This is pathetic all the comments the video is a little funny but by your comments you can see all though you say it is just for a joke you have resentment towards the uk for some reason. Dont know why but its pretty sad. Dont understand why a lot of scandinavians bang on about the vikings here and how tough they are either thats pretty pathetic to seeing as you have hardly any crime or hard living. Just dont get the haters
Pathetic it may be but it still doesn't come close to your pathetic lack of skills in the english language. You are 24 years old and from the UK but you still write english like a 5 year old from Kirkzistan. You did finish school, right? Right? Anyway, this video was made as a joke (a poor joke maybe, but a joke none the less) but some poor uneducated slobs took it way to seriously and, for my own emusement, I just had to answer them back and get them a little more agitated.
hahaha gotta say though, I am proud to have decended from you people (Vikings).
Shame England and Iceland are at it all time :( :( I love Iceland and it's people, but England will always be like US is now, picking fights for no reason :|
@mrgeorgeallison Give me one reason? do you know what we have for military??? 3-4 very small coast guard ship, 10 helicopters, 50 special forces, and 2000 unarmed police. this may be small but if you attack we will all fight from politicians to the begger we will defend ourselfs from lunatic's such as yourself. I hate many people but i don't want to nuke them for having 1 or 2 bad guys in it, whats wrong with you?
Ég vissi þetta ekki en Kaninn gaf Lögguni fyrir ca 10-15 árum brynvarinn bíl sem þeir ætluðu að henda man það vegna þess að skýrinin sem löggan gaf var sú að hann væri eingöngu hugsaður sem björgunartæki við erfið veðurskylirði held að löggan hafi litið á hann sem verkfæri til brúks við fleiri aðstæður.=)
Ég hef als ekkert á móti löggum obbin af þeim eru dátar góðir
Já ég veit hvaða bíl þú ert að tala um. Sá bíll er aðallega notaður við æfingar og myndi verða notaður við erfiðar aðstæður sem ólíklegar eru að koma upp hér á landi.
Þessi 'bíldrusla' er ekki ein, heldur tvær 'bíldruslur' og einn af þessum bílum er úreltur, eða ca. tíu ára gamall. Og nýi er glænýr sérkeyptur af annaðhvort dómsálaráðuneytinu eða Ríkislögreglustjóra.
Icelandic politicians have ignored a lot of information given by academics that could possibly have been helpful.
Someone (Darling?) said: When a ship is sinking you should save what you can and then find out what caused the ship to sink, not the other way around. This can be applied to this situation. Many Icelandic people seem angry and determined on finding someone to blame for this situation.
Hmmmm...I think you are mistaken if you think that brits are hated in Iceland. We just like to fuck in the really stupid ones ;)
"We all know that thieves never admit they steal." So if we all say WE DID IT, WE TOOK THE MONEY,..then that makes us inocent...thats..strange...logic. But consistant with the other crap you have posted here.
And thanks for calling me Sturry, in Icelandic it means "The one who always comes on top in argumeents with bad teethed englishman"
Já þeir eru alveg kostulegir þessir tjallar hefurðu tekið eftir því að þeir byrja altaf að tala um mat? hefurðu smakkað td enska pylsu? það er mériháttaar viðbjóður! ég myndi éta súrsað hvalspik í hvert einasta mál frekar en slíkan óþverra grínlaust!!
Well, well, well...by recents news it sounds that your beloved England aint doing so great. Actually doing far worse than Iceland. Aint that some shit :D
Something the size of Coventry (no disrespect to Coventry) on a rock in the North Atlantic, hates the Brits, with Russian bombers in its airspace and its cap in its hand for Russian credit, refused
Like the Armada, Bonaparte and Hitler all in one?
I see the headlines now: Russia invades Iceland to repay the British debt.
Ali Baba and his forty buddies would feel at home with you girls.
Well, didn´t expect the brits to start harassing little teenage girls. And for the rest of your comeback...kinda lame and boring. How many hours did it take for you to come up with that? Btw, we don't rob each other, we only rob stupid people.
Talking about ugly, say hi to your family from me.
So, Iceland interest rates hit 18%, err last week. I hope Sturlast didnt use any credit to buy that BMW of his. If he did, serves him right for posting this damned dumb vid disrespecting the Brits. Well Sturry baby, stay cool (easy to do in Iceland), stay arrogant, its only gonna get worse.
So you would actually harrasse little teenage girls over something they had nothing to do. Classy..and a little perverted too :S So much for the british honour. Well, at least you got your looks, financial security and dental health....no wait..you just lost one of that and never had the other two. Sorry, my mistake :)
Of course I would not harass teenage girls. All I am saying is What did you expect?
I suspect Sturlast would be happy to harass teenage girls though, before robbing them, as he cruised around in his BMW, counting his pounds. It always starts like this you know. First you rob foreigners but no one cares because theyre foreign but all too soon you end up robbing each other and then the teenagers start getting harassed. Ugly.
Its good to know you don't harass kids there are Russian bombers inside Iceland's airspace your air force is supposed because of a Nato agreement to patrol it but you are not welcome (you are hated) Iceland is a excellent place to make war on UK dit you expect to bee loved in Iceland after this terrorist declarition what dit you expect?
The thing is gary iceland isnt part of the european union so it doesnt have the same access to help like we do, infact is doesnt surprise me that the EU hasnt helped iceland because the EU dislikes countries using tax to under cut other economies.
I am British and when I first heard on the news that Iceland was in trouble, I hoped that the EU, including Great Britain would be standing by the help our Icelandic friends. But no, nothing. All of Europe is guilty. Gordon Brown should have taken a differnt approach to solving this dispute. As a continent we should all stand together and help each other out...but wait...this is Europe we are talking about here. What am I thinking. Very sad! I wish Iceland and its people the best of luck anyway.
So, you just bought a BMW, with British pounds and boast about it online while taking other peoples money. If what you say is true (which I doubt) I dont think youre be troubling your dealer for an upgrade anytime soon.
Iceland is shit out of luck. Youre bankrupt! You take other peoples savings but that doesnt help you. Its not enough to buy out of your hole and even the people who stay silent know what you do and if you are to be trusted, which is not.
Soon olive oil will be a fond memory because no one will sell it to you because no one will trust you to pay them. Maybe cod liver oil is a good substitute. I dont know but you guys are gonna find out because thats all youre gonna have.
No one will cry for you because you took other peoples savings. No on will build you a bridge because you cannot be trusted to pay for it. And everyone else will get over it, stepping on your heads as they do, if they can, while maybe you are left behind in it, up to your eyeballs.
This comming from a country that invaded another country for its oil and butchered thousunds of people in doing so. So exscuse me if I aint listening when you are preaching about moral.
But you're right on one thing, this was all a high tech bank robery by us icelanders. We tricked you in to putting your money in those accounts, and than ran away with them all.
Just because you cannot but your way out of your hole, I do not see how it helps you to start digging. A high tech bank robbery by us. Some Brits may have lost some money by trusting you guys. But you guys have lost all your credibility by robbing that money. According to you, Icelandics are a pack of thieves and this will be noted by everyone else and you will be treated accordingly.
The British fishing fleet is history. Maybe the Danes still have a few trawlers. If the Danes or maybe the Chinese come hunting for your cod, no one will listen to your wailing in the emptiness of the North Atlantic.
And your navy, if you have one, will not be able to buy any fuel to get out of port and if you get shot at no one will care because you are thieves. Maybe Reykjavik will wind up like Mogadishu. The first syllable is already in place wreck.
Do you seriously expect the Icelandic goverment to bankrupt itself for some foreigners who might lose some money? Especialy when they are not even legaly binded to do so? The original plan when the bank (Landsbankinn /Icesave) failed was to sell of its british assets and use that money to refund those people. Which, along with a fund in iceland (which is used in case of things like this) should've covered it.
You really dont get it do you? You are the foreigners. All around the North Atlantic, the Americans, Canadians, Norwegians, Danes, Germans, British, Irish, French, Spanish, Portuguese maybe even the Moroccans are looking at you, you Icelands. And they see a a high tech bank robbery .
Sure, who expected it? but the Iceland government has bankrupt itself for its foreigners and those foreigners are you.
I think you are seriously overestimating UK's status in the world :D The french and the Germans fucking hate you so they won't give a shit if you lost alot of money :D Likeways about the spanish and the portuguese, they dislike you way more than us :D The americans...bwhahaha...they got their handsfull at the moment, and besides they just look at you as their bitches :D Denmark and Norway is full of Icelanders, and nobody cares about canada and Moroco :D Dude, you have to do better than that :-)
It is a UK status thing. You claim that we will be universally shunned, when in reality UK's status is so f***ing low that nobody cares if you got "robbed". And bills spills. Legally the Icelandic goverment only guarantees an X amount of money. That amount is already available. Everything beyond that amount is not our problem, but yours.
The funny thing about you lastsperm sorry sturlast is your pretty blind, thats probably because your head is up your own ass but when you've stopped ranting and opened your eyes you will see that the UK has a very large status and we are respected throughout the world by many countries.
Its no good saying its not your problem because it is, your government turned a blind eye to your banks dealings and you will be black listed for your actions.
I actually feel sorry for iceland in a way because i know its the people that will suffer the most but when they have the attitude that its not there countries problem then you cant help but hope they suffer for being so arrogant.
What everyone should realise is that 99.99% of the people in Iceland are innocent, this is the doing of a few very arrogant SOB's that don't give a **** about anyone but themselves.
Plus, anything we say is irrelevant and counterproductive. Thinking in country terms is backwards, I'm a citizen of Earth as are all and we should all be working together. Those with power are the least likely to think in global terms...
They can't pay because they really don't produce anything much except a few fish products! BIG DEAL!...
So what do you do if you're a piss poor backward country, trying to appear as if you're a worthwhile member of the developed world? Answer: You lure investors in, then try to default on your loans when the going gets tough!... What a bunch of in-bred losers!
We should have expected it. After all, what are they world famous for? NOTHING! Except fish, & a very strange wierd looking singer!
The next time Iceland gets taken seriously your great grand kids will be running the country sturlast. On the bright side though at least you can start hunting whales again because the world couldnt hate you anymore than they do now.
