Stupid bankers!

Q: What's the question most bankers are asking these days?
A: "Do you want fries with that?"

Q: What's the difference between a bank manager and a pigeon?
A: A pigeon can still put a deposit on a Ferrari.

Q: How do you get a banker out of a tree?
A: Cut the rope.

Q: What’s the definition of optimism?
A: A banker who irons five shirts on a Sunday evening.

A banker said he was going to concentrate on the big issues from now on. He sold me one in the street yesterday.

Q: What is the difference between a banker and a large pizza?
A; The pizza can still feed a family of four.

Q: What's the difference between a banker and a couch?
A: The couch can support a family of four.

Q: What do you call a banker without a girlfriend?
A: Homeless

New corporate logos for the recession?

P0rn Again

Despite NBC banning sexually explicit ad content from the Super Bowl broadcast, Comcast somehow goofed with 2:47 left in the game and broadcast a 30-second, X-rated clip—from the adult channel Club Jenna—to about 80,000 subscribers watching the game in the Tucson area. According to The Huffington Post, Comcast suspects the work of hackers.

The company is paying each of its affected customers a $10 refund. Freakonomics asks “How did they decide $10 was the correct amount?”

Furthermore, if $10 is Comcast’s estimation of the damage 30 seconds of porn incurred on the average viewer, should it have paid more to families watching the game with small children, or — since the porn clip interrupted the game right after Larry Fitzgerald’s last touchdown in the game — Cardinals fans? And most importantly, what about the people who enjoy porn? Should they send back the refund — perhaps with an extra dollar or two? :o)

Sir Richard Branson says the economy is 'f***ed'!

Sir Richard Branson has delivered a characteristically blunt verdict on the state of the economy, describing it as "f***ed". But Britain's cheeriest billionaire said that he hoped that the downturn might only last a couple of years instead of becoming a repeat of the Great Depression of the 1930s as so many economists now fear. The Virgin boss was asked his views on the economy by Five News. “I was going to say, it’s f***ed, but I think I had better not have said that,” he replied. He added: “I think it is a terrible, terrible mess, which has been brought upon us by some very irresponsible people in the banking community, some very lax regulation and we are going to have to work hard to dig ourselves out of it.

“I think governments have moved quickly and hopefully it will be a two-year, two or three-year nightmare not a 1929 nightmare. But we are all going to have to work very, very hard to get things back on the even level.” A spokesman for Sir Richard said: “He’s only saying what everyone’s thinking, in a more forthright way. He was making the point that the economy is in dire straits. It’s nothing that hasn’t been said every day for the last three months.”

Prostitute with rice

The Freakonomics site has a very interesting piece on giffen goods today, where it draws a similarity between prostitutes and rice! They're even running a competition before tomorrow for the best answer to 'what do rice and prostitutes have in common?'

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25 ÷ 5 = 14

Is this the maths behind the bailout of GM, Ford, and Chrysler in the US?

Economics - it's well important, innit?

I thought I'd put this up as I still find it funny. Ali-G's 2006 interview with Charles L. Schultze, United States economist and public policy analyst. He served as Chairman of the United States Council of Economic Advisers during the Carter Administration. Nothing though really prepared him for this.

Global downturn causes more sleepwalking!

Financial worries are leading to an increase in sleepwalking, researchers claim. Instances of sleepwalking have increased threefold this year compared with last, according to a poll by the hotel chain Travelodge. Some 3,500 adults and 350 Travelodge hotel managers responded to the poll. Economic fears and worries about being sacked are thought to head the reasons for sleepwalking. The survey also found that 98% of sleepwalkers are naked men, and the optimum time for sleepwalkers is 3.27am.