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.

For the greenest U-tun ever!

A sad joke!

fracking
has been used for years and years and years all over the world with, as far as i know, no serious incident of any kind such as those propounded by the "anti mob"
it is also worth noting that wytch farm in purbeck (dorset) is effectively invisible, yet has been pumping oil for a good many years

on the other hand ......
wind turbines
are truly ugly and highly visibly (unless you're in love with pylons straggling the highlands and similar) and, so i am led to believe, are actually quite noisy en masse - or at least they are when they actually function


in conclusion
and as usual, fred's nonsense is, as usual, exactly that

Wytch if that is the name is surrounded by conifers....

exactly so, but the point is that these installations if properly managed are not necessarily a blot on the landscape

indeed, some of the french motorways are similarly well camouflaged and integrated into their surroundings, often with significant wetlands or similar created

You drive the A75 from Beziers up to Clermont Ferrand and don't do it in a rush....free (except for the bridge) and fantastic countryside.....pont de millau.....etc....the motorway is 900m to 1100m altitude all the way....amazing....

Anyway.....oilrigs and nodding nellys really need vegetation around them.......

The reason that stretch of road is free, required field, is because the Auvergne is one of the poorest areas of France. I believe the region receives state aid which they used to fund infrastructure work such as the A75.

The road is fun to drive in good conditions, but it can get very wet sometimes and be a bit scary at night.

their is more chance of cynic being the pm than Greece being kicked out
its all a game while the eu mps make loads of money via corruption they are all crooks and liars

Russia has said this morning, that they may give money to Greece.

Whats the catch?

TANKER if cynic was to join the Labour party the odds wouldn't be that long if you look at the competition !!

Denmark’s first female prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, has conceded defeat and resigned as leader of her party after her coalition government lost the election to the centre-right opposition.

Thorning-Schmidt told party members she will step down as prime minister and leader of the Social Democratic party on Friday after Denmark became the latest European nation to experience a surge in rightwing populism.

In her resignation speech, she said: “Every single day the responsibility has been mine. I stand by the decisions I have made … I am Denmark’s first female prime minister, but I won’t be the last.”

The strong showing for rightwing parties in the Nordic nation also delivers David Cameron a potentially vital ally in Europe for his bid to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s membership of the EU. Finland and Norway already have rightwing populists in government.

Labour is looking for a leader who can lose with dignity

Telegraph View: Labour's leadership contest is haunted by the past. Especially by Comrade Corbyn in his Lenin cap


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11685015/Labour-is-looking-for-a-leader-who-can-lose-with-dignity.html

Fred better not apply for the job then !!

Manuel wouldn't even get a job as a "waiter" in the labour party.

Mind as long as he stays on his knees before his icon, the "leader" may notice him and pat him on his head!




(I will choose the bottle to pat him with!)

After the IMF met Greek ministers yesterday, the IMF said they needed to talk to adults.

Implying that the Greeks are children.

Children are not responsible for their parents debts.

Good point.

The parents of the debts are now hiding themselves abroad.

Good point.

The parents of the debts are now hiding themselves abroad.