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.

Bos, God bless the eye-ties!!!
They never did bother following any rules cos there'd be another leader along shortly who'd change 'em again. And if any prick turned up from the council, they would no doubt be reminded they were family, and it would be settled over a chianti. Thats proper local democracy.
Driver. No problem with not smoking in restaraunts, but nobody has yet come up with even a single argument against having a designated smoking room in pubs etc.

bos
It's got its compensations.

Hi Bos ,i don't think she counts ,my understanding of the rules was she had to be a cartoon , and you can't beat Lara in lingerie .

Never mind the meaning of life, this is more important.
I used to be a professional diver and never understood the following......why is it that the colder it gets the more womens nipples stand out (like chapel hat pegs) and the more shriveled a mans privates get.
I wanted to carry out a study on the subject , but after several threats of Police involvement (it's the photographs that did it), I decided against it.
Believe it or not this question is asked in all seriousness, so no mucky comments (some hope) please.

have to agree with you on that one, jimmy ....... although, when i was younger , i do remember daphne and jana of the jungle featuring quite heavily in some of my more lurid self-massaging sessions :) sometimes together ;)

Alan,

'I've got a fiver says the result will be the european parliament considering a ban on plasma TVs.'

The Aussies have thought of that one already!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/10/2055587.htm

AAAARRRGGGHHHH!
I thought I was being satirical, but evidently politicians make the best comedians.
What the hell comes next?
Are we going to see a ban on "manual terraforming implements" (I used to call them spades but I'm not allowed now) in case of accidental damage to earth worms?
Hopefully the next one will be to reduce co2 emmissions by a ban on politicians breathing out.

I see where your coming from bos ,especially the blond.

Evening all. It's been a while since I checked in on the NOWT thread and all of you have been busy! :o)

Alan, will I be able to buy your (and Trev's) jottings in book form in time for Christmas? That takes care of the Christmas presents...

Kim - your post 6421: couldn't agree more that the dairy farmers have got a raw deal. In fact I think that the current government has serially failed rural people and I'm almost ready to join the Countryside Alliance in order to support them.

Although what I really hope to do is make like a Jimmy B and leave the country again as soon as possible. Even if I only get as far as Germany again, at least I'll be a tourist and therefore not responsible for whatever messes may be going on.

Hi Soul. Yes, I sometimes think that the government has a hidden agenda to bring farming to an end in this country, probably courtesy of another hidden agenda, this time a european parliament one. Hmm, I'd better be careful for 2 reasons, firstly I will have my phone tapped (phones are being tapped at the rate of 1,000 per day according to the Telegraph), secondly it could set Trev off on a deep thinking moment - government conspiracies and all that sort of stuff!

I'll have to grow a beard and buy a canoe, disappear for a few years.

Better still; stop the politicians breathing in.

Just heard the government is to remove Britannia from 50p coins.

Another example of this government eroding our culture whilst falling over backwards to accept non-Britsh cultures.

Whatever happened to 'Rule Britannia'?
http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.2006091.0.mp_joins_fight_to_save_britannia.php

"Rule Britannia" has been referred to the axioms and cliches review board of the EC, where 17000 beaurocrats on 65000 per year (plus expenses) are due to rule on whether or not it is an acceptable phrase, or whether it should be replaced with "Open minded and constructive democracy, based on a multicultural and ethnically diverse approach to policy resulting in harmony through various classes of origin, wealth and ability, providing none of it upsets our European neighbours or anyone who has oil".
It is thought this is more fitting for a 21st century balls up of a country that has been relegated to taking in laundry for the rest of the world.

I fully support the decision to remove Britannia. As we live in an anti British (sorry meant multi-cultural) society we should remove all traces of Britishness that might offend others.
Just thought of a way to save billions of tax payers money.
If we all learned 'Arabic' the language of our future. (Hope my E-Mails are not one of those being bugged as stated in yesterdays press).
No more would we have to waste money on printing forms, documents and the like in dozens of different languages.
No more spending huge amounts of money on translators.

As for 'Taking in Laundry' that must be a politically incorrect comment directed at the Chinese. Shame on you.
I have a good mind to report you to the thought police.

Oblo, I think I'm with you on this one.

Eurocentric bureaucracy: a question of the bland leading the blind?

Union Jack will be the next thing to go ,wouldn't want to upset all the foreigners .

'The Royal Mint said it would unveil the new designs in the spring - and promised that Jade Goody will not be appearing on the back of the 50p piece.'

Well, I'll sleep more soundly tonight knowing that!


BTW, the Daily Mail are running a petition against removing Britannia from the coins - you can sign it here:-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=510614&in_page_id=1770

Madness......About 4 miles from where I live a sports club is selling off 44 acres of land as they want to move due to continuing flood problems (it's a flood plain). A building company wants to build about 145 house on this land. When it was pointed out to them that the land is prone to flooding, they altered the planning application to show that the houses would be built up via the foundations being raised above the flood level.
The surrounding houses which were badly effected in last years floods will then obviously take more run off as the flood plain will be covered in concrete.
The locals are getting very militant and I intend to join them, even if it risks arrest for obstruction.
We don't need more house, we need less people. It's as simple as that.

BTW, the Daily Mail are running a petition against removing Britannia from the coins - you can sign it here:-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=510614&in_page_id=1770