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.

grant shcapps os a twot - i hope he remembers this when he gets old:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9019124/State-to-help-elderly-downsize-as-Government-tackles-housing-crisis.html

will he be asking the Queen to downsize then - thought not!!

dc to be honest i am surprised peacocks lasted as long as they did - did they ever make a decent profit? i do feel very sorry for the redundant - i did not realise they had 10,000 + staff - must be awful i hope some sort of rescue / t/o can be mounted for those poor souls

bb i think he will have more than stigma to bear - thinking more like some kind of jail term plus he apparently is 'the most hated man in italy' aka 'captain coward' apparently he now acknowledges he turned to late according to the bbc, and another report that says he was not on board as he 'tripped and fell into the lifeboat' which i personally find extremely hard to believe - in fact i dont believe him!! aside from the poor souls who died and their grieving families it is possible dependent on the terms of insurance may not pay carnival a dime in compo - apparently the captain had done this before and this time his late turn that caused the running aground was because the captain according to the bbc 'was not using instrumentation but by sight because he had done this before and knew the area / depths!!!???' but the worst of all is the dreadful loss of life - one elderly couple who had worked all their life to put their children through school were on their first cruise since retiring i believe and very sadly perished in this.

A decent loss sadly gibby. I see on tonights news the captain of the ship said he fell into a life boat.

yep then he heard his alarm clock ringing!! if that isnt true isnt true i suggest he has just made his situation infinitely worse for himself - he didnt even muster people or abandon ship (apart from himself by the looks of it!) - his 1st officer i believe did that - what sort of person is he?? captain should always be last off regardless

how do you fall into a lifeboat - i mean?? even if it is true he could have got back out - did he knock himself out?! ah well...

I am for one minute backing him, but I bet he went to pieces or in blunt terms lost it.

maybe but to me it was a selfish act as he appears to have put his own soul first everyone else including women and children, the elderly etc last

if he did go to pieces he should not have been in the job at all as he was then quite clearly not fit for purpose

wonder what lloyds will make of all this - i suppose it will come out...... eventually

The final development! Kodak Files for Bankruptcy Protection

Will there be small print for such a stupid act and Lloyds not pay out. I hope so.

My name is Bond.... UK spied on Russians with fake rock

A former UK government official has admitted Britain was caught spying when Russia exposed its use of a fake rock in Moscow to hide electronic equipment.

Common sense prevails :-)

Beer 'must be sold' at Brazil World Cup, says Fifa

Beer must be sold at all venues hosting matches in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, football's world governing body, Fifa, has insisted.

Fifa General Secretary Jerome Valcke said the right to sell beer must be enshrined in a World Cup law the Brazilian Congress is considering.

Encouraging skinney, but changing Beer to Ale would be more like it.. perhaps that will come later.

Talking of which - I'm quite please with my purchase in Marstons.

Talking of Marstons, I used one of their pubs for accommodation last year and must say was very impressed with the quality, price and service given... The Banks Original was in good nick as well (think they've changed the name of it again).

I like pedigree, but as I've said before, its not that common down this end of the country.

On edit - the shares are now above what I paid and I have the divi to come!

the reason for the demise of these shops is down to immigrants taking the jobs
they do and will not ever buy from these shops and the locals have no jobs to buy
these companys taking on immigrants areshooting them selves in the bum .
go into pound world in any town they are full of immigrants buying the junk .
the management in the uk are LAZY managers but it is and will cost them there companys if i go in any shop or restaurant and a immigrants comes to serve me i walk out . and will only spend my money in the uk in shops that employ uk people .
now i expect i will be called a racist so be it

Life is but a mixed metaphor!

some facts over 85% of crime is by .........

there are thousands of murderers and rapists that have come to the uk over the last 5 years and the gov knows this and the uk public are at risk and the worst part about this is they do not no where they are ,you could have a murderer next door .