Financial institutions; FFS, grow a pair

[Mich the Tester]

Insolent Peasant.

insolvent

[Mich the Tester]

Ouch.

Erm, no. 'Ouch' looks like this;



Yer big puff.

[shaunbhoy]

As someone in the finance industry who deals with risk for a living I have this to say:
Wibble wibble waffle waffle blah blah blah pfooooot!

The most sense you have made for a while.

[MarillionFan]

Erm, no. 'Ouch' looks like this;



Yer big puff.

That's nothing. I've run the London Marathon in 4 hours with two broken legs and when I finished I put a plaster on the compound fracture and went home for a bath. You big girl.

[Mich the Tester]

That's nothing. I've run the London Marathon in 4 hours with two broken legs and when I finished I put a plaster on the compound fracture and went home for a bath. You big girl.

Another bovine deposit for you.

[2BIT]

This bollocks has been going on for years now. We're told about the 'risk of defaults', the 'risk of recession', the 'risk of credit defaults swaps not being honoured'.

Risk of defaults. Risk of share prices falling. Risk of lower bonusses. Risk? RISK? I'll tell you what f**king risk is; the ultimate risk is what a soldier in Afghanistan lives with every day; the fear of having his testicles blown to bits by a Taliban grenade. Slightly less risk is when you go down the Cresta Run at 130 kph with your chin 2 cm above the ice. The risk for financial 'professionals' is that they might spill their coffee, or in a real disaster be forced to forego a bottle of Petrus and make do with some reasonably priced Argentinian Malbec. The risk for people with real jobs doing something useful is that they end up unemployed and destitute. Please, if you work in the financial services industry, don't talk to me about risk or you 'risk' getting a fist hitting your face so hard that your head turns up inside out on the other side of the nearest wall. Just get your f**king act together and stop attracting attention to yourselves like a bunch of spoilt toddlers.

risk, like most other words, can have many contexts.... choose to join the army or do winter sports then you are putting yourself at more risk than you would be sitting in an office in the square mile- i guess the difference is those two examples are personal risks where losing loads of cash on a deal which ends up having a snowball effect on other people/businesses is an example of a different kind of risk - one which goes beyond being responsible for just yourself....

in lecture 2 of 'how to understand words' we'll discuss double meaning...

[Incognito]

As someone in the finance industry who deals with risk for a living...

HAH! And people wonder why the markets are so screwed.

[sasguru]

HAH! And people wonder why the markets are so screwed.

Don't make a fool of yourself you ignorant buffoon.

[KentPhilip]

the ultimate risk is what a soldier in Afghanistan lives with every day; the fear of having his testicles blown to bits by a Taliban grenade. Slightly less risk is when you go down the Cresta Run at 130 kph with your chin 2 cm above the ice. The risk for financial 'professionals' is that they might spill their coffee, or ...

But in all these cases the risk is voluntary.
A soldier does not have to be a soldier, a sportsman doesn't have to ride the cresta run, and you and I don't have to participate in the financial markets.

So there's no reason to get upset about it at all.

[shaunbhoy]

But in all these cases the risk is voluntary.
A soldier does not have to be a soldier, a sportsman doesn't have to ride the cresta run, and you and I don't have to participate in the financial markets.So there's no reason to get upset about it at all.

True. But only if you don't have any savings or Pension. DOH!!!