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.

Fred why do you Gloss over everything with your fancy words . You disappoint me , you're only like every one else, you just hate people or situations if they don't agree with you .

because he's a cantankerous old git who is way, way past his sell-by date, and still imagines himself lives in the golden era of keir hardie, jimmy reid and his great modern-day hero arthur scargill

Don't sugar coat it!

Victim,

Tell me which words you referring to?

I will try and explain them to you!

Hate is usually a waste of energy and prefer a feeling of sadness when recognising faults in others.

As can be seen when dealing with Manuel, who always seems waiting around for a helpful tip!

Just in general really , you tend to poo poo stuff as merely inconsequential unless you actually state it . I haven't a degree in English , maybe it's my problem .

Hate is usually a waste of energy and prefer a feeling of sadness when recognising faults in others.

Pompous old wind bag

aldo - may i commend to you PGW's golf stories wherein you will find "the oldest member" ...... he is much more benign of nature than our resident red, but his fellow members positively groan when they find themselves ensnared by his verbose ramblings

David Dimbleby should be replaced on QT , his just another BBC lefty, last night he tried to put words into the mouth of the UKIP man when all he was doing was agreeing with most of the other pannelist , and that wasn't what Dimbly wanted

Yes I remember Dimbleby in the Farage v Glegg debate . He kept forgetting Farage's name but it was always Nick this Nick that . Since then no respect at all.

Manuel,

When I was about 8-9 year old I read the poem Abou Ben Adhem (May his tribes increased). (Leigh Hunt.)

For some reason, it spite of being dyslexic it stuck in my memory when its simplicity was explained to me by my father.

Strangely, I think, although not always adhering to its principle precept I have been influenced by it.

Probably you are too long in the tooth now, but if you don’t know the poem read it.

You may not realise you it, but change may benefit you.

Also, I was taught that sometimes it is useful to encourage some back onto the best pathway when they seem lost.

Victim,

For many, one has to earn respect.

I find it difficult to put into one sentence Farage, Cameron, Osborne etc. and the word "respect".

The former group seem antipathetic the meaning of the word.

They must be gutted Fred, they speak so highly of you!

fred - i'm afraid you fall down very badly on the whole precept of the poem - "I pray thee, then, write me as one that loves his fellow men."

I fear the Lib-Dems are going to be slaughtered at the elections......probably nice people with the wrong policies.....better put a yellow sticker with a helpline number in that phonebooth at the top of beachy head next to the samaritans with a direct line to Cameron......or if you are really desperate to the Ed's....(but the latter option might make you want to jump).....

It is amazing how sensitive Wavy Dave has become.

"David Cameron was wrong to assume that Libya's was a country whose institutions could be left to evolve and transform on their own," he said.

"The tragedy is that this could have been anticipated. It should have been avoided.

"And Britain could have played its part in ensuring the international community stood by the people of Libya in practice rather than standing behind the unfounded hopes of potential progress only in principle."

A briefing note released by Labour ahead of the speech sparked a row after it suggested Mr Miliband would say the refugee crisis and tragic scenes in the Mediterranean are in part a direct result of the failure of post-conflict planning for Libya.


I would suggest fair comment.

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Cameron can huff and puff, but his stance at Brussels was fodder for his own party!

Hardly suprising is it rf when no one imagined themselves voting Lib-dem at the last election to get a Conservative government.

Getting what they deserve now imo for selling out their voters last time round.

Manuel,

You are claiming omniscience again.

Loving someone, does not necessarily include agreeing with their views.

Find a dad to explain the meaning of the poem to you.

Dil,

Part of me agrees with you, but cutting off one's nose to spite someone else's face is not always rewarding.

the real trouble is, is that none of the main party leaders is seen as having any charisma

they can and all do prattle on about how different their policies are from one another
However, as fred's mate in france has discovered, though one can tinker around the edges and impose (or not) assorted "spite and jealousy" taxes as they have in france, it is exceedingly difficult if not impossible to change things at the core ..... hence the french economy remains a disaster

the only "success" hollande can now claim, is to have boosted immeasurably the standing of FN ..... a salutary lesson to be learnt perhaps

It's like watching a Brian Rix farce on here , enter someone stage left .( God I feel old ).