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you're wrong. there is nothing unusual at all in this statement. They've had an seemingly unsolicited approach from Maurel, which has kicked off a sale process, which then includes AMER hiring a banker whose job it is to create tension in the process by attracting other potential bidders in order to drive up the ultimate bid price. everything so far is quite normal.

the statement is entirely standard/commonplace when company comments on an ongoing potential takeover

this reads about as well as one could hope. There are no financials on Avalon's website, but these days a public listing is difficult to get and I suspect though this being deemed an RTO, that Red is getting the better of the merger ration based on sales, etc because Avalon management and shareholders are particularly keen for a public quote and Red management were able to improve their bargaining position as a result

See now, that might hurt bs, if I wasn't pretty sure that you thought integrity was something entirely different when you posted. Come on, admit it. You just googled it, right?

I say you are offered without.

I say you are as likely to 'TT' as you are to let someone else have the last word.

oh, and I haven't been posting for 3 years on this name, closer to 3 months. Be more careful to make sure who you're ranting at

And bit of advice: people who are confident in their argument don't engage in serial punctuation abuse. #reclaimtheexclamationpoint!

Well, this return beats your old record by 4 minutes. Looks like Saffron made the difference. Crickey, you're worse off than I thought. I don't 'claim' anything except that you're an average joe in need of affirmation and thinks he can find it on a company message board by sharing re-heated commentary and ancient investment bromides dressed up to try and sound clever. That's it.

Um, is this going to be like TOWIE where we have to send Saffron to find out if you're really like, hurt and stuff, but then you emerge in Ep2 flirting with Jayson?

promises, promises.

Yeah, you prove my point every time you try to snap one off. Poker's a game of skill, just like investing and, most unfortunately for you, debate.

yes

Perhaps I can better illustrate to you, George, your particular brand of inconsequentiality. I play a lot of poker, and so often at the average low stakes table there is invariably one guy who fancies himself a bit of a playa. Trouble is, he plays a hand an hour and yet the rest of the time feels compelled to share with the the table his analysis of every hand, which invariably consists of a the blindingly obvious combined with pointless trivialities, presented by someone simultaneously convinced of his own brilliance. Oh yeah, and just in case anyone isn't cringing sufficiently, he'll sprinkle in some anecdotes from his personal life and laugh at his own jokes. Still, this guy's profile and yours don't completely merge until he actually plays a hand. Even though its obvious to everyone that he only has a rudimentary understanding of the game, every £2 decision involves long stretches where he affects deep thinking, complete with crinkled brow and (more) banal commentary. Ultimately of course, he invariably folds his hand, since the point for him is never the challenge of trying to outplay his opponent, but the attention he gets while pretending to do so.

Sharp as a marble as always in your stinging retorts, george. I suggest instead you tell everyone more about your oil and gas qualifications, or the keen insights gained as a labour whatever, or maybe what you and wife do when you're boring each other to death, because after all, strangers on a message board really, really care about that stuff.

I might well keel over tomorrow and never wake again, but at least I'll leave this earth with my integrity and self-respect in tact. You, not so much. #pluscachange

Yeah, yeah, nice try. In your case, its not name-calling, its a forensic accounting of your travelling clown show and a necessary effort to correct the record whenever, wherever, and under whatever guise, you emerge to cough up your latest sputum. And speaking for myself, I celebrate the fact that at least I have some self-worth to diminish. You, not so much.

I mean, not to beat a dead wet blanket, but just how bottomless does someone's emotional neediness need to get, how titanic their ego, in order for them to volunteer, on some arbitrary message board, that they are 'going away now' in order to pursue other priorities [cue gag reflex] and then, without a hint of irony, return 5 minutes later to multiple boards with more pseudo intellectual pablum than ever before?? Like a never-was actor doing pantomime above a pub, answering what he's convinced is a curtain call, but is actually some punter who wanders into the empty audience looking for the loo. And since you insist on punctuating your 'posts' with quotes from great men like Chris Hitchens that only serve to highlight the flaccid, self-promotional nature of pretty much everything you put out into the world, here is quote of my own: 'Having to [constantly] say something is not the same as having something to say....' [Bluerill, 21 July 2019]

But in the meantime, you're interested in maintaining the imagined affirmation you get from posting a steady stream of banalities to the adoring audience in your head.

Ugh. You never left