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.

I love him ,great guy ,for me he maybe the man who saved Great Britain..

you're entitled to that view, and i usually enjoy listening to him speak, but do you not think he has now blotted his copybook rather badly?

i know it's early days, but i also like the way tm is presenting herself, and very calmly and efficiently getting on with her biz as pm ..... no spin, no histrionics but quietly determined and focused

I said earlier i would rather he had not joined Trump on that stage.

As for May i'll go with you on that so far so good . I am cautious about Brexit because i wanted out more than Farage did .

Boris and Farage's good old tory standards.

To hell with the NHS, it costs too much and private insurance is better for the country.

Fred(the shred of the truth)...You need to get your facts right, Nigel Farage
stated on many occasions that the 350 million pounds wasn't the amount sent
to Brussels every week, he stated correctly it was 34 MILLION POUNDS a day
NET.

And even the 'official Leave side said that an extra '100' million pounds a week
could be used from the savings for the NHS.

Last weekend 15 year old Jackson Page from Ebbw Vale won the World Under 18's Snooker title in Belgium.

Now if only me and his uncle Craig had chucked a few quid on him to win the Snooker World Championship before he is 25 back in 2013 then we could have been laughing in a few years time :-)

And before anyone asks ... 500/1 but they would only let us have £10 each on him at two different bookies.

I'm looking forward to watching some more 'F1 roundie-roundie' this afternoon and watching Lewis Hamilton go right through the pack from the back and then actually even win the race.

That should put him about 2nd to Andy Murray in Sportsman of the Year, IMHO.

With 3rd place for the man who fell down and then got back up to go on and win the gold medal in the 10,000m race, namely Mo Farah.

AP
BREAKING: Germany's economy minister says free trade talks between the European Union and the United States have failed.

I'd suggest that A. Brownlee should be up there as a contender in the sportsman
of the Year award, as not only 'running' 10.000m he swam, and cycled as well.

ONE AFTER ANOTHER..

further to Haystacks post:


Sigmar Gabriel, who is also Germany's Vice Chancellor, said Sunday that "in my opinion the negotiations with the United States have de facto failed, even though nobody is really admitting it."

He noted that in 14 rounds of talks the two sides haven't agreed on a single common chapter out of 27 chapters being discussed.



http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_EUROPE_US_TRADE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-08-28-07-11-36

Well done, Lewis (and the rest of your team), to come right from the very back and manage a podium position 3rd place!

It helps to have friends who can pull levers...


http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/aug/28/luciana-berger-i-have-been-contending-with-issues-surrounding-my-safety-and-security-for-years

Good Queen May sitting on her thorn.

Probably always been that way, just more obvious these days. There should be a rule that an MP should be from the constituency which they represent. Can't be that difficult to find someone from 75,000 people better than the mini royalty that currently exists when choosing candidates, particularly labour candidates.

Never mind middle age or old age, you really know your time is nearly done when you enter a new geological age. One where political dinosaurs roam the concrete jungles.
The rapid industrialisation of the last century has caused the Earth to enter its first new geological epoch in more than 11,500 years, scientists believe.
An international team of researchers say the worldwide spread of plastics, new metals and concrete, combined with manmade climate change, has pushed the planet into the Anthropocene epoch.
While human activity has left visible traces on the Earth since before the current Holocene epoch, which begun around 9,700 BC, the scientists argue that the recent changes to global systems are sufficiently simultaneous and significant to justify the adoption of a new geological time unit characterised by human domination.

Being the Graun, of course it has an agenda, but worth a look if only for the graphic.


https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/29/declare-anthropocene-epoch-experts-urge-geological-congress-human-impact-earth



I think the argument goes like this:

Get rid of general humanity, and leave a pristine earth for the entitled (plus a few slaves)

R.I.P Gene wilder

When I looked at P73268 I thought it was a cartoon of Cameron's downfall.