Re: The Week in Parliament: Lady Lane-Fox of Soho!

[mick]

 

>is a pretty little blonde from LastMinute.com who has just become a Lordess and wants everybody, especially the poor, to be online!

>So did Tony Blair!

>I heard only 50% of folk are interested in computers.

>

>How did she become a Lordess anyway? :D

 

Silver Spoon.

 

mick

[Dry Gulch Pete]

LOL - sugar?!

"mick" <cough...@privacy.com> wrote in message news:lTIlt.1857$Pt5....@newsfe02.iad...

[Basil Jet]

I've met her about half a dozen times. She was one of the founders of
LastMinute.com, and sold it and made a lot of money. Last time I met her
she said she was doing some work for the government, and then recently
they made her a lady, so it's not an inherited title, but there is no
way a white man in her position would have got the title that easily. So
the old Pussy Pass came in handy once again.

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[Dry Gulch Pete]

"Basil Jet" <no...@none.spamspam.com> wrote in message
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ROFL - was Martha friendly? ;)

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[GordonD]

"mick" <cough...@privacy.com> wrote in message
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>is a pretty little blonde from LastMinute.com who has just become a Lordess
>and wants everybody, especially the poor, to be online!
>So did Tony Blair!
>I heard only 50% of folk are interested in computers.

Was that the result of an on-line poll?

--
Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland

"Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."

[mick]

On 2013\05\18 11:30, mick wrote:
>>
>>> is a pretty little blonde from LastMinute.com who has just become a Lordess
>>> and wants everybody, especially the poor, to be online!
>>> So did Tony Blair!
>>> I heard only 50% of folk are interested in computers.
>>>
>>> How did she become a Lordess anyway? :D
>>
>> Silver Spoon.
>
>I've met her about half a dozen times. She was one of the founders of
>LastMinute.com, and sold it and made a lot of money.

I know, I was one of the mugs that bought shares. Not given enough to make
it worth your while selling them so you were trapped. Overpricing floatation
shares had become the in thing at that time but the LastMinute.com floatation
was the straw that broke the camels back.

mick

[mick]

"mick" <cough...@privacy.com> wrote in message
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>
>>is a pretty little blonde from LastMinute.com who has just become a Lordess
>>and wants everybody, especially the poor, to be online!
>>So did Tony Blair!
>>I heard only 50% of folk are interested in computers.
>
>Was that the result of an on-line poll?
>

I dont know but then I didnt write that post:-)

mick

[Basil Jet]

I once met her two days running, and the second time I said "Long time
no see" and she said "have we met before?"

So, friendlier then me, maybe. She was a breathtakingly beautiful woman
in her mid 30s, losing it a bit now.

[mick]

He lithp was a bit disconcerting though, but then I'm a bit thallow.

mick

[Basil Jet]

On 2013\05\18 12:27, mick wrote:
>
> He lithp was a bit disconcerting though, but then I'm a bit thallow.

Her mouth might have been injured in her near-fatal crash: I can't say
because I never met her before the crash.

[mick]

On 2013\05\18 12:27, mick wrote:
>>
>> He lithp was a bit disconcerting though, but then I'm a bit thallow.
>
>Her mouth might have been injured in her near-fatal crash: I can't say
>because I never met her before the crash.
>

She had it before that.

mick

[abelard]

On Sat, 18 May 2013 12:02:17 +0100, Basil Jet <no...@none.spamspam.com>
wrote:

>the old Pussy Pass came in handy once again.

what a useful expression!

[Bill]

On Sat, 18 May 2013 12:23:56 +0100, Basil Jet <no...@none.spamspam.com>
wrote:

>On 2013\05\18 12:09, Dry Gulch Pete wrote:
>> "Basil Jet" <no...@none.spamspam.com> wrote in message

>>> I've met her about half a dozen times. She was one of the founders of
>>> LastMinute.com, and sold it and made a lot of money. Last time I met her
>>> she said she was doing some work for the government, and then recently
>>> they made her a lady, so it's not an inherited title, but there is no way
>>> a white man in her position would have got the title that easily. So the
>>> old Pussy Pass came in handy once again.
>>
>> ROFL - was Martha friendly? ;)
>
>I once met her two days running, and the second time I said "Long time
>no see" and she said "have we met before?"
>

I imagine that happens a lot when you clean toilets at railway
stations for a living...

