THE BRITISH THREAD II

Who's ditto?

Ditto is an inhabitant of Ditto Town, living on a planet called Dittopia, which is situated in the Delta Quadrant of a galaxy known by its inhabitants as the Ditto Galaxy. ... (A pokemon-like game, I think.)

thanks for explaining that walter

it was getting a little repetitious.

look steve will you stop posting on the Brit 2 thread, its getting boring

ok?

ok i will

Sheesh!! May you live in interesting times.

Boris knifes Sir Ian, the master of the dark arts is back in the Cabinet and the House of Representatives is playing a computer game on screen (Sky News) with the first prize your wallets creamed for sure and the second prize asserted promises of global financial meltdown which in plain English is shops all empty and the juice off. The stock markets are tracking Sky's game and the protagonists in the election are squeezing it for all it's worth. The banks have been nationalised, there's a cold wind blowing and they have found Mr Fossett's body in what must be really empty territory.

Did you see the press conference. Jeepers.

"We are going to reconstruct the way we govern."

"To prepare for new times." And a "new era."

"We are reinventing government."

"These are serious times."

"There is consternation in America."

"We will have to deal with oil producing countries in new ways."

Stand by your beds!!

yep the whole capitalist system was teetering on the brink. Me and the republicans were willing to give it a heafty shove, when the bloody Democrats bottled.

I've bought into the Post Office today. Guaranteed by the Bank of Ireland.

As for empty shops and no juice...BRING IT ON

If you swing through Phoenix (and why wouldn't you?), look me up, McT.

Democrats have no bottle Steve. They lean with the balmy breezes.

I suppose the candidates promoted the bail-out to make sure Mr Bush was going to carry the can and it not be waiting on their desk unopened in January.

The winner will be able to make the pips squeak and blame it on the last administration.

It was a bit of a fantasy I know, but I was really looking forward to post capitalistic anarchy. I've got all sorts of stuff to barter lined up. Including a broken camera and a football programme from 1953.

I know a single middle-aged lady who runs a B and B who has an ex-paddock full of scrap pallets. Does she know something we don't know yet? Women's intuition is a funny thing.

Sorry T, did not see that till now, but the nearest we were to you was Vegas.

Anyway, how would I recognise you? Poncho, wide-brimmed hat, winchester?

You would no doubt approve of my T-shirt slogan,

"The Governator Says NO to Girlie Men"

Hey Mac.... good to have you home safe and sound. Looking forward to hearing of your travels and seeing the pics.

How's the jetlag?

hugs x

Mac-- you won't have heard seeing as how you have blown a load of dough and helped melt the polar bear's habitat to escape our company but there's a Melton Mowbray pork pie fiasco taking place. It's quite complicated so I can't explain it for you.

I hope your bank didn't collapse during your absence.

Hey Spendi... good to see you too. Lost you on the politics threads for a while - nice to see you back on the Brit'un.

Stevie - thinking of you hun and Mrs.Stevie - hope you are holding up mate. Planning on coming up your way soon so hope to see you then. Hugs. x

Well, this weekend I was in my footie kit. We had a tourney. Our team is called Arsenal, but we have Chelsea colors.


Yes, I do.

Leaving aside football teams calling themselves Arsenal and playing in Chelsea's strip...astute observers might have detected a collapse in the baking system and the imminent demise of capitalism.

I was thinking this morning that the financial crisis will probably develop into an economic crisis which in turn might prompt a political and social crisis. We could see a collapse of the social order and the rise of fascism. To forestall this we need to take quick and radical action. We should deploy troops now in the City of London. We should arrest 1,000 or so of the leading bankers and money men who through their own greed and recklessness have brought society to the edge of disaster. If the Americans arrested a similar bunch, the people would see something being done in their name. We can worry about the legality of it once the storm has passed.

It is one of the few gleams of light Steve that you are not in any position of real influence. What exactly would you charge the arrested people with?

Would you hold them without charge? How long for?

You're scapegoating on the basis of oversimplification at the level of absurdity.

It is a psychological failure on a mass scale provoked by Media. It was inevitable once advertising was allowed on TV. And TV being taken over by women as was also inevitable. Irresponsibility is the cause. The triumph of the untramelled ego which is automatic once Christian values are devalued and even derided.

Nice one, Steve. And I noticed your typo- strange to think that the Great Fire of London was also caused by a fault in the baking system, in Pudding Lane I think it was.

Commentators are wondering, in view of the success of the Euro, why european countries are not acting together to remedy the crisis, opting instead for separate panic measures. I'm wondering the same myself (although the UK is not in the Euro). Hang together, or hang separately, eh? Hang Seng.

http://tbm.thebigmoney.com/articles/making-bail/2008/10/06/continental-divide