'Hallowe'en' night protest

[butchersapron]

If you want to back out that's fine.

 

[corblimey]

I'm more a book maker to be honest. Matching up two gamblers.

that's not the analogy most people would choose if they were trying to show how much they contribute to society.

 

[STFC]

Or LIFFE... there's no floor for you guys to try so badly to invade any more!

There was a brilliant quote from one of the protestors that absolutely cracked me up, I'll have to try and find it. Something along the lines of "we thought they were going to be toffs but they are all cockney barrowboy thugs". Talk about biting off more than you can chew.

ETA: Found it. Got my wires crossed though, I was thinking of a Greenpeace protest at the IPE. Still funny nonetheless.

“We bit off more than we could chew. They were just Cockney barrow boy spivs. Total thugs,” one protester said, rubbing his bruised skull. “I’ve never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article515384.ece

Richard Ward, who is mentioned in that article, is now the Chief Executive of Lloyd's. He faced the wrath of those same traders himself later on when he took the decision to close the trading floor.

 

[greedy banker]

I think all open outcry (i.e. pretty much Chicago and a couple of other small places) will come to an end fairly soon... maybe with the exception of the LME which has a system too complicated for me too understand.

Shame that. Even front running spivs have to eat.

 

[Taxamo Welf]

It was a shit effort. Good entertainment at the time though!

in all seriousness if you are saying J18 was 'a shit effort', can you explain on what grounds?

 

[Taxamo Welf]

There was a brilliant quote from one of the protestors that absolutely cracked me up, I'll have to try and find it. Something along the lines of "we thought they were going to be toffs but they are all cockney barrowboy thugs". Talk about biting off more than you can chew.

ETA: Found it. Got my wires crossed though, I was thinking of a Greenpeace protest at the IPE. Still funny nonetheless.

Not really, as Greenpeace are pacifists who are quite happy to get beaten up by anyone. It might have surprised them coming from the traders, but this is a group that would let japanese whalers, french navy or brazilian luberjacks kick the shit out of them and feel it was a major moral victory.

From what i hear about the storming of the LIFFE in 1999 a brand new £1000000 escalator was smahed up, signal flares were lobbed in and there was hand to hand fighting.

And then it closed.

 

[STFC]

Taxamo, it was the comment itself that I found funny.

It just goes to show that you never know what you might run into if you are planning to disrupt people's work. Especially after lunch.

 

[winjer]

Eh? That's exactly what any sensible person would expect.

And 'work'?

 

[STFC]

Well clearly the Greenpeace lot weren't expecting a good hiding. Presumably they're not sensible people then?

Yes, the people on the trading floor were working. As, erm, traders.

 

[Taxamo Welf]

Well clearly the Greenpeace lot weren't expecting a good hiding.

But thats not what you said. You said 'talk about biting off more than you can chew'.

Greenpeace can chew a lot more than a few slaps from an essex boy, god bless their pacifist hearts.

 

[audiotech]

You're debating with an arch pragmatist...

Are all 'city boys' as deluded as you?

As it happens, so far on here, your posts make you out as some fucking idiot.

 

[STFC]

But thats not what you said. You said 'talk about biting off more than you can chew'.

Greenpeace can chew a lot more than a few slaps from an eeex boy, god bless their pacifist hearts.

I don't really care Tax, I'm not Greepeace and I'm not an Essex banker. Still funny though wasn't it? Be honest.

 

[STFC]

Absolute fucking gibberish.

Must not use the internet while drunk.