do you eat a lot of sugary food Jo van? maybe you are sweating trace amounts of sugar and this is what attracts the blighters. It's also a sign of insulin resistance, the pre-cursor to diabetes. If you eat a lot of sugar at once, your body sweats it out because it can't deal with it normally.

Your kiwi-fruits would have ended up the size of melons.
Next time you go to a BBQ, wear a pair of cycle clips.

Brixham Rotary have a shop not a million miles away, so I ask if they can help. Much to my amazement, a crt Toshiba (& remote) magically appears about three minutes later - so far, so good.

I take said tv up to the lady & attempt to install, with no result.

Next morning I stroll over to Rotary and state 'that tv seems not to be a runner'..... I am curtly informed that it 'needs a freeview box' & 'no we don't have one'.

I sigh heavily & say I'll drop the tv back, when I'm very pointedly told that it was got 'just for you' - blatent lie, since it was already in the shop- and I would have to take it down to the tip. (Which btw I have done).

I can just see my 'client' struggling with two remote controls, one of which is knackered through overuse anyway (by the way, sound was non-existent on the Toshiba, I have installed junk before).

When I grew up in the seventies my role models, footballers, had perms, sheepskin coats and ate peas.
Then in the late nineties a just retired footballer was photographed in the newspapers in a sarong and
later his underwear. Before this, women of my acquaintance would laugh at a man who stripped down to
his under garments. Men, if you'll allow me to call them that, began moisturising getting sanskrit tattoos,
working out (exercising) and the then nonce word metrosexualality entered our collective lexicon for ever.

I was and am fully supportive of any and all police efforts to bring a murderer to justice but is there a financial limit we should set on giving the defendant a fair hearing?

I'm watching the trial of Mark Bridger accused of murdering April Jones and can't help but think this is a farce. He's saying he knocked the girl over, picked her up, put her in the car, tried, to resuscitate her, and can't remember what he did with her body. The evidence says there is no damage to his car, her blood has been found on the carpet around his fire and other places with evidence of attempts to clean up and a piece of human skull has been found.

There can't be a single person in the courtroom listening to this who think his evidence is remotely plausible.

He (Rowan) has a few millions as well as quite a proboscis.

has anyone mentioned a nice big willy with a smiley face tattoo'd on the end bit.. ?

i like that and find it quite attractive, especially in a man.

Note to self. Remind Jo van at every opportunity Profumo was a Tory.

I just disagree with you. I found her remarkable in palpable and sustainable achievements and
her character. You have posted before about how she denied her background. For me in that
assertion you couldn't be more wrong. She never shut up about her father, his shop, his civic
work and their Methodist background it informed her politics. How many biographies, friend
or foe, have you read ? Do you like to read widely and have your understanding advanced. Or do
you like to have your existing prejudices or views confirmed each and every time by reading narrowly.

No mention of the USSR role in ww2. Or, and it's not a popular thing to say, the opinion that war
could have been averted or at least the death of say fifty million lives mitigated. He was no great
strategist. Beloved ? Good orator ? Certainly but perennially wrong. No more so when post world
war 1 he took Britain back on to the gold standard at parity with the classic gold standard, directly
condemning Britain to the poverty of the 1920s. Mention of the general strike.
should give you a reminder of those bleak times. Worse than the 1930s in my opinion and directly
attributable to Winston Churchill. Apropos, Churchill was born in Blenheim palace I think.

It's the moral right of the poor to undercut the rich. That could be us.

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

JV - you put words into my mouth I never uttered.

btw

does sweet fa to add to the discussion

Like it or not, because product can now be shipped around the world relatively easily and cheaply, manufacture will move to the cheapest location.

And that cheap location means hourly rates way below what we are used to.

JV - if I had any respect for your point of view it has just gone out of the window.

I could be wrong, but I thought I heard that he was being suspected of rape, which is a different kettle of fish entirely.

Hmmm, not sure how I feel about that remark, I ll perhaps delightfully and optimistically bat my eyelids whilst I think about it, but not in too naive a way!!!!!

I believe in sound money and a free market any backsliding from the goal of a free market
for goods and services and sound money ends up hurting the poor.

I never confuse the state
with us the people. You do Jo. You cant wait to capture your fellow men and women with
handouts and warm words of community, inane class war or know your place.

I believe it's the moral right of the poor to undercut the rich. I don't think trade unions believe this.

