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Certainties in life - death, taxation and boring, interminable topics on GGP Boards, new or old
With the best will in the world, it is only a matter of (short) time before the new board becomes as boring as this one has become.
I haven't seen one interesting topic on this Board for several days now. Re the new board, I'm sure that it will be absolutely enthralling for a few days, then something like the 5% issue will pop up.
I do wish the new board well but don't really want to belong to some group that would be willing to have me as a member.
GLA and hope that Paddy etc will continue to make informative posts on here.
Certainly, many members of the BB seem to claim that PI's hold the majority of the shares, I have no idea but I hope so.
What concerns me is that many PI's would be unable to vote as their shares are held in nominee accounts and they won't make any effort to exercise their rights. Sheer inertia and lack of awareness might be our greatest enemies.
We need to have some sort of continuous campaign to educate holders. Maybe Shawn is best able to organise one.
GLA and Steady the Buffs!
One of my brothers was 2 years younger than me. We grew up during often difficult times just after the War and stuck together (when we weren't trying to kill the other:).
A friendly, sociable giant of a man, he was happily married and with 2 adoring daughters. He was thinking about an early requirement as his body was about worn out after 40 years as a brilliant heavy plant mechanic when he found he had non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.
He went through a year of hell with chemo and radio therapy and was thought to have recovered, though he still had to walk around with bottled water for his damaged throat and huge tubs of E45 for burnt skin. His hair and beard began to grow back and he started to eat properly again.
We all managed to have our first proper lunch together in over a year. I felt able to move away again and a daughter set off for holiday in the Seychelles.
He died of a heart attack the following night. Our Mother wasn't far behind and no one has ever really recovered from the shock. We have all said that the treatment was a tortorous waste of time and we would decline were it to be offered.
I really hope and pray that AVA6000 is a solution to this.
Agreed but an expensive feedstock to produce Hydrogen, waste plastic would be much better.
Apart from that, no wonder there is a serious shortage of shipping containers - and use/storage of them isn't free either!
Hi all.
Some very important points have occurred to me and I would like to raise them for discussion - and action - on the GGP Board. However, past experiences show that it is better to wait until the seemingly interminable discussions about irrelevant trivia (eg cars, pub meetings, 5%, coins etc etc) die down.
It seems that if there is to be any hostile takeover attempt, all they will have to do is throw a few dumb topics in for discussion and holders will be distracted; a modern - and cheap - equivalent of 'Bread and Circuses'.
As much as I dislike 'Facebook' (or whatever they call it these days) it could be useful to free up the Board for relevant and important discussions. If there is to be a determined attempt to grab the company, they will almost certainly succeed due to misdirected complacency
I have now put my flak jacket on, so fire away. I'd be willing to bet that some of the snipers will be shills, or plants - Good ol' boys paid to distract:-)
GLA
Hi, non-medical - or pharmaceutical - type with a few AVCT shares here. Can hardly follow the experts on the Board (well, the real ones) but interesting debate and info and do appreciate how important the new meds could be (and happy to make a few bob!).
Just watched a very intriguing Horizon programme - "Making Sense of Cancer with Hannah Fry" on BBC2. I think it would be good for many on here to watch it on BBC iPlayer. I'm sure that her research could well be a bit controversial but interesting and important, nontheless.
If nothing else, it could fuel a few more rows on here (badly needed, God, it can be boring at times!).
A very good point and we need to ensure that the Independent Assessor involved in the 5% and the TO Panel are briefed about what has been going on. Various other parties (you can guess who they are ..) might not mind appearing to be involved in dodgy transactions (and they might even think it gives them a tough and swashbuckling image).
People who depend on absolute probity should see things differently.
Complain loud and long!
“Try as they will, and try as they might, who steals me gold won't live through the night"
Just saw that on another Board. Sorry if posted before but appropriate in view of everything - especially the 5% and manipulation (alleged:)! GLA.
At sea again, so very brief.
Yes, my points are complex, glad you seem able to understand and approve.
Outlook currently is Faro ses Salines off port bow, beautiful. Beautiful weather for next week at least but winds, generally, unfavourable so will use the engines. Send me your address and will send p/cs. Cheers!
TM, thanks. I very much agree with Gender Binary and not too worried about pronouns, either.
You sound like a company man when you promise GR in the future. They are essential, we don't want to find out that the resources are divided by opposing forces, do we?
Not had a canal boat since Branson was 2 along near Ladbroke Grove. Now moored off Palma but marina wifi is an issue, hence delays in replying. Still trying to work out if there is time to drop in at Larnaca on the way to Rhodes but need to be at Cannes on the way back.
I hope that you can see the sun from your bedsit. Is there any money in modelling these days?
BWKR
C99
Haha, what is really "risible" is the (barely correct) use of the word "corrigendum" on a BB. The general tone on this Board is quite refined but using a word like that on some - eg ARB, AVCT, GGP etc - might get you duffed over, linguistically!
I don't think that anyone was accusing CMRS of being opaque for malign reasons but it certainly isn't very precise; shareholders have an absolute right to know exactly which holes their cash goes into. Cyprus has hundreds of mines of various vintages and size.
Many places in Cyprus have 3 names; Greek, English and Turkish. Names for the same place can vary wildly, some are 'political'. Many villages are historic ruins, or have been abandoned for various reasons more recently.
Saying that a mine is near Agios Nikolaos isn't helpful at all. That name usually refers to a church (but not somewhere like St. Albans in England) and there are many such named churches on Cyprus. Each was often sited to serve several villages and not necessarily in one.
Troulli/Trulli/Trouloi has a population of around 1,200, so is hardly a metropolis.
See Wikipedia
"Troulloi or Troulli (Greek: ???????? [locally ['trul?i]]) is a village in the Larnaca District, Cyprus. It is one of only four villages located within the United Nations Buffer Zone"
I'll leave it to others to do more research if they want.
Now, in trepidation, I await my condign excoriation :-(
That map helps Zombi, though the markers and their positioning are on a misleading scale. Hopefully. all the prospective locations are in the Republic but a bit difficult to be precise on that map.
Agios Nikolaos is perhaps the most common place name on Cyprus, I know of at least 6.
The island is something like 150 miles West to East, then 60 miles North to South.
I'll try to write to the company and ask them to give us a more detailed map; being North or South of that buffer zone is very important and they will know that!