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.

tut tut gobmeister ..... do you REALLY have no ideas? ..... in that case, you should stand for your local parish council (aiming higher would probably be too ambitious), as then you'll be able to rant and rave to your heart's content without the need to have any content in what you're ranting and raving about

Cynic cut it out this personal stuff with Fred.

You arent doing yourself any favours.

YOU started it.

On a personal note Ive been so saddened that Baby Olig (the meerkat) in the Insurance advert that proceeds Coronation Street his staying in his native Africa.

Brought tears to my eyes and her indoors.

Surely they could have spun it out into a kids programme.

Best advert Ive ever seen.

sorry sticks, but do i really care ..... i get enough shit from gobmeister week in and week out, and it's about time he had some dished back

Well calm down and have a drink.

Happy New Year.

Alf sinks to lower and lower depths by the end of the year.

No matter how much Blair tries to wriggle, he clearly said the following,

"Ed Miliband will lose general election under 'left-wing' Labour, warns Tony Blair".

It has been widely reported by numerous newspapers and other media.

The interesting part is his view that it is the 'left-wing' that the public don't want. This is the same mistake that Foot, Kinnock and others have made. The UK wants parties of the middle ground. It has been a long time since socialism had any appeal; probably not since a brief period in the 1950s.

The US are now going to export oil!

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/dec/31/oil-price-dips-further-us-opens-crude-exports

How it all started





And how it ended up

what ho sticks! ...... really enjoyable golf this afternoon + ace dinner - cracking piece of beef - accompanied by yorkshire pud and savoy cabbage and some truly delicious old burgundy
and forgot to mention the "yippee" day on the dow :-)

Happy New Year




City Link administrators send out redundancy notices

Delivery company’s 2,356 employees told of fate at 4.30pm on New Year’s Eve



Rupert Neate and Sarah Butler


The Guardian, Wednesday 31 December 2014 19.08 GMT


http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/dec/31/city-link-administrators-redundancy-notices

so closed most shorts with a VERY juicy profit to finish 2014 but left a smallish short position running :-)

Anyway...happy new year all....oh great cheers all...
what's on the menu ?
.....Soupe de poiscaille degoulinante
.....Filet mignon avec squawk bitch
.....Fromage plateau du golan
.....Muller corner hors date unfinished from Christmas...
.....Wine is chateau Chinon Chirac
delicious...yummy...

what's on tv....?..isn't this the one evening when the ones you don't see the rest of the year appear ?
Angus Steak or whatever he's called, Mandy hold on... and such....dear...
I'll put a dvd on I.i think...
now where'z zat red vino..?
buenos noches allz...

How to pour champagne like a professional:

This is not 'How to do an F1 race win celebration'. It's the absolute opposite!

Champagne is expensive and so, as a drink it is to be respected. Doing the following will show the onlookers how you are 'not a champagne novice and quite used to doing it and dealing with it'.

1. Do notice how the sommelier (wine steward) holds the BASE of the bottle and not the neck!
2. Do notice how he doesn't bother unwrapping the foil from around the cork. But he does release the wire which holds the cork into the bottle. Do watch what happens to the foil after the bottle has actually opened. The foil wasn't any kind of a problem was it?
3. Do notice how he twists the bottle and not the cork so as to get maximum twisting leverage whilst at the same time safely holding the cork and hopefully preventing it from exploding right out of the bottle and hitting someone in the eye.
The idea is to get the cork to make a fairly unwasteful and pathetic 'popphh' noise (rather than a really loud 'POP'. Remember it is an extremely expensive drink and we do not want to waste it - and it is not a 'Formula 1 celebration')
4. Notice how he tilts the glass whilst pouring so as to avoid the champagne foaming up and right out of the glass

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/29/coffin-found-on-mars_n_6389284.html

Best in a magnum !...(P.I.)

Best just supping from the bottle, must admit I am a pleb though.

Did you notice El, that any engineer would do it the same way?


Anyway, get it down your throats!

Happy New Year to all.

Happy new year all. :-))

"Happy and Prosperous New Year to All!"