 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| stanton wrote: |
LATEST NEWS
POUND DROPS TO EIGHT YEAR LOW !!!
LOWEST SINCE 16 OCTOBER 2009
POUND DOWN 25% IN 15 MONTHS
1.10048 16/10/2009
1.42323 19/11/2015
1.10048 8/8/2017
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Two things, you have been predicting parity or worse for 2 years. Soros you are not.
15 months ago was May, where the best rate was 1.32, 3 years today it was 1.27., so 14-16% down, even with Brexit clouding values and judgements.
For a man who can't even afford a lift pass why do you think your economic input is worth listening too? If I need a cab when I am next in Austria I will be sure to avoid you.
Just remember one of us drives it one of us can afford to use it.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@blahblahblah, 30+ seasons of beg, hitching & borrowing.. real ski bumning
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@stanton, wow, you sound like a real success story, that's obviously why you're such an authority on economics.
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@SnoodlesMcFlude, listen & learn.If your 45 or over and still working you failed.
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@stanton, If you're beg, hitching & borrowing you failed.
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@stanton, I'm not. I'm also not hitching or begging like a failure.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Yup very annoying for UK tourists to Europe as the actual rate after commission etc will be closer to parity.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@stanton, you live for forecasts.
Also well done on being 45 and never had a job. You must love the benefits system. Oh no you are an eccentric millionaire who prefers not to pay for his lift pass.
Who knows? All I know is you are socially awkward and self opinated with a hatred of Britain, is your missing Dad a British sex tourist from the early 70s?
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IM not sure Stanton hates Britain, just that he hates Brexit.
I think there are a lot of Britains that hate Brexit.
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You know it makes sense.
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No he hates almost everything about Britain. Bashes everything he can. Brexit has just added to this as he is very pro Europe and does not understand why we would leave. Ironically I agree with him on that point.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@Norrin Radd, Whinger
Parity as I expect
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Poster: A snowHead
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@stanton, What the demise of Sterling will mean, especially to ski resorts that tend to be as over-hyped and as over-priced as say St Anton (for example  ) is that many Brits who frequent the Arlberg will probably check out their other options. Whilst this may or may not be a knee jerk reaction on the part of some skiers, in the medium to longer term British skiers will begin to favour less costly ski holidays. You personally may just benefit from less crowded St Anton mountains and pistes as a result of UK TO's inevitably slimming back their hotel/chalet offerings. Resorts like St Anton that tends to attract a "hooray" family element complete with all the avi-gear and avi-mini-me's in tow may just become left to the real hard-core gnarlies. And, St Anton, especially, will lose out on UK skiers who in future will demand more value than just Happy-Hour at the Mooserwirt, and would want the ski-hire cartel to wise up to just how much ski hire should really cost. Having skied in the Arlberg/Vorarlberg for a few decades and been in a position to afford the likes of up-market chalets, 4* hotels in Lech, St Christoph, Warth, and frequenting the Champagne bars in Zurs (never mind long lunches at St Christoph Hospitz Alm), I now tend to ski more ski-days outside of an expensive Arlberg. I'm re-discovering some great skiing in Italy, with great value to match. I'm looking forward to staying at the Hostellerie de Mascognaz (Champoluc) again this Xmas for the same cost as a rip-off 3* Dinner/B&B in St Anton. Admittedly the vast skiing of the Arlberg is not on my doorstep, but I been there, done that, and changed the game.
So Mr Stanton, enjoy your less crowded Arlberg and I'll enjoy my less pricey Aosta Valley as I ponder WTF I'm still working aged over 45. Oh yeah...... it's my drop dead gorgeous (and expensive) wife, the SL 500, the grade 2 Listed Coach House I live in, the delicious vintage wines in my cellar, and the fact I can holiday more or less where I choose.
And judging by the amount of tax I get billed for it looks like I'm paying for effing Brexit, or at least buying half of Austria!! 
Please wise up Mr Stanton that the vacuum will be filled by our Russian skier friends! 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| yuppie wrote: |
| IM not sure Stanton hates Britain.... |
You can't have been around here long.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@skimastaaah, im sorry if you took dinner in the Hospiz. My deepest condolences , LOL.
