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.

Correct skinny.
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Let's hear it for Salford Council, who have reduced the cost of 'looking after' one of their resident problem families by 2/3rds!

If I'm reading this correctly, it now looks like they only cost the council a mere 65,000 per year instead of the previous 200,000

Check it out at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050876/Real-life-Shameless-family-Salford-costs-taxpayer-200k-YEAR.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Apparently, 'The Gallaghers' were going into debt to buy alcohol and stuff like that.

Well, I think they were. Anyway, they are not doing it so much now. Which is nice.

Oh, and now only one social worker is now dealing with the whole family of five instead of obviously five social workers. So that's not too nice for the social workers.

If they were from Somalia they would also have a translator each.

It seems if Aids was inhaling the wrong gas.

Exec,

I wonder how many "nice" middle class families are now in debt, due to drinking to much alcohol, or betting on the stock market.

Perhaps they will be relying on "social" to bail them out.

Mind this government will help them out

Ask the fox.

Difference is they would be paying for the alcohol and investing their money that they worked for.

Some, previously living on family hand downs, but still broke and dependent on state "handouts"!

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Keep the home fires burning.

Dale Farm eviction: Bailiffs wait to move in

Bailiffs are expected to try to enter the Dale Farm travellers' site later if the 40ft high scaffolding tower at the entrance can be dismantled and removed.

One for the girls (and some boys).

Westlife to split after 14 years

nuff said!

Some stunning photographs.

I thought this was a stunning picture and which is on the front of today's Telegraph.



I couldn't find a copy of the actual picture in the paper, which is taller and brighter, so this will have to do, but I'm sure you get the idea (ie, "All hope is lost. We are about to lose our homes. Please save us Jesus in this our hour of need, etc, etc.".

As images go, it's very 'Hollywood" and I'm sure it will touch the hearts and minds of religious people all over the globe.

Now back to the reality of the picture

The woman in the picture is not even one of the travellers who had vowed to fight to the death for their homes. She is actually an agitprop activist who hurries to join anarchist groups wherever they are gathered.

Miss Challis - or Miss Donna Berry, as her real name is believed to be - has previously joined protests against globalisation, gang culture, child abuse, and the plight of Palestinians in Gaza (to which she likened the Dale Farm eviction).

I wonder if she learned how best to pose when she did GCSE Art? Hmmm? Most probably.

Anyhow, it's a stunning picture and she's got herself plastered on the front page of the Daily Telegraph. 10/10 for that.

Edit: Apparently, she is also on other front pages too:

Libyan forces 'capture Gaddafi'


Commanders for Libya's transitional authorities say they have captured former Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.

The news came after transitional forces claimed control of Sirte, Col Gaddafi's birthplace. There was no independent confirmation of his capture.

I saw the video of the woman posing for the photo. She turned this way and that and was quite aware of how good a photo it was.

Dale Farm is well off the press agenda with the capture and possible death of Gadaffi.

Pictures now being shown on some TV channels of Gadaffi dead.

No doubt the Liberal lefties will be clamoring to condemn the 'Cold blooded killing of a human being' (sic).

If the manner of his death is true, it's great news.
Who can blame anyone for ignoring the plea for mercy of this despot leader.
I wonder how many of his own people begged for mercy before being tortured to death.

Just think, what would have happened if he had been taken alive, a trial lasting months and costing millions.
If I had had the chance, I would have gladly pulled the trigger.

Although the authorities will be stating that they wish he had been bought to justice to answer his crimes, in truth they will be both glad and relieved that he died the way he did.

No doubt a few other world leaders will feel a bit more uncomfortable tonight.

Exec, I'm religious and that photo offends me. Doubt that too many Christians will be impressed.

The Dale farm gang have used the law when it suited them and ignored it when it didn't suit them.

I am not religious and I am not bothered how Gadaffi died. They can parade his body through the streets dragged behind a car as far as I am concerned. No punishment is too great for him. When you die that's it and nothing more. The only thing that matters is that hopefully Gadaffi might have suffered before he died.

I think SC means the bitch with the sun glasses.

Let's hope the woman with the cross does offends a few christians. In the past we all had a lot more to worry about. Many families lost children in infancy and mothers died as well. My own father lost both his siblings leaving him an only child. His mother died giving birth the the last one. That was only in 1926 when he was 10. Now we are supposed to care if people get offended. Being offended is not exactly the worst thing that can happen to you. In the scheme of things it is pretty insignificant and not worthy of note.

If people believe in religion and other such fairy stories then they should get offended. It should be the duty of non believers to offend them. Religion causes so much trouble and misery in the world. It shouldn't be banned, but held up to ridicule. As for the government giving special status to religiious schools in the way of charitable status and grants, that it even worse as it perpetuates the whole nonsense.