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Get A Bottle Of Champagne For Monday Evening
Get some BTLers round to your house for 8pm
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#31
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 09:18 AM
There's no government like no government.
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It is part of the British collective mind-set to be right, people are endlessly arguing, sustaining their need to be right. In Britain it is very much more important to be right than to be nice. So people are rather nasty to each other while pretending to be right, and so their long-term karma is to be found to be terribly wrong. In then olden days, honor and a gentleman’s or gentlewoman’s code of conduct was what held up the British edifice of being right but that code is now lacking. So the country will rot and falter.
The trick to being British is to agree to be wrong and make changes now. If you go down the path of righteous-indignation, you will fall as the country falls. The British feel they are very superior so their long-term karma is to become inferior. They will lose their economic status. If you don’t feel you are superior, or right, and if status doesn’t bother you, the nation’s karma won’t bother you at all.
Stuart Wilde 2007
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It is part of the British collective mind-set to be right, people are endlessly arguing, sustaining their need to be right. In Britain it is very much more important to be right than to be nice. So people are rather nasty to each other while pretending to be right, and so their long-term karma is to be found to be terribly wrong. In then olden days, honor and a gentleman’s or gentlewoman’s code of conduct was what held up the British edifice of being right but that code is now lacking. So the country will rot and falter.
The trick to being British is to agree to be wrong and make changes now. If you go down the path of righteous-indignation, you will fall as the country falls. The British feel they are very superior so their long-term karma is to become inferior. They will lose their economic status. If you don’t feel you are superior, or right, and if status doesn’t bother you, the nation’s karma won’t bother you at all.
Stuart Wilde 2007
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 09:19 AM
mitchbux, on Sep 19 2008, 10:15 AM, said:
You'd let them have crystal.
I'd only give them a chipped mug, or a 'free' Esso glass that's gone all misty through too many trips through the diswasher.
I'd only give them a chipped mug, or a 'free' Esso glass that's gone all misty through too many trips through the diswasher.
You can afford a dishwasher?
You must be over 40.
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 09:21 AM
UnsureFTB, on Sep 19 2008, 10:18 AM, said:
Online listings say programme about beating backache at 8pm!
Which channel are you on?
"Cruch Time: Tonight
As the economic crisis worsens, experst predict what consequences the current turmoil will have for savings, house prices, and jobs"
"There are three kinds of lies - lies, damned lies and statistics" - Disraeli
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 09:22 AM
DissipatedYouthIsValuable, on Sep 19 2008, 10:19 AM, said:
You can afford a dishwasher?
You must be over 40.
You must be over 40.
Its not a question of "afford", its having a house big enough.
WARNING
Your
country is at risk
if you
do not keep up repayments
on a gilt or other loan secured on it
Your
country is at risk
if you
do not keep up repayments
on a gilt or other loan secured on it
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 09:22 AM
Financial Planner, on Sep 19 2008, 10:15 AM, said:
I'd've thought by now the resourceful lot at HPC.co.uk would have looked at the TV listings to see what it was all about...
Sky listings just say it's about the credit crunch, and what it means for savings, house prices and jobs. I'd kind of guessed it wasn't about mackerel fishing
"When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank... You are a den of vipers and thieves."
- Andrew Jackson President of the US, 1829-1837 correctly noting that bankers are a bunch of *****.
"Men, it has been well said, go mad in crowds and only come to their senses slowly and one by one."
- Charles MacKay, 1856.
- Andrew Jackson President of the US, 1829-1837 correctly noting that bankers are a bunch of *****.
"Men, it has been well said, go mad in crowds and only come to their senses slowly and one by one."
- Charles MacKay, 1856.
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 09:22 AM
Monday 8pm Crunch Time
Tonight's episode (Friday) is about Beating Backache, which funnily enough is another blight of my life!
Tonight's episode (Friday) is about Beating Backache, which funnily enough is another blight of my life!
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 09:23 AM
mitchbux, on Sep 19 2008, 10:21 AM, said:
Which channel are you on?
"Cruch Time: Tonight
As the economic crisis worsens, experst predict what consequences the current turmoil will have for savings, house prices, and jobs"
"Cruch Time: Tonight
As the economic crisis worsens, experst predict what consequences the current turmoil will have for savings, house prices, and jobs"
Sorry didn't read the title, thought he was talking about tonight.
There's no government like no government.
