Comments on: Banks Are Safer in Small Corrupt Countries

By: Caro

Caro — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:55:21 +0000

Fuck me, I didn’t know that. You’re an oracle Bock, but a really fucking depressing one. I may have to stick my head back in the sand and stop reading.

By: Annie Rhiannon

Annie Rhiannon — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:32:30 +0000

I saw a stand-up recently who pointed out that AIB Bank stands for Allied Irish Bank Bank.

By: Sniffle & Cry

Sniffle & Cry — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:50:39 +0000

No Bock, you can’t mean that the institution, who currently gives sub-prime loans to people who couldn’t afford market interest rates and then charges them twice that market rate, took a dig-out from the Government.The same Government who allows the bank charge me €4 every time I’m broke , have no money left, and overdraw on my account to pay for drink.

By: Conan Drumm

Conan Drumm — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:15:06 +0000

Well-thank-you-very-much-Mr-Bock… there I am, happily lapping up the bread and circuses, when you appear on the drawbridge of the Bockschloss, open your mouth, and verbally poke the bees in my bonnet, reminding them in no uncertain terms that the AIB logo is plainly a bird feathering its own nest.

By: QJS

QJS — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:13:00 +0000

Worse, now that the problem has been solved for the AIB our clever government has decided to keep on collecting the 2% from the punters. A temporary solution for a temporary problem has led to a permanent tax. Nice payback for the government. The money collected does not go to some fund for future problems in the insurance industry it simply goes to the exchequer. I know these things Ted. Nice eh! Doh!

By: Darwin

Darwin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:59:07 +0000

That does it, I’m opening a new bank. Why don’t you open one too? We could call the group Shannon Banks.