BanksYour Ginger Fuhrer froths, "I hate my bank. Not because of debt or anything but because I hate being sold to - possibly pathologically so - and everytime I speak to them they try and sell me services. Gold cards, isas, insurance, you know the crap. It drives me insane. I ALREADY BANK WITH YOU. STOP IT. YOU MAKE ME FRIGHTED TO DO MY NORMAL BANKING. I'm angry even thinking about them."
So, tell us your banking stories of woe.
No doubt at least one of you has shagged in the vault, shat on a counter or thrown up in a cash machine. Or something
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chthonic, Thu 16 Jul 2009, 13:15)
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Almost right, except......Abi Dhabi is doing most of the bailing out, and still has absolutely fuckloads of oil money. So the Emiratis will still be top of the tree, it'll just be a bunch from a couple of hundred miles away.
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nope entirely right i'm afraidabu dhabi bailed them put to the tune of 8 billion dollars - that just brought them up to the figures i quoted.
the thing is though - all of the emirates hate each other. they only banded together in the first instance to prevent the west nicking their oil. but they HATE each other. i had to have two sets of business cards, one for our only real office - in dubai. and another for our 'abu dhabi office' which was no more than an address. if you are in dubai you wont touch an abu dhabi company and vice versa.
they only bailed them out to save face and are secretly becoming the owners of the few viable projects remaining.
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spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Sat 18 Jul 2009, 20:46,
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