It's Friday - cheer up a bit!

sarah_elton

1) Jeremy Clarkson calls Gordon Brown "one eyed Scottish idiot"

:rotfl:

2) Lucy Kellaway with an article certain people on this board should read before you all end up drinking cyanide in a barn somewhere:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fce6d744-eefa-11dd-bbb5-0000779fd2ac.html

"This is our first experience of recession in the internet age.... Through blogs, websites and e-mails the world’s economic ills are fed to us on a drip all day long. It is not just that we hear about bad things faster, we hear about more of them and in a more immediate way. My worries become yours, and yours become mine. On the internet, a trouble shared online is not a trouble halved. It is a trouble needlessly multiplied all over the world."

blued

Totally agree about the internet and media. If there was no internet and those that nearly never watch the news continued to spend as they always did we might not be in such a big mess!

hullight

Some of us are at work this weekend! :rolleyes:

Oh and I think the internet lets us know what is going on from many points of view. Compares well with being kept from the facts - like in WW2 when Hull was referred to as a 'North East Coast Town' so only those having bombs dropped on their city knew what was going on.

The BBC seems to be having less news on the recession (I think!) - maybe they have been tasked with making us all feel better and spend money.

JonnyBravo

blued wrote: »

Totally agree about the internet and media.

And I totally agree with Jeremy Clarkson :j

purch

He would be an "Idiot" whether or not he had one or two eyes, or was or wasn't Scottish.

I think from now on all references to Gordon Brown on this forum should be as "The Idiot" !!!

incher

hullight wrote: »

The BBC seems to be having less news on the recession (I think!) - maybe they have been tasked with making us all feel better and spend money.

But we have SNOW! Never mind global financial mess, we have snow all over the country (except here in Edinburgh where it isn't snowing!), which must be reported on ad nauseam.

Doozergirl

Somebody told me the other day that the recession was over because the media can report on snow instead now.

School has been closed for four days this week and there is honestly very little snow here. Looking out of my window there's a splattering on the rooftops and it's mostly melted but splatterd on gardens. The roads and pavements are totally clear yet ridiculously I'm still not leaving the house because they're reporting Armageddon out there. I haven't left the house since Tuesday just in case. If I didn't have the kids I'd just say !!!!!! it and go shopping.

I'm so bored I can't even be bothered to get dressed. Someone make me clean my house at least, please.

Doozergirl

That wasn't cheerful, was it. Sorry.

stonethrower

This quote from Clarkson just about sums brown up

"He keeps telling us everything's fine and he's saved the world and we know he's lying, but he's smooth at telling us.

link for full text
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7873624.stm

JonnyBravo

Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray said
"Most people here are proud that the prime minister is a Scot and believe him to be the right person to get the UK through this global economic crisis."

So no bias there then.

If he's so confident "most" people think this I'm sure he'll be talking to Gordy Bullocks about the need for a General Election next week.

No.
Didn't think so.


Muppet.

Any

Doozergirl wrote: »

Somebody told me the other day that the recession was over because the media can report on snow instead now.

School has been closed for four days this week and there is honestly very little snow here. Looking out of my window there's a splattering on the rooftops and it's mostly melted but splatterd on gardens. The roads and pavements are totally clear yet ridiculously I'm still not leaving the house because they're reporting Armageddon out there. I haven't left the house since Tuesday just in case. If I didn't have the kids I'd just say !!!!!! it and go shopping.

I'm so bored I can't even be bothered to get dressed. Someone make me clean my house at least, please.

I was made to come to work later in the afternoon on Monday and nearly didn't manage to get home from work. 2hrs and 40 mins for 4.5 miles journey.. I was one of the few who at least made it!
When I saw the weather on Tuesday, I thought - I made it last night, when the worst hit, noone will excuse me for staying at home today....So off I went. I tell you - would I have a forecast that it is going to be as bad as Monday was for us, noone would get me out of my house!
I was never this frightened in my life.
So, put your feet up and enjoy!:T (BTW, don't bother about the house - if noone is leaving their houses they will hardly come for visit, hey??:rotfl: )