[Bill]

On Sat, 18 May 2013 12:12:52 +0100, "mick" <cough...@privacy.com>
wrote:

There's a saying in the computer business.

"Never buy shares in a company that doesn't own something you can
kick."

LastMinute.com never owned anything.

Not their buildings, not their computers, not their communications
links. Even the staff were mainly contractors...

Everything was leased.

[Basil Jet]

Shut it, if my family think I've been promoted they'll want presents.

[GordonD]

"mick" <cough...@privacy.com> wrote in message

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Yes, that bit got screwed up - sorry.

[Dry Gulch Pete]

"Basil Jet" <no...@none.spamspam.com> wrote in message

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Interesting - is there any UKIP crumpet, lol?

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[Basil Jet]

On 2013\05\18 17:28, Dry Gulch Pete wrote:
>
> Interesting - is there any UKIP crumpet, lol?

Google Alexandra Swann.

[Dry Gulch Pete]

"Basil Jet" <no...@none.spamspam.com> wrote in message

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> On 2013\05\18 17:28, Dry Gulch Pete wrote:
>>
>> Interesting - is there any UKIP crumpet, lol?
>
> Google Alexandra Swann.

http://politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/farage_swann.jpg

Thanks! :D

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[Brian Watson]

"Basil Jet" <no...@none.spamspam.com> wrote in message

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...and parking in Disabled Parking Bays.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/01/article-2317677-1992A0E9000005DC-930_634x400.jpg

Meet the new boss: etc etc...
--
Brian
"Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."

[Basil Jet]

On 2013\05\20 17:58, Brian Watson wrote:
>
> http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/01/article-2317677-1992A0E9000005DC-930_634x400.jpg

That must be a Conservative activist on the right.

[GordonD]

"Brian Watson" <Br...@imagebus.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Basil Jet" <no...@none.spamspam.com> wrote in message
> news:5197c10d$0$1092$5b6a...@news.zen.co.uk...
>> On 2013\05\18 17:28, Dry Gulch Pete wrote:
>>>
>>> Interesting - is there any UKIP crumpet, lol?
>>
>> Google Alexandra Swann.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ukip - Breaking the fungus of British politics
>
> ...and parking in Disabled Parking Bays.
>
> http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/01/article-2317677-1992A0E9000005DC-930_634x400.jpg

"Bays" is right - parked at that angle the van is probably taking up two
spaces.

[Dry Gulch Pete]

"Basil Jet" <no...@none.spamspam.com> wrote in message

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> On 2013\05\20 17:58, Brian Watson wrote:
>>
>> http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/01/article-2317677-1992A0E9000005DC-930_634x400.jpg
>
> That must be a Conservative activist on the right.

LOL

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[Basil Jet]

On 2013\05\20 19:53, GordonD wrote:
> "Brian Watson" <Br...@imagebus.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:AP2dndhZmMy8ywfM...@bt.com...
>>

>> ...and parking in Disabled Parking Bays.
>>
>> http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/01/article-2317677-1992A0E9000005DC-930_634x400.jpg
>
> "Bays" is right - parked at that angle the van is probably taking up two
> spaces.

Oh for Christ's sake, you can't tell if it's a public highway or a
private property. If Ukip phone a supermarket to book a couple of
spaces where they can park their van, and the supermarket allocates them
a couple of disabled bays, what are they supposed to do?

[Bill]

On Mon, 20 May 2013 20:17:28 +0100, Basil Jet <no...@none.spamspam.com>
wrote:

Have the sense not to park on them.

[GordonD]

"Basil Jet" <no...@none.spamspam.com> wrote in message

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Decline them, point out that disabled bays are for the use of the disabled,
and park somewhere else.

Anyway, why would they have to book spaces in advance?

