Just remembered that £35.4m lottery thread...

[Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot]

>>> What's the first thing you'd do if you just had £35.4m cleared into
>>> your account?

>> Never mind that. How, realistically, would you minimise losses, now and
>> in
>> the distant future, to HM's taxman with that much wonga?

> Why the fuck would you care?

You'd care a bit more these days, eh? What would be the most secure place
for all that, I wonder? Gold? Land? Houses in China?

--
Si - XV535

[Hog]

Gold. But where to keep it!

--
Hog
'03 ST4S '96 Bastard12 '89 R100RS '81 XS650 '78 RD400

[darsy]

On Oct 8, 8:51 am, "Hog" <hogS...@freenetCHIPS.co.uk> wrote:
> Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot wrote:
>
> >>>> What's the first thing you'd do if you just had £35.4m cleared into
> >>>> your account?
>
> >>> Never mind that. How, realistically, would you minimise losses, now
> >>> and in
> >>> the distant future, to HM's taxman with that much wonga?
>
> >> Why the fuck would you care?
>
> > You'd care a bit more these days, eh? What would be the most secure
> > place for all that, I wonder? Gold? Land? Houses in China?
>
> Gold. But where to keep it!

Allied Irish Bank.

--
d.

[Jeweller]

Hog wrote:
> Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot wrote:
>>>>> What's the first thing you'd do if you just had £35.4m cleared into
>>>>> your account?
>>>> Never mind that. How, realistically, would you minimise losses, now
>>>> and in
>>>> the distant future, to HM's taxman with that much wonga?
>>
>>
>>> Why the fuck would you care?
>> You'd care a bit more these days, eh? What would be the most secure
>> place for all that, I wonder? Gold? Land? Houses in China?
>
> Gold. But where to keep it!
>

Not gold, not yet.
Last year it was <half its current price.
No reason to think it won't go there again.

--
Jeweller
R100RT
Formerly: James Captain, A10, C15, B25, Dnepr M16 solo,
R80/7, R100RT (green!)
www.davidhowardjeweller.co.uk

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember darsy <dar...@gmail.com> saying
something like:

>> Gold. But where to keep it!
>
>Allied Irish Bank.

But not the Anglo-Irish Bank. The A-IB is apparently dodgy as fuck and
really should have been left out of the Irish Govt bail-out scheme, as
it's utterly hopelessly riddled with bad developer debt - from what I've
been reading.
So, AIB ok, A-IB not ok.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

[darsy]

On Oct 8, 7:12 pm, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REM...@REMOVEgmail.com>
wrote:

> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember darsy <dar...@gmail.com> saying
> something like:
>
> >> Gold. But where to keep it!
>
> >Allied Irish Bank.
>
> But not the Anglo-Irish Bank. The A-IB is apparently dodgy as fuck and
> really should have been left out of the Irish Govt bail-out scheme, as
> it's utterly hopelessly riddled with bad developer debt - from what I've
> been reading.
> So, AIB ok, A-IB not ok.

Indeed.

I noticed that they also included Ulster Bank in the scheme, which
once would have been controversial (not least because it's owned by
RBS).

--
d.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember darsy <dar...@gmail.com> saying
something like:

>I noticed that they also included Ulster Bank in the scheme, which

>once would have been controversial (not least because it's owned by
>RBS).

Heh. Iwt back 15 or 20 years ago there would have been many eyebrows
raised and probably some protests.
Yesterday I heard of a trio of Scandinavian banks wanted to open here so
they could come under the guarantee umbrella [1] - bit of a fecking
cheek, I thought. It should have been made clear the protection only
extended to existing customers and financial institutions.

[1] And perhaps, though I don't know for sure, gaining coverage for
their customers outside Ireland.