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[Shaz]

Hey all, anyone got good plans for the weekend?

We have a council cleanup next week, so im going to go through my whole house, and garage and workshop, and throw heaps of shit out. Probs just do that while smashing beers tomorrow. Maybe a BBQ in the arvo.

[Morgan]

Installing a HU into a friends car tomorrow morning.

BBQ tomorrow night.

I need to give the Suby a service and a wash. Hopefully tonight.

SP20 also needs it's 190k oil change.

Church on Sunday. First time playing drums on band. Pretty keen.

[Harry88]

Installing a HU into a friends car tomorrow morning.

I know this is gonna be painfully obvious but a hu?

Going for a pub feed sat night then on sunday I'm gonna check out the timezone that opened up in newcastle and go to a cast screening of housos. Should be a good weekend.

[Morgan]

Headunit

[Harry88]

Headunit

Ah, knew it would be something so obvious. What type did they go with?

[Morgan]

No idea!

It's a single din something going in her AE112 Corolla.

[Scuba-Roo]

Enjoy 3 days off work, hopefully get the boat running again and get drunk and probably drunk again.. Maybe play with the dslr

Hopefully have some girl come over for some sexytime

[Morgan]

Hopefully have some girl come over for some sexytime

Pics?

Vids?

[Harry88]

Hopefully have some girl come over for some sexytime

My plans for sat night and sunday morning

No idea!

It's a single din something going in her AE112 Corolla.

Cool. Hopefully wont take to long to install

[Morgan]

Cool. Hopefully wont take to long to install

That's the plan

[Harry88]

Thinking about getting tints and maybe a lip spoiler on my car next.

[Morgan]

Sounds like a good plan

[Harry88]

Not sure if this will be any good or not.

[Adam]

Planning on clay barring my car this week, get all that fallout from the last year of being parked near the steel works every day!

[Shaz]

Thinking about getting tints

[mark300]

might go down to Sydney this weekend and check out the motor show.

other than that, get drunk, party, enjoy some nice weather, and see what else happens really

[Shaz]

[Morgan]

[Shaz]

Dummies guide to what went wrong in Europe. (And USA)

Helga is the proprietor of a bar. She realizes that virtually all of her
customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to
patronize her bar.


To solve this problem, she comes up with a new marketing plan that allows
her customers to drink now, but pay later. Helga keeps track of the drinks
consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans).


Word gets around about Helga's "drink now, pay later" marketing strategy
and, as a result, increasing numbers of customers flood into Helga's bar.
Soon she has the largest sales volume for any bar in town.
By providing her customers freedom from immediate payment demands,
Helga gets no resistance when, at regular intervals, she substantially
increases her prices for wine and beer, the most consumed beverages.


Consequently, Helga's gross sales volume increases massively.
A young and dynamic vice-president at the local bank recognizes that
these customer debts constitute valuable future assets and increases
Helga's borrowing limit. He sees no reason for any undue concern, since
he has the debts of the unemployed alcoholics as collateral!!!


At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert traders figure a way to make
huge commissions, and transform these customer loans into DRINK BONDS.
These "securities" then are bundled and traded on international
securities markets.

Naive investors don't really understand that the securities being sold to
them as "AA" "Secured Bonds" really are debts of unemployed alcoholics.
Nevertheless, the bond prices continuously climb!!!, and the securities
soon become the hottest-selling items for some of the nation's leading
brokerage houses.

One day, even though the bond prices still are climbing, a risk manager at
the original local bank decides that the time has come to demand payment
on the debts incurred by the drinkers at Helga's bar. He so informs Helga.


Helga then demands payment from her alcoholic patrons, but being
unemployed alcoholics they cannot pay back their drinking debts.
Since Helga cannot fulfill her loan obligations she is forced into
bankruptcy. The bar closes and Helga's 11 employees lose their jobs.


Overnight, DRINK BOND prices drop by 90%. The collapsed bond asset value
destroys the bank's liquidity and prevents it from issuing new loans, thus
freezing credit and economic activity in the community. The suppliers of
Helga's bar had granted her generous payment extensions and had invested
their firms' pension funds in the BOND securities. They find they are now
faced with having to write off her bad debt and with losing over 90% of the
p
resumed value of the bonds.

Her wine supplier also claims bankruptcy, closing the doors on a family
business that had endured for three generations, her beer supplier is
taken over by a competitor, who immediately closes the local plant and
lays off 150 workers.

Fortunately though, the bank, the brokerage houses and their respective
executives are saved and bailed out by a multi billion dollar no-strings
attached cash infusion from the government.

The funds required for this bailout are obtained by new taxes levied on
employed, middle-class, non-drinkers who've never been in Helga's bar.
Now do you understand?

[Scuba-Roo]

Go pro