Ken Tone

On my iPad I just keep getting links to all sorts of dodgy looking downloads and various even dodgier ads.

Really funny the idea that frattoniser is boasting about being on here, when it is an open forum, where he is welcome! That man really has some serious issues.

Isn't it time someone independent checked what birch is doing? If neither bid is acceptable STILL ! - when wil he give up ,liquidate and give what dregs that are left to the poor creditors?

Just looked it up btw.. Lots of differing figures on the net , but see for example [TABLE=class: MsoNormalTable] [TR] [TD] A report by the Policy Exchange in 2010 estimated the total cost to society of smoking to be £13.74 billion. This includes the £2.7bn cost to the NHS but also the loss in productivity from smoking breaks (£2.9bn) and increased absenteeism (£2.5bn). Other costs include: cleaning up cigarette butts (£342 million), the cost of fires (£507m), the loss of economic output from the death of smokers (£4.1bn) and passive smokers (£713m).8 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=width: 720, bgcolor: transparent]The Treasury earned £9.5 billion in revenue from tobacco duties in the financial year 2011-2012 (excluding VAT).16 This amounts to 2% of total Government revenue. Including VAT at an estimated £2.6bn, total tobacco revenue was £12.1bn.17 The price of a pack of 20 premium brand cigarettes currently costs around £7.45, of which £5.80 (78%) is tax. [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

I thought it was pretty much accepted that smokers cost the NHS more than the extra tax they pay, because of all their extra health problems -- it's not just the headline stuff like cancer, and all the heart and other lung problems etc. There are always exceptions of course, but in general they suffer much worse health than non-smokers in all sorts of ways, all of which cost the NHS money to deal with. Smoking is even the greatest cause of impotence in young men! But anyway , if someone on £60 odd a week benefits can afford much in the way of drugs, they are a damn sight better at managing their money than I am!

I'm a bit more worried about China than you, to be honest.

Yep. Soon it will be cyber-war, not cyber-crime we need to worry about.

Love on the dole .. a good book btw

Should welfare recipients be randomly drug tested to continue to receive benefit payments Blimey. I didn't realise the dole was that competitive! That's taking the Olympic spirit a bit far don't you think?

Or indeed BOMDSA Younger children are mostly taught BIDMAS nowadays. I for 'index', ie powers, squares, cubes , etc. O stood for 'order', same thing, but im my view better because kids who did not yet understand powers, could be told O was for 'of' in the interim, as in "3/4 of" , but then, I'm an old fart.

THe9 goes wrong here -- leaving 6-0+1 then Addition 0+1 = 1 leaving 6-1 then subtraction = 5 .. because he is treating it incorrectly as if it were 6- (0+1). It isn't. It is 6-0+1, which is indeed 7. Even with BODMAS, additon and subtraction are ranked equallly , so you do read from left to right, and do the subtraction of 0 before the addition of 1. 6-1+0 = 5 6-0+1 = 7 6-(0+1) = 5

You think he is going to offer £2?

There's a leak near us in the kingsland too. Sounds like it is a bit of a problem in several places then.

Well I presume that tells us that Birch is not planning to announce liquidation tomorrow.

No it's ok. Apparently there's a bloke in Nigeria who has a lot of money temporarily tied up in a bank account, and he will pay for everything once he gets his own cash out. They just need to transfer £1million of the parachute payments money for now.

Unless of course, anonymous is a nutjob

Portsmouth fan with sense of humour shock ...from the News comments, after someone made the comarison between selling PFC and selling a boat..... 11:01 AM on 13/09/2012 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore anonymous. Show DetailsHide Details This comment is hidden because you have submitted an abuse report against it. Show DetailsHide Details Or... Trevor Birch in a meeting with all 3 bidders: TB (Boat Seller): Look guys, you all have somewthing to bring to the table here, but none of you alone are a viable options and I'm going to have to liquidate the boat and send it to a pakistani beach for dismantling if we can't work something out. PST: That's OK, We have a rowing bat that if we feed it enough water will grow like a pheonix into a shiny new superaycht BC: Can I have the parts before you send it to the beach, I can sell them and get a bit of my cash back... I don't like boats much anyway... SAF: I have a friend (or two allegedly) who are interested in my idea to turn this old tugboat into a world class cruisliner and make it the pride of the marina. TB: How about setting up a consoirtium to save this boat between you? BC: I don't like boats much anyway... and besides, the crew and passengers don't like me... PST: BC is the spawn of satan, we prefer rowing boats even if we can only use them on Hilsea Lido. SAF: OK, I know my plan is not that practical, but I'd like to save this boat. I like the publicity. What about if the PST were to join with me? they could buy some shares and help fund the refurbishment. PST: Still prefer rowing boats, but I might help if I can be captain... SAF: Sorry, I want the publicity of being Captain, pbut I'll let you look after the catering staff... PST: Ooh, we could keep the price of pies down... BC: Hang on, you're all forgetting that I own the marina berth and have a debenture on the engines... PST: that's OK, we prefer rowing boats... SAF: Anyone want to build a hotel with me? PST: Does it have a rowing boat? BC: I'll lend you the money if I can take over in 6 months and bring the demolishers in to take all the contents of the hotel rooms. TB: Hang on you lot! We're talking about a boat here! How the heck did we get on to hotels? SAF: Hold Up! I'm busy tweeting Some bloke's accusing me of a scam... PST: meat pie anyone? I give up, I'm off to Pakistan to find a beach... So long and thanks for all the fish...

I think you'll find that shooter happy is a nutjob ,being just a trifle sarcastic.

Was that re-sign or resign?

"Old boss, same as the boss" but strangely the Few seem quite keen to get fooled again. ( Who reference for us old farts )

sorry Bill

Judging by their past record, he will just keep banning random posters in the vague hope one of them is you. The only way to stay on there is either to say nothing at all, or to go for the Basil Fawlty approach to Anglo-German relations : "Don't mention the money". Soon there will only be Frattoniser, Bill Gillon and Colin Farmery left. Which one of those is you Torres?

I thought it was in an escrow account at a particular moment c14 days ago, according to a photocopy of an account statement shown on line by The Mysterious Bidder -- which is quite a different thing. Birch is saying 'need proof of funds' according to the News, not the most reliable of sources I grant you. That implies he is not convinced by this escrow account story.

Be 'part of the bid' This is as dodgy as a line in Blackadder about being dodgy.

However Pompey Scot , who if course doesn't want you to know he is Bill Gillon ,even though his twitter tag still says so .....,.adds Bill Gillon‏@PompeyScot@MrKimbell Thats a misleading statement from the media. The bank is now state owned, and perfectly fine. So that's all right then!The money's as safe as say 'Dubai World'