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.

Really Hils and I thought you were sulking cause Chelsea were shite:O)
I miss you from a purely selfish reason, your experience and common sense, logic and wit. And great legs of course! Seriously this board needs your trading experience and for that reason alone you are sorely needed here. If that makes me a saddo so be it. Love CC

So Fred said:

As far a MM posting, which you so kindly posted for me to see,

I dislike people who send me what I consider, patronising, or threatening E-mails.

I believe they were provoked by my initiation of the Thread on "Israeli Gaza conflict".

Where the response from a few was an attempt to suffocate any discussion by personal abuse of me.

I wondered why.

To set the record straight, here is the text of the PM I sent Fred in February 2010.
Judge for yourselves whether it is "patronising, or threatening".

Fred,

Please forgive this intrusion. However, it is well meant.

Firstly, I've learnt in life not to be over-sensitive, so I don't particularly mind the Mighty Microbe jibes and so on. Equally, I don't see how it furthers your arguments, but that is matter for you.

However, I think you are making a tragic error in the way that you are attempting to further your obviously beloved Labour Party's cause: by your style of attack, you risk alienating the floating voters and, even worse, those who may have tended naturally to support Labour in the first place.

They will not align with the rabid and blinkered partisan view that presents itself in many of your posts. They will shy away from it because they are the middle people, the undecided, the unsure of their own minds. They will naturally avoid the partisan, the extreme, and they will certainly object to the continual character assassination and denigration that you employ in your posts.

In a word, Fred, you are doing your cause no favours. Or yourself.
Please reconsider your approach, if not for yourself, but for the cause you espouse.

Regards,

MM

Its so quite on this thread today I can hear the wind whistling though it

Tumblin' tumbleweed.

Aaargh!!!!

Check out Greek debt crisis: the key questions answered


Looks like the Eurozone is completely stuffed for sure.

Stuff greece why should we put in another 15bn

I bet we have to though. Is if we are not in right mess without Greece.

They have cost me a fortune today. lol

Thatcher would have told them to get stuffed.

Perhaps she should come back, as no one else has a clue

The working man is going to mop up the sh-t as usual ie higher taxes . Just had the bankers now this. Our national debt is never going to be paid off.

Don't forget the foreign aid to India

I shake my head in disbelief.

Just been given my tax bill by my accountant today,I bet it all goes abroard. Take the bet out of the equation.

You will have to ask hilary for ad vice.

Don't be tempted to reply

ok

Good to see the Dow positive only just. Their was talk of Greece selling some of their
Islands to Germany in the past, to reduce debt. Mind you we would have no chance of getting a sunbed or being at the front of the queue for meal time.

Exec. one particular line in your link made me laugh. Weaker members of the euro could switch to a new common currency that is worth less than the original single currency.

So, if that happens, in about 20years or so we will have a multitude of new common currencies called things like the deutschemark, pesata, franc, lira and of course the drachma.

Funy old world/experiment isn't it.

Yes. I spotted that one myself. But you tell the story so much better, I think. :-)