It is this fact that gives me the least amount of optimism and greatest sadness with regards to the UK, it stifles it's future before it has even begun. If you look up any statistics on 'spanking' in the the UK as it accords to age of children hit and regularity it is truly demoralising. But hey, it's those damnable terrorists we need to watch out for right?

It is my personal belief that it would be harder to populate the British military and quite possibly the Police too, without traumatized men and women that have normalized themselves to violence from an early age (as an anecdote, I have observed pro military American work colleagues often have had pretty dark childhoods too).

But this is just a facet in the depravity and degradation of British 'culture'. I do not admire the Swedish government, but outlawing 'spanking' in the 70s was probably one of the best things that the nation has done for itself since the great famines (of which I have less than passing knowledge of).

The murder stats are interesting, and seem to point towards males being more prone to violence. But who were the primary care givers for all these men when they were most impressionable? I think women hold at least some of the blame for the boys that they are responsible for.

Not to say fathers are not responsible too. I've been back in London just a few days and the British seem to be leading the way in Western Europe in terms of disregard for their children's wellbeing (threats of hitting and verbal abuse). I am not in the poorest areas of London either.

Fair enough. Thanks.

You do realize people have been saying this since the 80s?

That's incredibly bullish. Would you mind sharing your thought process/charts?

The dollar is not going away any time soon. But its dominance may be.

I admire your optimism Bitcoinfreak, but I think you have a lot of misplaced faith in the lazy and economically unviable masses. Hardly any 'normal' people change their views throughout life despite the amazing amount of information available, granted that a larger percentage than in the past do and can improve themselves- this smaller percentage is simply able to excel further than they probably would before, it is my opinion that outliers such as these would always progress further in situations other than total absence of opportunity such as being a slave or serf, and even some slaves were geniuses.

Gonna really miss anonymint's musings.

Still one bar left to bid on!

Thanks for the clarification. Still feel like a newbie sometimes, I wasn't that active when I first registered, I was lurking a lot back then just reading.. I remember vividly the whacky Dank threads!

Thanks for the warning. I've been burned enough in the past to be careful. Not been burned in a ponzi yet though. Unless you count Mtgox!

RyNinDaClem, what do you mean by this?

@unent

Thanks for that.

Fewcoins, you wrote as if you have many 'teams' of traders? What's the deal?

I've lost more from simply having coins on certain exchanges than day trading (I'm very conservative though in my trades).

Is this based on experience? I really don't have much of a concept of buy and sell walls myself.

Link to the charity auction here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=897271.0

Let's try and help some people

Since there is a bid already, I decided to shoot over a gift card to the first family I know of, which I imagine is helpful with the Christmas rush. The circumstances are questionable, but this is for the kids rather than the mother who had a family member steal from her (verified her identity myself). The name and email is blacked out to protect her identity.

I am travelling back home for Christmas and will attempt to help a family in my home village with any remaining proceeds, which I will supplement myself too if it is only a small amount left over.

Will be FK. I just like the challenge of trading to grow my stack, be it AG, BTC or UNO.

Yes these are plated tests

Thanks bithalo!