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.

It's clear from Newsnight last night that many women were attacked in Sweden on New Year as well as Germany.

I hope all this makes these leaders wake up and realise , don't sh-t on your people look after them . I think this period is the worst Europe will see since the war .

I believe Finnish women were also the victims of similar attacks. With their open door policy Merkel and her cohorts will bring about the demise of their European dream. They totally ignored the fears of millions of ordinary Europeans in order to fuel their dream, they even censored the media and the police, now it has back-fired.
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Re Brexit----Cameron needs to realise that when you try (unsuccessfully) to con the electorate they may just vote against you, just for spite.
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This is Cams biggest worry to me people may just change their tune and see through all this hype .

Cameron got it badly wrong ,he only offered a EU vote because UKIP were looking strong at the time ,however this will backfire on him ,i really believe we will vote out ,maybe just wishful thinking on my part but we will see hundreds of thousands trying to cross in to Europe this year and that will have an impact.

He is creating an uneven playing field for the Stay/Leave debate.
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''we will see hundreds of thousands trying to cross in to Europe this year and that will have an impact''.-----If the media is allowed to report it JB.
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Of course there will be a big push to get in here before any measures are taken , we will need the army no doubt . Bad times ahead .

Well worth a read, if you have a mobile phone and spend more than £15 -£18 per month on it:

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/mobile-phone-cost-cutting?utm_source=MSE_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=12-Jan-16-v3&utm_campaign=nt-bignote-one&utm_content=7#0percentcard

The subject of mobile phones and phone deals can get very boring....

But did you know, that if your phone is included in your deal, then you might easily be paying a loan charge with an APR of 46% to your phone deal company for supplying it to you.

If so, why not buy the phone straight off and then get a Sim-Only deal? If you can't get yourself a better phone buying deal, than one that costs you 46% interest then it's time to give up buying stuff all together, isn't it?

It's just, that no one ever asks the phone company what the APR loan cost of including the phone actually is. This is your main buying crime. I suppose we could just call this crime 'mystic blissful ignorance'.

I use one of these ,i have 3 other new ones in case this breaks ,sad but true ...

the common market
at the previous referendum on this subject (1972 i think), it was said that the uk electorate was only concerned about the price of butter

this time, the electorate will only concern itself with the immigration problem

From one of my heros....

“There are no Christians, as far as I know, blowing up buildings,” Richard Dawkins was quoted as saying in an interview with the Times. “I am not aware of any Christian suicide bombers. I am not aware of any majority Christian denomination that believes the penalty for apostasy is death.”

He then spoke of the decline of Christianity in Europe as if it were a bad thing.

“I have mixed feelings about the decline of Christianity,” Dawkins said, “in so far as Christianity might be a bulwark against something worse.”

JB

Aha! I see this called the Nokia 1600.

The Nokia 1600 is a part of Nokia's Ultrabasic series of mobile phones released in 2006. The 1600 is designed for prepaid mobile phone services and is related to the Nokia 1100. It is notable in that it was originally released specifically to be used by customers in developing countries. The phone is noted for its durability and resilience to accidental drops.

The Nokia 1600 mobile has a speaking clock, which was a novel feature when the phone was launched in 2005. A user could use the speaking clock by pressing the asterisk ("*") button during the display of the home screen.

The phone also includes a ringtone composer which allows creating custom ringtones. Pre-composed ringtones can be transferred through a data cable.

The phone has a basic calculator which can perform only addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

There are 14 pre-defined themes with 14 wallpapers and menu backgrounds.

The menu features animated icons.

In Europe the Nokia 1600 includes the following three video games pre-installed on the system:

Xenzia, Rapid Roll and Soccer League.

I have used these for years and i never knew it had a speaking clock ,i'm over the moon ! probably explains why i don't use an i phone ..

Fred must be ill (been sick for years), not one comment on his beloved Conservative gov't this morning :0) Nothing trivial I hope.

The number of CoE attendees at church has fallen below 1m for the first time. The numbers have fallen 12% in the last 10 years.

EL - weren't both sides of the irish conflict christians?

Cynic

Indeed, they were (but only theoretically).

Haystack

Now we all like a bloody good sing song, don't we? Well I do, even though my singing voice is truly utterly, utterly terrible.

The trouble is, removing singing along to a song played in the car, there are very few opportunities for us to exercise our voices singing. And not very many to sing along with others (other than, say the Cup Final or the National Anthem).

I think it would be interesting to take out of the C of E total attendance figures, the attendance numbers for Christmas Eve and similar dates for such services as the 'Carol Services', 'Midnight Mass', and the like. I guess we all of us know the words for these Christmas Carols and like a good blast at our own efforts with them.

So, what am I saying?

I believe such church attendances are taken just to do a bit of 'a sing a long' rather then for religious attendance to say, have 'a one to one with the Christian God'.

Do you agree?