You are such an inspiration for birth control that I probably won't have any kids, let alone great grand kids. And btw, let go of that American syndrome. UK isn't the whole world. Most of the world dont even know that we exist (80% of the world population can't even find UK on a map). Besides, we will be starting to buy up british assets by 2010.
I have an idea, we'll pay you when UK starts to pay Africa back for every thing you robbed from them ;)
You wont have kids sturlast because you cant get laid ,stick to wanking , youre an expert at that. Just heard the West Ham owner is looking to sell up soon, sounds like a dreadful situation is getting worse for you lot. You won even own your own fucking country in 2010 !.. best go back to living in igloos and eating whale meat if I were you.
Ask your mom, she'll rebuff that claim of yours. And I don't follow football, too many crybabies there, so I won't loose any sleep over if some guy will sell it or not. And the igloos..almost funny, just the wrong country and even the wrong continent. Kinda like I would be making aussie jokes about you.
And about those repayments...shouldn´t we just hand them over to your former colonies in Africa...seeing as you robbed them blind for a couple of centuries...
And let's talk of Ireland and Scotland and the english massacres of them through history, and let's talk of the potato famine in Ireland and England's refusal to come to their aid while sitting on well stocked larders at home. Let's talk about England's perpetual wars with their neighbors France and Holland throughout their history. In fact, let's talk about England on its own, not of the U.K. It's only redeeming part in history is standing up to Germany in wwii.
lets take a look at the un 5 permanent seats uk us and others so if u used nato we would use the un then the eu lol they gonna listen to us over a bankrupt country anyday lol
Yea....a fat lot of good those seats did for you during the Cod Wars :D Anyways, the UN is useless. And Iceland will only go bankrupt if it pays the brits from its own pockets....which is not going to happen. Iceland has no legal obligations to fully refund those suckers who put their money into the banks. If the bank assets in the UK are note enough to refund those people, well then they are shit out of luck.
Why? The only way for Iceland to face UK in a battle is if UK would invade Iceland. And by doing so they would be invading a NATO country. And an attack on one NATO country equals an attack on them all. So, once again, UK would lose.
NATO vs NATO is in a different league my friend but atleast your admiting you would have to go crying to NATO again.
NATO would only defend if the other attacked for no reason and thats part of the treaty but i doubt any military action would be taken because your county isnt worth fighting for is it, i meen come on you dont even have any money now :D
You call it crying, I call it being sensible. I do remember UK asking the USA to come help during WWII, was that crying? And yes, it would be pointless to invade Iceland, you might win the first battle but you would always loose the war.
There is always a reason for side A to attack side B, so if NATO only defends if a country is attacked for no reason...then its a pretty pointless defence alliance.
We don't have any money? Wait, we got all your money! :D
So if we got your money, and you ours then what is all the fuzz about :D
But seriously, Iceland vs. UK in a full military confrontation isn't going to happen anytime soon. Altough the UK military should take over the country with ease, the political and financial consequences would be to big. So we just have to wait for the computer game "Iceland Vs. UK: The final Cod War".
And trying to say that you didn't lose because you got to fish a small bit before Iceland kicked you out of there for good, is like saying that you didn't get ass-raped because they raper used lubricant.
Funny video i must say but i suppose you wouldnt understand what quick sand is all abut because is all frozen over lol a bit like your countries assets.
Stop lying about the cod wars you never "won" it just finished with a polital solution.
Nice police unit are they something like swat? i wonder if they would like to meet the SAS or SBS in a friendly encounter of course and maybe they could because real special forces like they want to be.
Well i wouldnt call it a win when side A tries to enforce something that wasnt law yet and ends up crying to NATO about closing its base on the island because it cant gets its own way. we carried on fishing (at reduced rate) until the 200 miles zone had become international law not just icelandic law so i think its fair to say it was a draw.
A win is a win, whether you liked the methods used or not.
And for the record:
"Two-hundred-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zones became recognized internationally on November 14, 1994, after having been agreed at the conference on the Third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982."
Your fishing boats were long gone by then. So Iceland won and UK lost.
lol your quite delusional sturlast, after the dispute thats right DISPUTE was over we carried on fishing for about 2 years.
If you think about it if the cost of it wasnt so great what could you have done to stop us? we could have just said anyone attacking our ships will be sunk and then what would you have done when your 4 coastguard ships were at the bottom of the sea? think yourself lucky that the cost of policing the then law was to high.
yes, you got to fish for whole two f***ing years. WuppdyF***ingDooo. That was only because Iceland was merciful and didn't send you home empty handed. Its still a loss. But cheer up, at least you finished second.
You could've sunk them to the bottom of the ocean but then the shit would have really hit the fan. Iceland would've left NATO and all of a sudden the USSR would've had an spanking new air/naval base in the middle of the atlantic. And UK looses.
The only reason you 'won' the Cod War was because we didn't use our overwhelming naval might to blast your silly little patrol boats to pieces! If we'd wanted, we could have sunk everything you've got, then used our nuclear subs to obliterate Iceland entirely! But we couldn't do that of course, so we made friends with you instead!
Now our so-called 'friends' steal from us!... Give us our fucking money back you bunch of in-bred snowmen!... You're fucking thieves!
No, but your momma sucks...and quite well for the low amount of money I had to pay her. So give her my thanks again.
And yea, those silly little patrol boats won the war, and your right, you couldn't use all your nice little weaponry against us....so you just took one up the a** instead. And now we cleaned your house again, just like we've been doing the last 1 thousand years.
Thanks for the money man, the drinks tonight will be on you ;)
Exscuse me but isn't UK the very same country that invaded Iraq for its oil and killed thousands of people while doing so? Isn't it kinda hipocritic to accuse other nations of being thieves when your own nations is still in the middle of the biggest oil heist in the history?
So some Icelandic banks went bankrupt in your country, due to the financial crisis and negligence and stupitidy of some people (both icelandic and british) which will end whith alot of people losing their money.
The UK goverment, on the other hand invaded another country with military force, killed thousands, and seizes that country's oil supply. I don't know why, but that sounds a bit worse, wouldn´t you agree?
Britain is not stealing iraqs oil, iraq is part of opec and there supply is sold on the open market like any other nation does so its worth getting your facts right before throwing accusations around.
I think you should look at Icelands history,you did nothing when the world was threatened by a fascist totalitarian state that killed millions of innocent people. Very honourable country!. Pay your debts and then go back oblivion , contributing nothing to the world (after you have finished begging the EU and IMF for money of course).
ooh...yea, if you are talking about WWII then we were kinda busy babysitting some UK troops. And about IMF, can you name the last pathetic, no-good western-Europe nation, before Iceland, that begged the IMF for a loan?"
We had to occupy you, you would have surrendered to the germans like the rest of europe. Dont know which country you meanot us. The Uk is the 4th largest economy in the world (Despite being less than 1% of the world population).
So you blame Iceland for not doing anything about Hitler, even though you know there was absolutely nothing they could do. Very honorable.
And for the record, the last Western country to turn to the IMF was Britain, which called the international lender of last resort in 1976 when the banking system was facing collapse and foreign currency reserves had run dry.
Haha you ignorant piece of shit, how could we do anything about it? We have never had any army. Our inhavitats were around 200.000 and most of you people had never seen guns in their lives. However my nation has gone through a whole lot more, f.x "Móðuharðindin" wich killed 10.000 Icelanders and so much more. We have gotten through anything and we will get through this as a sophisticated and well educated nation.
During WWII the few ships Iceland had were busy fishing and exporting food via convoys to England. 200 Icelandic sailors were killed while sailing in those convoys. My grandfather was the captain of one of those ships. Was he doing nothing?
Many Icelanders enlisted and fought in foreign armies during the war. Were they doing nothing?
Yes, we should pay our dept. And we should send you our congressmen and bankers to dispose of as you see fit.
I wonder what the Irish think of your British honour!
Not so much inbred as you think. The Vikings came from Norway sailed to UK and took all the beautiful women from you and sailed to Iceland. You only have ugly women in UK.
Right, because thats always been the British way of dealing with things, attacking people who can´t defend themselves. From stealing parts of China, India, S-Africa all the way to opening fire on unarmed 17 year old Irish kids in Derry.
Gordon Brown, cry me a river, build me a bridge and get over it!
I don´t even understand why the public here in Iceland hasn´t attacked the British embassy over here yet. When the Serb public attacked the USA embassie earlier this year there was almost nothing left standing afterwards and we should be doing the same thing.
Seriously, just how stupid are you? It is one thing making videos and arguing with people online, it is totally another thing going around and doing what you just sugested. I´m Icelandic, I really don't like what the brits have done but I am sensible enough to know that physical violence is not the answer.
And you're not because you're too frightened of what would happen if you did.
And yeah, now you mention it, maybe there is a big similarity between Iceland and Serb, except the Serb are actual attackers of other nations' diplomatic missions while the Iceland are just wannabees!
About as civilised as thieving out someone's savings.
Oh yes I am very frightened what would happen. Ha ha, what would happen? Nothing. You can´t do shit and you never do anything except with permission from America.
And nobody is stealing anyone´s savings you moron, it only goes to show that you are the stupid audience that Brown was aiming for when he start lying like that for political purposes.
UK taxpayers will need to pay plenty compensation though for these stupid moves of your government.
They still have those absurd anti terrorist laws against us, making it impossible for companies in Iceland that have absolutely nothing to do with Landsbanki or anyother bank to get paid for exports. We ship alumnium to Britain, the buyer in Britain tries to pay but the finance authorities prevent it. FUCK BRITAIN
the icelandic government never said they weren´t going to pay. try to find a quote from the icelandic pm saying that we were not going to pay, you wont find it.
yes we are really mad at our government and uk government but mostly the bankers.
most of the icelandic public feel sorry for the people that lost their savings in icesave and hope that they get there money back. it's just Gordon Brown that we despise right now. if uk was maybe facing bankruptcy and their friends turn their back
Taking money from your friends, promising to give it back, going bankrupt and then not giving that money back is a pretty quick way to lose your friends. You should consider yourselves lucky your erstwhile friends have just turned their back on you. If I did to my friends what you did to yours, my friends would punch me in the face.
UK was the only country that reacted so hard other countrys acted camly and we came to agreement with them (Netherlands). it was just rude and srupid UK that acted in that way. i'm an icelander that lives in the UK, and i can tell you that when iceland first heard that people were losing money in icesave most people were shockted and hoped you would get your money back, but then you treated us like terrorists and we didn't fell sorry for Gordon Brown anymore.
