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[dr greg]

All Aussies had better stock up on their Bonds singlets and Hard Yakka shorts, the last of our old brands are going offshore...thanks for that, Wall Street!
http://business.smh.com.au/business/pac-brands-exits-australian-manufacturing-20090225-8hei.html

 

[Tomasso]

thanks for that, Wall Street!

Looks like they were headed to China well before the current financial debacle, along with just about every other textile manufacturer. It's an industry trend, you know. Still, it's nice to have a whipping boy.

 

[dr greg]

of course

It's always a good day to whip a banker, as the actress said to the bishop, but seriously, how come the workers lose their jobs but the head bankers don't because we all might 'lose confidence'??? A confidence trick is what I'd call it!

 

[Tomasso]

It's always a good day to whip a banker

Or maybe a fancy designer haircut is in order.:rage:

 

[Fletch]

All Aussies had better stock up on their Bonds singlets and Hard Yakka shorts, the last of our old brands are going offshore...

Thankfully they haven't gotten to Akubra yet. Probably just means they're not mass market enough.

I thought a Hard Yakka was what you did after too many prawns and beer.

 

[dr greg]

the porcelain bus

Perhaps the word you are thinking of is chunder, yakka is something else entirely
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakka

 

[Benny Holiday]

Great, so now I won't be able to find T-shirts and underpants that fit either, I'll be stuck with baggy oversized poorly-made dreck just like all the other rubbish that comes out of China. :rage: