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[challenge entry] Bank pays you!

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(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:15, archived)
# Ha ha ha!
Gob Bless Soviet Russia!

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KouvdnY01bQ
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:17, archived)
# HSBC are safe
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:18, archived)
# are they ... are they really ?
Honk Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, sounds a little ... RED if you ask me ...
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:20, archived)
# Huuuurp. Red'd.
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:22, archived)
# yeah they are
So are Citibank, they have so much money in reserve they could buy out the country
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:24, archived)
# well it was a joke, i did not realise this was
BBC.CN you "communists" and your huge banks !

Edit: there be no such thing as a reserve (well a viable one) in modern banking, if a fair few peoples wanted thier money she would fall.
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:28, archived)
# My brother works for citibank
he knows all the ins and outs
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:32, archived)
# haha
well when you get chance ask him to show you the Citybank Vault containing the trillions worth
of literal currency that would underpin this ....
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:35, archived)
# BY saying "Literla Currency"
presumably you mean Gold and other such commodities?

I can state for the record that Citibank do have physical reserves of Gold. Massive physical reserves....
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:42, archived)
# Massive physical reserves
yes but i bet it's no where near to the 9:1 (physical:imagery) ratio it should be to actually be able to pay peoples back in a massive run.

but I don't really care too much about it so I'll shut up, capitalism is sliding into fascism as was inevitable, it's time for a redo..
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:47, archived)
# sliding into?
lol

already there :D
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:54, archived)
# indeed, with 1984
as the rule book it would seem.
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:01, archived)
# Why would they need a 9 to 1 ratio of reserves?
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:00, archived)
# from what i read....
i was the max you could lend before it got ridiculous and imaginary, like today where nothing is real and it's all "confidence", but alas i think i'd prefer the gold (shit 1:9 got here before me ... no gold! no i will not accept confidence!)
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 18:10, archived)
# of course they are, they chinese mafia would never allow this bank to collapse
:D
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:26, archived)
# LOL
I used to work for them, they like to call their logo 'the lozenge
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:23, archived)
# for the reason of
half rhyming with Orange?
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:26, archived)
# No for the reason
It doesn't rhyme with West Brommage Albian.
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:28, archived)
# correct!
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:31, archived)
# You used to work for communist Russia?

cool
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:32, archived)
# Yeah
But in Mother Russia, Russia works for you!
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 17:34, archived)
# Just as I suspected!
(, Sat 11 Oct 2008, 19:10, archived)