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AAAH , there may be a bot of bother on the Financial markets , But I am glad that all is well in the world of TRF
Barking Bandits , hmmm I wonder if the Baron of Basingstoke is watching all this calm mayhem
the Bots will rule at the end of the day , question is will they be Blue or a light shade of Purple
BRING IT ON
Ricky
Hey Blue is the premium everything you wanted on earth
You know I gave you the world
You had me in the palm of your hand
So why your love went away
I just can’t seem to understand
Thought it was me and you babe
Me and you until the end
But I guess I was wrongDon’t want to think about it
Don’t want to talk about it
I’m just so sick about it
Can’t believe it’s ending this way
Just so confused about it
Feeling the blues about it
I just can’t do without ya
Tell me is this fair?
Is this the way it’s really going down?
Is this how we say goodbye?
Should’ve known better when you came around
That you were gonna make me cry
It’s breaking my heart to watch you run around
‘Cause I know that you’re living a lie
That’s okay baby ’cause in time you will find…What goes around, goes around, goes around
Comes all the way back around
What goes around, goes around, goes around
Comes all the way back around
What goes around, goes around, goes around
Comes all the way back around
What goes around, goes around, goes around
Comes all the way back aroundMark My words Blue , things are going to kICK OFF , but its not toooo late
Ricky
The inquiry into a much loved instution’s reputation burning to the ground on the side of the Thames was concluded today.
The incidient was traced to an industrial strength hoover hidden away ‘below deck’ on the Thames Waterfront. The security guard in charge of the national treasure, who was simply referred to as a Mr Slimey in the report, was found to be derelict in his duties of spotting and reporting the hoover. The inquiry concluded that he had at best been asleep on the job and at worst deliberately inconsitent and deceitful in his explanations.
The burial of that much loved reputation . one that was fought every tooth and nail , beating all the odds , the nudge and a wink merchants , beating all the opposition , gaining credibility , winning the most coveted award going …….every trick in the book was thrown at Blue , but they stood firm , shoulder to shoulder , every man stood to be counted , they won …and now they are actually giving it all away , bured in the slime of the shallow thames , mourned and disowned
can they ever get back to the Blue Bayou ,
heavy hearts doubt it
Ricky
A mast is down in my area
so my connection is intermittent,
and this sort of adds to the general gloom.
I have bought a stuffing gland and will
attempt a boiler repair tomorrow
despite home office advice of not to be a hero.No one is allowed to speculalte now
so I drip with fear with these quivering wordsThe future
Its uncertain but I doubt that Betfair will attempt any float
with world markets mimmicking worn out hooker’s elastic
and singing with a bendy neck – I’m just a girl that cant say go
Possibly they have better private options in place.
It has always intrigued me exactly what conditions
were attached to Softbank’s huge investment in the company.
Mark Davies referenced the conditions attached
at the bottom of Betfair’s statement of the acquisition
Even the wings of my armchair
are totally frumpish and silent on the affair.I have followed Masayoshi Son’s carrear with interest.
A very driven man, a man who makes good estimations of value.
His aim with softbank is to be the biggest internet company
in the world and to maximise profits for shareholders.
He has somewhat of a midas touch and Betfair
must be very greatful he is on board.
Conditions attached to his Yahoo stake
meant he had powers of veto of a microsoft takeover.I am the other son of course
bereft of shares
but I had my own plans for Betfair.
After the bug (betfair union group) meeting
Andrew Black suggested a nearby watering hole.
I sacrificed my drink with Andrew
to ferry Ghengis Khan and Mr Disorderli to Euston tube.
One of them left hairs on the back seat
An accomodating fellow I am and
had I not exhibited these subservient
stamped in victorian values
the whole road map of Betfair
might have been forever changed.
as the eye met the ear.
I really wanted to impress on Mr Black my
exciting plans for the company.
It was more soft sell than soft bank
and I planned to role out the word fair
right across the planet
like a Virgin.I have similarities with the late Jimi Hendrix
as I to have a large head,
but that head like Jimi’s isn’t going anywhere
Its not streamlined like
buzz lightyear Richard Branson
I’m just the guy that buys eggs
and is lucky to find even one double yolker.I still wear a blue vest
down to my…but !’!
Spot the fat paddy on this thread who sticks out like a sore thumb-bless him for trying
Though fat paddy could also lead us to big green[/color:1qk1975j]
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For the first of the month.
