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.

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".

Mental,

Thank you.

Most helpful.

PS.

Restart your medication!

B!tch Freda

Just go to school and learn how to read it.



Len McCluskey will teach you how to lick @rses

RSI, I should see someone about your obvious problems before they get worse.

Apparently the earth is definitely flat.

A guy took a flight from North Carolina to Seattle, duly armed with a spirit level to check if the pilot would dip the nose of the plane to “compensate for curvature”.

Throughout the main part of the flight (ie. excluding initially doing the climbing and also the descending for landing) the spirit level bubble kept steady in the middle.

The guy concluded, that because the pilot had not needed to dip the plane for curvature compensation, the earth was proven to be flat.

QED

Prisoner 'trapped' in jail for 11 years to be released

A man who has served 11 years in prison for what was a 10-month sentence is to be released, the Parole Board has said.

James Ward was sentenced under Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP), after he set fire to his bed while in jail for actual bodily harm.

The 33-year-old has mental health problems and has regularly self-harmed while serving his indefinite sentence.

The Probation Service is working to find Mr Ward a hostel and mental health support in the coming weeks.

Mr Ward's sister April said: "We are over the moon, my dad can't stop grinning.
"My dad hasn't grinned for years. I can't stop crying or smiling.

"James is not a risk to the public, he's only ever been a risk to himself, and with the right support we can get him there."

Prisoner 'suicidal' 11 years into 10-month jail term
Man 'trapped' in jail for 10 years

'I thought about ending my life'
'Get a grip' on IPP prisoners

Ms Ward told Radio 4's Today programme she had yet to speak to her brother about his release and was unsure of whether he even knew that he was to be freed.

"He's got no hope. He will be very surprised of the release today because it's taken over 10 years for this result to happen."

Mr Ward, from Sutton-in-Ashfield, in Nottinghamshire, was serving a sentence in 2006 after getting into a fight with his father Bill.

But unable to cope with prison life, he set fire to the mattress in his cell, leading a judge to give him an IPP, which has no release date.

There is nothing like having a BIG mouth, instead of inflating your body like the animals in order to look BIG.......

North Korea Calls For Bombing Of Japan And Reduction Of US To 'ashes'

SEOUL (Alliance News) - A North Korean foreign relations committee has issued a new round of threats against the US and its allies following the approval of new UN sanctions, warning that Japanese islands should be "sunken into the sea" and the US reduced to "ashes and darkness."

The UN Security Council passed new punitive measures on Monday in response to Pyongyang's claim it had tested a hydrogen bomb on September 3.

The sanctions seek to curb key sources of income for North Korea by limiting oil exports, banning textile exports and outlawing money transfers by the country's expatriate workers.

"The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche," said the country's Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, according to state news agency KCNA.

The Vice Chancellor of Huddersfield University ( yes, Huddersfield has a university - hope for Burnley yet) was awarded a 67% pay increase despite Huddersfield being 72 in the universities ranking. 72!? How many universities are there in the UK? In my day it was difficult to think of more than 12.
Well there are 129 on the university guide list, the lanterne rouge being proudly held by Suffolk. Make that Suffer.
Is the UK really better off for Blair's educational revolution? In an age when the phones are smarter than most of the users, I don't think so.