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actually looks pretty cool
true mastery of the Sign takes focus and time, young padawon…
Is this why Elmer Fuld is hiding?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4810644.ece
Is that Kayne walking behind the fatty?
The British are coming! We know they’re just here to use our dentists. I always wondered why England didn’t have people trained in the dental arts.
@3 no
Dick fuld would ‘crush’ the employees like he did the shorts
I’m going to start dumping tea in the ocean.
sign of the times!
@4….HAHAHAAH!
Bess, did mini-Kanye hit on you? Yo, gimme those digits girl!
Also, Bess you should’ve bought big white some Mikey D’s fries for putting him in the pic that is posted here to be mocked by all!
This pic is photoshopped, no? The deal hasn’t closed yet!
Wonder if the Charles Tyrwhitt store is going to become an Old Navy…
not photoshopped
-@745
Oh, that’s a nice garish shade of blue.They’ll be selling discount hi-fi equipment at ground level before we ever get another public sighting of Dick Fuld.
I agree it looks cool but ouch shouldn’t they wait for the sting to subside?
Too long. Didn’t read.
Excellent. Good to see a British bank lassoo a failed cowboy bank.
Cucumber sandwich anyone?
Should have gone for Barclays Brothers when they had the chance
such displays of ostentatiousness are so [clenches teeth]….ostentatious.[unclenches teeth}. This is NOT your father's barclays [teeth conspicuously un-clenched].
@ 16, sod off, swampy.
the cowboys have been kicking your prim, confused asses for two centuries.
@ 14 any legends about british manners are simply that.
Each morning everyone on the trading floor will be required to stand for God Save the Queen and all trading will be suspended at 2:30 for a spot of tea.
# 5
“The British are coming! We know they’re just here to use our dentists. I always wondered why England didn’t have people trained in the dental arts. ”
True story, friend of mine in a meeting with Edson Mitchell at DB in London about 10 Years ago. Edson trips, falls forward against doorway and chips his tooth. Yells to his assistant. Call my denstis in NY and then get me on the Concorde.
The dental benefits plan from HR is toast.
Seriously. That’s just mean. At least JPM waited a good two months before putting its name on 383 Madison.
The Billboards should say
LEHMAN BROTHERS 169% Pwned.
Okay off topic but can someone explain the “pwned” thing to me? How did that start?
looks stupid with the map and lehman brothers name above it
Either the greatest photoshop job in the world or the British are just of d*cks
24 Nice thing about electronic signs, is that you can get some geek to change em in five minutes. At 383 Mad you had to line up expensive union labor to scrape off the Bear and reapply JPM. Thats prob why it took a few mos.
It should say, George W Bush Rules!
HAHAHAHAHA
@29 – Yeah I don’t think that’s quite it. There def was a big push at JPM to “spare the feelings” of the Bear employees. Everyone was walking on eggshells.
31 I guess now no one cares because there are very few places for people to walk, if they decide to leave.
I think there’s at least 50 more banks and 500 hedge funds that will go down from here. After that I believe we’re done with this bubble, should take about 2 years.
Jolly good, mate!
funny thing is, this building was originally designed for JP Morgan for JP Morgan.
@21
A little Johnny Rotten and Co. in the A.M. with some Earl Grey in the P.M. never hurt anyone.
Have you guys seen Barclays Tier 1 ratio? If things get any worse out there, they’re going to be changing the signs on the front again.
@37, you’re right, Im sure Diamond went into this all willy nilly. He paid nothing for it, it was a brilliant move.
I for one will definitely be stopping in for a vegamite sandwich and a pint. Seves you right Dick Fuld, karma is comin your way my man.
@35 you mean morgan stanley, retard.
Hmm these comments don’t exactly explode the myth that the Americans are an insular people. I wonder what you’ll be like when the yellow people come?
@40
I said light starch! Light starch means light starch!
Brits are stupid turds. Heard there’s some jobs at JP Marlin….paying in Zimbabwe dollars so you don’t get screwed.
@ 40
go fuck your leftist, anti-American, ignorant, spineless, mealy mouthed self.
When you address an American, you’d best acknowledge who fucking blessings your enjoying.
If they really thought the sign through they should have had the words ‘lehman brothers’ burst into flames and have the barclays logo emerge like a phoenix from the ashes. Buff. Maybe I’ll go into marketing. *shudder*
Word is that Barclays is honoring all summer offers from Lehman. Bob Diamond made the announcement yesterday on a company-wide town hall meeting conference call. For everyone w/ offers don’t fall for the gun-to-head strategy that Citi and others are trying to pull. F’em.
Word is that Barclays is honoring all summer offers from Lehman. Bob Diamond made the announcement yesterday on a company-wide town hall meeting conference call. For everyone w/ offers don’t fall for the gun-to-head strategy that Citi and others are trying to pull. F’em.
Ouch, C is taking a serious spanking out of the blue…
~SEG
@ BLNDE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn
Mate is an aussie term. Chapr or bloke would be English.
@49:
nope.
@49:
nope.
BarCap isnt really as British as you guys make it out. Diamond & Del Messier are Americans, Ricci, the COO now in as acting CEO of old LB is an American.
@45…Nope
@52 of course Barcap is British – the fact Bob Diamond is American is of little consequence.
Following your oddball logic I suppose California is Austrian??!!
I find the anti-British sentiment displayed above particularly ridiculous, especially as Barclays are safeguarding 10,000 American jobs!
Perhaps @42, @43 would rather the Chinese had it?
Thought not.
God, this is getting confusing. Diamond, Dimon.
geez..could have got someone to take down the Lehmen Brothers sign, makes the place look cheap
My point is that entire leadership of Bar Cap is overwhelmingly american. If Cali had a governor and an enitre cabinet from austria, that would make it fairly austrian.
Also the whole point of Bar Cap from 97 on was to create an American style organization and culture in what had been a dusty brit bank
@54 : Nearly everyone in the US office of Barclays Capital is American.
Where are the pics of 745 from this morning?
Was going to save them for posterity, but the latest one that replaced them sucks.
The NY Post has photos up:
http://www.nypost.com/photos/galleries/news/regionalnews/pp_20080923_barclays/photo01.htm