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.

Nahh, two pussies together :0)

You're not serious !

Oh well, no wonder they do not like "dolls"

Rampant Rabbit's more their choice alders. Tarts R Us!

A Stanford University expert has claimed that computer programmes will soon be able to guess your political leaning and IQ based on photos of your face.
Dr Michal Kosinski went viral last week after publishing research suggesting artificial intelligence (AI) can tell whether someone is straight or gay based on photos.
Now the psychologist and data scientist has claimed that sexual orientation is one of many character traits the AI will be able to detect in the coming years.

Well The IQ and political leaning algorithm must be easy to write since it is clear that the more left wing you are, the thicker you are. All they have to do is take photos of the labour front bench and democratic senators/representatives and hey presto! - anyone looking like them must be pretty dumb.

Or just a picture of Fred and Stan.

:0)

Another pic of some the gormless Tories on here.

More P!ss taking on the TWO labourers

Which one is the BIG ears?
and
Which one is the Elephant ears?

Did someone mention Fred and Stan?

On a serious note : for Grenfell style towers : an outside retrofitted 100% fireproof escape staircase might be a good solution with as many accesses floor by floor as possible... solidly attached to the buildings...at least you would stand a chance in an inferno....I'm surprised nobody has thought of this....you can't fit this to every highrise but with some you probably could and with new ones : it can be installed during construction.....

Max,

Your father must have wished he had worn one.

The Trellick Tower in NW London. Had its own blaze earlier this year. Each should come with a border control officer at the entrance to the lifts. Some people only know how to brew their tea with paraffin lamps.

Agreed

There's not enough being done about stopping or deterring 'illegal tenanting', particularly in high rise blocks of flats.

And not just with tenanting but also with things like the supplies of services, too many people, who were (are?) both 'in' and 'out' of authority, had (have?) their fingers in the pie too.

I Wonder if the jobless rate fall lately is due to the said " East European" moving out of the UK for 2 reasons £ falling meaning less money to send home and Brexit so not much simpathy from the British any more


UK Unemployment Rate Lowest Since 1975

LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK jobless rate dropped unexpectedly in three months to July, data from the Office for National Statistics showed Wednesday.

The jobless rate fell to 4.3%, the lowest since 1975, the ONS said. Economists had forecast the rate to remain unchanged at 4.4%, as seen in three months to June.

There were 1.46 million unemployed people in May to July period, down by 75,000 from three months to April.

The employment rate came in at 75.3%, the highest since records began in 1971.

In August, the claimant count held steady at 2.3%. The number of people claiming unemployment benefits fell 2,800 after declining 2,900 in July.

Average earnings including bonus climbed 2.1% from the previous year, slower than the expected rate of 2.3%.

Have you a chart of UK hours actually worked?

And another of self-employed with a distribution or a description of "new jobs"?

You wouldn't understand it Fred.

Watch out, there is a Dumbo about!

re - Have you a chart of UK hours actually worked?

I do hope you can read it.

With apologies to my Irish friends..

Guy goes to a bar and asks the bartender:
“You hear the latest Irish joke?"
The barman says, "I should warn you, I’m Irish".
So the guy says, "All right then, I’ll tell it slowly".