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For Rock, Not Such A Wonderful Life
Sep. 17th, 2007 02:16 pmIf Northern Rock wanted to dissuade people from withdrawing their cash, perhaps one solution would be to force all putativer withdrawers to watch Its A Wonderful Life, particularly the part where James Stewart explains to the moron panicking customers how a building society works. Except, of course, that Northern Rock is not a building society.
Then again, since Northern Rock has only 76 branches, and since it seems up for any hare-brained scheme you like, perhaps they could hire 76 James Stewart lookalikes to give the speech live, in person. At this point all of the customers would nod sagely, put a few quid in a bowl and Adam Applegarth would embrace his children in a Carpa-like happy ending.
What a pity that real life isn't like the movies.
I seem to have set fire to a fair amount of money myself in the past week, and the four-cent fall in Sterling since Thursday afternoon most certainly hasn't helped. Fucking fundamentals.
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And rock-on congrats to Annette_15, not yet 19 years old. A pity that she's Scandinavian, but you can't have everything. She's certainly not your standard MOG and she isn't your standard young American wunderkind, playing 33 entries in MTTs and the like.
As DY observed, this is now a game where the money travels from the old to the young. Every day, as with my visits to the gym, I simply fight to maintain stasis. Eventually the quality of my play will deteriorate compared with the average standard to such a degree that I'll be losing at the lowest stakes available.
So it goes.
( three hands )
Then again, since Northern Rock has only 76 branches, and since it seems up for any hare-brained scheme you like, perhaps they could hire 76 James Stewart lookalikes to give the speech live, in person. At this point all of the customers would nod sagely, put a few quid in a bowl and Adam Applegarth would embrace his children in a Carpa-like happy ending.
What a pity that real life isn't like the movies.
I seem to have set fire to a fair amount of money myself in the past week, and the four-cent fall in Sterling since Thursday afternoon most certainly hasn't helped. Fucking fundamentals.
+++++++++
And rock-on congrats to Annette_15, not yet 19 years old. A pity that she's Scandinavian, but you can't have everything. She's certainly not your standard MOG and she isn't your standard young American wunderkind, playing 33 entries in MTTs and the like.
As DY observed, this is now a game where the money travels from the old to the young. Every day, as with my visits to the gym, I simply fight to maintain stasis. Eventually the quality of my play will deteriorate compared with the average standard to such a degree that I'll be losing at the lowest stakes available.
So it goes.
( three hands )
