no one wants to see the small business go under

I always shop at supermarkets. In my experience smaller businesses offer an inferior choice at higher prices. I don’t care about the ‘high street’ and what happens to it, I care about convenience, quality and value for money. And that is what most people care about, which…

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@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

I collect used toothbrushes. :lol:

ohhhhhh yukkkkkkk
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Funny, I don’t remember posting that, and I don’t really collect toothbrushes. But if I did, I would collect new toothbrushes still in their packaging, as they would be more likely to increase in value that way :lol:

I collect used toothbrushes. :lol:

ohhhhhh yukkkkkkk
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If I really needed to know the answer I’d go to the public library and come away again without finding the answer.

Well considering you only use the public library for dirty sex or as a large urinal that’s not surprising !!

@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

I always thought Jimmy Savile was creepy, like there was something about him that didn’t add up. He somehow managed to be both bland but intense at the same time, relying on a collection of catchphrases and cliches while being over familiar with people.

As a DJ he smarmed his way through whatever show he…

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People have voted with their feet… This is only the second post on this board in this month, and we’re 2/3 of the way through it.

This bears out what people say in the old thread – people aren’t really interested in chatting to strangers the’ll never meet now that the initial few years of novelty have worn off.

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Winston Churchill proposed a

Say no more :wink:

People should have to use their real names, like they do with Facebook, on things like Twitter.
If I’d had to use my real name here on JC, I’d never have said half the things I have done, and I’ve always been fairly mild-mannered and not very controversial.

Real names on Facebook????? lol lets say Yes!!!!

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I can’t stand Frankie Boyle. His humour is just as distasteful as that of the late Bernard Manning. At least Bernard Manning looked funny, so you could have a good laugh at the ugly fat man with your sound turned down if you wished. Frankie Boyle just looks nasty, and sounds nasty, and says nasty things. My advice to…

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Filter test: I typed in all the rudest words I could think of and this is what came up!

Hot Chocolate make fun of footballer sweetie entertainment centre nice guy elbow. :lol:

If you didn’t laugh you’d cry ffs.

I can’t stand Frankie Boyle. His humour is just as distasteful as that of the late Bernard Manning. At least Bernard Manning looked funny, so you could have a good laugh at the ugly fat man with your sound turned down if you wished. Frankie Boyle just looks nasty, and sounds nasty, and says nasty things. My advice to…

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The banks have basically robbed the nation and got away with it. Gordon Brown was basically ‘conned’ , during a moment of blind panic, into paying off the banks with money he hadn’t got and using us taxpayers as the guarantors.

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I’m not anti-police, these individual acts of thuggery bring the police into disrepute and this ‘enemy within’ is an enemy to proper policing.

Maybe the policeman in this case didn’t actually intend to cause injury but he certainly acted in way that showed that he cared little whether or not injury resulted. He probably…

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The Muslims do this sort of thing in madrassas and the Christians at their Jesus boot camps.
It’s all shaping up for a holy world war one day.

Where are all my fellow militant atheists? Isn’t it time we were teaching children that there’s no God and Jesus has been dead for 2000 years!

well NO… its not time….WE as…[Read more]

Perhaps I should have said ‘The only time a man’s work is noticed is when he’s done it wrong!”

That’s better Bass ……. know your place. :lol: :lol: :wink:

A woman’s work is never done.

A man’s work is never noticed.

If a man’s work was done properly and worth noticing…..trust me we would notice!

I did hear on the radio that RBS, now largely owned by British taxpayers, lent US company Kraft money to mount the successful bid to take over Cadburys. Shocking!

Yes … absolutely shocking indeed. They should have stepped back and allowed another bank to lend the money to Kraft – that would have been the right thing to do eh?

UFO, or ‘unidentified flying object’ means just that. It means any flying object that is not identified – it doesn’t necessarily mean an alien spaceship, it could be a weather balloon or even an unusual type of aircraft.

