Ken Tone

No it's ok. Apparently there's a bloke in Nigeria who has a lot of money temporarily tied up in a bank account, and he will pay for everything once he gets his own cash out. They just need to transfer £1million of the parachute payments money for now.

Unless of course, anonymous is a nutjob

Portsmouth fan with sense of humour shock ...from the News comments, after someone made the comarison between selling PFC and selling a boat..... 11:01 AM on 13/09/2012 This comment is hidden because you have chosen to ignore anonymous. Show DetailsHide Details This comment is hidden because you have submitted an abuse report against it. Show DetailsHide Details Or... Trevor Birch in a meeting with all 3 bidders: TB (Boat Seller): Look guys, you all have somewthing to bring to the table here, but none of you alone are a viable options and I'm going to have to liquidate the boat and send it to a pakistani beach for dismantling if we can't work something out. PST: That's OK, We have a rowing bat that if we feed it enough water will grow like a pheonix into a shiny new superaycht BC: Can I have the parts before you send it to the beach, I can sell them and get a bit of my cash back... I don't like boats much anyway... SAF: I have a friend (or two allegedly) who are interested in my idea to turn this old tugboat into a world class cruisliner and make it the pride of the marina. TB: How about setting up a consoirtium to save this boat between you? BC: I don't like boats much anyway... and besides, the crew and passengers don't like me... PST: BC is the spawn of satan, we prefer rowing boats even if we can only use them on Hilsea Lido. SAF: OK, I know my plan is not that practical, but I'd like to save this boat. I like the publicity. What about if the PST were to join with me? they could buy some shares and help fund the refurbishment. PST: Still prefer rowing boats, but I might help if I can be captain... SAF: Sorry, I want the publicity of being Captain, pbut I'll let you look after the catering staff... PST: Ooh, we could keep the price of pies down... BC: Hang on, you're all forgetting that I own the marina berth and have a debenture on the engines... PST: that's OK, we prefer rowing boats... SAF: Anyone want to build a hotel with me? PST: Does it have a rowing boat? BC: I'll lend you the money if I can take over in 6 months and bring the demolishers in to take all the contents of the hotel rooms. TB: Hang on you lot! We're talking about a boat here! How the heck did we get on to hotels? SAF: Hold Up! I'm busy tweeting Some bloke's accusing me of a scam... PST: meat pie anyone? I give up, I'm off to Pakistan to find a beach... So long and thanks for all the fish...

I think you'll find that shooter happy is a nutjob ,being just a trifle sarcastic.

Was that re-sign or resign?

"Old boss, same as the boss" but strangely the Few seem quite keen to get fooled again. ( Who reference for us old farts )

sorry Bill

Judging by their past record, he will just keep banning random posters in the vague hope one of them is you. The only way to stay on there is either to say nothing at all, or to go for the Basil Fawlty approach to Anglo-German relations : "Don't mention the money". Soon there will only be Frattoniser, Bill Gillon and Colin Farmery left. Which one of those is you Torres?

I thought it was in an escrow account at a particular moment c14 days ago, according to a photocopy of an account statement shown on line by The Mysterious Bidder -- which is quite a different thing. Birch is saying 'need proof of funds' according to the News, not the most reliable of sources I grant you. That implies he is not convinced by this escrow account story.

Be 'part of the bid' This is as dodgy as a line in Blackadder about being dodgy.

However Pompey Scot , who if course doesn't want you to know he is Bill Gillon ,even though his twitter tag still says so .....,.adds Bill Gillon‏@PompeyScot@MrKimbell Thats a misleading statement from the media. The bank is now state owned, and perfectly fine. So that's all right then!The money's as safe as say 'Dubai World'

I only heard "cheats, cheats, cheats..." Warned the cockles of my heart

The weird thing is that the criterion that ought to determine where students go to study.. namely the quality of the teaching , is given no weight at all in most of these ranking systems. Does it really matter to an 18 year old undergraduate that Prof X is the world expert in research into topic Y, when all the undergrad will get is only about 6 hours a week of lectures for only about 27 weeks of the year, and those lectures will never be given by Prof X, who sees such teaching as well beneath him? In fact nowadays much of the teaching will be done by post-graduate students, who may once have met Prof X at a faculty party, but who have had little or no training in how to teach.

Lol. That's a hanging offence on POL!

Wel if this consortium really has lodged $20m on an escrow account ,they have to be taken seriously. But why , if you haver that sort of money , wouldn't you buy a club that gave you better value for money ...Coventry say? Or man y others? Has to be something dodgy in this . Would be wonderful if the mystery names turned out to be Al fahim and co, or a friend of Gaydamak

Not confusing at all. Plain wrong, which is the point I made about the rubbish calculator on phones etc before. If you read the article you yourself posted it makes very clear that what amounts to BODMAS dates back centuries. Beginning to rrealise what it must feel like to be MLG!

Bournemouth have money now of course. Just a coincidence. Personally I'm going to corner the market in brown envelopes before the rush.

Sorry mate but you are wrong. Has been taught in schools since time immemorial. How the hell do you think you sorted out algrebraic expressions like 3y^2 as opposed to (3y) ^2 if you didn't use true algebraic logic, which is what BODMAs represents? Oh and I see your A level and raise you with my Maths degree, from 1974, and my first job , teaching Maths in the 70's, including of course BODMAS

I shall restrict myself to saying that your personal predelictions for 'entertainment', are entirely your own business Bearsy. I'm just relieved for the goat's sense of self worth and physical comfort

You mean they did it enough times to show an actual difference in success rates depending on whether you change or not? I've never seen that done. Always assumed it would take hundreds of attempts to get a clear pattern. Restores one's faith in theory!

3+4x5 = 23 Absolutely no doubt whatsoever -- basic rules of arithmetic. If you think it is 35, you were indeed taught 'wrong' and should sue the school! You may not have been taught the mnemonic BODMAS, or one of its variants , but you should have been told that multiplication and division (equally) take precedence over addition and subtraction (equally)...and that brackets , then any form of power, take precedence over the others. It is because, as you say, little kids do not understand powers (including fractional powers such as square roots) that some primary schools used to teach BODMAS ,with the 'O' as 'of' , as a stop gap to be replaced by 'order' later, but *I think that has gone out of fashion.

The 'goat' problem is a standard statistics/probability brain teaser. I remember one of my Maths lecturers at uni giving us this in the 1970's, albeit expressed as a 'find the lady' gambling game, but the same principle. The logic is ..... You should obviously change your mind if your first choice was wrong When you made that choice there was a 1/3 chance you were right and a 2/3 chance you were wrong. Therefore you were more likely to have been wrong and should change your choice.

Nothing to do with being taught any 'advanced way' ... just not being taught by an incompetent! BODMAS or its alternative forms is basic mathematical grammar in effect. Not being taught that is like not being taught to use a full stop in English. There is only one right way taught.

A proper calculator made any more recently than about 1985 and not just free with a packet of corn flakes , uses 'true algebraic logic' and does not justdo the sums as it goes along. How they get away with putting such crappy ones on tablets and phones I don't know.

BTW BODMAS is sometimes written as BIDMAS ( I =Index, ie powers), or indeed BOMDAS etc, and I've also seen the 'O' in BODMAS claimed to be 'of', ie fractions eg as in '1/2 of' with young children who do not understand the word 'order' in that context.