Back to Barter!

Fooking stock exchanges and shares and bonds - me hole. They just don't work and only give the likes of B&W and maybe OMAR some gainful-less employment. All these spivs distorting things and manipulating the markets for their own ends. And what is their contribution to GDP - fook all - just like PR people. Time to get back to barter. The wife for a bag of spuds, the fridge for a slab of heino - that kind of thing.

ps I have £30 Stg in me wallet. Might hold on to it - the way things are going I might be able to buy a house and a new car with it next week ....

with all this talk of stock markets debt and Eurozone crisis - i would say there is no doubt a Tyrone win tomorrow evening would be much better of the Souths Economy than a Dublin win.

After all Tyrone fans will travel in their droves, book into hotels, eat good food and drink till their hearts are content and their heads sore, and on the way home they'll all top up the cars with fuel leaving behind a pretty tidy sum.

The Dubs on the other hand can walk to the pitch or take the bus they'll have the spuds before leaving the house and but cheap booze in the offy on the way to the ground.

I'd say deep down Enda and the boys are hoping for a Tyrone win...........

Jayo us beancounters are a resilient bunch

Good times - count the cash -dream up tax dodges
BAd times - Count the losses - sell the tax losses - organise Restructures
Very bad times - Corporate Recovery and Insolvency

Barter - Still need someone to count the spuds - In fact so you wouldn;t have to haul the spuds around
we could come up with barter credits - E.g 1kg spuds = 1 Credit - One pint of stout = 1/2 credit
Then build an exchange to trade barter credits - Then maybe a common barter credit across the EU
though the Brits would probably have enough wit to stay away.






Though $4.5 Trillion lost since July 26th - Where does it go ?

OMAR wrote:Though $4.5 Trillion lost since July 26th - Where does it go ?

Exactly! Someone got the money at the top end! There's some fooker sitting somewhere with a pile of cash. My money is on Boxty!

Btw Boc - I see Mr Forde is proposing legislation to stop drinking on buses on the way to sporting events!!! At least we won't be subject to hordes of Ulster willies watering the sides of our motorways in future ..... Kills the daffs!

bocerty wrote:with all this talk of stock markets debt and Eurozone crisis - i would say there is no doubt a Tyrone win tomorrow evening would be much better of the Souths Economy than a Dublin win.

After all Tyrone fans will travel in their droves, book into hotels, eat good food and drink till their hearts are content and their heads sore, and on the way home they'll all top up the cars with fuel leaving behind a pretty tidy sum.

The Dubs on the other hand can walk to the pitch or take the bus they'll have the spuds before leaving the house and but cheap booze in the offy on the way to the ground.

I'd say deep down Enda and the boys are hoping for a Tyrone win...........

The joys of Nordie teams in Croker

Three mile tail backs at the M1 toll bridge with - What do you mean you can't take sterling ?
Tea parties at the ardee/Boyne Bridge Exit.
Trooping of the flasks outside the Skylon.

We will be a superpower after this weekend

Help for thousands of Home Payments customers - Irish, Business - Independent.ie
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A group of regulators will work with the thousands of consumers stung by the closure of household budget firm Home Payments customers who still owe mortgage and utility bills.

This is a sad story....The question must be asked all the same, as to why upwards of 20k. people didn't trust themselves enough to pay their own bills....
This was a cash cow for the owners, but surely to God, someone, somewhere should have seen it was going to go belly up.
The figures bandied about on Whineline are staggering yet, not one single caller (that I heard at any rate) had the balls to query why so many people blindly handed over sizeable wedges of loot to what were ultimately exposed as charlatans....

Rustics down the country manage to discharge the normal utility bills without resorting to these "shysters"...
I find the whole sorry episode staggering...paying an additional €300 per annum to these gimps to discharge your financial obligations is laughable....


On the thread itself, this thought occurred to me there a while ago:
Every country owes gazillions, Ourselves, America, UK all the EEC countries ...To whom??? China
Why don't we all just write the fooking debt off and start with a clean slate, a bit like the story of the €100 note, the lady of the night, the hotelier etc....

Can we not just print some more and not tell anyone else?

Royal_Girl2k9 wrote:Can we not just print some more and not tell anyone else?

In effect thats what they (the Americans) have been doing - They have purchased €600 Billion of their own
longer term treasury debt in the last seven months.(QE2 or Quantatative Easing) or as you put it printing more money.
Standard and Poors however don't seem to have fallen for it. What I can't work out however is does an S&P downgrade for the US actually mean anything - Who else can the chinese and Saudis lend it to ?

OMAR wrote:

Royal_Girl2k9 wrote:Can we not just print some more and not tell anyone else?

In effect thats what they (the Americans) have been doing - They have purchased €600 Billion of their own
longer term treasury debt in the last seven months.(QE2 or Quantatative Easing) or as you put it printing more money.
Standard and Poors however don't seem to have fallen for it. What I can't work out however is does an S&P downgrade for the US actually mean anything - Who else can the chinese and Saudis lend it to ?

I agree

On the thread itself, this thought occurred to me there a while ago:
Every country owes gazillions, Ourselves, America, UK all the EEC countries ...To whom??? China
Why don't we all just write the fooking debt off and start with a clean slate, a bit like the story of the €100 note, the lady of the night, the hotelier etc....
[/quote] yes lets do that boxy and see how far it gets us