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.

A very happy Christmas and New Year to all.rememberwhen the Wife ask for a stocking fillerits not what your hoping?.they are expecting at least an expensive perfumeand a pair of Jimmy Choo's our little treasures deserve the very best for looking after us.do not disappoint

Same to everyone......Merry Xmas and a Very Prosperous New Year.

Is it any wonder we are struggling in Afghanistan.

It was reported today that the only all female jet fighter crew in Afghanistan had and I quote, 'Frightened a group of Taliban fighters away'.
It appears that the crew had been informed of a Taliban rocket team that were about to fire on a British base compound. So they reportedly flew over the insurgents at a few hundred feet, which frightened them so much that they 'ran away'.
I have to ask, Are we playing games or what?

Surely if you have the advantage of a several million pound fighting machine fully armed, they should have zapped the b******s.
No doubt this rocket team will in the future have more success and as a result kill/main or both some poor sod who is trying his/her best with at least one hand tied behind their back.
Not blaming the crew, as it is no doubt the 'Rules of engagement'.
Bloody pathetic.

Off to tenerife sun for 12 days tonight so all have a good xmas and catch up with you all in the new year. BB

Came back from Florida to spend xmas in the UK with my mum ,,bloody freezing my blood must have thined.

Happy New Year to all.

You gotta love Robin Williams........Even if he's nuts! Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.
Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)

'I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan.'

1) 'The US / UK ? Canada , AUSTRALIA will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good 'ole' boys', we will never 'interfere' again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East , and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are from. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a 'D' and it's back home baby.

6) The US / UK Canada , Australia will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere.' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH..learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?

'The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' '

Had to laugh tonight. ITV news interviewed 3 mothers in Aberdeenshire who were looking after their children because the schools were closed due to the snow. All three had very polite English accents. Not a trace of a Scottish lilt anywhere!

Anyone wishing to sign the petition 'Against the march on Wootton Bassett' please see http://www.petitiononline.com/leste158/petition-sign.html

If this march is allowed to go ahead, it sums up just how week this country is.
What an insult to our armed forces. To me it matters not if your support the war in Afghanistan, our armed forces are doing a fantastic job and should have 100% support. Surely such a march will provoke racial hatred and a breach of the peace, which is just what the organisers intend.
I am far to angry to comment further.

You wont solve anything in the UK greek, its finished (labour Govenment) . Can you imagine Maggie Thatcher allowing that, or the preaching of hatered in the streets of London (abdu Hamza) ,its people like that silly cow Shami Chakrabarti saying that we shouldnt target muslem or arab people at airports for search as we will offend ,i suppose we should push them through security and search the old Brtitish white couple thoroughly instead.
I chose not to live in the UK anymore its shite, blame Tony Blaire and all those other tossers in the Labour Gov...

Agree with every word you say.

The march should go ahead its a free country to all.

So anything goes then. Presumably that would allow me and anyone else to slag of you off and every member of your family.
Perhaps we should allow these preaches of hate free reign them. Lets have a free for all. Perhaps haters of Jews, Christians, Muslims and any other group should be allowed to say and do what they like.
A free country should mean just that, everyone is allowed freedom as long as the minority do not have complete say over the majority. Freedom must not be allowed to impose it's will add hoc, otherwise you have anarchy.
The cry of, It's a free country' is generally made by those who don't believe in true freedom or democracy.
The march organisers are spouting the same message and yet they decry many areas of our society. Try going to countries such as Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and other Muslim states and stating the same.
Perhaps you also agree with those that attended Wootton Bassett several months ago and shouted anti British slogans whilst the coffins of several dead soldiers passed through.
With people like you that always spout, 'It's a free country' no wonder we are in such a mess.

You will see who they are. Sorry

XSTEFFX.the likes of GreekJimmyand myselfhave only plain and simple common sense.you have something far superior????

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If you believe something superior to common sense has worked in Britain thus far?.nuff said.

mnamreh...Might I be as bold as to ask if you are from ancestry of German extraction
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XSTEFFX - Aye! And if you and your cronies go anywhere near Wooton Bassett you will see exactly who we are! Nuff said!

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Politics live off metaphorsI was rather thinking of only going back as far as Berti Vogts Rudi Voller Anglo-Saxon is so very Shabby Chic.I personally prefer the presentation by Chris Carsonno offence of course.