The Financial Apocalypse and the tin foil hatters

GlynD

pqrdef wrote: »

But this time the problem's not in Wall Street. It's in Detroit. And Pittsburgh and Cleveland.

Wall Street is still at the centre of it.

It'll pass. It always does.

geneer

wotsthat wrote: »

You must be confusing me with someone else because I didn't say anything about buying a pint of milk nor did I say everything was OK.

In fact, I was talking about visiting friends, making holiday plans, getting in some physical training and a little DIY. You seemed to imply that this wasn't the correct response and, here's a correctly attributed quote, "What did I say guys. How utterly grindingly predictable."

And yet it seems that your life went on as normal too except now, just a few hours later, you're really not sure what it has to do with anything.

It's Mrs. Geneer I feel sorry for.

I never said you did say anything about a pint of milk.
I said you were "effectively" saying the same thing.
My meaning was and is clear.

And I simply did not imply that you going about your day was an incorrect response or otherwise.

But I did explicitly state several times that just because you and others can go about your days doesn't mean that very serious things, with serious ramifications, aren't happening in the global financial markets.

Theres no reason you should not be clear in this from discussions prior to this point of course.

But in true wotsthat style you are compelled to invent nonexistient arguments on order to cover up your errors.
Tedious in the extreme. Really, must you?

purch

My 2p worth

It's a shame we don't have the real Ted Butler on this forum.

He's a very smart commentator........unlike the dope who is using his name as a mask.

wotsthat

geneer wrote: »

I never said you did say anything about a pint of milk.
I said you were "effectively" saying the same thing.
My meaning was and is clear.

And I simply did not imply that you going about your day was an incorrect response or otherwise.

But I did explicitly state several times that just because you and others can go about your days doesn't mean that very serious things, with serious ramifications, aren't happening in the global financial markets.

Theres no reason you should not be clear in this from discussions prior to this point of course.

But in true wotsthat style you are compelled to invent nonexistient arguments on order to cover up your errors.
Tedious in the extreme. Really, must you?

Let's get this right.

I didn't say, effectively or otherwise, that just because pints of milk are available for sale that there isn't a financial crisis in process. What you fail to grasp is that just because some are sanguine about what's happening in markets it doesn't mean that they are unaware or unworried about the situation.

What you did on Saturday was to create silly posts with cartoons of New York being engulfed with a tidal wave. Then you went about your weekend.

Don't you see that everyone did pretty much the same thing minus the silly cartoons?

And you're the one that that's meant to be self-aware.

robmatic

wotsthat wrote: »

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And you're the one that that's meant to be self-aware.

But is it an exquisite lack of self-awareness?

wotsthat

robmatic wrote: »

But is it an exquisite lack of self-awareness?

Not sure - it might be a sublime lack of self-awareness.

geneer

wotsthat wrote: »

Let's get this right.
I didn't say, effectively or otherwise, that just because pints of milk are available for sale that there isn't a financial crisis in process. What you fail to grasp is that just because some are sanguine about what's happening in markets it doesn't mean that they are unaware or unworried about the situation.

Wotsthat, sweetie. I never said it did.

In the same way as I absolutely didn't "pour scorn" on your week end plans.

You really are super keen on creating non existing arguments aren't you?

wotsthat wrote: »

What you did on Saturday was to create silly posts with cartoons of New York being engulfed with a tidal wave. Then you went about your weekend.

Don't you see that everyone did pretty much the same thing minus the silly cartoons?

Well actually Wotsthat, I believe I clearly stated that those "cartoons" were created circa 2008.

wotsthat wrote: »

And you're the one that that's meant to be self-aware.

It also helps to be aware of the facts.

geneer

robmatic wrote: »

But is it an exquisite lack of self-awareness?

exquisite is a nice word isn't it rob.
You can find lots of them in the dictionary.

robmatic

geneer wrote: »

exquisite is a nice word isn't it rob.
You can find lots of them in the dictionary.

Indeed you can. I would even go so far as to say that a wide-ranging and appropriately used vocabulary is the telltale sign of a devastating intellect.

TedButler

GlynD wrote: »

In fact Ted the unrest you're seeing is (unfortunately) pretty normal. The world has been going through a lot of changes over the past 100 years as we leave the colonial era behind. It's taking time and some countries are still emergent. As for falling stock markets - it's all happened before. I've seen Wall Street close to avoid further falls on Black Friday. At that time even the Lloyds names lost a fortune.

You sincerely can't believe any of this is new. It's just a repeat of what's gone before.

I disagree the next few years are going to be like nothing the world has seen.

They are talking about putting the military on the streets in London, and its escalating all over the world.