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If your nearest and dearest was kidnapped.....
HAMISH_MCTAVISH
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A bit of entertainment for a Friday night, with a mildly relevant theme, given the constant speculation about how broke or otherwise the average person is......
If your spouse, rugrat, or pet haggis was kidnapped at 5pm on a Friday, how much could you lay your hands on within 24 hours to get them back?
Note I said "could", not "would".... (I appreciate some of you may not be quite as attached to your haggis as I am to mine.
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So.... the rules for the 5pm on a Friday challenge.....
-No new borrowing on credit lines that aren't already set up
-No remortgaging
--No selling investments
-No relying on employers, government, etc
-Just empty the accounts, max out the cards, and flog anything valuable to hand over the weekend.
If your spouse, rugrat, or pet haggis was kidnapped at 5pm on a Friday, how much could you lay your hands on within 24 hours to get them back?
Note I said "could", not "would".... (I appreciate some of you may not be quite as attached to your haggis as I am to mine.
)So.... the rules for the 5pm on a Friday challenge.....
-No new borrowing on credit lines that aren't already set up
-No remortgaging
--No selling investments
-No relying on employers, government, etc
-Just empty the accounts, max out the cards, and flog anything valuable to hand over the weekend.
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”
In an emergency, how much could you raise, quickly, without any new borrowing? 48 votes
Less than £5000
27%
13 votes
£5000 to £15,000
8%
4 votes
£15,000 to £25,000
8%
4 votes
£25,000 to £50,000
14%
7 votes
More than £50,000
41%
20 votes
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Hmm - I think I could pay the kidnappers 5 grand a week to hang on to the DW and stop her spending and I would probably profit on the deal...I think....0
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »A bit of entertainment for a Friday night, with a mildly relevant theme, given the constant speculation about how broke or otherwise the average person is......
If your spouse, rugrat, or pet haggis was kidnapped at 5pm on a Friday, how much could you lay your hands on within 24 hours to get them back?
Note I said "could", not "would".... (I appreciate some of you may not be quite as attached to your haggis as I am to mine. )
So.... the rules for the 5pm on a Friday challenge.....
-No new borrowing on credit lines that aren't already set up
-No remortgaging
--No selling investments
-Just empty the accounts, max out the cards, and flog anything valuable to hand over the weekend.
I'd call his father who is richer than i am or his bosses to whom he is worth something more than I could raise. It would be one of those occasions where knowing when to delegate is the most useful thing to know.0 -
chucknorris wrote: »I could renegotiate with the kidnapper(s) to either pay more a few days later or I pay others £1m to hunt them down and hand them over to me for disposal.
I take it back.
You are obviously way more attached to your haggis than I am to mine.:D
I reckon I could raise 50k-ish with that kind of notice. If it was only 2-3 hours on a Friday night, it would be under 20k.
Of course, if my haggis was kidnapped by Somalian pirates while sailing around the world, and they could therefore wait until Monday morning, it would be many times that, but over the weekend I couldn't realistically convert assets and investments into cash.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »If your spouse, rugrat, or pet haggis was kidnapped at 5pm on a Friday, how much could you lay your hands on within 24 hours to get them back?
I had to google what the heck a pet haggis was and stumbled onto
Sorry Hamish
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I knew there was a picture of me out there somewhere! “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
At the moment he is annoying me to fcuk, I'd pay them to keep him LOLThrifty Till 50 Then Spend Till the End
You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time0 -
Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »At the moment he is annoying me to fcuk, I'd pay them to keep him LOL
I'm quite sure Mrs McT's kidnappers would pay me to take her back after 24 hours.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: ». If it was only 2-3 hours on a Friday night, it would be under 20.
I had no idea you were that poor
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Reminds me of 'Ruthless People' - one of my favourite films.0
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I had no idea you were that poor
Yes, I'm afraid the "bank of under the mattress" is usually almost empty. “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0
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