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Recession? You wouldn't think so!
Chris2685
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I went out last weekend for the first time since my baby was born, and we went to York, Bradford, Halifax and Leeds.
Every single bar/club I went to was packed to the rafters with drinkers, especially the Lloyds/Wetherspoons type bars.
Looks like people still enjoy a good time despite the recession, in fact I imagine that the recession is increasing the amount of people going out to have a good time, just to escape the gloomy economy and news in the real world.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Every single bar/club I went to was packed to the rafters with drinkers, especially the Lloyds/Wetherspoons type bars.
Looks like people still enjoy a good time despite the recession, in fact I imagine that the recession is increasing the amount of people going out to have a good time, just to escape the gloomy economy and news in the real world.
Has anyone else noticed this?
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Wetherspoons will be chuffed to hear that
"JD Wetherspoon to cut price of a pint to 99p"
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/leisure/article5435780.ece
is working...0 -
I went out last weekend for the first time since my baby was born, and we went to York, Bradford, Halifax and Leeds.
Every single bar/club I went to was packed to the rafters with drinkers, especially the Lloyds/Wetherspoons type bars.
Looks like people still enjoy a good time despite the recession, in fact I imagine that the recession is increasing the amount of people going out to have a good time, just to escape the gloomy economy and news in the real world.
Has anyone else noticed this?
I think people did their fear last year.
I think of "it aint getting the better of me" as come back and people are just getting back to living as normal as they did.0 -
surely that people are having to resort to drinking in wetherspoons underlines the fact that we are in a recession?0
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Hmm... Three takes on this:
1 - Alcoholism and gambling both tend to rise in times of recession apparently.
2 - Spoons and the like are dirt cheap, so maybe people are downshifting.
3 - Since houses are getting hundreds of pounds cheaper week on week I feel flush enough to buy a beer or six whenever I fancy0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »surely that people are having to resort to drinking in wetherspoons underlines the fact that we are in a recession?
I guess that's true, but the 99p bottles of San Miguel were sold out in all 3 of the Wetherspoons we went to :P0 -
I went out last weekend for the first time since my baby was born, and we went to York, Bradford, Halifax and Leeds.
Every single bar/club I went to was packed to the rafters with drinkers, especially the Lloyds/Wetherspoons type bars.
Looks like people still enjoy a good time despite the recession, in fact I imagine that the recession is increasing the amount of people going out to have a good time, just to escape the gloomy economy and news in the real world.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Seems to me that generally the amount of people out and about of a weekend has dropped. Certainly it's a lot easier to get taxis and even the popular pubs aren't as packed as they were. Also, people seem to be coming to the pub later on. Restaurants seem a lot less busy.
Personally I wouldn't let the gloom of a recession put me off a night out but of course anyone who actually loses their job is unlikely to be going out on the town much in the future due to cash constraints.--
Every pound less borrowed (to buy a house) is more than two pounds less to repay and more than three pounds less to earn, over the course of a typical mortgage.0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »surely that people are having to resort to drinking in wetherspoons underlines the fact that we are in a recession?
I must have been in recession every weekend from the age of 17-28.0 -
I went out last weekend for the first time since my baby was born, and we went to York, Bradford, Halifax and Leeds.
Every single bar/club I went to was packed to the rafters with drinkers, especially the Lloyds/Wetherspoons type bars.
Looks like people still enjoy a good time despite the recession, in fact I imagine that the recession is increasing the amount of people going out to have a good time, just to escape the gloomy economy and news in the real world.
Has anyone else noticed this?
yep - pretty much the same with me.
the classic doomer won't get out too much - so you'll see the usual replies.0 -
Well if every major financial institution is on the verge of going t1ts up then I'll have a drink ta."An arrogant and self-righteous Guardian reading tvv@t".
!!!!!! is all that about?0
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