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Generali

Davesnave wrote: »

Careful what you say....there could be a dangerous kangaroo listening;):

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091123/twl-kangaroo-slashes-drowning-dog-s-owne-3fd0ae9.html

Yeah, the fauna are a bloody nightmare over here.

We had a red bellied black snake make an appearance at a Generalissimo birthday party in the local park.

BiL squashed a red back spider on the driveway just after we arrived.

2 apparent funnel web spider webs on the kitchen window and one on the Generalissimos' swing set in the back yard. I've not found the blighters that are responsible yet.

IIRC of the top 10 poisonous spiders in the world, 15 are Australian. Something like that anyway.

chucky

wintersunshine wrote: »

At least Hamish is right most of the time.....

carolt wrote: »

Are you Hamish?

Surely not even Hamish's mother holds the opinion expressed above.

not sure why the need to bring hamish's mother into this... but despite his posting style he makes some extremely good valid points. to be fair to him his recent predictions have been spot on...

purch

IIRC of the top 10 poisonous spiders in the world, 15 are Australian. Something like that anyway

You see it's saying things like that that'll get you into trouble on here.

There are people now furiously Wiki-ing away, trying to find any snippet that will disprove what you typed, until they suddenly realise it's a joke and they've just wasted 10 minutes of their life, and it's then they get really mad :mad:

Anyway, that's typical Hedge Fund thinking.

Here are the 10 best idea's............................so lets do all 15 of them :rolleyes:

carolt

chucky wrote: »

not sure why the need to bring hamish's mother into this... but despite his posting style he makes some extremely good valid points. to be fair to him his recent predictions have been spot on...

I find it hard to read beyond his posting style. I very rarely actually finish reading any of his posts and always avoid his threads. I find hist style detracts so much from whatever he's trying to say, that it makes his posts effectively unreadable.

Plus he's in Aberdeen and is always banging on about Aberdeen - which has no more interest to me than outer Mongolia.

The few posts of his I have actually struggled to the end of, however, certainly did not fit your category of 'spot on predictions'. Not clear how a prediction can be judged to be spot-on except with sufficient hindsight - but generally they seemed to be based on assumptions which seemed highly unlikely. But - of course - in Hamish's favour.

chucky

carolt wrote: »

I find it hard to read beyond his posting style. I very rarely actually finish reading any of his posts and always avoid his threads.

carolt wrote: »

Not clear how a prediction can be judged to be spot-on except with sufficient hindsight - but generally they seemed to be based on assumptions which seemed highly unlikely.

it would help if you read the posts and threads instead of discounting the viewpoint just because they are written by Hamish...

that just proves why many posters fail to understand the basics on here...

purch

why many posters fail to understand the basics on here...

The READING part :eek:

Davesnave

carolt wrote: »

I find it hard to read beyond his posting style. I very rarely actually finish reading any of his posts and always avoid his threads. I find hist style detracts so much from whatever he's trying to say, that it makes his posts effectively unreadable.
.

I do that with The White Horse. If someone goes so OTT you realise it is a waste of time reading after a while.

At least with Hamish there is the odd bit of good sense and moderation mixed in with all the ebullience about the state of the market.

lostinrates

Common, enough of the who likes who....

don't like NDG? I'm sure she'll live, but just...ignore those of us who do saying hi to her.. Hamish is Hamish, I'm sure he'd be happy to sell autograohed t-shirts for a fee...


Anyway, back to cake. I'm thinking of a tacky christmas cake, topped with spun sugar for straw with a baby Jesus, I thought about actually making a big baby jesus out of marzipan, but then decided that would be silly, so I thought maybe digging out an old barbie and swadling it for the top of the spun sugar straw.

ETA: I could make a halo for the barbie. and have some sugar mice in the straw?

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

Common, enough of the who likes who....

don't like NDG? I'm sure she'll live, but just...ignore those of us who do saying hi to her.. Hamish is Hamish, I'm sure he'd be happy to sell autograohed t-shirts for a fee...


Anyway, back to cake. I'm thinking of a tacky christmas cake, topped with spun sugar for star with a baby Jesus, I thought about actually making a big baby jesus out of marzipan, but then decided that would be silly, so I thought maybe diging out an old barbie and swadling it for the top of the spun sugar straw.

Barbie as 'The Little Baby Jesus'. Too funny!

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

Barbie as 'The Little Baby Jesus'. Too funny!

Why not?

worshipped my millions of little girls world wide. Perhaps, its a subtle observation non the reverence in which commercialism and plastic superficiality is given today.