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Yeah fair.wallace_and_gromit said:
That's why I pointed you to the "relative rate" curve, as that adjusts for such things. I may not have plied my trade in the heady world of recruitment, but I've learnt a thing or two over the years in my various corners of FS...rick_chasey said:
Rates are irrelevant without taking the cost of mortgage servicing into account. The chart is more illustrative than just talking rates.wallace_and_gromit said:
I graduated straight into Gulf War I (the uncertainty associated with it, not the battlefield itself) and the fallout from the "Lawson Boom" / negative equity, then went through Black Wednesday, the Dot Com saga (very bad for the consulting world in which I worked at the time), 9/11, Gulf War II and then the GFC by my late 30s!Jezyboy said:Either way, after graduating into a global financial crisis, a second economic catastrophe in your early 30s is certainly great fun!
I'm not saying things are easy / great now. Just that there were challenges in the "Old Days" too. The last 10-15 years of virtually non-existent interest rates is a historical anomaly really.
I just get fed up with the “it was once worse so stop whining” argument.0 -
Shocked that Johnson would take up his new job without going through the proper process for ex-ministers.0
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I don't think anyone is saying that tbh, even if that's how you interpret things. There's just some balance being provided.rick_chasey said:
Yeah fair.wallace_and_gromit said:
That's why I pointed you to the "relative rate" curve, as that adjusts for such things. I may not have plied my trade in the heady world of recruitment, but I've learnt a thing or two over the years in my various corners of FS...rick_chasey said:
Rates are irrelevant without taking the cost of mortgage servicing into account. The chart is more illustrative than just talking rates.wallace_and_gromit said:
I graduated straight into Gulf War I (the uncertainty associated with it, not the battlefield itself) and the fallout from the "Lawson Boom" / negative equity, then went through Black Wednesday, the Dot Com saga (very bad for the consulting world in which I worked at the time), 9/11, Gulf War II and then the GFC by my late 30s!Jezyboy said:Either way, after graduating into a global financial crisis, a second economic catastrophe in your early 30s is certainly great fun!
I'm not saying things are easy / great now. Just that there were challenges in the "Old Days" too. The last 10-15 years of virtually non-existent interest rates is a historical anomaly really.
I just get fed up with the “it was once worse so stop whining” argument.
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To be fair I think that’s more a response to you constantly claiming it is worse now than it ever was for the oldies.rick_chasey said:
Yeah fair.wallace_and_gromit said:
That's why I pointed you to the "relative rate" curve, as that adjusts for such things. I may not have plied my trade in the heady world of recruitment, but I've learnt a thing or two over the years in my various corners of FS...rick_chasey said:
Rates are irrelevant without taking the cost of mortgage servicing into account. The chart is more illustrative than just talking rates.wallace_and_gromit said:
I graduated straight into Gulf War I (the uncertainty associated with it, not the battlefield itself) and the fallout from the "Lawson Boom" / negative equity, then went through Black Wednesday, the Dot Com saga (very bad for the consulting world in which I worked at the time), 9/11, Gulf War II and then the GFC by my late 30s!Jezyboy said:Either way, after graduating into a global financial crisis, a second economic catastrophe in your early 30s is certainly great fun!
I'm not saying things are easy / great now. Just that there were challenges in the "Old Days" too. The last 10-15 years of virtually non-existent interest rates is a historical anomaly really.
I just get fed up with the “it was once worse so stop whining” argument.1 -
kingstongraham said:
Shocked that Johnson would take up his new job without going through the proper process for ex-ministers.
I'm sure he was told that it was all fine and dandy.0 -
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briantrumpet said:kingstongraham said:
Shocked that Johnson would take up his new job without going through the proper process for ex-ministers.
I'm sure he was told that it was all fine and dandy.
Haha, I wasn't far off. He just can't help lying.
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Hahaha, you know that Johnson is toast when the Telegraph gives a Loch Ness Monster news item a higher billing.
