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.

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World,

A job centre in Thetford, Norfolk, refused a job advert because it contained the word, 'RELIABLE', as it would discriminate against 'unreliable' people.

I suppose words such as, Honest, Punctual, Enthusiastic, Loyal, Hard working, etc will also be liable to discriminate for similar reasons.

After publicity re this the add was accepted.

You couldn't make it up.

I have been to Thetford on a number of occasions Greekmanlet me tell you nobody there is reliable!!!
Getting back to Geithner and come to that Paulsonthey believe all Banks are equalit is just that Goldman Sachs appears to be more equal than mostby by GeithnerObama will give him the hook

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After the latest scandal of Tevez calling Neville a `bootlicker`, there seems to have been some confusion amongst the younger fans regarding their idols comments.
A group of under 14`s football players were caught licking their boots in the changing rooms after assuming that it would increase their chances of having the same success as Neville.
The craze seems to have spread around younger teams and the dream of been better players appears to have boosted their confidence enough to actually improve their performance.
We managed to catch up with a leading child psychologist who said, "Often you will find that a child has an ability which is compressed within and then released when confidence is increased. Sometimes a child will perform better if they believe within themselves that it is possible. In this case the children believe that by licking their boots they will play better football and therefore because they believe - they do play better!"
However as this crazy craze spreads over the country some angry mothers have stepped forward and criticised Tevez. One mother issued this statement "What a silly thing to encourage children to do. We enjoy are children following football, we don`t even mind if they have the odd poster on the wall of their favourite football player but I think this is just one step too far! I caught one boy just about to lick his shoe that had a certain unsavory item stuck to it! Tevez should have thought about this before encouraging it."
Well boys you know the saying `Never eat yellow snow`, the same rule sort of applies here - `Never lick a brown boot!`.

All the time Banks are aloud to make bets with each otherthey will continue to be a massive risk to the economy with uncertainty and possible total failureWe are still witnessing the aftermath If they are too big to failcut them into quartersbetter stillslice them up into little pieces WTF cant Politicians see thisgreat job with Lloyds!!.and while they are at itchange the names from Banks to Slimball Seedy Clipjointshas a kinda ring about itBarclays Slimball Seedy Clipjoint call the top boys fencesshould attract the same kind?in fact we might be better off?top Casinos dont have charges.on the contrarythey give you free food and drinkyou dont get non activity chargesAmerican Expressfcuk off!!! If some Russian Oligarth wants to bet 1ml. on red and black turns upthey can pay themselves a bonus Everyone is friendly.and they dont bet with your moneythats your choicethe Government tax them nicelyand if they looseHa Ha! they dont get bailed out with our moneyI move to forward the notionthose in favoureyes to the leftjokers to the rightBTWbest of luck Tonycant wait for your explanation on guaranteeing us all that Iraq had Weapons of mass destructionmorning all grizzle over

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That was one breath!

Incidentally North Korea do have weapons of mass destructiondont see us picking on them? America aint baying for Premier Kim Yong-Il head on a platterI would say North Korea are far more dangerous to World Peacebut what do I know I am just a lucky thicko!

Perhaps they have learnt a valuable lessononly pick on Countries you can beat in War losing to Vietnam gave them a benchmarkmind you Afghanistan is proving difficultmaybe Vatican City is their limit?

Tobasco,

Fully agree (not that your a thicko) but regarding the Korean threat. Although I put Iran at the top of the threat list. But it is only natural to fight back at someone you know you can beat.
I tend to put things as simplistic as possible (because that's the way I look at things, and they often are simplistic), if you are as an individual threatened by a thug who you think you can defend yourself against you do so. But if that thug is a 20 stone gorilla, then you would be a fool to do so.
When there is a situation where to defend yourself you have 'no choice' then you just have to take the risk. There may come a time with Korea/Iran and a few others, where there is no alternative but to fight.

Remember the 'bottle' shown by J F Kennedy in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
I think the vast majority except that the stand taken by J F K was the only thing that saved the world from the possibility of World War 3.

Problem is that risk has re-surfaced in another guise.

Perhaps I should get a placard stating, (The End Is Neigh) and join the band of usual protesters that you see in several cities. Of course one day they will be right.

We can beat N Korea but to do so, we would have to nuke the hell out of them. They know it and we know it. No other way really. So no fight. Just posturing.

Not quite the same scenario with Iran. Far too many complications.

Maybe we should move ALL banks and bankers to N Korea? Hmmm? Just a thought.

As you know Greekman I do not believe in Waronly self defenceand when completely necessarynobody has the last say!!! I did have a Gorilla pick on me at schoolhe knocked the crap out of mebut I hurt him in the processfrom then on I told him that if he bullied anyone elsehe would have to knock the crap out of me againhe didnt!most modern day WarsI believehave rather different motives than portrayed by the Politicianslike I said just my opinion

Whatever happened to Alan anyone ?? never see him posting on here now.

Tabasco,

You say, "WarsI believehave rather different motives than portrayed by the Politicianslike I said just my opinion".

Couldn't agree more. I wonder if the day will ever come when a Politician gets up and says something along the lines of, 'We are going to bomb the b******s before they bomb us, or/and it's all about oil, stupid'.

Centuries ago most wars were over water, now they are over oil.

Jimmy, Alan has been looking after exotic animals these days.
http://www.morleyobserver.co.uk/district-news/Vinnie-the-orphan-meerkat-dies.6014851.jp

It looks like a full time job for Alan and Heather!

Well well ,he's even got a scorpian . Cheers for the info Kim.

No problem. Maybe he will take in Tony Blair later! :o)

I wouldnt really call him exotic Kim ,a prick yes ,exotic no.

Sorry Jimmy, mixing up quixotic with exotic! :oD

Kim,

The description fits Tony (teflon) Blair better than the meerkat,

He won the hearts of everyone in Morley (West Yorks) with his exploits, his bright inquisitive eyes and little chirrups. Being very tame (tamed by peter Mandelson), he was taken on school visits and to meet the residents of local care homes.

Although I do find meerkats more endearing than TB. Perhaps in the future they hopefully will become extinct, not meerkats obviously.

Greek.