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.

Hays what was this about the Threshers empire being left to you then. Thats what you made out!!!!!

And dont deny you havent sent your kids to private school. How can a bloke from a state school send his kids to a private school!!!. You may have had them later in your life than the norm I conceed.

Thats the only way you could have done it. Unless of course you won the pools or similar.

But either way you still have that attitude that stinks.

Cynic, you are losing your memory again. You have told this thread so many times.

Now stop being silly.

Haystack - good for you and you are obviously well educated. I have also come from a poor background and have worked hard to achieve a better standard of life.

What's this then? who can say that they were the poorest... Pathetic Tory Voters alert!

Oh and by the way, Alf? get back to work -):

perhaps so, but i'm sure everyone here would love to be told exactly from where i got my money etc etc, and of course i need reminding too ..... or will you claim amnesia?

just been tying up a couple of deals actuaklly Stan, so quite a chirpy day ..... and btw, i have never pretended growing up in anything resembling poverty, and i also see no merit at all in professing or pretending to such background or that one's parents had to clean toilets to keep a crust on the table

in this life, we are dealt a certain hand of cards, and what we make of it is primarily down to the individual, both in good times and bad

YAWN.

Your only posting cos the markets so sh-ty, and your bored LOL.

not at all .... not the greatest day on the markets, but i've had far worse with NMX2350 giving decent support to the portfolio

Well I am and admit it.

that you have done well for yourself i guess warrants plaudits of some kind but certainly no halo

however, it you'ld like to earn a segment of halo, i'll e- you a link so you can contribute to "ShelterBox (http://www.justgiving.com/PhilippinesAppeal). They're already on the ground in the Philippines providing shelter and supplies to those who need it".
Google will double any money given, but you'll need to show the link - hence the need for an e- from me

cynic - I think the Government have already contributed £10million of taxpayers money to this and are also sending out 10 surgeons and paramedics. Quite frankly I think that is enough. This country seems to be a bottomless pit when it comes to sending aid to various countries. alwickk pointed out the other day on this thread how much money the UK has sent to India to help the poverty and the next thing we know is that that country is spending billions on space research. I don't have a problem paying tax in this country, but I do have a problem with whichever party is in power when it seems to think it has a blank cheque book to throw taxpayers money around, wherever in the world, that it thinks is appropriate.

Fine words DB, But as usual, and yet again don't vote for them then.

no compulsion, as there never is with charity
this is nothing whatsoever to do with any government or church or anything other than proper and deserved and warranted humanitarian aid .... but don't feel obliged, and clearly you do not

so Stan, are you prepared to donate?

Fred - how about you?

gf
Threshers wasn't left to me. It was my mother's family. I didn't get any.

I did send my kids to private schools (in one case to a major public school). I started as a programmer, then a freelancer and later I started a software/consultancy company. That's how you pay for it. I had my first child when I was 47 (with a much younger wife).

No thank you.

good manners precludes me from giving an acid response

That's a first then -);

cynic
An acid response from you? Surely not.