.

The statistics said just 63% of the people who voted Conservative in 2010 are still planning to vote for the party and half of those have gone to Ukip.

Ashcroft, deputy chairman of the Conservative party from 2005 until 2010, said all the “waffle” from Conservative party central office about Europe and building new homes for first time-buyers would not do any good, arguing that the only way the Tories could win was to throw all their efforts and money into good candidates in marginal seats.

His position was challenged by Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, who said the Conservatives had a “bumpy ride ahead” but he was sure the party would win based on greater confidence in the prime minister, David Cameron, to run the economy.

For Haze,

Interesting Chart and Comment:

Sept 28th

The latest YouGov results for the Sunday Times have the Greens and Liberal Democrats both at 6% in voting intention - while Labour lead at 5 on 36%, the Conservatives on 31%

Forgot for Manuel and Haze.

LATEST UNS PROJECTION

Labour majority 44

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ComRes in the Independent on Sunday have topline figures of CON 29%(-3), LAB 35%(+1), LDEM 7%(-1), UKIP 19%(+1). Changes are from their previous online poll a month ago. Tabs are here.

Opinium for the Observer have toplines of CON 32%(+3), LAB 34%(-3), LDEM 7%(nc), UKIP 17%(-2). Changes are from a fortnight ago.

Finally the weekly YouGov poll for the Sunday Times has toplines of CON 31%, LAB 36%, LDEM 6%, UKIP 15%, GRN 6%. While some other pollsters have already shown the Greens in fourth place, this is the first time that YouGov have shown them catching the Liberal Democrats.