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Bright and early top up for the burger flipper, risking a Robbie era TR1 with 160 quid lol. Although I'm going to have to stop it with that bit of self deprecation as I'm a second line chef soon to be head chef these days. And here I was thinking that with 5 years of investing under my belt I was not going to need to stay in the wage cage to this point lol.
Fantastic BB as always chaps, GLA.
Breaking out of lurk mode to wish the very best to passiton. One of the better posters I've come across in 5 years of failing to stop flipping burgers for a living. Have a good 'un mate, tell Hopingforbags we all wish him well as well lol.
Shouston, hi dude. Hope you're keeping well and all the usual suspects are. The online assistant advised that but it still did not work, they had to manually unlock the funds on their end. The assistant said it was weird and they'd not seen it before. Again, that's just my luck.
Huzzar, another slice of the pie for the burger flipper. Pushed my average up ever so slightly as opposed to down thanks to timing. Gremlin in Halifax's system, just my luck lol. 1.35 million shares in total. Now bring on 0.26 for a cheeky top slice and some personal debt reduction.
GLA.
Bloody typical. The burger flipper actually has a spare hundred to throw into their ISA but it just won't become available to invest. Does anyone know if Halifax have changed things regarding a cool down on newly added funds? I've never known funds not be immediately available to invest before and it's getting frustrating.
Coulda had more than a 100000 shares for a hundred quid but nooo. Being waiting since around 08:30. Can't get hold of an online assistant either.
"P.S. The CAUs are never happy: tell them SELL - unhappy, tell them BUY - unhappy, HOLD - also..."
The pretentious one speaks. Traders gonna trade, investors gonna defend their investment, who'd a funk it but keep on with this tin foil hat nonsense about CAUs, paid rampers and non holding share holders.
I now demand that you read the entirety of Atlas Shrugged and explain to me why The Great Reset is destined to fail. How's that Mr Tacet brand of medicine tasting? As for the quoted text. I don't need you to tell me what to do, ever heard of the Double Down Strategy oh great master trader? As my last buy is already in profit and not once have any of my buys helped pay the BODs wages.
But do post like I, and other LTH, have despite anyone worth their investing salt being able to tell you that buying shares on the open market does not pay the directors wages. One would need to partake in a placing for that to be the case. Newbies/casual investors however would not know that.
Gee, it's almost like you have an agenda that goes well beyond the purview of posting a traders opinion. Go out an touch some grass Mr Tacet, as da yoof would say.
@HH, tbh I was engaging in a little bit of trolling. Was hoping they'd grammar police me over it as there was plenty wrong in that post to such effect. Either way you are indeed correct good sir. I should have used abbreviation.
MetalDectector hits the nail on the head. Also given how big brain Mr Tacet sets himself up too be he seems to not be aware of how anachronisms work. Words comprised of less than 3 letters should not be included in the anachronism ergo FBI is not FBOI hence CAU is not valid as an anachronism.
Further there is the hypocrisy of Mr Tacet when he demands apologies for name calling/trolling only for him to indulge in the same behaviour before and after the fact. What a hypocritical and soft fellow he is. Plus TA will always be a pseudoscience full of subjective reporting and confirmation bias and nary a modicum of objectivity in sight. Still, he provides comedic relief to the BB at least.
GLA.
Bit naughty of me given my burger flipping circumstances but took 250k in the ISA to get back to a million shares. Had to sell some to cover bills a few months back. Best part is I was going to buy this morning but slept in and not long got in from walking the dog. I'll catch a low one of these days lol.
GLA.
As a rough rule of thumb I find genuinely intelligent people don’t use emojis all that often. They also don’t belittle their lessers on such fronts or at least those with high IQs and high EQs typically don’t, high IQ low EQ types typically are insufferable.
Make of this statement as you will dear reader.
Now let's talk Bucha. Just for you Makeabundle :P
The Ukrainian clean up operation after they fired airburst munitions on the town from a Grads MLRS launcher. This is evidenced by the video the Russian MoD released justifying their strike on a shopping mall which was being used to house said MLRS systems wherein a drone records the Grads firing in the Bucha direction before withdrawing to rearm to said shopping mall. Which was closed to civvies cos war time.
It was tracked back to the shopping mall wherein a cruise missile strike eliminated 3-4 Grads MLRS, stockpiled munitions and one would assume most of the AFU garrisoned there. This video is further corroborated by the fact the SBU arrested a local resident for having recorded the equipment being stored and uploaded it to social media thereby tipping the Ruskies off. He didn't as the drone is what did it but it's what they, the SBU, hit him with. Poor sod was probably put through hell for daring to record military equipment being stored in civvie infrastructure and questioning if this was good for local residents.
Anyway one can take the video of the Grads firing, take the date and location of forces at that time, combine that with not maximum but effective range (important distinction, effective range is still accurate within acceptable parameters, maximum is not) of the Grads platform and it's most common armaments during the USSR times and determine a high probability that that Grad was firing upon Bucha with airburst munitions.
