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.

It as to be case by case , what did he loot a M&S sandwich ? Would he do the crime again would it be worth the tax payers money to charge him and take up more police time and the court's

No doubt he would have pleaded guilty.
As to would he do the crime again and could it have been something like a sandwich, I don't know, but a community service should have been a minimum.
It has been said, quite rightly, that even a minor theft at the time of the riots, should be treated more seriously as it was a joint enterprise, either by being jointly involved or because of the mass involvement.

I wonder if he would have been 'ashamed' if he had not been caught!

I know he is 70 - but it would be quiet clever to steal an M&S sarnie from Sainsbury at any age :-)

But more difficult from Lidl

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I was simply alluding to the fact that he was caught looting in Sainsbury!

I hadn't read about that case so i didn't know any detail's , just used the M&S sandwich as an example

Mr Davutoglu, meanwhile, pledged that Turkey would give $300m (180m) to Libya: $100m in a non-repayable grant; $100m cash to help form a new government and fund immediate needs, especially during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan; and $100m for projects. He expressed confidence in the TNC and in Mr Abdul Jalil.

If Turkey can give 180m , why do they need a EU bail out ?

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article-2027231/Sarkozy-Merkel-plot-13bn-tax-raid-UK-save-euro.html

The Urine test (This was written by a rig worker in the North Sea - What he says makes a lot of sense!)



I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit.

In order to earn that pay cheque, I work on a rig for a drilling contractor. I am required to pass a random urine test for drugs and alcohol, with which I have no problem.

What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don't have to pass a urine test.

Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a benefits cheque because I have to pass one to earn it for them?

Please understand that I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet.

I do on the other hand have a problem with helping someone sit on their arse drinking beer and smoking dope.

Could you imagine how much money the government would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a benefit cheque?

Illegal Immigrants Poem




I cross ocean, poor and broke.
Take bus, see employment folk.

Nice man treat me good in there.
Say I need to see welfare.


Welfare say, 'You come no more, we send cash right to your door.'

Welfare cheques - they make you wealthy! NHS - it keep you healthy!

By and by, I get plenty money.
Thanks to you, you British dummy!

Write to friends in motherland.
Tell them 'come fast as you can.'

They come in turbans and Ford trucks,
And buy big house with welfare bucks!

They come here, we live together.
More welfare cheques, it gets better!

Fourteen families, they moving in,
but neighbour's patience wearing thin.
Finally, British guy moves away.
Now I buy his house,then I say,

'Find more immigrants for house to rent.'
And in the yard I put a tent.





Everything is very good,
and soon we own the neighbourhood.



We have hobby, it's called breeding.Welfare pay for baby feeding.
Kids need dentist? Wives need pills? We get free! We got no bills!
British crazy! They work all year, to keep the welfare running here.
We think UK darn good place.
Too darn good for British race!
If they no like us, they can scram. Got lots of room in Afghanistan !

Species count put at 8.7 million

The natural world contains about 8.7 million species, according to a new estimate described by scientists as the most accurate ever.

But the vast majority have not been identified - and cataloguing them all could take more than 1,000 years.

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Yes - I guess many will be extinct before they are ever discovered!

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When algorithms control the world


If you were expecting some kind warning when computers finally get smarter than us, then think again.

There will be no soothing HAL 9000-type voice informing us that our human services are now surplus to requirements.

In reality, our electronic overlords are already taking control, and they are doing it in a far more subtle way than science fiction would have us believe.

Their weapon of choice - the algorithm.

The top 10 festival funnies were judged to be:

1) Nick Helm: "I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves."

2) Tim Vine: "Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels."

3) Hannibal Buress: "People say 'I'm taking it one day at a time'. You know what? So is everybody. That's how time works."

4) Tim Key: "Drive-Thru McDonalds was more expensive than I thought... once you've hired the car..."

5) Matt Kirshen: "I was playing chess with my friend and he said, 'Let's make this interesting'. So we stopped playing chess."

6) Sarah Millican: "My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards."

7) Alan Sharp: "I was in a band which we called The Prevention, because we hoped people would say we were better than The Cure."

8) Mark Watson: "Someone asked me recently - what would I rather give up, food or sex. Neither! I'm not falling for that one again, wife."

9) Andrew Lawrence: "I admire these phone hackers. I think they have a lot of patience. I can't even be bothered to check my OWN voicemails."

10) DeAnne Smith: "My friend died doing what he loved ... Heroin."

I don't think Nick Helm should have won ,the second one was more funny and the Sarah Millican joke was one of the worse.

Worker ballooned after high-pressure air hose 'accidentally lodged in his backside'

State fat cats pocket 250,000 payoffs: 800 staff of 'wasteful and bureaucratic' quangos share 23MILLION in redundancy bonanza

Nice one Prescott!