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Ken L

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  1. Two problems wth trailers in the UK. 1. Reversing the things. Our roads are narrow and twisty and in rural areas, they're often single track. Having to reverse uop with a trailer is a pain in the bum. 2. We live in a land populated by thieving bar stewards.
  2. All well and good but I was able to find a friend who (although registered to vote) doesn't show up on the published electoral role. People who work in areas like the security services really don't need the bad guy's to be able to find them and their families easily.
  3. The local car boot sales are also well worth a look.
  4. That Pythagarus chappie is a tricksy little devil and no mistake.
  5. Brinkmanship and stupidity seem to know few boundaries.
  6. I agree. It's the PC BS that I have a major issue with. I reckon that less than 1 in 5,000 people in this country could reckognise the SS Windrush from a photo. Then, there simply has to be some stuff from the regions and a celebration of ethnic "culture".
  7. I love the world cup. If I want to go fishing, I have the river to myself. If I want to go on the pull, the bars are full of women and no competition. If I want to go to a nice restaurant, no waiting. I just wish it happened more often........
  8. Stonehenge Punch and Judy SS Empire Windrush Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII Cup of tea FA Cup Alice in Wonderland Routemaster bus King James Bible The Angel of the North Spitfire Jerusalem The Notting Hill Carnival Hadrian's Wall The mini-skirt Cricket Morris dancing The pub Blackpool Tower The Eden Project Big Ben Nelson's flagship HMS Victory Constable's painting The Hay Wain Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice The Globe Theatre The Sutton Hoo helmet The Machin and York Minster are all suposedly English icons. SS Empire Windrush, The Notting Hill Carnival, Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII, Alice in Wonderland, Constable's painting The Hay Wain, The Globe Theatre,The Sutton Hoo helmet and The Machin; Do me a favour. The Globe is less than 10 years old for chrissakes As for, The Angel of the North, The Eden Project and Blackpool Tower, they're purely regional.
  9. I'm not a footbal fan but I have to agree with the sentiments expressed by Ian Wright when Sven got the job. England should have an Englist manager. The national team will never be world class again though unless the FA force clubs to play no more than 3 forign players on the pitch at any one time. Nobody nurchures new talent at the moment, they just import it from abroad.
  10. I hate to suggest this but you might want to think about the polarised glasses thing for pole fishing. If you can see clearly through the surface film of the water, you can see your float tip both above and below the water. If you can see you float tip both above and below the water, you can't tell whether it's gone under or not. I love my glasses but I din't wear them for close range float fishing for that very reason.
  11. Well I'm not sure but I've done that many times when i was a kid. Just lye down on a stage, feed 'em up and get confident and just feed them by hand. I think he's refering to the baits not being erroded away by constant pecking by little roach, shimmers and other silver fish.
  12. Yep, that's the right ad for EDS. A bunch of big girly wooftas pretending they can do the impossible.
  13. Some deep defencive reflexes cut in when I read that article and the imaginative part of my brain ceased to function. Being a bloke, I thought that this must be some hormone linked inability to process information so I called over a female colleague, showed her the story and pressa's picture and asked what would make a woman want to have that bearing down on her ? Her face went blank for a few seconds but the direct nature of the question quickly forced the defences asside. Do you know, I'm almost sure she was a little bit sick into the back of her throat.
  14. Rabbit. You may feel that you only respond in kind, but to anyone standing on the outside who maybe hasn't seen some initial exchange, you just look like the agressor. If someone's having a go, they become fair game themselves. Just try not rising to the bait.
  15. Ken L

    Fuel

    When Newt comes over, he needs to be made to see Tubbs's solution to the fuel crisis in League of Gentlemen.
  16. Specials get the sh1tty end of everything in the police force. You'll be gobbed on at every football match for miles, walking the streets for hours and sent into some very dodgy situations with almost no backup. Add to that the almost total lack of training and absence of pay and it's a job that few right minded people would want. In rural areas, you might become a valued member of the comunity but in a city, you'll be just another pig.
  17. Oh dear. It seems that there is already law in place that makes it manadory to deport non-EU nationals who have been imprisoned for more than a year and EU nationals who have been imprisoned for more than two years. Not only was this not being done but the fact that it wasn't was bought to Mr Clarkes attention by the NAO amonst others. As he's failed to act, he, his suborninate immigration and prisons ministers and several senior civil servants are in a very dodgy position - although no doubt the civil servants will be found a nice backwater to keep working in if they're high enough up.
  18. It would appear that the IND are falling down. No suprise there, I've phoned them up when I've had dodgy claims from forign nationals who have been daft enough to send me proof that they've overstayed their visa's. Even though I've had full details of who they are, their passport, the date their visa's expired and where they are living, IND haven't shown the slightest interest. I have collegues who work with the police and when they arrest an illegal or vias overstayer, they regularly ring IND and tell them that not only have they got proof that chummy shouldn't be here, they've already got him in custody. Again, no interest.
  19. Chesters, If you wan't any specific advice or information about DLA, you're very welcome to PM me. I did send you a whole bunch of information when the old version of the board was in place but in fairness, 18 months after I sent it, my machine was telling me that that particular PM was still unopened by the recipient.
  20. Good idea but deportation isn't part of the judges remit. He's only there to ensure a fair trial and an appropriate sentence for the criminal act that is the subject of the trial. Maybe that's what needs to change.
  21. It comes as no suprise to me to discover that one government agency fails to share vital, logically linked information with another - even when both agencies are part of the same department. The "Joined up government" that was so much in the press a couple of years ago was and is nothing more than a P/R myth. Asylum applicants are given a National Indurance number so that they can claim Income Support but the home office does not allow them to work, claim any other benefits or have "recouse to public funds". Is there a system of flagging the persons Social Security record so that they can't make a claim for benefits that they're not entitled to - erm, no. How about a flag that identifies any contribution records on that National Insurance number and alerts the home office that the person is working illegally ? erm, no. Ok, how about some way of preventing them from recieving free medical treatment (or as happened recently, tens of thousands of pounds worth of top class university education) that they are not entitled to ? erm, no. Forget the immigrants. Lets look at Benefits. DWP pays the lower rate of Disability Living Allowance to people who nedd to be guided or supervised out of doors because of disabilities like blindness, epilepsy, schitzophrenia etc. logically, if someone needs to be guided or supervised most of the time that they are mobilising outdoors, they really shouldn't be behind the weel of a car. Is there a link between the mighty computers of the DWP and the grinding machinery of the DVLA ? Guess...... Should Clarke Go ? Well as a simple inheritor of a systen that doesn't work, I don't think so. If he's made any decisions to activly prevent the decemination of information or the immediate re-arrest of these people by immigration authorities on their release from criminal orisons then, yes, he should go. Rant over.
  22. OK, so who is the suplier and why don'y they have a list of digi camera's on their site and a guide as to which would be the appropriate case to order for each model. Or am I just being obvious ?
  23. Weired this but at this time of year, the gorse flowers smell intencely of coconut and comming in to work along tha canal towpath on the bike, I get it full force. Strangely, there can be even more flowers on the gorse latter in the year but it never smalls the same as it does in April and early May. I'm sure that I read somewhere that gorse is the only other natural thing to smell of coconut other than erm, coconut.
  24. Of course, Frank only stayed thin with the help of his personal trainer. Charlie, I think his name was......
  25. Go for the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and the rest of there serise. The idea about telephone numbers is in the first book but the whole thing is glorious in it's completely idiotic logic. Neither the TV serise northe film did the books any justice at all.
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