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Bankers' Plight Worsens

Generali
Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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in Debate House Prices & the Economy
I was up in The City and was stopped by a smartly dressed bloke. He said to me, "Can you spare £3.50 for a skinny soya latte please guv?".
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  • moanymoany
    moanymoany Posts: 2,877 Forumite
    I hope you bought it for him rather than give him the money. Chances are he would not have used it to buy the drink but to buy worthless shares.

    Did he have a very well behaved dog with him?
  • Gorgeous_George
    Gorgeous_George Posts: 7,964 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    You should always carry a tea bag. Then, when someone asks if you can spare a little something for a cuppa...

    GG
    There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.
  • Realy
    Realy Posts: 1,017 Forumite
    Mind you I do like the new XK8 taxi's they are driving.
    "And where is one going guv, I had gordon brown in here last week"
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    I was up in The City and was stopped by a smartly dressed bloke. He said to me, "Can you spare £3.50 for a skinny soya latte please guv?".

    Like the girl who wanders into a cafe and asks for a take-away small skinny organic soya latte - and the cashier shouts to the coffee-maker, "one neurotic to go!"
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Generali wrote: »
    I was up in The City and was stopped by a smartly dressed bloke. He said to me, "Can you spare £3.50 for a skinny soya latte please guv?".

    did you see this in one of the free papers? ;)
  • MissMoneypenny
    MissMoneypenny Posts: 5,324 Forumite
    The bankers and shareholders plight might worsen. I just read this:-

    "Banks in bail-out scheme cannot pay dividends for five years under EU law"

    "The banks are now in urgent discussions with the Treasury to renegotiate the terms of the bailout. There are fears that the European stipulation could lead to the collapse of the Lloyds TSB-HBOS merger. The issue is crucial as banks need to pay dividends to attract private investors. Pension funds rely on the payment of dividends for returns."
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/3211151/Banks-in-bail-out-scheme-cannot-pay-dividends-for-five-years-under-EU-law.html
    RENTING? Have you checked to see that your landlord has permission from their mortgage lender to rent the property? If not, you could be thrown out with very little notice.
    Read the sticky on the House Buying, Renting & Selling board.


  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    chucky wrote: »
    did you see this in one of the free papers? ;)

    Actually the paper is so bad that they tuck a fiver inside 1-in-10 of them to get people to read it.
  • Toto
    Toto Posts: 6,680 Forumite
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    What's the definition of an eternal optimist?

    A banker ironing 5 shirts on a sunday afternoon :)
    :A
    :A
    "Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid" - Albert Einstein
  • Sir_Humphrey
    Sir_Humphrey Posts: 1,978 Forumite
    True story.

    Earlier this week a wino was hanging outside the main entrance of my Ministry begging for money.

    I resisted asking him if he was a banker.
    Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Sir_Humphrey wrote: »
    True story.

    Earlier this week a wino was hanging outside the main entrance of my Ministry begging for money.

    I resisted asking him if he was a banker.

    Somebody should tell the treasury that giving them money just makes things worse.
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