Not long after this (days or week, it's been a while since the event) RF forces withdrew and AFU forces re-entered the town. There was no claim of bodies in the street. An even less short time later the SBU enters (Ukrainian internal security services) and declare a clean up operation. There is then many photos of perfectly fresh bodies arranged neatly in the streets. Gee. I wonder what the SBU meant by clean up operations? Could it be that anyone found with a white arm band or Russian aid supplies was labelled a traitor, executed on thee spot and then arranged for a spot of wretched propaganda?
I can tell you an account of what happened at the Mariupol Theater as well Makeabundle but something tells me you don't have the appetite for it. Let's just say U invites civvies to evac to X and then U fires arty next to X which invites counter artillery fire from R. Bit naughty doing that kind of thing and eye witness statements galore that amount to exactly that kind of naughtiness. And more. I've watched videos of people being executed for daring to try and flee the Azoz grip of Mariupol.
Next you'll go on about the hospital strike and to that I say. There is an interview after the fact with the mother who allegedly died that day and was splashed across Western media rags. I bet you bought the Ghost of Kiev nonsense or the brave 13 Snake island defenders. None of which is true. I'll give the Kiev Regime this one thing, they are excelling on the propagand
you mean like the atrocities skipped over by the western msm which provided the kremlin domestic popular support for the smo? you are not better than me, get off your high horse. you still did not refute my point. as to who benefits. both sides depending on which way you look at it now stop being a smart **** before i hit you with a dunning kruger.
that opening ditty of yours. maybe because i know the likes of azot, azoz, svaboda, new dawn, center right and more odious elements hold far more sway in a standing army and indeed the kiev regime, yes regime, than they have any right to. such extremist elements tend to be irrational ergo yes. i believe the afu entirely capable of truly stupid and evil things. not all of it but some of it. kinda what happens when one is inspired by gallica divisions and stepan bandera i suppose.
you however think them nothing but upstanding and indeed outstanding men of caliber. yikes.
remind me, which international body authored a report into ukrainian war crimes/atrocities committed in the donbass region after 2014 but before 2022? said body is not smiled upon by the kremlin. also why is it historically that ukraine was not admitted into the eu? what is the importance of a company called burisma? why did a judge investigating hunter biden's ukrainian business dealings get fired after joe biden threatened to suspend 1 billion in aid? why did john mccain address azoz while he was alive? why does zelensky have so many off shore accounts? why are there audio leaks of victoria nuland discussing who will lead ukraine after the maidan revolution? what was with those biolabs in ukriane funded by dod contracts? why was the russian language outlawed in ukraine? why did pereshenko address crowds crowing about how children in donbass will hide in bomb shelters but children in kiev will go to school?
people in glass houses bundle. the ruskies have fought a cleaner war than we did in anywhere in the middle east and far more noble reasons.
all the best ye of a warhawkish nature that will only prolong the suffering cos of the football shirt your wear ;)
za vas paschim n za vashee!
Lmao, hide from what? A zealot behind a keyboard? You, makeabundle, did not refute my point and fog of war makes it difficult to determine to the affirmative in which direction fault lies. For all we know it was more a case of a failed repair job on damage done either by the Russians or Ukrainians in a previous attack(s). Or the Ruskies may have foolishly built up the water levels, as you say, so in the event of Spring, sorry, Summer AFU counteroffensive they could raise water levels. But this increased volume of water compromised the dam. So tis Ruskies at fault. Maybe, maybe not.
I'm just pointing out destroying the dam has been a stated plan of last resort for Ukraine. I have not heard of the equivalent on the Ruskie side. Run away and hide, how cute. Bet you don't talk like that in real life to people kiddo. This is not your glorious moment to larp as your grandfather. It's time to push for talks and not arms packages.
Oh and how's this for a legacy problem in the budding. Floating landmines. Won't be long before you hear stories of washed away landmines blowing up some poor soul somewhere in Ukraine, or even the coastline around the black sea. It's a problem around the DMZ for example. Whenever areas of it flood landmines float around and end up where they should not be. Fishermen of both North and South Korea have been blown up when catching landmines that ended up flowing into the sea. To this day African elephants get their legs blown off by decades old landmines placed during one of the many conflicts on that continent.
Now a couple thousand if not tens of thousands of landmines are displaced in the Kakhovka dam area and some on their way to the black sea. Whoops.
Oh and Onthebandwagon. If you recall I posted a link to the CCTV livestream of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant being captured by the Russians as the event was unfolding. I was in the right place at the right time to get that link. Twas a surreal experience watching an actual battle play out in real time from the comfort of my own bed after work.
So yes I recall how facepalming frustrating the MSM using an illumination flare fired into a car park as proof the Russians shelled the plant. No. They destroyed a AFU garrison in the Admin buildings outside the perimeter of the actual plant. No artillery involved. Almost as if Ruskies were being careful or something.
