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.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jun/12/ipcc-will-not-investigate-orgreave-police-action-during-miners-strike

Which is which?


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Welcome to the peoples republic of mugabeland.




That'll be 175 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars, please

Zimbabwe's central bank scraps old currency at the exchange rate of $1 for 35,000,000,000,000,000 old dollars






By Reuters

8:52AM BST 12 Jun 2015





Zimbabweans will start exchanging 'quadrillions' of local dollars for a few US dollars next week, as President Robert Mugabe's government discards its virtually worthless national currency, the central bank said on Thursday.


The southern African country started using foreign currencies like the US dollar and South African rand in 2009 after the Zimbabwean dollar was ruined by hyper-inflation, which hit 500bn percent in 2008.



More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/11669652/Thatll-be-175-quadrillion-Zimbabwean-dollars-please.html

A young family moved into a house next door to an empty plot. One day, a gang of building workers turned up to start building on the plot.

The young family's 5-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in all the activity going on next door and started talking with the workers.

She hung around and eventually the builders, all with hearts of gold, more or less adopted the little girl as a sort of project mascot. They chatted with her, let her sit with them while they had tea and lunch breaks, and gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important.

They even gave the child her very own hard hat and gloves, which thrilled her immensely.

At the end of the first week, the smiling builders presented her with a pay envelope - containing two pounds in 10p coins. The little girl took

her 'pay' home to her mother who suggested that they take the money to the bank the next day to open a savings account.

At the bank, the female cashier was tickled pink listening to the little girl telling her about her 'work' on the building site and the fact she had a 'pay packet'.

'You must have worked very hard to earn all this', said the cashier.

The little girl proudly replied, 'Yes, I worked every day with Steve and Wayne and Mike. We're building a big house.'

'My goodness gracious,' said the cashier, 'And will you be working on the house again next week?'

The child thought for a moment. Then she said seriously:

'I think so. Provided those wankers at Jewsons deliver the fucking bricks on time.'

Hello. :-))

Back from the dead.

Mind he is being listened to.

poor old fred ..... clearly no one but no one is remotely interested in his daily polemic

A deadbeat has risen from his grave!

Something to cheer you up Fred.



What is 3,500 x 365? .... Europe’s suicide

By David Craig, on June 8th, 2015






More: http://www.snouts-in-the-trough.com/archives/13395

hundreds now selling their homes in Scotland English visitors are now not safe in Scotland snp foul mouthed thugs attacking the English visitors .
some one will be murderer rest assure its very bad for English people to be in Scotland .

the Scottish gov must put out a warning

my brother in law comes from Scotland and he can not believe the abuse of these scum . before he spoke they thought he was English he was in the black watch now a shamed of is country

should the English gov claim money back from Scotland for bailing out rbs

A raccoon riding on the back of an alligator!

David Starkey popped onto an interview with Sky News this morning to say a few things:

1. Firstly, to importantly point out that we are celebrating the WRONG Magna Carta. Apparently, it's the revised 1216 Magna Carta we should be celebrating. The initial one would have merely turned us into a Republic, whereas the revised one kicked off our utterly brilliant Parliamentary Democracy.

2. Starkey also stuck up a defending word or two in support of Nobel Prize Winner, Professor Sir Tim Hunt.

The latter has typically been nastily misinterpreted with his recent comments concerning the emotional differences of women. So much so, that the poor professor has been stripped of two honorary positions both at University College London and the Royal Society. In an interview at the weekend, Professor Hunt said that he was “finished” and that his career was at an end.

3. Starkey is in trouble with the SNP for likening them technically to the Nazi Party.

He has drawn a lengthy comparison between the messages, imagery and appeal of the Nicola Sturgeon's party and that of Hitler's Nazis.

a. He even drew parallels between Scottish men showing their knees in kilts and the Nazi enthusiasm for lederhosen.

b. The Nazis used the Swastika and the SNP have swiped the Scottisj Saltire for their own use.

c. He has accused the SNP of treating the English in the way Hitler persecuted the Jews.

d. He reminds us how the SNP have a passionate belief in economic self-sufficiency with oil, whereas the Nazis knew this as 'autarky'.

e. He claims that those who sympathise with the SNP, especially in England, are 'incapable of recognising that this is national socialism. And the nationalism is much more important than the socialism, as it was in Germany. The socialism is a very fragile, superficial thing. The nationalism is very real.'

Of course, the SNP, like wot they would, wouldn't they, have accused Starkey of being detached from reality.

Miss Oswald said: 'David Starkey's comments are irresponsible; deeply offensive to the Jewish community, the half of the Scottish electorate who voted SNP last month and 60 per cent who currently intend to vote SNP next year; and have absolutely no basis in reality.

'Does he just say the silliest thing that comes into his mind on any given day?' says
SNP MP, John Nicholson. 'He has become little more than a serial utterer of bile and bilge.'

So there we are. He makes an interesting academic point or two and which are probably brilliantly correct, but because it is 'non- PC' he gets shot down in flames. All in comparison like Professor Hunt.

I think Starkey is a fearless brilliant academic. At one time, I used to think he was just a pompous twat. Not so now, though, IMHO. In fact, I greatly admire him and also what he has to say.

Here's what 'Boris' appropriately has to say about Hunt this morning:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/society/11674257/Male-and-female-are-different-hardly-earth-shattering-news.html

That brilliant TV series, "The Clangers", is back on the box at 5:30 pm tonight. These are guys who talk to each other with 'whistles'.

Whistle Talk really caught on big time back then when it was first aired.

The secret to successful Whistle Talk is, to try to guess what the other party is actually trying to say with his/her whistles. As an understood and obvious rule, both sides always keep it simple and so the words emulated are always quite easy to guess.

Anyhow, it's taken more than 40 years, £5 million, three kilometres of wool and one Python, Michael Palin, to act as The Clangers' Narrator to get this most charming TV show going again.

More at: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-06-15/michael-palin-clangers-is-one-of-the-best-things-ive-ever-been-offered

If the government strongly believe there is imminently going to be a stock market crash and recovery is going to take more than just a short time, then doing the following now would make damn good sense:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-3119662/Osborne-sell-RBS-stake-loss-taxpayer.html