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Yambo
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Post by Yambo Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:27 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑ Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:14 pm
The BBC do seem to bounce back and forwards between "intrusion into private affairs with dubious evidence" and "the press shouldn't report on unproven stories, people have the right to a private life".
I think it's because nobody is actually in charge. There seems to be very little leadership or control from the top.
Saga Lout
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Post by Saga Lout Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:31 pm
Potter wrote: ↑ Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:25 pm ...the press are not your friends, they're only there to grab that one soundbite that gets them a headline and they don't care if they
burn you in the process.
Between the font, the font size and my old eyes that reads "BUM you in the process". It works both ways I suppose.
Ant
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Post by Ant Wed Jul 26, 2023 7:19 pm
Yep, the job of the Press is to lie and destroy lives.
Ant
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Post by Ant Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:07 am
Anyone want to buy shares in Natwest? I hear they're going cheap....
Yambo
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Post by Yambo Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:10 am
Perhaps the government will buy them . . .
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Post by JamJar Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:32 am
Ant wrote: ↑ Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:07 am
Anyone want to buy shares in Natwest? I hear they're going cheap....
They really aren't if you look
Ant
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Post by Ant Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:36 am
JamJar wrote: ↑ Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:32 am Ant wrote: ↑ Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:07 am
Anyone want to buy shares in Natwest? I hear they're going cheap....
They really aren't if you look
So they still are if I don't look?
DefTrap
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Post by DefTrap Thu Jul 27, 2023 11:17 am
Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑ Wed Jul 26, 2023 1:14 pm
The BBC do seem to bounce back and forwards between "intrusion into private affairs with dubious evidence" and "the press shouldn't report on unproven stories, people have the right to a private life".
Happy mediums are so 20th century.
They try to keep everyone happy - and in doing so keep nobody happy.
Editorial is "too left wing", but politics programmes give disproportionate airtime to loonies from across the spectrum in the spirit of fairness and free speech, leading to further criticism from all sides of promoting fringe issues.
And yet at the other end of the scale some of the "News" programmes flip-flop between sixth form grilling of party leaders sandwiched followed by a discussion about the king's new hat by the royal hat correspondent.
Ant
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Post by Ant Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:55 pm
Peter Flavel, Coutts boss just given his marching orders......
Ant
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Post by Ant Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:27 pm
JamJar wrote: ↑ Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:32 am Ant wrote: ↑ Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:07 am
Anyone want to buy shares in Natwest? I hear they're going cheap....
They really aren't if you look
Ok I had a look....
...£850m has been wiped off, eight hundred and fifty million
gremlin
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Post by gremlin Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:06 pm
Ant wrote: ↑ Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:27 pm JamJar wrote: ↑ Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:32 am Ant wrote: ↑ Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:07 am
Anyone want to buy shares in Natwest? I hear they're going cheap....
They really aren't if you look
Ok I had a look....
...£850m has been wiped off, eight hundred and fifty million
Market capitalisation of c. £30b, mind. S'all relative, innit.
All aboard the Peckham Pigeon! All aboard!
Mr. Dazzle
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Post by Mr. Dazzle Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:11 pm
Presumably this drop is mostly down to the departure of 'a' CEO and the associated curfuffle/uncertainty, rather than any particular market outrage at the reason for said exit?
Potter
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Post by Potter Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:11 pm
gremlin wrote: ↑ Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:06 pm Ant wrote: ↑ Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:27 pm JamJar wrote: ↑ Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:32 am
They really aren't if you look
Ok I had a look....
...£850m has been wiped off, eight hundred and fifty million
Market capitalisation of c. £30b, mind. S'all relative, innit.
It is, but if I whacked your big toe with a lump hammer you wouldn't shrug it off as only a small percentage of your overall body
Yorick
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Post by Yorick Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:33 pm
Potter wrote: ↑ Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:11 pm gremlin wrote: ↑ Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:06 pm Ant wrote: ↑ Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:27 pm
Ok I had a look....
...£850m has been wiped off, eight hundred and fifty million
Market capitalisation of c. £30b, mind. S'all relative, innit.
It is, but if I whacked your big toe with a lump hammer you wouldn't shrug it off as only a small percentage of your overall body
Only way to tell is to do it.
He'll cry like a baby
Ant
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Post by Ant Fri Jul 28, 2023 12:22 pm
Breaking:
Anti-Brexit Gina Miller has been told her party bank account will close with no explanation.
How'd you like them apples then, lefty EU cultists?
DefTrap
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Post by DefTrap Fri Jul 28, 2023 12:36 pm
Ant wrote: ↑ Fri Jul 28, 2023 12:22 pm
Breaking:
Anti-Brexit Gina Miller has been told her party bank account will close with no explanation.
How'd you like them apples then, lefty EU cultists?
I thought it was a point-of-principle right-to-bank thing?
Oh ....
I dunno who-TF Gina Miller is but obviously this is a sad day because Brexit was about to be reversed literally tomorrow.
Ant
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Post by Ant Fri Jul 28, 2023 12:47 pm
DefTrap wrote: ↑ Fri Jul 28, 2023 12:36 pm Ant wrote: ↑ Fri Jul 28, 2023 12:22 pm
Breaking:
Anti-Brexit Gina Miller has been told her party bank account will close with no explanation.
How'd you like them apples then, lefty EU cultists?
I thought it was a point-of-principle right-to-bank thing?
Oh ....
I dunno who-TF Gina Miller is but obviously this is a sad day because Brexit was about to be reversed literally tomorrow.
So long as it's not farage, then it's a right innit
Taipan
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Post by Taipan Fri Jul 28, 2023 4:11 pm
Ant wrote: ↑ Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:55 pm
Peter Flavel, Coutts boss just given his marching orders......
I see Davies is refusing to go, but he is in Farages sights...
