switchlogic:
Ah ok I take it back! He does seem to be a bit of a nut job that’s for sure.
No problem kind sir. I bet you we were like “WTF?” after my post to you a few days ago. Must’ve thought I’d lost the plot. 
People who predict unlikely events often get ridiculed for doing it - until they are proven right in their “off their rocker” predictions of course.
I got a fair amount of stick in the shop for “throwing away my tenner” on Court Jester this afternoon, but the laughter stopped once I walked out the door with a week’s takehome pay for my “taking the upfront humility thump on the chin” as it were. 
Those that know me socially know I back outsiders on a regular basis. I don’t win that often, but the wins are big enough to make it worthwhile when I do.
HarryMonk - Nice post with the barchart. I concur with what you’ve read into it’s implication and projection, but hope you’re wrong obviously, because I don’t want interest rates rising for a lot longer than next year. 
Note I don’t consider someone else’s opinion makes them “Off their rocker” merely because their opinion differs from mine for any reason.
There’s a school of thought that says someone’s opinion that flies in the face of the vast majority is nothing but a “voice crying in the wilderness”.
Just make sure your not in the wrong place at the wrong time like Aceh or Phuket beach 8 years ago to the day…
Black swan events DO happen, and woe betide anyone who’s not ready for them out of complacency. Doubtless there are many who only thought “a few third worlders” died among the near quarter million that ended up losing their lives.
I’m not as rich as David Ike, so don’t tar me with that brush. Let me overtake his level of wealth, and you can ridicule all you like!
In the meantime, there’s really no need to encourage me to walk by on the other side when in as little as a year from now they’ll be charity buckets being held out for the “Divorced and homeless former driver - please help” charity…
If there’s any chance at all you might all one day be eating out of the same pot as “That nutjob Winseer” then you’d better make sure you didn’t spit in it during the ridicule overture eh? 
Rob K:
switchlogic:
Ah ok I take it back! He does seem to be a bit of a nut job that’s for sure.No problem kind sir. I bet you we were like “WTF?” after my post to you a few days ago. Must’ve thought I’d lost the plot.
I did think ‘And he says I blow hit and cold’!
switchlogic:
Winseer:
Clintons and Thomas Cook are already in administration, so you can’t have them as a “I predict this firm to go bust” punt.
Some ■■■■ will say COMETS next otherwise!Firms with £100m that are losing £1m a day will survive the next 3 months.
Firms with £100k that are losing £1000 a day won’t, because it’s a lot easier to push up a £1000perday overhead even higher than a £1m per day overhead, which it’s actually easier to cut fat off…Big and inefficient will survive. Small and merely “not quite good enough” will not.
All those firms that thought they could save the business by cutting the payroll will now find it was all for nothing. The next 3 months are critical to the rest of the decade ahead I reckon.
Having read your posts on this topic so far its fairly clear your not quite the business expert you think you are. Thomas Cook haven’t been in administration yet and Clintons Cards were bought out of it by an American investor in the summer. But hey ho Im sure we can look forward to the collapse of John Lewis when a member of staff turns out to be a terrorist or TK Maxx when their huge chemical plant explodes a la Bhopal…oh wait…maybe Tesco will go under when it comes to light they are run by a load of lizard members of the illuminati responsible for all the gun crime in the US.
Why do you mention Bhopal as being the downfall of the company involved , namely Union Carbide Corporation ? They currently employ over 24,000 worldwide and enjoy a very strong portfolio . I should know because they pay my incredibly high wages
flat to the mat:
switchlogic:
Winseer:
Clintons and Thomas Cook are already in administration, so you can’t have them as a “I predict this firm to go bust” punt.
Some ■■■■ will say COMETS next otherwise!Firms with £100m that are losing £1m a day will survive the next 3 months.
Firms with £100k that are losing £1000 a day won’t, because it’s a lot easier to push up a £1000perday overhead even higher than a £1m per day overhead, which it’s actually easier to cut fat off…Big and inefficient will survive. Small and merely “not quite good enough” will not.