So I was not saying the Ruskies shelled the Nuclear Power Plant, I'm saying the AFU did after RF captured it. Which is mighty naughty. So they have form for naughtiness.
Hence my eyes being narrowed in the direction of Kiev over the dam but I am open to the idea it was neglect to damaged infrastructure during war time. And given Ruskies captured it many moons ago culpability falls to them if it was neglect as opposed to sabotage or attacked. Given Fog of War however we'll likely be left guessing for many years until after the fact.
Anyway. Kudos to anyway who read all my waffle and have a pleasant ev
From the Washington Post: “Kovalchuk considered flooding the river. The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages. The test was a success, Kovalchuk said, but the step remained a last resort. He held off.”
Are people forgetting this would not be the first time AFU forces conducted strikes against the dam in question? Heck, they’ve blatantly shelled a nuclear power plant a bunch of times so why are we surprised?
FYI strikes against hydroelectric dams and nuclear power plants are outlawed under international law, even during war. Been that since, what, the 70s? Either way, naughty naughty AFU in my humble burger flipping opinion.
Https://iz.ru/1513572/2023-05-16/poiavilis-kadry-porazheniia-zrk-patriot-v-kieve-rossiiskim-kinzhalom That link should work, you can ignore the article and just click on the video of grainy CCTV footage to see a US Patriot Missile Battery in Kiev get utterly trounced by a Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missile, just the other night. Took some finding.
Calculate the cost of a Patriot Missile (millions per unit) and the system itself (about a billion depending on complexity) and note the annual production figure of mere hundreds of missiles and then note the amount of dependent nations (like Taiwan) that rely on the finite supply. Hypersonic is changing the face of Area Defense and Area Point Defense and it is a theater the west lags in due to a military doctrine that assumes air superiority.
You know the notion that an AA system has an effective circle around it that it can defend against? Well. Flatten the circle into a highly oblate spheroid and orientate it with the angle of attack. Or which ever way the system is facing at the time of attack. And good luck getting a solid radar return on an object sheathed in plasma until it slows for its final approach and even then it could be a high (like traditional ICBM approach) or low like an old school torpedo bomber flying above the waves. A variable which screws with defensive algorithms designed for ICMBs, Cruise Missiles, Missiles and Rockets.
Also are people aware that a Depleted Uranium munition stockpile, donated by our own esteemed government, got popped in the past few days? Western Ukraine. Imagine what all that uranium dust will do for the agricultural grounds around it and the long term health outcomes of people living on that land.
Blue on blue happens in war. DU should never be part of any war except maybe against aliens that despite mastering intergalatic travel and beating the Fermi Paradox but still thought it a good idea to engage in a ground war against radioactive !!!! flinging monkeys. But anyway.
Thanks my government for being escalating war hawks. Now can we push for people to get round a table rather than providing ever more lethal arms? A contentious take maybe but I feel it more pragmatic than what amounts to a nation being ordered to slowly walk into machine gun fire until only the old and infirm remain. All the while some people larping as the Knights of Arnhem or some !!!! act like this is their moment to define tyranny whilst being unwitting tools to tyrants.
The woke crowd have unceasingly failed to make me ashamed to be British but the blind support of Ukraine has. Said it before and I'll say it again. The fact someone like Stepan Bandera is a national hero in modern Ukraine should negate the Kiev Authorities from any kind of support from any nation that was on the allied side in WW2.
In other news. I'm never getting my stolen bike back but a bike lad is doing me a favour with my trashed second to last bike so I'll be back on the road. Huzzar!
GLA.
A point RE TR-1s. Gone are the days that timely reporting of thresholds crossed were a legally enforced thing. Rule change in 2018. Validation of an entirely legitimate and well presented, if shady and depressing, scenario could be many months away IE after the fact.
IMO prompt reporting of TR-1s is one of the tick boxs I look for in a BOD. Jury is once again out on Rod for me personally speaking. But hey. If he wants to consult IOCA into position that’s fine by me as I reckon even my ISA average of 0.74 will be alright once a Fe DSO op is rolling. Bit fed up of ever extending timelines mind.
Had my thousand pound full suspension nicked from outside of work the other week. I was so close to selling a 100k chunk at 0.48 to fund replacing it as me pedal bike is primary transport so really needed. And now here UFO is with improved fundamentals re CAPEX but degraded technicals vis a vie sentiment.
Basically, if you know your zoomer lingo. I have a serious case of FML going on. But hey. It could be so much worse. I could be one of those scientists over in Sudan working at a biolab with live polio samples that was taken over by the rebels, begging to be allowed in to destroy the samples but told nope. We are the captain now. (Meme reference).
There’s so much more going on in the world than Ukraine and Taiwan ladies and gentlemen is what I mean by that flippant statement.
PS. Question. What is it with biolabs in problematic countries these past few years? Serious question. It’s getting a bit weird how there always seems to be internationally funded biolabs in countries where SCHTF ( expletive could hit the fan). Maybe we should have these labs only in stable countries? Just a thought for those concerned about markets….and people.