View Full Version : Call for Berlusconi to step down as Italy worries grow
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15578613
Note: 3 November 2011 Last updated at 17:01 GMT
soopaman2
11-04-11, 07:15 AM
I can't say it would be a bad thing.
The guy is dirty. I mean in every sense of the word, pure slime. Self serving trash, and a scourge to the proud Italian people.
Maybe if he loses his post, he can finally be prosecuted for some of his misdeeds.
Or he can resist and they can "pull a Mussolini" on him?
Herr-Berbunch
11-04-11, 08:43 AM
Why has it taken so long? In most other countries he'd have been ousted long ago.
Dread Knot
11-04-11, 08:50 AM
Why has it taken so long? In most other countries he'd have been ousted long ago.
It helps when you're the guy who owns most of the Italian media. :shifty:
Akilleùs
11-04-11, 09:19 AM
Berlusconi can't do anything. When we was thinking to emergencies financial, he have writed a law where he left nothing in inheritance to the ex-wife. I hope you think we are represented by Giorgio Napolitano and not by Berlusconi.
I can't say it would be a bad thing.
The guy is dirty. I mean in every sense of the word, pure slime. Self serving trash, and a scourge to the proud Italian people.
Maybe if he loses his post, he can finally be prosecuted for some of his misdeeds.
Or he can resist and they can "pull a Mussolini" on him?
:up:
Still, I know this is repetition from me, can't help wondering why there is not so much trash talk about Italians as people given they elected the guy (I have many Italian friends myself btw) where with Greece it seems some stereotype the population as much if not more than their crooked government. :hmmm:
To a certain extent of course we get the governments we deserve, in all systems.
Jimbuna
11-04-11, 09:59 AM
To a certain extent of course we get the governments we deserve, in all systems.
Aye that :yep:
How is he going to pull the chicks if he's not the PM.
Chicks cost money!
Jimbuna
11-04-11, 10:13 AM
He's got plenty of that :yep:
He's got plenty of that :yep:
He needs taxpayers money.:shifty:
Without there money he would go bust in a week.
Herr-Berbunch
11-04-11, 11:00 AM
He needs taxpayers money.:shifty:
With money he would go bunga bunga in a week.
Fixed :yeah:
Fixed :yeah::k_rofl::k_rofl::Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:
You guys are on a roll today keep it up! :rotfl2::Kaleun_Applaud:
Fixed :yeah:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Virginia_Woolf_in_Dreadnought_Hoax.jpg
Jimbuna
11-04-11, 03:09 PM
LOL :DL
He needs taxpayers money.:shifty:
Without there money he would go bust in a week. Yes,and he ask ya first :yeah:
Jimbuna
11-05-11, 05:49 AM
He needs taxpayers money.:shifty:
Without there money he would go bust in a week.
Fixed :yeah:
Right....time we had a whip round for him then.
I'll start it off and contribute 20 lashes.
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/7543/whip2mv01.gif
It is unnecessary to do the job, all his women may well turn out :haha: they like spanking...
Jimbuna
11-05-11, 06:10 AM
http://imgcash2.imageshack.us/img232/5066/iconsmackbuttxg5.gif
Right....time we had a whip round for him then.
I'll start it off and contribute 20 lashes.
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/7543/whip2mv01.gif
Live from Berlusconi home...
"Are baby whip my rump and get the nipple pegs out".
"ARREEEEEEEE YES".
"Jack up the voltage on the todger electodes".
Jimbuna
11-05-11, 02:42 PM
Live from Berlusconi home...
"Are baby whip my rump and get the nipple pegs out".
"ARREEEEEEEE YES".
"Jack up the voltage on the todger electodes".
Steady on tiger....no reliving ones fetishes on this family friendly forum :DL
Steady on tiger....no reliving ones fetishes on this family friendly forum :DL
I'm not Berlusconi. :rotfl2:
Jimbuna
11-05-11, 02:56 PM
I'm not Berlusconi. :rotfl2:
Your never Max Mosley then...are you? :o:DL
I'm not Berlusconi. :rotfl2: No, but a huge taxpayer :woot:
Your never Max Mosley then...are you? :o:DL
I'm not that old. :o:rotfl2:
Jimbuna
11-06-11, 07:58 AM
I'm not that old. :o:rotfl2:
We've only your word for that :DL
Trust me I'm still in my 40's, the grumpy 40's. :rotfl2:
Still a few years off from the 50's where you bare you a$$ while buring up the motorway on a motor bike.
