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.

Cyners you wouldnt pay the same for a 21 year old as you would an experienced man would you?

without getting unusually silly .......
surely a job is worth what it is and thus the age or sex of the successful applicant is irrelevant

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anyway, must go now chaps as have to go home and change before getting my car to the airport .... but you won't lose me that easily, as apparently the flight is delayed, so i'll have time in the airline lounge

You should go FLYBE cynic - they are usually on time!

so are emirates and i don't think flybe go to dubai anyway :-)

Manuel.

Hope you are not doing a "Ken Dodd"


The jury won't be that sympathetic to you!

They just give longer flight times and arrive early!

Emirates are a class apart, you pay for what you get and the food is somewhat different from FLYBE I have to admit. Have a good trip cynic.

Caviar and champagne, fillet of beef with vintage wines and cheese served with Croft port: Now the BEST airline meals are revealed

ByAnucyia Victor for MailOnline

Published: 11:25, 17 October 2014 | Updated: 17:43, 17 October 2014

'Exquisite', ' impeccable' and 'dazzling' are not words often used when asked to describe airline food.

However, these are the descriptions used by luxury food magazine Saveur, when it revealed the carriers with the best in-flight options.

The magazine's second annual Culinary Travel Award winners were chosen by an expert panel of the editors as well as industry experts, travel writers, photographers and chefs.

Emirates scooped the Experts Choice Award at Saveur Magazine's second annual Travel Culinary Awards. Winners are chosen by an expert panel which includes the magazine's editors, industry experts, chefs, photographers and travel writers.

Ken Dodd's dad's dog's died.

Doods,

You should try flying Rizon. They're always on time, and the driver won't hit the pedal to the metal until you turn up.

:o)

The EU referendum bill passed its second reading unopposed in the commons with 283 voting in favour and none against.

Cant be worth a toss then.

Labour stayed away mostly. It is their intention to stop it in the Lords. The bill, which is backed by the Conservative Party leadership, would create a legally-binding commitment to a referendum. There were calls in the debate to use the Parliament Act to force it into legislation if the Lords reject it.

UKIP have been given a wake up call in Thurrock, losing heavily to Labour in a council by-election last night. Despite constituency polling putting UKIP’s parliamentary candidate Tim Aker in first place in the seat, Labour won West Thurrock and South Stifford by a thumping 50% to UKIP’s 35%.

http://order-order.com/2014/10/17/eagle-crash-landed-watch-question-time-audience-turn-on-labour-over-freud/

Angela Eagle assumed she would automatically carry the Question Time audience with her as they discussed Lord Freud last night. Instead the room turned on Labour, jeering and heckling, coming down on the side of the stitched up welfare minister:

One audience member called Labour’s position “extremely disingenuous”, another was applauded by the whole room for calling out their “hypocritical point-scoring”, describing them as “disgusting”. Another said “the smirk on her face” showed Eagle knew she was telling fibs. If Labour can’t convince even the audience of Question Time, it suggests their attack on Freud may not have cut through as well as they’d hoped…

HAYS read this and a,lso read the You Gove Poll today re- to minimum wage......

Pay black people £2 per hour as that’s all they’re worth? Now you get why Freud has to be sacked – SPeye Joe 16/10/2014

The scurrilous and offensive remarks of Lord Freud over people with disabilities should have seen him sacked. Last night on BBC Question Time he was defended to the hilt in a disgraceful example of people not getting what he said, writes Joe Halewood in his SPeye Joe blog.

The simplest way to GET what he said is to subititute “black” for “disabled” and THEN you get it so below I have simple cut and pasted my blog from Wednesday with that change

It reads:

Lord Freud, said by many to be the architect of the bedroom tax and some wider welfare reform policies has been recorded saying black people are NOT WORTH THE MINIMUM WAGE of £6.50 per hour and should be paid £2 PER HOUR FOR THE WORK THEY DO.

Read the rest on SPeye Joe.

The view of this blog is that last night’s Question Time was an hour-long parade of senility and stupidity. You can work out for yourself who among the guests, chairman and audience displayed the symptoms of either condition.

Haystack, you are obviously off filter as gf is expecting a reply.

I think Baby Oleg has Ebola as he keeps sneezing on the compare the markets ads. It's all Sergei's fault for taking him to Africa to discover his roots.

Max.

Be careful with the Kleenex.

DB4 will probably expect you to wash it, iron and package it before you return it to him.

Anyway they are probably already used.

PAY EVERYONE THE SAME MINIMUM WAGE, SAY VOTERS
by William Jordan in Front Page and Politics
Fri October 17, 2014 10:05 a.m. BST You Gov

Most people reject the idea that different levels of minimum wage should be paid to different groups, including people with and without disabilities

Welfare minister Lord Freud has stirred cross-party outrage with comments suggesting that people with disabilities may not be “worth” the full minimum wage. On Wednesday the Conservative peer apologised, calling the remarks “foolish and stupid”.

YouGov’s latest polling for the Times Red Box delves into the question of whether the same minimum wage ought to apply to different groups, and finds few voters prepared to pay any of them at different levels.

In the case of people with disabilities, four in five (79%) reject the idea of setting a different minimum wage to people without them, while only 12% support it. Similarly, 80% are against and 12% in favour of paying people above and below the retirement age differently, and voters are almost uniformly opposed to varying the minimum wage according to gender (91-3%).



There is little variation in the opinions of Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat or UKIP voters on these three groups.

Around three in ten do think it is appropriate to pay people above and below the age of 21 or people living in areas with higher and lower living costs at different levels, but twice as many think it shouldn’t be done even for these groups.

Currently the minimum wage is £6.50 per hour.

Lord Freud’s comments were made at a fringe meeting at the Conservative party conference. He had been addressing the question posed by a Conservative councillor of how to deal with cases of people with disabilities who want to work, but “can’t find people who are willing to pay [them] the minimum wage.”

I have gf on filter for some time now, so I am blissfully unaware of his expectations. I doubt that his request for a reply is is based upon anything sensible.

It gets boring on here sometimes, I do my best to lighten things up but it seems to sail over some heads. At least you seem to have a sense of humour Fred, as does Max and Haystack and Hilary and ExecLine - have I missed anyone out?