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.

Heard a fed up resident call the rioters "Ferrel Rats" What a good description? The do gooders of this world have nurtured this brave new society of ours and now we all reap the benefits, me i say jail the parents and send the little scroats to where the real action is, minus hoods of course???Did anybody see the little creep coming out of the court grinning away and making full of bravado comments. going to court did him some good?? I think 5 years inside or 3 in the army for any of them convicted, They didnt riot they stole and pillaged.

Northampton Chronicle & Echo
Friday 12 August 2011 07:32

SILVERSTONE Circuit has submitted detailed plans for new business and technology parks, an education campus and three hotels that would create thousands of new jobs.

The circuit, home to the British Grand Prix, put in a comprehensive outline planning application to Aylesbury Vale District Council and South Northants Council yesterday.

The proposal, described as the next step in securing the future of the circuit, included the following:

- A business park up to the size of 122,519 sq m

- Three hotels up to 39,847 sq m

- A technology park up to 62,662 sq m

- An education campus up to 34,658 sq m

- Ancillary retail and spectator facilities, including a welcome centre and a museum of motorsport, up to 61,964 sq m

- Improved leisure and event spaces, including a kart track and outdoor stage

- Other ancillary development, including landscape works, grandstands, hardstanding and support paddock, bridge and tunnel to improve pedestrian flows, a new point of access, supporting infrastructure and demolition.

A spokesman for the circuit said the development of the masterplan for Silverstone Circuit would help demonstrate the potential of the site as one of the most important economic assets in southern England.

The development would create around 8,400 permanent jobs in the firms and activities attracted to the site, plus an average of around 550 construction jobs per year throughout the development phase. At least 4,800 of these jobs are likely to be entirely new to the area, he said.

Stuart Rolt, chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club, said: The submission of this planning application is a big step forward in releasing the commercial potential of Silverstone and its 760-acre estate.

Richard Phillips, managing director of Silverstone Holdings Ltd, said: This is the most important initiative that Silverstone has taken in its 60-year history. Approval of this planning application will help maintain Silverstones position as a leading global centre for sport, leisure, education and technology.

A final decision on the plans will be made in the future.

BB
Feral.

How many of you are left-handed?

Tomorrow is International Left-handers day.

I am left-handed as was my grandfather. He had his left arm tied behind his back at school and was beaten if he used it to write.

Around ten per cent of the worlds population is left- handed - thats 640 million-odd people - and there are so many famous lefties whole websites have been set up to list them all.

A bizarrely high percentage of US presidents are southpaws, including Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. Ditto ace tyrants Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon.
In the acting world Robert De Niro and Nicole Kidman use their left hands, as do sports stars Pele, John McEnroe and Mike Tyson. Art giants Michelangelo and Leonardo Di Vinci were also left-handed.

No wonder lefties have a reputation for being rather special.

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Haystack,

Bloody typical, you lefties although being in the minority, have a day all to yourself whilst us normal people are left out.
I am about to pen a strongly worded letter to the 'Court of Human rights' to see if I am entitled to compensation under the equal rights act, as I am now traumatised due to hurt feelings.

OK I know the above was posted in jest, but then I got to thinking. Why not give it a go, who knows I might even win.

As a man you are twice as likely to be a lefty as a woman. So I also intend to assist my wife in making a claim under the Sexual Equalities act, as she is less likely than a man to be able to celebrate lefty day (do you get a day off work, a commemorative medal or something)

Scientific Left Handed Facts

Make up between 5% and 10% of the population (depending on who you ask)
More likely to have allergies
More prone to migraines
More likely to be insomniacs
Use the right side of the brain the most
Three times more likely to become alcoholics the right side of the brain has a lower tolerance to alcohol!
More likely to be on extreme poles of the intelligence scale
Tend to reach puberty 4 to 5 months later than right handers
More likely to suffer stuttering and dyslexia
Twice as likely to be a man
Better at 3D perception and thinking
Better at multi-tasking
Live on average 9 years less than right handed people
More likely to be homosexual

So if you are left handed you are more likely than a righty to be an allergic male, migraine suffering insomniac who is a drunk. Either very intelligent or extremely dim, sexually immature for longer, who is dyslexic and can watch a footy match on TV whilst knitting. You are more likely to be homosexual who doesn't receive a telegram from the queen (well not that queen anyway)

Looking at all the pros and cons, I'm glad I'm a righty.

Haystack and other lefties.
Please don't report me to the political correct police, as I am sure you know us righties cant help feeling superior, just as I am sure that a few of you are normal, honest decent human beings.

Greek.

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Mnamreh,

You got me there. I am now wondering how ambidextrous people get on.
If you follow the list above I can only conclude that they must be at least cross dressers. I will say no more.

Well maybe just a little angry!

As a left handed man, which side of the bed do you 'lefties' sleep with your partner and why?

I am a right handed man and sleep on the right side of the bed. I can then put my left hand around my partner and this leaves my right hand free to turn out the bedroom light before I go to sleep.

I tried it the other way round, but I could not reach the light switch without having to get out of bed. Then I would get lost on the way back. Well, mostly.

Execline,

I must admit I read your post with trepidation approaching the part, " and this leaves my right hand free to".

What I can't understand is why YOU switch the light off, surely that is one of your wifes jobs.
As to myself, I sleep between them both. There I go again having that annoying dream about identical twins. Go on admit it, I bet you have all dreamed that one.

If only, if only!

Greek :-)

Greek

No. Funnily enough I have not had that dream.

