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Post by Achtung Englander » Tue Sep 03, 2019 8:25 am

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49551337

:shock:

Since leaving primary school, the teen had been eating only French fries, Pringles and white bread, as well as an occasional slice of ham or a sausage.
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Post by Rusty » Tue Sep 03, 2019 10:26 am

It's a great headline but I wonder if there were any other gene defects already there, exacerbated by the poor diet.
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Post by Animalmother » Tue Sep 03, 2019 1:15 pm

Severe vitamin deficiency and a rare eating disorder seem to have been the cause. Eat your greens folks.

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Post by The Jackal » Sat Sep 21, 2019 7:31 pm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-49783851
Ms Antoine filmed the moment Mr Weber, wearing goggles and flippers, dived under water to ask her to marry him.
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Post by Stormbringer » Sat Sep 21, 2019 8:12 pm

Tragic, but really stupid.
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Post by Snowy » Sun Sep 22, 2019 7:55 am

Achtung Englander wrote:
Tue Sep 03, 2019 8:25 am
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49551337

:shock:

Since leaving primary school, the teen had been eating only French fries, Pringles and white bread, as well as an occasional slice of ham or a sausage.
When I was a kid my brother and I knew another two boys who were the same age. Both had really weird eating habits like this that their parents tolerated, one ate nothing but cocktail sausages and dairylea triangles, the other was similarly stupid but I can't remember the details. When my brother and I were both about a foot and a half taller than both of them, I think the lights went on for their parents, but both turned out really short and sickly.

Funny how you remember things, I haven't even thought about those two in probably over 30 years, then saw this story and could see them like they were in the room.
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Post by arqueturus » Sun Sep 22, 2019 7:42 pm

The Jackal wrote:
Sat Sep 21, 2019 7:31 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-49783851
Ms Antoine filmed the moment Mr Weber, wearing goggles and flippers, dived under water to ask her to marry him.
Because of course, you get your phone out when you're being proposed to.
Not a tragedy. Natural selection.

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Post by Stormbringer » Sun Sep 22, 2019 8:41 pm

:roll:
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Post by Achtung Englander » Mon Sep 23, 2019 4:19 pm

Thomas Cook

I just do not understand this whole fail upwards mentality of the board of directors - BBC news:

In the end Thomas Cook was a victim of that serial company killer – debt. When you owe £1.7bn, not much needs to go wrong to tip you over the edge – and with Thomas Cook a lot had been going wrong.

In fact, Thomas Cook has been struggling for a decade. Mergers with MyTravel and Co-Op had left it with 1,200 high street stores JUST as consumers were moving online.

It had a near death experience in 2011 but was saved when its lenders agreed to support it during a restructuring that saw it close over 600 bricks and mortar outlets.

Thomas Cook’s basic business model is to buy up package holidays in bulk months in advance and then sell them on. It's inherently risky as terror attacks, currency moves, unexpected heatwaves in the UK and uncertainty about ease of travel and insurance arrangements after Brexit could and did hit demand leaving the company exposed.

In May it announced a loss of £1.5bn, pushing it further into debt. Its largest shareholder, the Chinese company Fosun - which also owns another holiday company, Club Med – offered to plough in £450m but the company’s lenders didn’t think there was enough cash to see it through the lean winter months.

It required another £200m and when that couldn’t be raised privately, it turned to the government, which refused, just as it had with contractor Carillion to prop up a private company with taxpayers' money.

Thomas Cook’s chief executive took home £8m in pay and bonuses in the last four years and there will be an investigation into the conduct of directors. That will be little comfort to 21,000 Thomas Cook workers who are facing unemployment rather than a bit of holiday disruption.


How the fuck can you take home £2m a year and run a company that is near on £2B in debt. I don't get it. The board of directors should go to jail.
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Post by Snowy » Mon Sep 23, 2019 4:22 pm

They are just incompetent, many such are. If they were any good they would be earning more than £2m (a sad indictment of today...)
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Post by Achtung Englander » Mon Sep 23, 2019 4:26 pm

the whole brick'n'mortar model is failing everywhere. If I was in retail I would looking for the exit door asap
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Post by Achtung Englander » Tue Sep 24, 2019 12:19 pm

On BBC news there is a picture of stranded people at airports and there kids in the picture

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49805534

oh dear, oh dear, oh dear - why are they not at school ! :o
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Post by Medicine Man » Tue Sep 24, 2019 2:26 pm

They look home schooled to me

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Post by Raid » Thu Oct 03, 2019 11:54 am

The story speaks for itself really.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-englan ... blood-hose

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Post by Rossell » Thu Oct 03, 2019 12:21 pm

Karma?

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