NJS wrote:

4F Hepcat wrote:

Of course, I'm in the Netherlands, so really, like NJS I'm free from the folly of dear old Blighty.

It's going down the economic bog any moment now and all my contacts there are totally oblivious to it all. The George Carman quote of: "heads in the sand, exposing their thinking parts", springs to mind. There must be strategies that they could employ to defuse the situation but they just think that it will all be OK; just let's wait and see - whoops. The value of the currency has halved against (inter alia), the Brazilian Real, in five years. What more do they need to see?

You're looking good - amigo. Apparently the Brazilians are buying every spare condominium in Florida.

meister wrote:

NJS wrote:

4F Hepcat wrote:

Of course, I'm in the Netherlands, so really, like NJS I'm free from the folly of dear old Blighty.

It's going down the economic bog any moment now and all my contacts there are totally oblivious to it all. The George Carman quote of: "heads in the sand, exposing their thinking parts", springs to mind. There must be strategies that they could employ to defuse the situation but they just think that it will all be OK; just let's wait and see - whoops. The value of the currency has halved against (inter alia), the Brazilian Real, in five years. What more do they need to see?

You're looking good - amigo. Apparently the Brazilians are buying every spare condominium in Florida.

It could have been better: had we been braver and quicker we could have worked the perceived advantage more but we are just glad that we got out of poor old Blighty when we did. The only downsides are: (1) that any money coming in here now is slashed in value, and (2) internal inflation driven by high interest rates.

On top of the buoyancy of the currency, property prices (in RdeJ and Sao Paulo especially) are shooting up; 'helped' by the inflationary effect of increased lending (but watch that one, Brazil!).

The UK seems to be giving up the ghost; sad to see - and more sharply from so far away. Someone has to realize that it is no use giving up all the means of production of the little that is still produced there (cars; energy) to foreign firms: even the remains of the Cornish clay industry are owned by a French company and my parents' energy is supplied by a German company. There is still time to cling to the wreckage and find a plank in the shipwreck but you need to be quick about it and I don't see any of the present leaders of any of the parties as having anywhere near what it takes: they seem to be all mouth and no trousers: generally, they are an ill-favoured bunch and they look like teenagers, which doesn't inspire confidence and they have no message; no firmness; no purpose, and no grit.

NJS wrote:

meister wrote:

NJS wrote:

^Stanley Holloway made his last stage performance at the London Palladium at the age of 89 years. He was much more a true entertainer than people such as Clarkson or Gordon Ramsey (shock people into laughing or angry reaction and call that entertaining them), or Fry's version which is to mumble snide remarks about various people and to roll his carefully scripted witticisms around in that bovine face, trying to be more Noel Coward than Noel Coward - but without the Noel Coward.

Exactly and an upper class Lefty a la Wedgy Benn to boot...puke making....

Champagne socialists: with all the enjoyments of their privilege plus all the self-indulgence of appearing to care a tuppenny damn about all the regular Joes and Jills; although I'd say that Wedgy Benn has more sincerity than Fry.

Love that expression almost as much as "parlour pinks" ...

eg wrote:

NJS wrote:

meister wrote:

You're looking good - amigo. Apparently the Brazilians are buying every spare condominium in Florida.

It could have been better: had we been braver and quicker we could have worked the perceived advantage more but we are just glad that we got out of poor old Blighty when we did. The only downsides are: (1) that any money coming in here now is slashed in value, and (2) internal inflation driven by high interest rates.

On top of the buoyancy of the currency, property prices (in RdeJ and Sao Paulo especially) are shooting up; 'helped' by the inflationary effect of increased lending (but watch that one, Brazil!).

The UK seems to be giving up the ghost; sad to see - and more sharply from so far away. Someone has to realize that it is no use giving up all the means of production of the little that is still produced there (cars; energy) to foreign firms: even the remains of the Cornish clay industry are owned by a French company and my parents' energy is supplied by a German company. There is still time to cling to the wreckage and find a plank in the shipwreck but you need to be quick about it and I don't see any of the present leaders of any of the parties as having anywhere near what it takes: they seem to be all mouth and no trousers: generally, they are an ill-favoured bunch and they look like teenagers, which doesn't inspire confidence and they have no message; no firmness; no purpose, and no grit.

In my most uncharitable moments, deep in the blackest regions of my Irish heart, I cannot help but feel that the UK's comeuppance is not only well-deserved, but overdue. Sod them. http://serve.mysmiley.net/mad/mad0066.gif

The trouble is that Ireland is in the economic shitstorm too...

