The world nervously holds it's breath

Artful Dodger: thank god for Australia :)

Artful Dodger: Could you please explain to me just what exactly is the above and how does it work?

I keep hearing it on TV progs and am curious....
thanks :)

ever wondered how the Greek debt thing works....read below.............

It is a slow day in a little Greek Village.
The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.
On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the village, 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. 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.
The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer.
The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel.
The guy at the Farmers' Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the taverna.
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.
The hooker then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note.
The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town.
No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole village is now out of debt and looking to the future with a lot more optimism. And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how the bailout package works

Artful Dodger: I think you could be right.......

Italy is broke, as is Greece, and Spain is well on the way, and poor Australia has Obamarama Drama...what a waste of money :(

Artful Dodger: What has happened to your "bestest friend"...?

Spiritual Judaism-One People...What an Oxymoron.

the M5 crash near somerset sound terrible.....does anybody know anything more? about numbers dead etc....I believe there were about 27 vehicles involved...worst in living memory.

Artful Dodger: hahahaha... you 2 are idiots ROFL...nice ones of course....

Artful Dodger: hahahaha

needs a wash and get something done about the pimples....there is plenty of medications around to enable that....I would not employ her to work as ANYTHING the way she looks at the moment :(

Put the politicians on minimum wage and watch how fast things change!!

perhaps USA, UK, AUS should just invade the countries and feed the poor.....mainly the USA because their spend on "WAR" is phenomenal

Artful Dodger: OI!!!!....cut that out....she was in the kitchen (where men like to keep us, barefoot and....)and just had a taste....but because men are wooses (sp) she got the blame...

OK OK ....Jesus first I guess, but then wasn't Jesus a woman?

Artful Dodger: don't you have that bit wrong???

what you mean is...If a woman was in charge we wouldn't be in this mess....

Please get YOUR facts straight.

Artful Dodger: that is an awful lot of money....could have helped a lot of people pay off their mortgage:(

Iamon lyme: .....well ONE person will ALWAYS be right :)

I copied this from facebook :)

The left never gives up telling their lies about capitalism. The left has caused all of our economic problems and they have endorsed crony capitalism more than the right. These people don't represent America...they represent America's enemies. These people are supporters of Barack Obama, I'll bet.

The Col: hahaha, that is how I read it as well....

Artful Dodger: I agree with all of what you have said, and as has been said below....the apples don't fall far from the tree.
I just wondered if nearly 10% of the population are in this predicament :(
but then as you say it is probably everywhere.

On our news this morning there was an item saying that 9% of the american public over 50 years of age go to bed at night "HUNGRY" because they cant afford to buy food....???

Really???

Artful Dodger: It's like posting that camels fart. Yes they do. But it's not significant. ...but...but...it would be significant if you was standing "behind" them.

rod03801: as i said I wasn't sure.

**That mother nature does not say a cucumber is 25.56mm x 320.149mm.**

HUH?

Artful Dodger: I saw a show on Freegan's about 6 months ago...no it was a WIFE SWAP show, and one family lived as freegans.....living out of rubbish containers. They used to wait until the supermarkets had closed for the day and then rob the bins of any discards.....it was sickening and disgusting what they made the kids do and eat....also it was against the law ( well that is what was said in the show)....now I think it was an English show but can't be sure.:(

Artful Dodger: Australias minimum hourly rate is $13.74....I would NEVER work for that little amount of money. as for being unemployed, have never been unemployed and will never be unemployed. If there was ever a time of difficulty (I can't remember one but..if..) I would work for myself, and in fact the last 20 years that is just what I have done :)

I personally believe that the kids will be like the parents....you will have generation after generation of "unemployables"

Artful Dodger: LOL

Vikings: legal porno? if it was legal then it was legal, and it should be allowed to be sold....unless it had a health risk hahahah.

You wouldnt be allowed to sell lemonade in Australia like that because of the health risks...but I always thought the lemonade stands were part of the American way of life....so sad :(

Mousetrap: I suppose it could be funny as long as it wasn't happening to you....personally I can't see anything to laugh about...sad mentality those people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKloG5xyhKM

I don't know how old the programme is but last night watched a show "Duchess on the Estate"....it was filmed in Manchester...it was the Duchess of York "Fergie" trying to help the underpriveledged...and my god what a pack of idiots she is trying to get into line. These thugs are out on the street 24hours a day and will bash, rob, and loot etc anything they can lay their idle hands on. I think the Suburb was called Northern Moor...the shops are closed everywhere and shopfronts have roll down fontages to stop the breaking of window etc.....I feel so sorry for those living in such poor conditions and poverty, but the thugs just don't seem to want to help themselves. They don't think they are under priveledged, they think this is the norm.

Wythenshawe estate in Manchester - one of the most deprived communities in the UK

This is Council owned.

Artful Dodger: love it,,,, agree with that utterly and completely...

hahahahaha....spotted on Facebook earlier today....

Dear England, now who is full of convicts, regards Australia...

and the person who wrote that is english and has been in australia for 40 odd years, and goes home to england every year on holiday for 3 months.

This in our paper this morning -

They are all members of a powerless underclass which believes violence is the only thing they have to resort to. As Martin Luther King said, a riot is the language of the unheard.

Mousetrap: here is what you said...
Bernice: There has been some riots yes but nothing the police cannot deal with. Most of it is rumour spreading via facebook and not rioting on streets***......it was the no rioting that bothered me..you said some riots and then said "not rioting on streets"...there was heaps of it :( and funnily (sp) enough I havent seen anything on facebook.

Pedro Martínez: ROFL @ AD and Pedro ROFLMBO

Artful Dodger: and of course they ARE fighting the Irish....well there are still idiots with bombs etc.......
but it is the UK, and nothing bad happens over there like it does in USA....YEAH RIGHT...........

Artful Dodger: yeah but it isn't too much trouble...ask the Mouse.

Mousetrap: Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol... but as you said...not too much......RUBBISH

Mousetrap: well I dont know where they are getting the TV films from then.....surely they can't be staged....there is rioting alright, nothing can change that


not only that, it has spread so far north....innocent people losing property and possessions...disgusting.

yes colour.....isn't Brixton predominately coloured? well unless the news providers in the UK are liars, that is what we are told.

BRIXTON.....seems to be the underpriveledged causing the trouble :( sad what unemployment will do...causing boredom, and of course colour doesn't come intp it??? much???

Vikings: for once I have to agree with you

Artful Dodger: London...they are talking about bringing in the army, as the police can't control the rioters...looks like "London is burning" during a REAL war...unemployed with nothing better to do most of them. :(

Artful Dodger: thanks....I was coming in to say the near same thing...I hope
Übergeek 바둑이 is listening this time :)