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I wasn't sure if this belongs in this forum, but with all the hyperinflation discussion, what are the best barter items?
I don't plan to spend a fortune, just 100-200 or so on stuff I could easily use myself if somehow Bernanke stumbles through a railway platform and discovers hogwarts is real.
I'm looking at miniature spirits and quality chocolate.
Something like, mainly, Gordon's gin and Bell's whisky, then a mix of Smirnoff, Baileys, Cockburns (port), Three Barrels (brandy) and Bacardi (rum). Also a few mini bottles of red wine.
As for chocolate: 35g bars of green and black's 70% cocoa.
Anything else? There's the classics like toilet roll etc but more thinking of higher value and less storage space like alcohol.
I don't plan to spend a fortune, just 100-200 or so on stuff I could easily use myself if somehow Bernanke stumbles through a railway platform and discovers hogwarts is real.
I'm looking at miniature spirits and quality chocolate.
Something like, mainly, Gordon's gin and Bell's whisky, then a mix of Smirnoff, Baileys, Cockburns (port), Three Barrels (brandy) and Bacardi (rum). Also a few mini bottles of red wine.
As for chocolate: 35g bars of green and black's 70% cocoa.
Anything else? There's the classics like toilet roll etc but more thinking of higher value and less storage space like alcohol.
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Off the top of my head a few suggestions:
Medicines Tinned soup and baked beans Flour cartons of cigarettes & disposable lighters candles Items for personal defence batteries seeds I did stock up on a few essentials during the petrol strike and just after N Rock went belly up, much to the merriment of my family. I am not sure I can face the embarassment of stocking up a 3rd time and being proved wrong. Not sure chocolate is such a great idea honestly, because it is perishable and you would get awfully fat if you end up having to eat it all yourself. |
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Best comedy thread of the year ?
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Not sure chocolate is such a great idea honestly, because it is perishable and you would get awfully fat if you end up having to eat it all yourself.
I don't like 70% dark! |
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Also the baked beans ?
Farting your way through the next crisis ? Isn't that what you all say BB is currently doing ? |
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Suicide pill's would probably be in great demand.
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Wheelbarrows also ?
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How about DIY courses ?
Hone up your handyman skills ? There are an awful lot of totally useless souls out there, in a practical day to day living sense ? Anybody who can fix things to keep them running on a wing and a prayer will be in great demand ? |
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what are you intending to barter for?
my suggestion would be to buy the items you are thinking of using your barter items to get. will save you loads of trouble. Get a fraw full of them quality global kitchen knives as a self defence item. |
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ok so a few of you think this is a possibility, if hyperinflation happens and our banknote denominations go mad, say we end up getting 10,000 for a days work ill be able to pay my mortgage off in a week. would they be able to stop me?
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fkn unreal- this forum is full of twits.
9 replies to to a thread dedicated to total fantasy but only 4 to a thread involving improving trading skills. says it all.  |
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You're starting to sound like your arch enemy Mr B.
Calling us all twits. Honestly. We're outraged. |
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so Mr B no answer to the paying off mortgage, still interested in what J2 thinks hes going to barter for.
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Grinch SA-24 and SA-7 missiles going cheap in north africa at the moment
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Sure inflation will eradicate your mortgage. People in debt (also governments) love inflation. However those with index-linked student loans may find they have a muli-million pound debt to pay. Also, anyone with a less-than index linked pension will be wiped out, likewise anyone with cash savings. Hyperinflation is a kind of sovereign default by stealth, so in fact some good can come out of it in the long term. But until a new stable currency is established there will be a lot of casualties along the way, so it won't be pretty.
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remote cottage with a few acres of land - must be outside atomic bomb blast radius of any major city.
high tech bomb shelter, preferably two stories or more. need to be able to survive here for a few years or more during the nuclear war. land mines and gun turrets to protect the boundary of your property. assault rifles, grenades and flamethrowers for armed combat. As for supplies, need the following: Petrol - this is going to run out fast, you need a large storage of this somewhere on your property. Medication - antibiotics and anti radiation medicine. (and a few other medical supplies) Geiger counter and radiation proof suits and masks. Fresh drinking water supply - either bottles or from your own water treatment facility built into your bunker. Tinned food - enough to survive for 5 years. At first you will eat the food you have produced from your land, but once the nuclear winter sets in this won't be possible. Barter items: Cigarettes and alcohol. The new currency will be bottle caps, not silver and gold, so pointless keeping loads of that. |
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I like you money tree, so not only am I going to answer your question with a link to a picture, that picture is also a glimpse of Mr Ben's future:
https://rowellsapushistory.wikispaces.com/file/view/car_money_$100_bucks.jpg/62310758/car_money_$100_bucks.jpg MT I can't work you out. You sometimes seem to be the comedy creation I remember from football forum and at other times you seem genuine. If you're genuinely concerned about hyperinflation then PM me and I will link you to some resources which will explain everything. After reading/watching them you can think about the siuation and decide for yourself. |
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Did he say "trading skills"?