Resorting to violence will never help. But the main thing is that I did not borrow these money from UK savers nor did any avarage Icelander borrow this money. However our pension funds are also at risk and we the Icelandic people have been bloodmilked with high interest rates on our mortgages. The same thing is happening all over the world. ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT ICELAND IS SMALLER AND HAS HARDER TIME HANDLING IT THAN OTHER BIGGER COUNTRIES
And if you think the British, all 60 million of them, care a pin for what some 3 hundred thousand Icelandics think (its score is taking a beating) pay back the money you owe or take the global beating that will be yours.
Global beating, wokal seating. This 300 thousand or so Icelandics also really don't give a shit if you and the rest of your bad teethed nations lose your money in this shit. And great news. According to some of UK's best lawyers, the UK goverment could be have to pay Iceland and the former owners of Kaupthing, billions of pounds in damages from its actions. So pretty please, with sugar on top, go fuck yourself.
Who gives a damn what some UK lawyers think, perhaps they are after making some money themselves.
Any legal action would take years, by that time the crisis will be over and both sides will want to move on.
Again all assets sezied by our government will be returned when we are paid back our money in full. Failure to do so will result in those assets being sold. We will get our money back.. one way or another.
Not only that but pay the Icelandic goverment even more. The British fucks will pay for this and I hope all their banks come tumbling down. Ha ha, they actually nationalized the banks so if the banks fall, the British nation will need to pay debts of private companies, 4-5 times greater than the UK gross domestic product. I hope that country goes bankrupt.
Taking everybodies elses money? What do you think? That this was the greatest bank heist in the history? And you were the suckers who fell for it? Not quite.
But simple fact is no one worth doing business with is gonna want to do business with an Iceland because the bosses of Iceland show Iceland cannot be trusted. When bad happens and it always does, Iceland has shown where it stands on the trust thing. Iceland first; everyone else = errr nothing = errr no one (worth doing business with) will do business with Icelandics.
Icelandics might not be thieving bastards because that would involve issues of intention but they have taken money, promising to give it back on demand and they havent. Theyve actually kept it to pay for their own losses.
Not nice. A very nasty ting to do. Nasty.
So what is everyone going to call this small collection of people in the North Atlantic? 300,000 people, about the size of Leicester. Hardly something to be frightened of.
Icelandics offer a banking service and foolish, simple but probably honest people invest money in that offer. It goes wrong. Icelandics guarantee the bank deposits of Icelandics but everyone else, everyone else can go whistle.
It goes wrong because Icelandics get it wrong but Icelandic money is guaranteed .. errrr .. by errr everyone else, who bought into that offer of a banking service by Icelandics, which turned out to be thievery.
Yebb....and talking about bosses, it seems, according to top british lawyers, that both the Icelandic goverment and Kaupthing bank have good grounds on suing the british goverment for billion of pounds because of the actions of mr. brown and mr. darling, who actually managed to make the matter worse. So you too will be paying for your bosses.
The real downer is the Icelandics guaranteed the deposits of everyone who was Icelandic in an Iceland bank but said everyone who was not Iceland but had deposits in an Iceland bank can go hang.
That destroys all Iceland credibility outside of Iceland and no one will look an Iceland in the eye and shake his hand on a business deal for about thirty years if it can be avoided because Iceland cannot be trusted. Ugly. Very ugly.
Are we being called IcelandiCS now? Did I guarantee or take away any money from EVERYONE who was(? you mean 'are', right?). Ok that was just to blow off some steam, pardon my rudeness. ;)
But again, so many people are talking about that like parrots like they haven't payed attention to the news, it was the idiot Oddson who phoned YOUR idiot Darling and tolkd him (I bet in a very awkward English) that we weren't gonna pay back the other deposits.
...our PM (does anyone listen to him or are you just fond of sticking to what the Banker Oddson said in pure selfishness and stupidity (not you...him)). We have been trying to tell you guys that we ARE going to pay back. But it's a matter of what we are and AREN'T able to do. Take into account that our economy is really REALLY bad and in order to be able to pay all that money and still be a functioning nation we need (-ed) to stabilize our own economy as well as possible (mistakes where made)..
...btw, that anti terrorism law is seriously hurting our ability to make some money (as small amount it already is) so that we might one day actually repay you guys. We are trying to get some loans...can't remember who was willing to aid us and who was still hooked on Oddson's words and decided that we could just all go to frozen hell. If you want your money as soon as possible the please try and get Brown to ease up a bit (I understand your frustration with all the frozen money I really do).
And just to be clear (I know, YouTube isn't the place for these kinds of conversations such a small character limit). I'm not flaming or blaming any ordinary Brit, just like you Brits ought to turn your irritated minds on the Icelanders who deserve it instead of always saying "Icelanders are pirates/thieves" "ICELANDERS are taking our money (on purpose)" etc.
I still hold England pretty high in my opinion, although it's score is taking a beating much like Iceland's score must be taking for you.
The fact that (some) Icelanders are spending their time ranting at the UK government, instead of their OWN CORRUPT, INCOMPETENT bunch of idiots (Mr Oddsson, anyone? Still in office, btw) just shows the pathetic DENIAL they are under.
Ordinary Icelanders are not to blame, but neither are we Brits. Channel your anger where it is deserved.
Well...we usually hunt them just for the fun of it, not to release tension. But once again, good idea...we could increase our whale-hunting industry by 4000% to help the economy.
Well unless you have an unquenchable domestic demand for whale blubber, I wouldn't bother as I don't think there's much export potential - even if the ISK rate makes it cheaper than dogmeat. Nothing like blasting the insides out of an intelligent sentient mammal to take your mind off economic meltdown I guess.
Actually, there is a high demand for whale blubber here in Iceland. No problem selling it here. There are also good markets in Norway and Japan so that wouldn't be a problem. And their intelligence is overrated. So what if they can do a few tricks. Some ants have societies, raise cities, have domestic animals, armies etc but I bet you wouldn't think twice before you'd stomp them to the ground.
Last time I checked, ants weren't mammals but I rather be stomped on in 0.3 seconds than have an exploding harpoon shot into my abdomen and spend 20 minutes dying in agony.
Gordon Brown has whale-like qualities, and as far as I'm concerned, be my guest. You'd do us all a favour :)
Firstly you are right ordinary Icelanders are not to blame. But those bankers should pay you back or else go to jail. These bankers have also taken our money. And if the Icelandic government has guaranteed for 12 times the national (you know what I mean) with a signature then they have failed the Icelandic people. Many people in Iceland wondered where did all that money come from. At least I did not get it into my pocket.
I'm Icelandic and I cant tell you that this video is not FUNNY its childish and dumb.
We are better then this. The anger is misdirected on both sides.People on both sides have lost a lot and its no good acting like this.
We need to do our best and help get ALL the money back or we are no better then the gangsters in our banks. We need to go after the bankers who fucked us all.
But Paying back the money would be easier if still had our biggest bank but thanks to gordon we don't. lets just hope we can make friends with Russia so that next time things go bad in the world we will still have a friend. And better Russia than the us or eu
Gott að þú hefur skoðun á myndbandinu, en samt ekki reyna að yfirfæra hana yfir á alla aðra. Sumum finnst þetta fyndið, öðrum ekki. Sumum taka þetta aðeins of alvarlega og finnst þetta barnalegt og heimskulegt. Aðrir eru afslappaðri og hafa húmor fyrir þessu. Ef einhverjir eru hneyklsaðir á þessu myndbandi þá er það þeirra mál, ekki missi ég svefn yfir því.
British better be careful what they wish for. Their own banking system is shaking on it´s knees, now they have been de fact nationalized. If the crisis won´t soften soon they will go down under. And then let´s see the British accepting all the private debts of the banking and corporate forces in Britain. The debt is 5-6 times greater than UK gross domestic product.
Let´s see the American people accepting claims from EU banks because of debts from subprime loans and debts of Lehman brothers.
What people from Iceland need to remember is people there are still able to withdraw their money and they have a guarantee that all of their savings are protected
British savers didnt have that protection and people here who saved in one bank just get the message
"We are not currently processing any deposits or any withdrawal requests through our Icesave internet accounts. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause our customers"
That has worried 10000s who would lose their lifesavings
Yes but Gordon Brown is going on the television barking about Icelanders not planning to meet their obligation, which is false and has done immense damage to Icelandic companies.
It is also not true what he said about Icelandic government should be regulating these banks. The icesave accounts are under British regulations, and so were branches of Kaupthing like Singer and Friedlander.
Browns actions have nothing to do with a loss of confidence in Icelands banks or institutions, that would of happened even if Brown said nothing on this matter.
Peoples savings and over 1 billion of councils money are tied up in this crisis. Brown has said he wants Iceland to make a guarantee that all deposits will be returned and hes not demanded this happen right away.
We want reassurance. Your government has promised to protect its own savers, but not British savers of those banks.
If we would have joined EU, which I am a staunch supporter of, and picked up the Euro by now this would never have happened. The banks had good equity ratio, withstood all tests from the Icelandic finance regulations, had very good international assets, were returning profits this year like the years before, had not bought any subprime loans from USA and therefore needed not to write off assets like European and American banks. Our gay fucking krona has done us for the last time.
Well, all these comments were supposed to be reply´s to posts within the discussions, not to come here on top.
Ég er sammála þér um margt, þú stendur þig ágætlega að mörgu leyti í að verja málstað Íslands hér, en þetta evrópudaður þitt og tal um að allt væri i góðu lagi ef við værum í ESB er ég alls ekki sammála. En við skulum ekki rífast um það hér á þessum þræði heldur einbeita okkur að því að koma íslenskum málstað á framfæri útávið.
Það liggur bara alveg ljóst fyrir að þetta hefði ekki gerst með evruna.
Hvernig átti annars Glitnir, banki sem hefur góða eiginfjárstöðu, stóðst öll álagspróf fjármálaeftirlitsins, hefur yfir að ráða góðum alþjóðlegum eignum, skilaði hagnaði á þessu ári sem er afrek miðað við banka annarstaðar í heiminum, þurfti ekkert að afskrifa vegna undirmálslána í bandaríkjunum, allt í einu bara einn góðan veðurdag að vera kominn í gjaldþrot.