I thought you weren’t allowed to do that after noon.
Quote – "…..but when is noon on here?"
We’re in a diffrerent dimension in time and space.
In a past life on TRF , I was a hippo , at least my avitar was
we had a Big Brother contest , where my good pal Jilly won , she used to wear a towel permanently , Corm was the mad doctor who examined us for regular outbreaks of insanity ,,,it was a case of the blind leading the blind ……
After all this time she now has a pop at me , shucks , and I thought Elephants never forgot
Just to set the record straight , I am HUGE FAN OF Blue , and indeed have been with them since the beginning , i was one of the original 6 people used as a guinea pig to see if the telephone service worked …
things have moved on a bit
I honestly think this premium charge has been ill advised , and would agree totally with Gamble who in a rare lucid moment said the market flux would make an imminent float most unlikely
SO WHY DO IT
PS Jilly we still love you and miss our steamy sessions in the Jacuzzi
Ricky
Ricky pure genius
that was the funniest post
I have read in a long time
and it made me feel like
swinging from the chandalierWhich of those two flowerpot men
was it Bill or was it Ben
rode on ol slowcoach
just then……..It was bourroughjilly
p.s. I have been quoted 2700 all in
to fit a new Vaillant ecotec 834.
The engineer didn’t ask my income
and there’s no extra chargeRicky,
I used to sit in the room where the phones rang from those six of the best, though it was Inspector Clouseau that answered the calls.
Another stroll down memory lane:
A drinking den close to Victoria. A VIP section roped off Gervais/Bowie style. ‘You’ve not made at least six figures this year you’re not coming in. Not tonight son you’re not on the list’
They were all there. The Troy McSunset twins (this was before the NYPD Blues), the green amphibian, an army of bot wielding bogeymen, Mr Nice Guy and his Venezualan birds……..The guy from Blue Peter sent his apologies.
The main speaker that night: a Paul Daniels character, not yet in parantheses, rumoured to have links with none other than Rouge Homme.
The subject: the collective fight against being taxed. Strength in numbers.
What happened? Half a decade on and Mr Debbee MacGee is saying bring it on, lest his shadow playtime is curtailed. The McSunset twins have done a Cliff Richard in his mid-life crisis phase and most of the rest seem resigned to being reduced to bogeyboys.
To the centre of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you,
To the depths of the ocean where all hopes sank, searching for you,
I was moving through the silence without motion, waiting for you,
In a room with a window in the corner I found truth.In the shadowplay, acting out your own death, knowing no more,
As the assassins all grouped in four lines, dancing on the floor,
And with cold streel, odour on their bodies mad a move to connect,
But I could only stare in disbelief as the crowds all left.I did everything, everything I wanted to,
I let them use you for their own ends,
To the centre of the city in the night, waiting for you.
To the centre of the city in the night, waiting for you.Wow Rouge Homme , now theres a blast from the past , hes probably somewhere in the outback sipping tinnies , sending love notes to the Baron of Basingstoke
Happy daze indeed
but at least you havent been called a fat sod lately
Ricky
Glenn a fine piece
Are you referring to
the National Association for Patient Participationor 1997 and the three bandy men
… but your half a decade later suggests I’m skewiff and way offThree months ago, the small band of devoted campaigners who form the National Association for the Protection of Punters (NAPP) were preparing to disband their organisation, their energies finally sapped by lack of funding and the stubborn refusal of both bookmakers and administrators to acknowledge the need for consumer protection. Now, though, NAPP is planning for the future with fresh optimism, which is bad news for any bookmaker who attempts to wriggle out of payment over a legitimate winning bet.
Boroughill rather than Jilly
a different kettle, a different fish,
won Big Brother Ricky
but it is a long long time ago
and further back still
that the fine light blue and pink interface
of Flutter shimmered as if it had some life
and beavering away behind the interface
no tie
with exposed black teeshirt
and a candlestick look
was the sixteen hour a day Davies
nose to the grind
stocked up with coca
cola and pizza
and constantly reminded of his sweat
by the fine sight of his rising wall graph
– just like Bonnies love for Clyde –
the 30 percent was undimished
not hole in the wall but plastered everywhere,
even the loos smelled success and
increased profit, month on three month,
in the turgid war against Butterbear.Little did Davies know that in a building
not six miles away a group of men
sat chinking ice filled whiskies
****** ******** at his futile endeavours.
A note stuffed secretly in the safe
several ( crackle ***) had secured
the best duck of the century
and that nicely would put paid
to what they saw as “art theft “
and they mutterered between themselves
such brilliant clone
and an audacity beyond belief.The wings of my armchai oft
seamlessly lie
and tonight is no exception
and they play with me
with froth and naughtiness
as I spill crone over their lap
and reach for the whisky. .
