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 would like it to be somewhere else Stan. lol
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Do you mean I have got to go home?

Bring back the Romans.

Forgot they were a mixed bunch, perhaps, the Vikings!

They have all gone now Fred when they realised what a cesspit Britain is .

JB.

I am critical of the level of government corruption, which is probably no worse now than it was in previous periods and due to media exposure possibly a little less. (The figures look worse and it is the hypocrisy which goes with it which irritates me along with blatant lying.)

But the same "racial" fingering of "foreigners" is similar as in the 30s with the bloody Irish in Britain and the Jews, Gypsies, and Mentally "handicapped" in Germany.

Like "fingering" the unemployed and "handicapped" by the government as excuses for their incompetences now.

Do problems in Welfare Service, NHS, Local government etc, need addressing? Yes, but after close review and examination to see what the real problems are and "WHY" they occurred and then long-term planning to remove those problems in a sensible manner.

Not Dodgy Dave, the Cameron knee jerk method of forming sound bite policies. Here to-day gone to-morrow.
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Interesting how Andrew Neil can get a tory (government) spokesman to answer questions on Immigration.

Wonder how the Kippers would approach the problems.

Interesting to see as UKIP modify and moderate their "mantras" they polling rates are beginning to soften.

I'll tell you what!

As we walk the dog in the local park, the standard of girls' legs is going up in leaps and bounds!

If I see some absolutely fantastic legs in front of me, well, it's mostly a case of 'Thank you Eastern Europe!'

Anyone concur?

I'd be careful in this environment ExecLine.

russian gas
no one here seems to have noticed that putin is threatening to cut off gas supplies to ukraine and others in a very few days time

Frackin' 'ell! He's not, is he?

so it was implied on the wireless earlier - ie ukraine's pre-paid gas is due to expire in a few days time

That's the funny thing about people, they like to get paid.

Exec,

What sort of dog are you looking at?

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Manuel,

Perhaps, the sanctions can include non-payment of bills.

Take a break? More like give us a break... Danny Alexander pins his election chances on toe-curling garish pamphlet including his own recipe for 'sausage and butternut squash stew'

Garish campaign pamphlet produced by Treasury minister appears to be based on Take a Break magazine

Talk of the Glens contains no fewer than 17 photos of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury – including one as a child

'Danny's sausage and butternut squash stew' which includes 'roughly diced' squash but 'finely chopped' onion

He is pictured posing with Quentin Willson and a bottle of Dalwhinnie whisky is offered as a crossword prize

By Alan Roden For The Scottish Daily Mail

Published: 11:58, 26 February 2015 | Updated: 14:10, 26 February 2015







Like all good lifestyle mags, it features family recipes, a crossword and minor celebrities. But 'Talk of the Glens' is a magazine with a difference – it is actually a political campaign leaflet for one of Britain's most high-profile MPs.

Apparently modelled on 'Take a Break', the garish pamphlet is Danny Alexander's secret weapon as he bids to see off a major election challenge from the SNP in his Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey seat.

It contains no fewer than 17 photos of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury – including one of him as a young child and several digitally manipulated images of Mr Alexander from the internet.

With the catchline 'true life stories from the Highlands', the magazine includes a recipe for 'Danny's sausage and butternut squash stew' – which includes 'roughly diced' squash but 'finely chopped' onion - and a crossword that offers the prize of a bottle of Dalwhinnie single malt whisky.


the whole thing is here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2970162/Take-break-like-break-Danny-Alexander-pins-election-chances-toe-curling-garish-pamphlet-including-recipe-sausage-butternut-squash-stew.html

Max will you stop posting DimLib nonsense I though you were a Kipper, also I was just on my way to the Ukraine but just caught Alf's warning... close thing eh? -):

Manuels, how many boats and canoes can you rent to the Ukraine, Germans to ship gas from USA, Canada, Argentina, and Mexico.

Is it feasible to replace "necessary" gas supply?

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Mind you, the 75 Instructors and specialists Dodgy Dave has sent to the Ukraine should frighten the life out of Putin and quieten him down.

i don't know fred
i confess i don't even know if there are pipelines running from europe (as opposed to russia) into ukraine

for sure there are LNG tankers that hold "lots!!", but how many could be mobilised at short order and whether or not that would even give a short term solution, i really don't know

simplest, and what i suspect will happen, is that eu will throw several $bn to ukraine so they can top up their gas meter for another few months

Dead right Fred and as one of DD's trusty 75 I've pulled out on account that they can't keep the heating on now... so there.

Manuel,

I have 3 things in the back of my mind and can't tie them up.

1) back in the period of the Yugoslav civil war, one of the whispers was that there was an oil pipe line being built through Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia and into "Western Europe" from Romania and its middle east suppliers.

There were innuendos that this was one reason Nato got involved. I thought it baloney at the time.

2) another feint memory is that the USA (Japan) were building some colossal gas tankers a few years back.

3) that some gas refinery plants were being built at sea for cleaning up the gas, directly freezing it and shipping from berths at sea in "refrigerated" tankers.

What volumes I do not know.

I thought it may having being done in anticipation of Putin and ME.

1) don't know

2) yes, they exist but there's still only so much that can be carried

3) LNG is carried in refrigerated form - ie chilled so cold it turns to liquid as it takes up much less room of course
i have certainly heard of floating storage tanks (ships) which are used as intermediaries between incoming vessels and distribution on shore, but not the other way round