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.

Happy new year all.

Couple of interesting postings in Saturday’s Guardian

1) "Why Britain should think about doing things the German way"

The British economy is built on flimsy and unreliable foundations. We should be making more things
".by Johnathan Glancey

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/30/doing-it-german-way

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And of course another from Polly Toynbee.

2) As the cuts bleed harder, the cruel Tory truth will emerge

In my political lifetime, I have never seen a more callous or inept crew in charge. This is no time for Labour to lose its nerve

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/30/cameron-brutal-cuts-bleed

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"The year ends with the country in a worse state than the government's severest critics expected. Yet worse is to come, as 2012 slides towards the second recession in three years. Virtually everything David Cameron's government has done has made matters worse; most policy initiatives are creaking while others are mere words without substance. In my political lifetime there has been no more callous or inept crew in charge – nor a government more skilful at disguising its nature."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/30/cameron-brutal-cuts-bleed
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But another editorial which may give the less thoughtful or more implacable Food for Thought. ( Probably too difficult at this time of year I know, but has resonances.)

"Unthinkable? A Luddite reappraisal"

Editorial: Economists rubbish the notion that technology leads to unemployment as 'the Luddite fallacy' but this interpretation is itself fallacious

…Unthinkable? A Luddite reappraisal … is itself fallacious. So how about a smashing anniversary – and a reappraisal? Most Luddites did not oppose innovations as such, but the circumstances of their use … Economists rubbish the notion that technology leads to unemployment as 'the Luddite fallacy' but this interpretation is itself fallacious


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/30/unthinkable-the-luddite-fallacy?INTCMP=SRCH

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Happy and Joyous New Year to ALL.

You can always count on the Guardian to have an article suggesting the wrong path.

Hays,

You probably wouldn't see the right path even if you were standing on it.

Give yourself a chance, broaden your perspective for 2012.

Talking of Luddites, my son's Economics teacher is so left wing that she won't use self check outs in the supermarket as it does someone out of a job. She refused to watch The King's Speech because it portrayed royalty.

What about the workers who make the self checkouts, doesn't she want a strong manufacturing industry ?

Happy New Year one and all.

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aldwickk made in China was he? That explains a lot

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I know I know, surprise me self some times these days mn -):

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Absolutely mn, I'll sleep to that.

A man and woman were having a quiet, romantic dinner in a fine restaurant, gazing lovingly at each other and holding hands.

Their waitress, taking another order at a table a few steps away, suddenly noticed the man slowly sliding down his chair and under the table, but the woman acted unconcerned. The waitress watched as the man slid all the way down his chair and out of sight under the table.

Still, the woman appeared calm and unruffled, apparently unaware her dining companion had disappeared.

The waitress went over to the table and said to the woman, "Pardon me, ma'am, but I think your husband just slid under the table."

The woman calmly looked up at her and said, "No, he didn't ........

He just walked in the door."

One of my relatives is getting married towards the end of 2012 and have booked a venue. They have guests coming from abroad who have booked flights to come plus hotels. The venue contacted them a few weeks ago and asked them if they could move the date of the venue as there was someone famous who wanted that date. They didn't want to change though. A short time later they were contacted again and an offer was made. They would get £150,000 paid off their mortgage, ther wedding would be free at the venue and all the flights and hotel accomodation would be paid for. They moved the date. I can't say who it was, but it was a footballer.

Heard the story, its DB

How did they know they had a mortgage and how big ?

Dreamcatcher

Is David Beckham getting married again ?

Did i say it was David Beckham ? :-))))))))))))))))))))