So countries default etc...

[Cliphead]

Not as swanky as the solid gold tinned food Dim Prawn eats mind you

[DimPrawn]

Sounds good. Not as swanky as the solid gold tinned food Dim Prawn eats mind you

I don't eat gold plated food. Don't be ridiculous.

However, I do cook it on this.

Gold-Plated Grill Is World's Most Expensive | Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities

[DiscoStu]

I don't eat gold plated food. Don't be ridiculous.

However, I do cook it on this.

Gold-Plated Grill Is World's Most Expensive | Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities

DimPrawn, pictured earlier this evening

[shaunbhoy]

DimPrawn, pictured earlier this evening

Has he lost weight?

[TimberWolf]

China will buy Europe for forty quid and we'll all have to learn Mandarin.

Northumbrian Water 'accepts' £2.4bn bid from Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings - Telegraph

[centurian]

Yeah but how does it affect me?

Any number of the following

* Taxes need to go up to bail out the banks again - you pay
* Services need to be cut to bail out the banks again - you might be inconvenienced
* A number of your potential clients go bust in the financial firestorm. Your rates/amount of work goes down - your gross bottom line suffers
* Your pension/investment funds have their growth forecasts slashed
* Your house continues to drop in value, or fails to keep pace with inflation
* Your savings are eroded by high inflation

Basically more of what has happened in the past 4 years

[Mich the Tester]

Basically more of what has happened in the past 4 years

Oh no! I'm so ******* bored of all this financial news! It's been going on and on and on and on for years now!

[Churchill]

I've a suggestion, **** Africa and write off the Eurodebt.

Let's just start all over again.

It's only a number.

[Mich the Tester]

I've a suggestion, **** Africa and write off the Eurodebt.

Let's just start all over again.

It's only a number.

No don't **** Africa; there's money to be made there. Unfortunately the Chinese are taking over most of it already.

[Churchill]

No don't **** Africa; there's money to be made there. Unfortunately the Chinese are taking over most of it already.

Absolutely, the Chinese are spuds deep, right up the arse of various tin-pot dictatorships that the rest of the world won't deal with.

Trying to solve the current financial problem by throwing money at a moving target with the ratings agencies thinking they're more important than they really are and speculators raping the piggy bank at every opportunity isn't helping, it's exacerbating the problem.

Ignore the rating agencies, write off the Eurodebt. Wind the clock back and start again. Nature does it all the time in reaction to catastrophes.

Oh and **** the Africans, they don't like each other, what chance have we got now that they've got guns?