Is Euro done?

yes... the europeans in my estimation are racist against all other europeans... the fact a german may subsidize a greek gov't worker by keeping a one currency system is bonkers.... greeks can't inflate themselves out.... nor can they compete with a cheaper currency... by working as a maid for a german couple... etc etc etc..... gonna be hell to pay, Spain/portugal next... we aint' seen nothin yet.....

oh and my nyc re $500psf still stands... the lemmings with cash just shot their wad.... there'll be a lull for a few months while everyone re-calculates..... only the needy and desperate will list coming in the summer and fall... lots of bargains to be had... .

very broad generalizations... : )

Yeah, euro is going dooooowwwwnnn. I'm going to wait a few months before buying some stuff.

Though, Europe was doing fine summer of '02 when the euro was what, 70 cents?

the euro hasnt traded below 80 cents since the early/mid '80s

the euro hasnt traded below 80 cents since the early/mid '80s

neat trick since it didn't exist until 1999.

How much is that in New Euros?

details, details. why let the facts get in the way of a good incorrect rebuttal?

having spent our summer vacations in london and europe the last two years, i think this year we'll be picking up a few more things to bring home. i booked two of the properties in pounds for this summer, think i should pay up soon or wait? either way it's a massive improvement over two years ago.

you mean neuros alan?

perhaps goldman has an appropriate derivative to enable you to hedge your vacation expense?

sadly my net worth doesn't entice them to count me among their clients. or not so sadly, maybe, given what they might try and sell me.

gs is structuring crazy neuro deals... it's the latest greatest trade..

I'm waiting for the "Amero".

Euan? Euran? Sort of Eurasian.

It will take more pain to end the Euro(Spain & Portugal would need to fail)

RS, way to remove fun from the thread. do you ever lighten up? or can you only do so via youtube?

AR: why pay now? Just show up with a trunkload of cash.

that reminds me of the oliver segment on the daily show where he talks about wheelbarrows full of krugerands.

have to pay before i go. not a big deal, just glad i didn't pay a few weeks ago.

They might beg you to pay them w/ trunkloads of krugerrands though.

i remember the days of going to ibiza and having to pay less and less for the same hotel room eventhough the price went up 5% every year. i want it back...

I'm thinking....a week in Santorini. Kamari to be specific. Half way up the hill, high enough to enjoy the black beach, far enough to obscure the chubby topless tourists. Strolls along the waters edge munching lamb kabobs. Grappa with watermelon on the veranda every night watching the moonlight dance on the water.
What's a urn?
1.3euros/hr.
Now rub my feet!

2 weeks in Italy. Sounds good.

Hfscomm

Could you imagine, your husband works to support you, then goes on vacation with you, and his father dies. So he returns home, and you stay on vacation in Europe?

You are a disgusting pig. But, I guess i should have already realized that. What makes this fun for you? Presumably, now you'll just copy and paste this. What he fuck I'd the point?

Falco: I'm going to Greece in a few weeks.

no, he had already returned. he left for the states from nice, we went on to Rome. if you're so interested in the details of my life keep up. I looked into returning, husband said not to.

whatever.

Actually, EVERYTHING so far PALES IN COMPARISON to having a spouse's parent die and remaining on vacation. That is low. The stuff of Mel Gibson, Jesse James, John Edwards and Mark Sanford.

What happened to "for better or for worse"?

oh really? he has been with his family. I couldn't have gotten there until today anyway. as my husband said, what difference does two days make? you have some strange conceptions regarding personal relationships. Edwards?

thanks for your supportive attitude. we can always rely on you for ethical, valuable, reasoned and compassionate commentary.

Supportive attitude?

You on vacation

Paid for by husband

Husband's father dies

You remain on vacation

While you drink Gin and tonic

so? your point is?

More dull comments "from bitter and far worse"

Husband's father dies
Wife vacations in Rome

Wife's response is "so? your point is?"

Let me guess, the airline ticket home in first class was too expensive, and you wanted to save money for your husband, since you know how hard he works.

How much do you love this? Does it occur to you that you have a major problem? And bont bother repeating this.

bont?