Bending the truth for a story
is never beyond the titillating
aspects of beautiful lying art.
While Jackanory kicks ass
I fill my glass****
0530 am
A few nigfht owls my have read it
but speculation is not the in thing
and my neck is thin
As for Ian good luck to him
The cupboard is bare,
The good times apparently gone
I doubt we will ever see the likes
of a bargain based little hyped
made in web paradise
good mother hubbard
one percent exchange ever again
The spider cameCongratulations you’ve won a prize.
Here’s the set of steak knives – all 24 of ’em. You may have read slanderous accusations that some people’s sets have been ripped open and up to five of the knives removed. These are bad people spreading misinformation, and anyway they can’t be trusted with so many knives. Not like you…….
Good luck trying to get the spoons, forks and plates as well – you’ll need it. We’ve checked your raffle ticket numbers for the next sixty weeks and we don’t mean to patronise, but you might as well throw them away now.
Toodle Pip
Zombie Machines Inc
Pythia 02 Oct 08:57 (General Betting)
I work for Betfair although am not an apologist for it. However, the claims being made that all Betfair is out to do is rip-off punters has to be challenged. As does the absurd claims that most winning punters are being asked to pay commission and then an arbitrary 20% ‘tax’ (as people have referred to it as) on top of that.The people being asked to pay the premium charge are, on the whole, those guys who take more out of the exchange than it costs the company to bring in new customers to compete with them. Even assuming, as some folks on here seem to want, there was a mass migration to ****** or another exchange, that exchange would be faced with the same issues Betfair has a few years down the line.
The exchange eco system is a relatively new one and just because this company came up with a pricing structure a few years ago that has remained pretty much unchanged, and also been adopted by other betting exchanges, it doesn’t mean that this structure shouldn’t evolve over time.
People can take a view about whether charging fewer than 500 winning customers out of more than 110,000 exchange punters, last week, is the right move for the overall health of the exchange. But to suggest that Betfair is intent on forever putting up prices and charging whatever it can get away with is risible.
It is in the best interest of the company to do what it thinks best for the overall benefit of all of its customers and using money raised from the premium or any other charges to reinvest in the product -and in marketing and offers to attract new and retain exisitng customers – is a business decision I, for one, think is right.
Where the company hasn’t done so well, imo, is in how it has communicated information on the new charge to some customers. Lots of people seem to think the day will come when they will be asked to pay the new charge even though there is no prospect of this happening. Some of the misinformation has been spread about by people with a vested interest in either pushing their own agenda or in damaging Betfair but it is fair to say that the company could have done a better job in explaining itself too.
____________________________________________________________Returning to Dec 2001 Flutter had progressed to an impressive 30% market share and month on month they were upping last month’s impressively. Flutter had adopted Betfair’s pure exchange model and in some areas improved on it. I personally loved the interface with its big pink and blue buttons.
They lost momentum in the twelve moths it took them to set it in place and this meant they never caught the hare. There was astonishment and real surprise at Flutter in their east central offices when the news broke. Everything was going so well. Jaws dropped !
December possibly fitted the tax year nicely but why the extraordinary capitulation when things were looking so much on the up ?
I sat on the Betfair Forum Q&A and posed a possible mission statement to one of Betfair’s director’s suggesting that expected increased profits and investment in the new monopoly should not prejudice its exchange members’ but work for them in seeing that their needs were fully considered. Possibly a bit over the top but it received no reply.Glenn I have re-read your post from yesterday and am up an running with a clear head today.You were in some senses the real son the accepted son but we both have blood on our hands as far as putting Flutter to death. You stuttered the idea with stutter.com and the two quid brigade (cannot remember your exact terminology) and I killed off the forum with my fire sale words. This was not Stalin size or style but certainly mass murder on a large scale.
Given the time again we might both have acted differently with hindsight.I put the Pythia post in above for insurance and balance
edit was just italics
and the first and second line of this message so three edits
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