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.

jkd

cannonballs are not alive , they are round iron ball's fired from a cannon. Your grandpa must have been still in shock from his ordeal.

yeah
but i was just a kid, sounded like cannonballs to me at the time.
or have you forgotten?
i didnt know he meant cannibal until i got older.spoilsport.
regards
jkd

aldwick, I had a limited number of DVDs on a fee that was paid by a relative, you got a certain number of DVDs for a fixed fee. Anyway I had a couple of DVDs for over a year before I remembered about them, sent them in and in the next post there's the next one I'd ordered and forgotten about!!

There were no reminders to send the films back, but if I'd been paying a monthly fee I'd have got them back quickly.

One for MM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12322948

Old technology finds role in Egyptian protests

Fax machines, HAM RADIO and dial-up modems are helping to avoid the net block imposed on Egypt.

Seymour

Just imagine how much you would have to pay if they were library book's

Aldwickk,
I haven't had a problem with the love film label, the discs are just very badly scratched most of the time.We watch a lot of old classics, so maybe that has something to do with it. On the few occassions we have had films shortly after they have been released to DVD, they look in good condition and we have had no problem playing them. We are going to cancel our sub once all credits have been used up since we have recieved so many faulty discs. Interesting to hear your story Seymour, as I did wonder how long you could keep them before they started asking for them back. We've sometimes forgotten about them for a month or two.

Due to a water shortage in Ireland , Dublin swimming baths have announced they are closing lanes 7 and 8.

Thank you for your understanding.

Thought I would chance a visit as the name F**d (can't bring myself to spoil it by putting the name in full) appears to be absent.
Read this morning that Pfizer are closing their 'Viagra' research facility in Kent.
A union spokesman said they should expect stiff opposition.
A company spokesman said that it was a hard decision.

Beautiful, Naked Women!

Some stunning pictures here.

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greekman

I think the reason that F**d is absent is that when he post's people don't reply to his post , but simply just change the subject.

Fully agree.

Perhaps, he is not interested in those trapped in the Anal Retentive phase of development.

Edit....Sorry wrong Thread.

Haystack:

Fax machines, HAM RADIO and dial-up modems are helping to avoid the net block imposed on Egypt.

When Skype fell over a couple of weeks back and cut off most of the world from its free VoIP, I tweeted "That's it, if Twitter goes as well, I'm warming up the Ham Radio".

Prescient or what.

Lovefilm.com

They sent me the DVD i chose the next day. it was Rocky 6 so not all that new, it had a small scratch on it and it stopped playing 3 times twice in one frame at a time for 30 seconds and stopped completely for 1 minute. But it did not spoil the viewing.

Next one is 2012 the film that is, not when they will post it..... lol

I see the HP crooks want their troughs back with improved menus.

Aldwickk, they always are very efficient at sending on films, I'll give them that. My DVD player just refuses to play the discs any further sometimes, you can't fast forward through the bad spots, it just completely stops.

while chatting to a friend of mine some years ago and hoping to glean some advice as a novice investor, i posed the question,how do you pick the companies that your company invests in.He replied,well you can search for every scrap of information, do all the sums and when you have all of this to hand you make an informed decision.Alternativly you can stick a pin in the shares section probably with much the same results. But whatever you do leave the AIM market well alone,you have more chance of making money from a short armed bookey with a kipper tie.How wise. How I wish I had listened.

Hi Beebusy,

It all depends on your investing strategy.
Years ago, I invested mainly in FTSE 100 companies. Such companies tend to be steady risers over the years, and of course there are the dividends.
Such investing is fairy low risk as long as you spread your money between several different companies and in differing sectors, ideal of course for those who either are adverse to higher risk or/and may want their money in the short or long term.

About 10 years ago, I started to get bored with watching the creep, creep of these companies, mainly upward with the occasional drag downward.

I wanted the excitement of the 'blue sky or bust' type companies that list on the AIM.

I had a simple strategy, to only invest what I could afford to loose and that I would spread my dealings over about 7 to 10 companies.

So say I was invested for example in 4 companies at 1000 each, 2 go to the wall, 1 becomes static but the 4th as sometimes happens in AIM companies becomes a quadruple bagger I would be up 2000.

In the earlies years of investing in this way, I did loose money, mainly due to lack of research, but over the last 4 years my research has become very in depth. I sometimes follow a company for many months, sometimes missing big risers in the share price but more likely not being caught by big drops.

Over the last 4 years my AIM investments are about 30% up, and that is mainly over the last 2 years. I also due to 3 of the companies in my portfolio being near monumental periods in their history expect to double my profit over the next 12 months. All 3 are generally thought to be in a 'must win, can't loose' position, although that is not how I look at them. I never fall in love with a company as I did in the past. I always think firstly, what can go wrong, and no matter how positive things look I never allow my excitement to take over and stretch me too far.
I am confident that my investing education is constantly improving and that my profits will increase at a faster rate than they have in the past. Of course with any investing things can go very wrong.

So for the steady, low risk, widows and orphans type investors, I fully agree that the AIM is a very bad idea, but if you want the thrill of sometimes picking a 'multi bagger' and can stand a big loss now and then, I would say you can't beat the AIM over the plodding, usually steady FTSE every time.

Bee,

AIM stock are dangerous and you would be better and safer trend following the FTSE 350.

More information available. More reliable analysis. Better able to tolerate a mistake or two.

Probably less "insider dealing" and spreads generally smaller.

Plot the chart of the 350 plus yield over a 2-3 year period and compare that to largest and smallest AIM shares.

Also the smaller companies are easier to ramp. If you follow these threads it will be apparent to you.

I am and have been led astray by "good ideas" with huge potential and have some shares certificates going brown in my bottom draw.

Get Jim Slater's books on investing. A bit repetitive but sound advise.