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.

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

http://news.sky.com/story/1502450/sepp-blatter-could-stay-as-fifa-president

Sepp Blatter could remain as FIFA president if a "convincing candidate" to replace him does not emerge, one of his closest advisers has told Sky News.

Klaus Stöhlker, who acted as Mr Blatter's official adviser during the recent election campaign, said he is actively considering reversing his promise to stand down.

His comments come two weeks after Mr Blatter dramatically announced he would resign.

In a statement FIFA said: "Klaus Stöhlker's mandate from the FIFA President ended on 31 May 2015. The FIFA President would like to point to his remarks from 2 June."

In his resignation speech on that day Mr Blatter said he was going because he did not feel he had the support of the entire football world, and that he would not be a candidate in the emergency election.

Topline figures in the first post-election ICM poll are CON 37%, LAB 31%, LDEM 8%, UKIP 13%, GRN 5%.

Is the "Blotter" friends with Robert?

over the years muslims have been saying how close their families are well
we can now see they are not loving families .
let them go but do not allow them back .
we do not care let all those that want to go put on planes to take them .
one way tickets

FWIW (not much!) ...... just in from reuters ....

Greek centrist party calls on Tsipras to reach deal soon
ATHENS (Reuters) - The leader of Greece's centrist To Potami party called on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday to reach a deal with the country's creditors and said his party was ready to back in parliament any agreement which kept Greece in the euro zone.
Stavros Theodorakis said Tsipras told him there were still "two or three" steps Athens could take to break an impasse in talks with its lenders, provided the lenders also backed down as well.
"I called on the prime minister to consider that the Greek economy is desperately close to its limits," Theodorakis told reporters after meeting Tsipras. "Greek society is suffering from the constant postponement of a deal," he said.

If Greece does exit the Euro : I presume they will still owe Germany, France etc....the same amount or does Europe call it quits ?....I bet nobody in Europe can answer that !....

i recollect reading that Germany (in whatever guise) was owed € 57bn ...... mere bagatelle :-)

Anyone speak German?

Ja !....(only like Buster Merryfield in only fools and horses)....

Vot ist ja naeme ?

Loosely translated, it means somebody from Euro-Group feeds the German media with a story about Greek capital controls, which the Greek government are forced to deny, but which the German government decline to comment upon, which heaps even more pressure on Greece because Greek depositors scramble to get their money out of the bank and under the mattress, which would lead to insolvency within the Greek banking system, which would be a just reason for the ECB not to provide ELA to the Greeks later this week, which would force Greece out of EZ.

Of course, Syriza might like to survive politically, in which case they could always back down and accept the austerity measures, although that might make it impossible for Syriza to survive politically.

They will still owe the money, but be bankrupt. In other words, they will not have the means to repay. The debt will follow them and they will get no credit. They will have to impose lots of controls such as ATM limits, corporate spending limits, all imports requiring permission, capital controls. All imports will have to be paid for in advance. There will be food, basic supplies and fuel shortages. The country will have no money to pay pensions, civil servants etc.

Any lenders will wait a very long time to be repaid. No developed country has ever defaulted on IMF loans, ECB loans and major bank loans. Leaving the Euro and probably the EU will be a catastrophe for Greece.

On the bright side it will mean very cheap holidays there for us.

And possibly a Naval base in the Med for Russia in exchange for funding!!!!!

What are Greek islands worth?

In that sort of state would you want to holiday there Haystack ?? ,

shame as i love Greece ..

ken Clarke the most dishonest person in gov as always been dishonest

Greece will still be fine for holidays. It was only a few years ago that it was almost a third world country.