Reply to: Finally Europe is unravelling

[doodab]

I think they should offer the greeks a new deal along the lines of telling them to **** off, lend the 100 billion to the banks that take a hit when greece goes under, and close the borders. Let the silly ***** rot.

[Lockhouse]

Fascinating to see "proper" history being played out in real time.

I voted UKIP. "Schadenfreude" is my middle name these days.

[sasguru]

Do you have difficulties steering that ego through doors?

You remind me of the saying: " He's a modest man with much to be modest about"

[Mich the Tester]

I think the referendum is a typically Greek negotiating tactic. If you do business with Greeks, when you think the deal is done and you've committed yourself to your side of things, they come back at the last moment with some strange demand. Unfortunately he's being a bit extreme here and putting an atom bomb under the whole European economy when he could just throw a hand grenade.

He needs a couple of concessions, sweeteners and face saving agreements and then it'll be OK; disappointing that European politicians seem to have so little understanding of doing business internationally that they're all panicking.

[TimberWolf]

Doomsnight will be good again tonight then. I was wondering whether we'd get a quiet week.

[MrMark]

Looks pretty serious from where I'm sitting. Chiefs of staff sacked in Greece today. Were they planning a coup?

Looking like tonight and tomorrow will be very "interesting". I'm going to stock up on tinned food.

[Addanc]

Perhaps you could explain yourself. If you can drag yourself away from your onerous teaching duties, that is.

Pot?

Kettle?

Black?

I believe it translates as follows:

Where there's least room there's most thrutching.

HTH

[Hot Mess]

Has the OP been living in a caravan in mongolia? Finally... ?

[scooterscot]

"Plummet"? 2.5% in one day is a "Plummet"? Bollocks bullsh!t tit w4nk! The market is being manipulated for short-term gain and it's being talked up and down.

I hate to agree with the a hound that has no respect for personal hygiene but he's got a point.

[sasguru]

I got bored with usenet shortly after that, as it became overrun with spam, lunatics, and mirthless trolls.

So you came here?

[OwlHoot]

The tulip is really hitting the fan (as predicted by yours truly ) and I trawled the board finding no posts about this from our resident experts? ...

Try trawling the usenet group soc.culture.british for posts in the 1990s and you'll find plenty from me predicting it, with passionate rebuttals from fanatical Europhiliacs.

I bet most of them are having second thoughts now, especially several of my German sparring partners at the time.

I got bored with usenet shortly after that, as it became overrun with spam, lunatics, and mirthless trolls.

[MarillionFan]

Greek PM puts confidence vote for Friday.
Greek PM puts EU bailout to the polls (for sometime in January)
MF goes bust (not our MF thankfully)
Shares plummet for the second day in a row.

The tulip is really hitting the fan (as predicted by yours truly ) and I trawled the board finding no posts about this from our resident experts?

Are we all bored of this financial doom and gloom? Shirley not.

Not really collapsed. How the feck it got to 5717 the other day I do not know! Barclays hit 220 at one point on Monday, now back to 171. I have an average of 173. On Monday I was like 'how the feck am I up £1000's in a week on hot air'. Today I'm like 'Bollocks should have sold'

Pure bollocks. Que sera sera.

[sasguru]

Pot?

Kettle?

Black?

Perhaps you could explain yourself. If you can drag yourself away from your onerous teaching duties, that is.

[suityou01]

If only you could apply your acumen to making a success of your life, eh?

6/10

[sasguru]

The tulip is really hitting the fan (as predicted by yours truly )

If only you could apply your acumen to making a success of your life, eh?