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.

Sounds like Tory Party Central Office under Lynton Crosby.

But haze as a runner should know!

What is the party membership at the moment?

Who are the party doner kebabs at the moment?

See that the one of the party faithful has been gifted a nice little earner by Boy George!

OK. This one is for a bit of debate.



1. What do you think to the way the young lady is dressed? Smart? Sexy? Obviously just asking for it? Un-deservant of respect? Well-deservant of admiration for her physique and looks? We should respect her because she is a woman?

2. What do you think to the guy who keeps on calling her a slut? Far too aggressive? Well out of order? It's nothing to do with him how she dresses? We should respect him because he has a very strong point to make? We should respect him because he is a man?

3. What do you think to the second young lady who slugs the guy hard and knocks him down? She should definitely be arrested for arrest? She is just sticking up for the poor defenseless young woman and who obviously can't look after herself?

4. The guy seems to be aggressively trying to make the point to the young lady, that in dressing like that, she lowers respect for herself and might most surely even be taken to be a prostitute or be sexually abused or attacked.

5. Onlookers sit passively by. Any that speak seem to be on the side of the young lady. Are they being truly fair? Should she be criticised?

6. So much so are they being passive, that when he gets slugged not one of them even goes to his help. And yet he has definitely been physically attacked twice.

They were actors but an interesting, if gratuitous, social experiment.

Was it a set up ? cause a bottle wouldn't knock you out like that .

However if it was real (and good on that small girl for what was a peach of a shot) i'm surprised none of the guys sat there didn't get up and knock him out ,i personally would have kicked the shit out of him

NEGATIVE INCOME TAX
i see this has been suggested as an alternative to tax credit cuts, but as far as i can see, it DISincentivises people to work, especially in the lower paid sectors- ie why work when there's a guaranteed and relatively generous safety net?

read the following and let me know what you think
hxxp://www.cityam.com/227321/there-is-an-alternative-to-the-tax-credit-cuts-saga-and-its-a-negative-income-tax?

A week to remember!

BMG asked voting intention in the European refrendum, with headline figures of
Remain 52%, Leave 48%.

ICM also released their regular EU referedum tracker earlier in the week, which had toplines of
Remain 54%, Leave 46%

I'm swayed more by 'Tanker's 'I'm going down the club' voter mates, myself.

I'm for OUT!

Importantly, I don't like un-elected representatives creating and enforcing the rules of membership. Particularly, when some of those rules are so ridiculous and damaging to our country.

I can see why Nigel Farage and his party didn't get many MPs elected in the last General Election because the main thing on the agenda was to keep Labour out. But Farage does talk a ton of sense.

Exec,

the problem with your stance, is that the "political elite" "responsible" for "governing" are not of independent minds, but bought by the media and "donors of various persuasions".

Very bad fog in London, can hardly see the bottom of the garden.

Stop drinking or get a smaller garden!

... Can't see your garden? Just as well I would have thought.

The good old days

https://youtu.be/jINZBOxdja8

Christmas count down.

Spot on Fred!

Re: #64255


But it goes for all the main three parties. (Not sure what to make of the fishwife)

Just for H/S.. Been lovely weather in Wales -):

A new record temp for UK in November.

Australia's honours system:

a. Australia began awarding its own honours in 1975 - the awards eventually replaced the existing British honours system.

b. Anyone can nominate an Australian citizen for an award for service, excellence or achievement.

c. The awarding of knighthoods and damehoods was discontinued in 1976 but brought back very briefly in 1986 - Tony Abbott reinstated them in 2014.

d. Republicans had said the honours system was an outdated remnant of colonialism.

.. Make your minds up -):

it may be "outdated", but it is also public recognition to all sorts of people for services they have provided .... certainly the recipients, with just the odd dissenter, are much appreciative

for sure there are also "oddball" nominations, but those can also be discounted

i'm all for keeping the system - it harms no one