If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines eight years ago, you would have £49.00 today.
If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in AIG insurance seven years ago, you would have £33.00 today.
If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers eleven years ago, you would have nothing today.
If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Northern Rock nine years ago, you would have nothing today
But, if you had purchased £1,000 worth of beer one year ago at Tesco's, drunk all the beer, then taken the aluminum cans to the scrap metal dealer, you would have received £214.00.
Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle.
A recent study found that the average person walks about 900 miles a year.
Another study found that we drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year.
That means that, on average, we get about 41 miles to the gallon!
Makes you proud to be a piss head.

