Alan Medic

A bad week. Apart from Lady G, the rest of us had a 50+% failure rate. A good week. With 4 correct scores it looks like it's RD's to lose......

It's getting very close...........

Ha! I knew THAT was your technique. Big pink fluffy ones are they?

So security is a bargaining chip. That's about as low as you can get. http://news.sky.com/story/article-50-security-is-theresa-mays-brexit-secret-weapon-10817785

Looking at the attachments again, there's not a great deal there. There is the letter sent to him with 4 attachments. One is the 3 paged offer which is translated into English (but is it translated correctly?). The others look like forms which require completion. So it doesn't appear to be a great deal. However they did say with regard to the contract, that if there were any discrepancies in the translation, the Chinese version would apply. Had a look at Upwork rh. Never heard of it before. Looks good. Thanks both.

My Kings College born, EU passport holding son is in China and intends staying there. When his studies finish he has been offered a position by a Chinese company. They sent him a few documents one of which is translated into English. As he doesn't appear to be too bothered about the content of the documents which I can only put down to the idiocy of youth, I got a quote here to have them translated. It was over ?300, which I thought was a bit much especially as it won't be me who is having only 5 days annual leave and who knows what other restrictions imposed on me. Anyway, should I take these to the local take-away and see if they'll read them to me or any other good less expensive suggestions?

Those comforted by the sun rising again in the morning should read this.........there's trouble ahead: https://phys.org/news/2015-02-sun-wont-die-billion-years.html

I didn't take your remark seriously Jeremy. Food in pubs is new by my criteria. If it started in the last 40 years, it's new.

I think you're getting me confused with.........well you Jeremy. Aren't you the man who didn't think food in a pub was a new thing? Thirty + years ago the old cheese sandwich was in a special wrapper to be toasted if one wanted it to be. It's not that long ago.....

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Castle does a consistently plain and passable > grated cheese sarnie - and at the price point > where there's no upset over the occasional crusty > corner. Now that sounds like a pub. Can they be toasted?

Hi Lordship. I appreciate a lot your contribution to this thread. I'm curious though how you know so much about what Albert got up to? I'm from where he lived. Your knowledge of the dog food factory suggests you must have had sources of information quite close to him. This is something John Major wrote about that time: One of Reynolds's main achievements during his term as Taoiseach was in the peace process in the long-running conflict in Northern Ireland. Piecemeal negotiations had gone on during 1993 between Reynolds and British Prime Minister John Major resulting in the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1993. On 15 December 1993 the Downing Street Declaration was signed in London. Reynolds remained involved in discussion with Northern nationalist parties, and along with John Hume and Gerry Adams, persuaded the IRA to call a complete ceasefire on 31 August 1994.[12] Major was quoted in The Guardian at the time as saying: ? Let me now say something that may surprise you. Throughout the process, I was acutely conscious that IRA leaders were taking a risk, too: if Albert and I upset our supporters we might ? as Albert put it, be 'kicked out'. That was true, but the IRA's supporters were more deadly than our backbench colleagues. And their leaders were taking a risk too, possibly with their own lives.

Nah. I don't have the headed paper. I nicked it from twitter. #brexitday............I think

Happy Brexit Day JohnL. I have the official announcement:

Who said they were justified?

Great post Lordship. Puts a lot into context which has mostly been missing in this thread.

Veterans discussing food in pubs. What happened to you?

You're not very good 😊 at it then.

Re the OP. Isn't that what Martin McGuinness did?

Doesn't anyone have a job on this thread?

Makes a nice change from fans being ripped off........ http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39418577 https://www.facebook.com/events/964525040348829/

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jeremy Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > quids - I don't buy this "Scotland good, > England > > bad" narrative that you describe, either. > > (Although IMO you exaggerate how tolerant we > are > > as a country). > > > > Agreed - I think we (in England) are intolerant of > BNP/UKIP labels and voting etc. Am I misunderstanding something about this Mick? UKIP got the best part of 13% of the vote in the last election. That's a lot of the vote and doesn't show intolerance.

Phew. Last time I looked in I thought the thread had reached a conclusion even if the topic hadn't. Anyway, who thinks the Plantation of Ulster should be reversed?

Are you ready to hand back the 6 counties then? ☺

200 :)

Well I chose An American in Paris. As it was for the benefit of my OH it worked well, as she really liked it. The sets were amazing but other than that not my cup of tea. It did get a standing ovation though.