QUOTE OF THE DAY. TRIPPS ORIGINAL

[Tizer]

Geoff Boycott comments on the England cricket team heard this morning on radio:
"Couldn't bowl out my mum!"
"Away with the fairies!"
"More brain in a pork pie, in't there!"

[Stanley]

I don't like the man, I have a long memory but he does have a colourful turn of phrase....

[Tripps]

Great example of British understatement. Aggers - On the retirement of Graeme Swann part way through an Ashes series. . .

"The timing is certainly not ideal"

[Tardis]

An insurance 'expert' on MoneyBox:

"Being caught using your mobile phone whilst driving, can add 25% to your next motoring insurance premium"

[Stanley]

George Burns was asked why he didn't go out with women his own age. He said "There aren't any!"

[Stanley]

Ho Ho Ho!

Comrade Nolic, several times over Xmas.

[Tizer]

...and there I was thinking it was Comrade Santa doing the hohoing. (The red suit seems appropriate for Comrade Santa and I assume his elves have a Workers' Co-operative.)

[Stanley]

He makes a very convincing Santa, apart from anything else he's the right size and CRB checked!

[Tardis]

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics. - P.J. O'Rourke

[Stanley]

Just what the Tories are doing at the moment......

[Tripps]

Headline from The Times -

"Lawyers stage one day strike over legal aid cuts"

The idea that one day's delay in almost any legal process will make any difference is hilarious.

[Tizer]

BBC News today: "A survey from Lloyds bank said UK business confidence was at a 20-year high."
I'll bet the actual statement followed with "Would you like to buy some risky bonds in the Far East and some payment protection insurance?"

[Tardis]

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both. - James Dale Davidson

[Stanley]

Like paying Income Credit to keep wages down?

[Tizer]

Radio 4 Today programme, a man being interviewed about the jump in new car sales.
Justin Webb (BBC): "All fuelled by more debt, I suppose?"
Motor industry man: "No, not really, the customers are buying the cars by paying for them monthly."

Has the definition of debt been changed?

[Tardis]

Emma Goldman famously denounced wage slavery by saying: "The only difference is that you are hired slaves instead of block slaves."

[Tardis]

Buenaventura Durruti: "No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges."

[Tardis]

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" Upton Sinclair

[Stanley]

Tiz, to the younger generations debt is a way of life. They haven't got the memory of the workhouse fixed firmly in their heads like the people who taught us money management.

[Stanley]

See this LINK for the 'news' that Morrissey has said: 'I see no difference between eating animals and paedophilia' .
Do you ever get the feeling that outrageous public statements like this have more to do with raising a celebrity profile than any concern for the world?

[Tardis]

Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty. - John Basil Barnhill

[Tardis]

In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell

[Tardis]

The Lib Dems couldn't run a bath - Dame Anne Leslie #BBCPM

[Tardis]

Man must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right. - Josiah C. Wedgwood

[Tardis]

I could never be a conspiracy theorist; conspiracy theorists believe in government competence. - Will Spencer