"They" are the people who don't know you.bobevenson wrote:I go along with everything, that's why they call me Mr. Congenial.Philosophy Explorer wrote:Why don't you go along with it?bobevenson wrote: That goes without saying.
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My worry is that Brexit will mean going back to barter and trade. Can you weave your own baskets, grow your own corn???Harbal wrote:Will brexit mean going back to shillings and pence? I don't think my brain could handle that.
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What can I get for a truck load of firewood?ForCruxSake wrote:My worry is that Brexit will mean going back to barter and trade. Can you weave your own baskets, grow your own corn???Harbal wrote:Will brexit mean going back to shillings and pence? I don't think my brain could handle that.
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Hurrah for Brexit, and hurrah for "Old Blighty," I say. Long may The Green and Sceptred Isle retain her freedom. Even barter is better than servitude.thedoc wrote:What can I get for a truck load of firewood?ForCruxSake wrote:My worry is that Brexit will mean going back to barter and trade. Can you weave your own baskets, grow your own corn???Harbal wrote:Will brexit mean going back to shillings and pence? I don't think my brain could handle that.
But I wouldn't say it would come to that. There are plenty of nations in the world who would be honoured to take the gracious hand of Her Majesty's Bailiwick in a future trade deal. All dear Albion needs to do is cast her eyes to the West, the South and the Far East. She still has friends and admirers aplenty.
Dissolution into that horrid monolith "Europe" is not her inevitable destiny...or so those of us who love her may hope. England's too good for that.
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Depends on where you are and with whom you are trying to barter. You might get a similarly sized truck load of crates of vino from a forestless, vineyard, in France, which has yet to connect to the electricity grid... Or possibly a small boatload of Edam from the Dutch... Round these parts of London, you're likely to get a load of backchat...thedoc wrote:What can I get for a truck load of firewood?ForCruxSake wrote:My worry is that Brexit will mean going back to barter and trade. Can you weave your own baskets, grow your own corn???Harbal wrote:Will brexit mean going back to shillings and pence? I don't think my brain could handle that.
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Your hearing going as well as your memory, it's "Mr Congenital".bobevenson wrote:I go along with everything, that's why they call me Mr. Congenial.
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West - that'll be Trumpette land where he's not going to do a trade-deal to America's detriment would it?Immanuel Can wrote:... All dear Albion needs to do is cast her eyes to the West, ...
Last time I checked that was Europe and the trade deal we had with them was no tariffs, we going to get a better one than that?the South ...
Pretty much the only thing we had to offer was tariff-free access to the EU, so now what?and the Far East. ...
Is the United States a "horrid monolith"?Dissolution into that horrid monolith "Europe" is not her inevitable destiny...or so those of us who love her may hope. England's too good for that.
You mean the UK not England and we've long past the Empire. Currently we make fuck all, financial services is about all we have and most countries are loathe to take such stuff. We're also deep in debt thanks to the banking crisis so this was a really bad time to be raising the Ensign and setting sale into what looks like, if the Trumpette gets his way, a world trade war.
Still, as an old 'Marxist' I'm into 'interesting times' as opportunities arise for radical change and the Tories are going to be well-fucked in a few years when the promises they made are not realised.
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Not quite. Mr. Congenital Brain would be more apt.bobevenson wrote:I go along with everything, that's why they call me Mr. Congenial.Philosophy Explorer wrote:Why don't you go along with it?bobevenson wrote: That goes without saying.
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Apparently, Ms. Novak, you'll do anything to work in some version of the word "genitals."Arising_uk wrote:Your hearing going as well as your memory, it's "Mr Congenital".bobevenson wrote:I go along with everything, that's why they call me Mr. Congenial.
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Just bend over and someone will show you how to work in the genitals.bobevenson wrote:Apparently, Ms. Novak, you'll do anything to work in some version of the word "genitals."Arising_uk wrote:Your hearing going as well as your memory, it's "Mr Congenital".bobevenson wrote:I go along with everything, that's why they call me Mr. Congenial.
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Well you do speak a load of old bollocks.bobevenson wrote:Apparently, Ms. Novak, you'll do anything to work in some version of the word "genitals."