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.

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I feel a little bit like Mole, sometimes wondering when he was in the Wild Wood, why he left his home to see the World.

Like the Welshman going to London for the first time, when asked what he though of it, replied " a little disappointed".

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Elegant, or appealing?

(Both is not allowed.) 8-)

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Many solutions are alegant AND appealing. In fact the ideal solution to most problems is both.

So more trouble for Ireland.
The opposition party has called for a general election. I appreciate that calls such as this are not that rare, but the circumstances of the EU bale out could trigger an election through a no confidence vote.
It also looks like the UK is to provide Ireland with an additional loan, as they are according to our chancellor Mr Osborne a very important trading partner.
They may well be, but how much more money will be poured into this bottomless pit of the EU funded Euro.
Whats the point in delaying the inevitable.
If the Euro was a dog, it would have been put down by now to save it from further misery.
What is not generally accepted, is that the UK unlike Ireland has not disclosed all its bank debt, whereas we still have huge amounts still off the books.
Our total debt is far more than has been declared.
I love Ireland and the Irish, but it's about time the powers that be in the UK, realized as we the general public do, 'That the UK is just about skint'.
We can't afford any bale outs.

We are lucky that we do not have the EURO , so let them who are in it sort the mess out.

Maybe a fire sale is a good time to buy a stake in a Irish bank , after all Goldman's done alright buying Leman Bro's

Is this government going the crazy way of the last one.
We now have an idea to calculate how, 'Happy we are'.
If you are given the chance to complete a 'Happiness' survey, please don't do it.
I suspect that once the results of such a survey are know, there will be regulations/rules to abide by. I wonder if a scale of happiness would be forthcoming.
Eventually there could be a Government Happiness Zsar, with him/her as head of a Happy department.
How about a Ministry of happiness.
After all I remember a documentary in 1970, which showed a Labor Government Minister who was in charge of a Ministry of Silly Walks. At least I think it was a documentary. Cant remember the ministers name though.
Just had another thought. I wonder how high Gordon Brown would score in a happyness pole, as most of the time he looked like a dog chewing a wasp.

I do hope the bail out of Ireland's finances has nothing to do with the Baronetcy, of Ballytaylor in the County of Tipperary?


No, I am sure it is not.

Perhaps, it is just hoping for tory party funding in the future!

I am sure I am wrong.


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"After all I remember a documentary in 1970, which showed a Labor Government Minister who was in charge of a Ministry of Silly Walks. At least I think it was a documentary. Cant remember the ministers name though."

G/M,

Not getting it confused with this are you? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w

Stan,

And here was me thinking it was a Panorama type documentary.

On a serious note. I was a great fan of Yes Minister and Yes Prime minister.
I would love to see a follow up such as, Yes EU Minister. There would be far more scope for the script writers regarding stupid/idiotic decisions for them to have a go at.
Mind you many of the scripts from the Yes Minister/Prime minister series rang very true at the time, and still hold true today.

Thatcher was in it once .

Perhaps if 'Yes EU Minister' was made we could all apply to be extras.
The possibilities are endless.
You know, playing sheep in the Scottish Highlands, Cows in Greek fields, Olive trees in Italy, Pilgrims in Santuario de la Armada, Celanova.
This last example was where thousands of Euros were given to build a pilgrimage center in a place where 'No Pilgrims passed through.
See link for many more. If it wasn't so unbelievable, it would be funny.

http://www.openeurope.org.uk/research/top100waste.pdf

"We now have an idea to calculate how, 'Happy we are'.
If you are given the chance to complete a 'Happiness' survey, please don't do it.
I suspect that once the results of such a survey are know, there will be regulations/rules to abide by. I wonder if a scale of happiness would be forthcoming."

What do you expect from a government led by PR men?

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Happiness?.. Just give Ken Dodd a ring if you want happiness.

If you don't ring Fred

.. And here's the lad himself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a5vaIsaxB8&feature=related

Why should we give 7,000,000,000 to Ireland? How many nurses and doctors would that pay for here? It would stop all the proposed health service cuts. If your neighbour was 1 million in debt would you pay 10,000 into his bank account?

They wanted to be independent of the UK so let them be independent.

Whilst Cameron's and Osborne's rhetoric sounds Christian and amiable with the British Tax Payers' money. They are disillusiopned when it comes to Ireland and the Irish. A large number of them bere a grudge against Britain which is maintained relentlessly,and they will unlikely change as the myths are perpetuated from generation to generation. Even amongst their educated elite the grudge is there. Look at the funding that came from the American Irish to fund the grotesque Terrorism, waged against Britain in the most cowardly and underhand way. Their Banks crept into Britain under the auspicis of the totally discredited EU. The so called Tiger Economy was paid for by Britain and Germany's tax payers. In addition the EU allowed Dublin to act as a Tax Haven for corporates poaching hundreds of companies out of the British, German Tax regimes to their Tax Payers huge loss.Cooperation is a two way process ,if you ask me it looks all one way ,what suits the Irish/ Tney will try and charm the birds of the Tree, but dont believe one word of it. Ireland will never be a competetive Economy unless Corporation Tax is half the rest of the EU, To=day Hewlett Packard threatened to withdraw its investment in Ireland if the Corporation Tax is changed. Case proven,

Ireland, where IRA terrorists convicted in Columbia of helping FARC terrorists to develop their bomb making techniques, walk the streets free as a bird, after being mysteriously spirited out of the country whilst awaiting sentence. Ireland, the country from where IRA terrorists plotted and exported their expertise to murder and maim British soldiers and civilians in England, N.Ireland. Germany, Holland and Gibraltar. Ireland the country that is happy to line its pockets with subsidies from the EU but unwilling to contribute troops to actually fight when and where the going gets tough. Ireland, where honest prime ministers are hard to come by. Bail the Irish out, you cannot be serious, let them sink or swim by their own efforts.