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.

Volkswagen ends Camper van production

Only £24,000 a throw eh Skinny?... I'll have 3 then please -):

I'm not sure whether to laugh or despair!


BRAINS OF BRITAIN

UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE (BBC2)
Jeremy Paxman: What is another name for 'cherrypickers' and 'cheesemongers'?
Contestant: Homosexuals.
Jeremy Paxman: No. They're regiments in the British Army who will be very upset with you.


BEG, BORROW OR STEAL (BBC2)
Jamie Theakston: Where do you think Cambridge University is?
Contestant: Geography isn't my strong point.
Jamie Theakston: There's a clue in the title.
Contestant:Leicester


BBC NORFOLK
Stewart White: Who had a worldwide hit with What A Wonderful World?
Contestant: I don't know.
Stewart White: I'll give you some clues: what do you call the part between your hand and your elbow?
Contestant: Arm
Stewart White: Correct. And if you're not weak, you're...?
Contestant: Strong.
Stewart White: Correct - and what was Lord Mountbatten's first name?
Contestant: Louis
Stewart White: Well, there we are then. So who had a worldwide hit with the song What A Wonderful World?
Contestant: Frank Sinatra?


LATE SHOW (BBC MIDLANDS )
Alex Trelinski: What is the capital of Italy ?
Contestant: France.
Trelinski: France is another country. Try again.
Contestant: Oh, um, Benidorm.
Trelinski: Wrong, sorry, let's try another question. In which country is the Parthenon?
Contestant: Sorry, I don't know.
Trelinski: Just guess a country then.
Contestant: Paris.

THE WEAKEST LINK (BBC2)
Anne Robinson: Oscar Wilde, Adolf Hitler and Jeffrey Archer have all written books about their experiences in what: - Prison, or the Conservative Party?
Contestant: The Conservative Party.


BEACON RADIO ( WOLVERHAMPTON )
DJ Mark: For 10, what is the nationality of the Pope?
Ruth from Rowley Regis: I think I know that one. Is it Jewish?


UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE
Bamber Gascoyne: What was Gandhi's first name?
Contestant: Goosey?

GWR FM ( Bristol )
Presenter: What happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963?
Contestant: I don't know, I wasn't watching it then.


PHIL WOOD SHOW (BBC RADIO MANCHESTER)
Phil: What's 11 squared?
Contestant: I don't know.
Phil: I'll give you a clue. It's two ones with a two in the middle.
Contestant: Is it five?

RICHARD AND JUDY
Richard: Which American actor is married to Nicole Kidman?
Contestant: Forrest Gump.


RICHARD AND JUDY
Richard: On which street did Sherlock Holmes live?
Contestant: Er. ... ...
Richard: He makes bread . . ..
Contestant: Er .. ......
Richard: He makes cakes . . ..
Contestant: Kipling Street?


LINCS FM PHONE-IN
Presenter: Which is the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world?
Contestant: Barcelona.
Presenter: I was really after the name of a country.
Contestant: I'm sorry, I don't know the names of any countries in Spain ..


NATIONAL LOTTERY (BBC1)
Question: What is the world's largest continent?
Contestant: The Pacific.


ROCK FM ( PRESTON )
Presenter: Name a film starring Bob Hoskins that is also the name of a famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci.
Contestant: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?


THE BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN (ITV)
Steve Le Fevre: What was signed, to bring World War I to an end in 1918?
Contestant: Magna Carta?


JAMES O'BRIEN SHOW (LBC)
James O'Brien: How many kings of England have been called Henry?
Contestant: Er, well, I know there was a Henry the Eighth ... ER. ER ... Three?

CHRIS SEARLE SHOW (BBC RADIO BRISTOL )
Chris Searle: In which European country is Mount Etna ?
Caller: Japan.
Chris Searle: I did say which European country, so in case you didn't hear that, I can let you try again.
Caller: Er ........ Mexico ?

PAUL WAPPAT (BBC RADIO NEWCASTLE )
Paul Wappat: How long did the Six-Day War between Egypt and Israel last?
Contestant (long pause): Fourteen days.

