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THE TALK TO YOURSELF THREAD. (NOWT)     

goldfinger - 09 Jun 2005 12:25

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.

aldwickkk - 01 Jun 2018 17:09 - 80927 of 81564

I agree with Fred , Britain first.

Clocktower - 01 Jun 2018 17:43 - 80928 of 81564

Agreed Fred, the UK would never use shuch a weapon, unless someone lobed one our way first. The UK would as you suggest get only with selling survival kits etc.(regardless of the fact that they are not likely to be effective).

The UK would use Chemical Weapons to sort them all out if push came to shove imo. We most probably have developed an antidote for Novichok by now, thanks to the Skripal incident.

KidA - 04 Jun 2018 11:22 - 80929 of 81564

ExecLine,

Agreed, North Korea and China attacking the USA isn't something I want to read.

Cheers,
KidA

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On the weapons; any country, person, other animal will use whatever it has when it comes to the life or death moment - sanctimony will be out the window.

Novichok v Chuck Norris; only one way to decide...

ExecLine - 04 Jun 2018 14:37 - 80930 of 81564

Check out some of China's super weapons: HERE

I particularly like (dislike?) the Type 81 MRLS



They say:

"The Chinese invented the multiple rocket launcher system way back in the 11th century, but they have vastly improved upon it since then. With the People’s Liberation Army’s Type 81, the military is able to shoot a massive barrage of 40 122mm missiles at any target, which is basically enough to flatten a medium sized town from about 30 miles away. This is far enough away that most artillery would not even be able to accurately hit it.

Clocktower - 04 Jun 2018 17:37 - 80931 of 81564

A giant waste of resources building these weapons - one thing to build a small number to prove their value and confirm their technoglogy but to build vast numbers of tanks that are unlikely to be of any use beats me. One or two nukes and were all stuffed as every man and his dog would set them off to show their power. Then hunker down in a bunker and hope it all blows over.

Chemical weapons are the only way forward, not causing any lasting damage to anything/anybody that is left standing. What is the real diffrence - killing is killing, as long as it is quick anf painless but do the leaders really care anyway?

cynic - 04 Jun 2018 17:40 - 80932 of 81564

anthrax????

Clocktower - 04 Jun 2018 18:01 - 80933 of 81564

Anthrax is slow and painful I understand - it also lasts around 40 years in the soil. I suggested something that kills quickly and moves on as quickly leaving the land in reasonable condition.

iturama - 05 Jun 2018 08:34 - 80934 of 81564

Cheerful thread this. Must be all that sun. Never mind, it may not happen.
I have been pleasantly surprised by how well my plants and shrubs have been doing this year. Also the trees have been magnificent in their blossom. Must be something to do with the weather, can't be pure coincidence. Shrubs that hardly flowered last year have been in full flower. I never can remember the names of them unless I leave a name tag on them. Otherwise it is the yellow ones, or the pink ones or the spikey one.

cynic - 05 Jun 2018 08:39 - 80935 of 81564

anthrax - quite so
i thought you were advocating the development of chemical warfare in general


IT - wet winter and though we had a very late spring, the sun has certainly been hot and plentiful once we got in to may

Clocktower - 05 Jun 2018 13:12 - 80936 of 81564

I am against all wars cynic but I do believe in self defense. However, I do think chemical weapons will be the choice of weapon rather than nukes - and frankly if the killing is as rapid what is the difference when it comes down to mass warfare when the choice is either nuking the innocent population or killing by chemical weapon ( if it is as instant)?

One destroys and contaminates the land for xxxx number of years, the other may become safe far more quickly,leaving the victor (if there are any) with a resource they can use.

ExecLine - 07 Jun 2018 11:03 - 80937 of 81564

Peter Stringfellow dead: 'King of Clubs' nightclub mogul dies age 77

ExecLine - 07 Jun 2018 11:14 - 80938 of 81564

I'm sure, that like me, whilst you were surfing t'Internet you would occasionally come across extremely inviting adverts showing how the 'Dragons' were making a fortune with a special program doing Bitcoin trading.....

The following article will undoubtedly not surprise you:

Dragons' Den stars used in fake ads to dupe investors into dubious Bitcoin platforms

Both Deborah Meaden and Peter Jones have been the subject of fake news stories touting Bitcoin trading platforms

Sam Meadows, personal finance reporter
6 JUNE 2018 • 6:34AM
Bitcoin trading platforms are luring customers by falsely claiming to be backed by the stars of the BBC’s Dragons' Den.

The tactic is being used by a number of websites that also make dubious promises about the likelihood of multimillion dollar returns on relatively small investments.

Bitcoin Trader, which claims to offer automatic trading in cryptocurrencies, both say a “typical” user can make $13,000 (£9,700) a day – almost $5m a year. Bitcoin Trader says its users usually work for around 20 minutes a day.

Experts believe that few users would make money using this platform. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned that these companies are unregulated.

Fake news articles that were reportedly visible for a time on the Yahoo news service describe how a pair of unnamed entrepreneurs manage to woo Peter Jones into purchasing 25pc of their business for £2m. Several versions of the same story named different companies, such as Bitcoin Loophole in place of Bitcoin Trader.

The articles also state that fellow judge Deborah Meaden invested £250 “live” on the show and had made more than £100 in eight minutes using the platform.

Both the Dragons have condemned the use of their image and Action Fraud have issued a warning on “fraudulent” websites offering cryptocurrency investments using famous faces in online advertising.

Peter Butler
Peter Butler was the victim of a cryptocurrency scam CREDIT: ANDREW FOX
Telegraph Money reader Peter Butler, 76, invested £300 with Cryptopoint, which is connected to Bitcoin Trader, after seeing the fake news story while browsing the internet.

