Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[matt674]

Ding & Claw - I have not PM'd anyone, so I don't know who did.

But I have 6 tickets, snoops & Robert want one each, that leaves 4.

If you want me to give you one, just say.

Well if Indestructable has no scruples about going two years in a row you can give me one then.  

My pleasure.

So that's Claw & gatso.

If there's still any tickets available can i have one?

promise to be on my best behaviour

[tikay]

Ding & Claw - I have not PM'd anyone, so I don't know who did.

But I have 6 tickets, snoops & Robert want one each, that leaves 4.

If you want me to give you one, just say.

Well if Indestructable has no scruples about going two years in a row you can give me one then.  

My pleasure.

So that's Claw & gatso.

If there's still any tickets available can i have one?

promise to be on my best behaviour

Yup - details later, I gotta go out now.

So far, we have.....

Gatso

Matt

Robert HM

snoops

Claw

A total of 6 were available, so that just leaves 2.

[gatso]

Yup - details later, I gotta go out now.

So far, we have.....

Gatso

Matt

Robert HM

snoops

Claw

A total of 6 were available, so that just leaves 2.

lol, the maths on this thread gets worse by the day

[Dingdell]

Yup - details later, I gotta go out now.

So far, we have.....

Gatso

Matt

Robert HM

snoops

Claw

A total of 6 were available, so that just leaves 2.

lol, the maths on this thread gets worse by the day

Snoops won't be allowed in with those pink trainers so I think Tikay has automatically counted him out.

[gatso]

Snoops won't be allowed in with those pink trainers so I think Tikay has automatically counted him out.

true, although it is in soho so he might be ok

[kinboshi]

Don't know if this has been posted on here or not, but I thought this was the best place for it.

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[Karabiner]

Ding & Claw - I have not PM'd anyone, so I don't know who did.

But I have 6 tickets, snoops & Robert want one each, that leaves 4.

If you want me to give you one, just say.

I'll take one if possible please sir

OK - it's reserved for you. PM me your real name please.

I understand that Indestructable will be there - invited via another Forum - he think TV Cameras might be present - also Jon "The Hat" MW will be present.

I think that he should henceforth be referred to as Jon"the hat" Emdubya.

I certainly will be doing so as it seems only fitting. 

[Jon MW]

Ding & Claw - I have not PM'd anyone, so I don't know who did.

But I have 6 tickets, snoops & Robert want one each, that leaves 4.

If you want me to give you one, just say.

I'll take one if possible please sir

OK - it's reserved for you. PM me your real name please.

I understand that Indestructable will be there - invited via another Forum - he think TV Cameras might be present - also Jon "The Hat" MW will be present.

I think that he should henceforth be referred to as Jon"the hat" Emdubya.

I certainly will be doing so as it seems only fitting. 

It's almost like people aren't even trying to get it right anymore

[The-Crow]

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[Longy]

Heres a bit of Christmas fun

Watch this  http://demo.elfyourself.com/?id=5000301498

[ ]Tikay will love this, he is known for his festive spirit at christmas.

[tikay]

Heres a bit of Christmas fun

Watch this  http://demo.elfyourself.com/?id=5000301498

[ ]Tikay will love this, he is known for his festive spirit at christmas.

Not wrong. There will be no cards, decorations, or celebrations in Chez Kendall, nor has there been for the last 27 years. I just like to go to sleep until it's all over. Thankfully, I'm working on the 27th, so only 2 days to endure. I confess to becoming particularly curmudgeonly at Xmas. Only because I so like that word.

[tikay]

Don't know if this has been posted on here or not, but I thought this was the best place for it.

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Amazing - hours of happy perusing there. God bless google, yet again.

One question - why are the vast majority of the photographs so large? (in "k" terms).

[byronkincaid]

I don't disagree with a lot of what you say actually. It is a FACT that the vast majority of active institutional investors perform worse than the broader market yet claim skills in analysing and selecting companies.

They operate to short term performance targets so by necessity they inject a lot of short term thinking into the managements of the companies in which they invest. Often for example supporting and proposing corprate activity that mostly destroys value as synergies are never realised, apart from short term(there it is again) p and l benefits of cost cutting.

That said there is another side of the coin, which is for public companies there has to be a mechanism for removing poor management. Of which there is also plenty.

Yup, it's the short-termism which is the killer. Which is why the share price of one of the UK's finest ever Compamies, Rolls Royce, has, & will always languish. Because the gestation period from concept to profitability is so long. The Trent Series Engines took 20 years to develop, & all that R & D investment does not impress the City nerds. But they miss one thing. Rolls Royce, once it gets an Engine accepted by Boeing or Airbus on a successful Civil or Military long-production run model, happily sell the Engines at cost. And make oodles & oodles of profit out of supplying spares & maintaining those engines over the next 20 years! More than half RR's profits come from spares & maintenance to the installed-engine portfolio - and they forecast that to rise to 70% by 2015. Each engine sold guarantees 20 years of easy money. It's not rocket-science - it's jet-science.

But......

bok?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7739026.stm

[Chompy]

curmudgeonly is a good word. First time I've seen it since reading MDD's profile.

[Claw75]

curmudgeonly is a good word. First time I've seen it since reading MDD's profile.

good spot - says nothing about his MD-ness though....

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