Poles have got savings of 933billion zlotys
and the national debt is only 778bn, so if we withdrew all our cash we could pay off the entire debt today, if we felt like it.

And Poles keep telling me this is a poor country.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:11, archived)

Chiseling bastards
I was looking at some savings accounts recently. I have decided that they are shit on account of having interest rates that don't come close to inflation. Therefore I would get better value for my money spending it now, probably on sweets and pop, than I would if it sat in a bank losing value. Economics, right there.
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:13, archived)

Savings accounts are the con of the century, and no fucker can see it.
You put your money in, and they play with it for 8 hours, and give you a bit of that profit. And you're happy with it. But then, when the markets close, they lend it to the Asians to fuck around with for 8 hours, and take some of that profit, and then pass it on to the Yanks to fuck around with for 8 hours, and some of that profit, but they give you a tiny cut of 8 hours, and none of the other 16. Cos you're a gullible bastard who thinks money can grow by being left in a cold damp room all day.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:16, archived)

We pay people to dick about with our pension money and turn it into mountains of gold
I'm happy with that system.
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:18, archived)

I put money into an isa, so I have some money for a rainy day.
Or if I'd like a holiday or something, any money it's makes me is just a nice bonus..
( Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:21, archived)

Interestingly, mad-cap victorian rhymester edward lear can point us to the original purpose of currency, which was to wrap honey in for transportation. sadly the original purpose became confused over time, and is today almost entirely lost, with people generally now storing and transporting their honey in jars rather than money. It's my view that were we to have reverted to the original correct usage of money, much of the current unpleasantness could have been avoided
( vladimir, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:29, archived)

We live in a honeytocracy

( RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:50, archived)

I hear getting a loan in a honeytocracy is like trying to attack a bee's nest without being a honey badger

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:54, archived)

I hear you have to be careful of hone sharks
( vladimir, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:58, archived)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nrSfC76lLI&feature=related
( vladimir, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 17:45, archived)

During the last three years the total private savings in Ireland have grown significantly, as has the total number of millionaires (that's people who are millionaires over and above the value of any land or buildings they own).
And people keep saying the country is broke.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:18, archived)

It's only broke for the poor people.
And they certainly don't care about them.
( Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:21, archived)

Zloty is a great name for a currency

( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:26, archived)

It's one of the top names.
I wonder what the order would be.
( Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:37, archived)

Before we dropped it, the Punt was a class name
Seeing as how it rhymed with "Bank Manager"
( Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 16:49, archived)