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.

Not happy greek,, moneyam it's not better !

Seymour: Only just noticed, have you? You should have gone to . . . no, I just can't bring myself to say it . . .

Jimmy b,

You might grow to like it. I am one of those people who generally doesn't like change, (had the same wife now for nearly 30 years, hope her husband never finds out) but I do like the new format.
But everyone to his/her own.

Daily Telegraph.

Reports that a prisoner who was wrongly convicted of a murder has been granted compensation. Nothing wrong with that, obviously.
But he is now being compensated for 1.4 million after becoming a Heroin addict in prison (I kid you not). He stated that the prison should have done more to stop him becoming an addict.
In the same article it reveals that nearly 200 prisoners have been awarded 3,807 each because they were forced to give up Heroin in jail, 'against their human rights'.
It appears that if you are a drug addicted prisoner some you win, and some you win.
The mind boggles.

greek i dont like change if its technical , changing your woman is ok ,i can cope with that ,everythings in the same place ,just different girl,,now if mobile phones were like that ....

I quite liked changing my TV from being 5ft deep to 5ft wide

Has anyone ever changed their woman just to get a better quality of mother-in-law?

My mother-in-law has an annoying habitshe wakes each morningffs joke

Jimmy b,

Ah, but only if everything was in the same place.
You meet a gorgeous sexy 20 something year old, with a fantastic figure. She gets to 50 and for some reason everything sort of moves south, IE not in the same place. Of course as a man that has not happened to me, I am still the same Greek god like figure of a man that my wife first met 30 years ago.
If only.

Tried to think of a mother-in-law joke but my humour has left me, it always did when I pictured mine. Remember Reginald Perrin's thought picture of his mother-in-law. If only I could cut/paste pictures. No doubt someone will help me out.

I think everything should have a new grey background. I like it.

Excepting wives and girlfriends, of course, which should ideally have at least a bit of a slightly filthy background.

MM - I'm a clinician as far as eyes are concerned - what do you expect me to look at?

No, don't answer that - and thank you for not mentioning the name of the company :-))

Another take on my post re prisoners and human right.
Now that they also have conjugal right (that according to the Greekman dictionary is meaningless duty bound sex within marriage, not the illicit sex that has you screaming and yelling, yes, yes o blood yes that you see in porno films, or so they tell me. You know the sort that blows your mind......yes I did say mind) perhaps they could take legal action against the state if their wives/partners become pregnant, receiving compensation and enforcing the tax payer to support their offspring.
OK forget the last bit as we do anyway.
Call me a cynic if you like, but it does make you wonder just where this country of ours is heading.

Heading?

No comment.
Thought someone with a dirty mind would pick that up.

Is that an example of tabasco sauce (sorry couldn't resist).

ROBBIE WILLIAMS will finally reunite with TAKE THAT at the Royal Albert Hall tomorrow night
Not only will the original Take That line-up Gary Robbie MARK OWEN HOWARD DONALD and JASON ORANGE play together for the first time in almost 15 yearsex-BEATLE Sir Paul is teaming up too. Hopefully just working on the door and serving the popcornand I would get a receipt for any money he takes
Robbies Reality Killed The Video Star will be his ninth album chart-topper on Sundaywell done my son

Here we go again.

A woman immigrant who killed a baby she was looking after, by swinging the child by the ankles and smashing it's head in on a wall has just been released from a 5 year prison sentence (she was charged and found guilty of manslaughter, why the charge was not murder I don't know).
She has now been given 4,500 as a bribe to leave the country and return to Malaysia. Presumably due to her 'human rights' she could not be deported.
So the death of a child by someone who intended that death, or at east GBH, is worth 5 years in prison, presumably with colour TV, Sky plus, a gym, educational classes, better food than that served in schools, old folks homes and hospitals, with a gift of 4,500 and presumably a free flight.
No doubt the plonker who had the final say will be looking forward to a bonus.
I wonder what the parents of the dead child thoughts are.

The problem we have is that issues such as this don't shock anymore.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1227871/Fury-immigrant-baby-killer-paid-4-500-bribe-quit-Britain.html

For a 1000 she can get a Ricki Lake passporta one way ticket back scam land and a bit of false origami.so back into the country for a net profit of 3,000 for A. Wong Un....opps am I being racist???

