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.

The Labour Party has a habit of 'Killing the Golden Goose'.
One of best thing they could have done was to scrap the final pension scheme for all public employees, to put them on the same level as most of the private sector.
But of course this would have included, all civil servants as well as MP's. So no chance of that then!
Alistair Darling (The puppet Chancellor) stated that he would make big cuts in public employed personnel, but this would have no impact of the services they provide.
Well if you can cut staffing levels in the public sector, and have no detriment to services, then that proves that these people were non productive in the first place.
Swaggering cuts should have been made to the 'Jobs worthy Section'.
This alone would have saved billions.
As to the rest of the budget, I appreciate it had to be hard hitting, but if this excuse for a government had not been on a spend, spend spree for the last 12 years we would be in a far better position to fight this global recession that we are in now.

I like Foie gras. Never had it from the Golden Goose before. Should be good listening to the pips squeak.

Somebody, told me that they like the schools their kids go to and the hospital where their father had his hip replacement.

Also the time it took by train seemed to shorter.

Well done to 35 year old Ryan Giggs, who has today been awarded the PFA 'Player of the Year' award.

When he turns out against Arsenal at the weekend, it will be his 800th game for Manchester United.

Interestingly too during his career, Manchester United have never ever received an offer for Paul Scholes, who has just made his 600th appearance for the club.

Apparently, it is a very well know fact in footballing circles, that Scholes would never play for any other team other than United and so any such offer would have been turned down by him out of hand.

Edited: 1 x 'for' removed. 1 x 'against' inserted instead.

When he turns out for Arsenal at the weekend, it will be his 800th game for Manchester United.

I'm confused dot com.

Doh!

Thank you for pointing it out. :-)

Perhaps I meant 'for the Arsenal match'? Whatever.

Anyhow, duly edited and corrected.

You're welcome!!

Anyway, it is now duly listed in "colemanballs", and has only been seen by about 12 million so far.

Ryan Giggs, has always been one of my favorite players. To see him go down the wing in full flow was and sometimes still is brilliant to see. Also one of the few gentlemen players left.
Well deserved Giggsy.

He is a Welshman. So of course he is a gentleman!

Always takes a box of chocolates for Dolly the sheep.........................

He did have a dip in form a few years back when he was dating Danny Behr. I guess he was using his energy elsewhere.

Anyone read the latest ploy for those taxed at 40% going to 50%.
For those earning over 100,000 it will often be far more lucrative to take a slice of their salary in share options. This is due to CGT being set at 18% against the proposed 50% tax added to the loss for those on 150,000 plus also loosing their personal allowance (in stages of increase).
So apart from the 'Killing the golden goose' it looks like the said goose is looking at ways to avoid the axe.
Mind you perhaps the aim of New (sick) Labour is to have all the entrepreneurs leave the country to the none productive lot that they can always rely on for a vote
The muppet government strikes again.

Be very good for shares though.

Alan,

We have been through this before (sheep) but I did not know my girlfriend 'dolly' was playing around.
Talking about girlfriends please someone, make my day and post a picture of Christine Pillow ( I can drean can't I). I have tried but a bit of a technophobe.

Is this ok

Many thanks Jeffmack.

I think you will agree, that is more than OK. You HAVE made my day.

Alan,

You can have my 'Dolly', I have just fell madly in love (well lust really) with Christine.

In the above picture, Christine Pillow is modelling 'Autograph' lingerie from M & S.

More from the range, also featuring Christine as the model, can be found at:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/fashionpicturegalleries/....

The photographer is Simon Longhurst and apparently to do these shots he took Christine out to The Fortress Hotel, Galle, Sri Lanka

Nice work if you can get it, eh? Hmmm? Now where's my Canon?

ExecLine,

Every time I look at Christine, I know where my 'Cannon' is.

:-)

Just been sent this link - very moving.

Over 120m people have watched and listened on the Internet to Susan Boyle.

Indeed, I do think she is a fantastic singer myself.

Here's another fantastic person. This guy is called Danny MacAskill and he rides a street bike.

Oh, and he rides it along spiky fences, up trees, he does flips and leaps from shop canopy to shop canopy and all sorts of phenominally weird stuff like that. He's a bike genius and nearly as good, if not better in his way, than Susan Boyle. So far his You Tube video hit rate is 2.5m. You can watch him below:

I never thought that the term, 'Absolutely Amazing' could be used in the same sentence as 'understatement', but how else can you describe this.
Fantastic ability.