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Today's profits warning from Blur is a shocker in every respect. It allows me to wander down memory lane to a date with Mellissa Hellberg in Mile End park, to a revised version of both Girls & Boys and Park life but also to examine this whole sorry saga from top to bottom. Warning: This podcast contains both singing and explicit language.
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Craig
Tom, O/T thoughts on EIT (Enables IT)? As at today it’s MCAP is £1.5m, its been a bit of a poor show for EIT in the past but surely at this level it’s got upside value. What do you reckon?
TW note - sorry i cant commentWillyB
Don’t be down on yourself Tom, she could have had a “Meal Ticket for Life” of Pizzas?!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1509263/Three-year-wifes-5m-divorce-a-meal-ticket-for-life.html
Wow, 2 songs sung today. Can we have a UKOG “When’s the placing..” in the later bearcast
It’ll be 6 months of Worthington suspension on Monday. Just had a quick look at Blur Discography perhaps
“Out of Time” or “No Distance Left to Run” or “Bang” could be suitable. Or after Investors Show we will see if Aidan is a “Charmless Man”
J P Spaghetti
Ah – wandering down memory lane indeed, now with thoughts of Natasha Shaw. I remember often finding myself in the Old Globe (now a bookies apparently) on many occasions with a crew of reckless inebriates and then finally in Benjy’s on the corner, just a quick walk from Mile End post office, including on gay nights as it had the latest bar around – that was often the case with gay bars then as I recall, just before Canary Wharf filed for bankruptcy. Oh – those days! And cracking choice of track (they nail Oasis).
Just a (very) minor criticism, though, if I may – I feel you need to work on meter a little!
Naeem
According to the Blur Annual Report of 2013, Phillip Letts was paid $172,062 in 2013 (up from $130,844 in 2012) and his wife, Kara Cardinale, was paid $140,778 in 2013 (up from $95,118 in 2012). Is it any wonder Blur is burning cash at such an alarming rate.
As bookbroker puts it.
What is this husband/wife thing all about in these AIM cos., first the Duncan’s, and now the Letts’, the bloke needs to step aside, he’s a bandit and another Bullshit Billy, we investors need answers, he is the CEO. and he is presiding over the fall of this co., the Non Execs are not doing their job properly, the management have surrounded themselves with their own cronies, it has to stop!