Preparedness for when

[Deleted User]

In all this 'what if' worry just keep tight hold of the thought that we can only ever do the best with the resources we actually have and all the worrying in the world will NOT change a thing!!! If TS does hit the Fan in any of the scenarios we've imagined and more likely in a way we've not even contemplated we'll still be in a much better position to find our way than lots of folks as what we have is the mindset that says I will not be beaten down by all this. I will survive and I will make the best of what remains to be used, can't get better than that folks!!!

mardatha

And meanwhile we can all use realseeds site and buy our own seed and then harvest it every year.

Frugalsod

GreyQueen wrote: »

Double funny - d'you remember that the mice were found to be secretly running the universe?

Unfunny time; another banker has leapt to his death, the 3rd one from JP Morgan alone.http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-18/third-jpmorgan-banker-jumps-his-death-hong-kong-said-be-33-year-old-fx-trad

Something very odd is going on.................:(

Well the mice are not doing a very good job right now. :rotfl:

As for the dead bankers I think the number is higher at 5, but that is not all JP Morgan, so far but all in high positions in high risk departments. Though considering how many people there are at JP Morgan it could simply be no more than average elsewhere.

jk0

GreyQueen wrote: »

Double funny - d'you remember that the mice were found to be secretly running the universe?

Unfunny time; another banker has leapt to his death, the 3rd one from JP Morgan alone.http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-18/third-jpmorgan-banker-jumps-his-death-hong-kong-said-be-33-year-old-fx-trad

Something very odd is going on.................:(

Strange. That page seems not to work. Could they have been mistaken and removed it?

Edit: Found it:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-18/third-jpmorgan-banker-jumps-his-death-hong-kong-said-be-33-year-old-fx-trader

[Deleted User]

We'll manage whatever happens, we'll use our not inconsiderable experience and skills and innovate where we have to, whatever life throws at us. It's dreadful about the bankers and perhaps an indication of the desperation felt by those who deal in financial matters, but there have always been those who cannot cope, it was a fact in both world wars that many people couldn't deal with life and ended theirs. We live in a very complex and difficult time, there are pressures and expectations that are sometimes impossible to fulfil and some people just give up, not us though, not us!!!

Butterfly_Brain

Went into £land this morning and got three more tins of sliced beef in gravy for the store cupboard, it actually is quite nice and dated to Dec 2016 and we all know that it will last longer than that

As for TTIP and TAFTA are the most dangerous threat to us, our lives will now be owned by the US corporate kleptocracies and we won't be able to stop it.

Our traitorous politicians should swing for what they have done.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/04/us-trade-deal-full-frontal-assault-on-democracy

thriftwizard

Hmmm - bankers… someone well-known to me used to work in a small establishment that came to be seen as somewhat high risk; an astonishing number of employees committed suicide, fell out of aeroplanes, didn't survive a bout of flu, had fatal road accidents, dropped dead of heart conditions in their twenties etc. etc. The final death-toll stood at about 10 IIRC, way beyond what you'd expect, but I know he felt that two of them were pretty much normally explicable. The "glut" seemed to stop after a couple of years but it was horrid whilst it was going on; not just because they'd all lost colleagues & friends, but because they really started looking over their shoulders & wondering, who's next?

Far be it from me to feel sorry for the bankers, but I really, really wouldn't want to be in their shoes.

Horrified by the treaty; is there any way to make our protests felt?

jk0

The recent controversy regarding whether Scotland will continue to use the pound made me wonder if it might mean Scottish Banks would be safer:

If they will no longer be bailed out by the Bank of England, won't they be less inclined to take silly risks with their money? They won't be able to lend money out of thin air by writing the numbers in someone's account. They will only be able to lend monies that someone has saved. (Rather like building societies used to be.)

Am I wrong?

RAS

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

We'll manage whatever happens, we'll use our not inconsiderable experience and skills and innovate where we have to, whatever life throws at us. It's dreadful about the bankers and perhaps an indication of the desperation felt by those who deal in financial matters, but there have always been those who cannot cope, it was a fact in both world wars that many people couldn't deal with life and ended theirs. We live in a very complex and difficult time, there are pressures and expectations that are sometimes impossible to fulfil and some people just give up, not us though, not us!!!

Was at a meeting last week where one speaker talked about some of the situations in Greece.

Producers will no longer sell to supermarkets; they hand over the produce, get a cheque and it bounces. So they finding ways to club togehter and sell direct to the public; at a slightly lower price then to the supermarkets sometimes but at least the money goes nowhere near a bank.

And those need to pay for goods purchased from outside the country now transfer large bundles of Euro to the vendor rather than risking it in the banking system. One trader took a little detour via Greece on the way back to Blightly.

pineapple

GQ - we have a communal septic tank. Are you suggesting I chuck my neighbour in it? :eek:
Just heard on the news the Care Data programme has been postponed for 6 months - it seems so many people are unhappy about it they need more time to explain it
http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/hsj-live/hsj-live-18022014-caredata-programme-postponed-by-six-months/5068115.article#.UwOaKCikJ54