The US sub-prime housing crisis was a $300 billion problem exacerbated by a $6 trillion derivative
flutter with our money. If you look at the underbelly of it you will see that the state and its interests
wanted to help the poor on to the rigged housing market. Good intentions you see. But as night followed
day working men and women's labour was deployed and destroyed in the process of socialism advancing,

tis pity we disagree how it got like this or what to do. :) or perhaps :(

The wealth may be in the hands of the few, nowhere near what you think though.

it's worrying that you should think that confiscating their assets is somehow going to solve the problem.

Thatcher funeral costs .....£ 3.6million
£2, 200,000 of that on police wages that would have been paid out that day.
Thatcher family have promised to make a contribution to the costs. People are highly vexed over this.

"Income inequality in OECD countries is at its highest level for the past half century. The average income of the richest 10% of the population is about nine times that of the poorest 10% across the OECD, up from seven times 25 years ago."[4]
In the United States inequality has increased further from already high levels.[4][5]
"Other traditionally more egalitarian countries, such as Germany, Denmark and Sweden, have seen the gap between rich and poor expand from 5 to 1 in the 1980s, to 6 to 1 today."[4]

A study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research at United Nations University reports that the richest 1% of adults alone owned 40% of global assets in the year 2000. The three richest people possess more financial assets than the lowest 48 nations combined.[6] The combined wealth of the "10 million dollar millionaires" grew to nearly $41 trillion in 2008.[7] In 2001, 46.4% of people in sub-Saharan Africa were living in extreme poverty.[8] Nearly half of all Indian children are undernourished, however, even among the wealthiest fifth one third of children are malnourished.[9][10]

This is a dating site, right? So why are you asking about sprouts at Christmas in April on a dating site?

I bet Rhett and Scarlett ate them on a date????!!

so why are we not prioritising uk schools and local children for the refurbished pc equipment instead.

so anyway how about some explanation, of why we need to send the pcs, when most times local
uk schools can't even get the funding to supply their own classes with pc equipment,

Technology, one of the most expensive areas in schools, has been among the first affected by coalition austerity. One of Michael Gove's first acts as education secretary was to abolish Becta, the government's IT advisory body, and cut by £100m the Harnessing Technology grant, designed to help schools to pay for broadband connectivity and computer hardware.

In addition, schools are losing out through the scrapping of the Building Schools for the Future programme, which as well as investing in school buildings, also funded IT equipment.

It is normal to feel depressed after these events; drugs shouldn't be given to anyone because of feelings that are completely normal.

I agree Polly. I think that some people take the "poor me" attitude to having a few problems and find comfort in moaning to those who will humour them about it and drop pills at the drop of a hat.

Be still and know that we are infinite fragments of God, energy that can never be destroyed. Just living in the now, living in perfection. You accept that true reality, everything takes care of itself. Your psyche becomes calibrated/syncronised with the universe, what in Ancient China they called the Tao....Suddenly you start to create your future, not just exist in it.

On here a liberal is not a liberal, it's far more fun to call someone a bleeding heart liberal than a bleeding heart left winger.

In my book a liberal is someone who is open minded enough to accept all points of view without applying prejudice.

A true liberal would not have double standards or make sweeping generalisations about South Africans or any other group of people.

A true liberal would not have double standards or make sweeping generalisations about South Africans or any other group of people.

I might be anti-immigration but you'll never see me attacking someone because of their race, ethnicity is an important part of someones identity.

Guess why my next and first new car after that was a BMW?

You've completely changed your tune,

I thought you was an advocate of multiculturalism?!

Now you are saying that everybody should be the same?

Human cognition is biased and thus so is our views and thoughts, even if you took away race and religion we would just find something else to judge people on.

and my weak bladder

Jo Van, the definition of proud, or pride for that matter, is not perfect. Are you really saying that in order to feel proud of something, or someone, then something you or they do has to be perfect?

So your son/daughter gets 5 A levels, but only achieves between 94 to 98% in them, you would berate them for not being perfect, instead of being proud of them?

and who created margaret Thatcher?

As Polly said, there's been 23 years in between. If it all was her fault then the rest have had plenty of time to make the necessary changes and they haven't.

A good place to start is the mental health charity Mind,

You can't get out of bedroom tax by calling a bedroom a prayer room,

I'd ask David C , How will you cope if no one pays your bedroom tax? What if we all said No thanks.

Whilst I was no fan of Margaret Thatcher and her policies and style of government, I would not go so far as to be full of glee at her death. Anyone's death is a loss to someone, and pain for them, so I wouldn't be happy at her family's grief.

RIP The Iron Lady.

well angel,,most naturist have plenty of common sense

well angel,,