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.

The trots are coming..


https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/a-red-hot-civil-war-is-raging-for-control-of-jeremy-corbyns-no-10-rmb7gh2xv

"Ken Dodd's dad's dog's died."

Sorry. I won't say that again. It's not really so funny now.

Comedy legend Sir Ken Dodd has died aged 90 and just two days after getting married, his publicist has announced.

His publicist Robert Holmes told the Press Association: “To my mind, he was one of the last music hall greats. There is no-one else that comes close. He passed away in the home that he was born in over 90 years ago. He’s never lived anywhere else. It’s absolutely amazing. With Ken gone, the lights have been turned out in the world of variety. He was a comedy legend and a genius.”

He said of his marriage: “He asked Anne if she wanted to marry. They got the registrar and were married in the house on Friday.


The star with his partner Anne Jones (Yui Mok/PA)

“He died two days later on Mother’s Day. Anne is obviously very upset. They had been together for 40 years. It’s a love story to beat them all.”

Sir Ken, known for his unruly hair and teeth, performed his very last show just months ago, at The Auditorium in the Liverpool Echo Arena, in his native city, on December 28.

But all 2018 dates had to be cancelled due to his illness and subsequent hospital stay.

Holmes said: “He’s not been well this year. Anne was in the process of cancelling all of his dates because when Ken goes on stage he’s up there for about four hours.”

He said: “It’s been my privilege to have looked after him for 47 years. I’m privileged to have been there for him and he for me. This time last year I was by his side when he got his knighthood and he was so very proud then. I shall really miss him.”


Ken Dodd is made a Knight Bachelor of the British Empire (PA)

Brandishing a tickling stick and greeted by his Diddy Men, the star had vowed to carry on with his tattyfilarious comedy when he left hospital last month.

“I’m going to teach my legs how to work again, they’ve forgotten you know, and once I’ve recovered myself I’ll get back to doing the job, which is the only job I’ve ever had,” he said at the time. While I was in here, I wrote some new jokes, so it should be all right.”

Over the 1960s, he entered the Guinness Book of Records for the longest joke-telling session ever – 1,500 jokes in three-and-a-half hours.

His TV shows included The Ken Dodd Show, Beyond Our Ken and Ken Dodd’s Laughter Show, and he entered the big time in 1965 with the longest-ever run at the London Palladium – 42 weeks.

In 1994, his Ken Dodd: An Audience With Ken Dodd show was filmed and released on video, followed in 1996 by the Ken Dodd: Live Laughter Tour and then Another Audience With Ken Dodd in 2002.

Also a well-known singer, in 1964 the star released his first single, Happiness, followed by smash hit Tears in 1965, and then Promises.

The veteran comic was knighted in honour of his decades-long showbiz career and charity work in March last year.

He was acquitted following a five-week trial, accused of tax fraud, in 1989 and would later joke about the case, which had transformed Liverpool Crown Court into a sell-out theatre, with fellow comics Eric Sykes and Roy Hudd called as character witnesses.

His first fiancee, Anita Boutin, died of a brain tumour in 1977 aged 45 after 24 years together.

Met Ken Dodd on a few occasions in the 80's and was a really nice guy.

RIP Ken

Another British eccentric that filled the newspapers and his home with money that I guess he was saving to do a DIY job of papering his walls with notes.

Wonder if he still had all those Jersey Bank accounts still?

One of the greatest comedians ever !.....one of the great generation of tv comedian/artists that were fantastic !....irreplaceable in my view !....(might have been one of the bloggers here on money am).....(have to say that ...might come back and haunt me).....(:))....

Heard Putin awoke this morning petrified by T May's threat to visit him.

He just checked to see if his mates in London had paid their household rates and donations to tory party HQ.

Putin thought for the moment that he might go down for breakfast and find Theresa sitting at his breakfast table.

Your like a child Fred , so sad.

he's just a tosser and usually best ignored

Putin isn't a tosser.

Just burying some of his profits in London with the help of a few tory lackeys.


He is a good capitalist.

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Theresa May and her party are just huffing and puffing.

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The EU and Putin are laughing at the UK just when a United Europe is needed the little englanders are trying to break it up.

Mind the Trump, his rednecks, and UK rednecks are happy!!!

fred - you're just old and boring, playing the same old balalaika tunes every day and reminiscing about the good old days of bolshevik russia and latterly, cuba

actually, cuba somehow put together quite a good example of a marxist system that worked, even though the average joe remains exceedingly poor
that the country is now stuck with compromising its ideals by needing to promote wealthy tourism is another matter

Graduate sues Anglia Ruskin University claiming she ended up with a 'mickey mouse' degree


Fiona Pok, outside of Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Credit: Heathcliff O'Malley for the Telegraph



By Steve Bird
10 March 2018 • 2:25pm




A graduate is suing her university, claiming boasts in its prospectus about high quality teaching and excellent career prospects were fraudulently misleading after she ended up with a “mickey mouse” degree.

Pok Wong, 29, is seeking more than £60,000 in damages from Anglia Ruskin University for what she says was a breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentation. The International Business Strategy graduate is also claiming she was falsely imprisoned by the institution’s security staff after being “locked” in a room when she tried to protest about the quality of her course during her graduation ceremony.

The legal action, which could set a precedent forcing universities to review the way they...



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Manuel,

Your dementia seems to be becoming rapidly more severe.

For your own interest check who under the recent delusional tory administration ie since 2010 have contracts to administrate the UK power stations.

EU seems to have a lot of interest.

Mind Russian gas is only a small supplier of the UK's energy.


Compromising ideals?

Manuel, you wouldn't recognise an ideal if it hit you on your head.

I can see the next craze for compo coming up , where you given a " Mickey Mouse " degree , contact us now for compensation .

I just thought the same VIC .
Got a degree recently ,are you working in Mc Donalds , Argos or in a frezzing warehouse with a load of foreigners packing crap all day , call lawyers for us ..

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http://cynicalbastards.com/ubs/index.html

Professor Hawking has passed away....one of the greatest physicists....

Yes. It's now a 'RIP' for Prof Stephen Hawking (1942-2018).

I do find it to be somewhat amazing he lived for 76 years and now his death certainly does leave us with a big black hole.

But he did leave behind quite a legacy. eg. Just Google for 'stephen hawking books'

Here are some of his 'quotes':

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

On the universe
"It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love."

On scientific discoveries
"I wouldn't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer." -- at a science festival in 2011.

On persistence
"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up." -- at an Oxford University Union speech in 2016.

On curiosity
"So remember, look at the stars and not at your feet." -- at the Sydney Opera House in 2015.

On intelligence
"I would never claim this. People who boast about their IQ are losers."-- in response to a 2017 question if he believed he was the most intelligent person in the world.

On space
"May you keep flying like superman in microgravity." -- to NASA astronauts in 2014.

"I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity. Perhaps one day I will go into space." -- to the New York Times in 2011.

"I have already completed a zero gravity flight which allowed me to float weightless, but my ultimate ambition is to fly into space." -- to ITV in 2017.

On God
"God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator." -- in a 2010 CNN interview.

"The scientific account is complete. Theology is unnecessary." -- in a 2010 CNN interview.

On women
"My [physician assistant] reminds me that although I have a PhD in physics, women should remain a mystery." -- in his first Reddit AMA. (His PA is a woman, by the way.)

On his appearance
"Unfortunately, Eddie [Redmayne] did not inherit my good looks." -- of the Oscar-winning actor who portrayed him in "The Theory of Everything."

Is he the guy that was on the Big Bang Theory? I personally preferred Professor Proton.

Wasn't Professor Proton in Wacky Races?

The Science Guy v Professor Proton