THE BRITISH THREAD II

What I would like to know is how Vince Cable could have said that he didn't think the guillotine should be brought back for the bankers if the idea had never entered his head.

After looking at that quartet of shysters from the banks who were being "grilled", (grilled my arse), by the Treasury Committee of MPs I cannot help feeling thankful that any of us have any money left at all.

They wouldn't have been out of place on Blackpool Front selling tickets to see the Bearded Lady. And the ones doing the gentle questioning didn't exactly inspire me with confidence.

Bring back the class system. Bankers looked and acted like bankers then.

What a shithole Mrs Thatcher legacy is.

smorgs will certainly like that you said "shithole" here, spendi. But no remark about her come back? No belated birthday congratulations to your favourite female British poster? Well, someone from your class might not know such etiquettes.

I dont really see why the bankers were made to say sorry and publicly humiliated in that way. Its the capitalist system that's wrong, they were only expert players, until they came a cropper. On the other hand there are some jurisdictions where such corporate failure would automatically bring charges of criminal negligence, and I thought the RBS guy looked extremely uncomfortable when asked if he had taken legal advice on that point. (He said he hadnt).

Its clear these four were brought in to market banking products in a deregulated environment where buying debt and re selling it was just a big game. They were playing the system, they didnt set it up, and although their activities might have contributed to the speed and severity of the collapse, it was only when the capitalist system imploded that they were exposed as shysters.

As I said in some countries such failure does not result in removing bonuses but in removing liberty or worse. (In China their head of food and drug safety was found running a corrupt system and taken outside and shot). This gang of four should be encouraged to go there.

We went to a concert this evening.

O nuit! Oh, laisse encore a la Terre le calme enchantement de ton mystere.
L'ombre qui l'escorte est si douce!
Est-il une beaute aussi belle que le reve?
Est-il de verite plus douce que l'esperance?

Bury Choral Society.
Can you dig it?

Taken outside and shot. That's a redounding phrase. To encourage the others. And it would, make no mistake.

What about her with the tits? If you haven't got a second home, but rent a room in your sister's house, how can you in all honesty claim expenses for one?

I was telling the younger end in the pub tonight about the young American woman who kidnapped and imprisoned a missionary from Utah in, I think, Hull.

She chained him to a bed and repeatedly raped him in a most despicable way according to the charges that were laid against her. She escaped from custody and evaded the vigilant port authorities and vanished and the case was closed.

I couldn't remember her name though. Does anybody recall it?

Joyce McKinney.

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spendy It may be difficult for you to understand because you have not had the experience but this link may help.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25037492-662,00.html

There is a bit of the usual media beat up in this artical. But it is acurate in many regards.

I'm really sorry to hear about the fires dp. Its a devastating event. But what I dont understand is why the emphasis on catching fire bugs. Fires can start spontaneously in conditions like that, it only takes refraction through a bit of glass or flint or litter. Unless you really want to see Australia and its people burn, which is the sort of thing bin Laden approves of. If it really was arsonists/firebugs are they just deranged pyromaniacs or is there a more sinister motive?

Well done Smorgs you are not just a pretty face then eh that Joyce McKinney woman was in the news last year too when they found her applying for some post or other under a different name they said "but aren't you that Mormon nutter sexual deviant woman who made the news in the 1970s we're sorry but you did not make the select list have you considered trying for chairmanship of HBoS though and btw are you tied up at the weekend?"

I googled it. It wasn't a job application, cloning dead dogs only.
Publicity magnet, that Joyce.
Carnation up the chuff? Novel.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2565925/Dog-cloner-Joyce-McKinney-sought-over-burglary-to-fund-horses-wooden-leg.html

I've spoken to someone who has lived there dp and he says that a long period of dry 45 degrees C renders the pleasant woodlands into the same state as a giant petrol spillage. And that Government scientists must have known.

In which case they gambled the risk against the cost of evacuation and lost and are seeking a scapegoat in an incendiary. Which in itself diverts resources.

As Steve says--anything could have sparked it. I think it unlikely something wouldn't have. Once lit it gets up its own winds.

Hi smorgsie. Long time no see. Why did you desert us? The truth now.

And you would be wise to forget all about birfdays. They're for kiddiwinks to encourage them to learn and give them a rare chance to see their parents in non-asshole mode.

You read for example that crow's feet are normal for fifty somethings so when you get fifty something you think am I normal and look in the mirror to see if you are. And there's the crows feet. Looming large. And if you didn't know how old you were you might not have looked and not known you had them. Which increases self esteem and makes you more attractive. And intersted men won't notice them even if you have them and who cares about uninterested men? A full blown no-no are birfdays. And anybody who reminds you of them should be told to **** off.

Dudley Moore hired a hotel room on his 40th so he could cry without being seen.

What's that amazing bright object in the western sky. It was there last night.

was this after dark?

if so it was not the sun

but it was almost certainly an alien space ship with little green men all waving little green and white glasgow celtic flags.

When I first saw it when I went into the garden for a piss I thought it was a 747 with it's headlights on mainbeam. Then I thought it wasn't moving. Then I remembered that everything is moving. And it was. But very slowly.

Then it clouded over. It was there again tonight. Was it Venus with her frock up?

If I was a wise man I would have got some Frankincense and gone to look. Alas I'm a silly old shagged has been so I got back on the sofa and watched the idiot box.

It had gone by the time I strolled down to the beer dispensary.

On Tuesday night as we were leaving our friends' house, which is on a hill, to go down into Bury for the concert to which I previously referred, the full moon was very low on the horizon and was absolutely stunning. It always seems larger when it's low down on its celestial way, doesn't it? I immediately thought of certain fellow A2K members, howling.

No offence. (Said in an Australian accent)

I might go to the pictures this evening.

I've only got soup for my tea. But what soup. I made it yesterday, and it's got fennel in it. Not that you'd notice.

good one mct I think its an hoptical hillusion.

I only remember Joyce McKinney from News of the Screws, and being intensely curious as to how a woman could rape a man - still am if the truth be told...

Surely, fear would interfere with a stiffy? Or will a basque and handcuffs override all other emotions, is it a male fight or flight thingy, where blood rushes to the organs most needed?

Anyone see Newsnight last night?

Pub next week Muckty?

I don't understand the new site - can't get me old bouncing heart avatar, and where have the pm's gone?

Mormon love to all.

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