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 at some time in the NHS we are going to have to pay a small % of the total cost I feel just like in dentistry and prescriptions.

It will have to be means tested but the poor should be exempt and the rich shouldnt be taken for granted.

I honestly cant see any other way now.

But the last thing I want is the NHS being privatised.

FAIR FOR ALL.

i've never come across the phrase "stamp pie" .... what are they?

for us, tomorrow night will bring some home-made taramasalata (just made it!) followed by roast ribs of beef with yorkshire pud (of course!)

Cyners cant be then, I got one from Morrisons made in Bradford.

Must have to use certain ingredients principles etc etc.

What just before midnight.

taramasalata and roast ribs of beef with yorkshire pud?

i've never had this fear of NHS being privatised exactly, and certainly some form of payment from those who can afford it cannot be a bad idea .... after all, if you can afford private health insurance, why should you not pay when you use the public service?

it's unlikely, but i'ld much rather see "pay when used" than an extra tax (extra NIC or hike in income tax) which would just disappear into the great maw of the treasury with no identifiable beneficiary

well done Max; you've learnt to read :-)

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i wonder if your morrison's pig pie was made from real pork :-)
not even a trace of horse?

Apologies Cyners Stand Pies...............

Apologies Cyners Stand Pies...............

Again............

http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/standpie.htm

Yep thats what I was meaning Cyners a small % to pay for hospital treatment, eg, white van man on say 60£ grand per annum surgery costs £6,000 he pays £600 or circa.

Obviously a lot more detail needed but that my idea , no taxes or extra NI and no foreigners shipped in and shipped out.

Something people can afford.

Try the French model for the NHS, works very well, superb treatment, but not free to all comers.

Why what is it Max please?

ah, you mean generic raised pies that could be game or chicken and ham or whatever ...... no, not a tradition i've ever come across except in edwardian households .... of course h'firth is a long way from modern civilisation ....
mind you, i'ld have thought that pukka pakoras and samosas would have taken over in your area by now :-)

No chance. What million pound houses.

They have down the road in Meltham but not here.

Nope its just a tradition suprised you didnt know about it, Lanchashire and others are the same.

Hey we were cut off from civilisation here last night until 10am this morning.......Great. No tourists.

Not sure about Freds neck of the woods??????

Hmmm FTSE looking ok for tomorrow so far as is dow.

Japs will spoil it.

Just half day tomorrow......... drat.

Back to the Misery.


Roll on monday.

my mother was a yorkshire lass and she certainly didn't bring that tradition with her when she married my dad
i don't recollect my grandmother (yorkshire) ever mentioning it either

dow very curious .....
cnn after hours shows dow futures down a further 41 points at 17941
however, IG is quoting cash dow as +19.5 at 17998


btw, cash ftse is quoted as +4.1 at 6553.4

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anyway old chap, i'm off to bed to read, but shall no doubt converse tomorrow before golf at midday .... that'll be a joke after another hard frost, but it'll be good to get out

have to be organised though, as shall be cooking the beef when i get back, so def must remember to collect it in the morning!

Hmmm?

This stuff can only happen in America:

"A young woman was accidentally shot and killed by a 2-year-old boy she was shopping with today in an Idaho Walmart," police said. "It is unclear how the two are related."

Lt. Stu Miller of the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office said during a media briefing, "...that the boy pulled the handgun from the woman's purse and pulled the trigger."

So apparently, the young lady has a loaded handgun in her handbag, which is open and she goes into the Walmart store (Yes! It can only happen in a Walmart store, folks!) with a 2 yr old boy.

The safety catch of the gun is in the 'Off' position - which means you merely have to pull the trigger to immediately fire the gun. The 2 yr old boy reaches into the open bag, pulls out the gun and squeezes the trigger, shooting the young lady dead.

The store then closes for the day.

And it's onto the next.....

Hmmm? I wonder if the 2 yr old boy was fully (or only partly) trained in the use of handguns? Sounds like only partly to me. That's disgusting!

Yep IG showing that.

Id think IG was right and CNN still in holiday mode.

Anyway Cyners thats me done for now.


Got to put the horses to bed and get the dogs out.

See ya tomorrow Jimmy.

America - the land of guns, hamburgers, crap wine and watery Budweiser. The gun laws in America will never change as long as the NRA has so much influence.