Taxi Driver Online

Thank the Lord we ain't mortgage brokers or estate agents. 98% down.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7641535.stm

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IDFIMH

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

There about 35,000 mortgage brokers in the country. £143,000,000 equates to about 1000 transactions.

So that means 34,000 mortgage brokers earnt f*** all last month.

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IDFIMH

you must live in a cheap area....£140k per house?..

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whats the difference between estate agents and laboratory rats?








folk get attached to laboratory rats

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It's easier to do the maths.

Talking of maths, courtesy of Private Eye;

$6.6 billion loss for Lehman Brothers in 2008.

$8.7 billion bonus for Lehman Brothers staff in 2006.

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IDFIMH

They maybe should join the GMB, they could go on strike.

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

I think it's just that the sun got turned on in the UK for once! Everyone is
outside pointing up into the sky marvelling at the strange orb high over
t'mill chimney and casting sinister shadows over the gas-holders. My
neighbour was seen waving his flat cap at it to 'go away and bother them
southerners' and he almost tripped over his whippet due to the glare (and
not having his cap on).

The Oswaldtwistle fire brigade were turned out to fight the fire in the sky
after the control room switchboard was jammed with calls from worried pit
workers emerging from t'early shift and thinking the World had ended.
Ramsbottom and district black pudding factory, Throttlebottom & Sons
reported women workers with shawl rash due to the heat and Albert Futtock of
Rawtenstall, a self employed handkerchief knotter said business was booming
and it hadn't been this busy since Pontins at Blackpool left the gates open
during wakes week 1932.

It was a nice day!

Global Credit Crunch originated in Carlisle Chippie!

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s1i41262

Following lengthy investigations, the cause of the Worldwide Credit Crunch has been traced to a chip shop in Carlisle.

Its been discovered that the shop's owner, Mongoe Gongoe, has been selling his chips for only 3p per bag with free ketchup!

Most of Carlisle's residents have been eating his cut price chips every day for the past 18 months and local supermarkets were first to feel the pinch. In turn, the local housing market suffered as locals refused to move away from the vicinity of the cheap chip shop. The lack of spending in Carlisle caused a run on the banks as local businesses went to the wall. Great Britain buckled under the strain and this had a knock on effect throughout Europe.

American food exports to Europe suffered as a result, causing American Farming to go under. This in turn brought the economic giant of USA to her knees.

President Bush said today "Mr Gongoe must raise the price of his chips. If he doesn't we will take the necessary action to ensure the economic survival of America."

The British Government are holding crisis talks with Mr Gongoe.

It is believed his plan to include free batter with his chips could push the Americans towards a military response

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

LONDON, April 5, 2004 – The Rt Hon Gordon Brown, MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, today officially opened Lehman Brothers’ new European headquarters building at 25 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, London.

Commenting on the event, the Rt Hon Gordon Brown, MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said: "I would like to pay tribute to the contribution you and your company make to the prosperity of Britain. During its one hundred and fifty year history, Lehman Brothers has always been an innovator, financing new ideas and inventions before many others even began to realise their potential. And it is part of the greatness not just of Lehman Brothers but of the City of London, that as the world economy has opened up, you have succeeded not by sheltering your share of a small protected national market but always by striving for a greater and greater share of the growing global market."

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IDFIMH

Great judgement from the one eyed scotsman

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

nationalisation.... whats next, british gas and MG rover?...

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Possibly even British Leyland....we could rely on cars in those days to keep the British motor industry producing Millions of vehicles....theyed be made one year and corroded to the point that only the tyres and the engine remained the following year. Ahhhh there was nothing like a bit of Great British built in Obsolecence...we dont make em like that any more....Indeed we dont make em at all anymore

Lti - proud be british....

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BL another great idea born from political incompetence and died from it.

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin