protests against capatilism in the city

[Fittster]

Bankers are doing enough to destroy capitalism, can't see how they need a few crusties to help them out.

[Zod]

Zippee said:

cottonfoo said:

markh1 said:

I think I might print off a load of fake £20 motes and throw them in their faces...

A mate and his colleagues at UBS photocopied £50 notes at the first reclaim the streets and threw them at the rioters below

Your mate worked at UBS or your mate read Geraints book Cityboy and nabbed the quote from there?

the windows at UBS don't open (as is the case with most other buildings in the City and at CW).

[fido]

Zod said:

Zippee said:

cottonfoo said:

markh1 said:

I think I might print off a load of fake £20 motes and throw them in their faces...

A mate and his colleagues at UBS photocopied £50 notes at the first reclaim the streets and threw them at the rioters below

Your mate worked at UBS or your mate read Geraints book Cityboy and nabbed the quote from there?

the windows at UBS don't open (as is the case with most other buildings in the City and at CW).

Hmmm, i'm pretty sure i heard the same rumours when i was at UBS, except the soap-armed traders were at Commerzbank.

[munky]

Zippee said:

cottonfoo said:

markh1 said:

I think I might print off a load of fake £20 motes and throw them in their faces...

A mate and his colleagues at UBS photocopied £50 notes at the first reclaim the streets and threw them at the rioters below

Your mate worked at UBS or your mate read Geraints book Cityboy and nabbed the quote from there?

The story was doing the rounds back in 1999 when it happened, well before anyone had heard of cityboy or the crap "news"paper his article appeared in.

[Skipppy]

Zippee said:

cottonfoo said:

markh1 said:

I think I might print off a load of fake £20 motes and throw them in their faces...

A mate and his colleagues at UBS photocopied £50 notes at the first reclaim the streets and threw them at the rioters below

Your mate worked at UBS or your mate read Geraints book Cityboy and nabbed the quote from there?

I worked for a money brokers, we did this too. T'was a lot of fun!

[munky]

Zod said:

Zippee said:

cottonfoo said:

markh1 said:

I think I might print off a load of fake £20 motes and throw them in their faces...

A mate and his colleagues at UBS photocopied £50 notes at the first reclaim the streets and threw them at the rioters below

Your mate worked at UBS or your mate read Geraints book Cityboy and nabbed the quote from there?

the windows at UBS don't open (as is the case with most other buildings in the City and at CW).

Back at the time it happened the story was it was on the roof, not out of the windows. Can't remember what firm it was supposed to be though, may have been more than one of course and I'd suggest more likely to be a broker than a bank. It's easy for instance to get out onto the terrace of the Bank of England, although I suspect it wasn't them.. And there was the spraying of champagne onto the crusties as well.

[Alfachick]

fido said:

Mello said:

Don said:

Didn't that lot invade some trading bank and get the st kicked out themselves by the (post-liquid-lunch) "barrow boys"?

That struck me as hilarious...

I think it was LIFFE IIRC...

Hehe. I was working round Cannon Street in the good ol' days. They set both escalators near the entrance to 'downhill mode' .. cue Swampy and Co trying to scrabble up the escalators and battling with LIFFE people at the top.

That is genius! Loving their style.

[Vixpy1]

anonymous said:

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Soovy was present at the birth of Christ IIRC

[limpsfield]

anonymous said:

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It was a rare break in an otherwise frantic day of lawyer/tradering

[IainT]

Skipppy said:

Have been advised that the 2nd and 3rd of April will be very interesting days in the City of London.

Guess i will drop the monicle and top hat for work then!

Manacles and a tin hat mey well be more useful!

[Yertis]

anonymous said:

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I heard that in London the bankers were paid with real £50 notes, and drank champagne even when it wasn't their weddings or an 21st birthday.

Can you imagine it?


I'll go there, one day.

[thinfourth2]

Don't worry in a few years a large percentage of the protesters will be working in the city and driving a boxster once daddy arranges them a decent job

[Daisy Duke]

davido140 said:

theaxe said:

cottonfoo said:

markh1 said:

I think I might print off a load of fake £20 motes and throw them in their faces...

A mate and his colleagues at UBS photocopied £50 notes at the first reclaim the streets and threw them at the rioters below

Genius!

I'm fairy certain in more financially rosey times city traders have been known to lob real money at them,


hopefully pound coins!

Yes that was at LIFFE - apparently they really hurt!

[jeff m]

Why don't you have similar protests outside benifit offices.

[fido]

jeff m said:

Why don't you have similar protests outside benifit offices.

They don't want to bite the hand that feeds them?

[ukwill]

fido said:

Mello said:

Don said:

Didn't that lot invade some trading bank and get the st kicked out themselves by the (post-liquid-lunch) "barrow boys"?

That struck me as hilarious...

I think it was LIFFE IIRC...

Hehe. I was working round Cannon Street in the good ol' days. They set both escalators near the entrance to 'downhill mode' .. cue Swampy and Co trying to scrabble up the escalators and battling with LIFFE people at the top.

Me too. Rememeber that day well. I wasn't on the floor that day, but was in the office in King William St. instead.

[ShadownINja]

Alfachick said:

fido said:

Mello said:

Don said:

Didn't that lot invade some trading bank and get the st kicked out themselves by the (post-liquid-lunch) "barrow boys"?

That struck me as hilarious...

I think it was LIFFE IIRC...

Hehe. I was working round Cannon Street in the good ol' days. They set both escalators near the entrance to 'downhill mode' .. cue Swampy and Co trying to scrabble up the escalators and battling with LIFFE people at the top.

That is genius! Loving their style.

That is brilliant.

[s3fella]

[quote=Vixpy1
Soovy was present at the birth of Christ IIRC
[/quote]

ooh ooh, ooh, ooh, ohh, ask him WTF "myrrh" looks, smells and tastes like!!

[sleep envy]

anonymous said:

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did he get JC to bid him for his 996?

[ukwill]

anonymous said:

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