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.

importuning apparently, though i never did understand what that meant, so pleaded guilty just for the hell of it ..... it really was a damn cold day and wanted to get back to my free b&b in the warm

I think it is time to use Manuel's excuse of "I don't read other peoples posts".

I already know what to believe!!


8-)

Manuel,

Look up "importuning", it is different to "importing"!

I suppose the difference is only small and business is business.


8-)

i thought it sounded to be something to do with downloading music

Sikh deserts Ed Milibland for UKIP.
Former Labour Mayor Harjit Gill joins UKIP stating '' More and more my views are in line with what UKIP want''
2517

perhaps he's after a free ticket back to amritsar

I voted to join the EEC, but now I am undecided. We won't leave the EU no matter who gets elected. We may well have a referendum, but the public will vote to stay in.

if the question is fairly constructed (hmm!) and the public vote to stay in, then i'm more than happy to abide with that decision

if labour duck the whole referendum issue, as they assuredly will, and slowly devolve more and more powers to brussels, as they assuredly will, then i shall not be happy at all

if ukip somehow become kingmakers with an avowal to take uk out of eu regardless of how the public might have voted in a referendum, then i shall not be happy at all

The last item won't happen, due to constitutional issues.

UKIP have always contented that a referendum is required to clear the air.

The €U is not the same animal it was 40 years ago. (common market)

UKIP have not said it wants out regardless, that's panic talk from the usual suspects.

UKIP don't just want a referendum. They want to leave the EU. What purpose will they serve if we have a referendum and the vote is to stay in? Their only real policy is leaving the EU. What sort of party will they become if the public wants to stay in? The very name of the party is incompatible with continued membership.

The €U is not the same animal it was 40 years ago. (common market)

quite so Max .....
the uncontrolled and uncontrollable "it" has become almost entirely indiscriminate in what countries "it" allows to join, their economic wellbeing being pretty much ignored

"it" shows little interest in controlling some or even most of the blatant corruption that gobbles up several fortunes in free hand-outs

"it" creates laws and edicts that many countries should and some do ignore, but not uk where bells and whistles are routinely added

"it" is an uncontrolled and uncontrollable gravy-train with an ever-growing budget to squander as "it" wishes

however, on balance i just about stay on the side of staying in, always provided that at least some of the abuses as outlined above are severely curtailed .... fat chance i'm afraid

Absolutely marvellous isn't it - all this taxpayer's money has been sent overseas to combat Ebola and yet we run out of testing kits at Heathrow and no one seemed to know what they were doing.;


The first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in Britain after returning from volunteering in Sierra Leone has been named as Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey.

Miss Cafferkey, 39, had written movingly of her work treating Ebola patients in an online diary published shortly before she was diagnosed with the disease.

Miss Cafferkey is being treated at the Royal Free Hospital in north London, having been transferred on a military-style plane from her local hospital in Glasgow on Tuesday.

A doctor who worked with her in Sierra Leone criticised the 'shambolic' testing process at Heathrow airport. Miss Cafferkey was able to pass through Heathrow, board a flight with other passengers to Glasgow and return home before she began to feel ill.

Dr Martin Deahl, from Newport, Shrops, who was on the Heathrow flight with her, said: "The precautions and checks at the airport were shambolic. They ran out of testing kits and didn't seem to know what they were doing."

There is no chance of stopping the trend that the EU is on. It is a march towards federalism with all that entails. Budgets will be set centrally, taxes the same, welfare, healthcare, benefits, h&s, housing etc as well. The controlling groups in the EU have ambitions to be a super power. They don't like NATO and want an EU equivalent. The trend is to suppress sovereignty in member countries.

The economic purpose of a 'common market' has been twisted into a political ideology. Their intention is to absorb any and all candidate countries in the general European zone. At some point, maybe thirty years from now or longer, Ukraine and all countries surrounding, maybe including Turkey, will all be in the EU. The EU must run these countries for the Euro to survive. The Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy crisis has shown that the EU must set taxes, spending, benefits and borrowing levels.

53907 and 53909 have summed up why I want out of the €U.

Where do you want to go?

Just seen the new lady Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, on the telly.....



She seems to be using an orange face powder which is the wrong colour for her skin and is giving her the appearance of having put her 'slap and lippy' on without first having a cleanse.

All IMHO, of course.

Q. But there again, who am I?
A. Not the only person out there that notices things like this. Surely? I do reckon too, that whenever you guys see her from now on, you are also going to notice how she seems to have slapped too much powder on and then question if it is actually the best colour powder, too. Cough, cough.

This is where I don't want to go Fred.



The European Commission


The European Commission has announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU, rather than German, which was the other contender.

Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had room for improvement and has therefore accepted a five-year phasing in of "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make sivil servants jump for joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k", Which should klear up some konfusion and allow one key less on keyboards.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f", making words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e" is disgrasful.

By the fourth yer, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and everivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer.


ZE DREM VIL FINALI COM TRU!

Herr Schmidt

Hey! Is Father Christmas real or fake?

Little 7 yr old boy sets a camera trap to find out. Here's what he found out:

Max,

When you go home are taking you bat and ball with you, or just some of your toys!