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.

I doubt that the stats above are correct. What is the source apart from some lefty's imagination?

None of your stats are accurate, how can they be, your a blue blood sleazy Tory.

A wonderful time was had by all at the Utter Arse of the Year awards

It’s been an amazing year for complete idiocy – perhaps the best ever


Rod Liddle 3 January 2015



Tony Blair, Alex Salmond and Stephen Fry: Winners of the Utter Arse of the Year awards Photo: Getty



A glittering cast list, delicious food and spectacular entertainment — I just wish you could have been there. But tickets were at a premium for The Spectator’s prestigious Utter Arse of the Year awards ceremony held, as ever, in the council chamber at Tower Hamlets. The meal, prepared by the exciting left-wing lesbian cook Jack Monroe, consisted of her famous kale pesto pasta on a bed of shredded back copies of the Guardian. As we munched away, a troop of locally sourced Bangladeshi mime artists enacted the setting up of an east London caliphate and — to the delight of the audience — silently decapitated several infidels sitting near the stage. As the black flag of the Islamic State was raised above our heads, the compère for the evening, Jon Snow, from Channel 4 News, took to the rostrum and the real business began. It has been a fabulous year for arses, he told us, perhaps the best year on record. Arses everywhere you look, he chuckled — and at that moment, through fiendishly clever technology, a giant hologram of the revolutionary comedian Russell Brand appeared beside him, transmitted live from his £76,000 per year flat in nearby Hoxton. The Russell hologram entertained the audience with a stream of indecipherable, pretentious, sub-adolescent balls before (again, praise to the technical team) disappearing in a puff of smoke up his own backside. How we all cheered!

That was an excellent foretaste of the proceedings. Snow then welcomed the leader of the Labour party, Ed Miliband, on to the stage to do his famously hilarious impersonation of someone trying desperately to appear normal while undertaking a range of simple everyday tasks — such as standing still, eating a sandwich, breathing etc. On the screen behind his head was displayed a strange photomontage of nine or ten distressed people, some wearing restraints, others gibbering maniacally, two of them in a permanent vegetative state. These troubled souls, it transpired, were the remaining British citizens who think Ed would make a competent prime minister.


More good stuff here: http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/rod-liddle/9403602/a-wonderful-time-was-had-by-all-at-the-utter-arse-of-the-year-awards/

Take it Fred and Goldfinger were guests of honour?

They done the cabaret.

Lol

It is unusual for the cabaret to win all the prizes as well.

deficit levels
this all looks very much like a case of lies, damned lies and statistics for both sides trot out figures to "prove" their point


annual house price inflation
i recollect sticks writing just a few days ago that houses in the north were still falling
however, this was not borne out by the figures put out by nationwide within the last couple of days
all areas show increases over the last 12 months, though there must obviously be isolated hot and weak spots

from the weakest up .....
wales, yorks and humberside, north west, scotland, north midlands
and so on stronger

Cyners use the Halifax for house prices in the North not the Nationwide.

I'm thinking about taking the Christmas decorations down and have this same trouble every year.

ie. When is 'Twelfth Night'?

My research tells me it is the 5th January:

26/12
27/12
28/12
29/12
30/12
31/12
1/1
2/1
3/1
4/1
5/1

Hmmm? I guess I should have started at 25/12, which I think should be the 0th night, not the 1st night.

Anyone know any other better answers as to why 'Twelfth Night' is the 5th January and not the 6th?

The answer is that there are several traditions. If you stick to the CoE rules, it is the 5th as Christmas is the first, being when the three wise men came. There are other versions up to 17th Jan.

If you are like me and think it is all a load of twaddle then twelfth night can be any day you like.

markets for 2015
fascist gazette (aka telegraph) well worth reading today
excellent article by Questor and another on Saudi forcing down the oil price
either may stop some getting too gung-ho about the market prospects for 2015

I read an article yesterday suggesting a possible oil price of $20.

Found it

http://www.infowars.com/who-is-behind-the-oil-war-and-how-low-will-the-price-of-crude-go-in-2015/

54193 - i misinterpreted (nationwide) north as meaning "north midlands" ..... i wonder why nationwide and halifax diverge on this

Could I bring myself to eat a guinea pig?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22812158

you might in peru :-)

I thought we was running out of the stuff (oil), now it appears we are swimming in it.

supply and demand = no demand = what happened to business is booming?