I absolutely know and would put good money on it, that everyone on this board would love you to tell us about it.

:-)

No fear. You must know by now that I am the perfect gentleman and would never be a kiss and tell merchant, even if it was only a dream.

Have a good weekend all.

CAMERON NEEDS 'PROPER MORALS'
David Cameron has identified the causes of the riots and looting this week in Britain. It is a lack of responsibility, which comes from a lack of proper parenting, a lack of proper upbringing, a lack of proper ethics, a lack of proper morals. It is as much a moral problem as a political problem, he has said. (Also see below for that section of his comments.)

We must give him full marks for stating the blindingly obvious. People behave well for one of two reasons; either they have the fear of God before their eyes, or the fear of the long arm of the law. In other words, either an internal or an external moral compass is necessary for good behaviour.

But who defines 'good behaviour'? Can we all agree that looting shops is wrong? Someone is bound to say that by profiteering on dairy products the supermarkets are stealing from us. Someone else will point to the way Members of Parliament milked the expenses system. If something was within the rules, was it morally right? David Cameron thinks forcing African countries to legalise sodomy is morally right. He believes the deliberate killing of a helpless infant in its mother's womb is morally acceptable, but agrees with Canon Giles Fraser (who also thinks sodomy is morally right) that robbing a Malaysian student, Mohammed Ashraf Haziq, caught up in the riots by pretending to help him is morally wrong.

Were those who did such a thing convinced they were right, or wrong? Do they know the difference between right and wrong, and who defines it for them? Years ago, an advert for Pepe Jeans carried the line: 'I know the difference between right and wrong; I prefer wrong.' But we may have moved on even from that amoral outburst. For someone, what is held to be wrong by a majority may be thought right for them. Such is moral relativism, or post-modern thinking, and we can now see where it leads. In a sense, the lawlessness which has so shocked us in recent days has been brewing for a decade - or for even longer.

David Cameron blames the parents ('a lack of proper parenting, a lack of proper upbringing'), but does he realise that 50% of children are growing up in Britain without their natural father?

Who is responsible for that if it isn't the politicians who legalised no-fault divorce on demand in the 1960s, legalised sodomy and pornography, brought in moral-free sex education around the same time and pushed condoms at teenagers just because they hated Christian morality?

And who is equally responsible if not the present Coalition Government which allows all of that to continue on its life-destroying way, not seeing any of it as an offence against 'proper morals'?

What does David Cameron expect single mums to do when confronted by an aggressive teenager or a younger child who threatens to call childline or social services if she so much as lays a finger on him? Instead of trying to undermine African morality he should be learning from those societies where respect for elders, in keeping with the Biblical model, still exists.

Our society needs proper morals, but where are these found if not in the pages of Holy Scripture? Who defines proper morality if not Almighty God? Atheist activists have forced God out of public life to the extent that to express a Christian viewpoint is to run the risk of dismissal from a public sector job - or the Conservative Party.

Without God, there can be no objective right or wrong. Atheist relativism means the rioter has as much right to his morality as Cameron has to his or me to mine. Without God, there is no solid rock from which any politician can criticise anyone else.

Yes, we suffer from a lack of proper morals, but David Cameron shows no evidence of diagnosing that he and his political pals are as much in need of it as the robbers of poor Mohammed Ashraf Haziq. Nor that he and his moral relativism is a huge part of what he describes as the sickness of Britain.

All this talk of sending them to prison is all very well , but were are the prison places ? If they are sent to over-grounded prison's then sent out onto the street's without any attempt to reform and re educate them, and with no back up once realised we will still have the same high number who re offend .

You mustn't forget that all these kids grew up during a Labour Government and went to Labour run schools. The trouble was almost entirely in Labour controlled boroughs.

The current coalition has only been in post for a year and most of the proposed cuts have not even been implemented yet. The kids have learnt one thing though and that is to recite the Labour mantra about Conservative cuts and a lack of future and no jobs. Of course it was exactly the same under Labour, but they didn't have it rammed down their throats then as Labour were too embarrassed to admit that it was their responsibility at the time.

I agree with you Hay , the gang's are 90% black they are also racist against Asian's and Black African's. Gun crime and mugging's in London involve mostly Black teenagers.

So why complain when the police stop and search them .

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76ShareFacebookTwitter.Shell fights North Sea oil spill Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has said it is working to stop a leak at one of its North Sea oil platforms.

The company would not say how much oil may have been spilt from the Gannet Alpha platform though it said it had "stemmed the leak significantly".

One of the wells at the Gannet oilfield has been closed, but the company would not say if production was reduced.

The company says it has sent a clean-up vessel to the location and has a plane monitoring the surface.

The leak was found in a flow line connecting an oil well to the platform.

"We can confirm we are managing an oil leak in a flow line that serves the Shell-operated Gannet Alpha platform. We deployed a remote-operated vehicle to check for a subsea leak after a light sheen was noticed in the area," said a Shell spokesman.

"We have stemmed the leak significantly and we are taking further measures to isolate it. The subsea well has been shut in, and the flow line is being de-pressurised," he added.

'Finite amount'

The company confirmed the leak was continuing but said it was being significantly reduced.

A spokesperson for the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change said: "We are aware of the incident and we are contact with Shell and we investigating it in the usual way but what we understand from Shell, the spill is limited.

"There is a finite amount of oil that can be released."

The entire Gannet field reportedly produced around 13,500 barrels of oil between January and April of this year.

The field is co-owned by US oil firm Exxon.

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