Russian invasion of Ukraine

metalblue said:
“the coal fire” - exactly mate, one fire for the whole house and we’ve all used the paper torch trick when no matches along with using paper over the front of the fire to create a draft. What could possibly go wrong?
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Metalblue
In one house we had two fires- posh huh.Second fire was for visitors.
The Olympic torch routine here was to use the crappy fire tongs to carry a burning coal from back to front of house to start the second fire.
The carpets were slowly replaced by rugs where the fire starter had cocked up and dropped a lighted coal.
The paper over the front of the fire was a real belter wasn’t it … a room full of acrid smoke for 10 minutes or so on occasions.
Also which FOC’s remember the fights at school using the coke pellets as missiles. Difficult to pretend you weren’t involved when the teachers or the janitor told you to show your hands.
 
domalino said:
This is another really good thread about what’s going on in Russia.



This guy has done 20 odd threads that are quite long but all very interesting and shared widely by reputable commentators.
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Scary stuff.
People in the west need to prepare themselves for difficulties caused by ramping up sanctions to unimaginable levels. No more oil or gas from Russia is urgently needed. The alternative is too horrendous to contemplate, not just for Ukraine but for the whole world.

On a lighter note, I wonder if Everton will change their walk on music.
 
domalino said:
This is another really good thread about what’s going on in Russia.



This guy has done 20 odd threads that are quite long but all very interesting and shared widely by reputable commentators.
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Self serving pricks in the 3rd pic hoping for a drastic upturn in business.
 
KS55 said:
Tbf, the energy companies operate on modest margins. That's why several went bust when wholesale prices rose sharply. Size of profits in the big companies down to volume.
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Depends which energy company you are talking about. Electricity and gas suppliers to the consumers are actually hurting as they have a cap on the price they can sell it to us but the price they buy it from the producers is going up and up. The producers, however, are raking it in as their costs haven't changed much but the price they can sell it at has gone through the roof (although the situation is more complicated than that as a lot of electricity and gas is traded at fixed prices sometimes years ahead of time and it is only as those contracts elapse that the full price hike will start to be felt).
 
blueinsa said:
Im out then.

On topic though, I highly doubt they amount to over 10% as claimed but happy to be shown otherwise l.
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I want to know how much Chinese money and American money is in London, the idea that there is money in Europe from other continents is a bloody revelation.
 
blueinsa said:
Im out then.

On topic though, I highly doubt they amount to over 10% as claimed but happy to be shown otherwise l.
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He’s expressed an asset valuation as a percentage of the annual output of a country. In other words, complete bollocks even if his valuation is correct.
 
blueinsa said:
Im out then.

On topic though, I highly doubt they amount to over 10% as claimed but happy to be shown otherwise l.
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So the calculation he’s done is basically taken the value that Rees Mogg said had been sanctioned from the Russian banks and then applied that as a percentage of gdp.
 
He was quoting someone. I've tried to do a basic Google and couldn't get anything. We need to see a citation, and the asset classes to even make a basic inference of how important it is.
 
blueish swede said:
If that's true it must represent a huge part of the Russian economy.
If the UK won't act now the RoW must act against the UK to freeze those assets where they are.
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Its a piece of propaganda. He is comparing Russian capital with UK annual GDP (I guess because he doesn't label the units used).
Russian deposits do not represent 10% of UK economy.
 
BeerIsTheBest said:
Metalblue
In one house we had two fires- posh huh.Second fire was for visitors.
The Olympic torch routine here was to use the crappy fire tongs to carry a burning coal from back to front of house to start the second fire.
The carpets were slowly replaced by rugs where the fire starter had cocked up and dropped a lighted coal.
The paper over the front of the fire was a real belter wasn’t it … a room full of acrid smoke for 10 minutes or so on occasions.
Also which FOC’s remember the fights at school using the coke pellets as missiles. Difficult to pretend you weren’t involved when the teachers or the janitor told you to show your hands.
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All manner of items went on the fire like plastic, cardboard, potato peelings, tea bags etc.
Every house had it's very own incinerator & hardly any rubbish went out for the binman.
I would say happy days but i still spent most of my youth freezing my balls off & that was in the house
 
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