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.

A "jobs guarantee"?

First round of golf today for weeks, good job on winter greens and not summer. God it was cold first 10 holes, then the sun came out and I could feel my hands again. Keeps the old swing going winter golf and always guaranteed the odd come again shot. I love a pint after a round with a sarnie. Sadly thanks to the 'Nanny State' certainly not worth the risk now with the new drink driving laws which commence tomorrow in Scotland. A mug of coffee did the trick though. Clubs profits will plummet but hey if it saves lives, has to be good.

52327 - congrats! you've woken up at last

how nice that we rarely have to suffer the bore of ANY winter (temporary) greens

To be honest cynic it doesn't really matter. It just makes a nice change to play a different course (reversed) and shortened. The air is obviously a lot thinner so the ball doesn't go as far, to compensate 3/4 handicap for competitions. Plus cold to you southern softies would be a heatwave on the east coast of Scotland. At least 5 to 10 degrees difference in temperature.

You may have forgotten that my original complaint was in reference to written English.

arguably not that quite that much, but am certainly looking forward to playing the Trump with a good client/friend when i'm in aberdeen next spring ..... just hope i'm playing rather better than at present as he's a bit good

Ah well good luck with your round at Aberdeen, It's a beast in the wind :0)

I went to a shopping centre in London at lunch time. My wife was playing carols in a brass band there. While she played, I went to an adjacent restaurant for a plate of pasta as it was pretty cold. I was eating my plate of spag nap when I started to be aware of the conversations on the next table.

It was the Xmas lunch for local Labour party activists. It was such an interesting eavesdrop. I was sorry to have to leave. They were going into all their plans for the election and moaning about Theresa May. The odd thing was that they were moaning about her because most of them thought she was doing a pretty good job.

Miliband wasn't mentioned, but they were criticising Ed Balls for a lack of ideas. They were talking about a few other people, but I couldn't hear properly as it was at the other end of the table. One guy kept saying f-ing this and f-ing that about someone.

I got the impression that they were somewhat depressed about the election.

So with all your other shortcomings you are a public ease dropper as well, your poor wife.

I suppose you wouldn't listen if it was Conservatives. What they were saying was easily audible, so that makes it in the public domain.

Now why exactly would I want to here anything any "Con"servative was saying, it would either be lies, mis information or any more such nonsense.

or from the benches opposite stan!

or from the benches opposite stan!

Don't try and soften Stan's stance. He is much better as a stereotype.

Perhaps it would help the NHS coffers a little if all the drunks who require treatment at A&E are made to pay for their treatment.

It would help a lot if pubs and clubs didn't serve people who are already drunk. Years ago, if a pub regularly served drunk people it would lose its licence. Pubs and clubs need to get threatened in that way again, especially in town centres where there are serious binge drinking problems. There are now a few places that breathalyse customers on the way in. There is already adequate legislation to stop the problem.

Also, years ago it used to be just blokes who got drunk, now the drinking culture seems to be equally bad with young women.

H/S and Alf, Sounds like they should have breathalysed you two tonight before letting you come on here.. clearly you have both been on the ribena -):