Brilliant business idea looking to the medium term future

[OwlHoot]

Start a corner shop in India? Not a bad idea.

Or maybe start an English restaurant in Mumbai. In a few years, "Going for an English" with a London Pride or Young's Ale on the side is bound to be the thing to do after a few Kingfishers.

And maybe in time my kids could climb up the ladder through educational success and hard work and eventually join the Indian middle class.

If you have to travel by train, for heaven's sake keep your head down and don't stand up if you can help it - There are low bridges everywhere.

[DaveB]

That is one of my favourite sketches of all time.

YouTube - Go For an English - Goodness Gracious Me

"What's the blandest thing on the menu?"

[RichardCranium]

Or maybe start an English restaurant in Mumbai. In a few years, "Going for an English" with a London Pride or Young's Ale on the side is bound to be the thing to do after a few Kingfishers.

That is one of my favourite sketches of all time.

YouTube - Go For an English - Goodness Gracious Me

[Pondlife]

Exactly.

Although I wouldn't be getting ideas too far above your station if I were you.

Middle class indeed.

[sasguru]

A rare insight into the successful mind of a financial genius!







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An all-too-common insight into the mind of a humourless Walter Mitty character with a dead-end contract in Newcastle.

[sasguru]

Sas, you should use your skills as a londoner to open up a market stall.

Get yourself a sheepskin coat and a suitcase, maybe practise your patter in front of the mirror a few times. Then learn to haggle.

Who knows, maybe if you're good enough you could move to india and open a shop.

Start a corner shop in India? Not a bad idea.

Or maybe start an English restaurant in Mumbai. In a few years, "Going for an English" with a London Pride or Young's Ale on the side is bound to be the thing to do after a few Kingfishers.

And maybe in time my kids could climb up the ladder through educational success and hard work and eventually join the Indian middle class.

[DimPrawn]

I'm going to set up a call centre in the low-wage North, staffed by blonde people with thick English accents who call themselves Sanjay and Priyanka.

That way I get a head start on the call centres that will inevitably have to be set up in the impoverished West to service the vast and prosperous middle class Indian markets of the not too distant future.

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A rare insight into the successful mind of a financial genius!







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[MarillionFan]

There's already a fair few call-centres in the area. Why don't you get a job at one.

Let me know which one you work in and I'll apply

Sasguru.

[d000hg]

There's already a fair few call-centres in the area. Why don't you get a job at one.

[Pondlife]

Sas, you should use your skills as a londoner to open up a market stall.

Get yourself a sheepskin coat and a suitcase, maybe practise your patter in front of the mirror a few times. Then learn to haggle.

Who knows, maybe if you're good enough you could move to india and open a shop.

[AtW]

It's a great idea that will finally allow you to get richer than DimPrawn.

Put all your dirty spekulation money from kebab shops into this idea right now.

This is not a financial advice.

[ThomasSoerensen]

That is a stupid idea, and it will not work.

[Mich the Tester]

It won't work.

For a start Indians won't want to be serviced by poorly educated, chips 'n' gravy eating, whippet racing, flat cap wearing, wife beating, ale drinking brain dead Northerners, coupled with the fact that Indians are not going to understand them as they speak English and t'up Northerners speak some form of ancient language nobody can understand.

Try again.

Beat me to it. I was going to post this;

That's verging on racism. You're assuming that Indian consumers are stupid enough to pay to listen to some uneducated illiterate chav who can't help them anyway.

[MarillionFan]

I'm going to set up a call centre in the low-wage North, staffed by blonde people with thick English accents who call themselves Sanjay and Priyanka.

That way I get a head start on the call centres that will inevitably have to be set up in the impoverished West to service the vast and prosperous middle class Indian markets of the not too distant future.

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It won't work.

For a start Indians won't want to be serviced by poorly educated, chips 'n' gravy eating, whippet racing, flat cap wearing, wife beating, ale drinking brain dead Northerners, coupled with the fact that Indians are not going to understand them as they speak English and t'up Northerners speak some form of ancient language nobody can understand.

Try again.

[sasguru]

I'm going to set up a call centre in the low-wage North, staffed by blonde people with thick English accents who call themselves Sanjay and Priyanka.

That way I get a head start on the call centres that will inevitably have to be set up in the impoverished West to service the vast and prosperous middle class Indian markets of the not too distant future.

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