mike carey

Toréador en garde! This version (or a very similar one) by Teddy Tahu Rhodes came on the radio as I was about to go to bed last night.

Yay, welcome back @ArVaGuy!

Having likewise met him by one or two of those pools, I am entirely unsurprised by this positive account.

New York is soo easy to visit, just hop on a plane and go there for the weekend! /jk/

Gentlemen, a gentle moderator's warning that the discussion seems to be drifting away from the subject of Wegovy and into other issues tangential to the weight loss the drug can induce. Let's stick to the topic.

Gentlemen, the recent posts that bring a discussion from another thread here need to stop (they had gone too far there anyway). As a broader point, keep the discussion here to comments about snarkiness in general, not specific comments on what specific individual posters have done that might be, or might prompt snark.

I think he was describing himself with that word.

This morning I was listening to the latest edition of The Economist's podcast 'Money Talk' What will it take to turn Boeing around? and one of the interviewees, an aviation analyst at IIRC the Wall Street Journal recounted a conversation he had had early in his former career at Boeing. An older long time employee had asked him what was the key to a good aviation career. He had answered with the things you would expect, work hard, know your maths and the like. The older man replied, no you have to love airplanes. In a similar vein, about the different dynamics at companies, the pod noted that Boeing had one engineer on the board whereas Airbus had about half the board members.

Ah, the delights of the beaches in the great state of New South Wales!

That's amazing, I'm so happy for you!

GASP!! Does this mean I'm not gay??

Including the weather.

This new post has been merged into an existing thread on the provider.

It's fine and delightfully sunny, if a little chilly, thank you for asking!

Indeed, @nycman, you are present, clearly!

I somehow doubt they ever were, or needed to be aware that money was exchanged, lol.

IV, it's enough to drive you up the wall!

If they're a reasonable investment in their own right, an alternative would be to buy more so you held a marketable parcel of shares. This thread is directed mainly at the prospect of the failure of a bank of which one was a customer, not one in which one held shares (or about shareholding in general), so this is a tangent from that, which we should best avoid.

Why not Minot?

From this and @foxy's other thread, I'd say it's time I took one of those 24 hour flights to somewhere interesting, and visit London again.

If I'm understanding things correctly, the government is planning to sell its share of NatWest that it acquired in order to keep the bank afloat earlier. If that's the case, and the rest of its shares are already trading on the stock exchange you would be able to get a reasonable idea of its prospects from its publicly available financial statements and the performance of the shares that are already on the stock market. Look at the terms on which the government's 35%(?) will come on the market. Stock brokerage firms will most likely have recommendations on whether to buy shares when the government's sale takes place, and some of them will be available to people who are not their clients. One question to ask yourself is whether you would consider buying these shares if you didn't have this money from Royal Mail or are you treating it as 'free money' that you can use to speculate on NatWest. Get advice from as many places as you can. None of us are you, and we all have different reasons to decide on things like this.

A 1000 year flood in one place in 2023 followed by a 1000 year flood a year later in another place doesn't prove anything. It's only an indication of something if they're in the same place.

And, lo and behold, you’re in Thunder Bay!

Moderator's Note Gentlemen, in the last few hours this thread has moved onto a tangent about rates in NYC. The topic here is Blessed Boy. There is already a thread about New York rates, so please take your comments on that subject there and leave this thread for discussions of the gentleman about whom it was created.

@Enzo Falcone can't edit his posts while he's a 'Newbie', he will be able to after 30 days.