Með evruna hefðum við aðgang að Evrópska seðlabankanum sem er nú stofnum sem er eitthvað annað en þetta handónýtta, máttlása og illa rekna batterí sem gerir okkar að athlægi út um allan heim og heitir Seðlabanki Íslands. Keyrandi á 15% stýrivöxtum eins og algjörir bambalingar.
Og ég kalla esb stuðning minn ekki esb daður frekar en ég kalla Sjálfstæðismenn rassasleikjur.
Ef þú vilt bera saman aðstæður í Lúxemborg og Íslandi, bæði smáríki með risastóra bankastarfsemi, en munurinn er að Lúxemborg er bakkað upp af Evrópska seðlabankanum. Þar á fólk ekki að glíma við óðaverðbólga, geysilegt eignatjón, glæpsamlega háa vexti, mjög svo hátt neytendaverð og þar fram eftir götum. Erlendir stúdentar eiga ekki í erfiðleikum með að taka út peninga og gengið þeirra gjaldmiðils rýkur ekki upp og niður eins og rússíbani.
"Browns actions have nothing to do with a loss of confidence in Icelands banks or institutions"
His actions and statements have had plenty to do with it. When he says the country has defaulted and the government doesn´t plan to meet it´s obligations, what do you think happens. It sends a chain reaction in UK. Now all suppliers have cancelled agreements with Baugur and as I understand Bakkavor.
Kaupthing was seized and in the process went down under and they blame the UK press and government.
Kaupthing says it was balancing again, they had just secured loans from the Icelandic central bank and the Swedish central bank, the day after their assets are seized in Britain and as I understand it they go under because of that.
If the Icelandic government promised to repay British savers including our local governments their full money then such assets wouldnt of been frozen or seized in the first place.
We havnt demanded all that money be paid back right now. Icelands institutions which took control of these banks and have promised to protect all of icelanders savings/ continue to allow withdrawls should give the same protection to those that lost out because of their actions here too.
No it is different with Icelandic savers and British savers. In the international banking system there are shared obligations for guarantees on deposits and it is different if the banks are branches or subsidiaries. It is outrageous by itself that the Icelandic nation should be liable for some debts that private companies have in foreign countries, but the Icelandic government has stepped up to it´s responsabilities and more than that, they have moved these claims up in rank of priority.
I think its outrageous that all these banks have been doing what they have and had to be bailed out by tax payers of national governments and people have to be held to account on this
The Icelandic government isnt meeting its reponsibilities currently because the situation hasnt been resolved and even the small amounts of money ensured by the Icelandic Authorities has not been detailed yet
The British government has said it will refund all personal savers fully, but that still leaves billions
Alot of people are blaming each other and not accepting they are themselves to blame. Icelands economic problems with its banks started BEFORE Brown got involved.
British savers including billions of pounds worth of tax payers money are being held by Iceland, the fact they cant get their money back is why people have lost confidence. I accept the media hype makes matters worse, we have seen that with our own banks that faced problems.
Yes but the problems became much worse after Browns statements.
But the fact is deposits from branches of banks is usually guaranteed by local and it is a scandal by itself the Iceland government is liable here for debts of private banks.
For example if a British bank is operating in France and it goes down under, France would guaranteeing the deposits. If we would for example be part of EU, these claims would have fallen on UK government.
I agree if Iceland was part of the EU then the situation would be alot more stable and yes Browns comments have not helped matters
But again, he didnt start this problem. The problem started when British savers and councils were unable to withdraw BILLIONS of Euros worth of savings and the icelandic government has not offered or promised to repay it
If Northern Rock had savers in France, and our government nationalized it protecting British savers but not French ones. the French would moan too
Oh for goodness sake, anyone would think we have sent the entire royal navy to Iceland to demand our money back or flatten you.
All that our government has done is cease certain assets and demanded that the Icelandic government make assurances and explain when our money will be repaid. Money that is some peoples lifesavings
I think Icelands government wants this argument to continue. Get people to hate the British and blame them, instead of looking closer to home and demanding resignations
All you have done???? Don´t you realize that you caused the only bank that could have and should have survived the crisis, and thus be able to revive our economy after it has blown over to fall, completely unjustifiedly. And that banks savings guarantee wasn´t ewen on the responsibility of Icelandic authorities, but the british authorities as Kaupþing, Singer & Friedlander was a british bank under british law.
So your row with the Icelandic authoroties over one bank Landsbanki killed another
at the same time revealing that they were putting 50 billion pounds into 4 british banks. They then hammer at the fact all day on the 8th that Iceland means to default while the Icelandic government states again it plans to honor its part, but that gets no airtime in the UK. It sure smells like your PM decided to use Iceland as a cover over the fact that he just put every person in England into dept to the Tune of 200 thousands pounds a head for the forseeable future. Pure politics
This is pathetic all the comments the video is a little funny but by your comments you can see all though you say it is just for a joke you have resentment towards the uk for some reason. Dont know why but its pretty sad. Dont understand why a lot of scandinavians bang on about the vikings here and how tough they are either thats pretty pathetic to seeing as you have hardly any crime or hard living. Just dont get the haters
kaczorka23 2 years ago
Pathetic it may be but it still doesn't come close to your pathetic lack of skills in the english language. You are 24 years old and from the UK but you still write english like a 5 year old from Kirkzistan. You did finish school, right? Right? Anyway, this video was made as a joke (a poor joke maybe, but a joke none the less) but some poor uneducated slobs took it way to seriously and, for my own emusement, I just had to answer them back and get them a little more agitated.
Sturlast 2 years ago
im from Iceland and it rocks living here :D
komms8 2 years ago 4
hahaha gotta say though, I am proud to have decended from you people (Vikings).
Shame England and Iceland are at it all time :( :( I love Iceland and it's people, but England will always be like US is now, picking fights for no reason :|
Peace to Iceland from England!
DonSimonUK 3 years ago 8
Kewl, Counterstrike UK vs Iceland. ummm, who the terrorist and who the CTs?
Gizziiusa 3 years ago 2
lol have fun cleaning your guns brits.
doghnutman 3 years ago
Nuke Iceland!
mrgeorgeallison 3 years ago
@mrgeorgeallison Give me one reason? do you know what we have for military??? 3-4 very small coast guard ship, 10 helicopters, 50 special forces, and 2000 unarmed police. this may be small but if you attack we will all fight from politicians to the begger we will defend ourselfs from lunatic's such as yourself. I hate many people but i don't want to nuke them for having 1 or 2 bad guys in it, whats wrong with you?
TheIcelandicPatriot 11 months ago
lol have fun cleaning your guns brits.
doghnutman 3 years ago
you crazy .. everyone knows one of those crazy volcanos in Iceland is actually a giant canon.
TheMacrohardCorp 3 years ago 5
Verð að leiðrétta þetta, báðir bílarnir eru nýir. Eldri er skráður 2006 og nýji skráður 2008.
thossii 3 years ago
Ég vissi þetta ekki en Kaninn gaf Lögguni fyrir ca 10-15 árum brynvarinn bíl sem þeir ætluðu að henda man það vegna þess að skýrinin sem löggan gaf var sú að hann væri eingöngu hugsaður sem björgunartæki við erfið veðurskylirði held að löggan hafi litið á hann sem verkfæri til brúks við fleiri aðstæður.=)
Ég hef als ekkert á móti löggum obbin af þeim eru dátar góðir
sgnewa 3 years ago
Já ég veit hvaða bíl þú ert að tala um. Sá bíll er aðallega notaður við æfingar og myndi verða notaður við erfiðar aðstæður sem ólíklegar eru að koma upp hér á landi.
thossii 3 years ago
Þessi 'bíldrusla' er ekki ein, heldur tvær 'bíldruslur' og einn af þessum bílum er úreltur, eða ca. tíu ára gamall. Og nýi er glænýr sérkeyptur af annaðhvort dómsálaráðuneytinu eða Ríkislögreglustjóra.
thossii 3 years ago
lol sturlast is pwning ur ass and iceland is pwning those British dick heads
andri280594 3 years ago
I am Icelandic and I live in the UK. I have yet to detect any sense of hostility from British people about this issue.
Iceland is not bankrupt, because in the world of economics, the term a country going bankrupt does not exist.
The interest rates are high and have been high in the past but they were raised to 18% because that is what the IMF wanted.
Iceland is exactly half the size of the UK.
heidaro 3 years ago 2
Icelandic politicians have ignored a lot of information given by academics that could possibly have been helpful.
Someone (Darling?) said: When a ship is sinking you should save what you can and then find out what caused the ship to sink, not the other way around. This can be applied to this situation. Many Icelandic people seem angry and determined on finding someone to blame for this situation.
heidaro 3 years ago
And you only rob stupid people? How stupid is it to bankrupt your own country? How stupid is it to have interest rates at what? 18%?
Youre stuffed and we hate you more than you hate us. You Icelands are gonna suffer and arrogant dummies like Sturlast just make it worse.
Welcome to the big chill Iceland. We all know that thieves never admit they steal.
But dont worry about it. Sturry has a BMer, which makes everyone hate you more.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
I thougth you were one of the few clever ones...my mistake I thief never admits stealing
british "empire" does not
Btv Iceland is bigger than whole of England let a lone coventry
sgnewa 3 years ago
Megir þú allur að innan klórast tjalladjöfull
sgnewa 3 years ago 2
Hmmmm...I think you are mistaken if you think that brits are hated in Iceland. We just like to fuck in the really stupid ones ;)
"We all know that thieves never admit they steal." So if we all say WE DID IT, WE TOOK THE MONEY,..then that makes us inocent...thats..strange...logic. But consistant with the other crap you have posted here.
And thanks for calling me Sturry, in Icelandic it means "The one who always comes on top in argumeents with bad teethed englishman"
Sturlast 3 years ago
Já þeir eru alveg kostulegir þessir tjallar hefurðu tekið eftir því að þeir byrja altaf að tala um mat? hefurðu smakkað td enska pylsu? það er mériháttaar viðbjóður! ég myndi éta súrsað hvalspik í hvert einasta mál frekar en slíkan óþverra grínlaust!!
sgnewa 3 years ago
Well, well, well...by recents news it sounds that your beloved England aint doing so great. Actually doing far worse than Iceland. Aint that some shit :D
Sturlast 2 years ago
The only honest man a thief likes is a fool.
