H/T Pete H
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
New tea party themed tune...
The Eagle & the Lady. Enjoy.
And as always, if you haven't already seen it, here is my contribution Cry Freedom.
Bloody Hell.....
A million more Muslims live in Germany than previously thought. If that's the figure for Germany I wonder what the figure is for the U.K ?
H/T DML
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Holiday complaints.........
These were sent from Thomas Cook Holidays - listing some of the guests' complaints during the season.
"I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts."
"It's lazy of the local shopkeepers to close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during 'siesta' time - this should be banned."
"On my holiday to Goa in India , I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don't like spicy food at all."
"We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our swimming costumes and towels."
A tourist at a top African game lodge overlooking a waterhole, who spotted a visibly aroused elephant, complained that the sight of this rampant beast ruined his honeymoon by making him feel "inadequate".
A woman threatened to call police after claiming that she'd been locked in by staff. When in fact, she had mistaken the "do not disturb" sign on the back of the door as a warning to remain in the room.
"The beach was too sandy."
"We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as yellow but it was white."
A guest at a Novotel in Australia complained his soup was too thick and strong. He was inadvertently slurping the gravy at the time.
"Topless sunbathing on the beach should be banned. The holiday was ruined as my husband spent all day looking at other women."
"We bought 'Ray-Ban' sunglasses for five Euros (£3.50) from a street trader, only to find out they were fake."
"No-one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled."
"It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England it only took the Americans three hours to get home."
"I compared the size of our one-bedroom apartment to our friends' three-bedroom apartment and ours was significantly smaller."
"The brochure stated: 'No hairdressers at the accommodation'. We're trainee hairdressers - will we be OK staying here?"
"There are too many Spanish people. The receptionist speaks Spanish. The food is Spanish. Too many foreigners."
"We had to queue outside with no air conditioning."
"It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel."
"I was bitten by a mosquito - no-one said they could bite."
"My fiancé and I booked a twin-bedded room but we were placed in a double-bedded room. We now hold you responsible for the fact that I find myself pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked."
H/T DML
News.....
Norfolk is the safest place in England. Is it.!
Pensions crisis: 96% of final salary schemes are doomed... OAPs worst off in Britain... and state funds withering on the vine. We are screwed!
Stress costs more working days to be lost than 1970s strikes. We are becoming a nation of wimps.
Prepare for nuclear war: How Britain (divided into 12 police states) would have dealt with doomsday.
Now we are just a single police state.
MPs win fight to keep expenses claims censored. Most of them will be out of a job within 12 months.
US drone attack kills 45 militants in Pakistan, officials say. They cannot hide.
Popeye to be given 18 certificate for smoking pipe. Pathetic.
US-held inmates complain of abuse at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. Twaddle. Just an excuse to try and claim compensation no doubt on the advice of some sleazy human rights lawyer.
Barack Obama strikes out as Tehran tightens its 'iron fist'. Only words. Don't see any real action on it's way. I am expecting another 'incident' between the Royal Navy and Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Iran will pick on us again cos the government is spineless and the Iranians will want to see if the US will support us.
Iranian regime targets family of 'Angel of Freedom' Neda Agha Soltan. And a fat lot of good it will do them.
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How do you know when you're staying
When you call the front desk and say, I gotta leak in my sink, and the
clerk replies, 'Go ahead'.
H/T Chad
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Blog Posts of the Day.....
UPDATE AFGHANISTAN: GEN STANLEY McCHRYSTAL....from Stormbringer
The Democracy Next Door to Iran...from Alan Caruba
Obamonopoly.....
The object of the game is to destroy American capitalism by having the government take over everything!
Tokens include a bus, a teleprompter, a sprig of arugula and a waffle iron.
Wanna play? No? Too bad, you're already playing... and quite frankly, it's a game that nobody wins! 
Click to enlarge
H/T Peter Gunn
Video: VW Factory - Germany
The day will come when you will walk into a factory like this and watch your car being built to order so you can drive it away within a couple of hours.
H/T Shelly
A Poem......
Ode to Dishonesty by Alan Bodley
I want a floating duck house
I want to clear my moat
I need to mend my tennis court
That’s why I need your vote.
I have to build a portico
My swimming pool needs mending
My lovely plants need horse manure
And the Aga needs much tending
A chandelier is vital
Mock Tudor boards are great
My hanging baskets won awards
And I’ve earned a tax rebate.
I need a glitter toilet seat.
My piano so needs tuning
Maltesers help me stay awake
And my orchard must need pruning
I could have said the rules were wrong
And often thought I should,
But somehow it was easier
To profit all I could
The public really have to see
That the rules are there to test
And by defrauding taxpayers
We were just doing our best
The Speaker of the House has gone,
Our sacrificial beast,
But the public are still braying
For our corpses at the feast
What do the public want from us,
Those vote-wielding ingrates?
They really should be grateful
To be financing our estates.
The message is so very clear,
(we’re merely learning late)
That the British way of living well
Is to screw the bloody state.
H/T DML
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Light News.....
New Speaker is Tory hated by his party, tainted by expenses furore... and facing plot to unseat him. That's because he is a disloyal little sh*t.
Review could wipe millions of convictions from police national computer to 'give minor criminals a second chance'. It's one way to buy votes at the next election.
Iran bans prayers for 'Angel of Freedom' Neda Agha Soltan. She may just the martyr that matters.
Wind farms could supply planet's power. Bulls**t.
Black Watch troops launch major Afghanistan assault. Good mission. Pity they had to borrow US choppers to do it. Defence cuts are wrecking our capabilities.
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AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA...............
Can't remember if we have had this before....
Dear President Obama:
You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.
You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.
You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.
You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.
You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.
You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don’t understand it at its core.
You scare me because you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming others.
You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.
You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ‘blame America’ crowd and deliver this message abroad.
You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.
You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.
You scare me because you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.
You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.
You scare me because you have begun to use ‘extortion’ tactics against certain banks and corporations.
You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.
You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.
You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.
You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.
You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O’Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.
You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.
Lou Pritchett
H/T DML
Monday, 22 June 2009
Video: Little Belgian boy saluting Canadian Troops
A couple of years old but still moving.
H/T Maurice
Apologies.....
....due to a recurring problem with blogger some of you are having trouble viewing the site. Sadly it is out of our hands and seems to affect those blogger accounts that pay blogger for a domain. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
Maybe it is time to bite the bullet and start a proper website.
Things we do see in Norfolk.......
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H/T Tim D
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