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[minerve] 16/4/2018 15:50

MEANWHILE

Full of grammatical errors for sure. My English, like my language, is appalling sometimes. :)

[gettingrichslow] 16/4/2018 15:46

Minerve, have you got any thoughts on Melrose today?

[meanwhile] 16/4/2018 15:45

May I offer a vote of thanks to Minerve for providing us with such a detailed summary of his overseas experiences. I think this was an excellently written piece of work with just the occasional grammatical error.

I can only imagine the responses from the 3 Stooges, Rag, Tag & Bobtail, having erased them from my list of incoming posts. However, I'll bet their responses are both common & vulgar, while concealing a secret envy of the man's success.

[minerve] 16/4/2018 15:39

I am actually thinking of buying a camper van. I am tired of sitting in composite tube smelling other people's farts whilst going on holiday. Getting treated like cattle at airports and seeing service levels fall and intimate settings becoming circuses. Camper van, quiet loch in Scotland, book in hand, drink in the other. Sounds great.

[minerve] 16/4/2018 15:35

But really you don't need all this exotic travel and sh*t. Give me a good newspaper full of fresh fish and chips on the English coast or a whisky and salmon in Scotland and it is just as good as anywhere in the world. I only 'boast' here to show there is always someone better travelled and really travel for most is quite meaningless. They travel, tick the tick box, and really know nothing more about the place than before they went. Just got the photo. How sad?

Even worse they change/ruin the original beauty of the places they visit. Only today on the BBC website was an article on how tourism is wrecking places. Nobody satisfied with just staying at home or doing something that isn't brag worthy.

The base camp at Everest is becoming an aluminium cesspit and is getting so bad the first person up Everest regretted putting it on the map in his name.

[brexitplus] 16/4/2018 15:27

Getting... agreed.

[gettingrichslow] 16/4/2018 15:24

B+, well exactly, and Walter is constantly boasting about his wallet and the size of his MRO investment! Re: Florida, I guess it's a matter of personal taste. I really like parts of the Pacific coast. But I also love parts of Italy. Next trip is walking in the Lake District, then Carnoustie for the Open golf, Majorca for family summer holiday, then off to Vegas to celebrate a friend's sale of the company he started 15 years ago. Life is short so you've got to pack things in!

[gettingrichslow] 16/4/2018 14:42

Walter Mitty is very active again today on this board. Let's hope he doesn't try to do any maths today!

[bouleversee] 16/4/2018 10:51

Good; I seem to have successfully turned off the emails and had to log in to see the last few, which were not exactly enlightening. I doubt I shall bother to tune in again.

[minerve] 16/4/2018 10:39

"With no children of our own you can imagine that we are very proud of them all."

Now the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle are starting to fall into place! It figures. You can spot a shallow DINK a mile away! They also have a tendancy to dote way too much on dogs and start to unwittingly partake in anthropomorphism; a habit we were very good at in the Victorian era but we really should have progressed further by now! What happened? Do you only fire blanks old boy? Should have handed her over to me, I don't miss! If you haven't had children of your own you haven't lived. You don't fully understand the meaning of commitment or love.

LOL

[brexitplus] 16/4/2018 10:12

Yertiz, just filter. You have lots to contribute and are very sensible. The only thing I have against you is that you support Exeter and not Gloucester.

[yertiz] 16/4/2018 10:02

Meanwhile, you have slowly but steadfastly become this board's equivalent of Walter Mitty. Do you hear strange voices in your head?

B+, Losos and all, apologies for this tiresome diatribe, I won't bother posting any more - there's no point in trying to discuss rationale with the irrational, there's much more important things happening in the world and life is too short. Have a good day, all.

[meanwhile] 16/4/2018 09:38

Yeh whatever, Yertiz.

That post was a perfect example of why I haven't filtered you; retaining my final link to the Twilight zone.
Also you introduce a new phrase to go with 'skin in the game', 'no brainer' - 'granny sucking eggs'.
Is that a reference to Bouleversee, Minerve's granny? If it is you should try not be so offensive.

[brexitplus] 16/4/2018 09:21

Morning Losos

Where is your niece Dentist based? Our doctor nephew is near you in Torquay. Chiropractor niece in Bristol. Would this a reverse takeover Melrose style?

Sun out here too. Off to get some manure. Plenty on this page but filtered so can’t get it out of my iPad!!!

[yertiz] 16/4/2018 09:18

Meanwhile - I hate to teach granny to suck eggs, but you really haven't got it have you? Your maths follows that of chaos theory. You cannot create your own formulae to try and prove yourself right when there are so many unknowns, its just not scientific, old bean.

And as for carrying around all your share certificates in your portmanteau, either you are more stupid than I first thought, or you are incredibly insecure. Lets settle for the insecurity tag because anyone invested in Melrose for the amount you suggest can't be that daft.

Weather : Improving by the hour
Todays tip (a la Jimmy Young...) : On the Beach

Thought for the day: Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

Market remains non-plussed with the weekend's activities, it seems.

Toodle pip.

[brexitplus] 16/4/2018 09:17

Yertiz

No Syria effect. Oil price dropping. Pound up. The not very bright Labour and Liberal MPs huffing and puffing.

What have you been doing to upset Groin, or is it Strain? Didn’t he have an answer in his Idiots Guide to Simple Sums?

[losos] 16/4/2018 09:16

'morning B+
We are in a similar position to you but our one and only niece is a dentist, perhaps we could do a company style 'merger' of the two extended families then we'd be well covered haha.

Well sun is out, so I will be also in minute, see you latter :-)

[brexitplus] 16/4/2018 06:25

Morning Losos

Yes I hate waste too.

We have three nephews and a niece. They comprise a doctor, a doctor of chiropractic (we get family rates of course), and prospective physicist and mathematician. I could do with a Dentist in there but my sister in law prefers a vet for her cat!!!! With no children of our own you can imagine that we are very proud of them all.

Interesting week as you say.

[meanwhile] 15/4/2018 22:48

Yeh, whatever, Yertiz.

Now, Yertiz, I've been practising the calculation of 'averages', which you instructed me on earlier today. (You must be really clever, with one of those arithmetic 'degrees'.)
I've calculated the average of the number of MRO shares you hold in your portfolio and the number we hold in our portmanteau.

The answer I get is 210 thousand, 3 hundred and eighty seven and a half (210,387.5). You can get halves with averages, probably even quarters in some cases.

Does that look about right to you?

[losos] 15/4/2018 22:41

bouleversee - "Even if I filter I still get the emails when the filtered post."

Like B+ has said go to ALERTS (It's the button between Toplists & Portfolio)

ADVFN's support number is 0207 0700 961 and they are usually able to talk you through anything you need to do.

I do not have any e-mail alerts 'cos my inbox is clogged up enough as it is (All those Nigerian princes wanting to park a million dollars in my account haha)