My Malcolm Glazer impression

Scary aint it

Christmas is a coming

I have often wondered about Christmas, I like it per se, but wonder if we really need it in our lives.
It is a stressful time where people spend money they clearly dont have and it leads to that dark abyss that is January, god how i hate that month.
Maybe the Good Lord in is wisdom decided to punish us for our December avarice by inflicting January on us, penance and all that.
Back to Christmas, the Aussies have it right they have it in the middle of summer, now that makes sense to me, a holiday when its warm and you have a lovely warm month to follow., so it does not matter if you are skint, you can still get a tan.
Probably we suffer because we live on a small island in Northern Europe where the weather is miserable mostly and more than likely if we had Christmas day on June 25th it would snow, or there would be widespread flooding, or foot and mouth and probably all 3 with a dose of Chicken flu in the mix just to make sure we knew our place.

Yeah, lets enjoy December 25th .....

Corned Beef Hash

Surely one of the finest dishes ever made and so simple

Potato's
Carrot's
Onion
Corned Beef

cooked slowly in a rich gravy.

Served with crusty buttered bread.

And cunningly there is enough left for a large lunch tomorrow ...Hurrah!

Gordon Brown

He is making Tony Blair look an amazing PM, he lurches from one disaster to another without Blairs ability to make things seem not so bad. Mr Brown looked like a rabbit trapped in the headlights today, he was cumbersome and rumbled on in his monotone voice without ever convincing in the way Blair bcame a master at.

Well Mr Brown, you wanted the power, you and your gang pushed out the best PM of my lifetime and soon you will be in opposition, you willnot win an election.

My only advice to him would be, resign before the last scrap of credibility you have left has gone.

As a life long labour supporter i feel dirty writing this.

Why whenever i see this do i start to laugh

Penguins

How do they know who each other is, they all look the same


Reminds me of Newcastle fans

My Immortal chess game

How i loved this. The Queen sacrifice is just delicious



http://www.chess-mail.com/viewerpgn.php?psa=russkygb&psb=busdriver&datep=2007.11.22

Football

Giving up on it, its crap.
From know on im going to be fan of free styling ironing or something

You cant beat a pointy hat

Cold, Damp and Miserable

I hate this time of year , its dark early, the cold is setting in big time and the planes are taking off over our house so i cant see them.

Still soon be Christmas, a time I do enjoy, but then the depths of despair month follows, January should be banned its awful.

Classic comic timing.

Out with Mother in the car, 2 community support officers,1 man, 1 woman were directing traffic due to the lights being out.

The man walks up to the woman from behind just as she outstretches her right hand to signal traffic can go and she catches him plum on the jaw sending him reeling backwards.

Genius that the likes of Laurel and Hardy took years to master.

Children in Need

28 years old tonight, that means the first one was when i was 14.

I didnt think it was that old.

Should be fun anyway, im going to watch.

Shoplifting Seagull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqy9hxhUxK0


The sheer unabated nonchalence of the seagull is breathtaking to behold.

Will it ever be a Jail Bird

My latest Mel C find on the web, she just gets better and better.

*swooooooooooooooooooooooooooons*

Bridges no 1

Always had a fascination with bridges, this is the magnificent Runcorn bridge crossing the Manchester ship canal and the river Mersey.

I crossed it today, its amazing.

Im wierd me i tell ya

Respect to the veterans

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies
, Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:


If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!

' If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son

Tutankhamun

Why put him on display, the kid died 3000 years ago, we should show some respect.

Saying that if they put me on display in 3000 years time everyone would think i had been really slim

Best thing I have read today

Three Little Words That Work!! (1) The three little words: "Hold On, Please..." Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt. Then when you eventually hear BT's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset .... you have efficiently completed your task. These three little words could help eliminate telephone soliciting.

(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end? This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is then used to determine the best time of day for a "real" salesperson to call back and get someone at home. What you can do after answering: If you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialled the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer!!!


(3): When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope. Most of these come with postage-prepaid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular postage "IF" and when they are returned. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-prepaid return envelopes. Send an advert for your local chimney sweeper to American Express . they might need one! Send a pizza coupon to HSBC ... in case their canteen packs up. You get the idea. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them back their blank application form ... after all, it is their form! If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you return. You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them, and it is their envelope after all ...you are just returning it!!!! The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the post, but hey ..... we need to OVERWHELM them, in order to stop them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it ... Twice! Let's help keep Royal Mail busy. Since the Royal Mail are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, let's help them so they will not need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea! If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- maybe you'll get very little junk mail anymore.

It has been a long day for the lads, looks like im admiring the ceiling

Nearly 3 years since my dad died. I miss him, the cantankerous bugger

theres this man from the lakes
a northern country lad
he moved to the big city
that man he is my dad

he married his sweetheart barbara
lots of love they have
as a couple they were perfect
that man he is my dad

a friendly and a complex man
great qualities he had
quiet and unassuming
that man he is my dad

he worked hard,loved his job
even went when he was bad
a mechanic , he fixed things
that man he is my dad

as a man he could be stubborn
it used to drive me mad
but only cos he cared for me
that man he is my dad

he loved a game of snooker
he often came home sad
his mate vic had won again
that man he is my dad

but i know as i stand here
of one thing i am glad
ive known a very precious man
that man he is my dad

The best time to go shopping at Morrisons

Easy, wait until the rags are playing, any fella's in the store you know are blues or at least hate the rags and there is loads of single MILF's out shopping whilst hubby is at home.

And i would rather hunt for BOGOF's than watch the rags any day of the week