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.

live in south africa?????
you must be joking!! ....... if you want to see really nasty and abject poverty, just drive into CT from the airport ..... and of course if you want to live in a razor-wired paradise ghetto with armed guards at the gate and be one of the 23% who pay all the tax in SA, then good luck to you


as for france, there are many things over there that are no fun either, though i'm sure fred would share a house with you if you would be lonely on your own


as for "hole you dug for yourself", quite so ....... put another way, you make the bed you lie in

There are many houses in Cape Town, that are between, say the extremes of the poverty township outside of the airport and the many gated developments. Tons of them, in fact.

Cyners,

"all sorts of reasons why house prices are now as high as they are"

Really? I thought it all boiled down to supply and demand.

And what's not fun about France exactly?

CNG - france - inter alia, a penal tax system, especially relating to property and passing on same


EL - so go and live there!

The French for starters.

Don't get Hilary going again Dil. She will say you are cherry picking.

Cynes is fearful of the big wide world out there - Staying in safe houses, living in fear, is that a life?

Have you ever ventured to the East End of London of a night cynic?

i worked at Number 1 Brick Lane for about 15 years and my fathers parents lived in the area for a long time ..... pratt!

LOL - That sums you up well cynic, thick as a brick and a selfrightous prick.

Cyners,

The French tax system isn't that different to the UK system insofar as your average Jacques Brun pays about the same as the average Jim Brown does in the UK. Their wealth tax is swingeing though, but that only applies to residents, so the key is not to be there for more than 180 days a year.

And their primeval succession/inheritance property laws were changed in 2015.

Dilbert,

By 80907 I presume you mean that you're not used to having people smile and say good morning to you as you walk down the street in Wales?

Iturama,

Only the black ones!

so a tent by Lake Lucerne for the other 180 days? :-)

No Cerise it's just that I find them so dam ignorant , ffs half of them don't even speak English :-)

Dil.

Ever wondered what the French think of you.

That is assuming they would be bothered to think about you.

Probably think wow he's hot ... oo la la :-)

To hot to touch maybe Dil. :-)

Est-ce que cet homme baise vraiment les moutons?

:o)

he'll leave that to the welsh contingent!

So is the lightning striking near to where you live? Maybe it isn't or hasn't....

Use t'Internet to find out: http://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#x=-0.2925;m=sat;r=1;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=9.85;n=0;y=51.8657;z=8;d=7;dl=7;dc=0;i=0;

Play around with the settings and zoom in and out as to how you like.
Also check out the Facebook and Twitter links.

As I post this, it seems Telford and the areas around Oxford are/have been getting hit quite a bit.

There are thunderstorms and lightning strikes happening just over the English Channel in France too.

31/5/2018

Marine Corps Lieutenant General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., joint staff director at the Defense Department, told reporters Thursday that, although he would not compare the threats posed to the U.S. by China and North Korea, "we are prepared for both." The two Asia-Pacific allies have drifted apart in recent years as Pyongyang accelerated its nuclear program, but China remains a staunch opponent of expanding U.S. military activity in the region and especially in the South China Sea.

"We take both threats seriously. Certainly, China has a much larger nuclear capability and you've got to take that into account, China has a much larger economic engine that you have to take into account so the threats are very different," McKenzie told reporters at the Pentagon.

"When you consider North Korea, the first thing you look at is their capricious and unpredictable behavior spanning back several decades," he added.
.........

Hmmm?

So there you have it. As Defense Secretary, James Mattis, heads to Singapore for a major international security conference, the Pentagon tell the world the USA is prepared to take on both China and North Korea.

it`s all a question of who wants to rule the world - or blow it all to pieces either way we all come to the same end.