Westway IFISA

AnotherJoe

boomer69 wrote: »

I had the call too.
Apparently they are involved in accommodation for "vulnerable" people, so your investment is asset backed, and the income comes from the rent.
The people ringing you were probably not Westway, but a cold calling firm diversifying out of PPI.


I wouldnt touch it with a stolen barge pole.




I have, however, recently bought some magic beans(WPCT).

Oh dear. And it was going so well until then. :rotfl:

Malthusian

Hey, what people forget when they go on about "magic beans" is that the magic beans worked perfectly and made Jack o' the Beanstalk stinking rich.

Maybe boomer's falling knife will turn out to be made of gold.

AnotherJoe

Malthusian wrote: »

Hey, what people forget when they go on about "magic beans" is that the magic beans worked perfectly and made Jack o' the Beanstalk stinking rich.

Maybe boomer's falling knife will turn out to be made of gold.

Aside that, the morality behind JATB is actually quite astounding. Perfectly OK to sneak into someone's house, steal their possessions and murder them, just because they are different to you.

Alexland

AnotherJoe wrote: »

Aside that, the morality behind JATB is actually quite astounding. Perfectly OK to sneak into someone's house, steal their possessions and murder them, just because they are different to you.

Yeah that's worse than The Browns giving Paddington Bear a Slave Name.

Did it not occur to them that he might have already had a name in Peru?

Alex

Malthusian

Alexland wrote: »

Yeah that's worse than The Browns giving Paddington Bear a Slave Name.

Did it not occur to them that he might have already had a name in Peru?

When he meets the Browns Paddington tells them that he has a Peruvian name but it is unpronouncable, and thus he happily adopts an English name.

Asian people who move to the West often adopt a Western name rather than suffer through people repeatedly mispronouncing or misspelling their original name or being unable to remember it. Paddington is no different. It's not a slave name.

This is later possibly contradicted in the Paddington books by the revelation that Paddington's original name is the easily-pronouncable "Pastuso" (same as his uncle). But Paddington could arguably have assumed that British people would be unable to pronounce or remember "Pastuso", whether that is true or not. In the film Paddington's original name is given as an ursine roar.

The amorality of the original version of JATB by contrast is very real. In published versions of the fairy tale the giant is often made out to be a man-eater or oppressing Jack's compatriots in some other way. This element is tacked on and isn't present in the original tale. And in any case it still doesn't justify Jack's actions; Jack doesn't attempt to kill the giant to save humanity, he only attempts to steal from him, which doesn't help anyone except Jack. Jack only kills the giant when he interferes with his thievery.

The moral of Jack and the Beanstalk is: do whatever you want because you can always find a way to retrospectively portray your actions as morally justified, especially if you get rich.

Alexland

Malthusian wrote: »

When he meets the Browns Paddington tells them that he has a Peruvian name but it is unpronouncable, and thus he happily adopts an English name.

Aah that detail is missing from the version of the books we have been reading at bedtime.

What name should Paddington use when applying for an 8% asset backed bond?

eskbanker

Alexland wrote: »

What name should Paddington use when applying for an 8% asset backed bond?

MoreRiskThanMostPeopleCould Bear?