only if someone will buy them
my dad lost about £5M on shares earlier this year (he and his partner sold their company and a big chunk of the purchase price was shares in the purchasing company. which is now insolvent.).

you cannot imagine the level of swearing that went on there.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 11:42, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Yikes!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 11:44, Reply)

most of it from me
that was my fucking inheritance, the incompetent bastards.

i am trying to see if there are grounds to sue the directors personally - they must have known when the deal was done that their shareprice was about to hit the skids - but i don't think there will be a cause of action.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 11:45, Reply)

I simply cannot comprehend that much money!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 11:50, Reply)

to be fair
when i say "my inheritance", my dad would probably have had quite a lot to say about that. he's a devious bugger my dad, he has shares everywhere and fingers in a lot of company pies, and we never know what the hell he is up to.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 11:55, Reply)

Speaking of inheritance, I found a some letters dated from 1997-2004, statements from banks with accounts in my name that I didn't know about.
I'm hoping that £100 or soo has built up the 10 odd years of interest into a profitable £110.

That one's going into the kid's collage fund.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 11:57, Reply)

It's important to save for this sort of thing.
Sugar paper, pasta, glitter and PVA aren't free after all.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 12:07, Reply)

You could always ask Monty to pass over his cast offs

(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 12:10, Reply)

I don't want him having to go to those student protests because he has to get a loan _and_ "pay it back (if you can afford it (don't worry mate, leave it this month (That sounds terrible, here is a £50 voucher for Weatherspoons, take it, you need it )))".

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 12:12, Reply)

Fuck me.
I don't think I'd ever be able to get over that.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 11:47, Reply)

worse for his business partner
his shares were worth £15,000,000 when the deal was done.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 11:48, Reply)

A guy I know who works at Ogilvy group (the ad agency)
Used to run his own firm, him and his partner got offered £3m to sell it and they turned it down. Place got wound up about a year later. Again I don't know how he isn't the angriest man in the world.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 11:52, Reply)

i know
i would be kicking myself forever
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 11:54, Reply)

i think i could,
i am fairly used to not having 5 million quid already.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 12:12, Reply)