If You're Chillin' - An Síbín Reoite

Anyone fancy a virtual drink? A few busy days and my head has gone past the point of coherent discussion.

Twas mental there for a while with the crashing of the world economy and all that. It could all go under yet ... I was just thinking today, it seems like there is a big dislocation or adjustment happening on a big scale ... on a global scale with all the credit crises and all. Maybe there isn't but some of these societal shifts in the past came in painful leaps where big upsets happened. I wonder are we feeling an economic earthquake because of China and other BRIC countries ... ?

This discussion doesn't have to be coherent ...

Stuff and places wear out. Costs go up, profits go down, companies move on.

By the way. The badly behaved cat is calming down a bit. She is sitting down here nicely beside me and not trying to catch the new words on the screen.

O yeah have you any more pictures of the cat? It looked quite wild. Is she not so feral now? I tell you get a little fake mouse, some string and a length of qualpex pipe and tie them all together like a fishing rod. She'll love it - you are her mother now, you have to teach her how to rat.

Does the idea of real mice running across a floor make you want to jump up on a chair?

Audi... if you feel the temptation is getting too much to bear



Buffy will help you fight your demons....

Auditor #9 wrote:

O yeah have you any more pictures of the cat? It looked quite wild. Is she not so feral now? I tell you get a little fake mouse, some string and a length of qualpex pipe and tie them all together like a fishing rod. She'll love it - you are her mother now, you have to teach her how to rat.

Does the idea of real mice running across a floor make you want to jump up on a chair?

Top of the cupboard.

She has got plumper and she has blunted her teeth on my arms over the last few weeks. She can catch a fly 4 feet in mid air from a standing start.

cactus flower wrote:

Auditor #9 wrote:

O yeah have you any more pictures of the cat? It looked quite wild. Is she not so feral now? I tell you get a little fake mouse, some string and a length of qualpex pipe and tie them all together like a fishing rod. She'll love it - you are her mother now, you have to teach her how to rat.

Does the idea of real mice running across a floor make you want to jump up on a chair?

Top of the cupboard.

She has got plumper and she has blunted her teeth on my arms over the last few weeks. She can catch a fly 4 feet in mid air from a standing start.

Kewl.

cactus flower wrote:

Stuff and places wear out. Costs go up, profits go down, companies move on.

By the way. The badly behaved cat is calming down a bit. She is sitting down here nicely beside me and not trying to catch the new words on the screen.

We'll be needing pictures.

And a certificate to prove you can tame mad cats - then I'll send you all my mother-in-law's (about twelve at last scary count) and you can do a Night Nurse or a Nurse Ratchett on them, whichever works best for you cactus...

I just can't get used to seeing you with your hair up, cm...

cactus flower wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Auditor #9 wrote:

We have to coin some phrase in case the likes of Pat and Ben Dunne and who else? Sean Dunne? What if a raft of these suited lads rose up en masse to smite the powers currently installed and severed all their heads Well, what if a whole rake of them got together with the intention of reforming the European system to their liking? It could be a revolution of sorts ... like a velvet revolution but that's taken for Czechoslovakia ...

Shush you. It's me who runs the country. Pat, Ben and Seán are all my eunuchs.

If you've a good stash of mattress cash Ard Taoiseach you may be able to snap it and them up at a nifty price in the near future.

I think I will cactus!

Here's a government-guaranteed deposit of cash for people to spend on deochanna blasta. I'm feeling generous!

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Here's a government-guaranteed deposit of cash for people to spend on deochanna blasta. I'm feeling generous!

Hold on to those. Ard. You will be needing them. The Irish nation will have to get used to the fact that liquidity means something else apart from its usual pub-realted meaning. We all will.

Slim Buddha wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Here's a government-guaranteed deposit of cash for people to spend on deochanna blasta. I'm feeling generous!

Hold on to those. Ard. You will be needing them. The Irish nation will have to get used to the fact that liquidity means something else apart from its usual pub-realted meaning. We all will.

Meh, I'm feeling like injecting a counter-cyclical fiscal stimulus to restart the expansionary economic environment.

Do alcohol consumption levels rise during recessions? I would imagine they would. Will be interesting to see how it goes during this one. Will people leave behind their Bordeaux delights and return to a jar of the black stuff or will cheap wine at home be our society's latent alcoholic destruction.

Perhaps we need to look to history and to art for guidance as to what can occur when you combine alcohol and economic misfortune. William Hogath's 'Gin Lane'

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Slim Buddha wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Here's a government-guaranteed deposit of cash for people to spend on deochanna blasta. I'm feeling generous!

