General Chit Chat

[ohjimmyjimmy]

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[Lost Leopard Spot]

They won't be that cheap in Dortmund once Greece exits the Euro!

...and Germany has to stop propping up Greece's f*cked economy? Not sure how that's bad news for Germany, who are currently having to pay the bills... perhaps you're forecasting the collapse of the Euro causing hyperinflation (something the Germans know all about) but once that currency's abolished the Germans will be in a much better position – and rightly so, considering they make more than they owe... but that's a separate subject.

I was actually thinking of something more like a halfway house, where on Greece's exit Germany and the successful economies have to plough more cash in to prop up the Euro in order to prevent the collapse and hyperinflation but not quite stemming the inevitable worsening of the exchange rates for the Germans, making their tickets (in comparison to our currency) more expensive.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

ignore above. It's gone back.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

They won't be that cheap in Dortmund once Greece exits the Euro!

...and Germany has to stop propping up Greece's f*cked economy? Not sure how that's bad news for Germany, who are currently having to pay the bills... perhaps you're forecasting the collapse of the Euro causing hyperinflation (something the Germans know all about) but once that currency's abolished the Germans will be in a much better position – and rightly so, considering they make more than they owe... but that's a separate subject.

I was actually thinking of something more like a halfway house, where on Greece's exit Germany and the successful economies have to plough more cash in to prop up the Euro in order to prevent the collapse and hyperinflation but not quite stemming the inevitable worsening of the exchange rates for the Germans, making their tickets (in comparison to our currency) more expensive.

(you're right that it belongs here mate)

Interesting idea but I don't think it would work like that in practice. For a start, how do they "plough more cash in"? Print money, which is usually the main cause of hyperinflation. Yep, as the Euro coughs and splutters to death the exchange rates may well worsen (although the dollar is also f*cked and, as of last week, printing on an ongoing basis) but I can't see how Greece being out of the Euro makes the Euro worse - unless you're talking about massive fiscal shoring-up of the other PIIGS nations, which probably won't pass: it would no longer represent the best interests of those richer nations.

If I were German I'd want out of the Euro today. Seems an increasing number of them do, and I can't blame them. All fiat currencies are heading for a fall as we come to terms with just how much the system has inflated the lending bubble, just so people can have a paper profit on a house they usually don't own but have borrowed off a bank.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

They won't be that cheap in Dortmund once Greece exits the Euro!

...and Germany has to stop propping up Greece's f*cked economy? Not sure how that's bad news for Germany, who are currently having to pay the bills... perhaps you're forecasting the collapse of the Euro causing hyperinflation (something the Germans know all about) but once that currency's abolished the Germans will be in a much better position – and rightly so, considering they make more than they owe... but that's a separate subject.

I was actually thinking of something more like a halfway house, where on Greece's exit Germany and the successful economies have to plough more cash in to prop up the Euro in order to prevent the collapse and hyperinflation but not quite stemming the inevitable worsening of the exchange rates for the Germans, making their tickets (in comparison to our currency) more expensive.

(you're right that it belongs here mate)

Interesting idea but I don't think it would work like that in practice. For a start, how do they "plough more cash in"? Print money, which is usually the main cause of hyperinflation. Yep, as the Euro coughs and splutters to death the exchange rates may well worsen (although the dollar is also f*cked and, as of last week, printing on an ongoing basis) but I can't see how Greece being out of the Euro makes the Euro worse - unless you're talking about massive fiscal shoring-up of the other PIIGS nations, which probably won't pass: it would no longer represent the best interests of those richer nations.

If I were German I'd want out of the Euro today. Seems an increasing number of them do, and I can't blame them. All fiat currencies are heading for a fall as we come to terms with just how much the system has inflated the lending bubble, just so people can have a paper profit on a house they usually don't own but have borrowed off a bank.

That was the gist of the surmise. Some are talking about a two tier Europe with a smaller Euro club and jettisoning the weaker members, but that'll not happen without at least some attempt to retain Italy. The Po basin is a major manufacturing area and unless there's a total flight of capital I can't see Merkel et al just abandoning all that.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Tarquin update. I spotted Tarquin's dad in Sainsbury's car park. All's well with the world, Tarquin has reverted to being a Henry. (I know none of you care, but I don't care that you don't. nyer nyah nya nyernyer).

[Gooner Girl]

Im sure little Henry will thank you one day...

[CrazyHorse]

It's pissing down.

[Gooner Girl]

Miserable down south too. Bye bye summer. Think it's gone for good.

[Wandering Willy]

It might be back next year.

Only 'cos of global warming, mind.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Miserable sods.

Here's something to cheer you up. I came across it in the Times, but it's worth repeating; it's a letter from Archibald Kerr our Ambassador in Moscow in WWII and he sent this in 1943

My Dear Reggie,
In these dark days man tends to look for little shafts of light that spill from heaven. My days are probably darker than yours and I need, my God I do, all the light I can get. But I am a decent fellow, and I do not want to be mean and selfish about what little brightness is shed upon me from time to time. So I propose to share with you a tiny flash that has illuminated my sombre life and tell you that God has given me a new Turkish colleague whose card tells me that he is called Mustafa K*nt.
We all feel like that, Reggie, now and then, especially when spring is upon us, but few of us would care to put it on our cards. It takes a Turk to do that.

I laughed quite loudly when I read that.
It's almost as good as the best one-liner in history when general Charles Napier was sent to put down the Baluchi uprising and conquered Sind province. He sent back a telegram that had one word "Peccavi" - which is Latin for "I have sinned".

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Saw this headline: Crazy Horse comes to London...
( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... ds-newsxml )

Hmmm I thought, wonder what one of the Wanderers most well known ambassadors is doing down sarf?

[CrazyHorse]

Aye, that's me third from the left. It was a cold day but the feeling of the Thames air whistling through the old undercarriage was breathtaking.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Note, they've just gone from trot to canter. Couldn't find any pictures at full gallop (a.k.a doing a Kate).

[bobo the clown]

Has anyone yet worked out the best anagram from the name Kate Middleton ?

[Gooner Girl]

Has anyone yet worked out the best anagram from the name Kate Middleton ?

No, not that sad, but i'm sure you will enlighten us bobo?!

[BWFC_Insane]

Has anyone yet worked out the best anagram from the name Kate Middleton ?

No, not that sad, but i'm sure you will enlighten us bobo?!

Presume he means

Naked Model Tit

[bobo the clown]

Has anyone yet worked out the best anagram from the name Kate Middleton ?

No, not that sad, but i'm sure you will enlighten us bobo?!

Presume he means

Naked Model Tit

Well, slighty different order, but thereabouts.

[General Mannerheim]

What do you do when you share a boundary and you wanna change your fence panels but next door don’t give a shit and wont contribute, Just lump it?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

What do you do when you share a boundary and you wanna change your fence panels but next door don’t give a shit and wont contribute, Just lump it?

Usually the boundary's are not shared, but one neighbour owns it and looks after it.
If it is shared and the neighbour doesn't care you can erect a fence on your side (a couple of inches into your territory) so long as
a) you pay for it
b) it doesn't breach regulations (e.g. it isn't thirty foot high)
c) the side facing the neighbours is the 'presentable' side.

in other words if the neighbours don't care, you're fecked