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Why the f*ck does he bother prattling about with pretence of going running. He might as well just have a w@nk. He’d get more of a workout.briantrumpet said:briantrumpet said:kingstongraham said:Shocked that Johnson would take up his new job without going through the proper process for ex-ministers.
I'm sure he was told that it was all fine and dandy.
Haha, I wasn't far off. He just can't help lying.0 -
Any sane person would have played it cool as though they weren’t fussed whether they got a Peerage or not.rjsterry said:0 -
Impossible to tell parody with the Tories these days but even so she’s been doing the rounds whinging about how hard done by she is as though she really relied on Boris to deliver his promises.super_davo said:0 -
I was momentarily fooled, but as Pross says, it's difficult to tell these days.super_davo said:
A more sympathetic interview in the FT. But I can't find the link now.
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Nadine Boris is a regular contributor on Mark Steel's 'What the F*** Is Going On?' podcast. Just saying....0
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webboo said:
Why the f*ck does he bother prattling about with pretence of going running. He might as well just have a w@nk. He’d get more of a workout.briantrumpet said:briantrumpet said:kingstongraham said:Shocked that Johnson would take up his new job without going through the proper process for ex-ministers.
I'm sure he was told that it was all fine and dandy.
Haha, I wasn't far off. He just can't help lying.
He's a fraud in every aspect of his miserable life.
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And here it is...
"Wonder drug is no match for my inbuilt lack of self control"
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Fair do's, credit to @Stevo_666The senior MP said: “I was speaking to my people and they said they just want this all to be over. They said they had enough of Boris Johnson, that we had to move on. There are a few diehards who still think he is the best electoral asset we have ever had. But if they analysed things more thoroughly they would discover that that person was in fact Jeremy Corbyn.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/17/just-an-ex-mp-rishi-sunaks-allies-pour-scorn-on-beaten-boris-johnson0 -
And now Johnson doesn't even appear as a news item anywhere on the main Telegraph website front page. For such a narcissist, that'll sting.0
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"S'not fair, it's just not fair. Poor poor me, Donald, what do I do now?"
"Fxck off punk"0 -
Good material to remind voters what the Tory Party has become, when the next election comes.
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Does the journo who wrote this article know you, Brian?briantrumpet said:And now Johnson doesn't even appear as a news item anywhere on the main Telegraph website front page. For such a narcissist, that'll sting.
https://telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/16/destroying-boris-johnson-doesnt-alter-reality/"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Stevo_666 said:
Does the journo who wrote this article know you, Brian?briantrumpet said:And now Johnson doesn't even appear as a news item anywhere on the main Telegraph website front page. For such a narcissist, that'll sting.
https://telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/16/destroying-boris-johnson-doesnt-alter-reality/
Not that I know. I'm not sure he's an entirely unbiased critic though.
https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/author/robert-tombs/
Mind you, I might take his coining of 'the Remainer Undead' epithet as a compliment, even if he is slightly off his rocker. For all his supposed academic credentials, his suggestion that "Only a 'good' Brexit [which no Brexiters seem to be able to define in practical terms] can stop Scottish independence" suggest he's unlikely to embrace the pragmatics of co-operation with the UK's biggest market, or, as all academics should, change his mind in light of the increasing evidence of the idiocy of pulling up the drawbridge.0 -
So a bit biased, like Mark Carney is?briantrumpet said:Stevo_666 said:
Does the journo who wrote this article know you, Brian?briantrumpet said:And now Johnson doesn't even appear as a news item anywhere on the main Telegraph website front page. For such a narcissist, that'll sting.
https://telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/16/destroying-boris-johnson-doesnt-alter-reality/
Not that I know. I'm not sure he's an entirely unbiased critic though.
https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/author/robert-tombs/
Mind you, I might take his coining of 'the Remainer Undead' epithet as a compliment, even if he is slightly off his rocker. For all his supposed academic credentials, his suggestion that "Only a 'good' Brexit [which no Brexiters seem to be able to define in practical terms] can stop Scottish independence" suggest he's unlikely to embrace the pragmatics of co-operation with the UK's biggest market, or, as all academics should, change his mind in light of the increasing evidence of the idiocy of pulling up the drawbridge.
