Are We The Most Stupid Country In The World ?

[Evans Electric]

I ask because we have just sent China £25m  in overseas aid ..........

....................just seething .

 

[steptoe]

oh yes indeedy!

we are so broke but can still send money to countries that have their own space programme,,,,,,,,  X(

 

[OnOff]

But we don't discriminate at least. India & Pakistan both receive aid as well. I mean, it's not like they're nuclear powers or anything................

 

[binky]

Like the Chinese don't have enough of our money bad day explode

 

[Sharpend]

You've gotta hand it to those Chinese, sell us everything and still plead poverty!!!

Oh sorry, just realised millionaires (MP's) don't buy Chinese rubbish they can afford not too.

 

[batty]

Thing is it our money they are sending and then tell pensioners there is no money left people keep voting them in though.

 

[kerching]

Well,we let the Lottery be run by foreigners THEN they spend £15m on the TV adverts.....wonder where the 15m came from....

 

[batty]

And they even have the cheek to put there wages up.

 

[Sharpend]

And they even have the cheek to put there wages up.

No batts they gave a uhhum INDEPENDANT body deciding their wages, s'pose could call it the mp union?

 

[septiclecky]

Like to see how the government will now say to unions and others that they need to keep their pay rise demands down now

 

[Technician]

If it is of any comfort to the forum,  I was in a little place that

manufactures control panels for building environmental

controls. All bespoke.  They were fitting ALL Schneider & MG.

Why?

Cost of rectification if they used cheaper kit, travel, admin costs.

It was the Chinese who gave the Germans the idea of a wall.

Walther Ulbricht went over there on a "fact finding" mission and

complained about contamination of the "culture" of the GDR by

"outsiders".

"Build a wall...ours has been of good service for years."

 

[OnOff]

Have to be careful commenting as posting via a "BT" router.........

Excellent piece in The Times today; "GCHQ given backing to keep closer eyes on Huawei". 

The US and Australian governments have banned the use of Huawei kit on broadband networks on the ground of national security. Rumours of links with the Chinese military etc. So........to counter these fears there is a test facility in Banbury known as "The Cell" where they test kit down to the source code to ensure there's no back doors etc.

The best bit is it's a Huawei facility, staffed by Huawei employees! 

 

[kerching]

Well Huawei are the routers that Talktalk use, so.......if any of you are eavesdropping on this then can I have Szechuan King Prawn, egg fried rive and spring rolls please

FFS we will all be dancing to the tune of Dr Evils drum soon, if we are not already

 

[Evans Electric]

Have to be careful commenting as posting via a "BT" router.........

Excellent piece in The Times today; "GCHQ given backing to keep closer eyes on Huawei". 

The US and Australian governments have banned the use of Huawei kit on broadband networks on the ground of national security. Rumours of links with the Chinese military etc. So........to counter these fears there is a test facility in Banbury known as "The Cell" where they test kit down to the source code to ensure there's no back doors etc.

The best bit is it's a Huawei facility, staffed by Huawei employees! 

Are we talking about what used to to be called the "Tinkerbell Squad" .       I believe it was difficult to stop the old GPO bell type phones from tinkling unless they rung off at the same time .  

Back when Big Brother ...oops ... the government  ran  road  transport  ( BRS ,British Road Services)  the GPO  postal system  ... The  GPO parcel post...   GPO licenced radio & TV... held back commercial Radio /TV  ..... and GPO telephone system .

I always remember our friend's daughter ( about 12 yrs then)  getting a letter from a pen pal in Poland , stamped " Opened by the British Censor"    Spooky.

 

[OnOff]

Nah! Looks like the Germans, French and Russians are pretty daft too:

http://news.yahoo.com/special-report-chinese-military-39-secret-success-european-134407260.html

 

[Sharpend]

Nah! Looks like the Germans, French and Russians are pretty daft too:

http://news.yahoo.com/special-report-chinese-military-39-secret-success-european-134407260.html

Not really, the French missiles would struggle to work, as the French don't like work, the Germans would be over engineered, the Chinese wouldn't understand, the Russians, well that be classed as friendly fire, now if they had British missiles the Chinese would be fine, cos us Brits with give instructions in every language.

 

[OnOff]

Not really, the French missiles would struggle to work, as the French don't like work, the Germans would be over engineered, the Chinese wouldn't understand, the Russians, well that be classed as friendly fire, now if they had British missiles the Chinese would be fine, cos us Brits with give instructions in every language.

So long as the French, on the days they do work keep making Hager and Schneider kit and the Germans keep over engineering their SEW-Eurodrive and the Russians keep producing this sort of stuff:



..........then I'll be happy!  :lol:

 

[Sharpend]

Oh ok then.