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Credit where it's due....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8296016.stm Not many chances to praise the Froggies, but hey hey did it right this time! BGB's all round! Ok better add a question..... err, is the Geezer going soft?...

Gromit

MoD budget to be cut by a quarter

Is this possible without it affecting our ability to defend ourselves effectively. Shouldn't we be increasing spending as we appear to be badly equipped already. Is this a white flag to our enemies?

123everton

The right honourable Adolf Hitler?

I caught a bit of "The Nazis, A Warning From History" and in it an old man recalled seeing Hitler speak and that after seeing the look in his eyes that he felt that Hitler was "an...

Bbbananas

"They've Ruined Noddy."

That's what a 21 year old colleague has just come out with at tea break. (We don't talk about the weather or the state of the Euro - boring..) What does she mean - any ideas? Has he been forced to...

BertiWooster

Time Travel

Does the ' Grandfather paradox ' mean that the the theory of time travel is likely to remain just that - a theory ? Without looking it up , I recall it goes something like this - If you went back in...

anotheoldgit

Why the need for the Tories’ to hold its first gay pride event?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1218685/Stephen-Fry-Eddie-Izzard-round-Tories-homophobia-row-partys-new-right-wing-allies-Europe.html Especially when they and others then start objecting to...

scrummyyummy

Shaver socket and European plug

I have just bought a waterpik which has a European 2 pin plug which fits into the shaver socket in my bathroom but it's not a snug fit and is too loose so only works when I wiggle it and hold on to...

Bobbisox

Where is your favourite part of the UK and Why?

It needn't be where you live now, but if you could buy a 'townhouse' or a thatched cottage, a caravan ,any type of home as a second home, where would it be and why? Money not being a problem!...

TorahBoy

Gravity...... Only a theory?

Found this on the internet, are these the ravings of a loonatic? Have the Amish ste up a website? For example, “the moon goes around the earth.” If the theory of gravity were true, it...

Bbbananas

The things you can get on the NHS these days....

I have just referred a fella for prostatic massage to our local hospital. I thought there were special 'parlours' and 'salons' for that sort of thing where the men had to fork out of their own...

flip_flop

Krakow........

I have just come back from a long weekend in Krakow - utterly fantastic place, will definitely be going back - and the thing that struck me was that all the men and women there seem to take a pride in...

brionon

Polanski

Those French and Polish Mnisters and the Hollywood Lovies who supported the admitted Child Raper,Polanski , seem to have gone quiet. Could it be that the rage of the Ordinary people has scared them...

kc70

can anyone tell me what uk prisons are like on the inside please and what life is like for a prisoner

Pufflette

What happened to Ireland?

Okay, unemployment has increased everywhere but according to Eurostat Ireland's unemployment now sits at 12.5%. This is such a far cry from 9 years or so ago when Ireland was wonder economy and had...

suem

Money gifts to kids

How can my mom in law give her family money to avoid her having to pay for care in the future? She is mid seventies and a little frail at the moment and is worried sick about her life savings (about...

fluffy apple

Am thinking of having woodburner to replace coal fire??

Have got original coal fire but would like to take it out to have a wood burner. But do not know much about them as far as instalation etc!! Am presuming need chimney lined?? But have heard how...

Bobbisox

what do you think about Anton?

Has he over stepped the mark by calling Lailla Rouass what he did? Carole Thatcher was sacked from the One Show for being 'racist' The girl in question is on the front of todays paper,'MY RACE JIBE...

Gromit

Cameron's U-turn on retirement age.

Yesterday the Tories announced the retirement age would rise to 66, which came as a bit of a shock to women expecting to retire at 60. Last night party spokesmen told journalists that the change in...

R1Geezer

Now that the United states of Europe is pretty well up and running..

Do you think they'll be able to get a set of audited accounts signed off after 14 years of trying?

fredpuli47

Non sequitur (Cameron)

David Cameron has just told the BBC that he does not want anyone to vote for the Lisbon treaty and he has told the Czechs and the Poles what his position is. He then explains that he does not want to...

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