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  • R R Giskard Reventlov

    I keep hoping the England will become the 51st...

    me, me, me

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    Harold Wilson did consider that.

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    • D Dalek Dave

      Can UK have Hawaii back too?

      ------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

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      Pierre Leclercq
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      Hawaii freely joined the union back in 1959. That's a major difference between the way of thinking in the ol'Europe and the US. (Sic Semper Tyrannis!)

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      • O Oakman

        73Zeppelin wrote:

        Where's that? I'm in...

        Gave your notice, did you?

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        Not yet. Still looking...there's a few options coming up that could be interesting.

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        • 7 73Zeppelin

          Not yet. Still looking...there's a few options coming up that could be interesting.

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          73Zeppelin wrote:

          there's a few options coming up that could be interesting

          Truly glad to hear it, though I was just joking about your willingness to hire on for 2 beers and a bolt. Have you narrowed it down by country or are you still open to anywhere?

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          • L Lost User

            So do I. First it became a 10 pin bowling alley. Then a Kwik Save. Next a carpet warehouse. Now it's a Wetherspoon's.

            Bob Emmett

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            Dalek Dave
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            Gets my 5!

            ------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

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            • O Oakman

              73Zeppelin wrote:

              there's a few options coming up that could be interesting

              Truly glad to hear it, though I was just joking about your willingness to hire on for 2 beers and a bolt. Have you narrowed it down by country or are you still open to anywhere?

              Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

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              Oakman wrote:

              Truly glad to hear it, though I was just joking about your willingness to hire on for 2 beers and a bolt. Have you narrowed it down by country or are you still open to anywhere?

              I think I didn't start soon enough. Some of the replies I've received are like: "we've received an unusual number of submissions for the position...". So, uh, yeeeeaaaah...150,000+ finance sector unemployed = not good. Guess I'm not the only one with my idea. I'm pretty much open to anywhere (within reason). The U.S. is out - too difficult to get a work permit, etc... I'm open to anywhere Europe and Asia basically. Luxembourg could be interesting.

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                Oakman wrote:

                Truly glad to hear it, though I was just joking about your willingness to hire on for 2 beers and a bolt. Have you narrowed it down by country or are you still open to anywhere?

                I think I didn't start soon enough. Some of the replies I've received are like: "we've received an unusual number of submissions for the position...". So, uh, yeeeeaaaah...150,000+ finance sector unemployed = not good. Guess I'm not the only one with my idea. I'm pretty much open to anywhere (within reason). The U.S. is out - too difficult to get a work permit, etc... I'm open to anywhere Europe and Asia basically. Luxembourg could be interesting.

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                73Zeppelin wrote:

                150,000+ finance sector unemployed

                Yeowks! Although if General Ford & Chrysler, inc go belly up, we'll have 3 mil hit the unemployments roles in one feel swoop. That'll take Michigan down and out, which'll lower the boom of the other 49, I suspect. At that point work permits will become non-existant, I'm afraid.

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                • D Dalek Dave

                  Paul Watson wrote:

                  The blood soaked bits are the profitable bits...

                  That is the way of Empires! I would take back Kenya and Rhodesia. Incidentally, did you know that Ethiopia is the only African country never to have been colonised?

                  ------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

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                  Dalek Dave wrote:

                  I would take back Kenya and Rhodesia.

                  Why do you call it Rhodesia rather than Zimbabwe?

                  Cheers, Vıkram.


                  "You idiot British surprise me that your generators which grew up after Mid 50s had no brain at all." - Adnan Siddiqi.

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                  • D Dalek Dave

                    We never had Pakistan, it was never part of the Empire! We had the area when it was part of India, but after it went independant, it was merely Commonwealth, not Empire. India can have it back if they like!

                    ------------------------------------ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

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                    Dalek Dave wrote:

                    India can have it back if they like!

                    I, for one, don't!

                    Cheers, Vıkram.


                    "You idiot British surprise me that your generators which grew up after Mid 50s had no brain at all." - Adnan Siddiqi.

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                    • O Oakman

                      73Zeppelin wrote:

                      150,000+ finance sector unemployed

                      Yeowks! Although if General Ford & Chrysler, inc go belly up, we'll have 3 mil hit the unemployments roles in one feel swoop. That'll take Michigan down and out, which'll lower the boom of the other 49, I suspect. At that point work permits will become non-existant, I'm afraid.

                      Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

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                      Oakman wrote:

                      Yeowks! Although if General Ford & Chrysler, inc go belly up, we'll have 3 mil hit the unemployments roles in one feel swoop. That'll take Michigan down and out, which'll lower the boom of the other 49, I suspect. At that point work permits will become non-existant, I'm afraid.

                      I know. It's ugly.

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                      • 7 73Zeppelin

                        Oakman wrote:

                        Yeowks! Although if General Ford & Chrysler, inc go belly up, we'll have 3 mil hit the unemployments roles in one feel swoop. That'll take Michigan down and out, which'll lower the boom of the other 49, I suspect. At that point work permits will become non-existant, I'm afraid.

                        I know. It's ugly.

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                        73Zeppelin wrote:

                        I know. It's ugly.

                        I guess we can say that the LIBOR is fixed, but it doesn't seem to have encouraged anyone to start offering credit again. Pretty soon, it won't matter because the US government will have put so much new fiat in circulation that it'll be worth more as toilet paper.

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                        • V Vikram A Punathambekar

                          Dalek Dave wrote:

                          India can have it back if they like!

                          I, for one, don't!

                          Cheers, Vıkram.


                          "You idiot British surprise me that your generators which grew up after Mid 50s had no brain at all." - Adnan Siddiqi.

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                          Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                          I, for one, don't!

                          But that means India gets Pakistan back. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

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                          • O Oakman

                            Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                            I, for one, don't!

                            But that means India gets Pakistan back. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

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                            Oakman wrote:

                            Wouldn't that be wonderful?

                            Which part of my post did you not understand? :| Let me put it this way for you: we don't want those lunatics. After all, I doubt you do either. :suss:

                            Cheers, Vıkram.


                            "You idiot British surprise me that your generators which grew up after Mid 50s had no brain at all." - Adnan Siddiqi.

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                            • V Vikram A Punathambekar

                              Oakman wrote:

                              Wouldn't that be wonderful?

                              Which part of my post did you not understand? :| Let me put it this way for you: we don't want those lunatics. After all, I doubt you do either. :suss:

                              Cheers, Vıkram.


                              "You idiot British surprise me that your generators which grew up after Mid 50s had no brain at all." - Adnan Siddiqi.

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                              Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

                              Let me put it this way for you: we don't want those lunatics. After all, I doubt you do either

                              Well, if one of us has to have them, I vote it's you ;)

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