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Beefeater1980 posted:Wrap it up guys the energy economy is over: finally we know how the UK will survive and prosper from Brexit: through the cunning brutality and brutal cunning of Mork and Gork e; In 1916 the British government concluded an agreement with Sharif of Mecca Hussein bin Ali whereby he would launch the Great Arab Revolt and, in return, the British would recognize a unified Arab state that emerged, one proposed to extend from Aleppo to Yemen. This agreement was definitely not made with no intention of being honored, and after the war's conclusion the Middle East was definitely not divided up according to the Sykes-Picot Agreement with France instead. Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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Beefeater1980 posted:Wrap it up guys the energy economy is over: Hopefully this will be the new post-brexit barter economy. Sliding a yoghurt pot of unpainted genestealer arms across my doctor's desk for some antibiotics.
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GW's success has obliged the FT to report on it from time to time and they always do it with ill-concealed irritation that a business selling little plastic space dolls has become one of the runaway investing success stories of the decade. I wish I'd invested in GW back in 2013.
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Our pupils keep having to isolate because they get exposed to covid - and what's worse, this is messing up our attendance targets!  BBC News - Ofsted points to total school disruption in some areas BBC posted:Education has been "completely disrupted" by the sheer scale of Covid absences in some schools in some areas, Ofsted regional bosses have warned. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 09:22 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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Ms Adequate posted:e; In 1916 the British government concluded an agreement with Sharif of Mecca Hussein bin Ali whereby he would launch the Great Arab Revolt and, in return, the British would recognize a unified Arab state that emerged, one proposed to extend from Aleppo to Yemen. This agreement was definitely not made with no intention of being honored, and after the war's conclusion the Middle East was definitely not divided up according to the Sykes-Picot Agreement with France instead.
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Beefeater1980 posted:Wrap it up guys the energy economy is over: To be boring about it, this isn't really true. Centrica has net debt of about £3bn so their actual value is more like £5bn. Though GW will have jacked their prices up enough to make up this deficit by this time next year.
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GW workshop is also likely mad overvalued by investors because their margins are absolutely eye watering. As basically the only miniature company of any note left, and their proud tradition of suing everyone for any reason, they have effectively zero competition and hence can put a 300% margin on anything and still sell. In today’s economy, big margins make it very attractive to investors.
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i wonder if as 3d printers inevitably get cheaper and easier to use and higher quality over time whether we’ll see an open source replacement eventually take hold. i mean i know warhammer is popular but in the fullness of time stuffs expensive.
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peanut- posted:To be boring about it, this isn't really true. Centrica has net debt of about £3bn so their actual value is more like £5bn. And that story is 6 months out of date. Gw stocks are worth close to £100 at the moment, which is £40 more then when that article was written.
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GAW also holds no debt and has paid a rock solid dividend for like a decade and a half, which makes it a nice safe bet for institutional investors like pension funds and index trackers and so on.
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I love the idea of pension funds invested in GW. In the grim darkness of the far future I'm going to buy an annuity
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Ms Adequate posted:e; In 1916 the British government concluded an agreement with Sharif of Mecca Hussein bin Ali whereby he would launch the Great Arab Revolt and, in return, the British would recognize a unified Arab state that emerged, one proposed to extend from Aleppo to Yemen. This agreement was definitely not made with no intention of being honored, and after the war's conclusion the Middle East was definitely not divided up according to the Sykes-Picot Agreement with France instead. No wonder Iraq ended up the way it did. Hussein vs Mecca Hussein was only ever going to have one ending.
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Mecca Hussein bin Ali is the giant robot that haunts Tony Blair's nightmares.
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quote:People will not be able to pay to jump the coronavirus inoculation queue for many months, public health officials and companies insisted after the UK regulator became the first in Europe or North America to authorise a Covid-19 vaccine. Health chiefs rule out private sector jumping vaccine queue https://on.ft.com/3qk0cvo Article goes on to point out that even if private companies want the vaccine they’ll have to join the queue behind all of the countries which have preordered.
