Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Bank shares "double in 12 months"? At the expense of the tax payers presumably. Personally I wouldn't touch bank shares with a bargepole - they spend far too much money on advertising and sports sponsorship = what a waste. Mr Average Guy has to pay for all this indulgence. 81% of RBS is owned by the tax payers - were the tax payers consulted before RBS pumped £27million into sponsoring the Six Nations, were they consulted before they handed out lucrative sponsorship deals to Luke Donald, Jackie Stewart etc.etc. 600 staff to be laid off soon. The lunatics are running the asylum there and have been for too long imo.

The lunatics are running the asylum there and have been for too long imo.

As the only sane individual on this thread, I couldn't agree with you more, or less.

But I will hold Barcs etc. for the time being.

This is an odd thread, presumably fred1new was been ironic in declaring himself sane? A myopic view wishing cameron to condemn his cabinet members when in reality Cameron had to push Gordon Brown to come clean.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/dec/09/cameron-challenges-brown-mps-expenses
Selective memory or just plain sane?Odd very very odd.

Fred, Barcs also pump £millions, or £squillions, into sponsoring Sky Sports coverage of golf. It's outrageous that these banks pump money into corporate entertainment on one hand and then they say that the mortgage rates are going up because they are strapped for cash.

The thing is that the banks are a business. They are in the business of making money not being charitable about how they hand out money. From my experience of working within Banks as a consultant, I have found that they are unusual in that their main guiding principle is to be in business in two hundred years time. Eveything else is of marginal importance.

This looks like an easy job, if you can stand heights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HMWCDUfJMs&feature=related

Hays,

God help me, I have to agree again.

The reasons for the promoting "Sporting Events" is self advertisement.

Both sides "benefit".

What are the drawbacks?

You need successful banks to have a successful economies.
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Chuckle,

Gordon is dead!

You have a new Mafia boss in charge!

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Tanker,

In another 10 years you may have matured in and be less robust and a little more subtle like me.

Possibly, having even another few years before full fruition.

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8-))

Windows Phone 8 system update announced by Microsoft

Windows Phone 8 shares much of its code with the firm's PC system, making it easier for developers to write programs for different types of devices.

The company said it should mean there would be some "amazing games" for handsets running its new release.

A tie-up with Nokia has already brought several Windows Phone devices to market, but sales lag some way behind models running Android or Apple's iOS.

Microsoft said Nokia, Samsung, HTC and Huawei would all be making devices powered by the system upgrade.

Turtles fossilised in sex embrace

Turtles killed as they were having sex and then fossilised in position have been described by scientists.

The remains of the 47-million-year old animals were unearthed in the famous Messel Pit near Darmstadt, Germany.

They were found as male-female pairs. In two cases, the males even had their tails tucked under their partners' as would be expected from the coital position.

What a way to go.

"Researchers think the turtles had initiated sex in the surface waters of the lake that once existed on the site, and were then overcome as they sank through deeper layers made toxic by the release of volcanic gases."

I hate it when that happens! :-)

Lol

Déjà vu! Tough new O-Levels to replace GCSEs under Gove plan

critic carson . RSA I bought at 103p sold before div at 116p .
the only share I do not sell on div is BARC .
and will buy back RSA at 103p .
that is why I am rich and idle

And cannot spell. Cris has an h after the C. :-))

Right at the top then and why not buy back right at the bottom? :-)

Tank yoo spel cheker.. now pick the bones out of that -):

TANK - Not to mention little bit of a RAMP whilst doing so mate, really can't be bothered to look back through your posts but was on the lines of sp to rise to 150.0 within a week or a fortnight, uttered with those fateful words trust me :O)

Jimmy Carr tweets he is no longer involved in K2 tax shelter scheme saying 'I made terrible error of judgement'

And what mistake was that Jim?