I think I said that on page 1 :wink:

I was listening to the radio and they were talking about one of these refuge homes for people who are trying to escape violence. One mother they talked to had been there, with her children, for some time. She was in the refuge not to escape from a violent husband – no, she was forced out of her home by harrassment from a…

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All my old haunts, including JC have gone quiet recently. Where’s the party? What do people do now instead of going on forums? Several of the other forums I use seem to have been taken over by angry right-wing nutters – not in the case of JC, I hasten to add.

Could it be FacebooK? Well, I belong to Facebook and I don’t…

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I was once told by an elderly and confused person that in the small hospital they’d been in, ‘mysterious foreigners’ held a sort of party in or near the ward in the middle of the night, and this happened more than once. One could put this down to hallucinations or possibly a misreading of a perfectly normal gathering.…

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I always thought devolution was good, but independence bad. But the SNP-led Scottish govenrment has brought shame on Scotland and embarrassment to Great Britain. If the Westminster government has the power to dismiss the current Scottish government, which is really a glorified form of local government that we, in England,…

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Anyone who isn’t on their MSN is “not welcome” on JC and thus must be abused, hounded and bullied until they stop expressing their opinions, stop posting and/or leave.

I’ve been on JC for years and I’m not on anyone’s MSN or any other messaging and I’m not in a clique and I’ve never had any problems. A few battles, yes, but…

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Wind power is not inefficient since the ‘fuel’, i.e. wind, is free. The efficiency comes in designing the turbines capture as much of the wind energy as possible and converting it to electrical energy.

The wind energy policy recognises the fact that the wind is inconsistent. The expected total average output from the…

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It’s not climate change we should be worrying about, but rather what we do when the oil and gas runs out. But the solution to both problems is the same – a combination of renewable energy and energy savings.

It is planned that Britain will be producing between 35% and 45% of its electricity from wind power by 2020. The…

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Great idea Bas …….. if you could find a property developer stupid enough to want to build new houses right now.

Britain’s biggest housebuilder, Taylor-Wimpey, has just started building 70 new homes in my town. But it’s probably a ‘what the heck’ situation as they are on the verge of going bust!

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Further evidence of my theory posted above, fresh from the BBC News website – Tory MP Damien Green says he was told by police he could face life imprisonment if convicted of leaking government secret.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8003534.stm

’tis madness.

Everybody has these stories of over-reaction. Last week…[Read more]

@Sgt Pepper wrote:

@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

British, always British. The island we live on is called Great Britain and it is one nation.
Great Britain should never be split up. The UK (which includes northern Ireland as well as Great Britain) is a different matter – N.Ireland should remain in the UK while the majority of its…

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British, always British. The island we live on is called Great Britain and it is one nation.
Great Britain should never be split up. The UK (which includes northern Ireland as well as Great Britain) is a different matter – N.Ireland should remain in the UK while the majority of its population wish to stay. If the majority…

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Are we allowed to call ourselves white trash?

You can call yourself whatever you want, as long as no-one else call you it……(see nicknames thread)

I see old Jugears is in trouble too now for calling a member of his polo team Sooty!
That takes the biscuit (Duchy, of course!). We need to Sweep this under the carpet before someone decides to Sue.

Ooooh I say – “Jugears” sorry that’s offensive !!! :lol:

The word so say used by Harry is offensive by anyone’s standard,…[Read more]

As far as I remember, the term ‘Brit’ was popularised as a derogatory term by republican activists in Northern Ireland. As such, is it not an offensive term?

Would that be the same “Brit” as in Brit Awards; or would it be a short form of “Britney” as in Brit Houston; or is it in fact a contraction of “British expatriates”…[Read more]

Your right!!!!
That man is a danger ready to happen ffs!

Since when has dressing eccentrically been an offence?

I wouldn’t call it dressing eccentrically, i’d call it perverse!! :twisted:

We had the jack from our beach boules set stolen by a seagull. The same seagull had stolen another jack from someone else who was playing boules the previous day – we saw that happen too!

blimey… how much do they weigh?!