It is good to be hated by you Icelands.
Something the size of Coventry (no disrespect to Coventry) on a rock in the North Atlantic, hates the Brits, with Russian bombers in its airspace and its cap in its hand for Russian credit, refused
Like the Armada, Bonaparte and Hitler all in one?
I see the headlines now: Russia invades Iceland to repay the British debt.
Ali Baba and his forty buddies would feel at home with you girls.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
Well, didn´t expect the brits to start harassing little teenage girls. And for the rest of your comeback...kinda lame and boring. How many hours did it take for you to come up with that? Btw, we don't rob each other, we only rob stupid people.
Talking about ugly, say hi to your family from me.
Sturlast 3 years ago
So, Iceland interest rates hit 18%, err last week. I hope Sturlast didnt use any credit to buy that BMW of his. If he did, serves him right for posting this damned dumb vid disrespecting the Brits. Well Sturry baby, stay cool (easy to do in Iceland), stay arrogant, its only gonna get worse.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
No worries, I paid it in cash, so I'm still a arrogant bastard. And we're good over here. Still sexy, still great.
Hope you got enough money left for your dental plan. Peace!
Sturlast 3 years ago
this is nothing if you consider the harassment Icelandic teenage girls are getting in britain I don't think brits have any harassment in Iceland
sgnewa 3 years ago
What did you expect? Your daughters to get invited round for tea?
indirectapproach 3 years ago
Cup of tea is a good idea at least more civilized than fiscally and verbally abusing teenage kids
sgnewa 3 years ago
So you would actually harrasse little teenage girls over something they had nothing to do. Classy..and a little perverted too :S So much for the british honour. Well, at least you got your looks, financial security and dental health....no wait..you just lost one of that and never had the other two. Sorry, my mistake :)
Sturlast 3 years ago
Of course I would not harass teenage girls. All I am saying is What did you expect?
I suspect Sturlast would be happy to harass teenage girls though, before robbing them, as he cruised around in his BMW, counting his pounds. It always starts like this you know. First you rob foreigners but no one cares because theyre foreign but all too soon you end up robbing each other and then the teenagers start getting harassed. Ugly.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
Its good to know you don't harass kids there are Russian bombers inside Iceland's airspace your air force is supposed because of a Nato agreement to patrol it but you are not welcome (you are hated) Iceland is a excellent place to make war on UK dit you expect to bee loved in Iceland after this terrorist declarition what dit you expect?
sgnewa 3 years ago
The thing is gary iceland isnt part of the european union so it doesnt have the same access to help like we do, infact is doesnt surprise me that the EU hasnt helped iceland because the EU dislikes countries using tax to under cut other economies.
gash2024 3 years ago
I am British and when I first heard on the news that Iceland was in trouble, I hoped that the EU, including Great Britain would be standing by the help our Icelandic friends. But no, nothing. All of Europe is guilty. Gordon Brown should have taken a differnt approach to solving this dispute. As a continent we should all stand together and help each other out...but wait...this is Europe we are talking about here. What am I thinking. Very sad! I wish Iceland and its people the best of luck anyway.
GaryGarratt 3 years ago 14
Who cares?
Icelande reputation = Icelande credit rating = 0
indirectapproach 3 years ago
Buy BMW and Mercedes spare parts. No one in Iceland will be buying new BMW or Mercedes any time soon.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
Well...I just bought one.....with british pounds ;)
Sturlast 3 years ago
So, you just bought a BMW, with British pounds and boast about it online while taking other peoples money. If what you say is true (which I doubt) I dont think youre be troubling your dealer for an upgrade anytime soon.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
Iceland is shit out of luck. Youre bankrupt! You take other peoples savings but that doesnt help you. Its not enough to buy out of your hole and even the people who stay silent know what you do and if you are to be trusted, which is not.
Soon olive oil will be a fond memory because no one will sell it to you because no one will trust you to pay them. Maybe cod liver oil is a good substitute. I dont know but you guys are gonna find out because thats all youre gonna have.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
Cry me a river, build a bridge and get over it.
Sturlast 3 years ago
No one will cry for you because you took other peoples savings. No on will build you a bridge because you cannot be trusted to pay for it. And everyone else will get over it, stepping on your heads as they do, if they can, while maybe you are left behind in it, up to your eyeballs.
Blaming everyone else but yourselves.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
This comming from a country that invaded another country for its oil and butchered thousunds of people in doing so. So exscuse me if I aint listening when you are preaching about moral.
But you're right on one thing, this was all a high tech bank robery by us icelanders. We tricked you in to putting your money in those accounts, and than ran away with them all.
Sturlast 3 years ago
Just because you cannot but your way out of your hole, I do not see how it helps you to start digging. A high tech bank robbery by us. Some Brits may have lost some money by trusting you guys. But you guys have lost all your credibility by robbing that money. According to you, Icelandics are a pack of thieves and this will be noted by everyone else and you will be treated accordingly.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
The British fishing fleet is history. Maybe the Danes still have a few trawlers. If the Danes or maybe the Chinese come hunting for your cod, no one will listen to your wailing in the emptiness of the North Atlantic.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
And your navy, if you have one, will not be able to buy any fuel to get out of port and if you get shot at no one will care because you are thieves. Maybe Reykjavik will wind up like Mogadishu. The first syllable is already in place wreck.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
What are you babbling on? There is nobody comming for our cod. But if we had oil, well then we would be in a world of shit...
Sturlast 3 years ago
yYu got cod liver oil right? But as of now - that's it.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
Once again, what are you babbling about?
Sturlast 3 years ago
Do you seriously expect the Icelandic goverment to bankrupt itself for some foreigners who might lose some money? Especialy when they are not even legaly binded to do so? The original plan when the bank (Landsbankinn /Icesave) failed was to sell of its british assets and use that money to refund those people. Which, along with a fund in iceland (which is used in case of things like this) should've covered it.
Sturlast 3 years ago
You really dont get it do you? You are the foreigners. All around the North Atlantic, the Americans, Canadians, Norwegians, Danes, Germans, British, Irish, French, Spanish, Portuguese maybe even the Moroccans are looking at you, you Icelands. And they see a a high tech bank robbery .
Sure, who expected it? but the Iceland government has bankrupt itself for its foreigners and those foreigners are you.
indirectapproach 3 years ago 2
I think you are seriously overestimating UK's status in the world :D The french and the Germans fucking hate you so they won't give a shit if you lost alot of money :D Likeways about the spanish and the portuguese, they dislike you way more than us :D The americans...bwhahaha...they got their handsfull at the moment, and besides they just look at you as their bitches :D Denmark and Norway is full of Icelanders, and nobody cares about canada and Moroco :D Dude, you have to do better than that :-)
Sturlast 3 years ago
This is not a UK status thing. This is an Iceland will you pay your bills thing. And err . It seems you wont/cant.
indirectapproach 3 years ago 2
It is a UK status thing. You claim that we will be universally shunned, when in reality UK's status is so f***ing low that nobody cares if you got "robbed". And bills spills. Legally the Icelandic goverment only guarantees an X amount of money. That amount is already available. Everything beyond that amount is not our problem, but yours.
Sturlast 3 years ago
The funny thing about you lastsperm sorry sturlast is your pretty blind, thats probably because your head is up your own ass but when you've stopped ranting and opened your eyes you will see that the UK has a very large status and we are respected throughout the world by many countries.
Its no good saying its not your problem because it is, your government turned a blind eye to your banks dealings and you will be black listed for your actions.
gash2024 3 years ago 3
I actually feel sorry for iceland in a way because i know its the people that will suffer the most but when they have the attitude that its not there countries problem then you cant help but hope they suffer for being so arrogant.
gash2024 3 years ago
What everyone should realise is that 99.99% of the people in Iceland are innocent, this is the doing of a few very arrogant SOB's that don't give a **** about anyone but themselves.
Plus, anything we say is irrelevant and counterproductive. Thinking in country terms is backwards, I'm a citizen of Earth as are all and we should all be working together. Those with power are the least likely to think in global terms...
halldbe 3 years ago
They can't pay because they really don't produce anything much except a few fish products! BIG DEAL!...
So what do you do if you're a piss poor backward country, trying to appear as if you're a worthwhile member of the developed world? Answer: You lure investors in, then try to default on your loans when the going gets tough!... What a bunch of in-bred losers!
We should have expected it. After all, what are they world famous for? NOTHING! Except fish, & a very strange wierd looking singer!
Abbotts99 3 years ago
If that's true that Denmark and Norway is full of Icelanders, it must be that Iceland itself is a shit place to live! They're all fucking off abroad!
Hardly surprising! You ain't got fuck-all up there, except what you can steal, or beg on charity!
You poor losers have now got to plead for a loan from the IMF like the third world shit-hole you are!
HEY! 'Third World Shit-Hole'...... THAT's why everyone's fucking off to Denmark and Norway!
Abbotts99 3 years ago
look.. fucker.
iceland is a better place than most of the
other countries of the world, acctually the U.N ranks iceland as the best place in the world to live.
you brits are more thiefes than icelanders are ever going to be.
its mainly because of you assholes we had to ask for help by the IMF in the first place!
ulfandra 3 years ago 2
All that was b4 the crunch ulfandra you wont even have a pot to piss in soon when you start your repayments.
telstar9 3 years ago
Well...then I guess we'll just keep our pots and skip those repayments.
Sturlast 3 years ago
The next time Iceland gets taken seriously your great grand kids will be running the country sturlast. On the bright side though at least you can start hunting whales again because the world couldnt hate you anymore than they do now.
telstar9 3 years ago
You are such an inspiration for birth control that I probably won't have any kids, let alone great grand kids. And btw, let go of that American syndrome. UK isn't the whole world. Most of the world dont even know that we exist (80% of the world population can't even find UK on a map). Besides, we will be starting to buy up british assets by 2010.
I have an idea, we'll pay you when UK starts to pay Africa back for every thing you robbed from them ;)
Btw....we never stopped hunting whales
Sturlast 3 years ago
You wont have kids sturlast because you cant get laid ,stick to wanking , youre an expert at that. Just heard the West Ham owner is looking to sell up soon, sounds like a dreadful situation is getting worse for you lot. You won even own your own fucking country in 2010 !.. best go back to living in igloos and eating whale meat if I were you.
telstar9 3 years ago
Ask your mom, she'll rebuff that claim of yours. And I don't follow football, too many crybabies there, so I won't loose any sleep over if some guy will sell it or not. And the igloos..almost funny, just the wrong country and even the wrong continent. Kinda like I would be making aussie jokes about you.
