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.

There's a bit more to the tagged great-granny story - but not much. Seems the council were concerned that she'd mistreated a cockatiel or summat. Waste of resources that could have been better employed clamping disabled pensioners' cars parked on double yellow lines.

One day middle England will rise up in outrage.

Mighty ,,, those bloody pensioners ,,,my mum (who's 80) just got fined for putting 2 wheels on the kerb in a country village ,if you could see where it was it made sense ..
I told her on the phone , Mum you should be in Belmarsh !! Those Krays they have nothing on her..

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Namrehlet me know if you ever write a bookI want to order the first copy

Luckily I dont go to workand only ever wear plain black socks.they do however have left and right embroidered on the heels

Scales of justice: Joan Higgins was prosecuted after 20,000 council sting operation.

A petty fine, tagging and a curfew, pathetic, once again it shows how soft we are on crime and punishment.
This case will have no deterrent effect whatsoever.

Why are people feeling more empathy with this person just because she is an OAP and Grandmother, surely she is old enough to know better.

She should have been taken straight out of her pet shop, publicly flogged, hung drawn and quartered, with her head then impaled on a spike.

I guarantee, there would be no further heinous crimes of his nature.

NOTE.... On tracing my family tree back to the 1600's, I found I am related (would you believe) to "Witch-finder General" Matthew Hopkins.
Now he knew a thing about crime deterrent. You don't see any 'Witches' now days do you.

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I don't give a shit. I have one pair of socks with 'Ls' on and another with 'Rs' on. Well, I do actually. Both pairs happen to be the same colour.

And parking on the path, you say?

Hmmm?

Everyone does it round here. Wifey is on the PC. They meet every two months and she brought this up at the last meeting. Neither the police or the community officers, who generally attend, say they care about it. Neither are they bothered about kids riding bikes on the pavement. They say that each of these 'actually illegal offences' really do keep accidents down.

In fact, I have even seen the community police riding on the pavement in our local area.

The main thing the police had to say about parking partly on the pavement, was that, providing there is a gap left so that you can get a push chair or a wheel chair down the side of the car, it's OK with them.

Cyclist on pavements, cars parked on pavements.
Once again it comes down to common sense, a commodity sadly lacking in todays Police Force.
I never contemplated taking action in many areas, as long as they (cars) were not as already said, stopping people from getting past. Cyclist as long as they were being considerate and not doing so in busy pedestrian areas, or/and cycling slowly.

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mnamreh

Only in very cold weather or perhaps the odd long haul flight.

Ssshhh. You are making me blush, you. Oooh you are a one!

;-)

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So the rail strike has been called off, I wonder who will claim the credit for that.
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That would be the High Court :-)

Glad that you are still alive Hilary. Thought that you had drowned or crashed into a tree on some ski slope! Are you sticking to forex these days?

Manure... An interesting fact

Manure: In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship and it was also before the invention of commercial fertilizers, so large shipments of manure were quite common.

It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, not only did it become heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by product is methane gas of course. As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen.

Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM!

Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what was happening.

After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the instruction 'Stow high in transit' on them, which meant for the sailors to stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.

Thus evolved the term 'S.H.I.T', (Stow High In Transit) which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.

You probably did not know the true history of this word. You probably thought it was another name for The Guardian!

HO Ho HO!

Although not according to Snopes... http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/shit.asp

General election confirmed May 6th

My anti virus has had a few 'issues' with Snopes, although that could be an anti virus problem. I was intending to post it on 1st April, but was too busy having fun telling the wife that Unite had gone bust and the oldest youngter would have nowhere to stay at university after Easter sp I fprgot.