Jul/090
Viral Emails
Viral email has been around for a long time, and there's still folk out there (my dear mother being one of them) who forward them on to their inbox. I usually skim through such email, rarely seeing anything I haven't seen before, but I saw this for the first time this morning, and thought it was quite clever. Interesting enough to post here on the blog in fact.
How the British Government is doing business today
A rich tourist comes to town. He enters the only hotel, lays a £50 note on the reception counter and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.
The hotel proprietor takes the £50 note and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.
The Butcher takes the £50 note and runs to pay his debt to the pig raiser.
The pig raiser takes the £50 note and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.
The supplier of feed and fuel takes the £50 note and runs to pay his debt to the town's prostitute that in these hard times, gave her "services" on credit.
The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the £50 note to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.
The hotel proprietor then lays the £50 note back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.
At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his £50 note after saying that he did not like any of the rooms and leaves town.
No one earned anything.
However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.
Mar/092
New Economic Reality
At last I've heard a term on the media which describes the current financial crisis. I heard the term "New Economic Reality" on radio 4 and think that about sums it up perfectly.
Oct/080
Will give financial advice for food.
Here's a photoset I've been working on the for the past couple of days. London is going crazy about this financial crisis bullshit, and my Schaden-Freude response has kicked in. I was trying to convince Sarah, who's in New York at the moment to take a similar picture on Wall Street, and I'm thinking of trying to create a flickr group to help people from around the world to contribute to the set too.