UK is Fucked
UK is Fucked
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- Nairn3
Gotta say, I liked the bagpipe bit in the funeral y'day. That was actually quite poignant and emotional. Would've been, for whoever it was, wherever.
Then, very quickly spoilt - utterly - by the borderline Munsters/Addams Family-like organ that came on immediately after; All grim, out of key and cacophonic. lol
- My wife said she got emotional at that bit too. She said that must have come from spending too many years in Scotland. (Originally from South London)PhanLo
- lol, yepfadein11
- Bag pipes, fascinating instrument, you've got to constantly maintain the pressure in the bag.shapesalad
- lol at the organ I mean, I watched with my elderly mum and we both did that glance at each other when it kicked in.fadein11
- Organs are amazing to hear in person, pretty much the sole reason I started going back to church. That and the granny made biccy wiccies afterwards.shapesalad
- Organs can of course be great, it may have been nerves but it was out of key early on and v.noticeable after the lovely bagpipes*fadein11
- *first time I have ever said lovely bagpipesfadein11
- Strange that bagpipes were used to induce fear before a massacre, they sound like a sheep being strangled.PhanLo
- Who dieddrgs
- Years ago, at a friend's funeral, a traditional song, sung in chorus by all of us who were there... More... Violins!! I still shiver :'(OBBTKN
- Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the PhanLo household y'day!Nairn
- I think i would like bagpipes more if they wrote more than one songscarabin
- ^ lol. I don't mind the 'pipes but I wonder if it's a bit of Hollywood conditioning too, like Kurt Russell's funeral in Backdraft. Always gets ya.MrT
- They sound like a dial-up modem having trouble connectingscarabin
- Yes. The lone piper. That bit nearly got me too. I think I have a live for bagpipes in my blood. My great grandfather was a piper in WWII...microkorg
- ...first out of the trenches before the advancing troops walking across a battlefield towards the enemy playing pipes. Balls!microkorg
- shapesalad1
Kinda europe too
- PhanLo0
- Sort of a twisted genius at play there.PhanLo
- If you switched the language to russian what would you think?shapesalad
- He's speaking the queens englishPhanLo
- shapesalad1
- Nice composition, angle, grouping of people and pose.shapesalad
- I bet he's waving at nobodyIanbolton
- Dan!MrT
- ^ lolBluejam
- they should wear their crowns at events like this .. it would look kool with the suits and dresses...neverscared
- Royalty DogsBluejam
- +1 MrT lolllllWordsworth
- KY22 LUBE?Nairn
- shapesalad1
well.. pound is down a lot... 1:1 with dollar looks likely... what a great time to be living in the UK and being paid in USD :-)
- It's like I'm getting a pay increase every week.shapesalad
- and I keep DCA into bitcoin for extra lolzshapesalad
- Pretty much the same story in the EU too.Chimp
- was trying to work, looked at chart when making a coffee, made £225 within 5 mins. nice way to end the week.shapesalad
- Weren't you paid in crypto?!grafician
- Was paid in BTC, switched to USDC earlier... after getting to 1btc stashed away.shapesalad
- Bluejam14
- via https://twitter.com/…Bluejam
- haha, amazingIanbolton
- lol, perfectFax_Benson
- Ha!mort_
- zaq4
- 3 illiterate people found this helpfulContinuity
- *sigh*
I...I can't even....Akagiyama
- Fax_Benson2
- For a moment I thought he was talking about Raheem SterlingChimp
- how do i bypass that bloody paywall to read this?Ianbolton
- ^ If you're on Firefox, use this to defeat paywalls:
https://addons.mozil…Continuity - https://twitter.com/…Bluejam
- https://www.tradingv…shapesalad
- ^ you can expect that to play outshapesalad
- I went back to the homepage then clicked on it againChimp
- shapesalad0
1min chart of last nights action with the pound dropping like a.. pound.
Lowest was £1.03 = $1
Can safely assume 1:1 next and then below. Nothing attractive about UK debt, so currency needs to be discounted.
- shapesalad0
- ^shapesalad
- what were people doing at 2am?!Ianbolton
- waking up in Asia. Market open there. Also I woke up due to phone notification, was half asleep squinting at the chart, all i could see was one long red line.shapesalad
- Will test the level maybe twice, then back down again under 1grafician
- ^ "NOMURA SAYS NOW EXPECTS STERLING TO REACH PARITY BY END-NOVEMBER, $0.975 BY YEAR-END AND $0.95 IN Q1"grafician