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AI terrifies me, smiller. I'm glad that I'm of such an advanced age that I shall no doubt go "of natural causes". A few decades before AI realises that human beings are just cluttering up the place and eliminates them.

I find it difficult to believe that anyone gets paid to "ramp" or "deramp". If they do, and if it entails sitting all day, every day, doing it, then to make it financially worthwhile the fee-per-post must be at a totally unrealistic level. I say this because, in retirement, I thought it might be interesting to earn some "pin money" doing YouGov surveys. Well, honestly! After slogging away at several of them I came to the conclusion that it was going to take me months and months to make £50.

Yes, cj, I think C@B puts it well. Certainly in my own post, as I was trying to get across, the intention is not to be negative, but to stress how increasingly frustrating it is to be cheerfully positive.

I don't think anyone could reasonably take issue with you, wents. It's not "de-ramping" to say that there become limits to "the waiting game". People who question when (if?) the jam is ever going to appear are often told to "have patience". I think many of us can respond that we have been very generous with our patience. We patiently waited for native title, we patiently waited for mining permission. Patience is beginning to wear just a little bit thin.

I wonder if this "Thursday RNS" thing is really an urban legend, napth? Since nothing much ever happens on here and we've time on our hands, maybe someone could go back over the RNS history and see how many have, in reality, been issued on a Thursday.

And I do mean RNSs of significance. Not the sort that when we come on and see a red flag it turns out to be an announcement of "Change of telephone number" :):)

Https://www.mining.com/web/iron-ore-price-extends-gains-on-china-stimulus-hopes/

So, please, let's get digging the stuff up. And selling it. PLEASE. Enough of propaganda about the golden (pardon the pun) future of this commodity, that commodity. Let's get into the action NOW.

Crikey, Sinterklaase, talk about positivity, you make Churchill sound like "Let's give up and surrender now" by comparison :)

Ah, so wents has posited the idea of jam not tomorrow, but perhaps jam in 5 to 10 years time. For goodness sake, wents, don't unscrew the lid in the meantime, LOL.

It's me, cj. This is the first of my accumulator. UFO to 10-bag by lunchtime. And a stunning Tory landslide.

The MCAP does put things into perspective, doesn't it? Most Premier League footballers could buy UFO with just a few months wages.

If not September, Wents, I may have to set my sights lower than the Nissan Micra. I am now considering the possibility of a 1978 Austin Allegro.

Bit off-topic, cj, so excuse me everyone. But instead of the Micra, maybe a Toyota Yaris. I bought one of these new in 2001. Perfect reliability. When I moved from Somerset to Scotland in 2010 I didn't want the bother of taking both cars with me, so I sold the Yaris to our local handyman. One of the worst car moves I ever made, matched only by selling another Toyota - a Rav4 - to a friend. Both of them are still going strong, the Rav4 at the age of 21 and the Yaris at the age of 23.

S, 22/38ths. You remind me of my old dad, who was a precision engineer. To the rest of us that would have meant 11/19ths. LOL

No trades at all? None? Zilch? Or is this just LSE's steam-powered machinery broken down again?

I wouldn't go along with the description of HH as giving a "negative ending on every post". Over a long period of time he has consistently weighed all the factors and has sought to counterbalance the more wildly optimistic expectations of others. It seems to me that he has tried to make all of us remember that, in an impure world, not only might there not be jam by this time on Friday, but there is always the possibility that there might be no jam ever.

I have been busy and out for most of the day. I have absolutely no idea what this thread is about. But whoever started it should at least employ a modicum of knowledge of protocol and forms of address. It is HM, not HRH.

At two, you set your sights too low, cj. Who on earth would want 500 years of waiting for UFO to be rewarded by any number of Aston Martins in any variety of colours when you can indulge yourself in the supreme extravagance of a 1999 Nissan Micra in grey (and partial rust)? LOL

Lambo, eh, Pete? Cj ordered an Aston Martin months back. I am personally going to trump you both with a Nissan Micra :)

I think someone did the analysis of this a few weeks ago, cj. Was it yourself? Because we can discount PIs in any scenario - we all remember scenes of angry PIs demonstrating outside the AGMs of FTSE100 companies, to no avail. It needs sufficient large holdings to stand on the same side of the line as the PIs. Which is what the analysis a few weeks ago was attempting to illustrate.

Not entirely, nap. There are people in this country who would sell their house for £3k, if that was the only offer on the table, in order to stave off living in B&M Stores' doorway for another six months.