QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL

[Tizer]

I didn't hear the full quote but someone on the radio this morning said signing Article 50 would be `like jumping out of an aeroplane with a parachute made by someone who wanted to deter others from taking such a risk'.

[Tizer]

On the BH programme this morning discussing the recent scandals at Tesco and VW etc one of the participants summed it up well:
`catastrophic management failure by people on atmospheric salaries'.

[Stanley]

I heard that as well. it's such a common thing today.......

[Tripps]

Tag line from ( Professor Robert Bliss ) Uncle Bob's emails.

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life --- Edith Hamilton, Classicist (1867-1963).

[Stanley]

Sums the man up David......

[Stanley]

"How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing"
Neville Chamberlain in 1938.

[Tizer]

A.L. Kennedy in her latest `Point of View' programme:
"Fake facts - let's just call them lies - and deceptively selective coverage have to be peddled with greater than average outrage and shock just to keep their frailty from being examined too closely."

[Stanley]

I listened to that as well. She was scathing about 'click bait' journalism as well......

[Stanley]

"Drink is the curse of the working Class"...Karl Marx.
"Work is the curse of the drinking class"...Oscar Wilde.

[Stanley]

"When I look at the perinatal mortality rate at our trust compared to the rest of the NHS, we are at an equivalent level to the rest of the country,"
Edwin Borman, Medical Director of the Shrewsbury and Telford Health Trust.

[Tripps]

From a Tesco press advert - rapidly withdrawn.

"Great offers on beer and cider - Good Friday just got better"

Outstanding contender for 'crass strap line of the year'. Described as 'religious illiteracy, and it's hard to disagree. Sign of the times?

[Stanley]

It's possible that the copy-writer wasn't aware that Good Friday had anything to do with religion......

[Tripps]

It's possible that the copy-writer wasn't aware that Good Friday had anything to do with religion......

I think that's entirely possible.

PS. I just noticed that 'crass strapline' could be condensed to 'crapline'.

[Stanley]

[Tizer]

Crapline is probably already used as a name for the Southern Railway network!

[Tripps]

The Prime Minister quite recently -

"I'm not going to call a snap election - I've made that clear."

[Stanley]

[plaques]

Which cartoon character said the following.

1 Enough is enough.
2 That's all I can stands, cuz I can't stands n'more!

1

► Show Spoiler

Correct 'Theresa May

2

► Show Spoiler

Correct Popeye

[Stanley]

I got it wrong P. I had it down as Lucy in Snoopy until I peeked at the spoiler.
I came across this in my archive yesterday while looking for another image.

[Tripps]

From the radio just now. . . .


The Conservatives have won, and it seems like they lost.

Labour has lost, and it seems like they won.

[Stanley]

I think that sums it up nicely David......

[Tripps]

Sam Coated a journalist from The Times just said -

The Tories have decided that a bad Prime Minister is better than no Prime Minister.

[PanBiker]

[Stanley]

It's a tragic pantomime....

[PanBiker]

She meets the DUP today to do a deal, is the leader an MP, I dont think she is. That aside it is breaking a trust agreement (as official mediator) with the rest of the political factions in the peace brokering negotiations. Sinn Fein is not happy with the arrangement and rightly so, par for the course with the Tories, anything to stay in power.