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.

if you are not picky. Overpriced and overhyped.
On more important matters, I had the misfortune to drive through Slough yesterday and was twice nearly collected by Asian "drivers" - maybe graduates from the Karachi School of Motoring. Once when I had to turn right on a mini-roundabout and the oncoming bearded wonder clearly had never learnt when to give way and the other when a burkha-clad woman, who could scarely see over the dashboard, decided to do a U turn. Now I have a thing about burkhas, but surely they must impair vision when driving.

come friendly bombs and fall on slough; it is not fit for humans now; rain on death

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btw, much more likely to be a hijab (or a variation thereof) which does not impede the vision at all, and is the most common form of head covering worn by muslim women

Definitely a burka. Now banned in much of Europe, let alone for driving. I have no issue with the hijab, but as usual we trail the EU in many matters. Sopping wet politicians.

full burka covers everything including the eyes - i'm sure it would be illegal to drive while wearing same!

half-way house is a niqab where the eyes are left uncovered

Niqab then. But whereas the Niqab has a veil head cover, this one was wearing the pot associated with a burka, without the eye cover.

Would driving a AI vehicle with a full burka be any difference to being in one as a passenger with the left wing confused posters on here, that fume when talking about the Rees-Mogg`s of this world, that can at least remain calm when confronted by left wing Labour bigots that want to promise everything, have no idea how to pay for anything and would drive the country down the road of ruin, if they were every to be elected to the offices of running the country.

Iturama,

"as usual we trail the EU in many matters."

Hmmm. :o)

I tell you what...driving you can't see a thing with a Burka turned sideways on.....

..euhhh...please don't ask what I get up to......

You feeling ok rf? Best lie down for a while.

I am not a regretful Brexiteer Hilary, I would still vote out, but I recognise that the Commission has done some good work with standards and competition. Also that there are many politicians in the EU with more backbone than our spineless lot. Much of what we complain about is entirely within our own power to resolve, if we had the will, but the mass immigration encouraged by Blair and his ilk has made it politically a lot more difficult. That was the intent.

Life's too short for regrets, iturama. :o)

Fwiw, there are many in Europe who are unhappy with the EU. Our German neighbours fear that Germany has been wrecked by immigration. When we go down to Geneve, the locals complain about all of the mosques. And in our local town in the south of France last summer, there were hundreds of posters appearing on trees and lamposts questioning why immigration was such a taboo.

Equally, I don't think it's right that the UK, Germany and France contribute the vast majority of the EU's GDP, yet only get a 1/28 say each on what goes on.

So, whilst I don't necessarily agree that leaving the EU is the solution, and whilst I don't think Brexit will materially change anything in the way that Brexiters think it will, I do totally get why people voted to leave.

Morning, folks.

Today is 'Fat Cat Thursday'. That's the day in the year when the average FTSE 100 CEO has now earned as much one of his average workers will do in a full year.

It truly is a very ponderous fact and makes you think a little bit about it. 4 days isn't a tremendously long length of time, is it?

Have you always had this uncanny knack of cheering us up EL. lol

It's a bit obscene when you think they will get their mondiflous irrespective of whether they improve or trash the company

hils - i think there is also a strong move away from brussels in nl and quite a few other member states who contribute rather than take

I'm sure you're right, Cyners.

And whilst we're on the subject of ills within the EU, is it right that Luxembourg, Malta and Cyprus, with a combined population of just over 2 million, should each have a 1/28 say of what goes on in the EU?

no more than it is right that the great unwashed of both sexes should have a vote in anything :-)

but in more serious mode, there is just so much wrong with the way EU is currently structured, and with a massive increase in budget expenditure already telegraphed, i am now glad that i voted"out", albeit that it was with considerably misgivings at the time

Apparently, the UK has 0.88% of the World population.

How much respect should be given to their opinion in the United Nations?

Ummh?

How much does size. wealth, individual earning power, education and skill levels of population or country validate their "power" to be heard or vote in an organisation?

ummmmmmh.

a lot when they're contributing the funds to keep whichever organisation afloat ...... akin to being a serious shareholder

I see you respect Trump!

only when he makes a fine job of turnbury golf course