Reply to: Undercut by tax havens

[Pondlife]

ISTR the insult was plain and simple "Joey".

Spaz, or spastic, had already long been around.

My mother used to fundraise for the Spastics Society, wonder what they're called now?

They changed to Scope.

[Big Blue Plymouth]

I remember that - wasn't he the origin of the word "Spaz" that started being bandied around in playgrounds at the time?

ISTR the insult was plain and simple "Joey".

Spaz, or spastic, had already long been around.

My mother used to fundraise for the Spastics Society, wonder what they're called now?

[sasguru]

Showing your age there . Only our generation, who were kids in the 70s would get the very un-pc joey deacon ref. Lol

His appearance on Blue Peter probably set the rights of people with learning difficulties back decades!

What were the BBC thinking?

I remember that - wasn't he the origin of the word "Spaz" that started being bandied around in playgrounds at the time?

[Big Blue Plymouth]

Showing your age there . Only our generation, who were kids in the 70s would get the very un-pc joey deacon ref. Lol

His appearance on Blue Peter probably set the rights of people with learning difficulties back decades!

What were the BBC thinking?

[Whorty]

FTFY

Showing your age there . Only our generation, who were kids in the 70s would get the very un-pc joey deacon ref. Lol

[Whorty]

For any bank that wants to handle Sterling transactions, a huge tariff should be imposed for any bank outside the UK.

You really do live up to your name.

[AtW]

you are funny in a Homer Simpson kind of way.

Good old Homer had more in his brains than DimPrawn's ? ...

[TestMangler]

you are funny in a Joey Deacon kind of way.

FTFY

[sasguru]

Us, because we'd set ours at 1100%.

you are funny in a Homer Simpson kind of way.

[DimPrawn]

Lets say we both slap 1000 % tariffs on processing each other's currency transactions. Who would win?

Us, because we'd set ours at 1100%.

[sasguru]

Then it is reasonable to expect that banks in the EU will want to process Sterling transactions. Which they can do, at 1000% tariff.

Lets say we both slap 1000 % tariffs on processing each other's currency transactions. Who would win?

[DimPrawn]

Then it is reasonable to expect that banks in the EU will want to process Sterling transactions. Which they can do, at 1000% tariff.

[sasguru]

Holy fock man. You've actually got to be joking, surely ??

Nope. He actually believes that processing Euro and Sterling would be equivalently profitable post Brexit

[TestMangler]

Why were we processing Euro transactions when we aren't a Euro country?

Holy fock man. You've actually got to be joking, surely ??

[sasguru]

Why were we processing Euro transactions when we aren't a Euro country?

I knew you were stupid, but I didn't realise you were that stupid.