Malcolm Robinson

Keith........ I have just approved your icle post on the Northumberland chat so thats working now. I am still laughing about the above posts............ :dribble:

Well keith thats just on a good morning!

I have just posted a test on the Northumberland Chat and it behaved normally.

I am blank most of the time foxy but I have put a pic on my avatar now.......... Normally if a posting needs approval it comes up in red on the mod screens and one of us has to approve it but as GGGG says thats in the announcements section not the chat forums? I have never seen one auto flagged in the chat sections.

You must have ''ultimate mod' status!

Not on my screen foxy?

Bit of both Merlin! I think we have the beginnings of several exciting initiatives in the Town and if only one or two come off then we are that much better off. The thing is the community has to get behind them and if that means doing a bit of volunteering, buying a ticket or taking part it’s a small individual price to pay to drag the Town into the 21st century and show the rest of the county we want something better for our Town.

I think this is exactly what we have to do Merlin, if we want to see any sort of improvements/development we have to do it for ourselves. Most of the other people there had spent the day doing hard work at another ‘community’ project and thanks to everyone who gave up their Sunday to help out there. I don’t expect any sort of help from ‘officialdom’ but then again woe betide anyone getting in the way! First steps but they are good steps, we can all see what needs to be done let’s just get on a do it!

And I am not going to say what 'Wor Lass' said!

Just asked my lad and he says………..pigs testicles, hmmm yummy. Other stuff for me, roasted beast tongue, heart, sheep brain, frogs legs, snails but the worst was oysters, like sucking out a seaside pool after someone had gobbed in it!

Nowt the matter with cow heel keith! Tripe when you know what it is, but with a bit of salt, pepper and vinegar......hmmmmm.

Wait till you see the new Heritage Guide for Bedlington...........its good, in fact its very good! I will post it up as soon as I get it in the right format.

Chchchchchchanges........................

My wife and I went to the Great Yarmouth agricultural show and one of the first exhibits we stopped at was the breeding bulls. We went up to the first pen and there was a sign attached that said, 'THIS BULL MATED 50 TIMES LAST YEAR' My wife playfully nudged me in the ribs ......Smiled and said, 'He mated 50 times last year, that's almost once a week.' We walked to the second pen which had a sign attached that said, 'THIS BULL MATED 150 TIMES LAST YEAR' My wife gave me a healthy jab and said, 'WOW ~~ That's more than twice a week! ..........You could learn a lot from him.' We walked to the third pen and it had a sign attached that said, in capital letters, 'THIS BULL MATED 365 TIMES LAST YEAR' My wife was so excited that her elbow nearly broke my ribs, and said, 'That's once a day ...You could REALLY learn something from this one.' I looked at her and said, 'Go over and ask him if it was with the same cow.' My condition has been upgraded from critical to stable and I should eventually make a full recovery..

European money laundering explained...........

Inflation Explained.............just change the Ben Bernanke and the fed to Merve and the BoE.

Quantitative Easing Explained.................same rules apply.

Bank Bailouts explained................. For the Fed hear ECB or BoE. For Ben Bernanke.......Trichet or our own Merve the swerve.

No not ''Will Not Be Liked''………more like ''Whey Not B... (looming) Likely!'' I find that whole argument MW v staffing to be crazy unless anyone wants the UK to be a third world sweatshop! Just as '' the old meaningless socialist e-word always comes up in the first sentence'' whenever free market fundamentalists discuss the subject they always refer to some job creating bonanza if MW was abolished. I just don't see that anyway given other factors in the equation. If that worked the UK should be awash with private sector jobs seeing as our MW is about £6 and on the continent it's about 9 Euros, given present exchange rates that's nearly a 50% differential making labour costs in the UK much lower than other EU countries who have signed up to MW. Can't really see the stampede by continental companies wanting to exploit that? Planning, looking at the local picture we see those 12 proposed flats down the bottom end of town have been turned down by planners. OK there might be valid reasons for that but what struck me was the planning gain imposed on that pretty small development. Having to make contributions to a children's play area AND indoor and outdoor sports provision either on or off site seems a pretty stiff imposition. I also know of two smaller developments which have been told they have to make similar provisions. If we stack that up against the planning gain on what could be the biggest development in the Town, Tesco, if it ever goes ahead, then we see a CCTV camera repaired, as long as it's moved off their building! We should be getting a pretty healthy contribution to addressing the lack of sporting and leisure facilities in the Town instead we are getting a camera resited?????? Unbelievable! Also NCC have just been forced to look again at their policy regarding those notices at the side of the A1 telling passing traffic where different small businesses are and how to get to them. The reason they were banned, driver distraction. Remember when we couldn't get ''Home of Bedlington.co.uk'' on the bottom of the Bedlington signs, the reason, driver distraction! This is the same authority who is selling advertising on roundabouts for 15K a pop! Unbelievable! The building we are trying to regenerate, we can't get free advice because we want to do something with it. If we wanted to tear it down the advice is free?????? Unbelievable! ''No it wasn't lack of regulation, it was lack of transparency caused by over-regulation.'' I disagree if the regulators had understood what was going on they could and should have stopped the worst excesses of a market which was clearly out of control. There probably is too much regulation in the wrong areas, the easy stuff, but the lack of regulation in the ephemeral areas of financial instruments certainly contributed to a huge build-up of toxicity in supposedly sound assets and as soon as someone said the Emperor has no clothes on, the pack of card folded.

Car or boat?????? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQqmp9OOE1E

A man walks into a bar with his pet monkey. He sits down at the bar to have a drink when the bartender screams, "Did you see what your Monkey just did?" "No, what?" asks the man "He just ate the cue ball off my pool table...WHOLE!" "Yeah, that doesn't surprise me," replied the guy, "He eats everything in sight, I'm sorry. I'll pay for the cue ball and stuff." The guy finishes his drink, pays his bill, pays for the stuff the monkey ate and leaves. Two weeks later the guy is in the bar again and has his Monkey with him. He orders a drink and the Monkey starts running around the bar again. While the man is finishing his drink, the Monkey finds a bowl of Maraschino Cherries on the bar. He grabs one, sticks it up his backside, pulls it out and eats it.. Then the Monkey finds a peanut, again sticks it up his backside, pulls it out and eats it. The bartender is disgusted, "Did you see what your Monkey did now?" "No, what?" replied the man. "Well, he stuck a cherry and a peanut up his butt, pulled them out and ate them!" said the bartender. "Yeah, that doesn't surprise me," the guy replied, "He still eats everything in sight but ever since he had to pass that cue ball, he measures everything first."

I know I am a bit of a political anorak but Amy's toxicology results released 23rd Aug after her death on the 26th July. Compare………. Christopher Shale died in a portaloo at a rock concert on 23rd June and still we haven't got his toxicology results. One is a pop singer addict the other a close personal friend of the PM and leading member of his political party. Far be it from me to shout conspiracy theory …………… but certainly double standards on something which might be hugely embarrassing to the PM and his Party!