Yes of course there would be plym. With all the money saved we could afford another Satelite so it would be business as usual pretty quick. I have thought this through you know. Or should that be Ya know.
Pigeon post.....or runner with cleft stick......that would get a few people off the dole.......help to get this governments deficit down......save money.
The Government raises money through the issue of gilts [bonds], repayable at a fixed date and traded at market prices after issue. These are mainly held by financial institutions and at least until recently been regarded as the next safest investment after real cash & precious metals. You can buy them yourself if you wish through various investment funds available on the consumer market. So yes, there will be a gradual reduction in the value of gilts in issue as Government debt comes down, with financial institutions holding less of them. The reason I mention this Sensible is because before you start thinking that the banks are the bad boys and we should merely renege on Government debt, a very large proportion of gilts are held in pension funds, yours & mine, because for technical reasons, gilts match pension liabilities very well. So if you don't want pensioners to freeze & starve, regrettably we have to live with repaying Gordon Brown & Ed Balls' debts. In any event, it's not so much the net repayment of gilts that causes the problem as legally repayment of those spread a long way into the future. A good proportion of those issued by Brown & Balls aren't due yet. The pain we're suffering is caused by something different: the need to reduce Government expenditure so we can stop issuing NEW gilts, storing up more trouble ahead. As I said, Labour were borrowing £1 in every £4 they spent, that's the problem, getting back closer to spending only what we earn.
Only you notdistant could give me a serious answer to a Monty Python sketch scenario. Honest I don't really think that way. No seriously I don't as much as that might come as a shock. Loosen your tie, unbuckle your braces and let yourself go a bit.
I do apologise Sensible but you have to admit, the business side of football and life generally do seem to get a pretty bad press here, often from what seems to be a pretty sketchy idea how things work. I must admit, I can't get comfortable with senior business people not wearing ties. It may work in New Media but not in serious business, please. And braces are a bit passée really [and have been since about 1990]. Here's a clip of some derivative traders from that era. Of course, they haven't changed much since. http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=ON-7v4qnHP8
Promise me you will go into work dressed as an Elf before the Christmas break notdistant. Your kids will love it. Take a charity box with you and see if your boss could give you a hard time then. By the way I still have braces. Never go out of fashion really.
Not red ones though surely? I'm probably more of an Orc than an Elf I think and Orcs have scandalously been omitted from Christmas festivities. Anyway, Elves aren't all they're cracked up to be. Here's Elrond in real life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYL28a0LM_A
I onlly have one suit which is green of all things so the braces match. It was a suit I bought for some do or other and is about 15 years old now. It wasn't because it was green I promise. I'm not that much of an Argyle freak. Orcs never last long in the movies so not a wise choice. I would quite like to be Gollum personally. I do the voice and scare the grandkids half to death with it. It's my way of getting my own back for the cocconut head taunts.
I've only worn braces once to my recollection (also maybe in the RAF in the first few weeks,not sure now) and that was a cockney theme evening....and they were red.....years back.
Cor blimey Mary Poppins...... I've only ever done a themed party once in my life as alluded to in the Sunglasses thread which was to wear a nightdress. Given some of the outfits at this party the nighdress soon looked like a tent but then I was only 18 at the time. I did tell my Mrs about this party after we got married. She asked me if the tent was for a hamster or gerbil. She is so cutting.
