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DH, cant beat ’em? join ’em. then change handle to FilthyMONEY
Correct English is said to be closest to Scots. What is taken for it now – used to be BBC – is called RP – Received Pronunciation or Estuary English. It sounds posh. With the advent of Michael Caine in Georgie Girl & groups such as the Beatles, the chattering classes began taking on more working class tones which had been unacceptable before.
“In this economy, one has to be a little selfish – ie I rather those bonus tax rev close some of the state & city budget gaps”
That would be called socialism. The money is earned by private, shareholder owned enterprises. They are complying with the terms of paying back the TARP. Many of them DID NOT WANT TARP to begin with.
TARP is a clusterf&^ck. It was implemented by a bunch of academicians that are running the government, the FED and the Treasury.
The US taxpayer needs to hold them accountable for the TARP money.
“I don’t know what “British English” is seeing as Britain is Scotland, Wales and England.”
Welsh accents are WEIRD!!!!!!
the only “proper” accent is British English”
Like a Birmingham, UK accent?
I don’t know what “British English” is seeing as Britain is Scotland, Wales and England.
Perhaps you mean an English English accent.
Talk about having a sandy vagina!
Here in the United States British English is a common term, how specific would you like me to be???
Word from the MoTU at The Death Star is bonuses will be much better than last year. I guess I’ll be able to move up from PBR and Pork Slap to Fuller’s London Pride.
I really like Jamaican English, sounds almost muscial to me.
“Bonuses will be huge this year. When I find a table that outlines all of the investment banks I’ll post it here.”
Awesome – tons of sleep deprived asshats will be anxious to buy overpriced pieces of NYC real estate in 2010!
all I ask of the lucky bank employees getting the big bonuses is dont be too loose with the spending with regards to housing? Dont jack prices to the moon OK?