True genius.

no, he had already returned. he left for the states from nice, we went on to Rome. if you're so interested in the details of my life keep up. I looked into returning, husband said not to.

whatever.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10151286/Frances-triumphant-Joan-of-Arc-vows-to-bring-back-franc-and-destroy-euro.html

It is no longer an implausible prospect. "We cannot be seduced," she said, brimming with confidence after her party secured 46pc of the vote in a by-election earthquake a week ago. Her candidate trounced the ruling Socialists in their own bastion of Villeneuve-sur-Lot.

"The euro ceases to exist the moment that France leaves, and that is our incredible strength. What are they going to do, send in tanks?" she told the Daily Telegraph at the Front National's headquarters, an unmarked building tucked away in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Her office is small and workaday, almost austere.

For the first time, the Front National is running level with the two governing parties of post-War France, Socialists and Gaullistes. All are near 21pc in national polls, though the Front alone has the wind in its sails.

Mrs Le Pen said her first order of business on setting foot in the Elysee Palace will be to announce a referendum on EU membership, "rendez vous" one year later. "I will negotiate over the points on which there can be no compromise. If the result is inadequate, I will call for withdrawal," she said.

The French want to withdraw?

greensdale: What else is new with the French? :
Withdrawal, surrender...

The Euro is kaput. I carry American dollars, while in Europe, for any cash payments/tips.
The greenback is still the most wanted currency in Europe and European service-workers (hotel staff, airport luggage porters and such), are stuffing their mattresses with U.S.A. dollars.

Nobody there has ever refused my American dollars as payment/tips.

is the euro money?

Can it purchase goods and services?

Why would you pay in dollars? If you have a decent banking account a couple of foreign withdrawals a month are virtually free. Withdrawing dollars is more expensive. The exchange rate on credit card purchases is highly regulated.

Plus, everyone takes the 50 euro note without a problem, unlike businesses in the us, which seem to find breaking a $50 bill to be only slightly less onerous than breaking rocks in the hot sun.

Oh, here she is: Mrs. Drunken America.

I take an envelope of cash with me when I go to Europe:
Tens,fives and singles. No need for "foreign withdrawals".
Used for tips given to service providers. Also for purchases at small local shops and street/book and antique markets (where I get a substantial discount for paying them in greenbacks.)

So you go exclusively to the dullest parts of Europe, the most cliche areas whose streets have been pounded to death by Americans and Britons, instead of the much more interesting areas that each country has to offer down south; you walk around with an envelope full of cash like some crime-syndicate trash; and then you're so mathematically-challenged that you think you're getting a DISCOUNT from market vendors for using USD? Wow, talk about being bat-shit crazy in addition to crass, old, tacky, gassy, imbecilic, abrasive, malodorous, stale, tarnished, blighted, blighting, pus-oozing-pustuled, dreary, incontinent, dishonest and entirely fictitious!

^^ alanhart is now trolling me on two threads.: 643:pm EST 7/1/13^^
He has nothing better to do.

It's so hi-larious when you play the victim like this. Two posts on the thread after you attack aboutready for no reason at all, with the same tired unladylike name-calling and allegations, totally unprovoked, your inner ugliness shining through your outer ugliness.

The record is there for all to see, and I have the printout.

I have it stored on the cloud.

so you have declared that truth is an uneasy asshole.

greensdale:
streeteasy has suggested today, that I "just ignore" the trolls' comments.
I've always been "ignoring" columbia county.
I will now add aboutready and alanhart to that list of those that I "ignore".

Today is the start of a new approach to their disruptive comments posted about me.
I no longer read their comments, so please don't even repeat any part of their attempts to engage me.
7/2/13, 8:40pm EST.

but....you're still giving us the time check.

what's changed?

C0C0, I'm unclear, do you need the time check or not?

fuck you.

that should be clear.

I'll assume that the time doesn't matter to you.

Oh, good, now we get yet another major round of test-the-limits everyone-else-be-damned verbal diarhhea while she pretends not to read the replies that she's so desperately fishing for.

When will there be a cure for Narcissistic Personality Disorder? When will there be cure for Narcissistic Personality Disorder? And Bi-Polar and Borderline Personality Disorders? And Geriatric Dementia, Geriatric Incontinence, and Chronological Wasting to? When? When? Exactly what day, date and time (in NYC)?

>verbal diarhhea

strange concept

Caused by foreign matter, you mean? I don't think so. She hasn't left Creedmoor in years.