I love the recession

But does this thread not prove that all people want is negative negative negative ??

Think of me as a Kevin Meyers figure.....
 
Sure, an auld bit of s**t stirring never hurt anyone did it, lighten up people! ;)
 
I think it's great someone is happy, and I'm reeally glad someone is doing well. Anyone who works two jobs for 15 years has got to be admired and having had one business failure but going again even more to be admired.

It's fantastic that everything is now discounted, that my favourite shop 'Penneys' is now the in place to be seen, that I can fly for 50 Euro's a pop at Easter and have a family room for 130 B&B which includes a leisure center and if I borrow a relations car which is a banger that I won't be getting any smart comments or weird looks when I pick money off the floors of bars and garage forecourts.
 
Bronte said:
I think it's great someone is happy, and I'm reeally glad someone is doing well. Anyone who works two jobs for 15 years has got to be admired and having had one business failure but going again even more to be admired.

It's fantastic that everything is now discounted, that my favourite shop 'Penneys' is now the in place to be seen, that I can fly for 50 Euro's a pop at Easter and have a family room for 130 B&B which includes a leisure center and if I borrow a relations car which is a banger that I won't be getting any smart comments or weird looks when I pick money off the floors of bars and garage forecourts.
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Life is good.
 
Now that the trend is downard, let's hope that the government keeps it this way. Put pressure on the shops etc. to reduce their prices. That way, if they do hit social welfare, if they place taxes higher, if they cut wages for the PS again, it might not be so bad as the pain will not be so bad due to the lower prices. This is what I've wanted to see all along, hopefully this is now how it will all go.
 
yeah do it. But at no point was it about money, its about the fact that there are still positive stories out there and not everyone is down and out !!
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I can't see where the positive is.
You say yourself that your business is down - where is the positive in that?
You're working two jobs, one of which is a public sector one. You're depriving someone else of the public sector job - no positive there.
Your glee of no traffic, or whatever, certainly isn't a positive. You seem pleased about the recession! I'd almost rather the begrudgery than that attitude.

If you came on here and said you were doing so well that you're giving up the public sector work, and hiring people for your company, well that would be a positive.
 
leghorn said:
I can't see where the positive is.
You say yourself that your business is down - where is the positive in that?
You're working two jobs, one of which is a public sector one. You're depriving someone else of the public sector job - no positive there.
Your glee of no traffic, or whatever, certainly isn't a positive. You seem pleased about the recession! I'd almost rather the begrudgery than that attitude.

If you came on here and said you were doing so well that you're giving up the public sector work, and hiring people for your company, well that would be a positive.
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There is for me....the title of the thread is "i" love the recession.

The positive in my business is that i was cutting back anyway, i wouldn't employ anyone as my business isn't that big.

No traffic is great, you like to sit in traffic do you ??

If i work 2 jobs that is my business, there are people that even through the good times sat on the dole and took all handouts they could and you give out about someone working hard and paying taxes ????

Plus your taking it all a little too serious.....:rolleyes:
 
Ron, taking pleasure from other people being out of work is not a positive news story! At best it's insensitive, at worst, downright meanspirited. As another poster said, take a look at the other sections of this site where ordinary, hard working PAYE workers, who didn't benefit in any way from the boom, are losing their jobs left, right and centre.

I would be the very last person to begrudge you or anyone else their success, I just object to the way other people suffering seems to enhance your enjoyment of your success.
 
Things are really on a downward spiral when someone can't even take the p*ss.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
I might try and sell a few sky hooks on this site......i believe some would actually buy them;)
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Ron, I do believe you'd make a good fisherman. You know how to attract them, hook them and then play them. The question is do you employ a catch-and-release policy or are you in for the kill ...

Yours in tight lines,
Teatime.
 
Things are really on a downward spiral when someone can't even take the p*ss.
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He's not taking the P!ss. Read his responses again.

I think he's just misjudged the response.


(BTW - What's with the censorship on AAM? - can't people handle mild expletives?)
 
I recently said "this recession is great" to a friend when we walked into a restauarant at lunchtime and saw lots of free tables in a place that would usually be very busy. She looked horrified but it wasn't meant as a nasty "I'm so glad the staff have lost their jobs and this place will probably close" comment - more of a throwaway jokey comment. So Ron, I understand where you're coming from.
 
leghorn said:
He's not taking the P!ss. Read his responses again.

I think he's just misjudged the response.


(BTW - What's with the censorship on AAM? - can't people handle mild expletives?)
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No i am taking the pee and have said so with my stir stir stir comment. Read again.
 
It's a total wind up. If people are going to take the bait of course you feed them some more with measured responses to engage them even further!
 
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