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Mandy Lifeboats

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  1. A Bluegrass cover of the Black Eyed Peas The instrumental break from 2.15 is just fantastic
  2. And the five people that suddenly queued behind you were your nan, your teacher, a girl you fancied from school, the police and a Central News reporter doing a story on how easy it is for under 18s to buy porn.
  3. In the 1990s I worked for OFFER (the Electricity Regulator). It was a relatively short time after the companies had been denationalised and they had financial incentives to invest is assets crucial to the running of the grid rather than frivolous corporate spending. One company (I shall not name them) purchased a helicopter for their Chief Executive and listed the expenditure as vital to the running of the grid. OFFER challenged it. We dropped the challenge when the company sent us a business case where it was to be used for essential and urgent visual checking of pylon lines during major outages. Where there's a rule there is a clever accountant and solicitor paid to bend it.
  4. Absolutely. If its law and applies to all water companies then it would work. It's worth remembering that the law prevents the water companies getting together and agreeing common financial approaches. The government is at fault and the government needs to sort it.
  5. They could. But their share price would crash. The shareholders would undoubtedly vote the chief executive out of office and ruin the plan. Welcome to the world of capitalism.
  6. Teens today can access porn on their phone. I had to make do with" Sam Fox Strip Poker" on the Spectrum. Only 3 hours of boring and repetitive gameplay in order to see a green, pixelated image of Sam Fox's chest. I can't understand why I am so bad at poker. I played so much.
  7. The alternative is a huge investment in infrastructure. The water companies can only raise the cash by massively raising prices. That would raise prices of most goods, fuel inflation and cripple government fiscal policy. Shit in the rivers is better than the UK public realising that our country has been mismanaged for decades.
  8. As we grow older we develop a viewpoint that "youngsters today" are not as good as they used to be. I think we do this for 2 reasons. 1. Our aging memories don't recall or realise just how awful we were when we were young. 2. Our subconscious envy of their youth and health requires us to develop a balancing factor to make us feel superior. We tell ourselves that we are wiser, work harder and grew up in a much harder environment. I am sure the middle aged of WW2 thought their kids were wasters. Those kids went on to walk on the moon, connect the world with computers and make massive leaps in medicine and science. I was an arrogant, lazy, little sh!t as a teen. I'm now an arrogant, lazy, overweight sh!t. 1980s kids are different to 2010 kids. Not better or worse. Just different.
  9. If you do this it has to be a legitimate transaction. You'll need boiler checks, carbon monoxide detectors and tenancy agreements. The rent you pay to your kids will be taxed. They will need to make tax returns. Its not as easy as it seems.
  10. Name the movie - Malfunctioning batteries almost destoy the machine they power.
  11. Name the movie - A girl steals the opportunity to appear on reality TV from her sister.
  12. Name the movie - Moody teen can't decide between necrophilia or beastiality.
  13. 2/3 Titanic wasn't what I had in mind.
  14. Name the movie - It takes far too long to return some unwanted jewellery.
  15. Name the movie - Meatloaf is lumpier than normal.
  16. Name the movie - An old man and young boy desperately want the boy's parents to have sex.
  17. Name the movie. Only the woman and the cat survive.
  18. I was reading this a few days ago. Clue >>
  19. Here's a nice clip of Putin dismissing the warnings of the US and UK
  20. To prevent Russia joining NATO To remove Russian Nazis from power To protect Muslims in Dombass Moscow was part of ISIS in the 11th century
  21. Poland and Finland have capable armies and long memories.
  22. But who are we likely battle alone against? One could say we battled Argentina alone. But we didn't really. We utilised NATO ammunition and intelligence. Our NATO allies also backfilled our military commitments elsewhere. If we did go to war with Russia without help from them USA it would conclude well before Russian boots hit UK soil. We like to ridicule the French military. But they are one of the most powerful armies in the world.
  23. To win a war you need men and equipment. Our forces are tiny but the equipment we have is amazing. We are a tiny country with stealth fighters, attack helicopters, cruise missiles, nukes, aircraft carriers, submarines and nukes. We are equipped to defend the UK. Our forces are more than capable of doing that with the equipment we have, the allies we have and our geographical position.
  24. Allowing Russia to take Ukraine would hurt more. Lesson from history- Chamberlain
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