I don't know about you but - I haven't taken any courses on how to bring down an Apache helicopter with kitchen utensils and a garden hoe.

At least he was ahead of the times with his big hit single of '76.

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That's how long it's gonna take the Greeks to pay back that EU bail-out.

With my hearing I always thought that was an instrumental track but then I was told that someone was singing on it too, could never hear them myself.

If some Iraqi farmers managed it, fook it, Im signing up with Corporal Cod'ead.

Unfortunately in austere times people always choose to turn to extremist nutjob parties.

Like tories?

How are they going to pay for all this?



Oh...they are not.



If they default on their debts no-one will lend them any more money. They will have to leave the Euro and start from scratch, which is possibly what they want.



If any company ran its accounts the same way Greece did when it submitted its application to join the Euro the directors would be looking at some serious pokey.



But this is the problem - the EU has taken a group of countries who have little in common and decided to try and shoe-horn them all into a one size fits all economic policy.



Quite how anyone thought there could be a meeting of minds, culture and currency in countries that have absolutely nothing in common save as to approximate geographical location is beyond me.

KPMG did the audit



Go figure

Only as good as the figures they are given.



It is widely accepted that there was some serious creative accounting for Greece to get into the Euro.

Bad taste when he has just died.

It will be interesting to see how it pans out.



I would expect that the Eurozone's leadership will have by now developed a Plan B (that they will not want to implement) to let Greece leave. If that happens I fear the Greek people will suffer even more hardship than they have to date in the short to medium term. I do not think a military coup can be discounted at some point.



If Greece does leave in a relatively orderly way it will probably over time improve its lot as its currency will be very weak and so it should be able to export, attract mass tourism, etc.



All we are seeing and will continue to see is member states of the EU that have been heavily subsidised have drops in living standards because fundamentally their economies are weak compared with Germany who effectively dictate interest rates. So, in effect the EU serves no purpose.

Boy this is hard to get through but MONEY IS A CONCEPT! It is intangible. I still have on offer the opportunity for people to have 1,000,000 of a Pound sterling or USA dollar or Euro, if they can show me one. Not a metal disc or plastic disc or piece of paper as a representation but an actual one.



Money is what people say it is. Drachmas no longer exist, nor french francs but they could as could greedbuckets if people want to create them.



As for debt, the crazy thing is that the planets total debt is considerably more than than the planets GDP. Are the Klingons waiting for something as they are the creditors? Of course that is absurd but then the current system is absurd.



How can a planet live on GREED? That is what is going on and the situation is getting worse. People are educated, they can think, and eventually enough is enough will happen and the rich will hide in their prisons hoping the masses will not come near. It's happened throughout history and yet people never learn.



There are warning signs and even the armed forces may not come to the rescue in some situations as has been shown again through history.



We live in interesting times