Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
Jun 9th 2012, 8:58 pm
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Jun 9th 2012, 9:14 pm
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Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
Yes shows no matter what country you can't trust any politicians yesterday Spain's denied this was going to happen although everyone knew it would. I wonder now what the other "piigs" will think of Spain being bailed out differently and allegedly without the onerous conditions they have/are having to apply. Does anyone think this will end the rot? interesting if scary times
Also they don't know the figure they need until later this month. Estimates range from 40 billion to 380 billion...fudge fudge fudge
Jun 9th 2012, 9:47 pm
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Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
Spain is bigger than Greece, Portugal and Ireland put together. It was always thought that if Spain needed a bail-out, it would be the end of the Eurozone.
UKIP might start clapping, but they've got the brains of a rocking horse. Germany holds the key, and if they had a referendum, they'd be out of the Eurozone like a shot.
European countries have been at war with each other for thousands of years; a fat Kraut, Kohl, and an aquisient Frenchman, Mitterand, tried to change things, a noble gesture.
It looks like they've failed. We're back to square one. Skint.
UKIP might start clapping, but they've got the brains of a rocking horse. Germany holds the key, and if they had a referendum, they'd be out of the Eurozone like a shot.
European countries have been at war with each other for thousands of years; a fat Kraut, Kohl, and an aquisient Frenchman, Mitterand, tried to change things, a noble gesture.
It looks like they've failed. We're back to square one. Skint.
Jun 9th 2012, 10:01 pm
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Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
Spain is bigger than Greece, Portugal and Ireland put together. It was always thought that if Spain needed a bail-out, it would be the end of the Eurozone.
UKIP might start clapping, but they've got the brains of a rocking horse. Germany holds the key, and if they had a referendum, they'd be out of the Eurozone like a shot.
European countries have been at war with each other for thousands of years; a fat Kraut, Kohl, and an aquisient Frenchman, Mitterand, tried to change things, a noble gesture.
It looks like they've failed. We're back to square one. Skint.
UKIP might start clapping, but they've got the brains of a rocking horse. Germany holds the key, and if they had a referendum, they'd be out of the Eurozone like a shot.
European countries have been at war with each other for thousands of years; a fat Kraut, Kohl, and an aquisient Frenchman, Mitterand, tried to change things, a noble gesture.
It looks like they've failed. We're back to square one. Skint.
Still, on a plus side Germany has been victorious in Europe tonight, let the good tanks roll! (Yeah, I did nick that Flanny, and?)
Jun 9th 2012, 10:03 pm
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Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
None of it matters. I've just been chasing a cucaracha around the kitchen but it got away, the first one this year. I've had a good spray up, and might find it on its back tomorrow.
I don't care much about politics or bail-outs, I'm more concerned about cucas, I can't stand them.
I don't care much about politics or bail-outs, I'm more concerned about cucas, I can't stand them.
Jun 9th 2012, 11:04 pm
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Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
Sometimes it helps to 'integrate' a little with your neighbours.
For the past couple of weeks my Doberman has been concentrating on one corner of the garden at the rear, a place he used to ignore because it didn't pose much of a threat. It got so bad, he ignored the front, which does pose a threat, and went straight round the back, then coming back to get me to have a look.
It's a corner where high walls meet and you can't see into the neighbour's garden, but I couldn't see anything suspicious, yet the Doberman wouldn't leave the spot.
Earlier today I found out why. The elderly man who lived there alone was found dead today, and he had been dead for at least three weeks.
For the past couple of weeks my Doberman has been concentrating on one corner of the garden at the rear, a place he used to ignore because it didn't pose much of a threat. It got so bad, he ignored the front, which does pose a threat, and went straight round the back, then coming back to get me to have a look.
It's a corner where high walls meet and you can't see into the neighbour's garden, but I couldn't see anything suspicious, yet the Doberman wouldn't leave the spot.
Earlier today I found out why. The elderly man who lived there alone was found dead today, and he had been dead for at least three weeks.
If my Spanish neighbours even go as much as 24 hours without seeing me when they think I'm on my own, they're straight around checking to see if I'm OK.
Jun 10th 2012, 4:13 am
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Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
The world is skint. I will happily put money on the fact that within 3 years we will see things unravel in China in a massive way. The world has been living beyond its means for generations, the end came after the second world war and we never went back to how things were, how things had been and how things worked.
Still, on a plus side Germany has been victorious in Europe tonight, let the good tanks roll! (Yeah, I did nick that Flanny, and?)
Still, on a plus side Germany has been victorious in Europe tonight, let the good tanks roll! (Yeah, I did nick that Flanny, and?)
Jun 10th 2012, 5:11 am
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Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
didnt you just give him a backhanded compliment, meaning:
despite appearing to be an anal, miserable barsteward, he is actually not.....
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Jun 10th 2012, 6:20 am
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Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
That doesn't show you up in a good light as being a very good neighbour HBG, unless there was more to it of course.
If my Spanish neighbours even go as much as 24 hours without seeing me when they think I'm on my own, they're straight around checking to see if I'm OK.
If my Spanish neighbours even go as much as 24 hours without seeing me when they think I'm on my own, they're straight around checking to see if I'm OK.
From my place I can only see the satellite dish on his roof, nothing else. In the 13 years I've lived here, I've never seen anyone from that house, or even heard a sound coming from it.
I've since discovered that he was a 62-year old Swede who kept himself to himself.
Jun 10th 2012, 7:41 am
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Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
This is all just pixels after all.
Jun 10th 2012, 7:45 am
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Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
Really? Were people screwing themselves to death with credit card debt just to buy food from a super market, only to throw two thirds of it away and start the whole cycle the next day? The war changed our farming and shopping practices beyond the tipping point and the result is the rampant consumerism that has ruined life for so many.
Jun 10th 2012, 7:57 am
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Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
Really? Were people screwing themselves to death with credit card debt just to buy food from a super market, only to throw two thirds of it away and start the whole cycle the next day? The war changed our farming and shopping practices beyond the tipping point and the result is the rampant consumerism that has ruined life for so many.
It's all very worrying.
Jun 10th 2012, 9:05 am
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Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
Do you think someone has hacked his acount?.. Normal service will commence as soon as possible. Actually I agree with his last two posts on here as well.
Jun 10th 2012, 9:14 am
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Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
In Sevilla last November, we saw an old man on the pavement making ashtrays and coasters out of old soft drink cans and selling them at 1€ each. His sign read "I want to buy a chalet in Marbella and a Ferrari - I just need a little help". We had to laugh, so we bought one!
Jun 10th 2012, 9:16 am
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Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
In Sevilla last November, we saw an old man on the pavement making ashtrays and coasters out of old soft drink cans and selling them at 1€ each. His sign read "I want to buy a chalet in Marbella and a Ferrari - I just need a little help". We had to laugh, so we bought one!
