This is really worrying me now 'Eurozone ministers gather for make-or-break talks with Greece'

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The meeting is scheduled to start at 3 pm on a Friday.

What sort of freak schedules such a meeting with a 3 pm Friday start?

Scum.

[Rich]

Think how cheap the wine will be :-D

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Ho hum.

[Pokster]

everyone is fighting to devalue their currency to help kickstart their economy. You might think 2 euro's a pound is good, i can guarantee you, that it isn't what the BoE want

[Luis Anaconda]

Sorry Nic

[Pokster]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I dread to think the cost of a round when I convert it back to real money.

[Rich]

from the Eurozone?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Rich]

pint.

And I'm not talking tourist bars around that area with the little cobbled streets etc.

[Pokster]

Eurozone is our biggest trading partner by far, if they are in the sh*t then we are going to smell a bit

[Rich]

financial sector?

[Pokster]

while we haven't done anything ... yet, so we will be playing catchup.

A strong CCy is a bad thing in this day and age

[Luis Anaconda]

Did you go to Prague, r - or is that trip in the future

[redgunamo]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

How the f**k would I know?

[Pokster]

on just the financial sector you are massively mistaken

[Snin]

as they want a triple latte skinny buttf**k at 9.30

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

We're far too strong against the Yen, for starters.

[Luis Anaconda]

which can fund said trips - as long as Mr Taxman doesn't find out :watson:

[Pokster]

but too low for too long is a nightmare

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Rich]

Massive downstairs, isn't it? And I was a big fan of the complimentary prezels and free flowing Kozel.

I was surprised to learn that the Czechs don't seem to have realised that secondary smoking is a bad thing, yet. Every pub I went to was shrouded in a haze of cigarette smoke.

Did a 3 hour walking tour of the city, too. Found the Jewish Quarter especially interesting. It was bitterly cold, though. Found a nice bar with an open fire to defrost in afterwards :-)

[Luis Anaconda]

In fact I think they actually owe me money. All went very quiet on their front when that was revealed

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

The price of a pint in a bar around Leicester Square for example will differ from the price of a pint on Holloway Road, perhaps not hugely but there will be a tourist premium.



Similarly Dublin.

The cobbled area you refer to is Temple Bar, probably the most expensive, or at worst second most expensive, place to drink in the town. Out where I live the price would be considerably less. I paid just under 4.50 for a pint last weekend in a pub in Churchtown.

[Luis Anaconda]

Was thinking of heading there in a couple of weeks time, now the Beeb has scuppered my plans to head to Old Trafford

[Nicosia Gooner]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

I guess it's so that any concession they do offer - however minuscule - will seem inordinately generous.

Mind you, it's a risky game. Even a Greek must have some pride, you'd have thought. You don't want them going nuclear out of sheer exasperation.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

That probably wasn't the most sensible tactic to use against German and Dutch finance ministers.

'Even a Greek must have some pride', you wonder. Compared to northern European politicians?

No, in short. At least not enough to be quantifiable.

They're going to get reamed now, and they're going to squeal and take it like good little bitches, for I tell thee solemnly, they have f**ked it.

[Berni]

However, it does pose the interesting question to the Greeks of what do you do if your democratically-elected government has no sovereignty and all your democratic options are exhausted? The clear answer to me would seem to be revolution - at which point all bets are off.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Most of them are dozing under an olive tree, man. If they had the energy for revolution, they'd have gone to work a bit instead of retiring at 33, and none of this would have happened.

No, no, they'll simply return to a simpler life, the pastoral idyll one associates with the Greece of the 60s and 70s, and all will be well.

[Classic Jorge]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

Importer :-)

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[eastgermanautos]

[Classic Jorge]

Who's next, Portugal, Italy, Spain?

[eastgermanautos]

It would then become a sort of soft fascism, very toxic but operating with the full support of germany, france, etc. Unable to break free, it just keeps manufacturing and stockpiling weapons for some future apocalypse.