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DIGGING THE DIRT IN THE MORTGAGE WORLD...
● FACEBOOK FOOL With four days off,
Mole thought he’d take the opportunity
to catch up on some of his favourite
Facebook groups.
Top of the list is the now famous
De-Knight And Strip Sir Fred The Shred
Of His Knighthood. Always a good
source of cutting remarks – and often the
plain truth – Mole was dismayed to find
things at the group have taken a turn for
the worse.
In fact, they have turned downright
rotten, with a racist Facebooker spoiling
the fun with some disgusting comments
about the fact that many of the
individuals involved in the economic
crisis are Jewish, including Sir Fred.
Mole thinks it’s sad that this sort of
discrimination has to be brought up.
Sir Fred may be a greedy so-and-so with
little respect for the feelings and
livelihoods of others but the fact that he
is Jewish has nothing to do with it. Come
on Facebookers, play nicely.
● UNLOVED DARLING On to brighter
things, and Mole was tickled to see the
number of anti-Alistair Darling groups
on the above-mentioned networking
website.
Alistair Darling, You’re Barred is the
campaign to have the chancellor barred
from every pub in the country for raising
taxes on beer.
On the other hand, Alistair Darling –
Please Stop It is a group for individuals
“who would like Alistair Daring to stop it
with his crazy ideas on the economy”.
Meanwhile, the Alistair Darling Is A
Thief group accuses the chancellor of
“shamelessly stealing the Conservatives’
tax policies and passing them off as his
own”.
And then there’s the group that does
what it says on the tin – Alistair Darling
Is A @*?$. Ahem, it rhymes with cat.
Materia redundo est solus via
proficiscor. Temperantia est quispiam
quorum nos teneo nusquam.
● CHEAP CHIC With Easter out of the
way and spring well and truly here it’s
time to look forward to long, hot days at
the beach.
But since the dreaded credit crunch
hit and consumers have had to tighten
their belts there has been a worry that
sunbathers would have to raid their
closets for last year’s ill-fitting bikini
that couldn’t be less flattering and search
out that old pair of shades that are too
old to look modern but not old enough to
look retro.
But fear not, the 99p store chain has
launched a 99p bikini that bears more
than a passing similarity to the itsy bitsy
black number singer Cheryl Cole was
spotted wearing recently.
You can also pick up a 99p pair of
sunglasses and a 99p cowboy hat, so for
less than £3 you can rival the Newcastle
stunner in the beach beauty stakes.
How’s that for thrift?
● HARSH REALITY If you think times
are hard here, thank your lucky stars you
don’t live in Amsterdam.
The creators of reality TV series Big
Brother have developed a new show in
which staff at companies struggling
because of the credit crunch choose
which of their colleagues should be given
the chop.
The programme, nicely entitled
Somebody’s Gotta Go, will feature
workers at failing businesses deciding
who gets fired, who gets a pay cut and
even which lucky employees get raises.
Tough stuff indeed.
So what’s next? A Battle Royale-style
game in which failed bankers are
kidnapped, placed on a deserted island
and forced to fight to the death or bombs
strapped to their necks will kill them all
anyway? Hang on, maybe we’re on to
something.
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