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I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for an answer Bedlingtonian.

I, for one, wouldn't fancy 'having my body severed in two, my bowels taken from thence and burned to ashes, the ashes scattered before the four winds of heaven, that no more remembrance might be had of so vile and wicked a wretch as I' just for passing on information!

The Falklands. 

Be honest - how many of you had even heard of them before the Iron Bag sank the RETREATING Belgrano?

I couldn't understand what it was all about myself until I came across a map on the net of OIL RESERVES around the Falklands.  

Speaking honestly, if I could go back in time, I too might consider the possibility of assassinating Thatcher. Like yourselves, I come from a proud mining community and Thatcher was the Devil incarnate to all my friends and family during the miner's strike. Her part in the Falklands war was also despicable.

Anyway, all this talk of eating down the pit has reminded me of an old joke I first heard from my Dad. I doubt whether any of you haven't heard it before and I can't remember the exact words but the theme went something like this ...

BILLY: Y'aal reet Geordie marra. Wud y like a bullet? Aa got them from the bottom shop t'other day.

GEORDIE: Aye, aa wadn't mind Billy. Wot are they?

BILLY: Sugared Almonds, Geordie.

GEORDIE: Ah, sorry Billy mate, aa divn't care too much for the sugar.

A couple of days later ...

BILLY; Fancy a bullet Geordie?

GEORDIE: Not if they're them sugary things ye had t'other day Billy.

BILLY: Ner, tha's nee sugar on these Geordie.

So Geordie takes a handful and munches on them ...

GEORDIE: Almonds, and they're very tasty marra. Did ye get these at another shop then?

BILLY: Ner. They're wot aa had t'other day but aa've sucked aal the sugar off them!

Have I been dreaming again, or was the Chilcot report actually released a few weeks ago?

Hardly a mention of the report or Teflon Tony in the media these last couple of weeks. Then again, he's innocent of all charges and of no more interest to the media.

I have to admit that I too have a problem with Islam as an ideology, even though I count Muslims among some of my friends.

I don't have the educational skills or the verbal eloquence of some posters in here, but I know mind control when I see it.

Muslims are locked into a religion, for life, mostly. They leave upon pain of death. It's even been said that many suicide bombers are in fact genuinely suicidal and, seeing as taking your own life is forbidden in Islam, they take the 'martyr' route, which allows them to exterminate themselves with the full backing of Mohammed and their religious leaders, along with the bonus of 36, or 72, or whatever the current number of virgins is, thrown in for their efforts.

I remember my Dad taking his bait to the Dr. Pit for him and Taffy, his pit pony.

His marra always took something 'posh,' like Spam, which the lads called 'pink lint' I believe.

I'm sure most of you know that Cornish pasties were taken down the tin mines for bait, and the ridge of crust provided a means of holding the pasty with dirty hands without affecting the filling. This was important because the ore often contained arsenic as well as tin.

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‘And wouldn’t you know it – it looks like Richard Gutjahr, the same Zionist photo-propagandist who was pre-positioned to film the Nice truck attack is now pre-positioned in Munich as well!

What are the odds that a guy with the background of Richard Gutjahr – married to a leading Israeli black operator – would “just happen to be there” to film the very beginning of the Nice truck attack AND today’s shooting at the Olympia Mall in Munich, Germany? Coincidence theorists will have a field day with this!

“The cameraman apparently pre-placed on the balcony to film the beginning of the truck attack is German journalist and blogger named Richard Gutjahr…who just happens to be married to Israeli potentate Einat Wilf, a former Israeli Intelligence Officer in Unit 8200 who served as foreign policy advisor to Shimon Peres, strategic consultant to MacKenzie and Co. in New York, and a general partner in Core Venture Capital in Israel. In 2007 she ran for the presidency of the World Jewish Congress. (The presence of highly-placed Israelis and friends in strategic positions to film terror events is getting out of hand…we saw the same thing with the Charlie Hebdo and Brussels Airport events.)”‘

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A spent nearly an hour typing in a post following the last one,late last night,and it wouldn't save,and I lost the whole lot!

HPW, I use Firefox browser and have added an extension called 'Textarea Cache' which is very simple in operation. It places a small icon in the bottom status bar of the browser and tracks everything you type. If your post disappears you can simply click on the icon which fetches up a dialogue box where you can copy the text you just entered, like this ...

Some wonderful information in here. Thanks all for a very good read.

If I were you 3g, I'd stick to the previously mentioned Kipling and his exceedingly good cakes!

1 hour ago, Canny lass said:

No, no, no, mercuryg. It's not the jobs they are after it's the weather - more like their own.

It must be a huge pressure on the Swedish economy then to provide more local authority igloos.

So, that'll be the end of free parking at Manor Walks then.

One thing I love about my Android phone is the call recording app I put on it. It runs in the background and you never know it's there, but it records every call I make or receive, great for someone like me with a memory like a ... em,  one of those er, things, er, you know, with the holes in them .....

About once a week I clear out the calls I no longer wish to keep so they're not using up memory. It will even record stuff when I access my voicemail so that I can clear the voicemail but still have a copy should I need it at a later date.

I see the UK families of the Iraq war dead have set up a crowd-funding site to raise money to prosecute the b@st@rd.

They reached their goal of £50,000 in the FIRST 9 HOURS!

They now have an extended goal of £150,000 which I hope they will also soon reach. https://www.crowdjustice.co.uk/case/chilcot/

Personally, I think it's all wrong that Blair will be defended with our tax money while the families have to raise their own.

2 hours ago, mercuryg said:

yeah, is that a pig i see at 15000ft?

Isn't that a bit high for the Police chopper merc?

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Reset the camera which was on Large  to Medium, went out and took these two test pics tonight, well done Eggy 1948 they uploaded first time. I'll try again tomorrow before I say Pints are on me!!

Did everyone get that? Pints are on Foxy! Form an orderly queue ..............................!

Just been fiddling around in Photoshop again. I quite like this image of 'The Silverdale Miner' in Nottinghamshire. I just replaced the sky and tweaked a few levels, I'm no expert!

Thanks merc.

Strange that they've printed the running order arse-first though!

Sorry, might be a bit late with this but Happy Birthday... 

I support Andy's stance entirely.

Yes, things may have been politically motivated as of late, but the success of any forum depends upon, not only the number of members, but particularly the number of members who actually post replies and start new topics. I've noticed there have been times when no new posts were made over long periods of time. That's not good. So why don't members who are tired of all the political posts start inundating the forum with their own news, gossip and ideas, to balance the mix?

Any takers?

First pic back from Juno in orbit around Jupiter.

Didn't know they'd just sent up a bloody pin-hole camera! Cheapskates!

And so they should be Maggie! YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMM!

4 hours ago, mercuryg said:

Well, no, you're quite right, they won't. Who is Steven?

For merc's benefit (and mine too, to be honest!) I believe this is the 'Steven' referred to in 3g's post ...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/688439/Ukip-leadership-election-could-Steven-Woolfe-replace-Nigel-Farage-MEP-Brexit-campaigner

No doubt I'll be corrected if I am wrong!