Humour

Next week, I’ll get back to being Mr. Boring Banking Blogger, and will focus upon the economic, financial and technological trends for 2013, as per my usual start to the year. For today, purely because it’s still the silly season (yes, 12 days of Christmas is still going strong here), I’m going to make ten…

I've worked for American firms during my main working life, just as we saw the rise of political correctness (PC) and the PC-police. It got to the stage where you couldn't even say "I like your new hairstyle", without falling foul of the PC-police (I know, as one of my male colleagues in Chicago got…

I've worked for American firms during my main working life, just as we saw the rise of political correctness (PC) and the PC-police. It got to the stage where you couldn't even say "I like your new hairstyle", without falling foul of the PC-police (I know, as one of my male colleagues in Chicago got…

It’s Friday so it’s fun day. Just browsing around for a few amuse bouches, and found these adverts for various banks around the world. This is partly because of the post I made about Japan’s banking adverts, which inspired a few readers to send in their versions. This one is from Korea’s Shinhan Bank for example…

It’s Friday so it’s fun day. Just browsing around for a few amuse bouches, and found these adverts for various banks around the world. This is partly because of the post I made about Japan’s banking adverts, which inspired a few readers to send in their versions. This one is from Korea’s Shinhan Bank for example…

I just saw a note today that the Science Museum has acquired the very last typewriter produced by the Brother factory: “The factory’s 200 employees witnessed the final model of the Brother CM-1000 being packed into its box to a soundtrack of emotional sighs and cheers. This object is the 5,855,533rd of its type to be…

A hundred years ago, things were different but the same. We needed to eat, but what we ate was very much a national rather than international cuisine. We had to travel, but we would walk, bicycle of take the train. We enjoyed entertainment, with a visit to the cinema once a month as a treat….

So here we are, a few of us anyway, at SIBOS 2012 in Osaka, Japan. Having faced a lengthy and, for some, gruelling journey of 24 hours or more, the welcome greeting you find at the INTEX Centre is second to none. But then you get into the spirit of things, and my spirit is obviously…

Every time I click on something online, I get this funny thing about agreeing terms and conditions. The popup window appears and my brain shuts down.  I just hit ‘accept’, ‘agree’ and move on. I guess the reason is that I don’t care what the small print says, I just want the end result. I…

Every now and again I fall into the position of writing an episode of today’s issues set in a classic British sitcom.  Monty Python and Yes Minister are the two comedies that set much of my outlook on life and so, to celebrate the events in the City of the past week, here is this week’s Yes…