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.

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

Smoking ban's impact five years on

The sight of employees smoking outdoors in all weathers is now commonplace. Smoking areas in bars, pubs, restaurants and hotels are long gone.

It is five years since England became the last part of the UK to introduce legislation banning smoking in workplaces and enclosed public spaces.

Pub Talk.

A little earlier I overheard in the pub a few imbibers slating off the government and its incompetence at managing the economy and its success at “stimulating” a double dip recession, with falsification of unemployment figures and suggesting that there are now three part timers holding the jobs of two people, on lower wages than previously.

One of them said he was thinking of sending “Economics for Dummies” to Cameron for reading during the Parliamentary recess. (Holidays, for normal people.)

Somebody else suggest that the he ought to send another copy to Osborne. (Not quite that language.)

The last comment from one of them was that it would be B. useless as neither of them can read, or if they did they wouldn’t understand the books anyway.

They were all drinking bitter, which seem to be in keeping with atmosphere.



I do hope Cameron and Dave hang around for another 2 and half years. Perhaps, they could go to the upper house then.

If you have half an hour, do listen to The Castle - played earlier on Radio 4 and very funny.

Same old shite from Fred, getting boring now, keep on whingeing!

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What an absolute shower they all are

Pub Talk.

A little earlier I overheard in the pub a few imbibers slating off the government and its incompetence at managing the economy and its success at “stimulating” a double dip recession, with falsification of unemployment figures and suggesting that there are now three part timers holding the jobs of two people, on lower wages than previously.

One of them said he was thinking of sending “Economics for Dummies” to Cameron for reading during the Parliamentary recess. (Holidays, for normal people.)

Somebody else suggest that the he ought to send another copy to Osborne. (Not quite that language.)

The last comment from one of them was that it would be B. useless as neither of them can read, or if they did they wouldn’t understand the books anyway.

They were all drinking bitter, which seem to be in keeping with atmosphere.



I do hope Cameron and Dave hang around for another 2 and half years. Perhaps, they could go to the upper house then.
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Fred

What pub was that ? The Hammer & Stickle or the Arthur Scargill Arm's

Hear the tories are now having punch ups, before they get into the bars.

Hitting each other with handbags and powder puffs.

What a crew, getting more like the UKIP and BNP everyday.



Bring back the ermine.

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