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.

Glad to see you accept your situation Fred1.

An amended version from Lewis Carroll for the old Sage Fred1:

“You are old, Fred1,” the young man said,
“And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head –
Do you think, at your age, it is right?”

“In my youth,” Fred1 replied to his son,
“I feared it might injure the brain;
But, now that I’m perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again.”

:-)

The old Lewis Carroll jokes are often the best.

Re: Charging in the NHS

On the off-chance the staff on the front line of 'who would be doing the job of asking for the money' might get into an argument with patients or maybe a bit of a harder task of work to have to do, it's no wonder they get away with the really good excuse:

"We are so overworked with what we have to do already, without taking on even more work in the doing all the admin for billing and chasing down non-payers, etc, etc."

The NHS needs a total re-think and a total re-organisation from top to bottom and to include care for the sick and elderly too. It also needs a re-think about euthanasia.

Exec.

Are you volunteering for Euthanasia?

Take Clockwork and a few others with you.

Perhaps, TM and JH.

"Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak –
Pray, how did you manage to do it?”

“In my youth,” said Fred1, “I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life.”

Thanks to Lewis Carroll.

Lewis Carroll? Blimey, you boys sure know how to enjoy yourselves. S'pose you'll be onto Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wordsworth Longfellow next.

:o)

Who?

Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.



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But I can remember Polly Garter.

Did you use Polly Garter to hold your stockings up, Fred? :o)

Our diet was Lord Tennyson when at school to instill standards of steadfastness and give us back bone.

The Charge of the Light Brigade:

Instead, it made many of us question authority and those that thought of themselves as leaders,thinking their pupils would follow the idiots orders in the name of the Queen and Country.

The likes of Tony Blair still send the Country to War, convinced they are great leaders but these days many are not willing to be thrown into battle and become cattle fodder, just to be remembered in a Poem that portrays them as hero`s.

War is evil. Power corrupts.

My Mam wouldn't let me play with Polly Garter.

I tried to change my name to Willy Wee!

The life of a No 10 dog.

The Army's new recruitment campaign - Body bags don't discriminate.

KidA - that is why religion is used as a tool of power, be it Christian or any other religion, its used to indoctrinate those that are weak minded, in the belief they will go to a better place once they have sacrificed their body (and taken others with them) for the aims of their leaders, whom use the foot soldiers to uphold their power.

Agreed about religion and more besides.

Agreed about not stupidly following stupid orders, too.

I haven't tried this myself because we don't have a cat - but I do have a car. Have just replaced all my socks too.

How to make a homemade car dehumidifier

Foggy windscreens can take ages to clear when your heater is warming up. Here’s a quick and easy fix.

You will need:

An old sock
Some cat litter

Fill a sock with clean cat litter, and tie a knot in the sock. Put it on the dashboard next to the windscreen. The cat litter soaks up the moisture in the air, which means your windscreen won’t be foggy and coated in condensation in the mornings.

Brilliant idea. Just need to get a cat.
Probably easier to throw all that worthless junk out of the garage and put that expensive motor in instead.

Whenever I have had a pussy in my car, all the windows steam up, not just the dashboard.

My 'steaming up the car windows' days are over, too - fortunately and unfortunately.

Great memories, though!

Maybe instead of cat litter, you could use dog poo from a litter bin.

79841 - a popular MISquotatation ....... the whole is actually "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men" though the last sentence is generally omitted


79845 - does your soft diatribe (over-generalised bollocks anyway) apply to the Quakers? ..... i think not