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One thing I haven't heard in any reporting of this Mansion Tax is how it will affect all the mansions owned by 'offshore companies'. When my sis returned to the UK from a few years living abroad,...

BCO I shall look out for 'With a Machine Gun to Cambrai'. Thanks for the tip!

You can view the page at http://www.arrse.co.uk/content.php?r=1394-Review-Machine-Gunner-on-the-Somme-by-Captain-Eric-L-Bird-MC

You can view the page at http://www.arrse.co.uk/content.php?r=1394-Review-Machine-Gunner-on-the-Somme-by-Captain-Eric-L-Bird-MC

The pic shows 'Dorchester recruits to Kitchener's Army being escorted to the Depot Barracks by pipers of the Scottish Fusiliers in August 1914' but there's nothing to say why the Scottish Fusiliers...

This is a ‘floppy back’ book, published by a small local publisher. It tells the story of every Man (and the one woman VAD) who appears on a Great War Memorial in Dorchester. 1100 men of Dorchester...

Oh no. Joker you have now put the image of Lewis Hamilton as 'Hammy the Hamster' into my mind! Barstard!!!

At one point I was hoping that the Vettel/Alonso inferno was a possibility, but...

Finished the book now, and it was the best yet, imho.

As an aside and related to another author who's here on ARRSe, there's a pic that looks awfully like Stumpy, and I also liked the story of the...

EM: Lord Coe, it wil be far too much work for you to organise and supervise the security job at the Sports Day. Why not give loadsamoney to G4S? They have a really good track record of delivering...

Puts me in mind of a (male) friend who when buying a large round, and offered a tray by the barman, replied 'No thanks. I've got enough to carry already.'

Maldonado. Idiot, dangerous idiot, or misunderstood?

Thank you. I'm smirking a bit at being able to upgrade my body later. :-)

That bit about the lenses was why I asked P_F. My Tamrons were top notch when I bought them, but I realise with some horror that it was nearly 30 years ago! It would be nice to save money, but not...

The 'self-taken' photographs thread has inspired me to look yet again at changing my trusty Olympus OM10 with Tamron lenses for something a smidge more modern. Reading this thread it seems that Nikon...

I got my copy from the library last week. Will look out for oldbaldy in it :-)

And for those awaiting a copy, I can say it lives up to Ken's previous top quality productions.

And here's a joke I received from an ex Barclays employee today. Well it would be a joke if it wasn't a 300 year old historic company they weren't in the process of trashing.

Who's lined up...

He has plenty of other directorships and I believe is a BBC Trustee ...


I'm just glad I sold the Barclays shares out of my pension a few weeks ago.

Will that be broadcast on BBC Parliament? Suddenly it seems worth being off sick with tonsillitis!

Think of the money to be saved on Civil Servants at HMRC!

Oy, sarky! Some of us work for a living, and don't get to sit criticising people on ARRSE all day long. (We have to criticise people at work all day long instead ;-) )

And my spelling in that post was awful, due to being in a hurry. And I can't update the post from the terminal I'm using today. Maybe someone's telling me to get back to work. :-)

When I learned French, the word 'ou' meant 'or'. Meaning that recipe is for madiera OR port sauce, made with either 3cl of port OR of Madiera. Madeir and port are very different!

Parcelled up and ready to go when I next pass a Post Office during business hours.

Which could be about Friday! Sorry; work is manic atm.

I manage a team of people. Each week they work 40-50 hours. Most nights they go home to their families. They have homes, food, and contact with people who love them. At the end of each month they...

Overheard this evening as I ate my supper in a restaurant near to where I'm staying:

Gentleman to waiter: 'Madeira Sauce. Has that got port in it?'

Epic fail on geography, grammar and...

Good one! Slightly different from the usual model where the assets of the bankrupt company are sold to its directors by the administrator, because the directors have set up another company to own...

http://www.arrse.co.uk/content/641-gulag-boss-%96-soviet-memoir-fyodor-vasilevich-mochulsky.html

Not written as fiction, but the memoir of a Soviet Gulag boss. Read that book, then come back and...

I'm reviewing a book for the ABC at the moment - Europe in the aftermath of World War 2. The killing didn't stop when peace broke out. Lots of German emigrants who had been living peacably for...

I've read an amusing and plausible letter which suggests that a better use of taxpayers' money is to let the banks fail, and to give £50,000 to everyone over 50 years old.

Banks take the risk as...

Or as I prefer to think of it, a culture of short-term pleasing of the markets with wackier and wackier moneymaking schemes, and no cares for the medium to long term future, or indeed a business...

Not my Mrs. (That's not my style!) but a blonde lady at the cashpoint at Salisbury Races yesterday. Struggling to get her card to read, and a long queue of people becoming more impatient as the...

lying, duplicitous fuckmuppetI'm stealing that! Thank you.

The press are always drunk (pissed) and usually annoyed (pissed off).However, on topic, Redknapp has more of a record of financially ruining clubs than of winning trophies, is tainted by this...

What do you mean? She's my role model. Ran away with Pa when she was 16, still active in the bedroom department in her late 40s, and cooks like an angel.

Have you read any of Ken Wharton's books on the subject? They're reviewed in the ARRSe Book Club section, and certainly give a very moving account of what it was like to be a soldier in NI.

Nothing there about cutting the cost of Parliament, either. All those subsidised bars and restaurants, and an expense system which would not be allowed by HMRC if it were implemented in a private...

Have you forgotten 'I am the Walrus'?

Semolina Pilchards, climbing up the Eiffel Tower!


I've never been drunk enough to write cr@p like that!

Goo Goo Ga Choob.

Ironically, given what's going on on a couple of threads at the moment, I don't keep people's addresses because of the Data Protection Act. I'm supposed to gather the info for a purpose, and delete...

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Congratulations and thank you The_Snail!

For £60 this most excellent book is all yours.

Thank you for supporting Holidays for Heroes so consistently....

Auction ends at 1900 tonight folks. Any more bids, or will Dale win again?