In the "News" today.

i dont have a washing machine, i uses the missus one next door..i'll ask her

Cheers. I'm going for plan B now which consists of the missus phoning Hoover's customer services tomorrow and trying to get some joy. Just checked and there's a 5 years parts warranty on it, so worst case scenario is I pay some fella a labour charge.

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HSBC private bank in tax avoidance (fraud if you or I did it) scheme. What is even worse is that the French have investigated claims but we haven't yet, only seven years ago this came out, suppose we have been busy stealing coal off pensioners and making sure no disabled people are taking the piss and buying luxury biscuits. Wtf is a "private bank" anyway? Is like a private shop but for laundering your money? The mind boggles. I think it was a Plymouth woman who was jailed for fiddling the dole for £9000 a couple of years ago I wonder if she had claimed that she were wealthy for a defence she would have got away with it?
All in it together. Lolorama.

Rage against the machine.

They just don't get it. Dumb as f*ck.

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Czarcasm wrote:

Cheers. I'm going for plan B now which consists of the missus phoning Hoover's customer services tomorrow and trying to get some joy. Just checked and there's a 5 years parts warranty on it, so worst case scenario is I pay some fella a labour charge.

Worth a grope around the outfall pipe before paying to get someone in. Fished a 2p coin from ours (after the filter) not long back which was causing failure to drain error.

Check impeller on pump spins freely whilst in filter area.

And in other news.....LOVVL.

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Nicola Sturgeon has slammed the austerity measures that the Coalition Government have brought in.

Nicola Sturgeon attacks 'Westminster austerity economics'

Scotland's first minister will say the UK government's "austerity economics" have comprehensively failed.

A spokeswoman for Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael said: "All the bombast in the world will not change the reality that the UK government's economic strategy is working.

"Whether Nicola Sturgeon likes it or not, this government has cut borrowing by £52bn from the level we inherited''..

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Nicola Sturgeon has slammed the austerity measures that the Coalition Government have brought in.

Nicola Sturgeon attacks 'Westminster austerity economics'

Scotland's first minister will say the UK government's "austerity economics" have comprehensively failed.

A spokeswoman for Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael said: "All the bombast in the world will not change the reality that the UK government's economic strategy is working.

"Whether Nicola Sturgeon likes it or not, this government has cut borrowing by £52bn from the level we inherited''..

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She wants Edinburgh to be "the Athens of the North". Literally.

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bloody hell !

Suppose some guy climbed out of his flashy car, climbed into his flashy F16, flew over where you lived and dropped a load of bombs on people you knew killing dozens of women and children, then by a stroke of luck you managed to get your hands on that fecker, ask yourself what you would do to him with the stench of the burning bodies of maybe your family still in the air?

Me. I wouldn't have drugged him before I set fire to him, I hope I should have been able to run the entire gamut re "Law abiding Citizen" on his murdering ass.

The news outlets are all celebrating the Jordanian aerial assault on Daesh, video of smart bombs slamming into buildngs, that makes me sick, they have no clue who is in those buildings, innocent men women and children are being blown to pieces to make the baying mob feel better and the media is celebrating it.

Of course Daesh are scum and deserve to die, all the indiscriminate bombing does is work as a recruiting drive for them across the world and in the Sandpit.

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Religion is generally corrupt whichever God you believe in

Christianity, Judaism and Islam all believe in the same god.

Smoking ban in cars with children to become law Oct 1st.

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Have to agree with that one.

Pretty unenforceable though, I still see dozens of people driving and using their phones every day and that's been illegal for years.

some people tweet and drive

You can pretty much do what you want on the road these days. Drink, take drugs, use your non-hands-free phone, text, drive like kuunt, speed to your hearts content. knock one out etc etc.

The chances of being caught are virtually nil.

I drive for a living and see all of this shit on a regular daily basis. How most people get to their destination alive is beyond me. The driving standard in this country is absolute shite. Even more so in the Muff and surrounding area..

That is all.

Those Russians, always game for a laugh

RAF jets were sent up to escort two Russian Bear bombers off the coast of Cornwall on Wednesday, February 18 2015.

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Listen to Russian bomber sending coded messages as it flies over Cornwall

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RAF jets scrambled after Russian bombers seen off Cornwall

RAF jets were scrambled on Wednesday after two Russian military aircraft were seen off the Cornwall coast, the Ministry of Defence says.

The Russian Bear bombers were escorted from the UK area of interest, but did not enter sovereign airspace, it said.

On the same day, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon warned that Russia's President Putin posed a "real and present danger" to three Baltic states

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The above seems to be happening a fair bit now.

As the first report states, Michael Fallon has warned of possible increased Russian activity in Baltic states.

There is a "real and present danger" of Russia trying to destabilise the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, the UK defence secretary says.

Michael Fallon said he was worried about "pressure" from Russian President Vladimir Putin on the ex-Soviet states, which are Nato members.

Russia might use tactics there similar to those it used in Ukraine, he said.

Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander told the BBC he too had "very real concerns" about the situation.

Mr Fallon's comments came after PM David Cameron called on Europe to tell Russia it faced economic and financial consequences for "many years to come" if it did not stop destabilising Ukraine.

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Meanwhile, Russia again protest.

Russia accuses Ukraine of aiming to destroy Minsk accords

Russia's UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin has denounced Ukraine's call for the deployment of UN peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine as a destructive move.

The Ukrainian president's call "raises suspicions that he wants to destroy the Minsk accords", Mr Churkin said.

The Minsk ceasefire deal was reached a week ago but fighting round the strategic town of Debaltseve saw the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops there.

Shelling significantly increased in the rebel-held city of Donetsk on Thursday.

And Ukrainian officials reported mortar attacks by separatists on the coastal town of Shirokyne, near Mariupol.

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Phew. Now that was a news cast. The new cold war is hotting up (which you think would cancel out the cold) the middle east and terrorism and Greece have kept this out of the news to a large extent, the Ukraine is just the tip of the iceberg, big power plays going on from both sides. Back full circle to the nineteen eighties FFS.

Here's some proper economics written for non-economists.

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If that doesn't make you think then nothing ever will.

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Here's some proper economics written for non-economists.

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If that doesn't make you think then nothing ever will.

Good read, Franny. Even though it was longer then one of X-throbbers rants.

Unforch it's wasted on the comfortable types who are just glad we don't live in Russia, people don't want to think about politics, fingers in ears lads, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. (lyrics to banana splits innit).

I've never seen a more aptly named building, the Torch on fire.
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Oh deary me, it just gets worse over in Ukraine.

A bomb blast at rally in Kharkiv has killed two people and injured more than ten others.

Ukrainian authorities have detained four people already and they are said to be Ukrainian citizens, who are alleged to have received training in the Russian city of Belgorod.

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And in the same old double standards that don't seem to bother many people,
Two home secretaries in cash for access scandal. (shock feckin horror, their all at it). Rifkin was after £5k a day for selling his services as an industrial spy, great job.
And an exec. of HSBC has a secret (or not so secret lol) account in Switzerland with £5m in it. The money arrived at this account via the said execs. secret Panamanian company, his solicitor said that he has done nothing illegal? Well why isn't that illegal? If he was a young mum who fiddled £10k in benefits he could see himself inside for five years.
Could be worse eh?
And on a lighter note I like Steph the business milf from BBC news, like a poor mans Rachel Riley.

A buddy of mine went to one of those dinners with a guest speaker recently: Steph.

He said it was amazing how she completely controlled the room, had everybody in the palm of her hand and some of her jokes were also surprisingly risqué, apparently.

And she's also, according to him, quite a lot more attractive in person than she seems on the telly.

Quite stricken he was.