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General MKB => General Banter => Topic started by: philoldsmobile on January 05, 2009, 07:50:12 pm

Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: philoldsmobile on January 05, 2009, 07:50:12 pm
What would you say this man is going out to buy, and where?

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Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: F Body on January 05, 2009, 07:59:42 pm
I going to say Zimbabwe and a loaf of bread ?

NB : Mind you on the Top Gear Vietnam Special the other week cars were a couple of billion what evers (http://www.mkb.cc/forum/smileys/wink.gif)
Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: philoldsmobile on January 05, 2009, 08:00:26 pm
"An unidentified man carries some cash for groceries in Harare, Zimbabwe Wednesday, March, 5, 2008. The Zimbabwean currency tumbled to a record 25 million dollars for a single US dollar Wednesday as Zimbabwe battles with the worlds highest inflation currently pegged at over 100 000 percent. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi) "
Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: F Body on January 05, 2009, 08:09:18 pm
Quoting: philoldsmobile
cash for groceries in Harare, Zimbabwe


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That was honestly just a guess (http://www.mkb.cc/forum/smileys/up.gif)

Somebody needs to shoot Mugabe (http://www.mkb.cc/forum/smileys/snipersmilie.gif)
Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: philoldsmobile on January 05, 2009, 08:12:47 pm
its a staggering image, and the reality of a currency so worthless they recently added seventeen zeros onto it..
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good guess BTW! (http://www.mkb.cc/forum/smileys/grin.gif)
Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: Rob on January 05, 2009, 08:18:24 pm
Imagine the size of the cash register they ring it up on(http://www.mkb.cc/forum/smileys/rofls.gif)
Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: F Body on January 05, 2009, 08:29:52 pm
Quoting: Rob
Imagine the size of the cash register they ring it up on


and imagine how long it takes the cashier to count it (http://www.mkb.cc/forum/smileys/down.gif)
Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: Roadkill on January 05, 2009, 08:31:32 pm
I bet the cash isn't collected from the shop weekly in an armoured van - it's collected hourly by a roll-on-roll-off skip lorry !

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Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: Fieldy on January 06, 2009, 09:12:58 am
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imagine filling your car up
Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: Big Mouse on January 06, 2009, 10:44:11 am
Quoting: Fieldy
imagine filling your car up

You'd have to fill it up in order to fill it up

serves them right, someone should have give him a 9mm enema a long time ago

Bringing it closer to home, it was only just beofre christmas that a treasury email was leaked to the media suggesting that the government here print more money in an attempt to kick start the economy. When my uncle john did that he got 8 years!
Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: philoldsmobile on January 06, 2009, 06:30:53 pm
Quoting: Big Mouse
serves them right, someone should have give him a 9mm enema a long time ago


why no military intervention in Zimbabwe? no oil.......
Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: Big Mouse on January 06, 2009, 08:38:56 pm
Quoting: philoldsmobile
why no military intervention in Zimbabwe? no oil.......

they have plenty of other minerals that are worth having but no western i.e. white, government is going to kick off a fight in an african country no matter what the human misery level is - instant racism/white imperialism claim and they'd all jump on the bandwagon. Leave them alone long enough and they'll kill each other anyway
Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: F Body on January 16, 2009, 12:49:16 pm
Not content with issuing a 50 trillion $ bank note on Wednesday :

(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45381000/jpg/_45381632_afp226b.jpg)

Zimbabwe has today introducing a Z$100 trillion note (http://www.mkb.cc/forum/smileys/shame.gif)

It's currently worth about US$30 (£20) (http://www.mkb.cc/forum/smileys/sad.gif)
Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: ianjpage on January 16, 2009, 12:51:59 pm
Quoting: F Body
Z$100 trillion note
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Quoting: F Body
It's currently worth about US$30 (£20)


lol that is bad !!!
Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: Titsy on January 16, 2009, 01:08:50 pm
Quoting: F Body
Not content with issuing a 50 trillion $ bank note on Wednesday

The note says 50 Billion... (http://www.mkb.cc/forum/smileys/rolleyes.gif)
Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: Fieldy on January 16, 2009, 02:59:02 pm
Quoting: Titsy
The note says 50 Billion...


i thought it was my eyesight for a minute (http://www.mkb.cc/forum/smileys/confused.gif)
Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: F Body on January 16, 2009, 05:11:43 pm
Quoting: Titsy
The note says 50 Billion...



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Trillion , Billion whatever as my Kids would say (http://www.mkb.cc/forum/smileys/tongue.gif)


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7832601.stm
Title: if you think our economy is bad.... how about a reality check?
Post by: philoldsmobile on January 16, 2009, 06:26:48 pm
The latest annual figure for inflation, estimated in July last year, was 231m% - the world's highest.

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