R. B. Trage

[hirez]

The distant grinding you might hear is the noise from the annoying cogs of International Finance, beating quietly with the slightly different frequency from my teeth.

I would like to be able to concentrate on my work, please. It's interesting.

In the future, there will be a single currency and it will be the Euro.

Comments

[spride.livejournal.com]

What's up? I see the GBP/USD heading back to 1.86 today but that's not a spectacular shift.
And yes, as soon as Putin wipes the $ off the Russian oil barrels and chalks up the €, it's all over for the greenback.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Passive-aggressive banking faff in getting money to the US.

It's been a number of years since I had to do it with any regularity and I'd forgotten which questions to ask the Nice People ahead of the bank going '... and we'll need the inside leg measurement of the manager at the destination. What d'you mean you don't have it? Are you some kind of imbecile?'

'No, mate. I didn't fuck up my A levels and end up working in a bank...'

[spride.livejournal.com]

Owt I can do to help? Having a Colonial bank account an' that?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Thank you, but I believe it's all in hand. I've 'ad me vent, like, and will go back to viewing the BBC cycling site with one eye and some security malarkey with the other.

[spride.livejournal.com]

Ah yes.

/me rapidly tunes to OLN for Phil'n'Paul.

[garunya.livejournal.com]

I remember all that nonsense, but to be fair, America can sometimes be even worse. "A foreign what? Country? What's that?"

It's the main reason I keep family in various different countries (and by that I mean siblings, parents, extended family - I have not gone around creating progeny across the world in order to make my finance dealins easier)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Oh, indeed. There was a bit of Usenet where some oik from Ohio (or somewhere) allowed that he was coming to London and wanted to know the 'street price' for dollars.

There was a brief chorus of mild outrage in which the fellow was informed of remarkable new learning in the areas of 'alternating current', 'horseless carriages' and 'use a bloody cashpoint like the rest of the world'

... creating progeny across the world in order to make my finance dealins easier.

No, indeed. I imagine that would be a little too Charlie Stross. (Merchant Princes)