El Pibe

just learn the combinations for instance: B) = B)

Photographic essay of the decaying detritus of the Soviet Union. Weirldy beautiful. http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-haunting-photographs-abandoned-soviet-military-bases-0

I thought it was Fat Black Trumpet Man He Smoke Too Much Poppy and Die, but then maybe I should stop buying DVDs off the Chinese chap in the George Canning.

Now I'm not suggesting Charlie Parker is overrated, I think he's great, but he seems to have hit untouchable status when a lot of his stuff, frankly, wouldn't be out of place in a screwball RKO production with Claudette Colbert in! I blame that Clint Eastwood film with old droopy eye playing Bird, what was it called again?

"But to try and close down any criticism in a stalinist fashion" Do naysayers have to keep a wary eye for ice axes?

Funnily enough didn't the gherkin designer say he regrets his youthful folly and think's, on reflection, it's shit, or somesuch? let me have a dig around..... herewigo http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/8598889/Architect-behind-the-Gherkin-says-he-has-finished-designing-strangely-shaped-edifices.html "I was in there the other day," he said. "I was looking at the glass all the way around thinking, 'Why on earth did we do that?'"

Oh no, not again....

The sirens were actually brass? Hmm, makes more sense now I think about it.

Night Nurse should do it.

Sadly I'm at a wedding in Ireland so will miss it for third year in a row, colour me miffed (though at least not covered in evangelical bin juice).

I think it's very in-keeping with the spirit of that competition, you should definitely make it official, stopping off at the Great Exhibition, hiding in the bins of the evangelical church, snaffling a quick kebab at the chippie etc.

the centre forwards.... ;-P

AFter 9 hours and 57 minutes of drinking chilled ros?s and campari I'd struggle to manage anything on a bike!!!

I didn't really know where to put this, but wanted to share a joyous snippet of history

I take it you've never been outdoors in Ireland then :-$

We went with virgin and we only had to wait about 3 weeks, that was cable rather than ADSL, it may be worth going for that if there's a backlog on the standard connections.

a google search gave me this I think that may be overkill for my requirements

One of you has to shout 'jinx' now!!

I'd like to have seen Russian go further.

We're preaching to the unconvertible Bob. "It seems you've done a bit of selective reading as clearly you haven't acknowledged the first sentence - "Sympathy is an extension of empathic concern"." Look in a dictionary and they are clearly two different though thematically related concepts Sympathy Feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune. Formal expression of such feelings; condolences Empathy The ability to understand and share the feelings of another. The wikipedia phrase you quote is essentially just meaningless waffle, it is wikipedia after all. Anyway, my head is sore from the brick wall, I give up.

So what you're telling me was you went straight to wikipedia to find out what empathy means before responding. Nice touch. You then quoted the first couple of words and didn't read the bit "[2 ]Empathy refers to the understanding and sharing of a specific emotional state with another person. Sympathy, however, does not require the sharing of the same emotional state." Or it be more succinctly put by someone who doesn't rush to wikipedia for all their knowledge, ooh let's say "Sympathy doesn't require empathy." Sound familiar?

in fact I'm staggered that the Glaxo story hasn't generated more commentary. It's far more shocking, though the fine is gargantuan.

Empathy is spefically the ability to put oneself in an other's position, to see the world through their eyes. Sympathy doesn't require empathy. But empathy is key to trying to understand how others might see you, and to pick up the nuances in what they say. You are usually oblivious to those nuances, so ascertaining your ability to empathise is of interest to me, but it's obvious you simply stonewall everything with post-facto constructed self-justification. I'll never know if it's your ability to communicate or because you're a tit. I think I've ceased to care, but for now I'm going with the latter. Interestingly reflecting behaviour rather is a classic psycopathic trait!

In short though, as you well know, it's the incredible complexity of the regulation that allows for things like this to fall between the cracks as people tend to tick the boxes that are looked for and turn a blind eye to grey areas taht aren't specifically being sought. Hence why it often relies on financially punitive measures on compliance officers in a bid to keep them savvy to this sort of thing. My point about b is worse may not have been clear. I'm saying that it's ongoing and disgusting but no universal opprobrium is heaped upon those organisations, and we stand to benefit making us big fat hypocrites as we turn a blind eye oursleves. ALready spent more time on this quick note than I

And how is saying he's a scapegoat like saying it was one rogue reporter. Ultimately the buck has to stop somewhere and if he takes the fall, like I say I have on issue with that, but taking the fall he is. And that is surely political pressure to deflect attention from the lax regulatory climate in place, one the tories tend to think should be further deregulated. "I see El Pibe has tried deflect attention away from banks. After all he works for one." To quote otta "idiot" You have no idea where or for whom I work, but during my previous jobs in investment banking I have seen all sorts of shoddy practices utterly widespread in the industry, and known to be so for a long time. These revalations are about as shocking as 'Linekar sleeps around', it's an open secret. I'm not sure investment banking relies on trust at all, if it didn't it wouldn't be so heavily regulated and have so much compliance in place. I would say that key to moving forward however is the seperation of investment and retail concerns of banks as well as breaking down those 'too big to fail'. I've been saying this from the start so no surprise there. This really is storm in a teacup stuff.