Points to Ponder

[Fester]

Those machines in the bookies are really quite scary (for a skin flint like me)
You can set each spin to £10 on the slot machine (a spin takes a couple of seconds) an addiction to that and you could easily blow thousands of pounds in not just a day but a half hour or so!

B2R, trust me, you can actually play £100 per spin, (£13.50 max on just a single number) and that takes seconds as you say.
Therefore you can win, (but much more likely lose) many thousands of pounds in a very short time.
You can also play using your debit or credit card. Your bank account can be drained of massive amounts if you lose control.

[Ian]

Wasn't sure where to put this, as it's both current but so funny:

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/stephen-hawking-angers-trump-supporters-with-baffling-array-of-long-words

[Merddin Emrys]

I quite like Trump, but I only had to Google the word demogogue, I knew what denominator means, it's a motorcycle made by Norton! 

Speaking to a television interviewer in London, Hawking called Trump “a demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator,” a statement that many Trump supporters believed was intentionally designed to confuse them.

Moments after Hawking made the remark, Google reported a sharp increase in searches for the terms “demagogue,” “denominator,” and “Stephen Hawking.”

[SDQ]

I quite like Trump

 

[hollins]

I quite like Trump

 

DOUBLE     

[Merddin Emrys]

                              

[Bosun]

I quite like Trump

Most bizarre.........     not something I've ever heard or read in normal rationale conversation or dialogue.

[Fester]

Mr Bosun.  nice to meet you today, (Thursday). so sorry I didn't get a chance for a proper chat... mad busy this week, and I hope you found the missing Buoy! 

[Merddin Emrys]

Re Trump.....

[Bosun]

Nice to see you again Fester, and to see your kiosk so busy - but saddened by your news, the pier will be a lesser being without you.

No, the buoy is probably roaming the Irish Sea, so another will have to be made.

(I do have to admit, there were some rather amazing sights walking about on the pier yesterday...!) 

[Bosun]

It's just been pointed out to me that if Trump does get into the White House, it will be the first time that a white billionaire has taken over social housing that has been vacated by a black man......

[SteveH]

Cake and eat it.......
Just read this BBC article,.......'Invest £1.1bn EU cash before Brexit', says council leader

The leader of one of the largest councils in Wales has called for an "all guns blazing" approach to investing European funds before the UK leaves the EU.
Andrew Morgan, from Rhondda Cynon Taf council, says infrastructure projects should be accelerated in light of the Brexit vote.
A total of £1.1bn of EU funding in Wales is yet to be allocated.
The money is due to be invested between now and 2020.
But a withdrawal from the EU before then would cut the spending round short.
Leave campaigners say the UK government would make up the shortfall, however there has been scepticism from the first minister who says he does not trust the Treasury to make up any shortfall.
EU structural funds are managed by the Welsh European Funding Office, which is based in Merthyr Tydfil, and is part of the Welsh Government.
Much of the funding yet to be allocated is for the most economically-deprived communities across north and west Wales, and the south Wales valleys.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-36700957

Rhondda Cynon Taf votes leave with 53.7% of vote on ... to leave the European Union in last week's referendum

[Bosun]

Cake and eat it.......
Just read this BBC article,.......'Invest £1.1bn EU cash before Brexit', says council leader

The leader of one of the largest councils in Wales has called for an "all guns blazing" approach to investing European funds before the UK leaves the EU.
Andrew Morgan, from Rhondda Cynon Taf council, says infrastructure projects should be accelerated in light of the Brexit vote.
A total of £1.1bn of EU funding in Wales is yet to be allocated.
The money is due to be invested between now and 2020.
But a withdrawal from the EU before then would cut the spending round short.
Leave campaigners say the UK government would make up the shortfall, however there has been scepticism from the first minister who says he does not trust the Treasury to make up any shortfall.
EU structural funds are managed by the Welsh European Funding Office, which is based in Merthyr Tydfil, and is part of the Welsh Government.
Much of the funding yet to be allocated is for the most economically-deprived communities across north and west Wales, and the south Wales valleys.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-36700957

Rhondda Cynon Taf votes leave with 53.7% of vote on ... to leave the European Union in last week's referendum

Breath-taking hypocrisy. 

[SteveH]

Not so cold, cold war...............

Hundreds of UK troops are to be sent to Poland and Estonia as part of the Nato response to concerns over Russia.
A 500-strong battalion will be deployed to Estonia and 150 troops will go to Poland to "reassure" these countries, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said.
It is part of a Nato commitment made after Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 to have four new battalions on its eastern flank.
Mr Fallon said it aims to "deter Russia from any further aggression".
Eastern Nato countries "feel enormous pressure from Russia doing large exercises on the border, flying over their airspace and so on," said the defence secretary.

The BBC's defence and diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus said tensions between Nato and Moscow were "growing again".
"The aim at this summit is to try to convince the Russians that Nato means business; that after years of being more focussed on 'out of area' operations - Afghanistan and so on - Nato nations are now serious about their collective defence," he said.
"That means money and presence."

More........... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36739781

[Fester]

Ha!  Hope they don't make them angry!
The Russians would overrun those countries in 24 hours if they chose to.