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TruckerT
TruckerT Posts: 1,714 Forumite
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
... if you were a Banker, what would you wish for?

TruckerT
According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
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  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    Huh? What distinguishes bankers' desires from that of, say, recruitment managers or milkmen?!

    I imagine that, ultimately, the desire to spend time with the family, have a good standard of living, and the ability to indulge in the general consumerist whims of a person living in our society are fairly universal...
  • TruckerT
    TruckerT Posts: 1,714 Forumite
    esuhl wrote: »
    Huh? What distinguishes bankers' desires from that of, say, recruitment managers or milkmen?!

    I imagine that, ultimately, the desire to spend time with the family, have a good standard of living, and the ability to indulge in the general consumerist whims of a person living in our society are fairly universal...

    O dear - no christmas spirit!

    What if the airports grind to a halt (again)- surely that would be the biggest no-no..

    Recruitment Management and Milk Distribution are not currently Growth Industries...

    TruckerT
    According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    TruckerT wrote: »
    O dear - no christmas spirit!

    Huh? I'm really trying to figure what you're talking about!
    TruckerT wrote: »
    What if the airports grind to a halt (again)- surely that would be the biggest no-no..

    So the "biggest no no" to wish you can avoid is airport closure?! Surely being struck down dead by a bolt of lightning would be a bigger no-no?
    TruckerT wrote: »
    Recruitment Management and Milk Distribution are not currently Growth Industries...

    Okay... now you've really got me. You're implying that banking is a growth industry... Is it? And how does the growth of the industry you work in affect your wishes? Wouldn't (almost) everyone ultimately want the same thing - good friends, happy families and time to spend with them, good health, prosperity and all that malarky...?
  • TruckerT
    TruckerT Posts: 1,714 Forumite
    esuhl wrote: »
    Wouldn't (almost) everyone ultimately want the same thing - good friends, happy families and time to spend with them, good health, prosperity and all that malarky...?

    You are describing the Welfare State...boring...impossible...

    TruckerT
    According to Clapton, I am a totally ignorant idiot.
  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    TruckerT wrote: »
    You are describing the Welfare State...boring...impossible...

    If you think that the welfare state provides good friends, happy families, time to spend with them, good health and prosperity then you are very confused indeed. And even more confused if you think that any welfare state is impossible.

    And don't blame me if this discussion is boring - you started it! :rotfl:

    Ah well, have a jolly Chistmas... :beer:
  • Masomnia
    Masomnia Posts: 19,506 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    TruckerT wrote: »
    ... if you were a Banker, what would you wish for?

    TruckerT

    To be allowed to get on with my life without being vilified for my job title?
    “I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse
  • bendix
    bendix Posts: 5,499 Forumite
    esuhl wrote: »
    Huh? I'm really trying to figure what you're talking about!




    Don't worry esuhi.

    The rest of MSE feels the same way. Trucker T seems to live in a world of his own, coming out now and again with aphorisms he thinks are pearls or wisdom but that leave everyone else completely baffled.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    TruckerT wrote: »
    ... if you were a Banker, what would you wish for?

    TruckerT
    Bigger bonuses, more dancing girls, a crash in the cost of champagne (not that you'd actually know how much it costs), a law saying all female staff must be attractive and topless in the workplace.

    I think that covers the entire thinking repertoire of a banker.
  • the_flying_pig
    the_flying_pig Posts: 2,349 Forumite
    edited 25 December 2011 at 11:19AM
    Based in the ones I know - a landmark court case entitling divorced bankers' wives to a new statutory £30 a week instead of pretty much half of everything. Expect a sudden boom in weddings between 30-something bankers and voluptuous secretaries and wholesale dumping of average-looking wives taken on in mid-late 20s (when only modestly well off) to give impressions of being a solid family man
    FACT.
  • property.advert
    property.advert Posts: 4,087 Forumite
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    TruckerT wrote: »
    ... if you were a Banker, what would you wish for?

    TruckerT

    That the council house chavs and great unwashed / uneducated actually knew what a banker was, did and actually was paid, rather than simply gorging on the diatribe spewed by the tabloid press.

    I'd also remove the vote from these people and deport them to an independent Scotland (or Ireland or Wales).
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