I ain't saying she a gold-digger...

[KillerB]

...but £24,000,000 and whingeing he had more assets takes the chocolate hob-nob (vegetarian by the way).

[DRT]

She asked for £125,000,000 - but didn't have a leg to stand on

[KillerB]

She asked for £125,000,000 - but didn't have a leg to stand on

Conky, stop using Derek's userid it is bad form.

[jdaw1]

£24,000,000

£24.3m

Three hundred grand might be small change to Alex K., but I can’t be the only person for whom it is a lot of money.

[KillerB]

£24,000,000

Heather Mills has been awarded £24.3m in her divorce settlement with estranged husband Sir Paul McCartney.

Three hundred grand might be small change to Alex K., but I can’t be the only person for whom it is a lot of money.

I only saw a headline. Once she started talking about him having £800,000,000 I was shouting at the telly. I will take the spare £300K if she doesn't want it.

[jdaw1]

I only saw a headline. Once she started talking about him having £800,000,000 I was shouting at the telly. I will take the spare £300K if she doesn't want it.

Come on Mr Units! How many hours does it take for my cellar to age a year? You wrote “£24,000,000†, not “£24m† — to which I would have had no objection.

[KillerB]

I only saw a headline. Once she started talking about him having £800,000,000 I was shouting at the telly. I will take the spare £300K if she doesn't want it.

Come on Mr Units! How many hours does it take for my cellar to age a year? You wrote “£24,000,000†, not “£24m† — to which I would have had no objection.

It was rounding. I am always willing to round to the nearest mill. and put the zeroes in. I have to do this for work so I have no compunction about it on a Port website.

[jdaw1]

It was rounding. I am always willing to round to the nearest mill. and put the zeroes in. I have to do this for work so I have no compunction about it on a Port website.

No. “£24,000,000† is right to within a pound or so; “£24m† is right to within quite a lot of pounds. You know that.

Why is he arguing with me? Does Alex K. really think he can out-pedant me? Presumably!

[KillerB]

It was rounding. I am always willing to round to the nearest mill. and put the zeroes in. I have to do this for work so I have no compunction about it on a Port website.

No. “£24,000,000† is right to within a pound or so; “£24m† is right to within quite a lot of pounds. You know that.

Why is he arguing with me? Does Alex K. really think he can out-pedant me? Presumably!

Wrong. When rounding you round to a number of decimal places or significant digits. I rounded to 2 significant digits.

[jdaw1]

Wrong. When rounding you round to a number of decimal places or significant digits. I rounded to 6 significant digits.

So how come your third “significant digit† is wrong?

[KillerB]

Wrong. When rounding you round to a number of decimal places or significant digits. I rounded to 2 significant digits.

So how come your third “significant digit† is wrong?

Damn - beat me to change it.

[jdaw1]

Ooooh, rewriting my posts without making clear the change of authorship! Why is that familiar?

[Suggestion: humble apology.]

[KillerB]

Wrong. When rounding you round to a number of decimal places or significant digits. I rounded to 2 significant digits.

So how come your third “significant digit† is wrong?

Damn - beat me to change it.

I messed up with rounding to significant digits with rounding to millions on danged computers. Bloody Paddy's night and Murphy's.

[jdaw1]

I messed up with rounding …

This is a true statement, and will suffice.

[DRT]

I think this thread proves only one thing. Jdaw should not go snowboarding in places where he has limited access to t'internet

Derek

PS: I am pleased that my bad humour was thought to be of Conky proportions

[KillerB]

Ooooh, rewriting my posts without making clear the change of authorship! Why is that familiar?

[Suggestion: humble apology.]

I didn't re-write your post, I re-wrote mine within yours. It was a joke.

This is getting way off-topic. I suggest moving it to Meaningless Drivel.

I'm still right about rounding, even if I got the number of digits wrong.

[jdaw1]

This whole thread started in MD, and then fell deeper into it.

[KillerB]

and now you've made me miss post 11111. Do you realise how long we have to wait for all the 1s again?

[jdaw1]

All my fault, for which I humbly apologise. But 12,345 will be along soon.

[KillerB]

All my fault, for which I humbly apologise. But 12,345 will be along soon.

Make me miss that and there will be trouble. I need to be there for five little ducks as well.

[Conky]

Back on topic,

She is a horrible peace of work, and I am pleased that she got a lot less than she wanted. Aw shucks, ONLY £24million!
Having said that, how some drug taking, arrogant, ponce of a minstrel, can accumulate £800 million, is beyond me. Mind you, he needs decent money for that realistic hair colour and his Cliff Richard dance lessons!

The Worlds gone mad! Jeeves, pass me my gun...

[DRT]

Alan,

I'm glad it's not just me who doesn't get all this Macca thing. As far as I'm concerned he's just an embarassing uncle at a wedding each time he shows his smug face on TV. Personally, I wish the judge had taken all their money off them and gave it to charity on the basis that they are not fit to have wealth. Is John Lenon's assasin still alive?

Derek

[jdaw1]

Makes me weep.

Quite what makes me weep I’m not saying, especially after Conky’s recent—albeit gentle—reprimand.

[Conky]

Agreed. At least I think its a common consensus, but Jules may surprise me again, and be weeping because he really appreciates old Mull of Kintyre???

No, the man drinks good Port, he's better than that?

[jdaw1]

peace

drug taking

The Worlds gone mad!

Weep!

And Mark David Chapman is still inside, and will probably stay there.