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It's mind blowing how you can speak a whole language with your hands

I should have got a new charger while I was out yesterday

That's mind-blowing how that guy just walked out of that plane crash innit

It's unimaginable really

I'm scared s**tless about travelling on planes. It's the lack of control that freaks me out.

Yeah that's what it is mate

Paywalls, Intellectual Effing Property, Monetization of the Internet, 'Signing In', god I hate all of this bloody garbage and try to circumvent it at every opportunity.

Are you ok mate

I'm no more or less bonkers than on any other day, but thanks for asking....

Glad to hear it

Stockmarket's been on the slide a bit today, but still too high for my liking.

I'll hazard a guess and go with:
"Sorry man"

What's wrong with the stock market being high?

I like to look for underpriced bargains. Tend to be thin on the ground in a bull market environment. Some very good yields often available from investment trusts (5%-7%, sometimes more) in depressed market conditions.

I see. I suppose the other good thing about a stock market crash is that we might get to see a few bankers chucking themselves out of skyscraper windows.

What's the history of the stock markets
Did it used to be for cows and sheep in the olden days

That's a good question, and I'm not sure of the answer. There've certainly been animal markets around for many hundreds of years, which predated anything resembling a modern 'stockmarket', but I'm not sure there's any real connection. Maybe words like 'livestock' suggest a link, as seen also with terms like 'stock cubes'. The origin of what we know today by the term 'stockmarket' seem to have been in 17th Century Amsterdam and the City of London, as far as I can gather.