And about those repayments...shouldn´t we just hand them over to your former colonies in Africa...seeing as you robbed them blind for a couple of centuries...
Sturlast 3 years ago
l always get them little countries mixed up sturlast. Are you the ones that look like Charles Bronson and fish through little holes in the snow?
or is that a vision I have had of your future?
telstar9 3 years ago
Hmmmm...not really insulting. Try again.
But lets talk about africa and the big heist of UK over there!
Sturlast 3 years ago
And let's talk of Ireland and Scotland and the english massacres of them through history, and let's talk of the potato famine in Ireland and England's refusal to come to their aid while sitting on well stocked larders at home. Let's talk about England's perpetual wars with their neighbors France and Holland throughout their history. In fact, let's talk about England on its own, not of the U.K. It's only redeeming part in history is standing up to Germany in wwii.
helgipunk 3 years ago
May I ask, have you not yet studied Geography? If not, hang tight, you'll probably study it in 5th or 6th grade.
thossii 3 years ago
lets take a look at the un 5 permanent seats uk us and others so if u used nato we would use the un then the eu lol they gonna listen to us over a bankrupt country anyday lol
caz12345676 3 years ago
Yea....a fat lot of good those seats did for you during the Cod Wars :D Anyways, the UN is useless. And Iceland will only go bankrupt if it pays the brits from its own pockets....which is not going to happen. Iceland has no legal obligations to fully refund those suckers who put their money into the banks. If the bank assets in the UK are note enough to refund those people, well then they are shit out of luck.
Sturlast 3 years ago
And a very good prank indeed :)
Sturlast 3 years ago
Why? The only way for Iceland to face UK in a battle is if UK would invade Iceland. And by doing so they would be invading a NATO country. And an attack on one NATO country equals an attack on them all. So, once again, UK would lose.
Sturlast 3 years ago
NATO vs NATO is in a different league my friend but atleast your admiting you would have to go crying to NATO again.
NATO would only defend if the other attacked for no reason and thats part of the treaty but i doubt any military action would be taken because your county isnt worth fighting for is it, i meen come on you dont even have any money now :D
gash2024 3 years ago
You call it crying, I call it being sensible. I do remember UK asking the USA to come help during WWII, was that crying? And yes, it would be pointless to invade Iceland, you might win the first battle but you would always loose the war.
There is always a reason for side A to attack side B, so if NATO only defends if a country is attacked for no reason...then its a pretty pointless defence alliance.
We don't have any money? Wait, we got all your money! :D
Sturlast 3 years ago
haha wait we have got yours :D
There is infact nothing to say that NATO would directly get involved, the agreement states to lend assistants in any way.
Its just understood that NATO would intervien militarily, of course this would depend if the country had initiated the war.
gash2024 3 years ago
So if we got your money, and you ours then what is all the fuzz about :D
But seriously, Iceland vs. UK in a full military confrontation isn't going to happen anytime soon. Altough the UK military should take over the country with ease, the political and financial consequences would be to big. So we just have to wait for the computer game "Iceland Vs. UK: The final Cod War".
Sturlast 3 years ago
Wait for the next England Iceland football match. You'll get a kicking then!
indirectapproach 3 years ago
Well one thing thats for sure is that we will be playing them in iceland.
gash2024 3 years ago
Well, England might get the win but they´ll also get the kicking...just hope you aren't planning on use those players after the game ;)
Sturlast 3 years ago
And trying to say that you didn't lose because you got to fish a small bit before Iceland kicked you out of there for good, is like saying that you didn't get ass-raped because they raper used lubricant.
Sturlast 3 years ago
Funny video i must say but i suppose you wouldnt understand what quick sand is all abut because is all frozen over lol a bit like your countries assets.
Stop lying about the cod wars you never "won" it just finished with a polital solution.
Nice police unit are they something like swat? i wonder if they would like to meet the SAS or SBS in a friendly encounter of course and maybe they could because real special forces like they want to be.
gash2024 3 years ago
I don't know what you call a win, but when side A gets everything it fought for and side B gets shit, I call that a win for side A.
And nice Royal Marine units, hope the got free from the mud.
Sturlast 3 years ago
Well i wouldnt call it a win when side A tries to enforce something that wasnt law yet and ends up crying to NATO about closing its base on the island because it cant gets its own way. we carried on fishing (at reduced rate) until the 200 miles zone had become international law not just icelandic law so i think its fair to say it was a draw.
gash2024 3 years ago
A win is a win, whether you liked the methods used or not.
And for the record:
"Two-hundred-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zones became recognized internationally on November 14, 1994, after having been agreed at the conference on the Third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982."
Your fishing boats were long gone by then. So Iceland won and UK lost.
Sturlast 3 years ago
lol your quite delusional sturlast, after the dispute thats right DISPUTE was over we carried on fishing for about 2 years.
If you think about it if the cost of it wasnt so great what could you have done to stop us? we could have just said anyone attacking our ships will be sunk and then what would you have done when your 4 coastguard ships were at the bottom of the sea? think yourself lucky that the cost of policing the then law was to high.
gash2024 3 years ago
Delusional...yea, must be the clean air.
yes, you got to fish for whole two f***ing years. WuppdyF***ingDooo. That was only because Iceland was merciful and didn't send you home empty handed. Its still a loss. But cheer up, at least you finished second.
You could've sunk them to the bottom of the ocean but then the shit would have really hit the fan. Iceland would've left NATO and all of a sudden the USSR would've had an spanking new air/naval base in the middle of the atlantic. And UK looses.
Sturlast 3 years ago
The only reason you 'won' the Cod War was because we didn't use our overwhelming naval might to blast your silly little patrol boats to pieces! If we'd wanted, we could have sunk everything you've got, then used our nuclear subs to obliterate Iceland entirely! But we couldn't do that of course, so we made friends with you instead!
Now our so-called 'friends' steal from us!... Give us our fucking money back you bunch of in-bred snowmen!... You're fucking thieves!
Iceland sucks!
Abbotts99 3 years ago
No, but your momma sucks...and quite well for the low amount of money I had to pay her. So give her my thanks again.
And yea, those silly little patrol boats won the war, and your right, you couldn't use all your nice little weaponry against us....so you just took one up the a** instead. And now we cleaned your house again, just like we've been doing the last 1 thousand years.
Thanks for the money man, the drinks tonight will be on you ;)
Sturlast 3 years ago
LOL
Hrolfurinn 3 years ago
Thanks for rising to my taunts and admitting that your country is populated by a bunch of thieves!
I'll ignore the risible remark about my mother since she's been dead for years!
See in the press Iceland is the first western country in over 20 years to have to be having to seek a loan from the IMF.
ICELAND = Bunch of losers who can only survive on charity and theiving!
Tossers!
Abbotts99 3 years ago
Now that you mention it, she was kinda stiff.
Exscuse me but isn't UK the very same country that invaded Iraq for its oil and killed thousands of people while doing so? Isn't it kinda hipocritic to accuse other nations of being thieves when your own nations is still in the middle of the biggest oil heist in the history?
Sturlast 3 years ago
So some Icelandic banks went bankrupt in your country, due to the financial crisis and negligence and stupitidy of some people (both icelandic and british) which will end whith alot of people losing their money.
The UK goverment, on the other hand invaded another country with military force, killed thousands, and seizes that country's oil supply. I don't know why, but that sounds a bit worse, wouldn´t you agree?
Sturlast 3 years ago
Britain is not stealing iraqs oil, iraq is part of opec and there supply is sold on the open market like any other nation does so its worth getting your facts right before throwing accusations around.
gash2024 3 years ago
I think you should look at Icelands history,you did nothing when the world was threatened by a fascist totalitarian state that killed millions of innocent people. Very honourable country!. Pay your debts and then go back oblivion , contributing nothing to the world (after you have finished begging the EU and IMF for money of course).
telstar9 3 years ago
ooh...yea, if you are talking about WWII then we were kinda busy babysitting some UK troops. And about IMF, can you name the last pathetic, no-good western-Europe nation, before Iceland, that begged the IMF for a loan?"
Sturlast 3 years ago
We had to occupy you, you would have surrendered to the germans like the rest of europe. Dont know which country you meanot us. The Uk is the 4th largest economy in the world (Despite being less than 1% of the world population).
telstar9 3 years ago
So you blame Iceland for not doing anything about Hitler, even though you know there was absolutely nothing they could do. Very honorable.
And for the record, the last Western country to turn to the IMF was Britain, which called the international lender of last resort in 1976 when the banking system was facing collapse and foreign currency reserves had run dry.
So stop throwing stones from your glass house.
Sturlast 3 years ago
britain had to ask for help because of outside forces not because of bad management.
gash2024 3 years ago
Haha you ignorant piece of shit, how could we do anything about it? We have never had any army. Our inhavitats were around 200.000 and most of you people had never seen guns in their lives. However my nation has gone through a whole lot more, f.x "Móðuharðindin" wich killed 10.000 Icelanders and so much more. We have gotten through anything and we will get through this as a sophisticated and well educated nation.
fmhnakki 3 years ago
During WWII the few ships Iceland had were busy fishing and exporting food via convoys to England. 200 Icelandic sailors were killed while sailing in those convoys. My grandfather was the captain of one of those ships. Was he doing nothing?
Many Icelanders enlisted and fought in foreign armies during the war. Were they doing nothing?
Yes, we should pay our dept. And we should send you our congressmen and bankers to dispose of as you see fit.
I wonder what the Irish think of your British honour!
helgipunk 3 years ago
Not so much inbred as you think. The Vikings came from Norway sailed to UK and took all the beautiful women from you and sailed to Iceland. You only have ugly women in UK.
saevaroa 3 years ago
Right, because thats always been the British way of dealing with things, attacking people who can´t defend themselves. From stealing parts of China, India, S-Africa all the way to opening fire on unarmed 17 year old Irish kids in Derry.
