Enron Trials

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:16 pm

I see these have begun..........omg........
70 billion..

....????
good grief!!!..........

But you've gotta hand it to Jim and Imagine etc..........their timing was excellent.........

........FWDAJ was timed to perfection.....

fluffy

was anyone on this site affected by Enron or similiar??

Niobe · Post by **Niobe** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:52 pm

I know, it just blows your mind to try and think about how money much that really is!

It'll be an interesting trial to follow.

Not caught up in Enron myself, but I feel a touch of empathy for those who lost their jobs, and more. My guy has had the misfortune of working for two companies inn the last five years who have had similar fates (on much smaller scales, of course). That sinking feeling of knowing that great income has been pulled away. Gut wrenching.

In fact, as we were sat in the cinema watching FWD&J as Dick loses his job, he leaned over to me and laughed "that's us!".

Not that it's very funny, when I think about it.

KC8t80 · Post by **KC8t80** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:19 pm

lol......i agree that is some great timing on the part of Jim......maybe government watched the film and finally did something about it....lol

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:34 pm

Nah..............perhaps Imagine and JC 23 Ent were tipped off about the timing of the trials...........

fluffy

grinchy steve · Post by **grinchy steve** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:13 pm

About the Enron thing, I'm afraid those jokes refering at that kind of cases won't work overhere. Cause we don't know what it's about, the news didn't make it here.

Niobe · Post by **Niobe** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:19 am

Well, to be fair, there's only one direct Enron joke in the film. But the basis of what happened in FWD&J, to Dick's employers, is very similar. But you don't have to know the 'ins' and 'outs' of it all.

Mind you, Enron was a global collapse really. I thought everyone knew about it?

Clearly not.

grinchy steve · Post by **grinchy steve** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:23 am

Well, we had Lernaut & Hauspie overhere, that was a very big thing, maybe they use that in the subtitels instead. Lol. Really, sometimes the translations are amazingly pointless and dumb.

But this week the documenterie 'Enron' is released overhere, maybe I'll check it out.

Niobe · Post by **Niobe** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:16 am

Worth a watch maybe.
Mind you, it's the ole story of corporate managers fiddling the accounts to make it look like they were doing well, when the opposite was true. (Allegedly!) Huge fraud. I think it was the massive scale of it that was so unbelieveable. And just how many people must have known.......?