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"All I want to do is ride around fanny, ride fanny, ride"

Going to be 40 tomorrow. In a packed city, it's not pleasant. Just as well am off to Barcelona for 3 days, where it's a reasonable 31.

It's 20 past 7 in the evening and its 34 degrees. Fucking hell.

I thought it was MF who was the trophy husband? Well I heard his lass liked to wear him on her wrist.

Doing absolute wonders for the value of my US equities. That kind of attitude got us into this mess though.

This is Europe, it'll all blow over and we'll be on the beach by the first weekend of August. Nae worries.

Good day to bury the Janner story btw.

I cant get insurance to travel on the metro anymore.

Just been sent the following brief on the plan B - Partial default but actually staying in the Euro., "What follows is an illustrative example of a ‘plan B’ – a potential solution that does not involve leaving the Euro. There may be other variants but the implications are likely to be similar. - If Greece stays in the Euro without a solution to its liquidity it stands to reason that Greece would have to create some sort of financing instrument to be able to function – since without a solution GoG will have no money with which to pay suppliers and or workers. - Greece could create a new financial ‘IOU’ type instrument along the lines of the ‘revenue anticipation notes’ used in the US*. - Such IOUs would likely have zero interest rates, could be tied to future tax revenue and would have to be tradable, essentially allowing them to operate as a temporary parallel currency. - It has been argued that such a solution would allow Greece to remain in the Euro and EU – since there is no straightforward way of requiring Greece to leave – whilst effectively providing a mechanism of maintaining/ increasing fiscal transfers"

Paris aeronautical conference the other week, got an exec on uber to go to the airport, saw the surge, ignored it and requested anyway. 180 notes Whoops. The difference i've found with apps with traditional taxi firms and the uber app is that the taxi apps call a taxi typically driven by a cunt whereas Uber tends to be canny.

Depends on which derivatives you're talking about. Another thing that wound me up over the weekend were the complaints from within the Eurogroup that Varoufakis was 'lecturing them'. Basically what is happening is that muppets with bachelor degrees in economics from shithole schools like Bratislava and Wageningen are put out by the fact that he keeps looking them in the eye and telling them they are wrong. The political shills like Lagarde arent equipped to deal with the arguments (probably why they are chosen in the first place, its easier to push an ideological line if you dont understand the theory or the data) so dont care about this but those that are (the eurogroup representatives) have been wound up by the vastly more qualified international economist.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/28/greece-europe-imf-democracy A bit like when WMDs failed to materialise in Iraq, the narrative turned into a moral one, now that Austerity has shown to have fundamentally failed to restore growth, the narrative becomes a moral one.

Starts a bit oddly but picks up and episodes 2 to 6 have been good. Loads of potential for complex plot development but you never know with these things. Netflix has obviously invested massive amounts into it (all the documentaries on DMT etc now make more sense but its not about that). The scenes require the actors to be in different places at the same time and they have shot the lot on location, so its no expense spared by the looks of things. Got shadowy organisations, conspiracy and intrigue. Couple of the characters are a bit irritating but if you like the sort of genre it is (sort of sci-fi but not really) then you'll probably like it.

Anyone on here watching Sense 8? Loving it.

In case anyone outside the UK wants to watch, the BBC has loaded 114 videos from the weekend on to its youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5A4nPQbUF8D4mZdRBxTsQb53GUZw4WEn

Still dancing in my head to 'All Night Long'. That was the best of the weekend by far. Which says a lot really.

Indeed. Was listening to Lauren Laverne interview Josh Tillman on Radio 6 this afternoon, he had Glastonbury nailed.

Neville Chamberlain holding the same message aloft iirc.

This is like Ross Kemp playing Widow Twanky in a panto and handing out bald insults to the audience.

That was an unexpected turn.

He goes to Thailand and its even money he does a Stu off Hangover pt II.

I've been setting up fake profiles in the Kenton Park area all morning. Cant wait for tonight.