thegreatgeraldo

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thegreatgeraldo replied to the Land Of Serious Topics board. 4 hours ago

Re: So If we leave the EU..?

More than 57% of your exports go outside of the EU and only 47% into the EU and the only profitable part are the exports to outside of the EU. That figure is increasing and the information I read recently is that exports to outside of the EU will [more]

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thegreatgeraldo replied to the Beerpig's Snug board. 4 hours ago

Re: Eurovision 2013

Caught the start & finish of the EU Rovision Song Compo - switched over for some sub-titled detective stuff - but found it amusing that Ireland came bottom, yet a song with a distinctive Irish/Celtic sound won.

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thegreatgeraldo replied to the Football Fools board. 01:08

Re: Jamie Carragher

I'll leave it up to the viewer of the incident as to the accuracy of your statement.

Strikes me as a load of cobblers. There again, he's not had the best of days today. OTOH, I'm sure most neutrals will have enjoyed the result [more]

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thegreatgeraldo replied to the Land Of Serious Topics board. 23:47

Re: EU nannies hard at work

Telegraph website is subscription - free.

It used to be. Now you get 20 free articles per month then have to go elsewhere or subscribe.

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thegreatgeraldo replied to the Football Fools board. 18:33

Re: What now Benítez ?

No concrete reason to doubt our £100 mill or so of debt (to him & others) won't be addressed, but it hasn't been yet.

The point is that the recent success had been bought by the club living beyond its means and it was [more]

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thegreatgeraldo replied to the Land Of Serious Topics board. 18:23

Re: "Mad, swivel-eyed loons"

"Truth will out"?

Not if Grant Schapps has anything to do with it!! Caught him earlier trying to deny the story & draw a line under it. Never mind the Merchant of Venice, King Canute came to my mind. Wonderful [more]

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thegreatgeraldo posted to the Wildlife board. 18:19

Swifts..

Saw... & more to the point heard, my first swifts of the year earlier today. I've been looking out for them for a while, but nice to see a party of half a dozen, even if they didn't hang around long in my neck of the woods.

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thegreatgeraldo posted to the Land Of Serious Topics board. 18:13

"Mad, swivel-eyed loons"

Surprised nobody's mentioned this today.

Conservative Party chiefs were today under intense pressure to identify the senior Tory who described party activists as "swivel-eyed loons" in a major embarrassment for David Cameron. [more]

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thegreatgeraldo replied to the Paulypilot's Pub - Share Ideas board. 18:09

Re: Morrisons teaming up with Ocado

''Morrisons' chief executive, Dalton Philips, said: "This is a Morrisons website, it's Morrisons food in a Morrisons van with a Morrisons driver; it's Morrisons the whole way through. [Ocado] are simply providing the technology and the [more]

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thegreatgeraldo replied to the Football Fools board. 00:04

Re: What now Benítez ?

Then some clown from Malaysia turned up & decided that over a century of playing in blue could be flushed down the toilet, he liked red.

Yes, but the clown paid for the "my club's established in Div 2 & most of the [more]

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thegreatgeraldo replied to the Does Anybody Know? board. 22:49

Re: Nuffield Health Bond

What are people's opinions of Nuffield Healths 6% 5yr bond?

What is your opinion of Nuffield Health? Any reason to think they may not be in business in 5 years time? Here's a bit of background from a simple go-ogle [more]

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thegreatgeraldo replied to the Oil & Gas - Companies board. 22:34

Re: Eni, Exxon, Shell

In the third quarter of next year, 375,000 barrels a day.

As you appear to think the above is worthy of a post, you may get really excited if you start looking at the production coming online from offshore Brazilian fields over the [more]

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thegreatgeraldo replied to the Paulypilot's Pub - Share Ideas board. 21:49

Re: Morrisons teaming up with Ocado

But: 1. Does it gain them custom?, and 2. If all those who are delivered to went to the shops to buy, would they need bigger shops, more staff etc?

OTOH, are they losing shore shoppers to sofa shoppers? At lower margin? Tesco & [more]

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thegreatgeraldo replied to the Football Fools board. 19:41

Re: What now Benítez ?

I'd go so far as to say that anyone not dreaming when that whistle goes for kick off should probably go and find something else to do with their time.

10/15 years ago, my "dream", for want of a better word, was for my [more]

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thegreatgeraldo replied to the Football Fools board. 19:19

Re: What now Benítez ?

In performance v budget terms BR should be receiving his P45 very soon.

BR's major disaster on the transfer front looks to be a hangover from his unfortunate history prior to taking over at Liverpool - blowing £15 mill on one [more]

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thegreatgeraldo replied to the Paulypilot's Pub - Share Ideas board. 18:33

Re: Morrisons teaming up with Ocado

Local to me Sainsbury's charge around £4 per delivery,

Tesco go up to £6 for the popular slots, but if

the drivers make 12 deliveries in a 5 hour shift

is typical, then the whole concept seems [more]

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thegreatgeraldo replied to the Paulypilot's Pub - Share Ideas board. 18:18

Re: Norcross (NXR) Equity Active research

Hopefully their pension fund has a decent slug of equity holdings; if so that deficit could be history?

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thegreatgeraldo posted to the Beerpig's Snug board. 16:07

World gone mad.... part 579

The Mayor of Bakewell has hit out at a “world gone mad” after no insurance company would cover him to host a custard pie fight

Shame, it would clearly have been a fitting tribute to Jane Austen....

[more]

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thegreatgeraldo replied to the Does Anybody Know? board. 15:42

Re: Are free WiFi areas anonymous?

A colleague at work reckons that if he wanted to, he could send a totally anonymous email to his boss by using his laptop in a free WiFi area, because the IP address would not be linked to him.

I may be doing your work colleage a [more]

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thegreatgeraldo replied to the Land Of Serious Topics board. 15:35

Re: Will Salmond condemn hate mob?

I wonder how the students will feel when they graduate and find themselves competing for work with Boris from Poland who is willing to work for 10K a year less? They don't see the bigger picture that migration has severly hampered their job [more]