 Hilarious. J2BLUE, I know you posted before that the lads with chocolate were the ones who got the birds but a word of caution. Chocolate *does* expire so unless you feel you know exactly when this fiat ponzi collapses this may become an issue for you. If history is any indication, you may want to consider stocking female hygiene products (use your imagination) instead of chocolate. Far more sought after by the birds than chocolate when they are nowhere to be found on the (black)market. |
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so what would you stock up on mel also what do you plan to barter for?
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ammunition / bullets
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great thread |
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how you shooting them randle?
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Bartering with Jammy Rags and Dairy milk?
This forum's lost the fecking plot! |
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your spot on there bobby 2424242424424242424242442
this thread represents a new low on this forum. |
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Id disagree, the none stop point scoring from some has been going on for ages, its sad and funny in equal amounts.
subjects like these do not need arguing about, you make your decision and stick by it, quite simple really, to mock others for their stance is really rather ignorant. |
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I find it hard to believe this represents a new low on any forum you post on Mr Ben. You're arrogant, condescending and ignorant.
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Bicycles would be in demand I reckon
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ive got three bikes im a millionaire if it goes nipples upwards!!!!
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J2BLUE. 06 Nov 11 10:41
I find it hard to believe this represents a new low on any forum you post on Mr Ben. You're arrogant, condescending and ignorant. The first two are just to cover the third. |
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Absurdity at its height.
the hyerinflation twins- melly and J2 float along in a cloud of indescribable stupidity. forum cant be taken seriously with these twits sitting around mums kitchen table counting up their out of dates chocolates. |
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The financial system is a ponzi scheme. Nothing more.
That is not a total negative, however.Not at all. On the one hand, it is amazing to see how much innovation and improvement has come from it, due to continued effort by the majority. On the other hand, it is distressing to see how many prominent people, supposedly at the top of the pile, have taken far too much out of it,relative to their true worth. In fact, the relatively few have taken so much out of it, that the whole system is starting to show sign's of total collapse. No wonder then, that the few are continually trying to find excuses to print more money, so that they can prop the whole thing up and continue to satisfy their greed. |
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Quite an interesting take on things cush.
A bit cynical though. Would you want to put any estimate on the size of the "relatively few" apparently rorting the system for all its worth ?. And what might be the true motive (s) of ths few ? Just pure, selfish greed ? |
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Btw as a matter of general interest, I wonder what Menelaus' arrogance and condescension are hiding. Surely not his superior knowledge, as that seems to be well on display.
I think Mr Ben's rather lame attempts on here arrogance and condescension are probably just a bit of a wind up tbh. At least I hope so. |
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just ordered a pallet of powdered milk, im ahead of the game.
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Any form of monetary inflation is an obscenity.
Hyper inflation, would just show that the obscenity is being carried on to yet another level of absurdity. If you can accept that monetary inflation is an obscenity, then you have to question whether the people behind it will ever be held accountable for their action's. My guess is, that they have absolutely no intention of doing so, which is why they have designed the system as it is. |
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In a monetary system based upon accountability, non-accountability, just does not add up.
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ttt
thought everyone should see these tips on how to survive the impending meltdown. |
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Definitely the low point of forum threads.
Worse than absurd. I wonder if some of the posters feel embarrassed at their posts.They should. Of course we have classic moronism from melly Blogger: Menelaus's blog If history is any indication, you may want to consider stocking female hygiene products (use your imagination) instead of chocolate. Far more sought after by the birds than chocolate when they are nowhere to be found on the (black)market. Rate reply: ZERO or minus 10 million. tampax- Melly is eating through the stock he bought  |
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Crucifixes, garlic and wooden stakes.
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Mr Ben, anyone suggesting that; Bear Stearns, Fannie May, Lehman Brothers et al would all collapse might have been considered a sandwich short of a picnic before the events unfolded!!
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