You have been offered some excellent advice from previous posters, I hope you act on it and therefore have more success in the future.
From our perspective I'd like to point out that you appear to have selected all the options in the looking for section that include women, but without thinking about it. Amongst others you are currently looking for a gay female couple. Under what circumstances do you think that a gay female couple are likely to be looking for a single straight male?
Hi all, guess who is back? Well for a short while anyway.
And when I say they're off I don't mean Mrs T's knickers! This time. But you've probably guessed it's one of those 'goodbye' threads.
In around eighteen hours we will drop off our wonderful children with their grandparents and then travel together to our embarkation airport.
Mrs T is going to sub Saharan Africa to provide medical care, whilst Mr T is heading into Asia to enhance the emergency provision in remote areas. We will return in August, hopefully full of health and to a vibrating south west swing scene.
Some people may call us irresponsible parents for leaving our children for so long, but to that we say simply that they have three sets of grandparents, 6 blood uncles, 4 blood aunties and more cousins than you can shake a shitty stick at. We would rather leave them in the bosom of their family for four months, than work away separately and therefore leave them as a single parent lead for eight months with no stabilisation between one parent coming home and the next leaving.
In over nine years as members of SH we have met in person and online with some great people. We wont talk about our meets, but when it comes to online I, Mr T, have to say that the regular forumites are the people that help me come back day to day. Star, Gnv, Flower, Toots (when your not giving me grief in the chatroom about my arm!), easy, nola, rogue, HnS, Too hot and all the others, you make this site worthwhile during the day.
One person I should perhaps give some recognition too is Mr Mids himself. I sometimes wonder whether the rest of you look at our tussles in the same way as Star and Gnv? An online soap maybe. Jed, I can honestly say that though you feel, and have said, that I have destroyed the forums, and other stuff, that I have honestly enjoyed chatting and debating with you online. I would like for us to meet you sometime for a drink or two, because you and I have many similar views, it just seems unfortunate at times that one of us knows them better than the other! Keep posting, maybe you'll get good enough to win one day ;)
Right guys. Time for bed. We have a long weekend in front of us. We will, God willing, be back in August. We may very well be looking for chances to blow off steam, so feel free to let us know what's going on nearer the time. Our internet connection will be sketchy at best during the next few months because of our locations, and we will use it for our family. So take care all, have a great time doing what you are doing and above all...
Happy swinging :swingingchair:
One thing often forgotten about Churchill is that he was dropped like a hot stone by the Country when they no longer saw a need for him. This came merely two months after the Armistice with Germany and a month before the end of the second World War.
On a much smaller scale Mrs Thatcher, as was, was dropped like a hot stone by her party when they no longer saw a need for her.
Isn't it amazing that these two stalwart leaders are often pushed towards the same pedestal, but both had similar fates.
The speed limit is set as the maximum legal speed you can travel along that road. If you exceed the legal speed limit you are driving illegally and therefore having broken the law you are a criminal. It's black and white.
I speed, most of us do at some point or another. We all seem to accept that there will be consequences if we are caught by the Police, but very few people will think of the other consequences, such as killing someone.
Speed cameras might slow people down for a small stretch of road, but they don't stop speeding altogether or prevent dangerous driving.
I have to be honest and say that I fail to see how Baroness Thatcher can be blamed for the closure of a mine three years after she left office.
I really did wonder how long it was going to go before someone asked.
It's the end of an era for sure.
I would rather commiserate than celebrate.
The unfortunate truth is that speed on it's own doesn't kill. It contributes to the effects of an incident, but dangerous manoeuvring, handling and driving are the root cause of most RTI's.
Speed camera's are in principal a good idea IMHO, however their number increased dramatically a few years ago and most don't appear to be related to so called 'accident blackspots'. I remember hearing people say in the past that they didn't mind paying the fine but that it should go to the Police, not the government. Funny thing was that when the rules were changed to allow the Police to directly benefit from each and every fine the number of cameras expanded rapidly.
If a camera is situated in the right place it can have an effect on road safety, but in the wrong place it is a cash cow and a blot of the reputation of the Police.
Not necessarily your own though :swingingchair:
Mark my words. Following the next general election the result will be a Tory government, with labour as the Opposition and the LidDems/Others (including UKIP picking up the pieces).
I firmly believe that it will be a close run thing, perhaps close to a new coalition, but ultimately it will not be a hung parliament. The elections of May this year will be a wake up and in the next years to 18 months the Tories will bring in some form of vote winner. I don't know what it will be, but I'm sure there will be one.
I find it comical that so many left wing people feel now is the time to vote for this far right leader, especially given that the party has never held a parliamentary seat!
Oh don't get me wrong, I think that if it all kicks off we will get involved militarily. However I think that this country knows that Nuclear weaponry is a deterent and a last resort. Not first strike.
Incidentally, You mentioned the thread being about nuclear war? I presume you are aware that the OP was over one year ago and not related to North Korea at the time?