Although I'm confused as the country which is our largest market is the USA...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Stevo_666 said:
So a bit biased, like Mark Carney is?briantrumpet said:Stevo_666 said:
Does the journo who wrote this article know you, Brian?briantrumpet said:And now Johnson doesn't even appear as a news item anywhere on the main Telegraph website front page. For such a narcissist, that'll sting.
https://telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/16/destroying-boris-johnson-doesnt-alter-reality/
Not that I know. I'm not sure he's an entirely unbiased critic though.
https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/author/robert-tombs/
Mind you, I might take his coining of 'the Remainer Undead' epithet as a compliment, even if he is slightly off his rocker. For all his supposed academic credentials, his suggestion that "Only a 'good' Brexit [which no Brexiters seem to be able to define in practical terms] can stop Scottish independence" suggest he's unlikely to embrace the pragmatics of co-operation with the UK's biggest market, or, as all academics should, change his mind in light of the increasing evidence of the idiocy of pulling up the drawbridge.
Although I'm confused as the country which is our largest market is the USA...
Ah, you're doing your usual thing of pretending that the EU isn't a single market. Kinda misses the point of the EU. You'd so like the gravity model of trade not to be a thing.
As you might have seen, I was suggesting that your beloved Telegraph carrying Carney's opinion without shooting him down was significant. I passed no comment on Carney's biases.0 -
Oops, there goes another one, though this time just for boring old sex and drugs.
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At least we are getting back to core tory principlesbriantrumpet said:Oops, there goes another one, though this time just for boring old sex and drugs.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.3 -
Prefer the associated picture here:briantrumpet said:Oops, there goes another one, though this time just for boring old sex and drugs.
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Genuinely cannot believe they have a clip of the filming saying they shouldn’t really be filing the rule breaking.briantrumpet said:Good material to remind voters what the Tory Party has become, when the next election comes.
Way way way too on the nose.0 -
He presumably wasn’t in the ‘party’ in that video or he may have livened it up a bit. Those two dancing in the video were a bit of a caricature of how you’d expect young Tories to be.rick_chasey said:
Prefer the associated picture here:briantrumpet said:Oops, there goes another one, though this time just for boring old sex and drugs.
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No, just because they call it a single market doesn't mean its so. If it was the case, we wouldn't need a separate company in each country that is in the EU. There is some commonality, but lots of differences.briantrumpet said:Stevo_666 said:
So a bit biased, like Mark Carney is?briantrumpet said:Stevo_666 said:
Does the journo who wrote this article know you, Brian?briantrumpet said:And now Johnson doesn't even appear as a news item anywhere on the main Telegraph website front page. For such a narcissist, that'll sting.
https://telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/16/destroying-boris-johnson-doesnt-alter-reality/
Not that I know. I'm not sure he's an entirely unbiased critic though.
https://www.briefingsforbritain.co.uk/author/robert-tombs/
Mind you, I might take his coining of 'the Remainer Undead' epithet as a compliment, even if he is slightly off his rocker. For all his supposed academic credentials, his suggestion that "Only a 'good' Brexit [which no Brexiters seem to be able to define in practical terms] can stop Scottish independence" suggest he's unlikely to embrace the pragmatics of co-operation with the UK's biggest market, or, as all academics should, change his mind in light of the increasing evidence of the idiocy of pulling up the drawbridge.
Although I'm confused as the country which is our largest market is the USA...
Ah, you're doing your usual thing of pretending that the EU isn't a single market. Kinda misses the point of the EU. You'd so like the gravity model of trade not to be a thing.
As you might have seen, I was suggesting that your beloved Telegraph carrying Carney's opinion without shooting him down was significant. I passed no comment on Carney's biases."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
