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.

Hey...that's a great excuse Iturama !....cheers....

Lol

Seen my 3 girls and wife together in same room tonight first time since Boxing Day last year.

Love it ... can't wait to see my bank balance next week.

How much does a divorce cost with a custody battle over 3 kids ?

Wife don't want them either :-)

Sir Craig Mackey locked himself in a car while PC Palmer was being stabbed to death some yards away. CCTV shows Mackey's motor speeding away after the killer had been shot. Gives a whole new meaning to when the going gets tough, the tough get going.
His boss Cressida Dick, was the officer in charge of the operation which led to the slaughter on the tube of an innocent man, Charles de Menezes. Little wonder London is in such a mess.

iturama, I believe he stated he his protection officer told him to stay in the car - who gives the orders? Just like WW1 officers sending the troops into battle.

I wish there was a recording of his actual words in the car and that of the driver etc. but of course it would be screened and no longer be recoverably.

Preservation Of Life.

This is the top priority of every police officer. For Mackey to stay put in his car he is a disgrace.

Meanwhile Ignacio Echeverria, a young banker, took on three knife wealding terrorists with nothing but his skateboard.
Nobody can say how for certain how they would react in such a situation, but when you are in the uniform of a police officer there is no option in my opinion. In the case of Mackey, we are talking about several officers in the car. Their intervention may have made the difference, even as a distraction.

All these royal weddings/new babies...and such (congratulations to the newly weds by the way)...is not doing me any favours as to my position in the queue as heir to the throne.....as to my coronation : it's almost over the horizon now.....it's like a game of reverse musical chairs where you keep on adding extra seats along the way......damn.....much worse than dropping in Fifa rankings.....(:(………….(:)))

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/16/harry-and-meghan-australia-celebrates-arbitrary-hereditary-privilege

Tory New Morality Party,

He earned less than Starbucks and Amazon made in profits last year but Ed Sheeran paid more in tax than either company.

Figures released this weekend showed that the pop star paid £5.29 million to the tax man compared to £4.5m that the international online retailer coughed up, and £3.3 million that the global coffee chain paid from its main UK entity, Starbucks Coffee Company (UK) Limited – though more tax was paid through other Starbucks subsidiaries.

Critics have complained that the complex structure of the company makes it hard to assess how its tax practices operate.

The company said: “Starbucks paid £13.7m in tax in the UK in 2017 at an effective rate of 25.3%,” And while he’s not short of a bob or two, Sheeran made over £27m in profit while Starbucks made £162m and Amazon brought in nearly £2bn in revenue.

According to The Sun, the 27-year-old’s company Ed Sheeran Ltd released its accounts over the weekend and showed that the business had a turnover of £36,293,611 and a gross profit of £27,376,900. The Shape of You star paid exactly £5,293,424 in UK tax and has over £16m in the bank. But the award-winning singer is not bothered about money and in an interview with OK! magazine last year, he said he isn’t motivated by cash.

He said: “It’s like, earn a penny, spend a penny with me. As soon as it comes in, it goes out. I don’t have that much value on it. I have more value on my friends and family being OK. Money’s not an issue “A lot of my money goes to charity or to children’s hospitals near where I live. I have enough to be comfortable and the rest goes to help people.”

Both Starbucks and Amazon came under fire this year after it was revealed how much UK tax both companies had paid despite their huge turnovers.

And they’re not alone – Facebook only paid £15.8m in tax in the UK last year despite collecting a record £1.3bn in UK sales. However, the social media giant managed to reduce its tax bill further by claiming £8.4m in tax credits from granting its employees shares in the company, so the net tax they paid was £7.4m – less than 1% of its total sales.

Taken from: https://inews.co.uk/news/ed-sheeran-paid-more-tax-starbucks-amazon/

if the law allows, it is difficult to be too judgmental
never forget that hmrc has no morals at all

Following an earlier M40 motorway closure, here's a bit of 'dash-cam footage' for you:

https://twitter.com/AlexVarga_/status/1051898094428844033/video/1

The biggest story at the moment must be the murder of Khashoggi. It is time for the Saudis to give up his body for burial and then explain how a fight ended up with a man being cut up into pieces. This will hopefully not go away anytime soon. Trump is not doing himself any favours with his tweets on the matter. What is it about twitter that attracts some prominent people to show that really they are quite thick. Trump and Musk come to mind although Trump occasionally hits home runs with his followers.

The clue is in the name ... twitter.

time to wake up to realpolitik

People still use twitter?

Some never started.

I have a friend who has just been to see his doctor and he made me think of Manuel, 241 and what’s his name.

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As always, he was quite busy but he took a second to ask him:

"How do you determine whether or not an older person should be put in an old age home?"

"Well," he answered, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the person to empty the bathtub."

"Oh, I understand," my friend replied. "I suppose a normal person would use the bucket because it is bigger than the spoon or the teacup."

"No.", he said. "A normal person would pull out the bathtub's plug. If you like, I will arrange for you to have a bed near the window. Will that be OK?"
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Watch out your time may be up.

Seems Amber Rudd thinks domestic abuse is a competition.