The 2015-16 World Fitba Thread!

Should be a good'un. Think Argentina will take it though.

 

Fcuk the Copa America, Jamie Mackie is BACK!

 

The Greeks, who have fat pensions and think they can retire at the age of 52, are calling the rest of Europe "Criminals".

Off you pop, Stelios.

 

This is fucking insane. INSANE.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ay-be-difficult-to-defuse-for-unwed-daughters

June 18 (Bloomberg) -- Sophia Constantinidou works as a teacher in a private school in Athens. She also has a more lucrative job: remaining unmarried.
The 52-year-old gets 400 euros ($496) a month from the Greek government, part of her late mother’s state pension. Under the current system, Constantinidou qualifies to receive the payment for life as the only surviving child of a deceased civil servant, provided she doesn’t tie the knot.
“It’s not that I didn’t want to get married,” Constantinidou, whose mother died 20 years ago, said in an interview. “But after I turned 40, I realized I wouldn’t be getting married and that thankfully I had this.”

As the European Union, International Monetary Fund and bond investors scrutinize debt-ridden Greece, they need look no further than the pension system for a prime example of how the country is living beyond its means. Greek pensioners on average live on 96 percent of the salary they had when they worked, more than twice the proportion of earnings as Germans, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

 

Dina Karahali, 47, is waiting to see the final form of the bill to know whether she will be penalized by the new system or manage to escape with the early pension she expected when she began working as a childcare worker 25 years ago.
With a 16-year-old son, Karahali said she could take early retirement now on less than a full payment. What she fears is the new law will make her work an extra 13 years. OH MY GOD SHE MIGHT HAVE TO WORK UNTIL SHE IS LIKE 60 YEARS OLD...FUCKING NAZI BASTARDS.
“It’s difficult,” she said by telephone in Athens. “Do I get a pension now and not receive any money until I am 50? Or, will I have to work till I am 60?”


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:blackcloud:

 

Inflation has gone slightly positive again, Osborn - 'this is great news for hard working families and further evidence that the recovery is going from strength to strength'. he's gotta have a string on his back that somebody pulls to activate that fucking sentence

 

Brazil-Serbia in the final of the U20 WC. :Rock3:

 

Their pensions are ridiculous.

 

:stir: ::

 

Really? That was a v random image. Ye must be a good player yersen if Ye were mixing wi' that standard o' player (Ah wiz flat average, low skills but athletic enough).

Is yer auld fitba pal still playing professionally?

 

45% of Greek pensioners now live below the poverty line, who the fuck looks at what's going on in Greece right now and says 'Aye, pensioners living it large that's the problem with what's going on?'

 

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Ah read this last night (before Ah haddae a wee pish and wentae bed) and wiz gonnae reply but Ah thought Ye might think Ah wiz making it up... Ah actually did watch and enjoy the whole game. The stadium looked virtually empty but the Cameroon fans made one hell of a good atmosphere and they team responded magnificently - some great, long runs wi' the ball.

 

Oh I see. So Greece was basically just taken over in the past few years, it has fuck all with how they have been living since 1970. I see.

 

Does he wish to remain anonymous or something :dunno:

 

Rugby. Thats Rugby.

Now....don't tell nobody I told you, but..........womens rugby is shite and all.

 

if we started executing the three poorest performing pupils in each primary school class it would extremely fucking perverse to focus on their stupidity as the nub of the problem

 

Greece has a population of 12 million....and their economy is being outperformed by Ireland. Just think about that before we go any further.

 

Ireland (and Latvia) recovered best of the EZ countries (Latvia has been pegged to it in prep for entry) because half their unemployed people fled the country. Thats really not a model for success

 

Yes it is.

Unproductive people pf a productive stripe who were a drain on the public coffers left the country, arriving in a more productive environment, sending money home.

Irish Economy 101 {Trademark 1840 innit}

Ireland also slashed welfare spending for the under 18's and if the country grasped the nettle and rounded up ALL of the Polacks that are illegally claiming Child Benefits, we would even further out of the woods.

I agree...all of this was prompted by a bail out of financial institutions which failed of their own accord. No arguments there.

But the Irish dole system was way out of control to begin with.....€204 a week for an 18 year old lay about....::

 

You gonna tell 8 million Spainiards & Italians to move Germany? Which btw still has a lower gdp per capita than 2007, as does Britain. Eventually we're all gonna have to emigrate to China then Mars if thats the 'solution' on offer

 

Not quite.

But cutting out the fat pensions, the inflated government jobs, would be a start.

The Germans are telling us how many we need to take....so they have ideas on this.

And taking in 50,000 undocumented migrants in Sicily don't sit too comfortable either.

There are 1 million NEATS in this country {Not in Employment and Training} yet how many people came into the country last year.....:dunno:

 

A start to what? And in what sense is it a 'start' considering that cutting government jobs and pensions is what they've been doing for 7 years?:dunno:

 

The Greeks are also getting their interest payments back, from what I can gather.

 

Oi Hut ...

 

whats up whiskey?

 

What has one eye but cannot see?

 

I have an answer in my mind but I'm gonna say - i dont know what has one eye but cannot see? ::