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.

.. and not a woolly jumper in sight -):

Stan,

is somebody out of touch?

NHS nursing levels: Nine in 10 hospitals missing targets

Reaching dangerous levels!


Tory propaganda, to frighten patients from going to hospital.

Here's one for Fred , might cheer him up for xmas instead of constantly bleating on about saving the world.

fred - nor was margaret thatcher! .......

it's only you who has this total fixation with where people were educated and their background ...... until yesterday, i had no idea about either for JM, nor for that matter 99% of all politicians both past and present, and nor do i care except from passing interest

Anyone use E.ON for gas and electricity supply?


Better check your bill.


Quote for the next 12 months/fixed price tariffs.

Electricity + 30%

Gas + 29%


They just lost a customer.

I have switched to First Utility.

maxK - Well worth a look on a site called uswitch to get price comparisons. EON was on there a couple of months back with fixed tariffs . The tariffs were well below what they stated on their own site. On ringing them, they are not allowed to put out that you will find elec and gas cheaper from them on the site I mentioned,then on their own website.

Thanks for the heads up, I'll have a look.

Well worth it Max, the fixed tariffs were way down on your figures.

Manuel,

P 66511

Backgrounds of people I meet are usually interesting to me.

The following is crudely put.

I have always thought that individuals develop in response to their childhood environments and their exposure to the behaviour patterns of others.

Their earlier the exposures have the more influential effects on future behaviour, traits, characteristics, “morality” and “patterns, or models of thinking” and ”similar in some ways to religious indoctrination” and more important the individuals valuation and methods of relating to others.

Some of the features of “boarding” school culture is the development of sophisticated “gang” culture as well as often a self-confidence. Sometimes, the latter is justified, but it often presents itself arrogance and overvaluation of themselves.

These features are often carried on into later life and coupled with cosseted and advantaged adolescent lead to their detachment from the from the Madding Crowd

I see the need for Public Schools if only to protect children from dysfunctional parenting at home.

However, I do object to some of the public finances be granted to the running costs and upkeep of them.

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Again would add that when my children were young, I did consider doing a job, which meant myself and wife spending long periods abroad, and part of the consideration was “boarding schools” for the children.

My wife didn’t like the option, as she wanted to play a major part of their development.
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Anyway, enjoy your Xmas and try not to offend to many people over the “holiday period".

Haze.

Do I see blood on Cameron's hands, or is that just from Syria and Libya?



Ps if you don't know, ask JB or Lynton.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/14158028.Marianne_Taylor__Corby_needs_a_Christmas_miracle/

So, which political party leader would you least like to spend Christmas with? It’s a tough one, I know. I reckon if nothing else you’d get a pretty good dinner round at David Cameron’s. Chez Sturgeon might be quite good fun - I saw an interview with the First Minister’s mum and dad during the general election campaign and they seemed like a good laugh. No, I can honestly say I’d least like to spend it with Jeremy Corbyn. Not only is Jezza a vegetarian - nice nut roast with parsnips from the allotment as we all sing a few verses of the Red Flag? - but I’ll bet there will also be a distinct lack of Christmas cheer at his gaff. I know he probably doesn’t read those pesky newspapers, but surely even he can see he’s doomed?

..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Stan,

Ask Hays about the splits in the Con party.

Why they won't allow the "cabinet ministers" to be honest in the EU referendum?

Mind this government would find it difficult to be honest about their own names".

What a party.

Splits held together by mutual greed!

Not Corbyn, but close enough in most ways

Before they kick him out:

Watch David Cameron Get Angry At 'Self-Righteous' Labour MPs During PMQs

watch it is fullscreen.

He represents the present party of cons.http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/10/21/watch-david-cameron-get-angry-at-labour-mp-during-pmqs_n_8345558.html


He is a winner!

Ask haze!

an icon to live upto.

fred - two children of the same parents and brought up in exactly the same way will often if not usually turn out totally differently ..... in simple terms, one may exceed potential while the other becomes a cokehead ....... no real rhyme or reason, and probably not even directly attributable to the parenting skills or lack of them

likewise with schooling ....... some children will thrive at a boarding school and others not; some will thrive in a school that is strongly academically inclined, where another will prosper better where the arts are more prevalent

though a child can be guided to a fair extent, a stable family environment even in the background will have more influence and is much more important ..... however, at the end of the day, it is the innate nature of the child that will form the adult

It is the interpretation of events and parental-child responses and retrospectively it can make.

hough a child can be guided to a fair extent, a stable family environment even in the background will have more influence and is much more important .

Removing a child from a "stable background", whatever that is influential on the development.

Innate, depends on what you referring to.

But certainly some children are better off of the clutches of their natural parents when fostered out to more stable environments, where they can develop without the vagrancies of their natural parents.


But mature well-balanced parents can adapt to their children's' needs, even if some will deny or be oblivious to their need for help to do so.


Think if your parents had had a little help you might be perfect by now!

8- )