Northern Rock? Sub-prime lending? By the way, did anyone else notice the most attractive banker near the beginning of the video - the one with the rather swish beard - counting his money? Vaaaaaaaaaghhhhhhh! Oooooooooogggiieehhhhhh! Ssppllllllurrrrrrt! Money makes the world go round.
Somewhere I posted the opinion that there was more intelligence on the Glumbert site than might first meet the eye. Assface was the first to pee in our eyes here, so, clearly, I am not always correct. Stupidity and gross baseness does have a moment now and then.
The video is a great primer....will look for the other parts elsewhere.
Am wondering if the point is to "expose" bankers or to educate the banking public.
On a serious note for a moment.
If anyone here did not know the things outlined in this video they deserve to lose all their money and live a life of abject penury and misery. It is not good enough to be told these simple economic facts are not taught in schools. Since when did the responsibility for a person's financial wellbeing lie in the classroom? Does no-one read any more? Has no-one exercised the right to obtain information without it being taught by rote in the classroom?
I find this video faintly insulting to be honest. Only a moron would learn a single thing from it unless they were under the age of 12. I personally lend money at fairly high rates of interest to my friends and acquaintances. They fully understand the position. For instance, my niece's 11-year-old son Jeremy wanted a new bicycle last year. It was on sale in a local shop for £200 sterling. He had only his pocket money savings of £25. I offered to lend him the balance of £275 on condition he paid me back at 25% compound interest with a small penalty for repayment "holidays". He was delighted with the terms and purchased the bicycle. He is now 34 years old and owes me only £45. The bicycle is now a little too small for him, but he still rides it to work at the abattoir.
so much for a vacation, i was going to sit back and pause, sorry to let you down pistaker, and i quote "Only a moron would learn a single thing from it unless they were under the age of 12. I personally lend money at fairly high rates of interest to my friends and acquaintances. They fully understand the position. For instance, my niece's 11-year-old son Jeremy wanted a new bicycle last year. It was on sale in a local shop for £200 sterling. He had only his pocket money savings of £25. I offered to lend him the balance of £275 on condition he paid me back at 25% compound interest(call yourself visa with a smile) with a small penalty for repayment "holidays". He was delighted with the terms (until he knew you were milking him) and purchased the bicycle. He is now 34 years old and owes me only £45. The bicycle is now a little too small for him, but he still rides it to work (cuz he can't afford a car).Oh, lest we forget (Only a moron would learn a single thing from it unless they were under the age of 12.) soooooo sorrry too
disappoint you, I'm about too take the greatest leap of faith that is human. This video brought me back down to earth to gamble 300,000 (so sorry it's not pounds, mate ) dollars on the basic human system of trade.....oh don't forget the other quote ( they deserve to lose all their money and live a life of abject penury and misery) thanks for the good wishes I'm sure I'll fail now.
Pistaker,
the responsability does NOT lie in the classroom. But it is an ESSENTIAL part of life and education. Way more valueable then the hypotenuse of the square of pi. (or whatever) Money is something everyone uses and it is important to understand credit and how it works, just as it is important to learn about health.
gargame....your reasoned view is wasted on the sterile poststamp-desert of pisser's alleged brain. You think he is posting a real opinion....sorry....he's just playing with himself while he plays with you. No lie.
Is this an appropriate thread to say how fantastic it is, that the Canadian dollar hit parity with the U.S. greenback?
Currently, it's trading at 99.6 cents U.S.
Suddenly, skipping across the border to buy a car seems like a MIGHTY swell idea! Shit, I even checked out air fares as a lark, flying outta Buffalo, because they now take Canuck bucks at par. WOW!! I can grab a flight to Vegas (air and hotel package) for DIRT CHEAP!!!
If you'd wanted that out there, you'd have posted the link a while back. Good attempt at a save though. Let's face it, in your vanity, you let too much personal info slip. Now you're trying to save face by posting more. I may have a couple of my mississauga pals swing by and heckle the performance after a few beers.
(thinks for a sec.....hmmm....ahh, screw it, why not?)
This is the second and last time I'm going to break radio silence with you, and address you directly.
"My vanity"
"Save face"
"Caught out"
Lemme ask you something:
Do you think YOU are....stable? That's not a shot, but listen to this: go back for say, the last two months on these threads. You've added NOTHING about ANYTHING...unless it was concerning ME. Do you think this is....normal? You take some info about a favourite past-time of mine, and you go off and you crow about "catching me out"? "Losing a debate"? "Being vain"? Ummm...ok. Actually, you DO have a point about one thing: in my excitement of wanting to share some experiences with some decent folks here, I DID let too much information slip. No doubt about it; I can admit that. But ya know what? Never in a million years (and really, I shouldn't have been surprised, given the last two months), did I think you'd actually take a bone that way, and madly run off with it.
Do YOU....think this is....healthy? Or rather....healthy behaviour? Two months, dude. TWO STRAIGHT MONTHS! Even other posters have asked you what your problem is, and you just keep right on going. I figured if I simply ignored you (even with giving you a third-person tweak), that you'd eventually give it up, and call it a day. But no. You actually got WORSE.
WORSE!