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Unfortunately, Pound now at a 7 year low. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Old Fartbag, holding, maybe picking up against the $US. Head for Jackson Hole - you know you're worth it.
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| achilles wrote: |
| @Old Fartbag, holding, maybe picking up against the $US. Head for Jackson Hole - you know you're worth it. |
I'm heading to Crested Butte (with my daughter) to meet up with my Brother, who lives in the States and has taken a Chalet there in Jan.
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@Old Fartbag, there you go. Problem solved 
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@Old Fartbag, that would be a bijou problemette .
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"The pound is touching 10-month lows against the euro at the moment at 1.0981 euros. And currency strategists at US investment bank Morgan Stanley are even forecasting that the euro could move "beyond parity" with the pound on the currency markets for the first time ever in early 2018.
Simon Derrick, chief currency strategist at financial institution BNY Mellon concedes it's "possible" the pound could reach 1.05 to 1.06 euros before the end of the year. Take a look online at some of the currency exchanges. At the moment, travellers can get about 1.0600 to 1.0836 euros for their pound." BBC 12/08/17.
Is there now a distinct prospect of abject apologies from Stanton's abusers?! Breath not being held, lol ...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Irrev wrote: |
"The pound is touching 10-month lows against the euro at the moment at 1.0981 euros. And currency strategists at US investment bank Morgan Stanley are even forecasting that the euro could move "beyond parity" with the pound on the currency markets for the first time ever in early 2018.
Simon Derrick, chief currency strategist at financial institution BNY Mellon concedes it's "possible" the pound could reach 1.05 to 1.06 euros before the end of the year. Take a look online at some of the currency exchanges. At the moment, travellers can get about 1.0600 to 1.0836 euros for their pound." BBC 12/08/17.
Is there now a distinct prospect of abject apologies from Stanton's abusers?! Breath not being held, lol ... |
The last time the Pound was as low as it is now, was March 2010.
The lowest it ever reached was 1.02 at the end of Dec 08.
IMO. The more likely a hard Brexit becomes and the more uncertainty there is, the worse the economic situation will get and the lower the Pound will fall...with parity being quite possible.
A Pound at, or near parity has the potential to cause inflation to rise significantly, the BoE to increase interest rates and push us back into recession.
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| Old Fartbag wrote: |
.....The more likely a hard Brexit becomes and the more uncertainty there is, the worse the economic situation will get and the lower the Pound will fall...with parity being quite possible.
A Pound at, or near parity has the potential to cause inflation to rise significantly, the BoE to increase interest rates and push us back into recession. |
Thus making any pro-Brexit voters (in my humble opinion) look rather like silly lemmings as they clearly missed that cliff. 
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Im revising my £1:€1 parity .
New Prediction.
£1 : €0.90cents by early next Q1 .
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@stanton, ..... is Kim Jong Un ................ I claim my £5 ---- or my 4.50 Euros. 
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@Irrev, Morgan Stanley have taken this position for 2 years. STanton predicted parity for last season. The pound is likely to be low against the euro during negotiations obviously.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I spend about 7000 Euros a year over 3 weeks , so compared with 1.2 I am looking at a personal cost of about 700 Euros , about 30 Euros a day whilst on holiday , could not care less. One evening in instead of going out covers that.
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@Norrin Radd, That's a lot of beer!
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| stanton wrote: |
Im revising my £1:€1 parity .
New Prediction.
£1 : €0.90cents by early next Q1 . |
very easy to make predictions when there is no penalty if you get it wrong
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Am I missing something. I'm seeing £-€ 1.1 and £-$ 1.3
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| Norrin Radd wrote: |
| @Irrev, STanton predicted parity for last season. |
Stanton post from 30 July 2016:
| stanton wrote: |
| Sterling parity with Euro & US Dollar £1 = €1/$1 by this coming Ski Season. |
Well that proved accurate (not!). Of course he's never admitted his prediction was wrong  (hardly a surprise, whenever someone points out a mistake he's made he just ignores it).
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| esaw1 wrote: |
| @Norrin Radd, That's a lot of beer! |
Family meal out!! I can't drink that much beer even at 6 Euros a pint.
Dinner is usually about 150 for 4 of us by the time the Irish coffees turn up.
Happy to stay in s couple of nights and have rotisserie chicken.
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