What has this downturn taught you (if anything)?

mewbie_2

FungusFighter wrote: »

Whatever you say babe

Look, you oversexed halfwit. Should we ever get on to exchanging jpegs you are going to get one helluva surprise.

FungusFighter

mewbie wrote: »

Look, you oversexed halfwit. Should we ever get on to exchanging jpegs you are going to get one helluva surprise.

Now you're talking:j :j :j :j :j

mewbie_2

FungusFighter wrote: »

Now you're talking:j :j :j :j :j

Something rather unpleasant has just turned up in my inbox.

FungusFighter

mewbie wrote: »

Something rather unpleasant has just turned up in my inbox.

Been waiting for ages to stick something in your in-box babe;)

You likey? It's all pure Fungus Doll:cool:

izzybusy23

ray123 wrote: »

Personally, it has taught me to appreciate my job far more than in the past. However, the majority of people are still living with their heads in the clouds, somehow thinking that they are immune to the recession! In my workplace, most of my work colleagues are as lazy as ever and the worst thing is that if there are reduncies, the lazy will keep their jobs and people like myself will be given the boot. This country is finished...

Getting my hair off stuck in a mega traffic jam this morning on the way to work cursing the roadworks which caused it... then realising I was lucky to be stuck in a traffic jam on the way to work and not bumming about the house unemployed.

And even though I am desperate to have my own home and for house prices to come down, I fear the fall out of this economic downturn is going to be a massacre so thankful for each day I come out of it pretty unscathed.

payingfornowt

swampduck wrote: »

payingfornowt wrote: »

Three things for me really.
We have a world class welfare state, you should not starve to death or die of exposure.

Rubbish!! Personal experience has shown me that our welfare state helps those who contribute nothing and kicks its own contributors in the teeth!!

Swampy

Yeah its not perfect but as of yet, unless your circumstances have changed in a few hours, you have not starved, died of exposure or been refused emergency medical treatment.

There must be some who sponge, but there are many who need help and I am glad that my country provides in the main for those in need, one day we might need it.

incher

mewbie wrote: »

Look, you oversexed halfwit. Should we ever get on to exchanging jpegs you are going to get one helluva surprise.

Thanks for giving me a good laugh Mewbie and Fungusfighter ... even if it was in the middle of a reasonably serious thread!

mewbie_2

incher wrote: »

Thanks for giving me a good laugh Mewbie and Fungusfighter ... even if it was in the middle of a reasonably serious thread!

Yes. Well anyway back on topic.

What this recession is teaching me is how quickly people's tolerance vanishes, and we become more like a feral pack seeking out victims to blame for our problems. Foreigners today, scroungers yesterday, those still employed tomorrow maybe. The first thing to go was the 'luxury' of organic food, maybe the last thing is our dignity.

FungusFighter

mewbie wrote: »

Yes. Well anyway back on topic.

What this recession is teaching me is how quickly people's tolerance vanishes, and we become more like a feral pack seeking out victims to blame for our problems. Foreigners today, scroungers yesterday, those still employed tomorrow maybe. The first thing to go was the 'luxury' of organic food, maybe the last thing is our dignity.

What dignity? :beer:

moggylover

I think I have learnt that lots of nice gold bars in a safe place (like under my bed) is probably safer than a bank:D . Or maybe I could go for diamonds as they take up less space.......:D