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.

GF,

Couldn't you take Manuel as a waiter or kitchen boy?

No need to pay him, he can call it "work experience" on his CV.

not exactly the empire on which the sun never sets, but a good starter for 10 :-)

do something smart in cascais, and i may be interested :-)

Yep Fred, no probs.

I wouldnt want to give you a wrekless reply
ps 2 others thinking it over in next 48 hours

Hays must be pulling out his bald hair.

Cyners, thinking of a joint in nigeria.............. op for that then???????????????????????

gf will tell you on wednesdayfrom tenefife

i don't even care for lagos in the algarve!

A cannabis joint, Fishfinger? I'd have thought Cyners is a bit too old to be doing stuff like that.

what a spliffing thought

It is the company you keep!

tried cannabis a couple of times in my 30s, and found it just made me feel seasick, probably not helped by the fact that i wasn't a smoker anyway

Manuel.

Come on you must be older than 30.

Are I know how old you are!

Could be happening here:

All you nu labour supporters wont want to read this article..





How passion has been purged from politics – along with ordinary people


Can Scotland galvanise politics in the rest of the UK – or, with so few working-class MPs, are we now fatally disaffected? At last week’s Labour party conference, Carole Cadwalladr went in search of ‘real’ people and found a ‘L’Oréal convention’ controlled by slick professionals schooled to rule




Carole Cadwalladr


The Observer, Sunday 28 September 2014


"Because to me, the collective nostalgia we all have for Coronation Street feels like the collective nostalgia the Labour party has for being the party of the common man. I tell him about a conversation I had earlier with Dennis Skinner, the legendary Beast of Bolsover. When he entered parliament in 1970 after 20 years down the pits, he told me, there were 700,000 miners in the country, and he was one of 44 ex-miner MPs. “And now there are a million people in this country who work for the NHS,” he said. “But where are the nurses? That’s what I wonder. You’d think they’d have at least two or three MPs. Where are the call centre workers?”



"There are any number of ways you can hold a conference but our political culture, our long history of parliamentary democracy, has produced a spectacle – common to all parties – that feels like something Disraeli might have come up with after attending a L’Oréal sales conference. Ken Livingstone tells me how it was in the 70s when “conference was a parliament of working-class delegates who every day were casting their votes to create policy”. Not any more.

I watch Chuka Umunna’s hotly anticipated speech and, frankly, I might as well be at the L’Oréal sales conference. He sounds like he’s trying to sell shampoo. I’ve read endless articles on how he’s the next Obama, and then he says: “Conference, if you work hard, you should not have to live in poverty…” Conference? As an indirect object? What? It’s the first of dozens of bizarre verbal constructions I hear that sound like they were coined by the Committee of Bizarre Verbal Constructions some time back in 1938."



"Though Janvier has given it a go. She put herself forward as a prospective parliamentary candidate for Orpington. “But it’s really hard. I did my best but I didn’t have the money to have leaflets printed or anything like that…” She wasn’t selected. So, who was?

“Nigel de Gruchy; he’s the former general secretary of the TUC. He didn’t put his name down until the last minute and then because he was out of the country they didn’t hold hustings so that he’d be able to participate via Skype. It was a bit odd. And… it’s just hard if you’re young. He’s 71 so he’s got the time and, of course, he has lots of connections and…” She trails off. “I’ve stopped going to meetings now. I don’t really see the point.”



Whole article here: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/28/how-passion-purged-politics-ordinary-people-labour-conference

Where as UKIP recruits from outside the pubs before the effects of what they imbibed wears off.

Or the CONs party recruits from the indoctrinated from clandestine training grounds scattered around England.

Mind when Theresa May or may not band the former group.

Stoking up the fear and only allowing propaganda from tory HQ.

Ghastly!

What has that article to do with ukip Fred, or the tory party for that matter?


The article was published in the Guardian, and it was asking the question of where has the nu labour party gone, why is it full up with toffs and placemen?


Did you actually read it?

I see Boris's right hand man has joined UKIP, or maybe ex right hand man.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/29/boris-says-ukip-defectors-are-type-of-people-who-have-sex-with-vacuum-cleaners_n_5902142.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

Boris Johnson has launched an bizarre attack on Tory defectors to Ukip, joking that they were the type of people that have sex with vacuum cleaners.

Addressing a rally at the party's annual conference in Birmingham in the wake of the defection of two Tory MPs to Ukip, the London mayor remarked: "The EU commission wants to ban vacuum cleaners on the grounds that they are too powerful. If you do not handle your vacuum cleaner correctly, you may end up inhaling the hamster – the budgerigar through the bars of the cage.

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/09/30/tories-twice-trusted-deficit/

40% of British people think the Conservatives would eliminate the deficit by 2020 – but only 17% think Labour would.

Just found this.

It is a useful web site facility to know about to help you get rid of things you don't want any longer.

If you don't particularly want to sell something but would perhaps like to give it away because "it still works and it would be criminal to just scrap it or dump it when someone else can make good use of it", then try here:

https://www.freecycle.org/

If you fancy having sex with a vacuum cleaner but don't especially want to buy one just for that purpose, then this could just be the place to get one for free.