Comments on: Saturday Morning Jibber Jabber

By: Max Power

Max Power — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:57:17 +0000

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I can laugh about it seeing as I spent four years trying to explain to people in England that the tap is called the faucet because that’s the name in America. And I got lectured to death for serving mashed potatoes with roast.

American’s need to realize that the whole world is not their personal space. We are used to wide-open spaces and wide-open words and that’s not the way it is in Europe.
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In Canada Tap is used, just not as much as Fawcet — one being more basic than the other more upmarket one. The more upmarket one is more common. Water Tap vs Kitchen Fawcet.

UK / Australia / NZ name reversals

Potato Mash = Mashed Potatoes
Macaroni Cheese = Macaroni & Cheese, see “1900 House” UK

Outright name changes, UK
Paraffin = Kerosene, the Russian Gasoill vs Benzine is less botched…
Rubber, to erase not shag with…
Sticky pins, used on cork boards for memos…
Tip, for rubbish also NZ and AU on this one…

College is Years 9-12 in Australasia

Public vs Private schools do a role reversal in the UK, Normal Schools also in the nomenclature…

A levels
B levels and the abandoned
O levels
– UK only, but tested globally in the Empire now somewhat redundant

Americans never get used to this stuff — as with Canada and NZ the French and Maori have different names for these things … and you learn them in grammar school.

The CEGEP-UNI system in Quebec is very France like … and the schools systems are sorted by religion.

By: The Man from Glad

The Man from Glad — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:13:06 +0000

100 TRILLION ZIMBABWE DOLLAR CURRENCY MONEY BANK NOTE
** Buy 4 notes & get extra 100 trillion note FREE

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290354273458

By: Giuseppe Bagoshite

Giuseppe Bagoshite — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:50:13 +0000

I can see shadows of the future…

When the concept of Fiat Currency ends,
the only progressive solution will be Technocracy…

Anything and anyone that doesn’t PRODUCE energy
will be considered 2nd tier…

Indolence will predominate society…

The concept of currency will die…
only to be replaced by WAR for the sake of population decimation (and augmented P/E ratios)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twSREBowTwQ

a new social order
based upon the rudiment necessities of survival in a technological age…
QUALITY IN FUNCTION becomes the rule

WANTS will become trivial…
akin to passive artistic creation…
accessible yet not appeciably capitalized upon…

To all of you that believe in dollars, gold, or other measurements of financial design…
You are but philosophical Luddites…
Jesus had 2000 years
but even you will find merciless dismission in the NEW WAVE…
You are hanging on to a veritable corpse
attached to wires and tubes…
governed by a machine…
with buttons and meters
manipulated and observed by those more myopic than yourself…

December 21st
is Frank Zappa’s 72nd B-day,
D.O.A. day (34th year in Vancouver),
and the end of Society (according to the Mayans)
in 2012

Strap on those tin-foil hats, kids…

Here’s the first part (of 9, I believe)
that will teach you the fundamentals of
TECHNOCRACY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9ps5vJrIxM

Stop clinging on to the past…
You hippies…

By: Josh Fulton

Josh Fulton — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:43:51 +0000

Israeli forces storm into holiest place on earth:

http://joshfulton.blogspot.com/2009/10/israeli-police-storm-jerusalems-holiest.html

By: Random

Random — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:49:33 +0000

CIT files for bankrupcy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8337136.stm

Jim Sinclair comments:

“The so called quick surgical bankruptcy of CIT will result in a company that will only be able to provide 20% of its previous level of financial services to Middle America according to Friday’s Wall Street Journal.

Any institutions replacing these services will have:

1. Higher levels of credit worthiness to be met by small business.

2. Less funds committed to these loans.

Further, the assets of CIT in bankruptcy are the middle American loans outstanding that will be brutally attacked by the bankruptcy process.

That is going to result in a flood of middle American businesses declaring bankruptcy.”

http://jsmineset.com/2009/10/31/cit-to-carpet-bomb-middle-american-business/

By: Pez

Pez — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:57:15 +0000

I am going to open a gold museum. People can look at all the different things that gold can be manufactured into, bars, rings, coins, bathtubs, Mercedes Benzes. I plan to have 99.9% of this gold in my museum. Problem is; what do I charge them if we think currency is going to be worthless? Gold? Silver? How about Diamonds? Geez, I hope you don’t lose your change!

Oh and credit cards and SDRs not accepted .

By: gb

gb — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:35:43 +0000

a repost of Dante’s must read

October 24, 2009: MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT: FROM: Arthur F. Burns; June 3, 1975 – NEW… MUST READ

http://www.beearly.com/pdfFiles/Burns1975.pdf

By: Mep

Mep — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:16:14 +0000

Cute pics of animals celebrating Halloween:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/31/the-animal-world-celebrat_n_324956.html?slidenumber=0

By: The Man from Glad

The Man from Glad — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:29:45 +0000

@Frances, I suspect a lot of these bonuses are going into gold, silver, foreign currencies, real estate and elsewhere more or less outside the dollar. Iceland may be a good illustration of what could happen in the US, but some, like Marc Faber, say it will be worse. USD will be useful for paying off USD denominated debt. Yen denominated debt, and possibly Yuan denominated debt, could turn out to be a millstone around the neck of whoever’s left still paying taxes in the US.

By: Dante

Dante — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:25:58 +0000

Free money is worthless.

Cute seminar with history thrown in.

By: frances snoot

frances snoot — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:22:54 +0000

Yes, but at that point the money was already put to use by the banksters so they have all the position and power. The people can be left with the worthless paper.

What do you think?

By: The Man from Glad

The Man from Glad — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:20:31 +0000

@Frances, Federal Reserve notes won’t be much help if the Fed goes bankrupt.

By: frances snoot

frances snoot — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:18:06 +0000

@ManfromGlad:
The 12 Trillion stolen from the public was in dollars, right?
We are in arrears, IMF soon to set austerity policy.

THREE HUNDRED BILLION credit line?
“As a result, the government has handed Citigroup $45 billion under the Troubled Asset Relief Program over the last year. Through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a major bank regulator, the government has also agreed to back roughly $300 billion in soured assets that sit on Citigroup’s books. Even as other troubled institutions recently curtailed their use of another F.D.I.C. program that backs new debt issued by banks, Citigroup has continued to tap the arrangement.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/business/economy/01citi.html?_r=2&ref=business

By: frances snoot

frances snoot — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:52:50 +0000

Mep:
Actually, in my area the practice is quite common. There are many who use the stamps as a supplement to their income, not out of necessity. And sodas and packaged processed items are the mainstay of the purchase power. The local paper had an article bemoaning the ‘going to waste’ of food stamps from the Stimulus funding, and was beating the bushes for people to come forward and apply.