British Politics: UKIP and Nigel Farage. Credible or not?

British Politics: UKIP and Nigel Farage. Credible or not?

For our friends in places other than the UK, Nigel Farage is the leader of a political party called UKIP: The UK Independence Party.

UKIP currently has 11 of the 73 UK seats in the European Parliament following the 2009 elections and subsequent changes. It also has three members in the House of Lords, all the result of defections.

The party also has one seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly, due to a defection by former Ulster Unionist Party MLA David McNarry in October 2012.… Click here to continue reading this article

Mottram Bypass: Jonathan Reynolds Letter To Constituents.

Anyone familiar with the Mottram Bypass issue knows locals have been trying to get a bypass built around the villages of Mottram-in-Longdendale and Tintwistle for over thirty years.

Tameside Council keeps collecting Council Tax, smiling and doing nothing. They are only interested in collecting parking fines that destroy the once thriving market and shopping areas of nearby Hyde, Stalybridge and Ashton town centres.

They also – unhelpfully – allowed Tesco to build a huge superstore directly adjacent to the site of one of Tameside’s worst traffic nightmares (M67/Mottram Moor).

Although Tesco’s is useful to locals (and particularly useful to the professional shoplifters of  the neighbouring Hattersley sink estate), it has done nothing to ease the local traffic congestion.… Click here to continue reading this article

New Scam email from “Alex Williams”

URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED the scam email screams in its title.

Of course, he isn’t really called Alex Williams.

The African (usually) bank scam emails are not new, but nobody has submitted this one to Google yet, so I thought we would.

This particular one has two email addresses associated with it: alexwilliams650@yahoo.es and United-n@solid.ocn.ne.jp.

That suggest an origin of either Spain or Japan.

Neither is the case as you will find out.

Here is the scam email:

Dear Friend,

My name is Alex Williams and I work with a Bank here in London-England, The name of the bank is Metro Bank London (England).

… Click here to continue reading this article

Could the Mottram Bypass Be Replaced By Shared Space Similar to Poynton?

Anyone who knows Mottram knows about the traffic problems and the lack of funding for the Mottram Bypass.

We have another article on Real Deal about the Mottram Bypass here: e-petition deliver Mottram – Mottram Bypass – Stuck in Traffic?

Local MP Jonathan Reynolds has recently taken up the reins on the issue and sent local residents a long and informative letter on the subject.

The locals of Mottram are glad that someone is finally back on the case.

It is clear to anyone who lives in or near Mottram that the bypass is a much-needed road.… Click here to continue reading this article

The American Social Class System – Does It Exist?

In sociology, social stratification deals with the structure of perceived status in society. Now there are very few aristocrats and Lords of the Manor left, society has generally retained the old class system but the qualifiers are mostly economic and education based now. The latter of which will determine your speech patterns, vocabulary and [in the UK] accent.

But lets take a look at the United States. Does class exist there? Or is it a classless society?

Social class is sometimes presented as a description of how members of the society have sorted themselves along a continuum of positions varying in importance, influence, prestige, and compensation.… Click here to continue reading this article

Examining the 5/2 Alternate Day Fasting Diet

Gorging yourself on as many burgers, chips and cakes as you like one day then eating fewer calories than you find in a cheese sandwich the next might sound like a worrying eating disorder.

But this regime of chomping away to your heart’s content one day, and virtually starving yourself the next is the latest diet craze. It’s known as ‘intermittent fasting’ or ‘alternate-day dieting’,and devotees insist the pounds just drop off.

The diet soared in popularity after featuring in a BBC2 Horizon documentary a few weeks ago by health journalist Dr Michael Mosley.… Click here to continue reading this article

If I didn’t Know Better (Dammit, I do) song from Nashville.

Here in the United Kingdom, we just got the new American imported ABC series Nashville which is airing on Channel Four.

Nashville is an American musical drama television series.

The series stars Connie Britton as Rayna Jaymes, a legendary country music superstar, whose stardom begins fading, and Hayden Panettiere as rising teen star Juliette Barnes. The series premièred on ABC on October 10, 2012, had more than 8.93 million viewers.

Here is the general plot: Rayna Jaymes (Connie Britton) is the established “Queen of Country” music.

However, her latest album is not selling well and her tour is playing to half empty venues.… Click here to continue reading this article

If he’s not marrying you, he’s just not that into you!

No not the film.

We are discussing men looking abroad for a foreign wife.

We all know that when a man goes abroad to find a beautiful woman, he is not just looking to sleep with her; instead, he is investing his valuable time, money, and resources to meet the woman of his dreams who (ideally) shares his values to bring home to marry. We can all agree on this, yes?

(If you try to refute this claim, I will pull out my Bio background and come back at you with scientific evolutionary evidence regarding pair-bonding and mate acquisition.… Click here to continue reading this article

Dark Net: The Hidden Internet They Call The Undernet – Deepnet

I happened upon an article in one of the papers this week that touched a subject I had never heard about, here is some of it:

The internet is like an iceberg. The web as we know it – every Google result, all the billions of pages we visit – is just a tiny fraction jutting above the waves. The vast majority of it is invisible to web browsers and the general public. This is known as the ‘dark web’.

Most of this unseen mass of activity is perfectly innocent – paid-for content, sites that require log-ins, academic data, and so on.

… Click here to continue reading this article

Americans – Please Give Up Guns!

To those of us who live in Europe, it is a mystery to us that Americans insist on being a gun-slinging nation obsessed with firearms.

