@@grantofat6438 one wonders how you didn’t get the inference that I worked in banks just long enough to confirm that the whole banking system is corrupt as hell. The knowledge I gained was priceless, and now I know what their game is from start to finish. I’ve helped dozens of friends avoid financial disaster with the what I learned on the inside, a perspective you can only guess at from the outside. Consider it undercover work. The specifics weren’t nearly as clear in 1994 when I started at mortgage brokerages as some of it is now, with Steve Mnuchin hogtieing the whole financial system after Bush and his buddies cut the head off the world financial system when his families very long time friends and business associates the Bin Ladens conspired with them to create so much confusion that no one noticed them sneaking in laws to screw us all. You know the Bushes were holding a huge amount of gold for the Nazis, and after the war they kept it and that’s what took them from rich to super rich. There are many things you just don’t see until you hear the insiders proclaim how little they care about business ethics. As one friend said years ago…”now that we know the rules, let’s play the game”. Now I know the rules. Most people don’t know enough to know that Cleese was absolutely correct. That’s what the elites do, create enough doubts so no one will act on these issues. And this long response is not for you…it’s for all the others that may read this thread.
People always think of the dead parrot sketch as a Python classic. It's obviously funny, but this is better because it is not silly humour (until the pantomime horses arrive, obviously).
Banking and other concerns on both sides of the Atlantic got together to destroy my late husband's business, for a profit - wait for it - of a mere £15,000. So I really enjoyed how very ACCURATE this sketch was...
This episode was from 1972 but I take your point- it was years before Thatcherism and the "Big Bang" of the City of London. The country was deindustrialising but financialisation had not yet subsumed society.
For those of you who are not British... Merchant Banker is rhyming slang for wanker, which for those of you who are not British (repetition: bzzzzz), means someone who pleasures themselves through masturbation. While there is nothing intrinsically wrong with this activity, it is usually used as a form of abuse. Particularly for any form of banker, or capitalists in general. What makes it even better is the anagram of a name plate on his desk. The demands made for the loan tell you everything you need to know about capitalists, and MBs specifically.
I think it was Jacob Bronowski, the great Polish mathematician and philosopher, author of many works, including the Ascent of Man, that the BBC made into a series with him narrating.
