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.

Hey, goldfinger, in the header you mention Dim Tim.
Well, now it's Handy Andy who at least got into the final.
Anyway, I could beat both of them...
...at chess.

Fred and TANKER, I'll tell you what the problem is. It's hypocracy. Lots of them are gay, but simultaneously they make laws saying that homosexuality is a crime. That's self-deception. Ergo, they are one f***ed-up bunch of people.

Skinny,

Was the reason hedonistic?

I think male penguins see a female lying down and think COOOOAAAARRR!!! Hormones into overdrive.

The fact that the female is .. er .. slightly .. um .. (ahem) dead... doesn't seem to bother them. They're only bird-brains so they react in pretty simple ways.

Ergo, the researcher thought that penguins liked necrophilia which really freaked them out. However, the penguins are just reacting to a certain pose of the female. In Antarctica, just about everything is cold on the outside (live and dead alike) so your average male penguin could happily leap on the prone body of a female and not immediately notice that it was dead.

Haven't you heard?
I'm gonna jump that bird
And get my end away.
In summer bright
Or the six months' night
It's penguins' time to play.

Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived at Poland's passport control...

"Nationality," asked the immigration officer.

"German," she replied.

"Occupation?"

...."No, just here for a few days"...

That was funny skinny

"Occupation?

...."No, just here for a few days", then onto Czechoslovakia"

Fred

Your Welsh , what does Arf Dysg mean ?

A weapon/tool of learning.

Implying the power of knowledge or education.

Is that why you didn't have it as your username ?

If I had, yours would have needed to be Ignorance!

Have a nice day, or pass on.

Fred

You have such a sharp wit ............ not , that must you make witless ?

Have a nice day or pass on , or pass on the nice day and just pass on.

So Bob Diamond has agreed to forgo up to £20,000,000 in bonus fees, due to the Barclay debacle.
Yes that eye watering figure is right, 20 million quid!
This just shows how the banking culture of bonuses has got well beyond a joke.
It shows that no matter how you cock-up any system, you will still get a bonus.
Its about time the banking industry and other industries that issue bonuses, pay such bonuses on 'Results', and not just for doing the job (badly) they are paid very handsomely for.

Of course the banking industry, has to pay such bonuses in order to attract the 'right calibre' of person.
I would hate to see what a person of the wrong calibre would achieve.

Bankers, Politicians, most of them I would not pay in washers (a Yorkshire saying).

Stan and Survivor,

Hope all got home safe and sound last night.

I think you boys are leading me astray, but it was a very enjoyable afternoon.

Did anyone mention shares that I should buy.

Thanks the lord for providing taxi drivers.

Will give you both bell later in the months.

Look after yourselves.

Fred1new, right: "weapon of learning". It's also part of the saying Gorau arf, arf dysg, meaning "The best weapon is the weapon of learning".

Perhaps I should ask you what "aldwickk" means. :)


These bankers keep saying that they need high salaries: "If you don't pay us, we'll leave the U.K."

If I tried that with my employer, the answer would be "Go on then, leave."

If the salaries of bankers went down dramatically (say 5 digits insteal of 7) we would no longer get people motivated by money, so maybe we would get people motivated by something else.

Arf,

Means all -------- or something!

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Being self employed for much of my life, I would like to have left the country on many occasions for far less.

Are you from across the valley from GLan y Llyn?

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Suffering from N's disease.

Fred, don't suppose you could get the chart on your CHG header to update automatically please. I keep looking at it and forgetting that it shows 2011!!!

EDIT - Cancel that. Misread the chart! One day it will go up and then I won't be so confused!

Listening to some of the present LIBOR Enquiry, part of it seems irrelevant.

The "false level fixing" was important but I would have hoped that the Bank of England and finance ministers were discussing the rates with the Banks including Barclay's in an attempt to calm the "frenzy" in 2007-8-9.

That is different to falsely fixing it.

See the tories have skidded to a stop and done another U-Turn.

They will be doing wheelies next.

I wonder if the Cabinet are inhaling strange substances as they did in the bullingdon club days.




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But the tory coalition is now in control of the Right wing Euro-phobics.

What a government.

Harry,

I got out of CHG before the split, would have done better to hold to 700.

Thought it a reasonable bet at the time in 2007, but double top was a give away.

The yield at present is good and growth promises are good PE is about 6. Perhaps, I will have another look.

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What an absolute shower they all are