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BNP Paribas - Not Learning the Lessons

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  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,474 Forumite
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    Tintin - well herge anyway
    I think....
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Kristine Beano - inventor of socks
    Johannes Alors - 8 times winner of the Francophone mild swearing mondiale
    Jens 'Jens' Jensson - best known exponent of the "Le tout, c'est merde" school of philosophy
    Davide Pilchard - leading jazz statistician
    Els Rikard - longest serving female junior transport secretary in Northern Europe (excluding Germany and Finland)
    Stefania Olkiovic - Auditor, raconteur, lover.
  • BlondeHeadOn
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    Generali wrote: »
    Kristine Beano - inventor of socks
    Johannes Alors - 8 times winner of the Francophone mild swearing mondiale
    Jens 'Jens' Jensson - best known exponent of the "Le tout, c'est merde" school of philosophy
    Davide Pilchard - leading jazz statistician
    Els Rikard - longest serving female junior transport secretary in Northern Europe (excluding Germany and Finland)
    Stefania Olkiovic - Auditor, raconteur, lover.


    I can't help feeling that there's not a lot of competition for the title of "leading jazz statistician" !

    :D
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    edited 27 March 2013 at 11:56AM
    BlondeHeadOn wrote: »
    I can't help feeling that there's not a lot of competition for the title of "leading jazz statistician" !

    :D

    It's a more popular profession than you'd imagine. There are literally 4 of them spread across Benelux and northern France.

    M. Pilchard is unusual in that he specializes in the sort of jazz heard at Sunday morning champagne brunches in city centre hotels. You know the places that cater for families that can only stand being together for the day if they're smashed by 11am.
  • dryhat
    dryhat Posts: 1,305 Forumite
    How can anyone claim to be the "inventor of socks"?


    Sorry Gen, not having that one.
  • Generali
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    dryhat wrote: »
    How can anyone claim to be the "inventor of socks"?


    Sorry Gen, not having that one.

    Go on. Have a look on Wikipedia. You won't find anyone else down for it.

    Someone had to invent socks so why not a Belgian. I hope you're not an anti-Belgian racist. Belgians have a hard enough time as it is.

    Did you know gravity in Belgium is on average 95% of that averaged across the world as a whole? It plays havoc with fuel economy but they save some back on tyre wear.
  • dryhat
    dryhat Posts: 1,305 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    Go on. Have a look on Wikipedia. You won't find anyone else down for it.
    .


    Oh it must be true then.


    Seriously though?

    It's like someone saying they invented haircuts.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    dryhat wrote: »
    It's like someone saying they invented haircuts.

    That was Angela Merkel in Cyprus I think.
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    Go on. Have a look on Wikipedia. You won't find anyone else down for it.

    I gave an explicit warning about Wikipedia use.

    Don't make me come over there !!!
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • Masomnia
    Masomnia Posts: 19,506 Forumite
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    Kim Clijsters. Think I've spelt that correctly!

    I'm not convinced about the inventor of socks either, but I would like to hear more about Stefania Olkiovic.
    “I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse
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