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Never rub another man's rhubarb. The Joker, Batman
May I set out the reason why I started this thread? We each of us have our various views; our own opinions are called common-sense while the...
Our planet is much younger than the universe. Stars form, go through their cycles, and end. This happens repeatedly. The matter we and the...
... so switch to a Ducati then.
Better than nothing, but rubbish coverage basically. Commentators were appalling.
... or perhaps cloud cuckoo land [Aristophanes - The Birds 414BC].
I have responded to dozens of comments in this thread, and probably bored everybody to death. Are you saying you think I should have responded to...
Stranger and stranger! Smearing an arbitrary label "communism" on any ideas you dislike is a practice Joe McCarthy could get away with in 1950's...
Mystifying. What the hell has this got to do with the thread topic?
"Converted"? Is that a cross between coveted and perverted?
Good question. Capping bonuses is more the putting down of a marker, rather than a measure which will have a major direct effect in itself. It...
You seem to be arguing that unless a measure can be agreed and imposed across the entire world at the outset, it should not be adopted at all....
Good. At least you are frank and honest about sitting on the fence, which is a start.
Come on, as you well know the bank is 100 times larger than the footie club. In terms of the national economy they are in different leagues.
Well spareparts, you seem to be trying to justify grotesque extremes of greed, selfishness and irresponsibility coupled with vast rewards for...
If the company you work for goes broke and closes down, it makes no difference whether you as an individual were hard-working and profit-making or...
If Manchester City or (let's say) Rangers FC go bankrupt, who cares? It's not important and has no real economic consequences. If the RBS bank,...
Yes, Ian, as you rightly say the main problem was highstreet "...banks lending mortgages to borrowers that were not creditworthy..." enough. So...
Oh no, you Earthlings have rumbled me!
I love this bit in the Telegraph quote: "Mark Reckless, who was an economist for Barings ..." I also note that you too do not want to answer the...