Mass shootings in schools and shopping malls are now very commonplace there.

Any Tom, Dick or Harry can have a gun and get himself full of drink and drugs and leap around killing people. And they do.

Americans defend their right to do that under the bizarre “Right to Bear Arms” stuff that is in their Second Amendment.

The same Second Amendment that was written hundreds of years ago, for a different age, and has little relevance today.… Click here to continue reading this article

What nationality of men do Russian and Ukrainian women prefer?

Many men from across the world seek a Russian speaking wife. That might be a woman from Ukraine, Russia or more recently Kazakhstan or Belarus.

But are you the kind of guy a Russian speaking woman wants? Check out the light hearted list below.

I have noticed specific trends of opinion with Russian speaking women about foreign guys and their locations.

American men: They either love the idea of them (and the USA) or hate it. There doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. Some women love the thought of an American guy and living in the US; some think them stupid, with no history, culture or social skills.… Click here to continue reading this article

Work in North Dakota – ND Employment and Salaries.

America really is a strange country. We have high unemployment and people literally begging for a job, any job, then we have places like Williston ND. North Dakota is experiencing an oil boom. Williston, ND is one of the centers of the oil boom. A decade ago Williston’s population was about 12,000 now it’s 30,000+ and will probably grow larger.

For all the jobs being created in ND, the problem remains, ND doesn’t have enough people to fill all the jobs, jobs that pay well above America’s median income. Why the hell don’t people want to move to ND and work?… Click here to continue reading this article

Forum Moderators Guide – How to be a Good Forum Moderator

The Moderators guide below was originally taken from several large forums with over a million posts between them.

It was further tweaked as a result of the published guidelines of several ‘big boards’ that have each around a million posts.

It was later honed and tweaked by a published author who administrates three large forums. This is the current exact version his forums use.

If you are new to managing forums, you need to outline to your staff what exactly you expect of them. You cannot expect them to guess or know already.… Click here to continue reading this article

How Forum Spammers Operate. How To Spam A Forum

Forum spam is a big issue if you own a forum. This title is probably going to bring in some folks, thinking ‘why the heck is he writing this here?’ We don’t need to know how they work, we just need to know how to stop forum spam.’

The simple truth is, if you know exactly how it’s done, and how it all works, you can then know what counter-measures you can invoke to help to combat this problem. Note how I said to “combat it”, and not stop it.… Click here to continue reading this article

The old Lucky Lovers forum. What happened to it?

Many people mourned the loss of the forums that were once attached to the Lucky Lovers dating site.

They were popular forums in both the English and Russian languages. It was a place many Russian women congregated, and several marriages resulted between people who met on the forum.

What wasn’t widely known is that the forums were split off from the Lucky Lovers site and assigned a new domain several years ago. That domain was GoGabber.com. But it wasn’t very heavily promoted anywhere.

The last few years the site has limped along with a low Google ranking and lacking much purpose and not drawing in many new members.… Click here to continue reading this article

Bosch American Fridge Freezer Review KAN58A55GB

If you are thinking of buying a KAN58A55GB Bosch American fridge freezer – think again.

It is likely to break down often, and the Bosch repair people will become a regular feature in your home. In fact, you may as well allocate them their own coffee mug you will see them so often.

We expected that being a well-respected German brand, and the over £1000 price tag it carried, that a Bosch American fridge freezer would be a good buy that would give trouble free service for many years.

Nothing could have been further from the truth.… Click here to continue reading this article

Квартира для долгосрочной аренды в Таллинне, Эстонии, в деревне Св. Петра – Раэ, Харьюмаа.

Квартира для долгосрочной аренды в Таллинне, Эстонии, в деревне Св. Петра – Раэ, Харьюмаа.

Прекрасная трехкомнатная квартира 70 кв. м находится в престижном районе в пяти минутах от центра столицы, и в трех минутах от аэропорта.

Двухуровневая квартира расположена на двух верхних этажах трехэтажного дома. Два парковочных места для транспорта находятся прямо у дома.

В квартире имеются две спальни, которые расположены на третьем этаже трехэтажного дома. В одной из спален имеется дверь на балкон и гардеробная с зеркалами.

В доме центральное отопление, окна с тройным остекленением, сигнализация, стальная дверь. В квартире два санузла, полы с подогревом.… Click here to continue reading this article

Marco Marco Marple Bridge Restaurant Review

Looking for a review on Marco Marco at 89 Compstall Road, Marple Bridge, SK6 5HE? You found it – read this BEFORE you book.

I was recently Googling for a restaurant in the Marple area. I happened upon Marco Marco. One of three restaurants owned by the same people (the others being in Lymm and Northwich). “Fine Italian Dining in Cheshire” is what they tout, and having three locations in half decent areas, and Marple Bridge being the newest, led me to believe they must be half right. Boy, was I wrong!… Click here to continue reading this article

Driving Through Germany and Holland – Germany is an Odd Place!

This is part seven of a tale about driving from the UK to Estonia, and back again. If you missed earlier segments, and want to start from the beginning, it can be found by clicking this link: Road Trip From the UK to Estonia.

We pick up the tale as we enter Germany from Poland in search of a hotel for the night.

We crossed into Germany, I checked my navigation and drove to the first three hotels on it.

One was wasteland (demolished maybe), one was a small guest house where nobody answered the door, and the third one looked promising: A small guest house run by a widow type woman.… Click here to continue reading this article