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Drone_Fragger posted:GW workshop is also likely mad overvalued by investors because their margins are absolutely eye watering. As basically the only miniature company of any note left I mean this is SUPER not true, but those companies are making historicals or other scifi or fantasy stuff. GW has the margins it does because it owns Warhammer and has the trademarks to prove it (hence all the incredibly daft names for poo poo in Age of Sigmar. Can't be an Elf, got be an Aelf Treeshagger or something)
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feedmegin posted:Aelf Treeshagger  Related, important information: 
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Elves have always been Welsh, everyone knows that  We've been playing hobbits as bad Irish in a long running One Ring campaign tbf, but I think that's mainly because I nabbed west country for my Barding
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Elves really should be Welsh because sindarin is basically Welsh anyway.
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Beefeater1980 posted:Wrap it up guys the energy economy is over: Brings in more money than the entire UK fishing industry too.
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I know they licence books and games a lot more than they used to but it always amazes me how profitable the figures continue to be. Who are these adults who have the time, money and space to build and paint armies and landscapes in TYOOL 2020?
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stev posted:I know they licence books and games a lot more than they used to but it always amazes me how profitable the figures continue to be. Who are these adults who have the time, money and space to build and paint armies and landscapes in TYOOL 2020? not my thing but also not much different than any other hobby. especially during a pandemic, i’ve seen some great paint jobs being posted places lately
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stev posted:I know they licence books and games a lot more than they used to but it always amazes me how profitable the figures continue to be. Who are these adults who have the time, money and space to build and paint armies and landscapes in TYOOL 2020? Nerdy IT guys who are painting figures all day while they sit on interminable Zoom scrum and sprint meetings with their camera turned off, judging by my friends tbh.
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och aye bajaysis begorrah the noo
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stev posted:I know they licence books and games a lot more than they used to but it always amazes me how profitable the figures continue to be. Who are these adults who have the time, money and space to build and paint armies and landscapes in TYOOL 2020? People have a lot of time this year, more than most years tbh.
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Don’t underestimate the number of people with a) extra time on their lives from not commuting or going out in the evenings and b) extra cash from not paying for travel and lunches.
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also less disposable income i imagine from covid pay cuts
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stev posted:I know they licence books and games a lot more than they used to but it always amazes me how profitable the figures continue to be. Who are these adults who have the time, money and space to build and paint armies and landscapes in TYOOL 2020? It's simple, I buy the armies and then never actually build or paint them.
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crispix posted:och aye bajaysis begorrah the noo
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/03/gavin-williamson-britains-a-much-better-country-than-all-of-themquote:Gavin Williamson: UK is 'a much better country than all of them' Every time they open their loving mouths I get a loss less confident in this vaccine
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Guavanaut posted:Sharif don't like it. Too early in the morning for rockin' the casbah.
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Guavanaut posted:That's Ulster-Scots according to the American teenager who wrote Scots Wikipedia. More of coohoolin's shady past uncovered i see 
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I've been thinking of buying a bunch of GW kit myself tbh, might as well paint some Orks while I have nothing better to do with my time 
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I didn’t even know it was still Games Workshop, the one in Sheffield is just called ‘WARHAMMER’
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GW were enjoying a bit of a renaissance even before the covids. Mainly because they replaced their old leadership, who held their customers in open contempt, with new leadership who realised it was a good idea to at least pretend not to view people as cash pinatas. Also they spend a great deal of time and effort actively making GBS threads on a particularly notorious far right warhammer youtuber. Which is fun. Still a terrible company but a more modern, professional kind of terrible.
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I'm given to understand the vaccine rollout will be world-beating like the track and trace program which is good enough for me *vaccine vials literally roll out a slot in the factory wall and fall on the floor next to a shopping trolley parked 1 foot to the left*
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Pistol_Pete posted:I've been thinking of buying a bunch of GW kit myself tbh, might as well paint some Orks while I have nothing better to do with my time Surely you just need a mirror for to paint a self portrait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL j/k (Just Kidding), i'm not really that rude 
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I'm given to understand the vaccine rollout will be world-beating like the track and trace program which is good enough for me They're all gonna expire stuck in Lorry ques somewhere in Kent.
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Pistol_Pete posted:I've been thinking of buying a bunch of GW kit myself tbh, might as well paint some Orks while I have nothing better to do with my time Same, I've so far resisted but there's a shop in town and I quite fancy painting up a squad of...something. as a kid i had a Delaque gang whose cool trench coats/dusters I decided to paint a kind of dayglo green which I'd quite like to recreate but the last time I checked new Delaque gangers don't have cool dusters but look like cybergoth perverts
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