The Telegraph today,

Prisoners are being given 'Holidays of up to 100 days away from their cells. Murderers, Rapists and others are being given community service from prison to relieve the pressure on overcrowded prisons.
If we sent those immigrants back on completion of their sentences, that would mean at least a few less repeat offenders.
Minsters state that such community service holidays cut re offending (of course it does). And yet several have committed further offence whilst on these jaunts.
One murderer terrorised a woman, another committed a violent raid on a Post Office, another raped a 16 year old girl whilst on day release in able to allow him to attend an AA meeting whilst yet another committed 56 burglaries over 39 day releases (now that's that I call being productive......Due a 'Bonus' perhaps.

tabasco,

No I don't think you are being in any way racist. Immigrant who commit crime should on completion of their sentence be returned to the own county, on release. And they should all be herded together on a basic transport plane, not by a commercial ticket.

Note....Not many people are aware that often it takes several seats on an aircraft to return these people. One for the returnee, two for the escorts and often (depending on the returnee) empty seats so that they are not seated to other fare paying passengers that is of course if they are not returned via charter which can obviously cost thousands.

Of course the situation has got far worse under, Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime, Labour.

Is there any hope left for us.

Taken from Telegraph online:

Speaking shortly after the release of his new film Harry Brown, social scientist and film star Michael Caine, 76, said: "We have wasted a whole generation here and that will be passed on to the next generation."

He said he had changed his mind on how society should deal with crime and anti-social behaviour among the young, urban poor, after returning to the streets around the Elephant and Castle in south London to research Harry Brown.

It was there that he grew up, but he said the area had changed incomparably since the 1940s.

In an interview with the Daily Mirror, he said: "I had gone into this film with the attitude of 'let's lock them all up and throw away the key' all of those old opinions. But now I have completely changed my mind.

"Meeting the kids around Elephant and Castle I realised how wrong I was.

"Those young children were born like all other young children yet they were turned into what they are by the society we have created.

"I spent a lot of time talking to the actual lads as we filmed and every single one I spoke to felt that they hadn't been given a chance at all.

"I am talking about kids who would scare the daylights out of you on any other occasion. But I came to realise they had been let down."

While he lived in a prefab house, that has since been demolished, and belonged to a gang for "self-defence", he said children now lived in housing that was "incredibly poor" and faced worse violence on the streets.

"When I grew up there it was tough and rough," he said. "But then it was alcohol and fights but now it is drugs and guns and knives and death."

While he had thought that children and teenagers joined gangs "to kill someone" he came to realise that their motivation was the same as him when he was young self-preservation.

The state should invest in educating such children, he argued, saying it was cheaper than jail and that afterwards "you hopefully have a useful citizen".

But he more pessimistically believed that family breakdown, and in particular the "irresponsibility" of absent fathers, was "the start of all of this".

"Sadly the state cannot provide fathers," he concluded.

I can see his point, but my feeling is after dealing with criminals for many years, including murderers, rapists, paedophiles and other scumbags of our society, is that once society looses respect and discipline to the extent we have, we are not going to get it back by the soft namby pamby approach.
Many of these youths that Micheal Caine talks about are well past help. They have to fear punishment. Fear committing crime.
The softly softly approach is not working. Turn the other cheek to the majority of criminals and they will take the opportunity to put the other boot in whilst your not looking.
I agree that absent fathers along with many other problems can be to blame, but it's funny how in war time when many more fathers were absent and there was more deprivation, the crime rate was very low.

Just a quick example (not one of the worse). Many years ago I was investigating a GBH where after an augment between 2 girls in a pub, one put the others eye out in a glassing. This young girl (17) was so badly cut her eye was actually resting on her lower cheek. A youth approached me and said he was a witness. When asked what had occurred he said something along the lines of "Well she was glassed wasn't she. She won't see the next one coming". The girl at this time was still in situ being stabilised by a paramedic. All his mates then laughed.
Situation such as this lead me to believe that there are many people on this earth that do not deserve any compassion or understanding, and that society would be far better of without them.

OK tirade over, calming down a bit now.
Pessimist, cynic. You bet I am where this country is concerned.