Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

Would you credit it?

The Big Suit at The Fed (The Federal Reserve), said yesterday, words to the effect.....

"Well, we have injected liquidity back into the Banking system now so we can get the economy moving again. But it's borrowers that are the problem - lack of them, specifically, so we need to find a way to get people to borrow again".

Alastair Darling said almost the same thing today.

You could not make this stuff up! Living beyond our means caused the problem, so how do we fix it? Start again, it seems.

Bizarre.

[Colchester Kev]

OK,  I will do my bit for the economy .... Tikay, lend me fifty quid please.

[tikay]

After Spurs unlikely result last night......

The Times reports,

"Wenger.......was ungracious when asked to discuss the contribution made by Redknapp".

Good that the Thunderer does not go down the The Sun's "up yours" route, but I'm curious as to what he might have said.

Answers on a possie.

[tikay]

OK,  I will do my bit for the economy .... Tikay, lend me fifty quid please.

No.

Have you asked Des Duffy?

[gatso]

didnt the irish flee from persecution?

just as many scots left cos of religious persecution didn't they?

I think the huge no. of irish around the world comes from everyone legging it from the potato famine

[Colchester Kev]

OK,  I will do my bit for the economy .... Tikay, lend me fifty quid please.

No.

Have you asked Des Duffy?

LOL Duffy got arrested for breaking into a fiver !!
















They let him off though, it was his first offence

[Rod Paradise]

Lovely pictures, thanks Rod.

Bit of a lad, your Grandad, eh?

Tell us more about him, please.

I've travellled pretty extensively, America, Russia, Africa (West & East), Mainland Europe, Yorkshire, & met Irish folks everywhere, alll over the world, but not so Scots, or Welsh. Must be a logical reason, I suppose.

Grandad was a Cockney of Irish Traveller extraction (but he and Gran had the sense to have my mother in Scotland - while Grandad was based at Prestwick). He was a pilot and flew in the Berlin Airlift (my mother was apparently the only child flown into Berlin when my Grandad took her with him to rejoin gran - my Mum had been visiting relatives at the time). He was eventually let go by the airforce due to severe colour-blindness. Went to Argentina for a few years & then to the Bahamas where he lived from then on. Unfortunately he died before I was old enough to get the best of his stories off him.

I'm confused as to how you met so many Irish but no Scots - the Potato Famine had an impact in Scotland as well & then there were the Clearances. There's more people of Scots descent abroad than in Scotland - approx 5 million in Canada and another 5 in the USA, 20% of original european settlers in New Zealand were Scots, and a significant amount in Australia. There are more Highland games held in the USA than in Scotland now.

The Irish diaspora is larger due as Action Man said due to the huge impact of the famine, the diaspora being estimated at approx 80-100 million people of Irish descent.

I'll ignore the insular comment, but will ban for trolling next time

[TightEnd]

After Spurs unlikely result last night......

The Times reports,

"Wenger.......was ungracious when asked to discuss the contribution made by Redknapp".

Good that the Thunderer does not go down the The Sun's "up yours" route, but I'm curious as to what he might have said.

Answers on a possie.

http://www.skysports.com/video/clips/0,23791,12606_4430255,00.html

[tikay]

OK,  I will do my bit for the economy .... Tikay, lend me fifty quid please.

No.

Have you asked Des Duffy?

LOL Duffy got arrested for breaking into a fiver !!
















They let him off though, it was his first offence

Listen, I got a new Show last week, so I asked him "what's the fee Des?".

He said.....

"Don't worry Tony, we won't charge you".

[tikay]

Lovely pictures, thanks Rod.

Bit of a lad, your Grandad, eh?

Tell us more about him, please.

I've travellled pretty extensively, America, Russia, Africa (West & East), Mainland Europe, Yorkshire, & met Irish folks everywhere, alll over the world, but not so Scots, or Welsh. Must be a logical reason, I suppose.

Grandad was a Cockney of Irish Traveller extraction (but he and Gran had the sense to have my mother in Scotland - while Grandad was based at Prestwick). He was a pilot and flew in the Berlin Airlift (my mother was apparently the only child flown into Berlin when my Grandad took her with him to rejoin gran - my Mum had been visiting relatives at the time). He was eventually let go by the airforce due to severe colour-blindness. Went to Argentina for a few years & then to the Bahamas where he lived from then on. Unfortunately he died before I was old enough to get the best of his stories off him.

I'm confused as to how you met so many Irish but no Scots - the Potato Famine had an impact in Scotland as well & then there were the Clearances. There's more people of Scots descent abroad than in Scotland - approx 5 million in Canada and another 5 in the USA, 20% of original european settlers in New Zealand were Scots, and a significant amount in Australia. There are more Highland games held in the USA than in Scotland now.

The Irish diaspora is larger due as Action Man said due to the huge impact of the famine, the diaspora being estimated at approx 80-100 million people of Irish descent.

I'll ignore the insular comment, but will ban for trolling next time

Thanks Rod, fancy me needing education at my age - from a Scot!

Point taken as to the Scots abroad - I've never been to Canada, Aussie or New Zealand, hence my blind-spot.

What are the "Clearances", briefly, please?

[Rod Paradise]

didnt the irish flee from persecution?

just as many scots left cos of religious persecution didn't they?

I think the huge no. of irish around the world comes from everyone legging it from the potato famine

Not religious persecution more economic persecution in Scotland The Clearances.

The Potato Famine in Ireland affected the poor regardless of religion, but the vast majority of the poor were Catholic. During the Famine Ireland was still a net exporter of food - the rich landowners still made their money on grain crops etc & Parliament still collected their taxes.

[AndrewT]

What are the "Clearances", briefly, please?

All the reds with a colour, then yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black.

[TightEnd]

What are the "Clearances", briefly, please?

All the reds with a colour, then yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black.

ROFL here.

[Geo the Sarge]

Lovely pictures, thanks Rod.

Bit of a lad, your Grandad, eh?

Tell us more about him, please.

I've travellled pretty extensively, America, Russia, Africa (West & East), Mainland Europe, Yorkshire, & met Irish folks everywhere, alll over the world, but not so Scots, or Welsh. Must be a logical reason, I suppose.

Grandad was a Cockney of Irish Traveller extraction (but he and Gran had the sense to have my mother in Scotland - while Grandad was based at Prestwick). He was a pilot and flew in the Berlin Airlift (my mother was apparently the only child flown into Berlin when my Grandad took her with him to rejoin gran - my Mum had been visiting relatives at the time). He was eventually let go by the airforce due to severe colour-blindness. Went to Argentina for a few years & then to the Bahamas where he lived from then on. Unfortunately he died before I was old enough to get the best of his stories off him.

I'm confused as to how you met so many Irish but no Scots - the Potato Famine had an impact in Scotland as well & then there were the Clearances. There's more people of Scots descent abroad than in Scotland - approx 5 million in Canada and another 5 in the USA, 20% of original european settlers in New Zealand were Scots, and a significant amount in Australia. There are more Highland games held in the USA than in Scotland now.

The Irish diaspora is larger due as Action Man said due to the huge impact of the famine, the diaspora being estimated at approx 80-100 million people of Irish descent.

I'll ignore the insular comment, but will ban for trolling next time

Thanks Rod, fancy me needing education at my age - from a Scot!

Point taken as to the Scots abroad - I've never been to Canada, Aussie or New Zealand, hence my blind-spot.

What are the "Clearances", briefly, please?

http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_781531102/Highland_Clearances.html

[Geo the Sarge]

What are the "Clearances", briefly, please?

All the reds with a colour, then yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black.

Thanks Andrew,

I now have coffee all over my new Vaio

Geo