Gordon Brown, cry me a river, build me a bridge and get over it!
icerevolution 3 years ago
I don´t even understand why the public here in Iceland hasn´t attacked the British embassy over here yet. When the Serb public attacked the USA embassie earlier this year there was almost nothing left standing afterwards and we should be doing the same thing.
rabelai2006 3 years ago
Seriously, just how stupid are you? It is one thing making videos and arguing with people online, it is totally another thing going around and doing what you just sugested. I´m Icelandic, I really don't like what the brits have done but I am sensible enough to know that physical violence is not the answer.
Sturlast 3 years ago
And you're not because you're too frightened of what would happen if you did.
And yeah, now you mention it, maybe there is a big similarity between Iceland and Serb, except the Serb are actual attackers of other nations' diplomatic missions while the Iceland are just wannabees!
About as civilised as thieving out someone's savings.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
Oh yes I am very frightened what would happen. Ha ha, what would happen? Nothing. You can´t do shit and you never do anything except with permission from America.
And nobody is stealing anyone´s savings you moron, it only goes to show that you are the stupid audience that Brown was aiming for when he start lying like that for political purposes.
UK taxpayers will need to pay plenty compensation though for these stupid moves of your government.
rabelai2006 3 years ago
They still have those absurd anti terrorist laws against us, making it impossible for companies in Iceland that have absolutely nothing to do with Landsbanki or anyother bank to get paid for exports. We ship alumnium to Britain, the buyer in Britain tries to pay but the finance authorities prevent it. FUCK BRITAIN
rabelai2006 3 years ago
the icelandic government never said they weren´t going to pay. try to find a quote from the icelandic pm saying that we were not going to pay, you wont find it.
yes we are really mad at our government and uk government but mostly the bankers.
most of the icelandic public feel sorry for the people that lost their savings in icesave and hope that they get there money back. it's just Gordon Brown that we despise right now. if uk was maybe facing bankruptcy and their friends turn their back
iceland94hildur 3 years ago
Taking money from your friends, promising to give it back, going bankrupt and then not giving that money back is a pretty quick way to lose your friends. You should consider yourselves lucky your erstwhile friends have just turned their back on you. If I did to my friends what you did to yours, my friends would punch me in the face.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
UK was the only country that reacted so hard other countrys acted camly and we came to agreement with them (Netherlands). it was just rude and srupid UK that acted in that way. i'm an icelander that lives in the UK, and i can tell you that when iceland first heard that people were losing money in icesave most people were shockted and hoped you would get your money back, but then you treated us like terrorists and we didn't fell sorry for Gordon Brown anymore.
iceland94hildur 3 years ago
Resorting to violence will never help. But the main thing is that I did not borrow these money from UK savers nor did any avarage Icelander borrow this money. However our pension funds are also at risk and we the Icelandic people have been bloodmilked with high interest rates on our mortgages. The same thing is happening all over the world. ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT ICELAND IS SMALLER AND HAS HARDER TIME HANDLING IT THAN OTHER BIGGER COUNTRIES
saevaroa 3 years ago
And if you think the British, all 60 million of them, care a pin for what some 3 hundred thousand Icelandics think (its score is taking a beating) pay back the money you owe or take the global beating that will be yours.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
Global beating, wokal seating. This 300 thousand or so Icelandics also really don't give a shit if you and the rest of your bad teethed nations lose your money in this shit. And great news. According to some of UK's best lawyers, the UK goverment could be have to pay Iceland and the former owners of Kaupthing, billions of pounds in damages from its actions. So pretty please, with sugar on top, go fuck yourself.
Sturlast 3 years ago
Who gives a damn what some UK lawyers think, perhaps they are after making some money themselves.
Any legal action would take years, by that time the crisis will be over and both sides will want to move on.
Again all assets sezied by our government will be returned when we are paid back our money in full. Failure to do so will result in those assets being sold. We will get our money back.. one way or another.
TheBritishWatcher 3 years ago
Not only that but pay the Icelandic goverment even more. The British fucks will pay for this and I hope all their banks come tumbling down. Ha ha, they actually nationalized the banks so if the banks fall, the British nation will need to pay debts of private companies, 4-5 times greater than the UK gross domestic product. I hope that country goes bankrupt.
rabelai2006 3 years ago
Thieving bastards, Icelandics or decent geysers? I suppose it will depend on whether they repay what they owe.
But guaranteeing their own money while taking everyone elses will cost them. That they can be sure of.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
Taking everybodies elses money? What do you think? That this was the greatest bank heist in the history? And you were the suckers who fell for it? Not quite.
Sturlast 3 years ago
But simple fact is no one worth doing business with is gonna want to do business with an Iceland because the bosses of Iceland show Iceland cannot be trusted. When bad happens and it always does, Iceland has shown where it stands on the trust thing. Iceland first; everyone else = errr nothing = errr no one (worth doing business with) will do business with Icelandics.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
Icelandics might not be thieving bastards because that would involve issues of intention but they have taken money, promising to give it back on demand and they havent. Theyve actually kept it to pay for their own losses.
Not nice. A very nasty ting to do. Nasty.
So what is everyone going to call this small collection of people in the North Atlantic? 300,000 people, about the size of Leicester. Hardly something to be frightened of.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
Try and get a clue what you are talking about Frenchie. Idiot.
rabelai2006 3 years ago
Icelandics offer a banking service and foolish, simple but probably honest people invest money in that offer. It goes wrong. Icelandics guarantee the bank deposits of Icelandics but everyone else, everyone else can go whistle.
It goes wrong because Icelandics get it wrong but Icelandic money is guaranteed .. errrr .. by errr everyone else, who bought into that offer of a banking service by Icelandics, which turned out to be thievery.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
So what do you want to be called? Icelandics? Icelanders? Thieving bastards?
You as an Iceland say it wasnt you, it was the bosses. Of course, its always the bosses and its always the common folk who pay for the bosses.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
Yebb....and talking about bosses, it seems, according to top british lawyers, that both the Icelandic goverment and Kaupthing bank have good grounds on suing the british goverment for billion of pounds because of the actions of mr. brown and mr. darling, who actually managed to make the matter worse. So you too will be paying for your bosses.
Sturlast 3 years ago
The real downer is the Icelandics guaranteed the deposits of everyone who was Icelandic in an Iceland bank but said everyone who was not Iceland but had deposits in an Iceland bank can go hang.
That destroys all Iceland credibility outside of Iceland and no one will look an Iceland in the eye and shake his hand on a business deal for about thirty years if it can be avoided because Iceland cannot be trusted. Ugly. Very ugly.
indirectapproach 3 years ago
Are we being called IcelandiCS now? Did I guarantee or take away any money from EVERYONE who was(? you mean 'are', right?). Ok that was just to blow off some steam, pardon my rudeness. ;)
But again, so many people are talking about that like parrots like they haven't payed attention to the news, it was the idiot Oddson who phoned YOUR idiot Darling and tolkd him (I bet in a very awkward English) that we weren't gonna pay back the other deposits.
Now that has been denied time and again by...
seltjorn 3 years ago
...our PM (does anyone listen to him or are you just fond of sticking to what the Banker Oddson said in pure selfishness and stupidity (not you...him)). We have been trying to tell you guys that we ARE going to pay back. But it's a matter of what we are and AREN'T able to do. Take into account that our economy is really REALLY bad and in order to be able to pay all that money and still be a functioning nation we need (-ed) to stabilize our own economy as well as possible (mistakes where made)..
seltjorn 3 years ago
...btw, that anti terrorism law is seriously hurting our ability to make some money (as small amount it already is) so that we might one day actually repay you guys. We are trying to get some loans...can't remember who was willing to aid us and who was still hooked on Oddson's words and decided that we could just all go to frozen hell. If you want your money as soon as possible the please try and get Brown to ease up a bit (I understand your frustration with all the frozen money I really do).
seltjorn 3 years ago
And just to be clear (I know, YouTube isn't the place for these kinds of conversations such a small character limit). I'm not flaming or blaming any ordinary Brit, just like you Brits ought to turn your irritated minds on the Icelanders who deserve it instead of always saying "Icelanders are pirates/thieves" "ICELANDERS are taking our money (on purpose)" etc.
I still hold England pretty high in my opinion, although it's score is taking a beating much like Iceland's score must be taking for you.
seltjorn 3 years ago
The fact that (some) Icelanders are spending their time ranting at the UK government, instead of their OWN CORRUPT, INCOMPETENT bunch of idiots (Mr Oddsson, anyone? Still in office, btw) just shows the pathetic DENIAL they are under.
Ordinary Icelanders are not to blame, but neither are we Brits. Channel your anger where it is deserved.
ogvert 3 years ago 3
Good idea...but its just much more fun channeling it at you :)
Sturlast 3 years ago
Couldn't you harpoon a few more whales to release the tension, like you usually do?
ogvert 3 years ago
Well...we usually hunt them just for the fun of it, not to release tension. But once again, good idea...we could increase our whale-hunting industry by 4000% to help the economy.
Sturlast 3 years ago
Well unless you have an unquenchable domestic demand for whale blubber, I wouldn't bother as I don't think there's much export potential - even if the ISK rate makes it cheaper than dogmeat. Nothing like blasting the insides out of an intelligent sentient mammal to take your mind off economic meltdown I guess.
ogvert 3 years ago
Actually, there is a high demand for whale blubber here in Iceland. No problem selling it here. There are also good markets in Norway and Japan so that wouldn't be a problem. And their intelligence is overrated. So what if they can do a few tricks. Some ants have societies, raise cities, have domestic animals, armies etc but I bet you wouldn't think twice before you'd stomp them to the ground.
Sturlast 3 years ago
Last time I checked, ants weren't mammals but I rather be stomped on in 0.3 seconds than have an exploding harpoon shot into my abdomen and spend 20 minutes dying in agony.
Gordon Brown has whale-like qualities, and as far as I'm concerned, be my guest. You'd do us all a favour :)
ogvert 3 years ago
I see Ogvert that you should be the Prime Minister of UK then all of this would not have happened lol :-)
saevaroa 3 years ago
Firstly you are right ordinary Icelanders are not to blame. But those bankers should pay you back or else go to jail. These bankers have also taken our money. And if the Icelandic government has guaranteed for 12 times the national (you know what I mean) with a signature then they have failed the Icelandic people. Many people in Iceland wondered where did all that money come from. At least I did not get it into my pocket.
saevaroa 3 years ago
I'm Icelandic and I cant tell you that this video is not FUNNY its childish and dumb.
