errr yes..... last time I looked either that or someone stuck a richmond pork sausage and two meatballs in my pants when I was drunk

Only some of our correspondents aren't too sure...

Mars bars are still around? You don't need a mortage big enough to pay David Beckham for a month to buy one?

2012 ?
Well the only thing that I can be reasonably sure about is that the rich will get richer, and the poor ........

Mars bars are for sale everywhere. To be on the safe side we normally buy them in Iceland.

But the Chinese shops are full of them as well, but I don't trust them, I don't trust their cheap toothpaste either, in fact I don't trust anything in the Chinese shops.

Having said that, I have a Chinese keyboard and mouse. And next to me is a mobile from Korea, the southern bit.

But there's a solid Kraut car in my driveway, going for an ITV on Tuesday and I've got everything crossed, again; five litres of sheer exhilaration will never pass the silly emissions test.

I hope you're not complaining about all the Chinese pollution while driving around pumping your five litres of crap into the atmosphere.

Having said that I think my own emissions could be a bit iffy at present after a whole week on turkey,booze and all the rest.

beijing says there is only a need for 4 more restauants and 20 more "cheap" shops and spain should be reunited with rhe motherland

The reunification ceremony should take place before lunch today then

But who is rich and who is poor?

I may be considered rich by some standards, debt free, owner of two homes etc., but poor by other standards, no private jet, no yacht moored in the south of France etc.
A Chinese peasant would consider me to be rich but a Russian oligarch poor.
In the UK I suppose I would be considered to be just above the middle.

Everything is relative.

It's called "reality"... something that apparently has eluded the EU since its inception.

The EU is an awkward beast and hard to describe in a few sentences, or even lengthy books. It became a necessity after two European world wars - merely to prevent the next one.

The jury is still out on the Eurozone and its Euro. I've got no idea what the verdict will be, I don't think anyone has.

Cameron has just said Go For It, meaning 2012 with the Olympics and Jubilee. Funnily enough I know of one family member in the UK who's doing just that.

After years of not working, he has finally taken on a job. At the Olympic stadium. He could hardly refuse, his dole office is within sight of it and has thousands of vacancies.

Never a truer word.

It would be nice to think that reality might first of all set in with the stuffed shirts in Brussels, but unfortunately the reality is that there's not a snowball in hell's chance of that happening.

Just more wasted money, more hot air and the continuing inevitable decline and demise of the euro dream.

I've noticed that some local people seem quite relaxed about the Crisis, and I also noticed a funny smell coming from some nearby houses. I read this a short time ago.

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news...le_33222.shtml

People have to survive in hard times, man hole covers disappear, church roofs are stripped bare, and if you can't buy your entertainment, you grow it.

Wouldnt it be nice, if just for once, they announced it was going to be a wonderful year, and that positivity would reign supreme

Jeff bloody Randall would tell us that the financial markets will be on the up because everything was fine ...... and because of that the retirement age would come down to 50

Lewis Hamilton would start letting Alonso pass him without pulling bits off his car ... because he knows it's the right thing to do

Jeremy Clarkson would buy an electric smart car because of his respect for the environment, and move to Birmingham even though everyone hates him there.

Jimmy Carr will stop laughing in that ridiculous way and do less crap quiz programmes

The Rolling Stones will stop touring before one of them falls off their zimmer frame

I'm extremely confident that if we all approach the new year with a spring in our steps and a renewed confident attitiude ..... well ..... who knows what we can achieve
















**** ....... who am I kidding

you forgot posters to this forum not snapping, biting, shouting at each other

Have you heard that the Ryanair slots to Spain have been bought by the Pink Pig Squadron ??

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