I mean, I know what you said about being here for "fun", and "everything's fair game" and all...but you CAN see that something's wrong here...can't you? Like, do YOU think YOU'VE adopted a "fun" approach to this site? Or do you think your obssessive-compulsive behaviour has gone a little too far? Personally, I could give a rat's ass what you do, where you work or who your family is or even what your politics are. YOU, on the other hand, have developed this VERY unhealthy fixation on every one of those things, re: me. If you even ATTEMPT to deny or minimize this, I guarantee you'll look even more foolish. You've done NOTHING but display it for two months now.
Remember in the early days when I used to jostle with you? Exchange insults? Trade quips? Well, something's happened since then: I believed I was just trading broadsides with another person who's just as mouthy as I am; rather, I was contributing to a VERY unhealthy fixation on your part. Exactly what inspired this? I have no clue. You took on the base concept of "hate" and "malice", and ran with it, using it as fuel. And like the energizer bunny, you kept going and going and going....
Again, do YOU think that you're....healthy? Seriously? (No insult intended here, like I said....I'm serious).
Do YOU think your past pattern here has shown any rationality?
Because if you start to claim this is an "act" on your part, (for two straight months!), then the wrong person is doing theatre here.
Now...just to show you I'm a nice guy (and always have been)....I'll give YOU the last word on this....so....some advice:
Make it good.
And make it reasonable.
Or we'll go back to the way it was: you screaming for my attention, and me adopting radio silence once again.
Master abattoir! Well done. The best and most amusing response to one of my postings. 10 out of 10! I wish there were more like you contributing to Glumbert instead of those self important, easily riled, anal obssessive, pompous, humourless and under-educated twats who seem to think their opinions are worth sharing.
The one-piece rubber boots that taper off into cover-alls!! Great for stepping into shallow waters for fishing, or walking through mounds of bullshit without getting yer pantaloons soiled!
Ah. I thought that was what they were. I take it this is a cunning metaphor which applies to those who land on the oftimes hostile Planet Glumbert in intellectual clothing designed to ward off attacks by its less savoury denizens? In other words, morons such as grueslayer, throbstick et al?
Brilliant!!!! 3,000 more words for the Anals of Canuck. No hate, no malice, I'd have to see the whites of your eyes for that and hear that attitude in two dimension.
Now I'm actually getting somewhere. I'm improving you as a human being. You actually admitted a faux pas in the post above. There have been many, many others, but one is a start. The goal here is to get you back down to reality size such that you fit back in your boots. There are many of us who would love to see that. Some comment more than others, but there are many of us.
Who are you kidding about radio silence. You'v commented back on the vast majority of posts via a real third person or an alias.
If what I typed up above, and your subsequent response to it, aren't indicative as to what's going on here (and with YOU, in particuar), then I think folks around here need to seriously examine things.
Now don't throbs actions contradict your obsession theory canuck? If it were true, wouldn't he behave in such a way as to facilitate continued dialog with you versus shutting it down (driving you back to radio silence)? Perhaps he's the one pulling the strings - the ability to tur you on again/off again?
Guten Morgen Glumberters und auf Wiedersehen!
Today I am busy packing mein bags for mein vacation in Zanzibar. I am kvite excited und haf had to lie down in ein dark room tvice already to settle mein nerves. It is not ze prospect of being in ein strange und vonderful land vich vorries me, but ze fear zat some eagle-eyed arse at customs may recognise me und ask for mein autograph.
Conchita is insisting on taking several frocks, none of vich vill go down well in ein Muslim land, as zey vill expose her flesh to ze gaze of ze natives. Zis I approve of, but vether ze Islamists vill understand is anozzer matter altogether.
Ze armadilloes seem to know ve are leaving. Zey haf been rampaging around zere compound like berserkers all night, clicking zere tongues und spraying each ozzer vith zere urine.
Vonce again, viele dank to ze Glumberters who haf vished us vell. If ve survive ze trip, I vill haf many tales of ze dark continient to relate on mein return to mein computer.
Heil Skvirrel!!
adolf, it won't be the same without you mein friend, i have over time enjoyed our smart arse postings, i have gone back on my word to leave this site, i feel now that i have been totally submerged in glumbertious and fear i will never leave this site. i will call a counsellor soon, the probelm is she is french and oh so pretty, with the french accent it destroys me, i become a bumbling reck.
mako100 trust you to get the term right, you're pretty switched on..glumbertitis not as i've written it, i am verging on being iliter....i can't spell it ...you know what i mean
french women for me are the most beautiful in zee vorld, i have been there many times, they are moody, distance, aloof, sexy, they smoke and drink coffee, there teeth are a lovely browny yellow which i love..but the accent my dear god they are goddesses when they speak , i even fell in love with the sat nav voice!
Now don't throbs actions contradict your obsession theory canuck? If it were true, wouldn't he behave in such a way as to facilitate continued dialog with you versus shutting it down (driving you back to radio silence)? Perhaps he's the one pulling the strings - the ability to tur you on again/off again?
Don't worry Barnsley, he's so self-absorbed that through his lens, he couldn't possibly see that you were talking about anyone other than him. Another classic error on his part yet I bet he doesn't apologize for the expletives he threw at you.
So if $$ is worth naught... why do we pretend, and act like, it makes the world go round, and is the source of all joy?? It's like we know the joke, and it's a bad one, but we laugh anyway.
if you ask me.. and no one did.. it would appear that falsehoods and lies make the world go round. Hmmm.
mayhaps we need a new measure of worth, like how many people did you make smile today, or how many people did your country feed, or what have you donw to insure a decent future for us all.
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