Monday 18th September 2017
Forum rules
Welcome to FTN. New posters are welcome to join the conversation. You can follow us on Twitter @FlythenestHaven You are responsible for the content you post. This is a public forum. Treat it as if you are speaking in a crowded room. Site admin and Moderators are volunteers who will respond as quickly as they are able to when made aware of any complaints. Please do not post copyrighted material without the original authors permission.
Welcome to FTN. New posters are welcome to join the conversation. You can follow us on Twitter @FlythenestHaven You are responsible for the content you post. This is a public forum. Treat it as if you are speaking in a crowded room. Site admin and Moderators are volunteers who will respond as quickly as they are able to when made aware of any complaints. Please do not post copyrighted material without the original authors permission.
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 8331
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 7:27 pm
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 8331
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 7:27 pm
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Actually
My original emoji was because Today had invited John Redwood to speak on the Boris story.
However, he seems to have been so bad that he's made it worse for Boris rather than better
My original emoji was because Today had invited John Redwood to speak on the Boris story.
However, he seems to have been so bad that he's made it worse for Boris rather than better
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Good morfternoon.
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
I'm currently somewhere with really poor internet, so I've turned off images in my browser (on my phone), to speed up loading.
These first couple of posts are a little odd for me.
These first couple of posts are a little odd for me.
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 8331
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 7:27 pm
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Refitman in technology fail shocker!refitman wrote:I'm currently somewhere with really poor internet, so I've turned off images in my browser (on my phone), to speed up loading.
These first couple of posts are a little odd for me.
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Not a fail, deliberate management of resources, leading to comical confusion.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Refitman in technology fail shocker!refitman wrote:I'm currently somewhere with really poor internet, so I've turned off images in my browser (on my phone), to speed up loading.
These first couple of posts are a little odd for me.
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 8331
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 7:27 pm
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
There you go PF. For next time you need it....refitman wrote:Not a fail, deliberate management of resources, leading to comical confusion.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Refitman in technology fail shocker!refitman wrote:I'm currently somewhere with really poor internet, so I've turned off images in my browser (on my phone), to speed up loading.
These first couple of posts are a little odd for me.
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
I'd laugh, but I can't see the emoticons!PaulfromYorkshire wrote:
There you go PF. For next time you need it....
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Sorry.
Couldn't resist.
Couldn't resist.
"Fall seven times, get up eight" - Japanese proverb
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/bl ... itics-live" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Conservatives split over Boris Johnson's Brexit article as backlash continues - Politics live
I hope everyone's making the most of this headline. I'm enjoying it anyway!
"Fall seven times, get up eight" - Japanese proverb
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hed ... 51636.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/201 ... warns-wef/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Relates to the growing problem of under performing pensions:Think you’d never be so stupid as to put your savings in a rip-off hedge fund? You may well have already done so
Despite the awful returns and rip-off fees of hedge funds, 4.8 million people in the UK are invested in them through their pension schemes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/201 ... warns-wef/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The world’s biggest economies are sitting on a $70 trillion (£54 trillion) pensions time bomb that will balloon to more than $400 trillion within four decades unless policymakers take urgent action, the World Economic Forum has warned.
"Fall seven times, get up eight" - Japanese proverb
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Forgot the bit in the first article that particularly got my attention. It's about a specific hedge fund manager whose fund closed recently:
The biggest donors to the leave campaign were hedge funds. I'm still convinced that some people involved in the whole Brexit debacle were pretty much counting on Brexit de-stabilising the Eu at the very least, if not leading to a domino effect that eventually led to other countries following our lead.Last week he announced the closure of his hedge fund Eclectica, after haemorrhaging investors’ money. It may have something to do with the fact that last year Hendry was apparently betting on a break-up of the entire European Union.
"Fall seven times, get up eight" - Japanese proverb
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 15729
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:26 pm
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
There was a time when Boris might have got away with it, but he's hacked off too many people now.
"IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS???!!!!111???!!!"
-
- Site Admin
- Posts: 8331
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 7:27 pm
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Saudi Arabia's application to attend the Labour Conference has been refused.
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Including the British motor industry which is soon to become an anachronistic irrelevance (I paraphrase).AnatolyKasparov wrote:There was a time when Boris might have got away with it, but he's hacked off too many people now.
Edited - brackets and contents therein moved
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 15729
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:26 pm
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Graham Jones MP not happyPaulfromYorkshire wrote:Saudi Arabia's application to attend the Labour Conference has been refused.
"IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS???!!!!111???!!!"
