The !!GOOD NEWS!! thread....
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turbobloke said:
UK on the verge of lasting recovery, says OECD apparently not after taking acid.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis...
Joking apart, as it happens I think they're close enough on this call. It's the next boom I tells ya. Almost.
Is there a chance that the UK can just find a sustainable growth model based on making stuff that other people wnat to buy rather than enabling another game of musical properties? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis...
Joking apart, as it happens I think they're close enough on this call. It's the next boom I tells ya. Almost.
Bing o said:
turbobloke said:
UK on the verge of lasting recovery, says OECD apparently not after taking acid.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis...
Joking apart, as it happens I think they're close enough on this call. It's the next boom I tells ya. Almost.
Is there a chance that the UK can just find a sustainable growth model based on making stuff that other people wnat to buy rather than enabling another game of musical properties? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis...
Joking apart, as it happens I think they're close enough on this call. It's the next boom I tells ya. Almost.
turbobloke said:
The report only points to direction and to a degree of longevity, not mechanism. As such, who knows, but UK manufacturing growth was at 10-month high in March so somebody somewhere must be ordering and buying something at least for now.
I'm sure they are. Aided by how weak GBP is against most Asian currencies. Hence Cameroon's visit to Asia at the moment, and no doubt joining the list of western countries desperate to get their hands on Myanmar's natural resources now that they have a veil of respectability...Anyway, my point was more about rather than using the economic recovery to fuel a house price boom, will the govt have the balls to get back to sustainability this time and investing in proper infrastructure, rather than pandering to every 2 bit BTL Beany inspired 'propertay developer'.
Bing o said:
turbobloke said:
The report only points to direction and to a degree of longevity, not mechanism. As such, who knows, but UK manufacturing growth was at 10-month high in March so somebody somewhere must be ordering and buying something at least for now.
I'm sure they are. Aided by how weak GBP is against most Asian currencies. Hence Cameroon's visit to Asia at the moment, and no doubt joining the list of western countries desperate to get their hands on Myanmar's natural resources now that they have a veil of respectability...Anyway, my point was more about rather than using the economic recovery to fuel a house price boom, will the govt have the balls to get back to sustainability this time and investing in proper infrastructure, rather than pandering to every 2 bit BTL Beany inspired 'propertay developer'.
"The influential credit ratings agency Standard and Poor confirmed that the UK's AAA status would stay. It said the UK has a 'wealthy, open, and diversified economy' supported by effective political institutions that can react quickly to economic challenges. The agency said its outlook for Britain’s rating was stable."
groak said:
.....for anyone who's had anything good happen for them,
Yesterday I (well, my wife) bought an Austin Healey replica car, for a grand.Today it is our 11th wedding anniversary. (Together 17, married for 11)
Tomorrow is crew change and I get to go home after 5 weeks offshore.
Life is good.
martin84 said:
Bing o said:
Did 35,000 people emmigrate, or was that seasonal work?
Seasonal work, most of it anyway. I can guarantee when the March-May figures come out it'll show an increase in unemployment of about 35,000 
Bucky balls can double your lifespan.
I don't have a link but search for it, when given to rats dissolved in olive oil, the rats lived to 46 months old, the control group lived to 22 months in comparison.
Pretty good news I think. Especially as i'm young enough to perhaps benefit from this technology!
I don't have a link but search for it, when given to rats dissolved in olive oil, the rats lived to 46 months old, the control group lived to 22 months in comparison.
Pretty good news I think. Especially as i'm young enough to perhaps benefit from this technology!
F93 said:
Bucky balls can double your lifespan.
I don't have a link but search for it, when given to rats dissolved in olive oil, the rats lived to 46 months old, the control group lived to 22 months in comparison.
Pretty good news I think. Especially as i'm young enough to perhaps benefit from this technology!
We are not rats, however, should this be true, can you not think of how this might be a bad thing?I don't have a link but search for it, when given to rats dissolved in olive oil, the rats lived to 46 months old, the control group lived to 22 months in comparison.
Pretty good news I think. Especially as i'm young enough to perhaps benefit from this technology!
alfaman said:
groak said:
On Tuesday I fell deeply in love at first sight. And subject to financing (which is via the dealer so probably likely to happen), it will be in my garage by mid-May. Fukk the recession! Let's DRIVE!!!!!! 
What did you get? 
This could be good news, I think.
Having to venture out in drought season to collect some documents and getting soaked by torrential drought, that was bad news, but walking back to the car I decided to call in on a local shop to get some wellington boots to cope with the drought. Having stepped inside, the noise of an altercation outside caught my attention. A BMW was stationary in the road with a pasty faced spindly and very wet chav mouthing off at the driver who, at a guess, had stopped to avoid running the chav over as the misunderstood victim of society did whatever urgent business it was that required him to occupy the centre line of the road. The driver said something back. At which point an accomplice of the spindly one joined in and said something not very nice to the driver, I've no idea what it was but the facial expression and hand gestures were a clue. At which point the driver got out of the car and stood to what was well over six foot in height and with a rather PH-like powerfully built physique he approached the first chav who had stopped swearing. The driver was of mixed heritage but rather than play the race card he explained his position non-verbally to the roadblock. The accomplice unwisely walked over, and received his personal explanation. The driver then drove off as the road at that point was clear.
Shocked by this I decided to head straight back to the car to rest and recover but didn't make it without further spectator sport as a store detective appeared a few yards in front of me who then proceeded to chase down and catch somebody who was probably suspected of unilateral redistribution of wealth inside the store in the recent past. I'll probably need a lie down and even counselling but hope to survive these disturbing scenes.
Having to venture out in drought season to collect some documents and getting soaked by torrential drought, that was bad news, but walking back to the car I decided to call in on a local shop to get some wellington boots to cope with the drought. Having stepped inside, the noise of an altercation outside caught my attention. A BMW was stationary in the road with a pasty faced spindly and very wet chav mouthing off at the driver who, at a guess, had stopped to avoid running the chav over as the misunderstood victim of society did whatever urgent business it was that required him to occupy the centre line of the road. The driver said something back. At which point an accomplice of the spindly one joined in and said something not very nice to the driver, I've no idea what it was but the facial expression and hand gestures were a clue. At which point the driver got out of the car and stood to what was well over six foot in height and with a rather PH-like powerfully built physique he approached the first chav who had stopped swearing. The driver was of mixed heritage but rather than play the race card he explained his position non-verbally to the roadblock. The accomplice unwisely walked over, and received his personal explanation. The driver then drove off as the road at that point was clear.
Shocked by this I decided to head straight back to the car to rest and recover but didn't make it without further spectator sport as a store detective appeared a few yards in front of me who then proceeded to chase down and catch somebody who was probably suspected of unilateral redistribution of wealth inside the store in the recent past. I'll probably need a lie down and even counselling but hope to survive these disturbing scenes.
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