[slackline]

Balls!

[Will Hunt]

Balls!

Watching that I could only think of the hypocrisy of a nation that declares to be founded upon "Christian values" whilst in the same breath derides the idea of a public health service.
Disgusting. And I don't mean his scrotum.

[Oldmanmatt]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15464974

Have a mate, who only just survived yesterday...
Took him 7 hours to get from the med coast back to Como.

And there was me moaning about the rain yesterday and having to blow off a day on the rock, for a day on the wall...

[Johnny Brown]

An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html

[Ru]

An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.

I reckon you'd get pretty much the same list if you just recorded the most frequent subjects of articles in the FT.

Of course, most of the western world's pensions and savings etc are in some way invested in or managed by those companies, so it's hard to say that their influence is disproportionate to the amount of public interest in them.

[Jaspersharpe]

The fact that there is a large public interest in them should be all the more reason for there being accountability for the way that they are being run.

Surely when you own something you should have some say in how it operates? I thought the primary concern of any company was supposed to be the shareholders. The way most big banks have been run recently has been for the benefit of a minority of employees / board members and the shareholders have been screwed.

[Johnny Brown]

What he said...

Plus I think the main point was that the world's economy might be more stable if things were spread around a little more.

[Oldmanmatt]

+1, with knobs on...
Things are getting beyond a joke. Why, though, do the shareholders tolerate it?

[Ru]

What he said...

Plus I think the main point was that the world's economy might be more stable if things were spread around a little more.

Agreed. But the point is that everyone seems to want the wealth spread around a bit more, as long as it's not their wealth, in which case they want it in the biggest institution that gives them the best return.

In reply to Oldmanmatt, the shareholders tolerate it because the institutions make money and the value of their shares go up. Or at least they don't fall by as much as the other investment options.

[Oldmanmatt]

Ah, for the days when the dividend was more powerful than the trade...

[Big Dave]

How to land a Boeing 767 with no landing gear 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15543315

[Will Hunt]

Smooth as silk 

[Oldmanmatt]

 
 
 

[tomtom]

How to land a Boeing 767 with no landing gear 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15543315

Bet the computer landed it

[Oldmanmatt]

How to land a Boeing 767 with no landing gear 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15543315

Bet the computer landed it

Thats one ZX81 that can fly me any time!

[slackline]

Mountain bikers trying to catch Impalas, now.....

How to catch an Eagle

 

[Fultonius]

Loving the Eagle and the Plane landing - cheered up my day.

This one's a few days old, but it still made me a laugh:  http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/greeks-punch-gift-horse-in-the-face-201111014490/   
 
In fact, the dailymash has been back on form the last few days...

[Jaspersharpe]

Another two completely unrelated stories here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/nov/02/cameron-boardroom-excesses-robin-hood-tax

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/31/corporation-london-city-medieval

 

[slackline]

Working for beans, literally

 

[Jaspersharpe]

Alex James is a cunt:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2011/nov/03/alex-james-cheese-festival

[SA Chris]

Hardly news.

Never before would a grenade be better used than to be flung in between those 3.

And I struggle to find sympathy for people who lost money buying tickets for the event.

[Jaspersharpe]

Hardly news.

No but it bears repeating.

Never before would a grenade be better used than to be flung in between those 3.

True.

And I struggle to find sympathy for people who lost money buying tickets for the event.

Me neither but it makes me angry that the prick owes a primary school £7000.

He probably spends more than that each year on tweed jackets and Hunter wellies. The cunt.

[tomtom]

Hardly news.

Never before would a grenade be better used than to be flung in between those 3.

If Piers Morgan and James Corden were just out of shot (but not range), it would be a very good value for money grenade. Though if Piers were to order his ego to dive on said grenade it would smother any explosion completely, emitting only a gentle belch...

A liberal sprinkling of C-Dificile at Alex James' cheese factory would probably do nicely...

[Johnny Brown]

Worth a mention is the massive news broken on UKB's sister site UKC yesterday (no, not cocktalk) - props to all involved. Has just made the Guardian too.

[Jaspersharpe]

Fucking mentalists. Great effort.