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.

ohhhhhhhhhh so sorry. apologies.

I seem to recall that while the site was in beta test there was only one forum. Doris proposed pay-per-view and freeview forums and invited beta testers to come up with a name for each. The January launch date that Skinners refers to is possibly the date that the second forum was created and the oiks were allowed in.

But then again, I struggle to remember what happened last week, so I might be a bit hazy on events of 10 or 11 years ago.

I think that's right Hils - the link here was before the launch date.

Seems to me that some posters on this thread should be buying shares in cocoa companies - myself included. :-)

There was just one BB while beta testing and then there were suggestions on the names for the new BBs. I remember being a beta tester on ADVFN and was a poster on the site before it. I think it was called something like EDSI. Maybe someone remembers it.

Just drinking my 8th mug of the day!

Wasn't it Kayak who suggested Traders' and Investors' Rooms? I remember a debate about where the apostrophe should go so it would be grammatically correct.

Just going out now to buy a bucket. Couldn't remember yesterday who I was playing golf with Sunday, bad enough, but worse cause I marked his card :O)

is the bucket to stick over your head?

I'm off to play snooker with my brother, one day I'll get a cue.
2517

Hot Chocolate or was it Co Coe?

Chris you should know the difference!

skinny :O)

If it was about apostrophes then it would be kayak. He was and is the chief of the punctuation police.

Labour's Chris Mullin Calls For Ed Miliband To Bring Back The 'Grown-Ups' Alistair Darling And Alan Johnson
Jessica Elgot   |   13 Aug 2013
Ed Miliband must "bring back the grown-ups" to strengthen his team and his message, an influential former MP said on Tuesday.

Chris Mullin, a former Foreign Office minister under Tony Blair, suggested a return for former Defence Secretary Alan Johnson and former Chancellor Alistair Darling, who he called a "very credible witness on the economy."

Just when I thought this was the "Wanderings of the OLD FOLKS HOME" the "Old Foggie" comes home.

I can't begin to think how he got most of it up there!

Doctor ordered to demolish 'mountain' built atop penthouse apartment in Beijing

BEIJING – A doctor who spent six years and $130,000 transforming his penthouse apartment into a mountain retreat has been told to tear it down by officials who said the work was done without permission.

In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as 1 year old and have sexual intimacy with this child. Consummating the marriage by 9.

The dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman (who becomes his slave) and for the purchase of the private parts of the woman, to use her as a toy.



Even though a woman is abused she can not obtain a divorce.

To prove rape, the woman must have (4) male witnesses.

Often after a woman has been raped, she is returned to her family and the family must return the dowry. The family has the right to execute her (an honor killing) to restore the honor of the family. Husbands can beat the ir wives 'at will' and he does not have to say why he has beaten her.



The husband is permitted to have (4 wives) and a temporary wife for an hour (prostitute) at his discretion.



The Shariah Muslim law controls the private as well as the public life of the woman.
In the Western World ( Canada, Australia, United States and Britain ) Muslim men are starting to demand Shariah Law so the wife can not obtain a divorce and he can have full and complete control of her.


It is amazing and alarming how many of our sisters and daughters attending Am erican, Canadian, Universities and British Universities are now marrying Muslim men and submitting themselves and their children unsuspectingly to the Shariah law.



By passing this on, enlightened Canadian, Australians, American and British women may avoid becoming a slave under Shariah Law.

Ripping the West in Two.

Author and lecturer Nonie Darwish says the goal of radical Islamists is to impose Shariah law on the world, ripping Western law and liberty in two.



She recently authored the book, Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law. Darwish was born in Cairo and spent her childhood in Egypt and Gaza before immigrating to America in 1978, when she was eight years old. Her father died while leading covert attacks on Israel . He was a high-ranking Egyptian military officer stationed with his family in Gaza ...



When he died, he was considered a "shahid," a martyr for jihad. His posthumous status earned Nonie and her family an elevated position in Muslim society.
But Darwish developed a skeptical eye at an early age. She questioned her own Muslim culture and upbringing.. She converted to Christianity after hearing a Christian preacher on television.
In her latest book, Darwish warns about creeping shariah law - what it is, what it means, and how it is manifested in Islamic countries.



For the West, she says radical Islamists are working to impose sharia on the world. If that happens, Western civilization will be destroyed. Westerners generally assume all religions encourage a respect for the dignity of each individual. Islamic law (Sharia) teaches that non-Muslims should be subjugated or killed in this world.



Peace and prosperity for one's children is not as important as assuring that Islamic law rules everywhere in the Middle East and eventually in the world.



While Westerners tend to think that all religions encourage some form of the golden rule, Shariah teaches two systems of ethics - one for Muslims and another for non-Muslims. Building on tribal practices of the seventh century, Shariah encourages the side of humanity that wants to take from and subjugate others.



While Westerners tend to think in terms of religious people developing a personal understanding of and relationship with God, Shariah advocates executing people who ask difficult questions that could be interpreted as criticism



It's hard to imagine, that in this day and age, Islamic scholars agree that those who criticize Islam or choose to stop being Muslim should be executed. Sadly, while talk of an Islamic reformation is common and even assumed by many in the West, such murmurings in the Middle East are silenced through intimidation.



While Westerners are accustomed to an increase in religious tolerance over time, Darwish explains how petro dollars are being used to grow an extremely intolerant form of political Islam in her native Egypt and elsewhere.



(In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters inCanada, Australia, the U.S. And Britain To elect the heads of Government by themselves! Rest assured they will do so... You can look at how they have taken over several towns in the USA .. Dearborn Mich. Is one and there are others...) ( Britain has several cities now totally controlled by Muslims)



I think everyone in Canada, Australia, the U.S. And Great Britain Should be required to read this, but with the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!

History of
Muhammad & Islam
(formerly named: Muhammad, Terrorist or Prophet?)

a must read for all muslims

AID have you read it