[Merton]

Originally Posted by Betty

mertonwhat's up

Hi Betty I am fine, thanks.

Originally Posted by acionescu

Merton

This deserves a separate post

Andreea I am deeply honoured

Originally Posted by acionescu

Of course. especially as is written in cyrillic

Who cares about the background? Did you notice this guy playing?

Originally Posted by Castafiore

Tell me about it. And our tax pressure already is sky-high.

It's utterly disgraceful what happened there.
The weird part is that it's a franco-belgian bank since the 2008 crisis with both sides needing to revamp and restructure. The Belgian side did just that and were back to health. The French side didn't and were in deep financial trouble so their solution was to channel the Belgian profits to the French side which was not enough to cover their losses and left the Belgian side deprived.
(the sad, sad part is that a similar scenario takes place in another franco-belgian bank BNP Paribas Fortis. Belgian profits flowing to cover losses in Paris)

Those bonuses given to top management: one of them said in April this year: "we deserve it". You have to have some nerve to say that.

To make matters worse, the Belgians offered a garantee of 54 billion euro for those bad bonds and the French only 33 billion euros. I have no idea how spineless exactly the Belgians were and how this can be seen as fair.

Bunch of utter mugs running this country, I'm telling you.
And we still don't have a government about 530 days after the elections and yet, the flipping Italo-Belgian leading the negociations "wants more time".
Aaargh.

It is totally unfair for Belgium to be suffering at this point, after all it is not well known but Belgium dealt with an enormous debt burden during the 90s. At the time it was the highest in Europe by far, I think it counts a lot that they could do it.

Originally Posted by cobalt60

Merton

Sue Happy thanksgiving

[Betty]

no way rafa can do it

gasquet in the pubblic

[Minn]

Originally Posted by Merton

I am fine, just busy and ... many things going on. Later

Merton. Glad to see you around.

Originally Posted by Castafiore

20 years ago, Freddie Mercury died...unbelievable that it's 20 years already, only a day after he officially announced that he had aids.

Queen has so many great songs. I knew it was soon after he admitted to having AIDS but I don't think I knew that it was the next day that he died!

Originally Posted by -Evita-

Who knew we would get new posters because of such a thread title?

Happy Thanksgiving to Star, Hema, WG.

[Betty]

Happy Thanksgiving to all celebrate it

Rafa in his serve games alywas fatigue

[Puschkin]

Rafa, where was your FH? Why did you let this arrogant prick win?

[Commander Data]

@Maria, Betty and whoever else feels I'm not mocking them.

[Betty]

since the first match was clear rafa was not in a good moment,
coz it is the and of the season?, i dont know but sure it is sad see him leave the match in this way,stupid mistakes
he becomes old too,tennis talking
tom thk

[Corey Feldman]

HUG Bet

better still get my score txt's on saturday

[star]

Originally Posted by Corey Feldman

HUG Bet

better still get my score txt's on saturday

Thanks for the Thanksgiving wishes!

Rafa Good Luck in DC although so many of your fans here wish for your defeat.

I’m leaving tomorrow morning to spend a little time in the city. See you all later.

[Corey Feldman]

Happy thanksgivings Star, Bibbz .. others

we dont have that here, i never know when it is

[star]

Originally Posted by Corey Feldman

Happy thanksgivings Star, Bibbz .. others

we dont have that here, i never know when it is

No problem. It’s different in the U.S. and Canada. I can never remember Canada’s. Ours is the fourth? Thursday in Nov. Theirs is earlier because they have to have it before 18 feet of snow is on the ground and they all move into their igloos.

[Castafiore]

Originally Posted by Merton

It is totally unfair for Belgium to be suffering at this point, after all it is not well known but Belgium dealt with an enormous debt burden during the 90s. At the time it was the highest in Europe by far, I think it counts a lot that they could do it.

It used to be slightly under 140% (debt vs gdp) mid-90s which was a total embarrasment but they worked it down to about 90% which took a huge effort.

One of the problems we encountered in the next decade was a switch of government (the christian democratics made room for a liberal government) and instead of continuing the good work on breaking down the debt even further, they stopped the effort so that the debt got stuck at 90%

With the current crisis, not helped by spineless morons running the country, it's again around 100%.

[MariaV]

Originally Posted by Castafiore

Tell me about it. And our tax pressure already is sky-high.

It's utterly disgraceful what happened there.
The weird part is that it's a franco-belgian bank since the 2008 crisis with both sides needing to revamp and restructure. The Belgian side did just that and were back to health. The French side didn't and were in deep financial trouble so their solution was to channel the Belgian profits to the French side which was not enough to cover their losses and left the Belgian side deprived.
(the sad, sad part is that a similar scenario takes place in another franco-belgian bank BNP Paribas Fortis. Belgian profits flowing to cover losses in Paris)

Those bonuses given to top management: one of them said in April this year: "we deserve it". You have to have some nerve to say that.

To make matters worse, the Belgians offered a garantee of 54 billion euro for those bad bonds and the French only 33 billion euros. I have no idea how spineless exactly the Belgians were and how this can be seen as fair.

Bunch of utter mugs running this country, I'm telling you.
And we still don't have a government about 530 days after the elections and yet, the flipping Italo-Belgian leading the negociations "wants more time".
Aaargh.

Those bank people and their bonuses, I mean cannot they really take these bonuses away or smth?
Btw I know you're all eager to know that the Lithuaninan bank criminal was arrested in the UK. I hope they can make all those bank criminals pay! But the Snoras Bank is bankrupt.

Originally Posted by Puschkin

Rafa, where was your FH? Why did you let this arrogant prick win?

Sorry about that. Richie in the stands. I need to go to Richie forum for the latest news, why was was he in London, just to support his best mate Tsonga? Nice way to spend a vacation.
And I know Richie appreciates Rafa too.

Originally Posted by star

No problem. It’s different in the U.S. and Canada. I can never remember Canada’s. Ours is the fourth? Thursday in Nov. Theirs is earlier because they have to have it before 18 feet of snow is on the ground and they all move into their igloos.

Happy Thanksgiving! (although I'm late I know) How was the Black Friday?

[Castafiore]

Originally Posted by MariaV

Btw I know you're all eager to know that the Lithuaninan bank criminal was arrested in the UK.

I hope they can make all those bank criminals pay!

Pffft...if only. Like I said earlier, most of those bank criminals are smart enough to make sure that they use enough loopholes to stay legal.

[MariaV]

Oh, and Betty was asking about buying clothes online.
Andreea is brave and smart. I have bought from like 2 Estonian websites and no the clothes don't always look exactly like on the photos so I've been disappointed a few times, the size hasn't really been a problem but I stick to buying simpler and cheaper things online, and I would never buy shoes online, even the ones I've tried on in a shop have turned out to be not suitable in the end.