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.

Twitter seems to me to be just another time waster like chat room's .

http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/3650/full

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6606449/the-danish-witchhunt-against-the-truthtellers.thtml

T i m

Use the insert a link icon above , so we don't need to copy & paste the link

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6606449/the-danish-witchhunt-against-the-truthtellers.thtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12247411

Twitter is like any other Internet tool - it depends how you use it.

I follow the major tech news feeds which push out their headlines on Twitter. One quick glance gives me the gist - if I'm interested, I can click the link and read the article. BBC Radio4 Today trail the morning's upcoming interviews and publish post hoc transcripts and recordings the same way.

Well I 'wondered about it' and 'just as I thought', there's an 'APP' for exactly that, MM.

http://tweetadder.com/

This is an interesting twitter account to follow

Kennedy1961

It is the first 1,000 days of JFK's presidency converted to tweets. A combination of his thoughts and events with links to video, pics etc.

Oh no! Balls & his mrs now firmly back with feet under table. I'll never forget thet time when balls came out with the comment 'so what' when the issue of squeezing millions of families with increased tax levels. (conservative pr missing a trick with those clips.)Hard faced s*%t. I wonder if they've been flipping upto 4 houses at a time between them and I wonder if the mrs doesn't take the married name out of principle or because it makes it easier to claim more expenses.

No it's because she doesn't want to be called Yvette (I've eat) Balls.

Nice one isaacs. Like it.

aldwickk thanks for the advice.

Raw - one of the quips from 10 O'clock Live on Thursday night along with "so it's Johnson out, Balls in......"

Well I wonder if Cameron and Porky are trying to engineer a Double Dip.

The market is beginning to behave as if it on the horizon.


With Merlin their policies and economic "strategies" seem as mythical as Genies.

Bring back Coulson, he can explain all away.

Congratulations of to Cameron and Porky.

I wonder who they will blame for the economic results as we go through the coming year.

I suppose rain in spring. the sun in the summer and probably the wind just before the coalition crumbles in an election.

OK I forgot the previous government as per usual.

Only thing contraction is under 7mths of this motley crew.

Row Row Row.

Ps, What has happen to the pound?

Mind it may help exports.

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, British scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the Brits, in the weeks that followed, an American archaeologist dug to a depth

of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story published in the New York Times: "American archaeologists, finding traces of 250-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network - 50 years earlier than the British".

One week later, the irish news, reported the following:
"After digging as deep as 30 feet in a Dublin building site, Jack Lucknow, a self-taught

archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely bugger all. Jack has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, ireland had already gone wireless."

Just makes you bloody proud to be an Irish

Why did the chicken cross the road?

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SARAH PALIN: The chicken crossed the road because gosh-darn it, he's a maverick!




BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for change! The chicken wanted change!



JOHN MC CAIN: My friends that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all
the chickens on the other side of the road.



HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely
qualified to ensure right from Day One that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't
about me.



GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or
not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.



DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?




COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.



BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken.



AL GORE: I invented the chicken.



JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.



AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.



DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his current problems before adding new problems.



OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a NEW CAR so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.



ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.



NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.



PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.



MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.



DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.



ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.



JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth? That's why they call it the 'other side.' Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the Liberal media whitewashes with seemingly
harmless phrases like 'the other side.' That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.



GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.



BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish it's lifelong dream of crossing the road.



ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.



JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.



BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2010, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken2010. This new platform is much more stable and will never reboot.



ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?



COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?

CHURCHILL ON ISLAM

Unbelievable, but the speech below was written in 1899!

(check Wikipedia - The River War)


but expressed in the wonderful Churchillian turn of phrase and use of the English language,
He was a prophet in his own time; He died on 24 January 1965, at the grand old age of 90 and,


HERE IS THE SPEECH:

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!

Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog,

there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries,

improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce,

and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its

dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong

to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine,

must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be

a great power among men.

Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion

paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund,

Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread

throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step;

and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science,

the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe

might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."

Sir Winston Churchill; (Source: The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 London)

Churchill saw it coming................

" He was a prophet in his own time " Just like Enoch Powell.