People have always come up to me and said 'Your game is just a license to print money!', so its all the more surprising that when people cotton on to the fact that SnideUK have actually been printing money that they get all uppity about it. Especially given the problems in the markets today.
As it happened I did have a little bit of trouble myself in the market today; some joker getting all lippy about some washing powder destroying his best jeans. I asked him if he had followed the instructions, and he had to admit he hadn't as they were printed in Greek or Spanish. Anyway i sold him a pair of Snide502s 'cheap' so it was a win-win situation - at least for me.
Anyway I digress. The financial markets have been suffering from a lack of liquidity, or as Cuthbert explained to me, not enough wonga going round. The central banks have been doing what they can to inject new capital into the system but to date it hasn't been enough, which is where Snide has come in. We have been injecting some money of our own into the system, of course keeping it subtle, by 'releasing' some one pound coins. We are particularly proud that now one in every fifty pound coins in the UK is a Snide coin.
Now have we been thanked for this selfless gesture? Has Alistair Darling once shown his appreciation for the sterling work we have been doing in bolstering the monetary system? Did George Osbourne single us out in his speech in Birmingham? No! Instead we have had nothing but people complaining and whingeing about our coins not being well detailed on the sides, having a slightly blurry picture of the Queen or the picture on the back not being quite straight. It is this type of nit-picking that holds creative industries like ours back. They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so by all rights the Bank of England should be pretty pleased about what we're doing.
What I don't understand is why everyone gets on our case about producing a bad copy, yet no-one calls for the Sugababes to get sent down for their cover version of 'Here Come the Girls" or Busted for doing 'Teenage Kicks' (and they gave it a real doing).
So let's here no more about 'counterfeit' coins, a pound is a pound alright! Mind you if anyone tries to buy something from me with a Snide pound coin they'll bleeding know about it, I've got enough worthless tat on the stall. Yeah and I don't want any of those Jock notes neither.
Mickey Nomark
Head of Sales
SnideUK
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