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.

So now nursery rhymes are being altered so they have a happy ending for children and do not frighten them.
You know like Humpty Dumpty was put back together again. Little Miss Muffet was not frightened of spiders Etc.

I think they should go further in that all Nursery Rhymes should also be looked at by the Politically Correct Police.

For example we could start with
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe (she was removed by Social Services into a 6 bedroom council house).
She had so many children, she didn't know what to do (on receiving Child Benefit and income support she moved out of social housing into a private house in Chelsea)
She gave them some broth without any bread.
Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed (Social Services found out, all her children were put into care, and she was given a 6 month ASBO for child cruelty)

But seriously it does make you wonder how us older folk grew up at all.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's and early 70's !

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can.

Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, Subway or Nandos.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Toffees, Gobstoppers, Bubble Gum.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of old prams and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and dens and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo Wii, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 channels on SKY, No video/DVD films, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
Lawsuits from these accidents.

Only girls had pierced ears!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time.

We were given air guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet

RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT

Our teachers used to hit us with canes and gym shoes and bully's always ruled the playground at school.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and 'Vanilla'

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL !

And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!


You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Ah Nostalgia!

In the interests of equality, this non-pregnant male will also claim six month's paternity leave. Great idea.

As one from the 30's, I think nostalgia is a thing of the past.

The Four Dogs


Four men were bragging about how smart their dogs were.

The first man was an Engineer,

the second man an Accountant,

the third a Chemist, and

the fourth was a Government Employee.


To show off, the Engineer called to his dog, "T-square, do your stuff."

T-square pranced over to the desk, took out some paper and pen and promptly drew a circle, a square, and a triangle.

Everyone agreed that was pretty smart.



But the Accountant said his dog could do better. He called his cat and said,

"Spreadsheet, do your stuff."

Spreadsheet went out to the kitchen and returned with a dozen cookies. He divided them into 4 equal piles of 3 cookies.

Everyone agreed that was good.



But the Chemist said his dog could do better. He called his dog and said, "Measure, do your stuff."


Measure got up, walked to the fridge, took out a quart of milk, got a 10 ounce glass from the cupboard and poured exactly 8 ounces without spilling a drop into the glass.

Everyone agreed that was pretty good.


Then the three men turned to the Government Employee and said, "What can your dog do?"


The Government Employee called his dog and said, "CoffeeBreak, do your stuff."


CoffeeBreak jumped to his feet.......


ate the cookies........


drank the milk.......


sh*t on the paper.......




screwed the other three dogs.......


claimed he injured his back while doing so.......

filed a grievance report for unsafe working conditions.......

put in for Workers Compensation...............and

went home for the rest of the day on sick leave............


AND THAT, MY FRIEND IS WHY EVERYONE WANTS TO WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT!!

Just read this (0735 hrs ). What a great way to start the day with a laugh. Very funny, if only the last line wasn't true.

I think the funniest thing, is that people who 'work for the government', are now beginning to feel somewhat insecure and in fear of their jobs.

Come the next election, that's when lots of them feel that, more than likely, they are going to become unemployed.

Ironic, isn't it?

What's the world coming to? They must be making chocolate digestives smaller, because I can now get a whole one in my mouth!

With all this talk about our MPs getting away with, fraud, false accounting and the like, I can't see why they are not prosecuted for Misconduct in a Public Office.
This offence tends to be used where it is difficult to prove a specific offence (fraud, false accounting and other specific crimes).
Misconduct in a Public Office has been used against those such as police Officers where they have committed what I would consider far less/minor misnomer than those of some MP's, for example putting in for expenses claims of low amounts they were not entitled to or making false representations for expenses. I am not defending these lesser crimes, as Police Officers are in a position where trust is required and expected, IE they should have a higher regard to honesty. But MPs are also in a similar position of trust, so why not use this offence to bring them to justice. The reason must be that the political system, being the law makers are far more likely to 'get away with it'.
The old boys club rules.
For those interested two good links.
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/l_to_o/misconduct_in_public_office/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/nov/28/conservatives-whitehall

greekman - Couldn't agree more, the Welsh MP who appeared on Question Time last night did mention that 3 maybe 4 MP's could be the subject of Police investigation that may lead to charges. Personally would lock them all up and throw away the key, grabbing b........s!

Morning Chris,

Don't know if you are member of The Tax Payers Alliance (it's free to join) but they are waiting to see if and how many MP's are going to be prosecuted. They have a legal team that is ready to take out private prosecutions, if they deem it appropriate.
Many MP's are out and out crooks, guilty of crimes.
It only goes to show, that the old adage of one law for them, one law for us, is still as relevant now as it was hundreds of years ago.

It is a pity though that all are now being tarred (now tarring and feathering, thats a good idea) with the same brush.

Regards from one surf to another.

The following YouTube clip shows what you can to do to win EVERY argument you ever get involved with. Well, at least it shows you what you can do, to see to it you never lose one.

Is that the same thing? Yes. I think it actually is.

Scientology's chief spokesman, Tommy Davis, creates a 'false cause reason' and storms out of a television interview with Martin Bashir

Slightly disturbing trip home tonight. I passed an Audi convertible with the letters and numbers arranged:

S44G ME

I expected to see some young stud driving it, but was shocked to see a blonde lady. Couldn't look too hard as I was doing 70 at the time, but could I have mis-interpreted the number plate? It must be my one-track mind .....

This is all completely true, shockingly. I did wonder whether it was arranged by an estranged husband.

Seymour did you make eye contact ?? might have been worth it !!

SC: no prude me, I assure you, but I do wonder what a young woman is doing driving around with that number plate. Sad or what?

Might not have been a request for sex. I have been heard to shout out S44G ME and similar several times lately when looking at some of my share prices.

I just thought maybe it was Jordan ..Looks like a nice girl...

where did you find the picture of my wife? (she is honest!)

That was her. Just wondering what's wrong with that right eye. That and the peculiar lip drop on the right makes me think she's got Bell's palsy.

I'll keep looking. I'm sure I can help.

Poor thing looks half starved. Her ribs are sticking out.

Come to think of it, so are her thumbs.

Always liked a bit of spare rib, with sauce of course.