Request for comment: Collapse of the U. S. A.

[ibilly99]

Looks like you bottoming stuff out I was watching X Factor and modestly drinking which was remarkably good considering I'm cynical and the economic system didn't actually collapse during it so I will regard it as money in the Bank of Life. Now where can I package that and sell it on and by so doing increase the happiness a hundred fold.

Nexus - not bad considering internet wisdom is not to feed the trolls - consider yourself sated.

[Annette Curtain]

Administrator Wrote:

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> richardbach has been warned already, consider this

> the final warning.

This is the funniest post i've read in weeks.

[ibilly99]

LadyDeliah Wrote:

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> No, I agree, but combined with impending economic

> and ecological collapse, I think it's all going

> tits up soon! I just hope it's not in the next 2

> years because I have things I want to do!

Yeah you'll be all right frog boiling thingy.

[LadyDeliah]

ibilly99 Wrote:

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> LadyDeliah Wrote:

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> > No, I agree, but combined with impending

> economic

> > and ecological collapse, I think it's all going

> > tits up soon! I just hope it's not in the next

> 2

> > years because I have things I want to do!

>

> Yeah you'll be all right frog boiling thingy.

Are you sure you were only modestly drinking?

[New Nexus]

Huguenot Wrote:

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> "So let me get this clear, you don't like

> fractional reserve banking?

>

> "No I don?t like fraud and corruption, that passes

> itself off as banking."

>

> Fractional reserve banking is not inherently

> corrupt or fraudulent. It's necessary to allow

> society to invest in activity now that will creat

> a future return. That's how you build a factory

> before it manufactures anything.

>

> As a result it doesn't hold the reserves for the

> currency it transacts - it's simply owed that cash

> by other people. This is a casual assumption that

> we make about the banking environment, and

> enables, for example, small business loans.

>

> It's possible to argue that there have been too

> many loans made recently that are unlikely to be

> repaid, but this is a subjective perspective. Any

> loan is a risk.

>

> It doesn't make it corrupt or fraudulent by

> definition.

The banking regulations that are on the books, are not being enforced, why, all US presidents funded by banks, quid pro quo perhaps.

US banking system is Fraud.

[ibilly99]

getting to the point quickly 2 cans of beer one g&t

[Frankito]

Such sweeping statements, oh omnipotent one... I praise you. Nexus, are you interested in any threads other than this one? I am dying to know your take on foie gras..

[New Nexus]

Frankito Wrote:

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> Such sweeping statements, oh omnipotent one... I

> praise you. Nexus, are you interested in any

> threads other than this one? I am dying to know

> your take on foie gras..

Take a look in the Drawing room

[mockney piers]

Right. I've just read ten pages of this bollix.

What was the point again?

Correct me if I'm wrong but the pink and crouton corner think that we are within a crusty shout of the world as we know it changing. I'm with them. When I grew up the two Ronniess had twenty million viewers every week and the worm that turned was a serious treatise on feminism. Now my 19 months old child looks scathingly on any technology that isn't touchscreeny.

The ecrue and burgundy corner think that there will be muddling through. I'm with them, when I grew up everything ws shit, and now everything is shit because everything is good, but now that everything is good everything is obviously shit, you know... Because .... Mor summink.

Forgive me, ten pages of this shit.

Those that use poor history are as bad as the bad science brigade. Coincidence to be causality, anecdote to be trend. Or ultimately, I've a hypothesis, here's some stuff to prove it; bugger the morass of everything else; rather than here's the whole complex world how does it fit together.

Oh, and when someone doesn't answer a question but posts an oblique link in reply then discount them, they are incapable of original thought or a decent opinion, what they are doing is looking into the middle distance, furrowing brow and hoping that their handsomeness is enough.

What they really mean is:

My argument boils down to this "I think things might go a bit wrong in the future"

Errrr..... That's it.

[mockney piers]

Brendans solubility post was easily the best. By a country mile. Huguenot, you should know better.

[LadyDeliah]

Economics not your favourite subject then Mockers?

[mockney piers]

I've no issue with economics, though it's a bit dull. I do have an issue with bad history.

I seem to have something in common with a couple of other posters, history backgroundwise, and it may be down to us to ensure that the EDF doesn't invade Abyssinia.

[StraferJack]

For clarity

The historical moments I quoted were merely points in time where doomsayers were legion and if we were to listen then we would have given up

Is that what you meant mockney?

[mockney piers]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

There is however a good novel by an Italian collective called "Luther Blisset" which deals with the early days of Protestantism, particularly the more revolutionary anabaptist elements, which is well worth a read.

It's the DNA of that time that we still see strong in NN and co. It is more prevalent in the US for the obvious reason that the place was practically born of those strands, but it is lively everywhere now.

No god to fight against and the church is neutered, so let's rail against "them" whomsoever they may be. So much easier than blaming yourself for your inadequacy eh.

And no SJ, I'm still not taking about you you weirdo.

[mockney piers]

Eek, have I just down an old skool link by recommending a book?

Ok, lesson one about the reformation starts tomorrow with Hus, Monday I might get to Luther ;)

[mockney piers]

Where's quids in his Stella cups when you need him ?!?!?!?!?!!!?!?!?

[Alan Medic]

Talk about rewriting history. The Italian collective you talk about was AC Milan and Luther Blisset was a Watford footballer they bought by mistake supposedly.They meant to buy John Barnes the story goes. Was he a Protestant?

[mockney piers]

Happy to subvert this crappy tiresome thread.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/293678.stm

[richardbach]

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> >

> Talk about rewriting history. The Italian

> collective you talk about was AC Milan and Luther

> Blisset was a Watford footballer they bought by

> mistake supposedly.They meant to buy John Barnes

> the story goes. Was he a Protestant?

so wroing lol

[Luther Blissett]

Oh good heavens, not you as well....

[katie1997]

ibilly99 Wrote:

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> getting to the point quickly 2 cans of beer one

> g&t

And a Jeeves...?

[Annette Curtain]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Brendans solubility post was easily the best. By a

> country mile.

Mockers

Could you provide a link for that, please.

N(?)

[ibilly99]

katie1997 Wrote:

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> ibilly99 Wrote:

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> > getting to the point quickly 2 cans of beer one

> > g&t

>

> And a Jeeves...?

Nah - saving that for special occasions such as when the financial oligarchy finally falls (sell by date is Sep 2012 so they had better hurry up.)

[New Nexus]

For all the posting sheep that bleep Bar, Bar, ?conspiracy theory?

When Winston Churchill told the house, Germany is re-arming, and readying itself for war, the shouts from the benches was, sit-down, and war-monger.

Just because you do not like something does not make it a ?conspiracy theory?

Theories are theories until they become facts.

Sorry people, the world is round.

[Laddy Muck]

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