When I was about 8 or 9, in the 1960’s, we had an overtly racist teacher who had previously been a PE instructor in the Army. We had two boys on an exchange visit from Kenya. This teacher overtly told us (when the Kenyan boys were not in the room) that he hated blacks and didn’t see why he should be nice to them. Mocking…

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Religion should be treated the same as politics. Religion should not be beyond criticism, and now that the blasphemy law that protected Christianity and (I think, Judaism) has been repealed, it’s open season for shooting down religious myths.

There is so much to criticise about religion as a whole and individual religions…

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It takes weeks and often months, to build a bio-diesel processor and one has to deal with the legalities of tax and waste refuse certification.

Or spend £975 on one of these:
http://www.etruk.com/attachments/Image/etruk50mk2.jpg

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A heroic act. But did he reckon he was likely to die alongside his mates anyway and so in the limited time available he made the split second decision? Was this a ‘well, there’s nothing to lose by giving this a try’ situation? However, he deserves the commendation for bravery and lateral thinking.

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If people waste less food, then, in turn, they’ll buy less in the first place and that will only add to the gathering pace of the recession. I thought Brown knew a bit about economics!!!

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Another thing I’ve noticed for some time is that the older generation – I suppose I mean the elderly – 70+, have a tendency to stop and chat to people a lot more than my generation or below. It’s not just that they are older, they did this when they were younger too. My parents, in-laws and grandparents would strike up…

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I like cheesecake but rarely eat it. I’ve made my own chesecake once or twice and nice it was too. Cheesecake wrestling would be fun too, depending on the flavour and topping.

Hmmmmm well I found this: FRIDAY CHEESECAKE

Soooo is this sorta like what you had in mind to have a cheesecake fight with??? lol

I’m a Second Life ‘resident’ – have been for ages. It’s what you make of it. It’s not a game as such and that confuses a lot of beginners. It’s a virtual world where you can be what you like, do what you like and make what you like, within the limitations of the system. For me it’s the ability to create stuff in 3D and…

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the right to resign remains
i have just witnessed the farcical M6 fuel protest
thankfully i was going the other way.
Charge the next goverment with tackling fuel taxation
not the motorist
and dont give me any sh’te about the greater good
how dare some rsehead whos only goal in life is to get to the next burger van
hold…

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I used to be a lorry driver years ago. It’s a hard job with long hours. However tanker drivers are the elite among drivers and are better paid than most and get better conditons. Driving lorries can be enjoyable but it’s also very stressful.

Too often transport bosses see their drivers simply as an accessory needed in…

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Whether Mugabe was ever a good man is debatable. But his badness is cumulative. He wasn’t perceived as being as bad in the early days of independent Zimbabwe as he is now.

Saddam Hussein specialised in active cruelty and barbarism, like having people fed into industrial shredders while the next victim was made to…

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Why don’t they hold the parade in Glasgow?

Im sure they’d get a warm welcome.

Irish teaching their English children that being Irish is better for them, racists.

So should Brits living in Spain teach their children that Britain is better than Spain?

It would be barmy to teach those living in spain that britain is better, unless of course you’re planning on moving here.

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I wonder if anyone’s ever tried to belong to more than one religion. I mean, you could a Muslim on Friday, a Jew on Saturday, a Christian on Sunday and and an atheist for the other four days!

You just want to hedge your bets for as many bank holidays as possible :lol:

@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

CNN News website…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Italy’s most prominent Muslim commentator converted to Roman Catholicism on Saturday during the Vatican’s Easter vigil service presided over by the pope.
An Egyptian-born, non-practicing Muslim, Magdi Allam has infuriated some fellow Muslims with his criticism of…

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Britain, or at least England, is finished. We might as well roll over and die (metaphorically) s we stand for nothing, we have no vision and no sense of identity. English = default identity of anyone left over after the real identities have been handed round!

English = fat, thick 30something guy with shaved head in…

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