Freddie Freeloader

I'm so sorry to hear that.
My thoughts are with you.

Fred

homeguard

Ken Livingstone organising a street party for the Queen's Jubilee??? Is that right? Roll on Boris. Now there is a true Brit who knows how to party!

Steve Crook

Why sorry? Have you ever been there?

Steve

Steve Crook

No, he'd turn up and turn it into a political event, or just embarrass everyone by trying to dance. Ken just paid for it (with our money) and left us to get on with it

Steve

BristolUK

Thatcher did her best to bring that one back. I remember it increased while she was in charge.

David Brent

I read The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Sporting Life, Escort (for the articles) and The Beano.

Dave.

David Brent

I can see even more people leaving the UK after an early morning earthquake was felt in parts of England and Wales today.
Measuring 5.1 on the richter scale the quake was felt over a 300 mile radius. From Brighton to County Durham and from Norfolk to Wales.
It is one of the strongest quakes to be felt in the UK for years.

Did the earth move for you?

Dave.

batman

Yes indeed ... it woke me up at about 1am.

I wish I had claws.

GRAEME

I was reading in bed - A Canticle for Leibowitz, about the aftermath of nuclear war!

The bed shook quite violently and the big mirror on the wall swung to and fro.

I felt sure there had been a distant explosion. This is it!

Nothing on News 24. So obviously not Armaggedon, then.

But would they tell us if it was?

So, any quake stories?

Steve Crook

No sign of it here in SW London
I was out doing some shopping and didn't notice anything

But given the number and power of earthquakes in just about every other country, where should someone go to get away from them? Britian is a lot more stable (in that respect) than most other countries

Steve

samkydd

Saudi tutor gets lashes for meeting student




A married university professor has been sentenced to 180 lashes and eight months in prison for having coffee with a female student.
The professor of psychology at Umm al-Qra University in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, was caught in a "honey trap" operation after angering members of the religious police during a training course, his lawyer said.
The academic is said to have received a call from a supposed student, who asked to discuss a problem in person; he agreed, provided she brought along a brother as a chaperone.
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When the man arrived at the meeting place, the girl was alone, and he was arrested for being in a state of khulwa - seclusion - with an unrelated female.
The professor, who has not been named, was reported to be a married man in his late 50s with children.
Contact between unrelated men and women is prohibited in Saudi Arabia, where religious police patrol public places to enforce Islamic law on behalf of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
Abdullah al-Sanousi, the professor's lawyer, said his client had upset some of the commission's trainees on a course that a number had failed.
The professor, who is said to have taped the girl admitting that she was sent by the police, is appealing against the sentence.

So that's why they prefer living over here with all us Western infidels! And we ae engaged in trade with these people?

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

Amethyst_Isle

Not a jot happened here.:-( maybe a good thing hey!!

I do however forsee lots of jokes about wives and partners on the shaking of the bed theory though.

Steve Crook

Tune in to BBC Radio 4.
In the event of a threatened nuclear attack, people like the RN submarine fleet are told to tune in to BBC World Service. If that's still there then the big disaster hasn't happened yet

See BBC News
It didn't really affect much outside Lincolnshire

Steve

penfold

I don't wish to question the word of an esteemed forum member, but The Sporting Life closed down about ten years ago....The Racing Post perhaps???

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

Freddie Freeloader

On occasion I have ventured into the darkness to bring light relief to friends blighted by geographical circumstance.
The fibrillation of their Depressor Labii Inferios and the hydration of their cornea,upon waving me farewell as I return to more salubrious climes, beholds the pain and sorrow that must be incumbent on those unfortunate residents.
I also have visited on business but the remuneration was just about worth it.

Freddy Fhruhffenhaffer.....

With a knowing nictation.