Zingari

Are you a part time lobotomist as well as a home embellishment technician then ? Flippin heck it's no wonder there aren't the jobs about you greedy booger !!

i think we've got plenty of space cadets already .

" I said we should screw the MINERS you twat !!

Is the woman just out of shot explaining the correct and wrong ways to hold a newspaper ?

Yes indeed , there's a lot to be said for that

i agree with all you say Alf , that's pretty much how i remember attitudes and how they've too . changed . Also I don't think children were "worried about " so much . I'm not sure how to put this really but we were pretty much left to look after ourselves in my childhood . I took myself to school at around 6 years old ( along with other kids ) and came home to an empty house . My mum just used to leave the back door open for me . I'm pretty sure we would be taken into care if we did that to kids now , but it all seemed so ordinary then . We would go into each others houses and all the parents were out at work . Most of the school holidays we just looked after ourselves all day, got onto buses and trains , or cycled all around the county at really young ages . Usually there were a couple of older kids that sort of looked after us , but they would only be about 10 . I'm not saying children are more important to parents now , but there didn't seem to be the obsession about our welfare. If a neighbour shouted at us or a teacher caned us , our parents would be angry at us not at them as seems to be now. i don't actually remember anything about children being sexually molested by adults tbh , either the victims just didn't say anything or it never happened to anyone i knew

Wow Moosey !! that's quite something coming from you , I'm proud of you lad , there's a little tear just rolling down my cheek as i type .

yes it is but RBS was rescued from total collapse by the government. in 2007 . you might need to explain the irony , i've thought about and still don't get it

i might just do that

RBS share prices tumbling despite having such a good management team http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26364715 RBS shares were down by almost 10% to 320p, wiping almost £2bn off its stock market value. The average price paid by the government in 2008 was 500p oh dear !

so they were paid "performance related" bonuses for being so good at what they do , but this very same performance led to the collapse ? am i missing something here ?

so you don't think the previous management were paid performance related bonuses ?

the same argument was used top pay huge bonuses the last bunch that got the bank into so much trouble . how can we be sure the same thing isn't going to happen 5 years on ?

weren't we told the same thing about the previous management that got into the mess that is still having to be paid for ?

thats fine matt , but presumably all the other staff have done their jobs too right ? so if everything is all going swimmingly why do they need to lose their jobs ? maybe i agree to a certain degree that the culture of benefit scroungers needs to stop , but so does the culture of paying huge bonuses to people who are only doing the job they are paid to do , ie run the bank properly .

presumably all the staff at RBS did a good job , but many are set to lose them .

I shagged the Carol Vordeman lookalike barmaid at the Bull's Head the other night but i didn't post it in here ( i didn't really) and anyway i do only post good news , the RBS bankers got their bonuses didn't they ?

Yes i did look at that cancer cure link but i thought it had been posted in the wrong thread . it's not really anything to do with jobs or the economy or owt .

Royal Bank of Scotland posts biggest loss in six years !!http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26364715 Despite this increase, £576m was set aside for staff bonuses, a drop of 15% on 2012. Of that sum, £237m went to investment bankers. great news !!

quite right yes . people on the streets are so happy that the Met now want water cannon to cool down the boisterous celebrations

The attorney general is considering whether to review the four-year sentence given to a man who killed another man with a single punch. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-26354079

absolutely sickening . sometimes i think i can't be shocked anymore and then i see things like this .

that was my first thought According to Palin , Cleese hit him a lot harder than he was expecting him too , and nearly knocked him clean out when he went into the canal!! .

Police in England are searching for an Irish teenager who is said to have slapped a shop worker across the face with a large fish. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-26345264 police say the net is closing in on them !