Interesting article thread

[Psychedelic Rhino]

I'm wondering how many sphincters are going to tighten when the long period comet is spotted way off the ecliptic 'coming out of the shadows', more or less, in our direction, in August.

[MrTwosheds]

Whenever it is, the day after we're supposed to die you'll hear a very loud, "HA! Told ya so!" coming from across the Atlantic. (Mr T will, at least, maybe not the rest of you slackers.)

I shouldn't think you will, we British are fairly restrained when it comes to rubbing other peoples noses in their own idiocy and will have forgotten all about a prediction made by some ancient culture that conspicuously failed to predict its own demise quite sometime before that point... Hopefully we will simply be allowing our continued existence to make the point for us. In the mean time someone will have found yet another fantasy doom to sell to the terminally gullible and those desperate to avoid confronting reality.

[Red Devil]

maybe there'll be a blitzen, too

[Nielk1]

Problem with letting the "too big to fail" companies go under, especially companies that insure, such as AIG, is...not only does it fail, but hundreds of thousands of financial instruments are allowed to die. For example, your grandmother's retirement annuity. If it had been "only" the fate of AIG, per say, then I am quite sure Paulson would have let it fail.

The system isn't a vacuum, where are the cannibalistic companies?

[Psychedelic Rhino]

Paulson was throwing **** at holes in the dike, hoping something would stick. The US was going through a financial crisis every bit as dire as the Cuban missile crisis was to our national sovereignty. AIG's garbage was on a scale no other banks or investment companies could hope to handle, or want . . . with their own problems.

So the Fed absorbed the 180 billion in sewage.

We've kicked the can down the street once again by letting the national debt absorb the craziness. The US house of cards is very high, and it is only going to take a sneeze. This is not over.

[Zenophas]

Paulson was throwing **** at holes in the dike, hoping something would stick. The US was going through a financial crisis every bit as dire as the Cuban missile crisis was to our national sovereignty. AIG's garbage was on a scale no other banks or investment companies could hope to handle, or want . . . with their own problems.

So the Fed absorbed the 180 billion in sewage.

We've kicked the can down the street once again by letting the national debt absorb the craziness. The US house of cards is very high, and it is only going to take a sneeze. This is not over.

I sort of lost your meaning after my mind derailed that into a sexual innuendo.

[APCs r Evil]

That thundering, "HA!" won't be aimed at you, Mr T. We seem to be among the few sane ones left. (Scary a thought as that may be.)

Edit: Just remembered.

we British are fairly restrained when it comes to rubbing other peoples noses in their own idiocy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGWIFlDVv1M

[Ded10c]

Just remembered.

we British are fairly restrained when it comes to rubbing other peoples noses in their own idiocy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGWIFlDVv1M

Exactly. Fairly restrained.

[Red Spot]

James May is simply too cool to be truelly British

[Echo 343]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ghter.html

No words can accurately sum up this abomination.

[Iron_Maiden]

First, that's disgusting.

Secondly, I have no funny comment for this:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 3-16-45-41

[Red Devil]

as morals go, so goes society...

[HitchcockGreen]

Whenever it is, the day after we're supposed to die you'll hear a very loud, "HA! Told ya so!" coming from across the Atlantic. (Mr T will, at least, maybe not the rest of you slackers.)

I shouldn't think you will, we British are fairly restrained when it comes to rubbing other peoples noses in their own idiocy and will have forgotten all about a prediction made by some ancient culture that conspicuously failed to predict its own demise quite sometime before that point... Hopefully we will simply be allowing our continued existence to make the point for us. In the mean time someone will have found yet another fantasy doom to sell to the terminally gullible and those desperate to avoid confronting reality.

Oh you don't have to cup your ears towards the Atlantic to hear a "Ha! Told ya so!"
Enough sensible people around your own continent to do that.

[HitchcockGreen]

as morals go, so goes society...

As far as morals of society, they really haven't changed in over 5000 years of recorded history...

[Psychedelic Rhino]

First, that's disgusting.

Secondly, I have no funny comment for this:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 3-16-45-41

How about. . . "These don't sell well in Tunisia".