Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[Lesley Cox]

By the way Ashley, I have 20 Euros left after my break in Spain, can you recommend a bank?

You could lend them to Bush and his mates David. Seems they're scrambling for every penny at present.

Ashley, I've sent 3 lots over to Marcus from BM and if it's happening now, I wouldn't be surprised it it has been happening for a couple of years. I would therefore expect the mistake to be theirs in the first place, rather than Marcus's. I too, have found him to be very careful and the one ID mistake he sent me was rectified the following season, and more added as well by way of compensation.

Short PM to you on the way.

[David Nicholson]

By the way Ashley, I have 20 Euros left after my break in Spain, can you recommend a bank?

You could lend them to Bush and his mates David. Seems they're scrambling for every penny at present.

Has he any mates left??

[Anthony Darby]

By the way Ashley, I have 20 Euros left after my break in Spain, can you recommend a bank?

You could lend them to Bush and his mates David. Seems they're scrambling for every penny at present.

Ashley, I've sent 3 lots over to Marcus from BM and if it's happening now, I wouldn't be surprised it it has been happening for a couple of years. I would therefore expect the mistake to be theirs in the first place, rather than Marcus's. I too, have found him to be very careful and the one ID mistake he sent me was rectified the following season, and more added as well by way of compensation.

Short PM to you on the way.

I'm taking my mum to Barcelona on the 11th...... [It would have been my parent;s 60th wedding anniversary last month.]

[Maggi Young]

Here is a crocus from Northern Greece which has ten petals. I did think it was pulchellus but I am confused by the anthers.I am always confused.If only it had been a galanthus I would not be sat here worrying if the RBS was going bust.

...so said Tony Willis in a crcus thread.... so I thought  that I would distract him, and perhapd others, with this newsflash,just received from Arthur Nicholls, who obviously is a devotee of 24hour news........
 News Announcement re world Banking crisis:
 Following the problems with Lehmann Bros and the sub-prime lending market in the USA uncertainty has now hit Japan.
 In the last 7 days Origami Bank has folded, Sumo Bank has gone belly up, and
Bonsai Bank announced plans to cut some of its branches.

 Yesterday, it was announced that Karaoke Bank is up for sale and will likely go for a song, while today shares in Kamikaze Bank were suspended after they nose-dived.

While Samurai Bank is soldiering on following sharp cutbacks, Ninja Bank is reported to have taken a hit, although they remain in the black.

Furthermore, 500 staff at Karate Bank got the chop, and analysts report that there is something fishy going on at Sushi Bank where it is feared that staff may get a raw deal.
 

Now that should give us all a wee laugh, I hope.... thanks, Arthur!

[mark smyth]

excellent! I will copy it and send it around the world

[gote]

Kamikaze Maggie You will get bad marks in Japanese. 
Göte

[Luc Gilgemyn]

 

Do we know of any Japanese forumists    

[David Nicholson]

Ah so!

[Maggi Young]

 oops! Sorry !

[mark smyth]

My web sites are hosted by the same people as this web site. I can tell with a few clicks where the people who visit my web site come from

[Lars S]

 

[David Nicholson]

I know it's a serious situation but I can't help having a very warm feeling about Banks having their g*****s squeezed!

[Tony Willis]

I know it's a serious situation but I can't help having a very warm feeling about Banks having their g*****s squeezed!

Its true to say the people at the top are stupid and grasping but lots of people with families are there just doing a good days work not making millions and are not in goverment jobs with index linked pensions which insulates them from the rest of us.  The one thing that makes me smile when I read those comments is that everybody will feel the freeze however smug. The saving grace is that both Gordon and Alistair are Scottish and so will make sure RBS at least is saved.Always remember that they paid a lot of those profits in tax which helped fund the gross overspending of the goverment

Thanks for the laugh Maggie

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks from me too. Arthur sent it here as well.

I accept fully that bank staff in general are good people, working concientiously as we all try to do, and living on reasonable wages/salaries but it can't be denied that many of their leaders are greedy to an unimaginably obscene degree. A news item last night on our TV, and from the States, said that the man who headed the failed Lehmann Bros Bank was before a (Senate?) committee trying to justify having taken 1/4 TRILLION dollars from the bank in the last 8 years, for his personal use. Many banks as policy charge their customers exhorbitant fees because they can. ANZ (Australia and New Zealand Bank) here in NZ charges at least 2-3% more on basic lending and mortgages than it does its Australian customers simply because all NZ banks (except one, very recent bank and a major success story) are now owned overseas and have no local competition. We and many others have changed or are changing, to our new (somewhat micky mouse-named) Kiwibank. But when we have a change of govt in a month's time, as seems inevitable, that bank too, will be sold off to foreign ownership, though the likely new leader has said he won't do so in the first 3 years. Yeah, right.

[Lesley Cox]

I shouldn't even BE here. I had 6 cubic metres of new potting mix arrive this morning, nicely mixed to my own recipe. Better go out and pot something!