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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm Posts: 4876 Location: Newcastle
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Happy microphone test day  1/2/12
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leeds_manc
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:19 pm Posts: 5071 Location: Manchester
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I'd forgotten how sad Inception was, but omg it drags...
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Wed Feb 01, 2012 2:33 pm |
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leeds_manc
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:19 pm Posts: 5071 Location: Manchester
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It is a slow day in a damp little greek town.
The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted.
Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.
On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the town, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.
The owner gives him some keys and, as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the €100 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer.
The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel.
The guy at the Farmers’ Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the pub.
The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer him “services” on credit.
The prostitute then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note.
The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything.
At that moment the traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town.
No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now out of debt and looking to the future with a lot more optimism.
And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how the bailout package works.
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Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:54 pm |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Not quite In that example the hotel owner is e100 down as the prossie doesn't owe him anything anymore, but the cash has been taken by the german.
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Wed Feb 01, 2012 6:39 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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But he borrowed the 100 from the German, so he never had it in the first place. Basically everyone had debts owed that balanced the debts they owed, so no one had any real debt in the first place. In reality, most people are either debtors or lenders and not both.
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Wed Feb 01, 2012 6:41 pm |
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm Posts: 5664 Location: Scotland
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will I second chance offer on ebay?  that as****e still hasnt paid  and yet he has 100% feedback, sale date was the 30th and now its the 1st of feb 
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Wed Feb 01, 2012 7:05 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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Maybe he forgot about us... 
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:03 am |
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Blue_Nowhere
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:57 pm Posts: 2220 Location: Here for now...
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Got knee'd in the face last night at Muay Thai, complete accident, the other guy was attempting to knee the pads but jumped and seemingly broke my nose.
Twas a most uncomfortable evening and I eventually got bored and discharged myself from hospital at 1am this morning, arrived at work at 8.30 and haven't been in the best of moods today. Swelling is down and soreness isn't so bad, I just need a sleep now.
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:44 am |
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm Posts: 5664 Location: Scotland
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Ironic that your avatar has a broken nose too! was there any KNEE'D for that guy to attack the pads? hes going to have to FACE you and apoligise? Ill assume you didn't even SORE it coming? to prevent being hit, Its just a SWELL he didnt smash all your teeth out! who NOSE he might give you something as a way of saying sorry,
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 6:40 am |
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adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:43 pm Posts: 5048
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Bratty, looking at a lot of your recent posts has one of your recent purchase been 'Bunker Humour: Fill Your Final Days With Fun - Das Ist Super Funny, Ja?' 
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:30 am |
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm Posts: 5664 Location: Scotland
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its what happens when you mix strong coffee and lucozade you mean "das ist sehr lustig ja?" edit: fick, forgot super is actually a german word too  DAS IST FANTASTISCH NICHT! got banned for speaking german on tf2 once, I only said "eine volke, eine reich, eine deutschland!" 
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:36 am |
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm Posts: 4876 Location: Newcastle
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I prefer tea and milk, coffee and lucozade sounds like a horrible combination
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 10:48 am |
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm Posts: 5664 Location: Scotland
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just did "something" to a cop car, filmed it and its now on youtube was it illegal of me? Its the same cop car that the guy that patrols it I kidnapped ages ago.. hence why I targetted this vehicle Kinda wish I hid and filmed the reaction too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4v5E0qJ ... e=youtu.be
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:27 pm |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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Depends what it was. Incidentally, video taping your crime spree and putting it in YouTube is a universally bad idea.
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:30 pm |
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm Posts: 5664 Location: Scotland
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you didnt look at the vid ?  quite weird as it sounds like im breaking into it or peeling the police sticker off it 
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Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:34 pm |
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