Jimbuna
11-06-11, 08:19 AM
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tX2KXczWuGw/TkSAUeHm7vI/AAAAAAAAA20/5BbjgcPgPqA/s320/OldBiker.jpg
Jimbuna
11-06-11, 09:33 AM
:03:
Kongo Otto
11-06-11, 10:11 AM
http://imgcash2.imageshack.us/img232/5066/iconsmackbuttxg5.gif
Remembers me to something you did to the italians way back in North Africa. :har:
Jimbuna
11-06-11, 10:29 AM
Remembers me to something you did to the italians way back in North Africa. :har:
That was the easy part...it was much harder later on :03:
Kongo Otto
11-06-11, 11:12 AM
That was the easy part...it was much harder later on :03:
Well but it made the italians do a new world record at the 110 meter hurdles. :har:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15611936
Note: Update record,6 November 2011 Last updated at 13:45 GMT
Jimbuna
11-06-11, 06:09 PM
Well but it made the italians do a new world record at the 110 meter hurdles. :har:
LOL :DL
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15617132
Note: Update record,7 November 2011 Last updated at 17:20 GMT
Jimbuna
11-07-11, 04:08 PM
Hardly earth shattering news anymore :doh:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15631265
Note: Update record,8 November 2011 Last updated at 03:00 GMT
Hardly earth shattering news anymore :doh: In the case of this thread, it's coming his retirement that may raise eye brows....but hardly so, raises a deaf-mute. ;)
Jimbuna
11-08-11, 06:58 AM
Viagra prices are soaring whilst the economy collapses.
Jimbuna
11-08-11, 07:02 AM
:salute:
Torplexed
11-08-11, 09:01 PM
Berlusconi or no Berlusconi, ZeroHedge just put out a report by Barclay's to stick a fork in Italy, because it's done. Beyond the point of no return mathematically:
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2011/10/can%20italy%20save%20itself.pdf
According to them, 5.5% yield was the point of no return for Italy, the event horizon. Lately I've read people, say nah, that's 7%, and then even 8% as the yield now approaches 7%.
Note their conclusion is only the ECB can save Italy by massive printing. And that will happen over Germany's dead body.
Since Berlusconi is removed from the picture, it will probably be
"change" but in any form will be interesting, as even Italy, is in trouble economically .... but which countries within the Union have a fat wallet? :hmmm:
Respenus
11-09-11, 06:17 AM
OK, this is all went down south sooner than I had expected. Honestly, I'm starting to get a tad more worried than before. Perhaps it's time to phone the local elites and see if the shelter has any room left in it ;)
In all seriousness, Italy's borrowing interest rates have gone through the roof and unless something is done quickly, we'll all be buying some foreign currency in order to ensure that we retain some value of our savings. I know the euro wasn't the best construct, but it did have its advantages and if it goes down the drain, the IMF report of a lost decade may just extend in length.
Jimbuna
11-09-11, 06:50 AM
Much more of this and it wouldn't suprise me to see the French running up the white flag and pulling out of the Eurozone herself :hmmm:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15652708
Note,Update record,9 November 2011 Last updated at 14:58 GMT
Jimbuna
11-09-11, 10:22 AM
That update is over 20 minutes old....where's the latest :hmmm:
That update is over 20 minutes old....where's the latest :hmmm: Find them yourself unless the update is fast enough, :-?
So he's on his way out now.
Lots more time to bang whores. :shifty:
So he's on his way out now.
Lots more time to bang whores. :shifty: :har:
Jimbuna
11-09-11, 12:30 PM
So he's on his way out now.
Lots more time to bang whores. :shifty:
You just keep sending him your spare viagra and he'll make good use of it I'm sure :03:
Jimbuna
11-09-11, 12:38 PM
Find them yourself unless the update is fast enough, :-?
