What we need...
...is a bloody good war.

Not this namby-pamby Middle Eastern bollocks, let's invade China!
(FurtiveBiscuit, Tue 27 Jan 2009, 2:08, 11 replies)

Excellent
It worked for Germany. A country that was dragging itself out of a dead economy where a loaf of bread provided less calories than was needed to carry the huge wedge of Deutschmarks to the shop to pay for it.

I know bugger all about such economics and can't possibly imagine how having to print 10m DM banknotes so people could pay for stuff could be remedied by building a Wermacht
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 27 Jan 2009, 8:47, closed)

I think this is right:
when you have bad economic times, both people and businesses are reluctant to spend money, or simply don't have it to spend. But nobody spending money makes for worse economic times, which can be a vicious circle.

Whereas war encourages companies to spend money. For example Halliburton wants to get in on the government contracts that are going, so they hire people. But then the companies that supply eg office furniture see that Halliburton are going to be buying a lot of desks for all their new people, so they want to expand their operations to be in the best position to take advantage of this new demand. And then it flows on to the companies that supply them, and so on, making a virtuous circle from a purely economic point of view.

I'm not sure how accurate this all is, but I think that's the basic argument of how capitalism leads to war (aside from the obvious one, getting control of valuable resources and cheap labour from militarily weaker governments).
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Tue 27 Jan 2009, 15:12, closed)

Fuck, yeah!
Bunch o'pussies, etc.
( Ghoti Fingers, Tue 27 Jan 2009, 8:51, closed)

*Dons giant hands*
Lets. Bomb. Russia!
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Tue 27 Jan 2009, 8:58, closed)

We need a morale booster
A nice easy win where we annihilate them like we did in the Falklands....

I'd say let's invade the canary islands, but judging by the number of "English pubs" I think we already have.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Tue 27 Jan 2009, 9:17, closed)

well
I'm not entirely sure that would be a good idea. Fuck the english pubs, it's all the bloody african immigrants you gotta worry about
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Tue 27 Jan 2009, 9:52, closed)

Huzzah!
Let's take down France while we're at it, it's been a while since we've given them a good slap!
(FerretTrout be illin', Tue 27 Jan 2009, 9:59, closed)

And they owe us
for saving their asses, twice, from the same people.
And, once victorious in this glorious war, we get to nick their lovely plentiful nuclear power AND have a whole craphole of a country to dump the waste in!
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Tue 27 Jan 2009, 11:22, closed)

Rorkes drift , part two
Let's invade our own country again!!

and get rid of all the people who shouldn't be here,
(Betty Boothroyd's Love custard Tourettes at the KOB, Tue 27 Jan 2009, 13:24, closed)

if you do invade china before july
can you start with xinjiang? im living here and we could do with deodorant imports, bans on spitting, coughing and smoking, the abolition of fireworks after the first night of chinese new year, more western food at low low prices, and ovens. kitchens and cooking are shit without ovens.
(zenmeban thinks the weather could be better, Tue 27 Jan 2009, 14:17, closed)

How good is your chinese?
just, you know, in case 1 billion people can wipe out 60 million. Oh, and did I mention the industrial base they have?
(Not him., Tue 27 Jan 2009, 15:28, closed)