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.

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I occasionally have a look at this thread during the day to lighten the load of a dismal day's trading. I don't expect a load of dots to reward my effort! More self opinionated, bigoted cr*p please.

" More self opinionated, bigoted cr*p please."

Come on Fred you can do better then --

Another Troll alert.

That was so unfunny Stan

It wasn't meant to be, it was an alert.

Well said, Harrycat.

I often visit this thread due to seeing an un-read post, and like you get annoyed just to find out the posts, sometimes several in a row, contain dots or another single symbol and nothing else.

I appreciate these posters are sending some sort of message, but as a technophobe, I haven't a clue what they are.

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N,

I appreciate your "." for the artistic meaningful depth of understanding that they are in-putted with.

Modern art, at its best!

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Mnamreh,

I appreciate your posts were not intended to annoy, (I get annoyed very easily, just ask the wife) so please reconsider not posting again.

I have enjoyed our communicating on this thread and although I am sure we have not always agreed, I have found your 'content' posts well argued and your views relevant.

If you leave this thread, as I did for a few weeks, because of the replying to the idiots I have on squelch, the muppets will have won.

If you do stay or leave, best regards.

Greek.

It is good to see Osborne is growing up and recognising that UK economic problems are link into European and World economies and that Britain is not an “Island unto itself”.

Also, it is good to see that he is at last trying to plough money into the infrastructure in order to stimulate the economy.

(Devaluing the pound in his and your pocket.)

Now, he needs to do now is reduce VaT

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In the Press

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Cameron says that he now expects the crisis in the eurozone to drag on for years, blighting the British economy. He indicates that the programme of spending cuts, initially planned to take five years, is now likely to last for the entire decade. Mr Cameron insists that he still wants to cut tax but that any reductions would have to be funded by even greater public spending reductions. Asked whether the austerity programme would now last a decade until 2020, the Prime Minister replies: “I think it’s going to be...this is a period for all countries, not just in Europe but I think you will see it in America too, where we have to deal with our deficits and we have to have sustainable debts. I can’t see any time soon when…the pressure will be off.

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From Yahoo

“"No man is an island unto himself"

“Donne is comparing all of mankind to a continent and therefore each person is a piece of the continent , not an island. Donne goes on to say that if a clod breaks off from a continent , the continent is less than it was before. Therefore when one person dies, all of mankind is lessened by that death. Thus, he indicates that one should not ask for whom the bell tolls announcing someone's death but rather it tolls for everyone.”

Perhaps, worth remembering by some of the little Englanders.


No Man Is An Island

No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.

John Donne

Apple must run "Samsung did not copy iPad" ads - report


(Reuters) - Apple (AAPL.O) has been instructed by a British judge to run ads saying that Samsung (005930.KS) did not copy its design for the iPad in the latest twist in the ongoing patent battles between the two tech giants, according to Bloomberg.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/333795/Now-Britain-exports-more-to-rest-of-the-world-than-EU

BRITAIN sent a defiant message to Europe yesterday after it emerged our trade is booming with the rest of the world.
We are exporting more goods to non-EU countries than those in the economic bloc for the first time in 40 years, figures showed.
It delivers a crushing blow to the Euro-­fanatics who insist that we can’t survive without Brussels

Perhaps, the EU don't want UK products!

World population 7 billion people.

EU population approx 730million

UK population approx 65 million.

The channel is an expensive drop of water.

The EU accounts for over 40% of UK exports, but the percentage is dropping and if the EU "devalues" in one way or another the percentage will drop further and the UK GDP will follow to a degree.

Cameron is blathering on about he would never campaign to leave Europe if there was a referendum.
What the hell is he on about.
Britain was part of Europe well before the EU, its where it is placed that rules that. Perhaps we should tow it a few miles into the middle of the Atlantic.
Very few people want to cut the UK off from European trade, which is the great scary story that Europhiles are touting.
What myself and Euro sceptics want is to leave the EU, with its petty and overtly expensive rules and regulations.
Cameron sees it, as we all sink or swim together, whilst I see it as we are already sinking together, and are destined to share the same leaky lifeboat.
Mind you, the interview that he gave, at least tells us where his true feelings lie, and its not for a self ruled UK, but for a continuing membership of the bureaucratic, gravy train monster called the EU.

And another moan.
The current government has agree to pay £10,000 to councils for each problem family that they 'turn round', which means that these families receive personal assistance to get their kids out of bed in the mornings, assist with breakfast (I kid you not) and to get them to school by taxi if required.
Me, I would say, get your idle butts out of bed, breakfast if you want it and get your kids to school, or all your scrounging benefits will be stopped, without notice.
Bloody nanny state, they will soon be offering to wipe peoples back *****, if they are too lazy to do it themselves.
I will be one of those who vote for UKIP, or if they do not put up a candidate in my constituency, a fringe party, just for protest sake.
What I will not do is vote for this mealy mouthed, no back boned lot.

I could go on, but my wifes just moved me and my computer into the shed which has no electric, so the batteries just about to run o.

Cameron's interests are mainly self interest and those of his ilk.

A one liner from Fred , that makes a change

A lot of truth in that one line!