We are better then this. The anger is misdirected on both sides.People on both sides have lost a lot and its no good acting like this.
We need to do our best and help get ALL the money back or we are no better then the gangsters in our banks. We need to go after the bankers who fucked us all.
nonhaugen 3 years ago
But Paying back the money would be easier if still had our biggest bank but thanks to gordon we don't. lets just hope we can make friends with Russia so that next time things go bad in the world we will still have a friend. And better Russia than the us or eu
nonhaugen 3 years ago 2
Gott að þú hefur skoðun á myndbandinu, en samt ekki reyna að yfirfæra hana yfir á alla aðra. Sumum finnst þetta fyndið, öðrum ekki. Sumum taka þetta aðeins of alvarlega og finnst þetta barnalegt og heimskulegt. Aðrir eru afslappaðri og hafa húmor fyrir þessu. Ef einhverjir eru hneyklsaðir á þessu myndbandi þá er það þeirra mál, ekki missi ég svefn yfir því.
Sturlast 3 years ago
British better be careful what they wish for. Their own banking system is shaking on it´s knees, now they have been de fact nationalized. If the crisis won´t soften soon they will go down under. And then let´s see the British accepting all the private debts of the banking and corporate forces in Britain. The debt is 5-6 times greater than UK gross domestic product.
Let´s see the American people accepting claims from EU banks because of debts from subprime loans and debts of Lehman brothers.
rabelai2006 3 years ago
fuck the british faggots
zcar87 3 years ago 2
What people from Iceland need to remember is people there are still able to withdraw their money and they have a guarantee that all of their savings are protected
British savers didnt have that protection and people here who saved in one bank just get the message
"We are not currently processing any deposits or any withdrawal requests through our Icesave internet accounts. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause our customers"
That has worried 10000s who would lose their lifesavings
TheBritishWatcher 3 years ago
Yes but Gordon Brown is going on the television barking about Icelanders not planning to meet their obligation, which is false and has done immense damage to Icelandic companies.
It is also not true what he said about Icelandic government should be regulating these banks. The icesave accounts are under British regulations, and so were branches of Kaupthing like Singer and Friedlander.
rabelai2006 3 years ago
Browns actions have nothing to do with a loss of confidence in Icelands banks or institutions, that would of happened even if Brown said nothing on this matter.
Peoples savings and over 1 billion of councils money are tied up in this crisis. Brown has said he wants Iceland to make a guarantee that all deposits will be returned and hes not demanded this happen right away.
We want reassurance. Your government has promised to protect its own savers, but not British savers of those banks.
TheBritishWatcher 3 years ago
If we would have joined EU, which I am a staunch supporter of, and picked up the Euro by now this would never have happened. The banks had good equity ratio, withstood all tests from the Icelandic finance regulations, had very good international assets, were returning profits this year like the years before, had not bought any subprime loans from USA and therefore needed not to write off assets like European and American banks. Our gay fucking krona has done us for the last time.
rabelai2006 3 years ago
I agree with you there, if iceland was part of the Eurozone brown wouldnt be picking such a fight. :)
TheBritishWatcher 3 years ago
So this is all about getting us into the Eurozone eh? The last free place put into the colonial authoroties of the EU.
stinamars 3 years ago
"So this is all about getting us into the Eurozone eh? The last free place put into the colonial authoroties of the EU."
What do you mean? Clarify please.
rabelai2006 3 years ago
Well, all these comments were supposed to be reply´s to posts within the discussions, not to come here on top.
Ég er sammála þér um margt, þú stendur þig ágætlega að mörgu leyti í að verja málstað Íslands hér, en þetta evrópudaður þitt og tal um að allt væri i góðu lagi ef við værum í ESB er ég alls ekki sammála. En við skulum ekki rífast um það hér á þessum þræði heldur einbeita okkur að því að koma íslenskum málstað á framfæri útávið.
stinamars 3 years ago
Það liggur bara alveg ljóst fyrir að þetta hefði ekki gerst með evruna.
Hvernig átti annars Glitnir, banki sem hefur góða eiginfjárstöðu, stóðst öll álagspróf fjármálaeftirlitsins, hefur yfir að ráða góðum alþjóðlegum eignum, skilaði hagnaði á þessu ári sem er afrek miðað við banka annarstaðar í heiminum, þurfti ekkert að afskrifa vegna undirmálslána í bandaríkjunum, allt í einu bara einn góðan veðurdag að vera kominn í gjaldþrot.
rabelai2006 3 years ago
Með evruna hefðum við aðgang að Evrópska seðlabankanum sem er nú stofnum sem er eitthvað annað en þetta handónýtta, máttlása og illa rekna batterí sem gerir okkar að athlægi út um allan heim og heitir Seðlabanki Íslands. Keyrandi á 15% stýrivöxtum eins og algjörir bambalingar.
Og ég kalla esb stuðning minn ekki esb daður frekar en ég kalla Sjálfstæðismenn rassasleikjur.
rabelai2006 3 years ago
rassasleikjur kanans meina ég. =)
Eða vinstri græna kommúnista mellur.
Svona frasa rugl er bara ekki viðeigandi við þessar aðstæður.
rabelai2006 3 years ago
Ef þú vilt bera saman aðstæður í Lúxemborg og Íslandi, bæði smáríki með risastóra bankastarfsemi, en munurinn er að Lúxemborg er bakkað upp af Evrópska seðlabankanum. Þar á fólk ekki að glíma við óðaverðbólga, geysilegt eignatjón, glæpsamlega háa vexti, mjög svo hátt neytendaverð og þar fram eftir götum. Erlendir stúdentar eiga ekki í erfiðleikum með að taka út peninga og gengið þeirra gjaldmiðils rýkur ekki upp og niður eins og rússíbani.
rabelai2006 3 years ago
"Browns actions have nothing to do with a loss of confidence in Icelands banks or institutions"
His actions and statements have had plenty to do with it. When he says the country has defaulted and the government doesn´t plan to meet it´s obligations, what do you think happens. It sends a chain reaction in UK. Now all suppliers have cancelled agreements with Baugur and as I understand Bakkavor.
Kaupthing was seized and in the process went down under and they blame the UK press and government.
rabelai2006 3 years ago
Kaupthing says it was balancing again, they had just secured loans from the Icelandic central bank and the Swedish central bank, the day after their assets are seized in Britain and as I understand it they go under because of that.
rabelai2006 3 years ago
If the Icelandic government promised to repay British savers including our local governments their full money then such assets wouldnt of been frozen or seized in the first place.
We havnt demanded all that money be paid back right now. Icelands institutions which took control of these banks and have promised to protect all of icelanders savings/ continue to allow withdrawls should give the same protection to those that lost out because of their actions here too.
TheBritishWatcher 3 years ago
No it is different with Icelandic savers and British savers. In the international banking system there are shared obligations for guarantees on deposits and it is different if the banks are branches or subsidiaries. It is outrageous by itself that the Icelandic nation should be liable for some debts that private companies have in foreign countries, but the Icelandic government has stepped up to it´s responsabilities and more than that, they have moved these claims up in rank of priority.
rabelai2006 3 years ago
I think its outrageous that all these banks have been doing what they have and had to be bailed out by tax payers of national governments and people have to be held to account on this
The Icelandic government isnt meeting its reponsibilities currently because the situation hasnt been resolved and even the small amounts of money ensured by the Icelandic Authorities has not been detailed yet
The British government has said it will refund all personal savers fully, but that still leaves billions
TheBritishWatcher 3 years ago
But international and icelandic laws do not require us to pay that money back!
International laws require the British government to do so! You can´t just... change the law because you don´t like it.
IngvarLi 3 years ago
Alot of people are blaming each other and not accepting they are themselves to blame. Icelands economic problems with its banks started BEFORE Brown got involved.
British savers including billions of pounds worth of tax payers money are being held by Iceland, the fact they cant get their money back is why people have lost confidence. I accept the media hype makes matters worse, we have seen that with our own banks that faced problems.
TheBritishWatcher 3 years ago
Yes but the problems became much worse after Browns statements.
But the fact is deposits from branches of banks is usually guaranteed by local and it is a scandal by itself the Iceland government is liable here for debts of private banks.
For example if a British bank is operating in France and it goes down under, France would guaranteeing the deposits. If we would for example be part of EU, these claims would have fallen on UK government.
rabelai2006 3 years ago
I agree if Iceland was part of the EU then the situation would be alot more stable and yes Browns comments have not helped matters
But again, he didnt start this problem. The problem started when British savers and councils were unable to withdraw BILLIONS of Euros worth of savings and the icelandic government has not offered or promised to repay it
If Northern Rock had savers in France, and our government nationalized it protecting British savers but not French ones. the French would moan too
TheBritishWatcher 3 years ago
Yo u fucking British bastards this is like taking candy from the baby and then kicking it after wards
may all of you go to hell and may god not have mercy on your souls
KexXxi92 3 years ago
Oh for goodness sake, anyone would think we have sent the entire royal navy to Iceland to demand our money back or flatten you.
All that our government has done is cease certain assets and demanded that the Icelandic government make assurances and explain when our money will be repaid. Money that is some peoples lifesavings
I think Icelands government wants this argument to continue. Get people to hate the British and blame them, instead of looking closer to home and demanding resignations
TheBritishWatcher 3 years ago
All you have done???? Don´t you realize that you caused the only bank that could have and should have survived the crisis, and thus be able to revive our economy after it has blown over to fall, completely unjustifiedly. And that banks savings guarantee wasn´t ewen on the responsibility of Icelandic authorities, but the british authorities as Kaupþing, Singer & Friedlander was a british bank under british law.
So your row with the Icelandic authoroties over one bank Landsbanki killed another
stinamars 3 years ago
wtf?
angelkanarias 3 years ago
ICELAND #11
viddiisl 3 years ago
at the same time revealing that they were putting 50 billion pounds into 4 british banks. They then hammer at the fact all day on the 8th that Iceland means to default while the Icelandic government states again it plans to honor its part, but that gets no airtime in the UK. It sure smells like your PM decided to use Iceland as a cover over the fact that he just put every person in England into dept to the Tune of 200 thousands pounds a head for the forseeable future. Pure politics
olafurkeg 3 years ago