All those firms that thought they could save the business by cutting the payroll will now find it was all for nothing. The next 3 months are critical to the rest of the decade ahead I reckon.
Having read your posts on this topic so far its fairly clear your not quite the business expert you think you are. Thomas Cook haven’t been in administration yet and Clintons Cards were bought out of it by an American investor in the summer. But hey ho Im sure we can look forward to the collapse of John Lewis when a member of staff turns out to be a terrorist or TK Maxx when their huge chemical plant explodes a la Bhopal…oh wait…maybe Tesco will go under when it comes to light they are run by a load of lizard members of the illuminati responsible for all the gun crime in the US.
Why do you mention Bhopal as being the downfall of the company involved , namely Union Carbide Corporation ? They currently employ over 24,000 worldwide and enjoy a very strong portfolio . I should know because they pay my incredibly high wages
I refer you to one of Winseers previous posts where here brought them up. I was merely running with his daft theme…
flat to the mat:
switchlogic:
Winseer:
Clintons and Thomas Cook are already in administration, so you can’t have them as a “I predict this firm to go bust” punt.
Some ■■■■ will say COMETS next otherwise!Firms with £100m that are losing £1m a day will survive the next 3 months.
Firms with £100k that are losing £1000 a day won’t, because it’s a lot easier to push up a £1000perday overhead even higher than a £1m per day overhead, which it’s actually easier to cut fat off…Big and inefficient will survive. Small and merely “not quite good enough” will not.
All those firms that thought they could save the business by cutting the payroll will now find it was all for nothing. The next 3 months are critical to the rest of the decade ahead I reckon.
Having read your posts on this topic so far its fairly clear your not quite the business expert you think you are. Thomas Cook haven’t been in administration yet and Clintons Cards were bought out of it by an American investor in the summer. But hey ho Im sure we can look forward to the collapse of John Lewis when a member of staff turns out to be a terrorist or TK Maxx when their huge chemical plant explodes a la Bhopal…oh wait…maybe Tesco will go under when it comes to light they are run by a load of lizard members of the illuminati responsible for all the gun crime in the US.
Why do you mention Bhopal as being the downfall of the company involved , namely Union Carbide Corporation ? They currently employ over 24,000 worldwide and enjoy a very strong portfolio . I should know because they pay my incredibly high wages
Downfall of the company? - I’m talking about a shafting for the investing shareholders and a menace to the public…
People die, fortunes are lost by investors, but the company re-structures, has a dip on the stockmarket, and the recovers. No one at Union Carbide went to Jail for all those deaths, no huge compensation was paid out to third-world victims - that is, the same as what thousands of dead american rich folk would have got if the poison gas cloud had killed thousands of THEM.
merc0447:
Well from a job point of view this is my quietest christmas ever, im quite enjoying it usually its a nightmare. From a shopping point of view i was in the fort today and you couldn’t swing a cat i got ■■■■■■ off and just left it was so mobbedI bet 20 quid the first ‘‘big name’’ to go to the wall will be HMV mark my words
Ok ok it was jessops that fell first but there are massive rumors HMV are announcing administration tomorrow morning, so spend your gift cards tonight lads!
I opposed the favourite in this race, and got it wrong. 
HMV have won the race to be the first firm on our thread list to go bust this year. I don’t think Jessops were named by anyone else, but HMV came up several times.
Wishful thinking on my part about Waitrose. Just another 50-1 shot that didn’t come in I guess. 
The country might have changed for the better in the aftermath if THEY had gone under, because it would have forced through some serious social changes. and maybe some positive government tweaking as well.
HMV going bust won’t change anything, because no one gives a ■■■■. The government won’t ease the recession for the rest of us (since they are the ones prolonging it!) because no crap from the bustup of a “normal street” firm falls upon their hallowed feet alas. 
A i pionted out in an earlier post ,simon fox the former ceo has a lot to answer for .bet he wont lose any sleep though.
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