Hold on to those. Ard. You will be needing them. The Irish nation will have to get used to the fact that liquidity means something else apart from its usual pub-realted meaning. We all will.

Meh, I'm feeling like injecting a counter-cyclical fiscal stimulus to restart the expansionary economic environment.

I hope the counter-cyclical financial stimulus is not an idea born of over-exposure to the other form of liquidity.

Slim Buddha wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Slim Buddha wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Here's a government-guaranteed deposit of cash for people to spend on deochanna blasta. I'm feeling generous!

Hold on to those. Ard. You will be needing them. The Irish nation will have to get used to the fact that liquidity means something else apart from its usual pub-realted meaning. We all will.

Meh, I'm feeling like injecting a counter-cyclical fiscal stimulus to restart the expansionary economic environment.

I hope the counter-cyclical financial stimulus is not an idea born of over-exposure to the other form of liquidity.

That'd be telling, wouldn't it?

depends if that mattress cash is Euro, Dollar or Big Mac wrappers.

I have a buy one get one free coupon for Burger King. It probably has a much higher value than the stated face value of 1c which is printed on its reverse. Particularly given the barter system we appear to be living in now.

I'll swap my coupon for a 2 litre carton of milk, anyone?

I'm going to model my bartering on this guy who bartered his way from one red paper clip to a house in a year.

Quote :

On July 14, 2005, he went to Vancouver and traded the paperclip for a fish-shaped pen.
He then traded the pen the same day for a hand-sculpted doorknob from Seattle, Washington, which he nicknamed "Knob-T".
On July 25, 2005, he traveled to Amherst, Massachusetts, with a friend to trade the Knob-T for a Coleman camp stove (with fuel).
On September 24, 2005, he went to San Clemente, California, and traded the camp stove for a Honda generator, from a U.S. Marine.
On November 16, 2005, he made a second (and successful) attempt (after having the generator confiscated by the New York City Fire Department) in Maspeth, Queens, to trade the generator for an "instant party": an empty keg, an IOU for filling the keg with the beer of the holder's choice, and a neon Budweiser sign.
On December 8, 2005, he traded the "instant party" to Quebec comedian and radio personality Michel Barrette for a Ski-doo snowmobile.
Within a week of that, he traded the snowmobile for a two-person trip to Yahk, British Columbia, in February 2006.
On or about January 7, 2006, the second person on the trip to Yahk traded Kyle a cube van for the privilege.
On or about February 22, 2006, he traded the cube van for a recording contract with Metal Works in Toronto, Canada.
On or about April 11, 2006, he traded the recording contract to Jody Gnant for a year's rent in Phoenix, Arizona.
On or about April 26, 2006, he traded the one year's rent in Phoenix, Arizona, for one afternoon with Alice Cooper
On or about May 26, 2006, he traded the one afternoon with Alice Cooper for a KISS motorized snow globe
On or about June 2, 2006, he traded the KISS motorized snow globe to Corbin Bernsen for a role in the film Donna on Demand.^[9]
On or about July 5, 2006, he traded the movie role for a two-story farmhouse in Kipling, Saskatchewan.

I'd help only... do we have to live in Canada?

Kate P wrote:

I just can't get used to seeing you with your hair up, cm...

It's ok, Kate, CM has come back from the dark side.

johnfás wrote:

Do alcohol consumption levels rise during recessions? I would imagine they would. Will be interesting to see how it goes during this one. Will people leave behind their Bordeaux delights and return to a jar of the black stuff or will cheap wine at home be our society's latent alcoholic destruction.

Perhaps we need to look to history and to art for guidance as to what can occur when you combine alcohol and economic misfortune. William Hogath's 'Gin Lane'

Yes it does. But nobody is parting me from the Medoc's finest.

cookiemonster wrote:

depends if that mattress cash is Euro, Dollar or Big Mac wrappers.

I have all denominations and all currencies.

Slim Buddha wrote:

Kate P wrote:

I just can't get used to seeing you with your hair up, cm...

It's ok, Kate, CM has come back from the dark side.

You don't view my current avatar as "the dark side"? I think you and I might be alone there.

cookiemonster wrote:

Slim Buddha wrote:

Kate P wrote:

I just can't get used to seeing you with your hair up, cm...

It's ok, Kate, CM has come back from the dark side.

You don't view my current avatar as "the dark side"? I think you and I might be alone there.

Flawed as the EU may be, and in many ways it is seriously flawed, it is still a more democratic organisation than the US Republican Party.