Johnny Bognor

One of the looters charged today was a primary school teaching assistant. ****ing public sector teacher scum!

You were bang on the money with regards to vigilantes! 80+ lads patroling the streets of Enfield were on the news last night. 100+ sikhs were shown protecting their temple. The people will make a stand.

Palace, Charlton and West Ham games are cancelled for this evening

I know they talk a bit funny, but I didn't think that they wrote funny too.

That was a good thread that like

MOT failure rates have more to do with the owners, rather than the manufacturer. I looked at the BMW 530 which has a failure rate of27%. However, over three quarters of the reasons for failure relate to brakes and tyres. As these are the most common reasons for failure, which have little to do with the manufacturer, then the figures are fairly meaningless. Is a failure due to a chip on the windscreen really down to the manufacturers? If they removed wearable items from the results and just considered the component parts made by the manufacturers, it would give a more realistic view.

Lead, don't follow

This makes my blood boil. If I was serving someone who said that to me, they would GET "No you can't ****ING get it. That is my job you ****ing knob jockey. You're not a yank, so don't try to pretend otherwise you ****"

Fantastic! It's the daughters' birthdays on the 17th meaning there was no way I could go. Now I can. Lovely jubbly!

What have Amy Winehouse and Imogen Thomas got in common? They are both not doing Giggs anymore

Or from around the same time... De Ridder, De Ridder, De Ridder's technotronic! No? OK, carry on

I never thought I would say this, but I fully agree with Verbal here. What aways makes me laugh in these sorts of debates is the apparent reliance of the UK on services, when industrial power houses like Germany and even France are held up as examples of how we should balance our economy. The truth is that there isn't much difference between all 3, when you look at how our economies are balanced: Agriculture UK = 0.9% France = 1.8% Germany = 0.8% If you consider our and land mass is considerably less than Germany or France, we're not doing too bad on this front Industry UK = 22.1% France = 19.2% Germany = 27.9% Although Germany's industrial sector is the largest, it is not as big as some people have been led to believe. With France being the smallest. Services UK = 77.1% France = 79% Germany = 71.3% Out of the three EU big guns, France's economy is more dependent on services. Yes, ours is more dependent than the hun, but again, not by that much. Anyway, carry on.

I know what you mean. I am doing battle with my parish council chairman. She has been canvassing opposition to an amendment to a planning application.

I was in Krakow back in April and saw this guy too. Yes the support runs up the stick and along his arm. The rug on the floor covers up the base plate. Looks pretty cool though.

40 and going through a mid life crisis to boot

I am sure this proposal will be agreeable to all sides, as who wants to sit there in their pi ss soaked cacks anyway? If living longer is a problem, then compulsory euphanasia for teachers solves this problem. The issue with the modern career politician is that they don't come up with real solutions to real probems. We just need to agree on whether the timescale is 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 years. Perhaps we can have a poll from the teachers on here, whereby they can state how long they are prepared to live after retiring. The rest of us can then look at how affordable this is.

It seems to me that there are two factors that have to be considered in the pension reform: 1) The deficit 2) People living longer I don't buy the deficit argument in relation to teachers. Simply cutting the number of non-jobs in the public sector would go some way to preserving the teachers pensions and cutting the deficit at the same time. However, people are living longer and this includes teachers too. What astounds me is that teachers expect us to pay more becuase they are going to live longer. Having said this, I would like to put a proposal forward that may solve the current disagreements. Teachers will live longer, but don't want to pay for it. The tax payer will struggle to fund it. Perhaps state sponsored euphanasia after 25 years of retirement, removes the issue of teachers living longer. Therefore they can keep their pensions as they are, and enjoy the standard of retirement they have come to expect, whilst the taxpayer doesn't have to pick up the tab. Removing the issue of living longer solves the problem in one foul swoop. Just a thought..... carry on.

Out of interest, do unions consult the long term weather forecasts when it comes to choosing when to strike? Also, is it just me who hopes it ****ing rains on thursday?

Funniest thing I've seen on the internet for ages

I've kept every bank statement since 1990. They are stored in lever arch files in ascending order. Why, I don't know. Is there something wrong with me?

Every year we get Spitfire and ME109 dogfights over Chichester as part of the Festival of Speed and Goodwood revival events. The best free airshow going!!!! FOS is in 4 weeks time, so looking forward to it. Yes, the sound of the Merlin engine is special!

I did a similar thing last year. Part exchanged the old bricks against replacement bricks

This. Bishops are ruthless when it comes to pricing.

Yes, you can't beat a cup of tea. When we were a tea drinking nation, we had an empire and we ruled the waves. Now look at us, a coffee drinking lapdog of a nation to the yanks. What gets at me most, is when you see coffee drinkers come out of Costa or Starbucks with a stupid smug look on their faces as if they have just won the lottery. The fact that they have just paid more than a pint for something that costs a fraction to produce, just says 'mug' to me.

****ed myself laughing when a bloke in the car park walked into a puddle and ended up waist deep in water. It was like that Vicar of Dibley sketch when she jumps in a puddle. With the health and safety brigade here, something like that could never here.