Fishing The Fly Scotland
Index => Main Discussion Area => Topic started by: Jim Eddie on 16/11/2011 at 17:47
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It is a slow day in a damp
little Irish town. The rain is beating down and the streets are
deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on
credit.
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>On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving
through the town, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the
desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in
order to pick one to spend the night.
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>The owner gives him some keys
and, as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the
€100 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
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>The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt
to the pig farmer.
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>The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off
to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel.
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>The guy at the Farmers' Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at
the pub.
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>The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute
drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to
offer him "services" on credit.
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>The hooker then rushes to the hotel
and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note.
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>The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so
the rich traveler will not suspect anything.
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>At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that the
rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town.
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>No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole town
is now out of debt and looking to the future with a lot more optimism.
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>And that is how the EU bailout package works.
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Jim
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Nice :z4 :wink
H :z3
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Very :z16
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Cool, so we all need to get hooker services on tick to help Greece out and everything will be fine :z4
Ben
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Good idea :X3
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Yup, the system works as long as all the players, hotelier, butcher, farmer etc meet their obligations. It would only take one of them to break the chain, not pay their supplier for the system to break down which is happening in the current real life situation. The Greeks (for the sake of argument, the prostitute, last in the chain) reneged on their agreement with the EU and the system went into crisis mode.
Economics, simples.
Lyall
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The Greeks (for the sake of argument, the prostitute, last in the chain) reneged on their agreement with the EU and the system went into crisis mode.
Economics, simples.
Lyall
Yeah, we should send in the troops and "liberate" the people from their corrupt regime. May bring down the worldwide price on donner meat if nothing else
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May bring down the worldwide price on donner meat if nothing else
Is this a euphemism for hooker? :z7
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Is this a euphemism for hooker? :z7
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Sounds good :z4
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Is this a euphemism for hooker? :z7
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Actually no, when was the last time you bought a kebab Euan?
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A while back now Ben, and I was scared of catching something so 2 + 2....
Although the hot sauce would cure that :z16
You must know how my mind works by now! :z4
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