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It is part of the British collective mind-set to be right, people are endlessly arguing, sustaining their need to be right. In Britain it is very much more important to be right than to be nice. So people are rather nasty to each other while pretending to be right, and so their long-term karma is to be found to be terribly wrong. In then olden days, honor and a gentleman’s or gentlewoman’s code of conduct was what held up the British edifice of being right but that code is now lacking. So the country will rot and falter.
The trick to being British is to agree to be wrong and make changes now. If you go down the path of righteous-indignation, you will fall as the country falls. The British feel they are very superior so their long-term karma is to become inferior. They will lose their economic status. If you don’t feel you are superior, or right, and if status doesn’t bother you, the nation’s karma won’t bother you at all.
Stuart Wilde 2007
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It is part of the British collective mind-set to be right, people are endlessly arguing, sustaining their need to be right. In Britain it is very much more important to be right than to be nice. So people are rather nasty to each other while pretending to be right, and so their long-term karma is to be found to be terribly wrong. In then olden days, honor and a gentleman’s or gentlewoman’s code of conduct was what held up the British edifice of being right but that code is now lacking. So the country will rot and falter.
The trick to being British is to agree to be wrong and make changes now. If you go down the path of righteous-indignation, you will fall as the country falls. The British feel they are very superior so their long-term karma is to become inferior. They will lose their economic status. If you don’t feel you are superior, or right, and if status doesn’t bother you, the nation’s karma won’t bother you at all.
Stuart Wilde 2007
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 09:24 AM
It clashes with bio-doc on Matthew Broderick on the Biography Channel.
You sorely test our friendship with your selfish demands, FP.
You sorely test our friendship with your selfish demands, FP.
"And thus the rule, supported by the experience of centuries; the speculative episode always ends, not with a whimper but with a bang."
J. K. Galbraith - A short history of financial euphoria
My blog from enemy territory
J. K. Galbraith - A short history of financial euphoria
My blog from enemy territory
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 09:25 AM
Financial Planner, on Sep 19 2008, 09:10 AM, said:
ITV1 Tonight with Sir Trev
YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!
YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!
Until I see Brown, Blair and Blears in the stocks, nothing will will fully satisfy me.......but I'll watch anyway
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 09:30 AM
Crunch Time: Tonight
Channel:
ITV1 London
Air date:
Mon, Sep 22 2008 - 20:00
Description:
As the economic crisis worsens, experts predict what the current turmoil will mean for your savings, house prices and jobs
Type:
Current Affairs
Channel:
ITV1 London
Air date:
Mon, Sep 22 2008 - 20:00
Description:
As the economic crisis worsens, experts predict what the current turmoil will mean for your savings, house prices and jobs
Type:
Current Affairs
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 09:31 AM
DissipatedYouthIsValuable, on Sep 19 2008, 10:19 AM, said:
You can afford a dishwasher?
You must be over 40.
You must be over 40.
No!
£199 in the sale for a nice Bosch one - such extravagance!
"There are three kinds of lies - lies, damned lies and statistics" - Disraeli
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 09:32 AM
Financial Planner, on Sep 18 2008, 08:40 PM, said:
I think you'll regret that...
Watch and see.
Watch and see.
why?
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 09:33 AM
mitchbux, on Sep 19 2008, 10:31 AM, said:
No!
£199 in the sale for a nice Bosch one - such extravagance!
£199 in the sale for a nice Bosch one - such extravagance!
The house for it go in is the extravagance -- and then there is the plumber - do you work in the city?
Current price should never be confused with value.
-- Toadie on the comments section of Moneyweek on the secret HPC
-- Toadie on the comments section of Moneyweek on the secret HPC
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 09:35 AM
You know I don't pop my cork for just anyone but since it's you.....
Will it stop me whinging?
Will it stop me whinging?
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Posted 19 September 2008 - 09:37 AM
Paddles, on Sep 19 2008, 10:24 AM, said:
It clashes with bio-doc on Matthew Broderick on the Biography Channel.
You sorely test our friendship with your selfish demands, FP.
You sorely test our friendship with your selfish demands, FP.
People in the office are looking at me very strangley as i mop spat out tea from my keyboard.
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The banks are licenced by the government to extract profit from their slice of the monopoly in the issue of the state mandated means of exchange. Bankers bonuses like MPs expenses are distractions from theft and violence at a systematic level. -- ST
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You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. -- Ayn Rand