Sator wrote:

I am totally over this iGent crap about inventing imaginary Eternal Rules of Permanent Style that never existed. If some iGent on the other side of the world pops an aneurysm because of they don't approve of you wearing brown/black/suede/derbies/slip ons etc with a suit, tough titties for them. Old dress "guides" (they nearly always use the term "guide" and old publications virtually never use the word word "rule") are clearly intended so that people don't feel out of place in various social situations, and are always dictated by whatever is in fashion at the time.  They are never under the delusion that they are perpetuating some sort of Permanent Rule carved in stone, valid for all Eternity and which must be rigidly adhered to on pain of death. These notions exist only on the net perpetuated by iGents. Heck, I've done my bit to perpetuate them too! So I went out to research the historical basis for them - and found no such thing existed. In the end, it's all about forum group think, and attempts to raise personal taste to the status of Eternal Validity.

I think this post is a major contribution and I'm glad you posted it Sator.
It's something I've long suspected but never researched myself.

I already knew that Sator had gone hip on us.

The conversation has not been about brown or suede shoes with a suit, after all, Noel Coward wore brown sued shoes with his brown DJ - very impressive and a triumph in cabaret. It's more about brown shoes with a navy pinstripe suit. It just looks terrible.

Kingstonian wrote:

NJS wrote:

I already knew that Sator had gone hip on us.

Did you? I thought he was interested in Victorian tailcoats and such like. Even the language seems different. Maybe someone has hijacked his user account.

I heard the Aussie Prime minister speak and swear she didnt use a single word of English.

NJS wrote:

eg wrote:

NJS wrote:

It could have been better: had we been braver and quicker we could have worked the perceived advantage more but we are just glad that we got out of poor old Blighty when we did. The only downsides are: (1) that any money coming in here now is slashed in value, and (2) internal inflation driven by high interest rates.

On top of the buoyancy of the currency, property prices (in RdeJ and Sao Paulo especially) are shooting up; 'helped' by the inflationary effect of increased lending (but watch that one, Brazil!).

The UK seems to be giving up the ghost; sad to see - and more sharply from so far away. Someone has to realize that it is no use giving up all the means of production of the little that is still produced there (cars; energy) to foreign firms: even the remains of the Cornish clay industry are owned by a French company and my parents' energy is supplied by a German company. There is still time to cling to the wreckage and find a plank in the shipwreck but you need to be quick about it and I don't see any of the present leaders of any of the parties as having anywhere near what it takes: they seem to be all mouth and no trousers: generally, they are an ill-favoured bunch and they look like teenagers, which doesn't inspire confidence and they have no message; no firmness; no purpose, and no grit.

In my most uncharitable moments, deep in the blackest regions of my Irish heart, I cannot help but feel that the UK's comeuppance is not only well-deserved, but overdue. Sod them. http://serve.mysmiley.net/mad/mad0066.gif

The trouble is that Ireland is in the economic shitstorm too...

The smart ones left years ago.

eg wrote:

formby wrote:

eg wrote:

In my most uncharitable moments, deep in the blackest regions of my Irish heart, I cannot help but feel that the UK's comeuppance is not only well-deserved, but overdue. Sod them. http://serve.mysmiley.net/mad/mad0066.gif

You are aware that a significant percentage of the UK population are of Irish decent...? Of course you are like most of the plastic paddies across the pond.

If you say so.

You're about as Irish as a shamrock shake...

Big news for everybody who slept during history lessons...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fe … blood.html


Jawoll!!!

formby wrote:

eg wrote:

formby wrote:

You are aware that a significant percentage of the UK population are of Irish decent...? Of course you are like most of the plastic paddies across the pond.

If you say so.

You're about as Irish as a shamrock shake...

Keep them coming!

Film Noir Buff wrote:

Kingstonian wrote:

NJS wrote:

I already knew that Sator had gone hip on us.

Did you? I thought he was interested in Victorian tailcoats and such like. Even the language seems different. Maybe someone has hijacked his user account.

I heard the Aussie Prime minister speak and swear she didnt use a single word of English.

She uses Western suburbs talk mate, the language of true aussie bogans. Yeah, she has an aweful voice. Overwieght unemployed mothers who go around in their slippers, tracksuit pants and t-shirts used to talk the same way before the mass immigration started to our country. lt's not English, it's old school austraya mate!

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