[Basil Jet]

On 2013\05\21 11:36, GordonD wrote:
> "Basil Jet" <no...@none.spamspam.com> wrote in message
> news:519a76c8$0$23472$5b6a...@news.zen.co.uk...
>> On 2013\05\20 19:53, GordonD wrote:
>>> "Brian Watson" <Br...@imagebus.co.uk> wrote in message
>>> news:AP2dndhZmMy8ywfM...@bt.com...
>>>>
>>>> ...and parking in Disabled Parking Bays.
>>>>
>>>> http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/01/article-2317677-1992A0E9000005DC-930_634x400.jpg
>>>>
>>>
>>> "Bays" is right - parked at that angle the van is probably taking up two
>>> spaces.
>>
>> Oh for Christ's sake, you can't tell if it's a public highway or a
>> private property. If Ukip phone a supermarket to book a couple of
>> spaces where they can park their van, and the supermarket allocates
>> them a couple of disabled bays, what are they supposed to do?
>
>
> Decline them, point out that disabled bays are for the use of the
> disabled,

No, they're for the use of the supermarket that owns them. The symbol on
the tarmac merely informs customers of their usual use, and does not
confer on the disabled an inalienable right to use them against the
supermarkets wishes.

> and park somewhere else.

In a full car park?

> Anyway, why would they have to book spaces in advance?

Because driving a wide vehicle to the other side of the country without
knowing whether you will have space to set it up when you get there
would be the action of clowns.

Anyway, this is all obvious, if you were so thick that you'd need to
have this explained you probably wouldn't be able to switch a computer
on, so you are almost certainly not blind but choosing not to see.

[Brian Watson]

"Basil Jet" <no...@none.spamspam.com> wrote in message

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NOT clog up Disabled Parking Bays.

It's not very hard to grasp.

[Brian Watson]

"Basil Jet" <no...@none.spamspam.com> wrote in message

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> On 2013\05\21 11:36, GordonD wrote:
>> "Basil Jet" <no...@none.spamspam.com> wrote in message
>> news:519a76c8$0$23472$5b6a...@news.zen.co.uk...
>>> On 2013\05\20 19:53, GordonD wrote:
>>>> "Brian Watson" <Br...@imagebus.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>> news:AP2dndhZmMy8ywfM...@bt.com...
>>>>>
>>>>> ...and parking in Disabled Parking Bays.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/01/article-2317677-1992A0E9000005DC-930_634x400.jpg
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Bays" is right - parked at that angle the van is probably taking up
>>>> two
>>>> spaces.
>>>
>>> Oh for Christ's sake, you can't tell if it's a public highway or a
>>> private property. If Ukip phone a supermarket to book a couple of
>>> spaces where they can park their van, and the supermarket allocates
>>> them a couple of disabled bays, what are they supposed to do?
>>
>>
>> Decline them, point out that disabled bays are for the use of the
>> disabled,
>
> No, they're for the use of the supermarket that owns them. The symbol on
> the tarmac merely informs customers of their usual use, and does not
> confer on the disabled an inalienable right to use them against the
> supermarkets wishes.
>
>> and park somewhere else.
>
> In a full car park?

You plainly don't know the place in question :-)

>> Anyway, why would they have to book spaces in advance?
>
> Because driving a wide vehicle to the other side of the country without
> knowing whether you will have space to set it up when you get there would
> be the action of clowns.

As, indeed, would parking in Disabled Bays be, having arrived.

It was stupid and insensitive, and if it was anyone other than the Grand
Panjandrum Of Cuckooland who'd done it, you'd be as outraged at it.

If you weren't, you should be.

> Anyway, this is all obvious, if you were so thick that you'd need to have
> this explained you probably wouldn't be able to switch a computer on, so
> you are almost certainly not blind but choosing not to see.

Blimey, I thought the other parties had signed up all the twerps.

[Jim Hawkins]

Basil Jet wrote:
> On 2013\05\18 11:30, mick wrote:
>>
>>> is a pretty little blonde from LastMinute.com who has just become a
>>> Lordess and wants everybody, especially the poor, to be online! So
>>> did Tony Blair! I heard only 50% of folk are interested in computers.
>>>
>>> How did she become a Lordess anyway? :D
>>
>> Silver Spoon.
>
> I've met her about half a dozen times. She was one of the founders of
> LastMinute.com, and sold it and made a lot of money. Last time I met
> her she said she was doing some work for the government, and then
> recently they made her a lady, so it's not an inherited title, but
> there is no way a white man in her position would have got the title
> that easily. So the old Pussy Pass came in handy once again.

Pussy pass ??? Well, I've heard it called some names !