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.

RF at least the Man U supporters recognised that scousers are not muppets; that is reserved for those east and northeast of Runcorn. :)
Nice close up of Fred Jimmy. That's Stan and 'is mates at the club. I believe Stan is the dickhead at the front left.
Sorry, it is a slow day...

Stan is a dickhead everywhere

On the subject of scousers, did anyone catch the replay of an audience with Ken Dodd over the Christmas? He was absolutely brilliant.
One misconception is that he invented the place Knotty Ash, along with the diddy men etc. In fact he came from Knotty Ash. His brother was the local coal merchant. As a teenager, I first saw the Beatles play at Knotty Ash village hall. I dont if it is still there. It was across the road from Alder Hey Hospital.

Ken Dodd?

He is/was amazing. :-)

We watched the majority of the latter part of it.

The man is a true comic genius. His memory and ability to recall, his delivery, his 'staying power' are utterly phenominal! He had an excellent singing voice too. His ventriloquism is so atrociously bad, he could get the audience totally cracked up with laughter from the performance of it.

If you go to one of his live shows, which we did about a decade or so ago, you get a very strong feeling you aren't going to get out of the theatre before at least 1am - and that if you do decide to leave, you are going to have to go well before he does!),

Like Bob Monkhouse, he must keep a massive store of material and have access to a very big 'library' of jokes and humorous work.

Doddy is famous for beating the 'Tax Man' in a high court 'trial by jury' and from it one could deduce and suppose how he used to take a lot of his theatre fees 'in cash'. Since the jury was comprised of Liverpudlians then the trial result at the time was a laugh in itself.

He is getting and very old now (b. 8.11.1927) and still does a few shows a year, I believe.

The TV show to which we are referring showed many of his theatrical peers in the audience and lots of them have now popped their clogs. I found it fascinating to see how today, he has outlasted so many of them.

I think, that when he dies, his funeral will be massive.

HMRC will have a large contingent there

At his trial for tax evasion, the judge asked what it was like to have a hundred thousand pounds in a suit case to which he replied "the notes are very light M'Lord".
His lawyer was asked how Dodd could account for the money to which the lawyer replied "accountants can be very good comedians but comedians make very bad accountants". He was acquited by the jury.

If only Lester Piggott could have told a few jokes , and the court was at Newmarket

can't remember which football manager also escaped with some insane excuse as to why he had a swiss bank a/c in his dog's name

Was it Redknap . Harry .

Stan who did you vote for.
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TULIP SIDDIQ WHAT A PRICE PILLOCK A EVIL SCUMBAG
TRUMP IS BY FAR BETTER THAN HER AND SPEAKS THE TRUTH UNLIKE HER
IGNORANT PERSON JUST A RACIST IN MY VIEW OF HER RAMBLINGS YESTERDAY

I BET SHE WILL NEVER ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ON THOSE THAT WANT TO KILL US

haven't we got rid of you yet to that outpost of a veritable cesspit of corruption in the atlantic?

Nevertheless I don't recall hearing or reading about the condemnation of so called 'hate preachers' of which there were/are many over a number of years, from Tulip Siddiq.
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I wonder if this was Ma Merkels endgame plan?

By accident or design, Schengen is history, poss the €U as well.



http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-18/countdown-end-eu-officials-say-europe-going-down-drain

Who doesn't want to see Jeremy Corbyn elected? It would be a glorious six-day reign

Frankie Boyle

Corbyn sounds like a dreadful town, dresses like a catalogue model for the Sue Ryder shop and won’t look significantly different when he’s been dead for a week. It took him so long to bring out his reshuffle statement that people were counting his milk bottles. The Tories have been offering us a cocktail of incompetence and malice and Labour haven’t done anything to draw attention to it. It’s been like watching Mesut Özil drop perfect crosses on to the head of an increasingly frustrated Stephen Hawking. Even Labour MPs must secretly wish they could stop knocking Corbyn and focus their attack on their real enemy, the party membership.

And yet, who doesn’t want to see Corbyn elected? Can you think of anything more ridiculous than a man of principle being inexplicably elected to high office? It’ll be like a Peter Sellers movie. Sure, he’ll be crushed under the heel of international finance, but I for one look forward to his glorious six-day premiership. His brief reign will be a high point for modern Britain, a time that we will commemorate every year by leaving ironic poppies balanced on the lip of the missile crater where his house used to be, a time we will reminisce about fondly during the five-minute socialisation breaks when they lower the dividing walls between our work cubes.

This weekend’s interview with Andrew Marr was, at least, refreshingly straightforward. Corbyn said he’d like to see talks with Isis. Almost immediately the shadow chancellor said he couldn’t imagine anyone having talks with Isis. I applaud Corbyn’s aims but at this stage I’d like to see him open up a back channel of communication with his shadow cabinet. He said he’d keep Trident, but get rid of the nuclear warheads. This is classic Corbyn. He’s using his experience from the allotment and what he’s saying is, let’s put the nuclear weapons in the shed. He’s not throwing them out, and he’s not giving them away. He’s putting them in a cardboard box, and sticking them on the top shelf. We know where they are if we need them, but also they’re up high, so no one’s going to stumble across them and get hurt. He added that he “cannot see circumstances where you would use nuclear weapons”. Might I suggest that he tunes into Lip Sync Battle on Channel 5.

There’s been a thread of coverage implying that Corbyn is a decent guy but he clearly doesn’t understand how the world works. Ignoring the fact that for the majority of people, it doesn’t. Corbyn is in a unique position: he knows that the media is trying to portray him as slightly mad, but can’t mention this without sounding completely insane. Coverage is undoubtedly biased. Take, for example, the recent reshuffle, which forced the media to conclude that he was both weak and ruthless. Corbyn hiring more women than men was ignored, whereas Cameron hiring a one-third female cabinet was hailed as a triumph for feminism. In any case, feeling good about ourselves simply for allowing some kind of plurality in public life probably means that we’re a fairly dreadful country. Canada has just appointed a cabinet 50% female with indigenous, Sikh and disabled members. And that’s Canada, a country with all the daring forward-thinking of a defrosting lasagne.

The rest is here

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/19/frankie-boyle-jeremy-corbyn-elected-destroyed-murdoch

SIDDIQ

DONALD TRUMP SPEAKS THE TRUTH AND FACTS
and this gutless woman wants him banned from the uk
she never and never will speak out about the scum muslims
abusing and raping children thousands of them by hundreds
of muslim men
muslims leaving to join isis for the free raping and sex and murder

one man tells the truth and she speaks it about sums her up
will never speak out in public of their low life crimes
yes I have sent her letters for her reply she has not the truth hurts and fact

400,000 muslims take to twitter on orders from the clerics

I posted on here about the job loses that are coming over the next 18 months
well it is going to be far worse than thought .
the whole of Europe to go in to deep recession .
the worse than 1926
and gov have no way of paying out more benefits
the uk for the unemployed is going to be terrible
for the single people over 50 it will be hell