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Tricky

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About Tricky

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  1. Downstairs rads full of brown sludge. Worcester Bosch Combi boiler, 17ish radiators in total. Roughly how much would it be to flush the system clean and install some sort of inhibitor to stop it happening again? + I need a bit of burst pipe to an outside tap replacing.
  2. Yes I did say it. But that wasn't necessarily the implication. How long its price can go on rising is indeed the question. One that should be answered in terms of events rather than time.
  3. No. As in much else, you are wrong. The thread is called 'Dangerous cyclists'; it is about ignorant drivers.
  4. Quick question... What route did the race take once in Sheffield and where on Pinstone St was the finish line? Many thanks.
  5. Cycle to work scheme is great. JE James less so. There are better bike shops that spend the time to make sure that the bike is set up for you. Virtually all of them are now part of the cycle to work scheme.
  6. Problems of fly tipping just getting worse and worse. Sofas and stuff getting dumped in restaurants. I mean, what's that about?
  7. Fixed it for you. The Guardian Media Group set up in the deal in the Caymans in order to deprive the exchequer of tax revenue.
  8. Guardian Media Group Pays virtually no tax due to Cayman Island tax status and then employs buffoons like Polly Toynbee to rant about everybody else's tax avoidance. I can't think of anything quite as outrageously hypocritical.
  9. I have no idea what you are trying to say. Bailing out banks by other people is the same as bailing out banks ourselves? Tell you what, I owe my bank a tidy sum; pay them for me would you, if it's all the same to you. Ta.
  10. No, I meant you're right, it is interesting. Why did they not publish and then do so? Maybe because the article touches on themselves in a business sense, it needed to get referred to a higher authority. But it's only a guess.
  11. Yes it is. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/liberaldemocrats/8217253/Vince-Cable-I-have-declared-war-on-Rupert-Murdoch.html
  12. Mervyn King makes a number of points. Here are 3... 1. The Banks are INSOLVENT. The Brown bailout was justified on the basis that it was a liquidity problem. The only way to justify a bailout by Keynsians or anyone else is if the problem is strictly one of liquidity. So the bailout was contrary to King's advice. 2. He did talk about a bailout though. He talked about cash rich Middle Eastern Countries bailing us out; not bankrupt western countries throwing their own money down the swanny. 3. He says that banks must mark their impaired assets to market, i.e. stop the 'extend and pretend' games of the Brown bailout. Essentially, banks' accounts look healthy enough because they value their assets using Mark to Mark, they are claiming something's worth what they paid for it not what somebody else would buy it for; or as it's sometimes known, accounting fraud. Banks can't sell these assets because they'd only receive a small fraction of the amount they're valued at, and be instantly recognised as insolvent. Only an utter simpleton or a totally corrupt individual would take Mervyn King's advice and promptly use tax payers' money to buy a major shareholding in two of these banks and then allow these banks to continue their fraudulent accounting practices.
  13. Link "The Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee (DPBAC) which consists of top MOD civil servants and representatives from the media have according to Wikileaks [and now confirmed] issued a “D-Notice” – an attempt at a news black-out, on the imminent release by Wikileaks of two million diplomatic wire conversations between US Embassies and the White House/CIA. Rumours have been swirling around all day of US envoys meeting counterparts in Israel, London and Australia etc preparing them for extremely embarrassing news." News that won't be reported through the mainstream media.
  14. I was going to address this at length and then found someone had beaten me to it. What do you think Medusa? http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showpost.php?p=6923959&postcount=60 Last week George Osborne wrote out a check for £7m to the Irish banks in order that those same banks can pay some of our banks, RBS for instance, what they are owed to stop them going to the wall. I.e. we have just spent more than the whole austerity cuts will produce on bailing out our banks once again. The Irish have been told they can't allow their banks to default because that would liquidate our banks and, probably more importantly, Germany's banks. So the people of Ireland are having to make to with real austerity measures that make ours look like a grain of sand in the desert in comparison. And why? So they can keep these banks alive in Ireland itself, the UK, the US and Germany, to name but a few. These banks that are so laden with debt, they could take the whole of Ireland's GDP on to their books and it wouldn't make any difference. But this problem is Ireland's, not ours isn't it? Well so far it is. But Spain just failed to find anyone to buy its debt, Portugal is on the ropes and looking like a dope, and as for Greece... When each of these countries get into trouble, taxpayers everywhere will have to fund bailouts to keep their banks alive because their banks are exposed to these markets and they cannot survive a default on those debts. But the problem is escalating with each bailout, not going away; Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, then next onto Italy, France, UK, Japan and the US. (Makes quite an interesting mnemonic as it happens). Eventually all these banks will implode anyway, the only question is how much of our wealth are we going to throw down this bottomless pit before they do so. So what about this withdrawing money thing? Well its heart is in the right place and it could possibly cause a run on a high street bank but I doubt it. But what you should all be doing is moving your bank accounts out of banks with 'Casino Operations' and into banks/building societies that haven't. That's not a question of taking out a bit of cash, it's moving the whole account and getting your employer to pay into the new one. The idea being that if the Governments are too craven to do anything radical like detonate a bankrupt bank, we, the people, should.
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