I would but I don't know how to cut and paste :doh:
You just keep sending him your spare viagra and he'll make good use of it I'm sure :03:
Stud like me has no need for viagra. :DL
Keep your pecker up Berlusconi, and don't forget your viagra. :haha:
I would but I don't know how to cut and paste :doh: Are you trying to be funny or just silly,:stare: :down:
Are you trying to be funny or just silly,:stare: :down:
Jim doing both with a touch of class and coolness. :har:
Jim doing both with a touch of class and coolness. :har: Not a lot of class with such a statement because it was so far from what was right ....:yawn:
Jimbuna
11-09-11, 01:00 PM
Are you trying to be funny or just silly,:stare: :down:
Serious mode it shall be from now on then :shifty:
Jimbuna
11-09-11, 01:01 PM
Jim doing both with a touch of class and coolness. :har:
As if :DL
Serious mode it shall be from now on then :shifty: OK! then I know what's up, :yep:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15629283
Jimbuna
11-09-11, 02:25 PM
Busy night over on BBC News....many things happening all at the same time.
Up Pompei
Jimbuna
11-09-11, 02:45 PM
OH YES!!
Dread Knot
11-09-11, 03:05 PM
And here we go:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...7A85VV20111109 (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/09/us-eurozone-future-sarkozy-idUSTRE7A85VV20111109)
They're now considering a smaller "core" eurozone. It's amazing how quickly the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
It would have been thought of much earlier, the EU has expanded too rapidly, and many countries have had a free ride .... and some have not passed the requirements pours.
Jimbuna
11-09-11, 03:49 PM
And here we go:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...7A85VV20111109 (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/09/us-eurozone-future-sarkozy-idUSTRE7A85VV20111109)
They're now considering a smaller "core" eurozone. It's amazing how quickly the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
And the pipe dream goes on :doh:
Jimbuna
11-09-11, 04:53 PM
Maybe, maybe not :hmmm:
Very informative.....maybe, maybe not :hmmm:
Sometimes, the text is hypothetical.
Jimbuna
11-09-11, 06:02 PM
:salute:
HELP WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!
END OF THE EU.
END OF THE EURO.
END OF EUROPE.
The way the news is banging on about Italy the above is going to happen. For months they said this about Greece now its Italy's turn, wake me up when we get some proper news.
Eeeh, this'll keep them going for another week or two at least. :O:
Eeeh, this'll keep them going for another week or two at least. :O:
Find by me, two weeks of sleeping. :zzz::up:
Jimbuna
11-10-11, 05:41 AM
Find by me, two weeks of sleeping. :zzz::up:
AMEN
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/world/europe/shaken-italy-is-poised-to-name-new-government.html?hp
Jimbuna
11-10-11, 06:35 PM
Interesting? :hmmm:
Interesting? :hmmm: The interest in what happens in Italy, is to me a vital interest as this has a natural connection to work-related market, what others have to motive, it is another thing.
soopaman2
11-10-11, 07:21 PM
Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.
This a-hole needed to go years ago. :woot:
(maybe Italy can heal now)
Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.
This a-hole needed to go years ago. :woot:
(maybe Italy can heal now) It is cool, :DL
Jimbuna
11-10-11, 08:13 PM
Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.
This a-hole needed to go years ago. :woot:
(maybe Italy can heal now)
LOL :DL
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15688755
Note: Update record,11 November 2011 Last updated at 08:29 GMT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15708729
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-3XbeRzISc
So, who is the next leader of Italy? Super Mario Monti!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Monti
Monti is an international adviser to Goldman Sachs
http://qpawn.beardedfool.com/forum/images/smilies/facepalm.gif
Good background then...
Jimbuna
11-12-11, 04:37 PM
Longest serving Italian PM since the last war...speaks volumes when you consider his past history :o
Longest serving Italian PM since the last war...speaks volumes when you consider his past history :o
And he was called "The Knight", which I guess is different to "The Duke"
Berlusconi will now be making porn films to make a living for now on. :88)
papa_smurf
11-12-11, 05:27 PM
Berlusconi will now be making porn films to make a living for now on. :88)
Not quite, he's working on a album:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8NpeP_KjyQ
Jimbuna
11-12-11, 06:14 PM
Not quite, he's working on a album:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8NpeP_KjyQ
LOL :DL
http://www.smh.com.au/world/end-of-an-era-as-italys-berlusconi-quits-20111113-1ndfj.html
He's gone now and none too soon for the Italian population. Still I doubt it will make a lot of difference to the economic problems they've got. They are far more deep rooted than just Berlusconi's policies.