The retired joiner, who lives in Shropshire, said he spoke to a very pushy sales representative on the phone who continually tried to get him to invest more money. He got cold feet when she began asking for personal details he felt were unnecessary.

He has since been refunded £225, but Cryptopoint appears to have taken fees of £75 for the month in which he was “invested”.

Mr Butler said: “I don’t see why they should get £75 for doing nothing.”

In April, the FCA, the City watchdog, issued a warning about Gpay Ltd, the parent company of Cryptopoint, stating it is not regulated in Britain.

The statement read: “Almost all firms and individuals offering, promoting or selling financial services or products in the UK have to be authorised by us. However, some firms act without our authorisation and some knowingly run investment scams.

“This firm is not authorised by us and is targeting people in the UK. Based upon information we hold, we believe it is carrying on regulated activities which require authorisation.”

Cryptopoint would not comment on cases involving individual clients and offered no comment on the false advertising or the claims on its website.

Images of Apprentice star Alan Sugar and Martin Lewis, of Moneysavingexpert.com, have also been used without their permission to promote fraudulent cryptocurrency investments. Mr Lewis said adverts for Bitcoin Trader and Bitcoin Code using his face are "lies".

Martin Tilley, of Dentons Pensions, the pension company, said he had seen the adverts featuring the Dragons' Den stars appear on Yahoo news and feared that some people may be fooled by the “ridiculous” claims.

“We get lots of people telling us they want to invest in something they’ve seen online and we always say: take what you read with a pinch of salt,” he said. “You need to go and away and verify these things with independent sources.”

ExecLine - 08 Jun 2018 09:06 - 80939 of 81564

A craze that is sweeping - and sweeping up - the nation.

I think it was the Scandinavians who came up with this new lifestyle trend that offers a perfect solution for the two problems of:

a. Cleaning the place up
b. Getting your 'beach body' ready

It's called "Plogging" which is jogging with a difference.

Runners wear gloves, and carry bin bags, plucking rubbish from their route as they go, hence the name.

I'm looking for a name for doing the same thing (ie. plucking rubbish) whilst dog walking. The rubbish we see in our local parks and trails when we take our dog for a walk really does annoy me and I want to try to kick something similar off around our area and where we go.

Of course, there's already the terms, 'dogging' and 'logging', but these are definitely NOT at all relevant.

Have you got any ideas for a name?

cynic - 08 Jun 2018 09:57 - 80940 of 81564

dogging looks to have appeal :-)

cynic - 08 Jun 2018 10:00 - 80941 of 81564

looks like a "putin plot"to me, or at least a scheme/scam to grab a valuable asset for "putin buddies" for less than peanuts

ExecLine - 08 Jun 2018 12:45 - 80942 of 81564

Doggy Bagging and "Walkie Bagging" are my two best ideas.

I'm too old now for just mere "Dogging".

ExecLine - 08 Jun 2018 12:46 - 80943 of 81564

Aha! I see posts aren't going through unless you, the poster, do a 'Refresh'.

ExecLine - 13 Jun 2018 23:36 - 80944 of 81564

Psychologist questions Trump's mental health and warns his mental state is rapidly deteriorating — and he may be ‘on the boundary of psychosis and reality’.

Based on Donald Trump’s public behavior, some of America and the world’s leading psychologists, psychiatrists and other clinicians have concluded that the president of the United States is mentally unwell.

Trump appears, in their opinion, to suffer from malignant narcissism. He is also a compulsive liar who lacks empathy for his fellow human beings and shows no remorse for his bad behavior. Most importantly, Trump’s personality defects amplify his authoritarian values, beliefs and behavior. The results of this could be catastrophic.

More on this at:

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/psychiatrist-warns-trumps-mental-state-rapidly-deteriorating-may-boundary-psychosis-reality/

eg:-

"Malignant narcissists deteriorate. When they gain power, they become more inflamed in their grandiosity and in their paranoia. They also become more unrestrained in their sadism and in their will to power. Malignant narcissists like Trump are antisocial and have a willingness to do anything to get and keep power. The noted psychologist Erich Fromm actually argued that such personalities then begin to verge on psychosis at that point, becoming so grandiose and paranoid that they really live on the boundary of psychosis and reality.

In addition to that, I think Donald Trump is deteriorating for a second completely independent reason, which is that we’re seeing clear evidence of organically based cognitive decline. If you look at the interviews that he did in the 1980s, he was actually surprisingly articulate. He still expressed what I think we would considered by many to be loathsome views, but he spoke with a high level of vocabulary that included polished sentences and complete paragraphs. If you compare that to how Trump speaks now, he almost can’t complete a thought or a sentence without meandering into something nonsensical."

iturama - 14 Jun 2018 07:11 - 80945 of 81564

The liberals will never get over Trump beating crooked Hillary (no relation to our cheri) and doing more in a couple of years to change the status quo than Obama did in 8 years. The liberals donated the Peace prize to Obama in the hope he would actually do something. Trump brings North Korea in from the cold and he is poo pooed as an idiot. He may well be but he is an idiot running the most powerful country in the world and intent on making people aware of that after years of Obama apologizing for it.
That article was written by Chauncey Devega. The name says it all. Give a man a smart phone, twitter account and a blog and some people take them seriously, while in the past they were put in a quiet room. As for the quoted Fromm, he died almost 30 years ago but when you want to do a hatchet job, you will look anywhere you can to support your case.

Fred1new - 14 Jun 2018 09:51 - 80946 of 81564

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