Riot payouts to hit £300 million.

[Paul_C]

£300 million for a few broken windows might be ridiculous. But it's rather more than a few broken windows.

 

[cantaloup63]

I'm telling you that £300 million is ridiculous for a few broken windows. Do you agree?

It depends on the number of windows. I'm telling you that £300million is an unsubstantiated estimate.

 

[joe-90]

You could re-glaze the whole of London for that. When you've got something to say about the £300 million - then get back to me. Until you can prove me wrong - I win (as usual).

 

[cantaloup63]

You could re-glaze the whole of London for that. When you've got something to say about the £300 million - then get back to me. Until you can prove me wrong - I win (as usual).

OK - I've got something to say about the £300million. It's a random and unsubstantiated guess of the final total payout.

 

[Blasphemous]

Why pay ANYTHING, it's London who gives a toss?

 

[imamartian]

Look at this link...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...dents-mapped-in-London-and-around-the-UK.html

one guy nicked £5k worth of stuff.... 20 of them is a Mill !! plus all the glass... and metal shutters... and all the fire damage.. rebuilding costs would be massive... plus all the cars damaged.... it costs a fortune to get a scratch fixed....

think on..... 300mill is not really a lot !!!

 

[cantaloup63]

Why pay ANYTHING, it's London who gives a toss?

Indeed, why do Londoners generate wealth and then share it with the unproductive and draining North East?

one guy nicked £5k worth of stuff.... 20 of them is a Mill !!

Do you want to try that calculation again?

 

[imamartian]

Why pay ANYTHING, it's London who gives a toss?

Indeed, why do Londoners generate wealth and then share it with the unproductive and draining North East?

one guy nicked £5k worth of stuff.... 200 of them is a Mill !!

Do you want to try that calculation again?

not really.. what's wrong with it

 

[Blasphemous]

Why pay ANYTHING, it's London who gives a toss?

Indeed, why do Londoners generate wealth and then share it with the unproductive and draining North East?

I'm sure your pal up here will be more than delighted to hear you slagging him off.

 

[cantaloup63]

 

[imamartian]

Why pay ANYTHING, it's London who gives a toss?

Indeed, why do Londoners generate wealth and then share it with the unproductive and draining North East?

one guy nicked £5k worth of stuff.... 20 of them is a Mill !!

Do you want to try that calculation again?

ah i see your mistake, a Mill, doesn't mean 1 million... it's an old term for 100,000 !!! most people get that wrong Cant...

 

[cantaloup63]

Why pay ANYTHING, it's London who gives a toss?

Indeed, why do Londoners generate wealth and then share it with the unproductive and draining North East?

I'm sure your pal up here will be more than delighted to hear you slagging him off.

Is that my banking pal

 

[Blasphemous]

Why pay ANYTHING, it's London who gives a toss?

Indeed, why do Londoners generate wealth and then share it with the unproductive and draining North East?

I'm sure your pal up here will be more than delighted to hear you slagging him off.

Is that my banking pal

He's your pal, I have no idea what his profession is but if you say he's 'unproductive and draining' who am I to argue? Do you have any productive pals? Oh that's right, they'll be living in that vital organ of the British economy, Manchester.

Hello Pot, Kettle here.

 

[Paul_C]

a Mill, doesn't mean 1 million... it's an old term for 100,000 !!!

Never heard of that one before. Mill was used sometimes in old British accounting to mean 1/1000th of a pound, and is still in fairly common in the U.S. as 1/1000th of a dollar (i.e. one-tenth of a cent) for things like property tax calculations. It's not to be confused with the mil, which is the same as a thou - 0.001 inch.

Then there was the milliard, an older term for one thousand million.

 

[imamartian]

a Mill, doesn't mean 1 million... it's an old term for 100,000 !!!

Never heard of that one before. Mill was used sometimes in old British accounting to mean 1/1000th of a pound, and is still in fairly common in the U.S. as 1/1000th of a dollar (i.e. one-tenth of a cent) for things like property tax calculations. It's not to be confused with the mil, which is the same as a thou - 0.001 inch.

Then there was the milliard, an older term for one thousand million.

Apologies Paul... my post was a joke, as i'd miscalculated in a previous post !!