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.

Once again I find I have been given a different script to the rest of the planet......so it is time for a rant. Out comes the soap box.
There a loads of good reasons for banning smoking in public. The health of non smokers is not one of them. No study has ever been able to show a significant causal link between health and passive smoking. Ever.
Yet on 1st July GB becomes smoke free.
At the same time a report today calls for a shake up of the drugs laws. It calls for many drugs to be legalised and for public money to build shooting galleries where users can go to take drugs, be it smoking pot or mainlining heroin. In the same report it classes tobacco and alcohol as dangerous drugs, but does not offer to build smoking shelters. Slight duality of thought there, perhaps.
It also calls for addicts to be GIVEN, as part of their rehabilitation, houses and jobs.
In summary, legal and government sponsored substances are being demonised while illegal, criminal sponsored substances are being cannonised, promoted and the lifestyles of those who choose to use them (and by extension the suppliers) being subsidised.
If the report were written by the triads or yardies I would not be suprised.
My head hurts.
Alan

Tobacco certainly is being demonised.

I heard it said that if smoking "behind the bikesheds" was not so "bad" then perhaps drugs may not have caught on to the degree they have.

I await the time when alcohol is similarly treated

Then of course there is the taxation raising issue

Scotty, you mentioned the t.x....n word, I have come out in a rash and a cold sweat!

i cant believe a year has gone by so quick. happy birthday, gorgeous :D

aw thanks Bos :)
(How did you know it was my birthday?)

i know everything, gorgeous ;)

(might see you wednesday, all things being equal and everyfink. )

Just thought i'd come on here where it is slightly more sane and high brow.
Many happy returns to Boz jnr.
1 year already, eh? The 3am trips to collect 'em from a nightclub will be here afore ye know it.
alan

Well, if the naughty step doesn't work



you'll know what to do, Bos ;)

Viagra is now available in liquid form. FDA officials today announced the release of the wonder drug, Viagra, in a new, easy-to-take liquid form. It is sold under the pharmaceutical name "Mydixadud." Now, when a man comes home from work in the evening, he can pour himself a stiff one.

This is for those on the SEO thread who asked a question about none hygienic ammo.

OK I have to explain re hygienic bullets (sorry to go off SEO track but it is interesting) for many years I was involved with firearms.
In training we used what was referred to as Dirty Ammo, which was cheaper due to it being re-loads. Ammo such as this if used on live targets can cause deaths due to contaminates even if the ballistic wound was by itself not a mortal wound.
This happens many times in wars. Infections from DA take hold very quickly.
In a live situation we used clean ammo, which obviously kills efficiently but targets don't die of infections so often.

So now you know.
Once again I apologize re going off thread.

Couldn't they just coat the dirty ammo in penecillin????

I always wanted to invent a Paxo bullet, so I could kill chickens and stuff them at the same time.

If you could adapt that to a nuclear bullet Alan, you could cook the chicken as well.

Kim, we got a business plan far advanced of SEO's.
I suggest a floatation of around 40 per share to produce depleted uranium / paxo bullets for Bernard Matthews. With Bird Flu around as well, we should clean up.

The beneficiary side effect after haven eaten such a chicken is that the humans start glowing and therefore do not need to switch on lights. This will reduce global warming.

Who needs vast, expensive organizations to sort out global warming when it can be done on the NOWT thread?

OK I should have known this would start the budding Monty Python script writers off.

Alan,

You have made a mistake, surely you mean Paxo Bullets for the turkeys, not for the man himself (Paxo Bullets for Bernard Mathews), but there again.

It puts a new slant (Paxo Bullets) on the saying, "Wait till you see the whites of their eyes".
But perhaps I should not go there.

GM. I think the saying should be slightly amended to "Wait till you see the whites of their eggs".

Kim - just saw an earlier post of yours where you talked about paying 25 commission ? I did not think anyone paid that these days. Try Barclays - 7.50 if you are a frequent trader - 12.50 if not - and they have I think an excellent on line dealing service.

Thinking about it, we have the entire new environmentally friendly sunday lunch at our disposal.
Paxo bullets for the chickens, drop cluster bombs on potato fields to create lots of hot and creamy mash, replace the napalm in flamethrowers with Bisto and suddenly the anti war brigade and the global warming set are happy.
If the animal rights lot don't like it we can always employ ex US marines to shoot the chickens. They will almost certainly miss and shoot each other, but they will not die of lead poisoning.
Time to ring George W. and tell him he has tried "Hearts and Minds" and "Shock and Awe", and they failed. He should now try "Meat and two veg".
This is easy. What do we pay politicians so much for??
Alan

Baz, thanks for that. I know 25 sounds a lot but I have now negotiated a lower rate with NatWest Stockbrokers, plus the link with my current account at NatWest is beneficial so I will probably stick with them for now for my bigger deals.

Alan, there is no way I would let George W. get his hands on my meat and two veg!