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Brexit department loses its permanent secretary
Oliver (Olly) Robbins, permanent secretary at DExEU (the department for exiting the EU, and the government’s lead official on Brexit, is moving, the BBC reports. These are from the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg.
Laura Kuenssberg
✔
@bbclaurak
May's chief EU sherpa, Ollie Robbins, moves out of Brexit dept and into Cabinet Office - relations had not been great with Davis
12:01 PM - Sep 18, 2017
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 15729
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:26 pm
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Just been announced that Stanislav Petrov died earlier this year. Anybody who doesn't know who that is, please google.
"IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS???!!!!111???!!!"
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
I did have to Google Graham Jones MP . . .AnatolyKasparov wrote:Just been announced that Stanislav Petrov died earlier this year. Anybody who doesn't know who that is, please google.
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 15729
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:26 pm
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
You are (or rather, were) fortunate indeed with that.
"IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS???!!!!111???!!!"
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Just been announced that Stanislav Petrov died earlier this year. Anybody who doesn't know who that is, please google.
Good fortune favours the well-prepared and always trust your gut“I had a funny feeling in my gut,” [Colonel Petrov] later told The Washington Post.
“I didn’t want to make a mistake. I made a decision, and that was it.”
[He] attributed his judgment to both his training and his intuition.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/worl ... ml?mcubz=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Good-afternoon, everyone
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
“We are wiser than the computers,” he said in a 2010 interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel. “We created them.”
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Theresa May on the Boris Johnson thing, "This Government is driven from the front."
So - in retreat, then?
So - in retreat, then?
- tinyclanger2
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 9711
- Joined: Thu 18 Sep, 2014 9:18 pm
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Hello all.
Stepped out for a bit, bored by my own repetitive, but also on the road and with too much life admin.
Wanted to pop in to thank everyone who's contributing. Even when I'm not writing I'm generally reading.
Always, as ever, appreciate the read.
TC2
Stepped out for a bit, bored by my own repetitive, but also on the road and with too much life admin.
Wanted to pop in to thank everyone who's contributing. Even when I'm not writing I'm generally reading.
Always, as ever, appreciate the read.
TC2
LET'S FACE IT I'M JUST 'KIN' SEETHIN'
- tinyclanger2
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 9711
- Joined: Thu 18 Sep, 2014 9:18 pm
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
PS - best wishes to the family RoT.
LET'S FACE IT I'M JUST 'KIN' SEETHIN'
-
- Chief Whip
- Posts: 1189
- Joined: Tue 28 Jul, 2015 9:05 am
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Touche'PorFavor wrote:Theresa May on the Boris Johnson thing, "This Government is driven from the front."
So - in retreat, then?
" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- RogerOThornhill
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 11140
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 10:18 pm
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
tinyclanger2 wrote:PS - best wishes to the family RoT.
Thanks - she's still not home though...was supposed to be today but delayed for a couple of reasons. Did pick up the new car today though. No proper handbrake? That'll take time getting used to!
If I'm not here, then I'll be in the library. Or the other library.
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
PorFavor wrote:Theresa May on the Boris Johnson thing, "This Government is driven from the front."
So - in retreat, then?
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
She [Theresa May] has always said she does not want to take a model off the shelf. The UK is in a unique position, she says. (Politics Live, Guardian - my emphasis)
We certainly are.
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Night night.
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 15729
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:26 pm
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Looks like most people have gone to bed already.......
"IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS???!!!!111???!!!"
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Goodnight, PorFavorPorFavor wrote:Night night.
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
Goodnight, everyone
love,
cJA
love,
cJA
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 27400
- Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
- Location: Three quarters way to hell
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... sing-chief" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Social housing crisis can no longer be ignored, says housing chief
Social housing crisis can no longer be ignored, says housing chief
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 27400
- Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
- Location: Three quarters way to hell
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
https://ocaptoronto.wordpress.com/2017/ ... ic-income/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Danger of Basic Income
The Danger of Basic Income
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 27400
- Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
- Location: Three quarters way to hell
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mik-sca ... mg00000004" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
PIP: The Truth Is Out
PIP: The Truth Is Out
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 27400
- Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
- Location: Three quarters way to hell
Re: Monday 18th September 2017
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-sec ... -waitlist/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Disability backlog tops 1M; thousands die on waitlist
More than 1 million Americans await a hearing to see whether they qualify for disability benefits from Social Security, with the average wait nearly two years -- longer than some of them will live.
Disability backlog tops 1M; thousands die on waitlist
More than 1 million Americans await a hearing to see whether they qualify for disability benefits from Social Security, with the average wait nearly two years -- longer than some of them will live.