Post subject: Re: Greece - Rise of the left or rise of the young?
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 4:50 pm
Mugwump
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cod'ead wrote:Was that not the scenario at the start of the 20th Century and during the 1920s & 30s?
The resulting conflicts claimed the lives of over 50 million people. That's a hell of a price in exchange for - at best - fifteen good years from 1961 - to 1976.
Post subject: Re: Greece - Rise of the left or rise of the young?
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:02 pm
cod'ead
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Mugwump wrote:The resulting conflicts claimed the lives of over 50 million people. That's a hell of a price in exchange for - at best - fifteen good years from 1961 - to 1976.
So we simply rise up and kill the bastads that caused it, instead of each other
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Post subject: Re: Greece - Rise of the left or rise of the young?
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 6:45 pm
JerryChicken
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WIZEB wrote:At least he was ahead of the times with his big hit single of '76. Forever and Ever.
That's how long it's gonna take the Greeks to pay back that EU bail-out.
With my hearing I always thought that was an instrumental track but then I was told that someone was singing on it too, could never hear them myself.
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Post subject: Re: Greece - Rise of the left or rise of the young?
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 7:06 pm
WIZEB
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Mugwump wrote:I don't know about you but - I haven't taken any courses on how to bring down an Apache helicopter with kitchen utensils and a garden hoe.
If some Iraqi farmers managed it, fook it, Im signing up with Corporal Cod'ead.
Post subject: Re: Greece - Rise of the left or rise of the young?
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 7:38 pm
cod'ead
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Joined: May 25 2002 Posts: 37704 Location: Zummerzet, where the zoider apples grow
Ajw71 wrote:Unfortunately in austere times people always choose to turn to extremist nutjob parties.
Like tories?
The older I get, the better I was
Advice is what we seek when we already know the answer - but wish we didn't
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full-frontal lobotomy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ kirkstaller wrote: "All DNA shows is that we have a common creator."
cod'ead wrote: "I have just snotted weissbier all over my keyboard & screen"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin." - Aneurin Bevan
Post subject: Re: Greece - Rise of the left or rise of the young?
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 8:17 pm
The Video Ref
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Joined: Feb 29 2004 Posts: 4195
How are they going to pay for all this?
Oh...they are not.
If they default on their debts no-one will lend them any more money. They will have to leave the Euro and start from scratch, which is possibly what they want.
If any company ran its accounts the same way Greece did when it submitted its application to join the Euro the directors would be looking at some serious pokey.
But this is the problem - the EU has taken a group of countries who have little in common and decided to try and shoe-horn them all into a one size fits all economic policy.
Quite how anyone thought there could be a meeting of minds, culture and currency in countries that have absolutely nothing in common save as to approximate geographical location is beyond me.
Post subject: Re: Greece - Rise of the left or rise of the young?
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 8:29 pm
cod'ead
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Joined: May 25 2002 Posts: 37704 Location: Zummerzet, where the zoider apples grow
The Video Ref wrote:How are they going to pay for all this?
Oh...they are not.
If they default on their debts no-one will lend them any more money. They will have to leave the Euro and start from scratch, which is possibly what they want.
If any company ran its accounts the same way Greece did when it submitted its application to join the Euro the directors would be looking at some serious pokey.
But this is the problem - the EU has taken a group of countries who have little in common and decided to try and shoe-horn them all into a one size fits all economic policy.
Quite how anyone thought there could be a meeting of minds, culture and currency in countries that have absolutely nothing in common save as to approximate geographical location is beyond me.
KPMG did the audit
Go figure
The older I get, the better I was
Advice is what we seek when we already know the answer - but wish we didn't
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full-frontal lobotomy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ kirkstaller wrote: "All DNA shows is that we have a common creator."
cod'ead wrote: "I have just snotted weissbier all over my keyboard & screen"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin." - Aneurin Bevan
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