DARYL DENHAM'S DRIVETIME (VIRGIN RADIO)
Daryl Denham: In which country would you spend shekels?
Contestant: Holland?
Daryl Denham: Try the next letter of the alphabet.
Contestant: Iceland? Ireland ?
Daryl Denham: (helpfully)
It's a bad line. Did you say Israel ?
Contestant: No.

PHIL WOOD SHOW (BBC GMR)
Phil Wood: What 'K' could be described as the Islamic Bible?
Contestant: Er... .... ...
Phil Wood: It's got two syllables . . . Kor . .
Contestant: Blimey?
Phil Wood: Ha ha ha ha, no. The past participle of run . . .
Contestant: (Silence)
Phil Wood: OK, try it another way. Today I run, yesterday I . . .
Contestant: Walked?


THE VAULT
Melanie Sykes: What is the name given to the condition where the sufferer can fall asleep at any time?
Contestant: Nostalgia.


STEVE WRIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON (BBC RADIO 2)
Wright:
Johnny Weissmuller died on this day. Which jungle-swinging character clad only in a loin cloth did he play?
Contestant:
Jesus.

I'm a bongo man myself http://www.mazda-bongo.co.uk/

Harman is not the norm aldwick in the labour party.

Your an obvious Tory just picking and chosing from the labour list.

You cant do that with the Tory cabinet as they are all posh boys from public schools.

Stan - I spent 2 weeks touring Cornwall in the early 70s in one of these.

excuse me, but what does it matter what someone's background or place of education or any of those other nonsense labels which you muppets like to bandy around?

merely as an aside, harold wilson of course adopted his flat hat, pipe and gannex mac to class himself down

Part-time Britain: Record numbers now have jobs but most finding employment work for less than 25 hours

Number of part-timers people looking for full-time work doubles to 1.45m
Overall unemployment rate falls to 7.7% but mostly part-time jobs
Four out of five new jobs since 2008 have gone to part-time women


By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor

PUBLISHED: 12:24, 11 September 2013 | UPDATED: 01:55, 12 September 2013


Rising levels of employment are being fuelled by people being forced to take part-time jobs, official figures showed today.

In the last five years since the financial crash the number of men in work has remained almost unchanged, but 280,000 who were in full-time jobs have been forced to cut their hours.

At the same time four out of five new jobs in the whole economy have been taken by women working fewer than 25 hours.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2417392/Part-time-Britain-Record-numbers-jobs-employed-work-25-hours.html

Excelent post Max.

Truth is this so called recovery is built upon unskilled jobs and cheap labour.

The recovery will be very weak imo.

Skinny, is that a Bedford Commer?

Yes - in hindsight, one of the best holidays I've ever had.

The so called recovery is built on shit imo gf!

These people may have "jobs", but they are not real living wage jobs. Most appear to be part time or zero hour contracts.

Most people cant build a life on temp/part time incomes...as for buying a house..LOL.

Thought so Skinny, I nearly bought one from a work colleague about 20 years ago.

It was actually hired from a place that's not a million miles from 'Nunhead village'!

i'm amazed you numpties don't get bored out of your skulls - perhaps there's nothing in them - churning out variations of the same old crap day after day, week after week and even month after month

Oh Nunhead?... You mean the new Centre of the Earth -):

Here's our latest revamped Web Site of my pub http://ivyhousenunhead.com/

Do you like it?

The hire centre was actually opposite what was one of my favourite pubs - the Clock House - alas it has apparently been 'modernised'.

Yep Cynic, it is truly amazing. They sound like embryonic politicians, in practice for the day that they become the real thing.
Think the clue is in the thread title.

Ed Miliband’s popularity has slumped to its lowest level ever – rivalling even Iain Duncan Smith’s appalling personal ratings during his disastrous spell as Tory leader.

The latest Ipsos MORI survey shows that six in ten British adults say they are dissatisfied with the Labour leader, compared to just 24 per cent who are satisfied.

His net satisfaction rate of minus 36 per cent is comparable with the low point of Mr Duncan Smith's leadership, eight months before he was ousted as by the Tory party in 2003.