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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mnamreh - He was mugged and his 11k watch was among the things stolen.. I would guess he has a free replacement now ;)

Talking about 'mugging', funny how the plaintive cry of the English football supported 'We wus robbed' ain't been heard since the Fifa fiasco.
Also are we sure its Bernie Ecclestone. Before I read the name in the ad, I though it was David Beckham after commiserating with a few beers after the Fifa announcement.

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They wouldn't have mugged him if he was with his wife.

Presumably that would be on account of how he got divorced 2 years ago?

Funnily enough, Ecclestone was a customer of my husband nearly 30 years ago when he used to run a firm called Motor Racing Developments in Chessington. He was reasonably big in motor racing at that time, but not the supremo he is now.

My husband never had such a pernickity customer and everything had to be so, so precise. My husband used to have a set of normal prices and a special set of "Bernie prices" which were multiplied by a factor of 10 to account for the hassle.

I did say IF

Anyone fancy a holiday in South Africa?

However, first note the following:

Rule 1. Strongly bear in mind, that most tourists and taxis will not be stopping at traffic lights in South Africa - as per Rules 2 and 3 below.
Rule 2. Definitely do not stop at traffic lights in taxi.
Rule 3. Definitely do not stop at traffic lights in rental car.
Rule 4. Honeymoons in South Africa are definitely out. Your new wife could get kidnapped at the traffic lights and then be taken to be shot.
Rule 5. Beware of all Taxi Drivers in South Africa.

Amazing or wot?

Which of the below would you prefer to buy a used car off?

Cameron
Osborne
Clegg
The tory front bench.

Would you check the number of wheels first?


PS. Alds,

I am surprised you can spell "IF".

" buy a used car off? " Try a OF at the end of that sentence.

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" from whom would you prefer to buy a used car? " not you as well , Fred as just asked me that. Can we stop this nonsense ?

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Of course the nonsense will end.

Probably, when the coalition collapses

6-12 months.

But didn't expect the government to disintegrate so rapidly.

As said before, the Tuition fees fiasco is the New tory Poll tax.

The cost to a middle class family, with three children going to university may be up to 81,000 without the cost of board and lodging. (Work out for yourself the living and peripheral costs of students even if they live at home.

Ludicrous.

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I will accept "from whom", but reckon "off" is appropriate, as it seems to me that all those named,would be more suitably employed as second hand car dealers.

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No he is not.















Sorry misread.


Or, perhaps misunderstood!

Actually, I don't think Ald. is a bad lad, just mislead.

8-)

Fred, the point everyone seems to be missing with the student fees issue is that your hypothetical family won't have to find 29,025 (3 children x 3225 fees x 3 years) UP FRONT so even the poorest could possibly entertain a university education. Isn't including the poorest in society what they call 'progressive'?

I do think the Coalition PR machine is piss poor at its job, or maybe they are saving all of the good news for the next election.

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Raw,

Many from families of limited means will leave "university" with debts of over 30,000 to 50.000. Those taking courses such as Architecture, medicine, perhaps law will be leaving college with debts of up to 100,000.

To carry that amount of debt will be horrendous.

I am not certain about the effects on those taking Ph.Ds and MAs.

Personally, I feel those who get their degrees or various other qualification help to "oil" the functioning of "all" of "society" and help to educate and in general improve the general well being of society.

As a result of my "education" I was a high earner and was "happy" to pay tax for others to be educated for the general well being of myself and society.

Personally, I feel to introduce "graduate form of tax" is another unnecessary form of taxation. The cash raised should be out of general taxation by raising personal taxation.

When you consider the unnecessary Iraq war has cost 250 billion, so far.

I think there are some areas where cut backs would be more appropriate.

But one of the most irritating thing about this legislation is the "lying hypocrisy" by many of those of all parties in government.

Anybody with any sense will get their degree and then go work abroad. The loan just gets written off after a certain period of time.