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.

I'm beginning to think the market wouldn't flinch if it had its b***s chopped off.

It feels safe with the coalition's management of the economy., :<<<<<

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-15011861


Recession ? What recession.

Aldwickk,

Saw it on the news yesterday.
My thoughts were.

1 This is not art, it is simply someone who has got an idea, and is going to be paid a vast amount of cash to play with a floating bit of junk.

2 A total waste of money.

3 He should get a proper job.

As I read yesterday. Don't blame the Emperor if no one can see he has no clothes.

Starting from the 26th, Pink Floyd - remastered albums are available - Amazon Link.

"Open this malware or I'll sue you"

The latest social engineering trick to get victims to open malicious email attachments accuses them of being spammers and threatens to sue them if they don't stop.

The eurozone approach to debt.

I am glad that Cameron and Osborne have no plan b.


Have they left for the Cayman islands yet?

Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern

Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists - because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.

Two questions.

If something goes faster than the speed of light, how do you see it.
Also if you (and they) can't see it how do they know.

Like you say, puzzling to say the least.

Who, What, Why: Can you dodge a falling satellite?

Fragments from a satellite falling to Earth are expected to land on Friday. So is it possible to take evasive action?

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I'm sure I've met women who have used this excuse.

Scientists might have explained promiscuous behaviour

Scientists have shown that inbreeding leads to female promiscuity.

Some cultures encourage interbreeding, IE cousins with cousins via arranged marriages etc.
I will say no more, re the PC brigade.

You just cannot believe this stuff!

How absolutely stupid are our authorities! We ought to start a thread solely to concentrate on it all.

Not only do 'travellers' not travel, or pay ANY taxes of any kind , or are ever held to be accountable for anything to anyone under any civil claims (ie. it's totally impossible to ever sue them, and a bailiff would never dare visit to seize goods to levy a claim even if you did sue them and win) but they all claim bloody benefits!

GYPSY families get benefits despite living illegally at the Dale Farm camp site.

About 25 families are claiming handouts which total 53,625 a year.

Each one claims up to 845 a year to cover council tax.

And they can claim as much as 1,300 every 12 months to rent at the 51-pitch site, even though their homes have no planning permission.

The families face eviction from the Essex site today after winn-ing an 11th-hour reprieve against bailiffs on Monday.

C Jenkin & Son, based in West Sussex, hires out 15 chalets on Dale Farm to gypsies.

A spokeswoman for the company said around six of its units were funded by the council through housing benefits.
Other mobile homes are rented out by travellers on the site.

A council spokeswoman said: People are entitled to make a claim even if the property they are renting does not have planning permission.

She confirmed the authority pays out 25 benefit claims on the illegal site and another nine on the adjacent legal site which has been virtually un- occupied for months.

Len Gridley, 52, who lives close to the camp, said: This all needs investigating.

How can nine people be claiming benefits for the legal site when it is practically empty?

Travellers last night said they were British citizens and entitled to the help.

The High Court will today hear the travellers pleas to stay after a 10-year battle with Basildon Council.

But Mr Justice Edwards- Stuart warned earlier this week: There is sadly no mileage in prolonging the agony.

Tony Ball, Basildon Council leader, had said housing benefits had stopped after it was exposed two years ago.

But after the council admitted still paying out cash, he said: I dont remember saying all claims had stopped, but was advised a number were.

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About 25 families are claiming handouts which total 53,625 a year.

I think we can forget about a mere 53,000. I am just waiting for the headlines.

Gypsies (sorry travelers) win fight to return in the Court of Human Rights.
A total of a few quillion has been awarded in compensation, for hurt feeling, victims of persecution and harassment of a recognised minority group, loss of earnings (they lost their local customer base, you know all those farms they visit (say no more) and those driveways they resurface to a depth of 1 mm whilst saying, "It will be 4" deep gov").
Basildon Council along with Essex Police Authority have also been ordered to pay a few more quillion in compensation for illegal eviction, both authorities agreed to pay up, to save further costs.

A dedicated (taxpayer funded) group of professionals has also been established to provide counseling to those who suffered trauma from the eviction (those Police Officers, Council Officials and Bailiffs injured in the evictions, need not apply).
It is also believed that a professional 'Dog Whisper' has been appointed to counsel the travelers dogs, that are also believed to be suffering from trauma.
Basildon Council have also been ordered to build a new permanent site as it was decreed that they have a statutory duty to homeless persons to supply either a permanent dwelling or shelter.
It is understood that to save any future conflict re equality and minority issues the new site will also feature a school, hospital, crhe, leisure center and pub.

God forbid that one or more of the Gypsy's is able to prove he is an illegal alien.

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I wonder how many people know this.

Gypsies have a code when it comes to the crime of theft.
If its from a none Gypsy, no problem.
If its from a Gypsy, totally different.
Many years ago a local Gypsy Family called 'Smith' were caught in possession of another Gypsy families horses. This followed a spate of thefts regarding Gypsy horses. That family were ostracized for many years that I know of, and probably still are.
The whole family became total outcasts, they were completely shunned by other Gypsy families, even to the extent that if they wandered into anywhere where there were other Gypsies, shops for example, they would have to leave or risk repercussions.
They were known as 'The family who steals'.

Double standards or what.