OneGuyFromBarlick

"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."

Rudyard Kipling

Dead right. Problem is our politicians haven't noticed this.

He knew a thing or two that Mr Kipling - and his cakes aren't bad either.

At one stage the company I worked for owned the Mr Kipling cakes brand and we all referred to them as `Mr Crippling Cakes'.

It's pleasing to see this thread has survived for while. . . .

I started this thread in 2010 after the general election in 2015, when Nick Clegg the Deputy Prime Minister went on holiday at the same time as David Cameron, and commented that he hadn't realised he shouldn't have done so.

Well - it looks as if Nick doesn't read this site, as last week he did it again.

Amazing how they fly back from holiday if there is a good opportunity to get a sound bite in.....

Philip Hammond - the Foreign Secretary

" - I have said very often that one of the first things you learn in the Middle East is that my enemy's enemy is not necessarily my friend."

He added that if necessary we would cooperate with Assad but not be best mates!

Mario Sconcerti, writing in Corriere della Sera, neatly summed up the Balotelli phenomenon as

“ The strange talent of making everyone happy when he arrives and even happier when he leaves ”.

Good luck Liverpool - what could possibly go wrong?

A cartoon on the front page of the The Times today shows a motorist passing a sign that says: "You are leaving Scotland. There is no coming back".

I liked the BBC's image of a protester at the summit on climate change at the United Nations. She's holding a big sign that says: "There is no planet B".

I noted that as well! A very pertinent point....

Seen on the BBC site...Today's cartoon on the front page of the Daily Telegraph shows someone holding the phone in the Cabinet Office, looking over his shoulder and saying "It's Prince Philip for you Prime Minister. He's not purring...".

They're voting again to go to war tomorrow. Against whom? I've heard the enemy described as IS, ISIS, and ISIL in the last 24 hrs. How will we know when to stop? Where's the Chilcott report?

Mr Kipling has it right - again. . .

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

"If they ask you why they died, tell them that their fathers lied" Kipling used all his influence to get his son in the army on the Western Front after he had been rejected because he had terrible eyesight. He was enthusiastic about the war. His son went and was killed almost immediately at Loos. Kipling never forgave himself. His mother refused to accept 'missing in action' as death and searched for her son for years. he wrote the above post-war when he was very bitter.

BLACK FRIDAY @ HUTCHINSON'S All pies will be sold at the normal selling price due to the fact that we are not American.

Miles Hutchinson.

From the Barnoldswick Talk - Facebook Site

I like it.....

David Mellor (QC ex Cabinet Minister, VIP - and don't you plebs forget it)

"Anyway, it's water for me at the next celebratory lunch, I've definitely made that decision."

"in vino veritas" also comes to mind.

I note that he has apologised. He says he can't think what came over him. Really? (REPORT)

I listen to his Saturday morning programme on LBC, now it's available on the digital. I note that his partner in crime Ken Livingstone was absent yesterday. Didn't hear why.Sub was Simon Danschuk. He can be a bit abrupt to callers there. I've heard him say to one - "I'll thank you to keep a civil tongue in your head" Pot / kettle?

Have you noticed how it seems to be more common now for people being interviewed on, say, the Today programme to start their reply with "Listen". It always sounds impolite to me.

Yes. Or 'look' which seems equally impolite to me.

A Telegraph cartoon this morning shows Stonehenge with a man walking past the standing stones under a headline "Nick Clegg visits Stonehenge" - one of the stones is thinking "I wonder what's he for?"

In The Times, alongside the main story about UKIP manipulating the selection of prospective candidates, is a cartoon showing Farage and another man drinking beer in a pub. Farage is saying "You like the ideal candidate to get another round in".

Allo, allo, what's all this then? The front page of The Sun `reveals' how Madonna has been showing off her breasts, under the headline "Madonna with the big boobies" (I wonder if younger readers will get the joke?)

I didn't know about that! I have just looked it up and found the connection with Hallo Hallo. Amazing what you learn on this site......