The Hornet's Nest

You are welcome. Its nice to know i can still make people happy.

I will certainly be having a few choice words.

 

thanks hon, you're a sweetheart.

lol..as you should!

Right, i think i should take my weariness to bed before i fall asleep at the keyboard! Night sweetie, enjoy your night! Sweet dreams for two hours View attachment 8241

See you tomorrow!

 

Night night H. Sweet dreams. I shall see you about tomorrow.

 

Morning all

 

Morning all - Grey and cloudy start to the day in West West London.

Did anyone see that programme "Greek For A Week" on Channel 4 last night? It was absolutely gob-smacking, I knew things looked out of control there, but never to that extent. Idea of the programme was to take a group of people in the UK and show them what their jobs would be like if they were Greek...
Started with a part-time hairdresser who was 54 and earned around £12k Pa - as she was 54 and worked in a "designated" occupation, she could retire on a pension of 90% of her salary..there are over 500 such "designated" occupations in Grreece including Bakers!. Next was a bus-driver in LooTown, he earned £20K pa, but in Greece, with a whole load of bonuses including turning uo for work, being married, a milk allowance of £75 per year, he would earn over £50k per year.
Then they went on to describe the transport system - they could have used Taxi's for every single person travelling by train in Greece and saved money...there are no ticket barriers, so no-one pays!
Then the tax system - in summary, no-one pays their full taxes and the rich and better off are the worse offenders. Example used were Consultant Surgeons, who would earn over £250K pa, only claiming and paying tax on £10K pa......a huge cash balck economy.

What is scarey though is Italy - years ago I used to be the Service Manager for Italy and Spain and even then there where some right iffy stuff going on. People were paid for 13 months, they had a A and B salary and only the A salary was taxed....

 

Easy to see how Greece is bankrupt eh! W-y!, Italy next and the euro zone starting to unravel!

 

Góðan daginn til allra. Cappuccino, coffee, tea donuts and fruit are on the bar.

Frothy cappuccinos for for al, HH, Leon and W_Y
Coffees for COYH, Frenchie, Kev rob and theo
Strong coffee for Sandy
Milky coffee for Yorkie
Espresso for SuffolkHorn
Strong black coffees for Bragi Norway and zen
Black coffee half hot half cold and no sugar for Charlie
Tea for BHD jsybaz Lloydinio NZ and BCFCRed
hot chocolate with marshmallows for BBW
Tea and cake for Minx
Caramel latte for Hornette

Warm today and sunny.

 

Why does a 8 hr shift at Sola last a lot longer than a 12 hr shift at Bergen ? Starting to really hate this place, Time to move on is coming!

 

Morning All, Very mild here again, so it is still tee shirt weather.

There were a lot of people last night getting warnings about malware on this site, but it seems to have been cleared up this morning. Exploit Blackhole Exploit Kit is a very well known nasty bit of work if you get infected. Keep your AV upto date seems to be the message.

 

Mornin all. Its another cold dark wet day in Cambridge. I hate winter!!

I never received any warnings about the site and ran both malware and AV but nothing flagged.

 

Theo was getting the same warnings as I was Dan. I had a look to see if any other clubs were reporting it and there was plenty of comments that they had seen the warning too. I think it is maybe which AV system you use and what it looks for.

 

That may be so. There has been no announcement from Mick, so lets just hope its all clear.

 

I had no problem with Bullguard

 

I was OK I put on my Cricket Box


thanks for the Coffee Ak

 

Cricket Box? Is that where the bat man stands when the other player throws the ball at him?

 

No AK, it is the piece of equipment which protects the male tender regions.

 

morning all...thanks for the caramel latte Ak.

I heard all about the problem yesterday but wasn't around at the time. I think it must have been solved but apparently it was a fairly nasty virus coming out of Russia!

 

Morning all

Drey and grizzly this morning...a bit of typological metathesis there...or getting your letters mixed up...or a Spoonerism maybe...

 

Dyslexia Lures - KO

 

I remember a Jasper Carrot set about Spoonerism, his Aunt calling him a 'Shining Wit' and it ended with a song called Bastity Chelt. Was very funny, although not a good as his Magic Roundabout sketch . Look it up if you ever need a bit of a giggle.