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.

I was just musing, over the weekend, how my portfolio was sailing gracefully through the rough waters of the slump / downturn / correction / crash / slide (delete as applicable) when lo and behold I have taken a right pasting today.
Still, I have my summer jaunt(s) booked to sunny climes, where margin calls and stop losses are but a distant memory.
So I am strangely happy, despite my imminent destitution.
Alan

I have stuck some tape on my screen over one of the few blue shares I have left now......RBS. The last thing I want to hear is my wife saying "But I knew what I was doing, so how much profit have we made on RBS today, must be thousands"!!!!! :o(

Kim, it is possible to turn off Autofill. under "Settings", I think. Unless you have a Mac, in which case, dunno.

Why didn't you just place a telephone trade with your broker and leave out the middle woman?

ST
Yes, I have a Mac! Sometimes autofill turns off, today....no such luck. I trade online because of max commission 25. Sadly I was over my trading limit when I had to sell, having done earlier trades, so I had to sell over the phone; commission....?..........184! Sh1t!

RBS 21.58 at close; wife looking very smug! Oh well, at least I have recovered the 511 lost in stamp duty!!!!!!!!

Alan, after today you should be booking an extra week in your sunny clime!!???

I wish..............
Everything has recovered except any stock I hold..........:-(((

Once again I find I have been given a different script to the rest of the planet......so it is time for a rant. Out comes the soap box.
There a loads of good reasons for banning smoking in public. The health of non smokers is not one of them. No study has ever been able to show a significant causal link between health and passive smoking. Ever.
Yet on 1st July GB becomes smoke free.
At the same time a report today calls for a shake up of the drugs laws. It calls for many drugs to be legalised and for public money to build shooting galleries where users can go to take drugs, be it smoking pot or mainlining heroin. In the same report it classes tobacco and alcohol as dangerous drugs, but does not offer to build smoking shelters. Slight duality of thought there, perhaps.
It also calls for addicts to be GIVEN, as part of their rehabilitation, houses and jobs.
In summary, legal and government sponsored substances are being demonised while illegal, criminal sponsored substances are being cannonised, promoted and the lifestyles of those who choose to use them (and by extension the suppliers) being subsidised.
If the report were written by the triads or yardies I would not be suprised.
My head hurts.
Alan

Tobacco certainly is being demonised.

I heard it said that if smoking "behind the bikesheds" was not so "bad" then perhaps drugs may not have caught on to the degree they have.

I await the time when alcohol is similarly treated

Then of course there is the taxation raising issue

Scotty, you mentioned the t.x....n word, I have come out in a rash and a cold sweat!

i cant believe a year has gone by so quick. happy birthday, gorgeous :D

aw thanks Bos :)
(How did you know it was my birthday?)

i know everything, gorgeous ;)

(might see you wednesday, all things being equal and everyfink. )

Just thought i'd come on here where it is slightly more sane and high brow.
Many happy returns to Boz jnr.
1 year already, eh? The 3am trips to collect 'em from a nightclub will be here afore ye know it.
alan

Well, if the naughty step doesn't work



you'll know what to do, Bos ;)

Viagra is now available in liquid form. FDA officials today announced the release of the wonder drug, Viagra, in a new, easy-to-take liquid form. It is sold under the pharmaceutical name "Mydixadud." Now, when a man comes home from work in the evening, he can pour himself a stiff one.

This is for those on the SEO thread who asked a question about none hygienic ammo.

OK I have to explain re hygienic bullets (sorry to go off SEO track but it is interesting) for many years I was involved with firearms.
In training we used what was referred to as Dirty Ammo, which was cheaper due to it being re-loads. Ammo such as this if used on live targets can cause deaths due to contaminates even if the ballistic wound was by itself not a mortal wound.
This happens many times in wars. Infections from DA take hold very quickly.
In a live situation we used clean ammo, which obviously kills efficiently but targets don't die of infections so often.

So now you know.
Once again I apologize re going off thread.

Couldn't they just coat the dirty ammo in penecillin????

I always wanted to invent a Paxo bullet, so I could kill chickens and stuff them at the same time.

If you could adapt that to a nuclear bullet Alan, you could cook the chicken as well.

Kim, we got a business plan far advanced of SEO's.
I suggest a floatation of around 40 per share to produce depleted uranium / paxo bullets for Bernard Matthews. With Bird Flu around as well, we should clean up.

The beneficiary side effect after haven eaten such a chicken is that the humans start glowing and therefore do not need to switch on lights. This will reduce global warming.