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[orchard]

Being kind, I guess he could be called a creative thinker.


(Who should never be let out of the biscuit tin)

This is the man they thought would be best to guard that biscuit tin.

 

[roydo]

This is the man they thought would be best to guard that biscuit tin.

Hmm, indeed. Must be brilliant in job interviews I guess.

Worked with a lad like that once, serially average, but somehow managed to blag his way up and up to the general bemusement of most who had actually worked with him.

 

[peteblue]

Hmm, indeed. Must be brilliant in job interviews I guess.

Worked with a lad like that once, serially average, but somehow managed to blag his way up and up to the general bemusement of most who had actually worked with him.

Everyone reaches a level of incompetence eventually, that’s why the smart ones retire early.....

 

[roydo]

Everyone reaches a level of incompetence eventually, that’s why the smart ones retire early.....

4 months mate. 4 months.

 

[peteblue]

4 months mate. 4 months.

You will love it, and you will receive your official invite to The Oldies Thread......obviously once your cheque has cleared....

 

[roydo]

You will love it, and you will receive your official invite to The Oldies Thread......obviously once your cheque has cleared....

Cant see me actually fully retiring, but fortunate enough to have the means to do so, if I wanted to. I love my job, but the 6 day week leaves little time for stuff, garden basically. So will 1. See if those plans are scuppered in the election, (nice swerve me), then 2. Have a think.

But on this debate, considering we have now gone all Merican, I recall their president one with Trump and Clinton. (H).

In it, at the end, they were asked to say sommet nice about each other. Think both said pretty vanilla but nevertheless decent things. If that happened tonight, I honestly cant imagine Corbyn saying anything even half decent about Johnson. Be fun if they are asked mind.

 

[peteblue]

Cant see me actually fully retiring, but fortunate enough to have the means to do so, if I wanted to. I love my job, but the 6 day week leaves little time for stuff, garden basically. So will 1. See if those plans are scuppered in the election, (nice swerve me), then 2. Have a think.

But on this debate, considering we have now gone all Merican, I recall their president one with Trump and Clinton. (H).

In it, at the end, they were asked to say sommet nic about each other. Think both said pretty vanilla but nevertheless decent things. If that happened tonight, I honestly cant imagine Corbyn saying anything even half decent about Johnson. Be fun if they are asked mind.

If they were asked to name a good feature of the other, Boris would say “Jeremy doesn’t sweat”.......this could make a good thread in its own right.....

 

[roydo]

If they were asked to name a good feature of the other, Boris would say “Jeremy doesn’t sweat”.......this could make a good thread in its own right.....

Haha. What I meant is that I can see Johnson say that he admires Corbyns principles even though he disagrees with them, and he was an early mover on all things green, sommet like that.

I honestly cant see what Corbyn would say in response. He was ok on HIGNFY?

 

[Kurt.]

If they were asked to name a good feature of the other, Boris would say “Jeremy doesn’t sweat”.......this could make a good thread in its own right.....

And Corbyn would say “even Prince Andrew refused to stay at boris’ home as he has standards”

 

[Blues Harp]

Cant see me actually fully retiring, but fortunate enough to have the means to do so, if I wanted to. I love my job, but the 6 day week leaves little time for stuff, garden basically. So will 1. See if those plans are scuppered in the election, (nice swerve me), then 2. Have a think.

But on this debate, considering we have now gone all Merican, I recall their president one with Trump and Clinton. (H).

In it, at the end, they were asked to say sommet nice about each other. Think both said pretty vanilla but nevertheless decent things. If that happened tonight, I honestly cant imagine Corbyn saying anything even half decent about Johnson. Be fun if they are asked mind.

What is there "nice " to say about johnsonov? lol No, nothing springs to mind off hand.

 

[peteblue]

What is there "nice " to say about johnsonov? lol No, nothing springs to mind off hand.

......”He’s very productive.....how many children again ?”.......

 

[roydo]

What is there "nice " to say about johnsonov? lol No, nothing springs to mind off hand.

Its odd isnt it? The normal, vanilla platitudes just dont wash, and the memorable tribute John Major said of the late John Smith, "He was an opponent, but never an enemy" sort of thing wouldnt neither.

Decent on HIGNFY it is then.

 

[Lee Smith]

Nice one, though of course individual exceptions shouldn't shape policy. If you haven't yet, you should read the FT article I posted... you can certainly afford the subscription! ; )

There are still enormous returns to be had, to be sure, but mostly in real estate, slash-n-burn private equity liquidations, or equities - none of which appeal much to people looking further than the next few quarters. Anyone who priortises long-term stability (like pension funds) gets faint of heart and weak of knee in a hurry looking at P/E ratios on Wall Street, for instance

In fact, there is very little real productive growth to be found these days, largely because of the West's idiotic obsession with austerity. China has been the only game in town for the last decade, and it is looking like they are starting to run out of steam. Emerging markets are riskier still, because many of them have relied so much on exporting to China, and the flood of capital pouring into America has driven up the cost of the dollars they have to borrow. Europe is basically a write-off, especially Germany, where the malady of austerity is strongest. In America, where everyone rushes to park their money whenever the Americans do something stupid again, stock prices are illusions built on prayers stitched together by moonbeams. Global real estate is even more dubious; too much QE money sloshing around, and no place safe to park it. Buying and selling the narratives that fuel this can be profitable in the short term, but people responsible for whether or not thousands of professionals can retire or not in 30 years tend to look more carefully at the fundamentals beneath the narrative - and beyond QE-enabled speculation, or half-baked mergers and rote stock buybacks, there really isn't very much there.

When the whole mess inevitably unravels, it will make 2008 look like a picnic.

So basically, by the time I retire my pension pot will be £7.02. FFS.

 

[Blues Harp]

......”He’s very productive.....how many children again ?”.......

The lying toad wouldn't be able to answer that anyway.......he doesn't know does he?

 

[roydo]

The lying toad wouldn't be able to answer that anyway.......he doesn't know does he?

Ballpark he does!