Doom drought

[AlfredJPruffock]

Perhaps Mitch can post some doom/gloom updates from Europe to give us something to fret over.

PS Could this be Henman's year after all ?

PPS Anybody worried about Heathrows new baggage retrieval system ?

PPPS Or those latest shoes - Im sure they're not good for your feet ??

[Mich the Tester]

Perhaps Mitch can post some doom/gloom updates from Europe to give us something to fret over.

PS Could this be Henman's year after all ?

PPS Anybody worried about Heathrows new baggage retrieval system ?

PPPS Or those latest shoes - Im sure they're not good for your feet ??

Contracting rates have fallen across the board. Arsehole Origin, Ordinary, Logicack, Accidenture, Crap Gemini et al are placing people in contracts at or below cost price and sending 100 CVs for every contract that’s advertised. Their directors are still taking home over 1 million euros per year, for their outstanding skill in sacking people if things get tough for a few months. Genius of course, because the idea of going out looking for new customers, new markets, building new products or finding new ways to sell stuff is just so provincial.

[MrMark]

Lack of paid work is big enough doom for most of us.

[BlasterBates]

DOOM

[Menelaus]

Moodys are currently stress-testing building society portfolios and relying on a TtD (test to destruction) of 60%(!) fall in housing values, peak-to-trough.

[BrilloPad]

So now the recovery is in place Gordon will be re-elected..........

[Mich the Tester]

Moodys are currently stress-testing building society portfolios and relying on a TtD (test to destruction) of 60%(!) fall in housing values, peak-to-trough.

Moodys, hang on, Moodys, yes, why do they still exist? Shouldn’t they have been closed, bankrupted and deleted from the face of the earth by now along with Standard & Poor for complete utter incompetence and complicity in the collapse of the greatest pyramid scheme in modern history?

[BrowneIssue]

Doom drought

Good point- it was a dry winter, wasn't it?

The hose pipe bans must be imminent. Which means the water rates will go up again.

[BrilloPad]

Good point- it was a dry winter, wasn't it?

The hose pipe bans must be imminent. Which means the water rates will go up again.

not a problem. get a children's paddling pool. fill it (which is allowed). Then empty it.

Sorted................

[Menelaus]

Moodys, hang on, Moodys, yes, why do they still exist? Shouldn’t they have been closed, bankrupted and deleted from the face of the earth by now along with Standard & Poor for complete utter incompetence and complicity in the collapse of the greatest pyramid scheme in modern history?

Trust me, not for want of trying. Fcukers, all three of them.

I was a member both of the ESF and IOSCO working groups that called and lobbied HARD for them to be either:

1. Penalised severely
2. Regulated heavily

In answer to item 1., I was told that the disclaimers on their valuations were bomb-proof and in answer to item 2. I was on a conference call last year from Hong Kong in which one of the EMEA MDs had the brass neck to suggest that unless primary legislation was brought before Parliament he didn't see why they should be regulated.

Bloody good job I was 12 hours flight-time away; there may've been some blood on the carpet (and me in jail for GBH) if I'd been in the same room as him when he'd said it.

On the upside, for those of us who are model builders (note: not Airfix) we're getting lots of work from this cock-up. Up until now we've had the problem of insufficient bads to be able to build models from ... not now



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