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Well, Manyana, AL Jolson was certainly not a racist, and no-one ever accused him of being one (although I'm not sure that that accusatory adjective then existed), but the Black and White Minstrel Show, which was no more racist than his performances, was taken off the air for supposedly being offensive.
You are right that the racist pejorative used about black Americans is actually derived from the name of a river, which seems itself to be derived from the Latin word meaning 'black,' but one does not use a word that has become a term of abuse, regardless of its etymology.
Unfortunately, the terms 'racist' and 'racism' have been appropriated by anti-West and anti-Israel leftist fanatics, according to whose ideology only Whites and Jews can be racists.
I read yesterday that South African white farmers are being murdered at five times the national murder rate, but it is not even being reported, let alone condemned, any more than the genocide of Yazidis by Arabs.
'This WILL go back to 300p IMO.'
If it's only your opinion, then the word 'will' should NOT be in capital letters - IMO.
That's what I thought.
I think it's a question of whether they can get the finance to survive and then the earnings or outside interest to try to find some gas and then actually find it.
I have no idea whether those things will happen, but I think it's possible.
Now look here, WWN.
I've been here six years and I've never seen so much nonsense as what posters have been writing about me during the past couple of days.
Brighteye on UKOG called me a 'jerk' and accused me of trying to talk UKOG shares down so I could buy them cheaply and offset my HUR losses.
Tymers agreed with him and comes over here, where he isn't even invested, to bait me.
Buyinmay accused me of being aggressive and pedantic and alleged I 'can’t keep a civil tongue in your head' but couldn't quote any uncivil remark made by me.
Now you're alleging that I 'seek to split hairs at every opportunity.'
Maybe it would be better if you lot had the forum to yourself.
You wouldn't have me to bait any more and you could agree among yourselves what a dreadful company HUR is.
I suppose that's what this board should be all about.
What has the fact that an opinion was paid for got to do with its credibility?
It is just an opinion.
There has been much discussion here about the bond repayment and most people think the loan will be restructured.
I'm surprised that anyone finds Edison's FFD COS credible, WWN.
You assume that the bonds have to be repaid in 2022, which is wrong.
Your mention of 'the lender' is, in my opinion, based on a misinterpretation of the last RNS.
This BB is really deteriorating.
No LTH is going to be interested in an offer of 18p per share for Lancaster, Lincoln, Warwick and Halifax.
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'Crazy Rampers. Long wait suggesting 30p has cost investors huge sums look at the sp!! Sometimes you have to cut your losses imo'
(Tymers)
It seems your reading comprehension matches your syntax, Tymers.
It wasn't I, but Mazik, who suggested 30p.
How about you?
You've been ramping UKOG and claiming to be buying millions of shares in UKOG since it was at least ten times its current price.
Have you been cutting your losses of up to 90 percent?
If you have, you've been remarkably quiet about it.
Yes, indeed, Hasiba.
I suspect we will have to wait another ten days for an operational update and considerably longer for a takeover.
'my guess would be 30p to have any [chance of] success.'
Sorry, Mazik, but shareholders would never accept an offer of 30p per share.
Six months ago, Morgan Stanley estimated a NAV of 54 - 214p per share at $60 p.b.
That gives an idea of what HUR could be worth if it can get production back up to 20 kbopd and oil prices keep rising.
It's 12,000 bopd, not 17,000 bopd.
I don't know what's happened to this forum.
There is so much speculation about an RNS the next day or an imminent takeover, when there is no reason to expect either.
Let me tell you something, Boris: the price was held at about 14.5p months ago.
It was uncanny how it moved up and down within a very narrow range.
I said it looked as though it was being manipulated in order to allow someone to accumulate a large holding.
Richard Bernstein was accumulating 24 million shares.
As you know, it wasn't a prelude to a bid and the price fell to 6p.
It's easy to read things into share price movements that aren't actually there.
I think you mean 'sessions,' not 'seasons,' Mogbear.
Isn't talk of rising from ashes somewhat exaggerated?
Any rise is from a ridiculously-undervalued price.
HUR has been producing 9,000 - 20,000 bopd for more than a year.
Its valuation suggests that it is expected to go into receivership.
WTI is irrelevant if your sales are of Brent, which is currently above $40.
The SP is a measure of sentiment, not of the true facts about the company's performance.
If you are going to be guided by the SP above everything else, you may as well say that production cannot be more than 2,000 bopd.
There is no correlation between the two: the SP was 64.5p with zero production and 8p with 20,000 bopd.
If you are going to deduce from the fall from 64.5p to 6p that RT is a snake oil salesman, then you would have had to deduce from the rises from 8.85p to 67.5p and 24p to 64.5p that he was the world's most honest CEO.
PMO collapsed from 118p to 10p in two months, having previously fallen from 500p to 19p, presumably proving that its CEO was a snake oil salesman.
It has since recovered to 48p, apparently proving that the CEO is a man of integrity.
' ... as is so often the case you resort to an aggressive stance ... If you can’t keep a civil tongue in your head, don’t bother to answer.'
You're being ridiculous, buyinmay.
There was nothing aggressive in my comments, nor uncivil, and you know it.
You're being sarcastic, buyinmay.
You ask me whether I can conceive of HUR ever having problems, but you're responding to a post of a mine that began:
'If, as Edison speculates, the interference problems are solved ...'
If, as Edison speculates, the interference problems are solved, then they will have to reverse their estimates of the chances of a FFD being possible.
IMO, that's ridiculous.