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.

Mine was shopping today and yesterday and the day before and the day before and the day before and the day before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Just read a wonderful couple of posts on the bugs thread. It ran like this;

Greekman; "Ian. Bit of a problem with one of your facilities in the Investors room. When I type something onto a thread, there appears to be some kind of time-out utility that doesn't quite allow me to finish that which I am trying to say. Therefore I have to type out my requirements in word and use cut & paste into the add a post box before pressing Post Message.
The issue appears to be the limited amount of time (only about 2 minutes) to complete my thoughts before this timing out occurs, and as you are well aware, wel constructed and reasoned debate can take as lon

Ian (MAM); "For Christs sake get on with it, Greekman. We haven't got all day you know".

Alan,

Have granted you the poetic license you have obviously used. Thinking of a quick reply. Will post it tomorrow.

Greek,
;-)
Alan

every now and then you see someone who is blessed with a true talent.

Yeh, ok he's good Bosley......but he's drinking Stella out of a wine glass! I'll bet he was reassuringly pi**ed after.

Why are people on this thread talking to each other?

Ah. Excellent philosophical point!

As one who studied philosophy (well, I thought for a long time about going to university - and surely thats the same thing) I think its probably due to fluctuations in the space time continuinuinuum.
If the theories of Hawkins are right, then there are an infinate number of universes, so we must exist in one where we are all the same person. A full explanation is too long and contains the word quantum at least 4 times.
My favoured philosopher, Immanuel Kant, would argue that either we are talking to ourselves or not, and either way it is an illogical waste of time, so we should get a life. I believe this is expanded in his book "Critique of pure reason".
Finally, Aristotle would have pointed out that we are talking to ourselves and that the responses are private thoughts, interpreted by others as messages or questions to them, but he thought a tortoise was faster than an arrow, so he was probably pi55ed on excellent greek wine.
Which leaves us with the most famous philosophical idiom ever - I'm pink, therefore I'm Spam.

Cring:-))

Dum dee dum, dee da da, diddly dumdum. It's ok, just humming to myself.

How's things Alan, managing to stay away from the good things in life - you know, the ones that are bad for us?! Hope you are recovering well.

Doing fine thanks, Kim.
Looking forward to terrorising work colleagues and bowlers alike, in the fullness of time.
The good things in life are but a distant but fond memory. All those little avenues of pleasure that have now become cul-de-sacs, like cigs (still go through a few), beer (allowed one. ONE!!!!!), egg on toast & bacon butties (foodstuffs of the Gods in my opinion). The upside is I now have an excuse for an afternoon nap, the missus has to do everything and I am chasing a blue badge for the car (heaven).
Strange note in my recovery manual - sex is okay as long as it is not with a stranger!!! Apparantly this is bad for the heart. I presume because the wife would run a bread knife through it.

Alan, good to see that at least your sense of humour hasn't diminshed! Also good news that you are allowed a beer, proof if ever there was that it is good for health. I imagine that you are allowed only one at the moment to avoid straining yourself whilst raising the bucket to your lips!

Gordon Brown is preaching again. This time it's about food waste. He is telling us to help save the planet by thinking about what and how much food we buy, as according to the latest research we throw up to a third of all food produce away.
Now it's not that I don't think we should be more prudent with food use/waste, but until the Government practices what it preaches, any such issues are treated with complete disdain.
I wonder how much food waste will be generated by the G8 summit which is costing sqillions of pound, including the services of several world renown chefs that are being flown in especially to prepare no doubt very expensive dishes.
Years ago food waste was converted into pig swill, which was stopped due to swine fever and foot and mouth, although us county folk knew that ordinary food waste caused no problem whatsoever.
Thought the analogy fitted as both pigs and MP's till have their snouts in the trough.
The saying 'Let them eat cake' springs to mind. Come the revolution brothers!
Hypocritical BA****DS.

While I'm at it.
Last Friday I received a call from my accountant (I had a one man business, retiring last August) regarding the none mention of a bank account that I had mentioned in previous years and had not mentioned in the 2007/2008 returns. This account (which I had honestly forgotten about) being linked to a current account was kept open with a token ammount of 1 in order to benefit from a travel insurance deal. When I informed my accountant that the interest was 1p, she stated that I had better still declare it as they might query if the account was still in use, and I could still be liable for none declaration even for the lowly sum of 1p. It wasn't till later that I drew the parallel (if it is a parallel) with the huge amount of cash via expenses that the MP's do not have to declare. Surely these Honorable(sic) gentlemen/women have only one reason to fear an outside audit, and that's because they have something to hide.
Thieving Hypocritical BA****DS.

Found on another site,
The G8 Menu

Cocktail

Waffle, reheated

Eight prawns grilled under a warm climate

Promises la Gleneagles, tossed

Aid Stew on a bed of insufficient replenishment

Roast Lamy in a forced liberalisation jus

(Broc) Wurst G8

Fudge

Glad you mentioned hypocrisy, Greek, in relation to our Fuhrers speech on wasted food. I was going to approach it from a different angle.
Food is a major discussion point at our cricket club (not least because we are all so fat our team photograph is an aerial shot).
We have a problem with the rising cost of half time butties and stickies. League rules mean we have to feed 26 every week, and the only money the club gets to do so is 55 from the players. This is getting harder.
I recently approached the supermarkets from whom we get our food and asked if they could help us by not throwing away the bread, cold meat and salads on Friday night just because it was past its display until date. We would collect it Saturday morning and it would be eaten by tea time, well before its consume by date.
The answer was a resounding no. Not because of lost revenue reservations, but because of health & safety law, which meant it had to go to landfill or composting.
The result of this idiocy is that we have to buy food we cannot afford, to help support junior sportsmen and keep them off the streets and bashing old ladys over the head, while perfectly good and edible food gets thrown in a hole in the ground, at great expense to the retailer.
Someone point out the good reason for this, because I am buggered if I can find a more ludicrous use of resources or a more petty ruleset to overthrow common sense.

