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BBKing 24-01-2008 10:01
Ou est la monnaie?
 
Bloody French - we invent the train, they make it go at 186mph, we build the Queen Mary, they build the Queen Mary 2, we have Nick Leeson losing £800m, they just have to top it with a guy losing the staggering amount of £3bn.

Will they never get over the Hundred Years War?

ntluser 24-01-2008 10:25
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Originally Posted by BBKing (Post 34476497)
Bloody French - we invent the train, they make it go at 186mph, we build the Queen Mary, they build the Queen Mary 2, we have Nick Leeson losing £800m, they just have to top it with a guy losing the staggering amount of £3bn.

Will they never get over the Hundred Years War?
Let's hope the lost £3 billion pounds is French money. Our economy is bad enough without a loss like that.

Osem 24-01-2008 10:56
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Originally Posted by ntluser (Post 34476516)
Let's hope the lost £3 billion pounds is French money. Our economy is bad enough without a loss like that.
Who's to say whose money it really is and what the ramifications will be in these days of global finance. Yes UK PLC isn't exactly in the best of health but the French economy has been in the doldrums for years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7206270.stm

BBKing 24-01-2008 11:22
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Let's hope the lost £3 billion pounds is French money
Well, the Euro is soaring at the moment, so it's a lot more pounds than it was a few weeks ago. Anyone going skiing soon (like me) is going to get a nasty shock.

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the French economy has been in the doldrums for years
Wasn't too healthy in 2003, but remember they're a lot better insulated against banking crises (because they still have a decent manufacturing industry, not having bet the farm on a finance and housing boom like us) and oil and gas prices (because of les nukes and les TGVs). With the Euro going up their stuff will be more expensive to dollar countries (and us) but within the eurozone it makes no difference.

Osem 24-01-2008 11:31
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Originally Posted by BBKing (Post 34476530)
Well, the Euro is soaring at the moment, so it's a lot more pounds than it was a few weeks ago. Anyone going skiing soon (like me) is going to get a nasty shock.



Wasn't too healthy in 2003, but remember they're a lot better insulated against banking crises (because they still have a decent manufacturing industry, not having bet the farm on a finance and housing boom like us) and oil and gas prices (because of les nukes and les TGVs). With the Euro going up their stuff will be more expensive to dollar countries (and us) but within the eurozone it makes no difference.
I wonder how long their decent manufacturing industry will survive.

Wicked_and_Crazy 24-01-2008 13:06
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I wonder how long their decent manufacturing industry will survive.
Peugeot DECENT :confused::D

Lew 24-01-2008 13:10
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Shouldn't the thread title be "Ou est l'argent?"? "Ou est la monnaie?" is "Where is the change?". ;)

Xaccers 24-01-2008 13:12
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Originally Posted by Wicked_and_Crazy (Post 34476559)
Peugeot DECENT :confused::D
I thought he was refering to their white flag manufacturing industry...

BBKing 24-01-2008 13:19
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I wonder how long their decent manufacturing industry will survive.
Well, they've managed to flog TGVs (complete with track) to the Argentinians* and nuclear reactors to a whole host of people in the last week, so they're not doing too badly, plus Airbus' A380 problems don't look so bad compared with Boeing's 787 ones.

* And before that to the Moroccans. Both Morocco and Argentina will have more high-speed tracks than us soon.

Xaccers 24-01-2008 13:23
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plus Airbus' A380 problems don't look so bad compared with Boeing's 787 ones.
Oh come now, passengers being able to hack into the control network of the 787 and fly the plane is a feature, not a problem ;)

Hugh 24-01-2008 15:29
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Look on the bright side.

Some one (or some group of some ones) is £3 billion better off.

BBKing 24-01-2008 16:41
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Oh come now, passengers being able to hack into the control network of the 787 and fly the plane is a feature, not a problem
True, I meant the Boeing crowing (hey, a rhyme) about the A380 delivery delays, only to have the same thing happen to the 787. In other words, developing a new airliner is risky and expensive no matter who you are, so a delay to the programme isn't going to mean the End of Everything, since anyone else trying the same thing is likely to have the same problem.

Xaccers 24-01-2008 18:13
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Originally Posted by BBKing (Post 34476666)
True, I meant the Boeing crowing (hey, a rhyme) about the A380 delivery delays, only to have the same thing happen to the 787. In other words, developing a new airliner is risky and expensive no matter who you are, so a delay to the programme isn't going to mean the End of Everything, since anyone else trying the same thing is likely to have the same problem.
Except Boeing get government subsidies, oh no, hang on, they don't call it that over there do they? They use the term "military contract" ;)

BBKing 24-01-2008 19:25
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I think we can sum it up:

"They're as bad as each other"

Mind you, that's not particularly bad, since they produce excellent aircraft, just look at the fatality rate in civil aviation.

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Look on the bright side.
On the less bright side, they probably don't pay enough tax on it...


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