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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostHi Scourer
I've spent the afternoon reading Where Are the Customers' Yachts? - an excellent book
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Riteo almost 7pm I'm off...
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What's happening?
I'm stuck on a train with loads of the general unwashed......
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....and very unwashed.Si posse, recte, si non, quocumque modo remComment
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LinkyOriginally posted by BrilloPad View Post
Never heard of it - should I? got a link?
Well worth reading if you're interested in the way investment markets work - and fail to work
It was originally published in 1940 but as somebody commented, replace the references to pens and charts with computers, and it could have been written yesterday.
The opening lines:
"Wall Street," reads the sinister old gag, "is a street with a river at one end and a graveyard at the other."
This is striking, but incomplete. It omits the kindergarten in the middle, and that's what this book is about.
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evening all
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Oh dear, whatever happened to the late-night-posting-heroes?
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There turned out to be a fair degree of conversation about My Friend the Rapist down the pub tonight... it was a quiet night, but that just meant that we all knew him to one degree or another. I think my seventeen or eighteen year acquaintance was the longest. (I once asked the lass who eventually became his wife out, and she knocked me back because she'd just started seeing him - well, maybe not solely for that reason, but that relationship was why he started coming down there and was how I became acquainted with him.)
I was chatting to the assistant manager (the same position that I held in that pub when I first met the guy) and he said that (having only known him over the last three years or so) he would describe him as "affable"... the very same adjective that I used earlier
I found it striking that each of us had, independently, chosen that specific (and uncommon) adjective as the best word to describe him.
But there you go - Harold Shipman's patients, the vast majority of whom he just treated in accordance with their needs, apparently found him a very good GP; and I don't think Peter Sutcliffe was ever found to have driven his lorry incorrectly.
As Zeity said, you never see the can of worms...
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Removing LR post counts strikes again.Originally posted by NickFitz View PostOh dear, whatever happened to the late-night-posting-heroes?Comment
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morning all
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