Jimbuna
11-13-11, 06:20 AM
http://www.smh.com.au/world/end-of-an-era-as-italys-berlusconi-quits-20111113-1ndfj.html
He's gone now and none too soon for the Italian population. Still I doubt it will make a lot of difference to the economic problems they've got. They are far more deep rooted than just Berlusconi's policies.
Yep....one of the problems being that it is possible once the tough austerity measures start to bite, the voters revolt and bring down the government then it all starts over again with never an end in sight :doh:
Six ways to save the Euro: http://www.smh.com.au/business/six-ways-to-save-the-sinking-euro-20101201-18gov.html
Dunno if any of these would work better than what they are trying to do now.
Torplexed
11-13-11, 10:05 AM
Six ways to save the Euro: http://www.smh.com.au/business/six-ways-to-save-the-sinking-euro-20101201-18gov.html
Dunno if any of these would work better than what they are trying to do now.
They might have worked if they had been implemented years or months before the current crisis. It's probably too late now. All we have at the moment is more and more austerity duct tape being applied, which doesn't exactly inspire investor confidence. It sure won't grow any economies.
So, let's see; we have a US/Euro financial crisis that was caused by spending money we didn't have, and exaggerating that money's value as backing for highly leveraged bets. And we are planning on fixing that problem by leveraging more money we don't have. Only a bunch of money meddling politicians could come up with that idea. :-?
Jimbuna
11-13-11, 01:41 PM
Six ways to save the Euro: http://www.smh.com.au/business/six-ways-to-save-the-sinking-euro-20101201-18gov.html
Dunno if any of these would work better than what they are trying to do now.
They might have worked if they had been implemented years or months before the current crisis. It's probably too late now. All we have at the moment is more and more austerity duct tape being applied, which doesn't exactly inspire investor confidence. It sure won't grow any economies.
So, let's see; we have a US/Euro financial crisis that was caused by spending money we didn't have, and exaggerating that money's value as backing for highly leveraged bets. And we are planning on fixing that problem by leveraging more money we don't have. Only a bunch of money meddling politicians could come up with that idea. :-?
IMHO the Eurozone and possible even the EU is now doomed to a slow but catastrophic meltdown.
Thankfully we never joined the Eurozone so hopefully we (as in UK) won't be as hard hit as some of the members.
Merkel may yet end up with a damning epitaph.
Six ways to save the Euro: http://www.smh.com.au/business/six-ways-to-save-the-sinking-euro-20101201-18gov.html
Dunno if any of these would work better than what they are trying to do now.
The option "Take off and nuke it from orbit" is missing from that list...
It's the only way to be sure. :yep:
Jimbuna
11-13-11, 02:34 PM
The option "Take off and nuke it from orbit" is missing from that list...
It's the only way to be sure. :yep:
Well is it alright to wait until Cameron pays his next visit before we do that? :DL
LOL or you could watch from over here.:03:
Jimbuna
11-13-11, 05:16 PM
LOL or you could watch from over here.:03:
Couldn't put up with the local brew I'm afraid :03:
Torplexed
11-15-11, 08:20 PM
Italian yields have just breached 7% again on the 5year and 10year. No re-inversion yet.
Everybody now realizes the only thing that will save Italy is massive printing by the ECB. They're begging for it across the board, demanding Germany be brought to heel. I think there is an off chance that the German leadership might give in, but if they do, they'll soon be new German leadership, and that leadership will pull out of the EU in no time flat. :D
Couldn't put up with the local brew I'm afraid :03:
Nor I that's why I brew my own now.:D
On topic, the EU is screwed IMHO. Not many options remain open to them and I'm not seeing the good ideas flowing thick and fast either. Time to buckle up and enjoy the ride methinks.
Jimbuna
11-16-11, 09:53 AM
I wish I had the coin to lend the italians....I'm tied into 3.25% over 18 months :-?
Berlusconi productions presents Hard Shag Vol.1
Starring Berlusconi and a great number of women.
Berlusconi productions presents Hard Shag Vol.1
Starring Berlusconi and a great number of women.
Sales just collapsed, looks like the bargain basket for this one.
That's what you get passing a smoking film off as a porn film.
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