I used to work in the food industry (Bakery) and we used to save all the waste for a local pig farmer who used to pay a token fee, so the Bakery the Farmer and the Environment won. In the 10 years I worked there, there was never a problem, then the Health and Safety (lean a ladder against a wall before climbing up it brigade) put a stop to this practice as they said it could spread disease.
As to your Supermarket comment, I know a manager at our local superstore, who has told me the waste of food each week would fill at least 2 of those huge metal bins. Most of this food being edible.
Problem is a good percent of the public throw away food even if it's 1 day over best use by date. Now me, if it don't smell funny and it ain't covered in mold (well not much anyway) it gets eaten. It's never done me any harm (some who know me may strongly disagree).
But back to being serious, I strongly believe that all this must make everything super healthy, wipe down surface, disinfect everything culture is one of the main modern causes of many illnesses, especially in children, as they have no immunity.
I know from a facts and my own experiences, Gypsy families have far lower minor illnesses, coughs, colds and the like than other families, they also have less allergies.
Now I wonder why.

I know why and so do you, Greekman. They use their common sense.

My wife and I use our common sense a lot too.

Perhaps we fit into a category of people, who are quite self reliant, particularly when it comes to thinking our 'stuff' out. I'm not saying we are perfect at it, but we use some simple rules. Not necesasrily in the following order:

Rule 1. Strip out anything that is mystic or a false cause and then.....

Rule 2. Think your stuff out.

Rule 3. Try not to get too involved with 'professionals'.

Always remember that 'Professionals' charge fees for their services -and by the hour, too. They have a vested interest in overcomplicating your problems for you. They are primarily there to earn a crust for themselves, not to help you with your silly problems. These latter are secondary. Just like car mechanics, there are good ones and bad ones. They range from consultant surgeons and dentists and other medical professionals, to lawyers, politicians and accountants. If you ever have to use one, don't use one just because your neghbour 'liked' him/her. Get the very best one for the job that's required. A good property conveyancer isn't necessarily the best person to help you with drawing up a Lease. The guy who helped you with your Will isn't necessarily the best person to help you Sue some ba5tard for damages. There are tons of these 'professionals' about. To increase their fee income they keep on drawing up whole loads of overcomplications to foist onto the community. Their best trick is to try to prevent you thinking things out for yourself. They want to prevent you from using your own common sense, becasue when you use that, well, they aren't required. So they don't earn their fees.

Rule 4. Try to use your common sense and don't get trapped into doing something that is to do with 'peer pressure' or 'fashion'. Remember that they are false causes. Learn to read between the lines and spot if there are any flaws in, 'If he wants me to do this, what is in this for the other guy?'

Rule 5. Everything where possible in relationships with people, should be about 'Win -Win'. Do unto others as you would wish them to do unto you.

Perhaps there are a few more. Anyhow, those few will do for the moment. :-)

And by the way, with food 'Sell by Dates' we ignore them mostly but not completely. It depends what sort of food it is. On the topic of waste, I don't think we throw much away though. And I am a great one for looking for a good deal when I'm shopping.

Having just typed that stuff, I wanted to find an example of 'not stripping out mysticism and false causes and then going on to do a thorough job'.

Here's one:-

What Boris did wrong concerning the Deputy Mayor problem - He offered Lewis the job of Deputy Mayor, without having him checked out much, if at all.

ExecLine,

Fully agree re your Common Sense post.
As to others views...I do tend to listen to people I know re recommendations. I nearly always get others views re tradesmen, job quality, not likability. Word of mouth, good or bad can be of huge assistance, as usually if a tradesman does a good job once he usually does a good job every time and visa versa (bad job).
It is amazing how often you hear about a cowboy tradesman who continues getting plenty of work. If ever I have a bad experience, I make dam sure as many people know about it the better. In fact several years ago I had a threat of court action re a conservatory company. They did an excellent initial job but when 1 fault did appear (a skylight leak) about 12 months later they made several failed attempts to fix it, finally giving up. I said the whole skylight wanted replacing, they disagreed.
After several repeated attempt on my part to get them to return, one Saturday (their busiest day) I visited the main sales premises and approached anyone who looked like a potential customer and assailed them with my experiences. After only approaching 2 such persons, I was (after attempts at the aforementioned court action, at which I told them to go ahead and sue) promised attention the following week.
It was fixed that week.
I can never understand why people don't make more noise re bad service.
You often read about unbelievable service from so called professionals.
People seem frightened to take direct (legal) action.
Most of those who post on this thread appear of the stropy type, and I don't mean that in an insulting way. If less were wimps, bad service would be far less evident.

Re my post....Gypsys. Now I Wonder Why.
The Question was facetious.