Comments on: Laughing At The Unemployed City Boy Terrorists

By: David

David — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:17:43 +0000

“It’s capitalism -they take risks and they failed…”
This is true!
However, I get annoyed when it costs me money.

By: dairy

dairy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:26:55 +0000

probably because it’s technically going in the wrong direction….

By: chenier

chenier — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:09:48 +0000

Actually, the Mirror’s article was hampered by the laws of libel; stroll off to a few sites hosted elsewhere and people put the boot in with less gentlemanly conduct.

As they should; some poor b*astards are going to have to pay the trillion US dollars minimum needed to sort this out, and it won’t be the ones who have caused the whole f*ck up.

It’ll be the poor bloody infantry.

Incidentally, for the rounded view, Russia suspended trading for the whole of Wednesday and Thursday, resumed this morning for a nice little rally, and has been suspended again; for technical reasons this time.

I’d like to believe that bit about the technical reasons…

By: magnetite

magnetite — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:47:28 +0000

Let’s just hope this doesn’t lead to a rash of Christopher Fosters across the land. When you have everything and fall, you fall hard.

The tone of the Mirror articles was a bit too like the Bolsheviks calling for the slaughter of the Romanovs, mind you. I’m as left as you like (to the point of counter-clockwise dancing in a circle like a Sufi whirling dervish when I’m out on the town) but I’m glad Routledge managed to tone it down to just trail and takeover at the end, because that was frothing. It’s not like we haven’t been shafted by Wall Street and the City before. My parents (poor workers both) made it through WW2, the post-war austerity years, the Winter of Discontent, the 80’s recession - and one of them’s still alive and kicking.

By: Maravilha

Maravilha — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:22:17 +0000

Anorak,

I just asked a question “are you a lady or a gentleman” (MM) and I got blocked.

If you don’t want to reply me, you do’t have to.

——–
M&A
Artemis
Anorak is a gentleman.
And Heaven knows why every so often the software takes a dislike to a couple of posts and dispatches them to oblivion.

By: chenier

chenier — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:10:38 +0000

No; they didn’t take risks.

Risk is when you put yourself on the line.

When you put other peeople on the line, that’s called cowardice.

And this isn’t called capitalism; this is called how to screw the poor bloody infantry, ie the taxpayer, into paying vast sums to make a very small number of people rich beyond even their dreams of avarice, and their dreams come pretty high…

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:07:26 +0000

Don’t worry about the city boys - the smart ones made a killing and the idiots wont be suffering more than the rest of us (well, not me… I don’t really do the whole adult thing yet… but we’ll probably still be in a recession by the time I get a pension and a mortgage so I anticipate your pain…).

By: Anorak

Anorak — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:02:44 +0000

It’s capitalism -they take risks and they failed…

By: chenier

chenier — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:35:45 +0000

B*llocks!

Reade isn’t wishing death on anyone; quite the reverse. Compare and contrast with Michael Lewis:

‘Let’s Start by Finding Some People to Behead’

though admitted, Bloomberg got cold feet and toned it down a bit in later versions.

And yes, we all know that it’s the poor who get dumped on, but I have no sympathy for the people who created this f*cking mess in the first place.

Nor do I see why I should be required to pay vast sums of tax to cover their losses whilst they walk off into a golden sunset with the profits…