Thread: 56 baht to the GBP ....i'm sorry, excuse me???

Originally Posted by Butterfly

if you want it to crash, there needs to be more import

The thing is, if I have understood it, that Thailand gets most of their goods from China.
So basically that means that you are not so vulnerable when your trading partners
are not European or American.
Right?

Originally Posted by benlovesnuk

janda are you talking physically philosophically, rhetorically????? please enlighten us..........

YES

ANT that's even more impressive!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by jandajoy

Originally Posted by benlovesnuk

janda are you talking physically philosophically, rhetorically????? please enlighten us..........

YES

thank you for clearing that up!

sorry playing poker, can't focus


just went all in on 5000 and won .

your playing poker?????? i take it your not playing real cash because i can only play play money on party poker.........????

When I first got here it was around 50THB!

Errr well a bit of real cash sometimes. No not really.

Mate, the world, as I see it is in a state of flux. I'm no economist and I really haven't got a clue. The only thing I'm sure of is that the so called experts, have fucked it all up. My reaction, sit back, do nothing, and wait for these fuckwits to sort themselves out.

Somewhere, down the track there will be a settling, a cooling if you will. It'll all work out.

Nothing else to say 'cos I don't know. When there's no grog, rice, smokes or bacon.... then I'll panic.

^74 or me!

Surely it's all about when they run out of money. Might be this week, might be tomorrow. You'd think it'd have to happen eventually.
Unless the Chinese are bankrolling 'em. Then we might have a problem.

i hope its soon......cash games hey (i know mums the word) i like a bit of texas, sometimes omaha, they should have an online poker game for TD (of course only play money) but it would be fun......possible i have no idea?????????

Na, I wouldn't want to play poker with this mob, they'd all cheat.

or piss and moan about losing............

^

I have to change UK money tomorrow I'll just do 5 quid for the day towards my Visa. fok fok fok

bad situation as I've got pounds saved up and now I need to use some of that here at the current rate; I have no liquid pounds and if I did I wouldn't touch it

Do you you REALLY REALLY need to use them now?????

that is a bad situation to be in........... ive got a couple of weeks to get some change...........................5 quid is like 290 badt




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sorry 280 badt........................even worse

Can't comment. don't know your situation.

bad mother foking situation. I've been paid in baht for the last three years but we plus visa need to use my UK reserves to pay for bills here and extended. Scary shit but I want to keep my UK savings untouched but my Thai have run out untill the next cheque (nxt month). I have investments to worry about too

cant you change to dollar from pound then change to badt......i think this should give +of 60 which is better than 56

No problem to the above as it's hard cash; I'm just waiting to get paid without cashing in my GBP before the TBH gets bad. Got serious shit on the go right now

Maybe it has to do with percentages of ownership of US debt and other securities?

Foreign owners of US Treasury Securities (July 2008)

Nation

billions of dollars

percentage

Japan
593.4
22.17%
Mainland China
518.7
19.38%
United Kingdom
290.8
10.87%
Oil exporters
173.9
6.50%
Brazil
148.4
5.54%
Caribbean banking centers
133.5
4.99%
Luxembourg
75.8
2.83%
Russia
74.1
2.77%
Hong Kong
60.6
2.26%
Switzerland
45.1
1.69%
Republic of China (Taiwan)
42.3
1.58%
Norway
41.8
1.56%
Germany
41.1
1.54%
Mexico
36.0
1.35%
South Korea
35.3
1.32%
Turkey
32.4
1.21%
Thailand
31.8
1.19%
Singapore
31.4
1.17%
Canada
26.6
0.99%
Netherlands
14.9
0.56%
Poland
13.9
0.52%
Egypt
13.4
0.50%
Chile
13.1
0.49%
India
13.0
0.49%
Sweden
12.4
0.46%
Belgium
12.0
0.45%
Ireland
11.2
0.42%
All other
139.5
5.21%

Grand Total

2676.4

thats a bit technical isnt it youve got percentages and everything.........breakdown being???????