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.

Just thought, it is like and a young bull and an old bull looking down from a hillside onto a field of young cows.

Never mind Cameroon, altho he's making a perfect fist of the €uroballs contest.


Listening to the LBC fone in this morning.

It's Millibandus who has the real problem, call after call from supposedly labour supporters (who knows?) saying they don't trust him after what he did to his bruvver.
Along those lines of, if he can do that, what chance have we got?



My own personal view, is that you really cant trust any of the turds.

Well at least we are not living in America with all the loonies running amok with guns.

DAVID Clegg discusses Lamont's resignation as Scottish Labour leader and says whoever replaces her faces a tough task ahead.

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Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont
WHEN Johann Lamont took over the Scottish Labour leadership the party was at its lowest ebb.

Labour had just been humiliated in the Holyrood election and faced a referendum fight to the death they had no stomach for.

Lamont - not a natural leader - stood up to be counted when it mattered most and did a decent job of steadying the ship.

Despite a backbench pretty much bereft of talent she took on Alex Salmond and achieved a series of by-election victories.

Most importantly, she helped oversee a referendum win that, if it had gone the other way, would have spelt the end for Scottish Labour.

But in the wake of that victory she has been forced to resign by the eternal curse of Labour - backstabbing and betrayal.

Meanwhile, the SNP are in a buoyant mood despite their independence dream being extinguished.

As it stands, Labour look set to lose seats at Westminster next year before being humiliated by the SNP again at the Holyrood election in 2016.

Whoever replaces Lamont faces a tough, tough job.

fred - they seem to have brought in a new law here, probably thanks to greater influence from abu dhabi ...... because it is islamic new year, all alcoholic drinks and entertainment were banned from 18:00 yesterday (friday) until 19:00 today

benefits limitation
a genuine but very much simplified question .......

let's say you are a cohabiting couple aged about 25 with 2 young children
one of the partners has a part time job (<16 hours) on minimum wage, while the other is unemployed

i think that on that basis, they get all sorts of allowances, ranging from help with the rent, most of the council tax paid, free school meals and no doubt some unemployment benefit

if the second partner now gets a full-time job = 35 hours on minimum wage, will ALL the above benefits cease rather than just scaled back?
If so, surely that would leave them worse off?


sensible and preferably knowledgeable comment please :-)

sense and sensibility
Chris (and i guess DB4 too) ..... can you please stop goading sticky so he/you/we can all calm down and get back to having a fun board once again with no one thrown off

yes, i am fully aware that it requires everyone to join the dance but this place is starting to get tiresome

Hang on a minute cynic, if you cast your mind back to how all this started - I believe it started when Chris had enough of being insulted over several weeks. He then gave a little back to gf at which point gf threw his teddies out of the pram. Correct me if I'm wrong as you obviously see things in a different light. :-)

Manuel,

It was probably like the Sabbath in Wales at one time!

When I was in college there was a Sunday Rugby clubs which played in Wales on Sunday morning and cross the border into England to drink all afternoon.

Had quite a few followers.

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Don't know the rules regarding hours and pay etcc.

But before the tax system and welfare payment system chokes itself I would think there should be an attempt to simplify the system.

The problem is there are more people going to try to find ways around the regulations
than draw them up.

i don't much care who started what
as an "older and wiser member" i am merely trying to get this site back on track instead of it developing into a very boring children's punching and pissing contest

So why start the discussiion off again this morning. I'm sure everyone else on this bulletin board is fed-up to the back teeth of what went on yesterday

cynic - Shut your mouth just for a change and then this garbage won't be regurgitated FFS!

It is finished, done with end of, what part of that don't you understand. Leave it!

Is that plain English enough for you? :0)

i hope it is, but i rather think not ...... fortunately i do not rile easily

Cynic, are you in the habit of throwing a can of petrol over a bonfire when you want it to go out?

d4 & CC
Why not do as I have and filter Fred and gf. It makes the bb much more pleasant to read.

Haystack, that is a good idea but part if the problem with that is I then can't read what gf is posting on the FLYB thread. I have a reasonable amount of money invested in FLYB, hence the reason I post there. Jimmyb also has money invested in that share, so I presume he is interested in any news relating to the company and there are possibly other lurkers with money invested who may be interested in what I post. If someone is short of a share which I'm invested in then I'm happy to carry on a reasonable debate without any personal abuse attached.

I don't personally have a problem with Fred -apart from his political views- I can engage in banter with Fred without any offence taken!

Maybe a new feature is needed on MAM to filter someone on a particular thread.

Hazeone,

As has been pointed out in a different way, for somebody who has squelched GF and Fred, you seem to have the ability to see around corners!

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But I do wince with the pain Napoleon and DB4 inflict upon me.

But if I wander into the big boy's playground I expected a little rough play from ruffians!

My mum was always telling me not to go there!

Dad had a slightly different opinion!

8-)

That is a good idea Haystack. I'm not a technical expert so I don't know how difficult it would be to set up that facility.

In addition to the squelch, it would be good if you could stop certain people from reading your posts.