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Blair Property Portfolio Rivals Russian Oligarchs
Dr Gitfinger replied to Realistbear's topic in House prices and the economy
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Germany Tipping Into Deflation
Dr Gitfinger replied to AvidFan's topic in House prices and the economy
Reminds me of this sketch: -
Pound Appears To Be In Free-fall Today.
Dr Gitfinger replied to Jesusaves's topic in House prices and the economy
I think the pretty straight sort of guy deserves a lot of the credit for wrecking the country. And he just won't go away: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/09/o...has-spoken.html This is more like it: Tony Blair's Monkey Dust Manifesto But I suppose the glottal-stopped chancer will end up with a peerage. -
The Wilsons thread ---merged
Dr Gitfinger replied to Uriah Heap's topic in House prices and the economy
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The Wilsons thread ---merged
Dr Gitfinger replied to Uriah Heap's topic in House prices and the economy
(but they dress like Batman villains) -
The Wilsons thread ---merged
Dr Gitfinger replied to Uriah Heap's topic in House prices and the economy
My sad nocturnal googling habit tells me that they featured in this Guardian article in December 2007: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2007/dec/08/buyingproperty Referring to Fergus the bogeyman, the article says: "He has been approached four times by wealthy Russian investors over the past year keen to buy his entire portfolio of properties. So far he hasn't sold out, but says he will if the price is right - but that price is likely to be north of £250m." -
The Wilsons thread ---merged
Dr Gitfinger replied to Uriah Heap's topic in House prices and the economy
Judith Wilson's web site: http://www.jwipb.co.uk/ -
More Proof That Mbas Are A Joke
Dr Gitfinger replied to Mikhail Liebenstein's topic in House prices and the economy
The FedEx MBA advertisement: -
Will It All End Up Like Open All Hours
Dr Gitfinger replied to SarahBell's topic in House prices and the economy
Couldn't agree more. (While on the subject of 70s sitcoms, I think Mrs Slocombe's pussy was a Brazilian Shorthair. This claims to show a photo of one http://www.petbrazil.com.br/en/pets/cats/400.htm but I'm not convinced) -
"the Sun" Turns On Gordon Brown
Dr Gitfinger replied to Roman Abramovitch's topic in House prices and the economy
I notice that The Times no longer lists Cherie Blair/Booth as one of its columnists. I'm sure she was still there a week or two ago. Looks like Rupert's really had enough this time. As I'm a newbie here, can anyone tell me if Blair (as PM) came in for as much stick on the forum as the Broon does now? Surely as PM during the monstrous boom, the pretty straight sort of guy is ultimately responsible for the current mess. In a balloon game scenario, if you had to choose between chucking out Blair or Brown to save the balloon, which one would you dump? (I suspect that the answer is that you wouldn't have to choose because Tony would have already jumped with the only parachute). Edited: Mersey-tunnel mouth's name does still appear in the drop-down list of columnists (but only two articles are shown, dating from Oct/Nov 2008). I think they realised that her photo in the main list of columnists was frightening the horses or maybe Clarkson said that he didn't want her to be on top of him. -
Another great rant here. It's a congressman (Ackerman, Rep.) giving a bunch from the SEC hell over Madoff. Apologies if it's already been posted.
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It's ironic that the Lloyds Law Courts branch in the Strand in London still has the original Lloyds beehive symbol. Photo here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikkomyers/30...in/photostream/ Meant to symbolise industry and hard work. What would be an appropriate symbol today? I actually feel sorry for them.
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Jeff Randall Gives It To Brown
Dr Gitfinger replied to ralphmalph's topic in House prices and the economy
Three-dollar bills, four-dollar bills, 50-cent bills printed on wallpaper. Maybe this is what's in store for us: http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/currency/currnc.html -
Agree 100%. Of course there are times when the car is more convenient, but when I was on a TGV running alongside a motorway at 300 km/h and leaving the traffic looking like it's hardly moving, it really made me feel that the car is a rather crap form of transport for longer distances.
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About ten years ago, the then French PM Lionel Jospin was being interviewed in English on CNN. When asked what he would do when he left politics, he said "Ah weel take ze time to enjoy mah wife".
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Relocation, Relocation, Relocation C4 8pm
Dr Gitfinger replied to JimM's topic in House prices and the economy
Indeed. And there's this on page 3: "Please describe other coaching or related qualifications, with descriptions, dates and accrediting organisations. No word limit." She needs coaching in the bleedin' obvious: If you're doing an advert for your business, try reading through it before slapping it all over the web. -
Relocation, Relocation, Relocation C4 8pm
Dr Gitfinger replied to JimM's topic in House prices and the economy
I'm just allergic to anything that reminds me of my time in open-plan cubicle-land when we had training in "Quality" and "Employeeship" (which strike me as being the prole-level equivalent of executive coaching). Flip-chart hell it was! -
Relocation, Relocation, Relocation C4 8pm
Dr Gitfinger replied to JimM's topic in House prices and the economy
I can accept that there may be a need for some people to be trained in order to prepare them to take on greater responsibilities. What I cannot accept is that the training appears to be about airy fairy flimflam concepts with no concrete meaning. Is there an authoritative dictionary or DIN standard which defines exactly what "engaged relationships, authentic leadership and emergent strategies" are? This language is just the liturgy of vacuous management. -
Relocation, Relocation, Relocation C4 8pm
Dr Gitfinger replied to JimM's topic in House prices and the economy
She used to work for Hay management consultants ( http://www.haygroup.com/ww/index.aspx ) who are trying to flog "Managing in a downturn" advice now. -
Relocation, Relocation, Relocation C4 8pm
Dr Gitfinger replied to JimM's topic in House prices and the economy
Another passenger for the Golgafrincham B Ark, I think. The more they gorge themselves on the consultancy gravy train, the more vacuous sh*te they produce. A real "three-flush floater" (I think it was AA Gill that came up with that one). -
Ed Balls Balls Up (or Rather Tells The Truth)
Dr Gitfinger replied to eek's topic in House prices and the economy
I keep expecting his tongue to shoot out and lick his eyeBalls. -
Controversial Caption Competition
Dr Gitfinger replied to juvenal's topic in House prices and the economy
Excellent Carry On stuff there everyone. Remarkable how ingrained those films and characters are in so many people. -
Controversial Caption Competition
Dr Gitfinger replied to juvenal's topic in House prices and the economy
Yes, I was thinking of him for GB as well. I can imagine him doing a mad Scottish accent. Peter Butterworth is bumbling but not bonkers enough. On the other side of the house, how about Sid James for Ken Clarke and Bernard Cribbins for Dave.