Is it different this time?

mewbie_2

I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to the hundreds of people whose threads I've ruined by trash talking. I now realise how irritating it is.

Cleaver

ad44downey wrote: »

I think this is going to be a mighty whopper of a recession . And not just the ordinary run-of-the-mill type of recessions that we usually have.

When Brown promised no more boom and busts he meant no more ordinary busts.

You know when someone offers you a cup of tea, do you reply with:

"If only drinking tea was my main concern. Brown has taxed our children to the hilt and they won't even have the opportunity to drink tea."


Or when someone asks if you fancy a trip to the cinema, do you retort with:

"Brown has thrown our British cinema industry into a large bin with his awful taxation policies. Cinema will never be the same".


Fancy a holiday Ad?

"I'd love a holiday, but Brown has dismantled our aviation industry with his bare hands. He has taxed future generations and we'll never see planes again after 2012."

ess0two

Cleaver wrote: »

You know when someone offers you a cup of tea, do you reply with:

"If only drinking tea was my main concern. Brown has taxed our children to the hilt and they won't even have the opportunity to drink tea."


Or when someone asks if you fancy a trip to the cinema, do you retort with:

"Brown has thrown our British cinema industry into a large bin with his awful taxation policies. Cinema will never be the same".


Fancy a holiday Ad?

"I'd love a holiday, but Brown has dismantled our aviation industry with his bare hands. He has taxed future generations and we'll never see planes again after 2012."

Quality,pmsl.....................:T like groundhog day in here where downey is concerned.

experience08

mr.broderick wrote: »

I'm logging off, i am really behind the times.

Giong for a hand job, mr.broderick?

mr.broderick wrote: »

I had that blonde piece who got video'd shagging in that hotel room in my mind.

Miss Hilton, if you don't mind.

Cleaver

mewbie wrote: »

I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to the hundreds of people whose threads I've ruined by trash talking. I now realise how irritating it is.

Cheer up mardy bum, you love it really.

I think this recession is completely different, yet no different at all, from others.

Why I think it's different. We have 24 hour media this time which creates a whole new dimention and I also think that there are certain aspects, obviously, to this recession that make it unique. I think there will be certain aspects such as the way the banking sector works, and house prices that could be permentantly effected and may never quite be the same again.

Why I think it's the same. This is a purely personal opinion, but I think we'll kinda make a subconscious decision as a nation that, "right, that's it, enough doom and gloom". The media will get bored, we'll get bored, everyone will start lending, people will start shopping, buying houses and getting loans and we'll start booming again. We're like lemmings really, we all just wait for minor and major tipping points in our lives then we follow everyone else. I know everyone will come on here and point out (with far more knowledge and facts I'll add) that I'm wrong as there isn't the credit, blah blah. I just think we will be booming again on most fronts in a year or so.

Just realised there's no trash talking. Erm... your mum. Nyah.

Cleaver

fireflower76 wrote: »

TAll you need is your health and friends in this life, both are free and both are priceless!

For everything else there's Mastercard.

mr.broderick

mewbie wrote: »

For some years, they've stopped now, the bulls were saying "it's different this time" as though the bubble would continue for ever. They were wrong and it wasn't different. Now I can hear the same message being chanted about the recession and the end of the world - this recession is different this time.

I have a suspicion that each bubble and bust is always slightly different, but not by so much that it's a new paradigm - whatever that is.

So my feeling is that it isn't different this time. That the economic cycle will continue to play on, and in a hopefully short while in terms of our lives, plans, hopes, etc. we will back to business as usual.

Yeah i remember 12 months back saying "Be careful what you wish for" in reply to numerous threads and posts calling for a crash.
I never realised i would be so right.

mewbie_2

Cleaver wrote: »

We have 24 hour media this time which creates a whole new dimention...

What do you think we had last time? Carrier pigeons and the gramaphone?

mr.broderick

mewbie wrote: »

What do you think we had last time? Carrier pigeons and the gramaphone?

This is an interesting twist, rather like clash of the titans.
Memories of Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker light sabres in hand, a duel to the death if you don't mind. Maybe we have gone full circle and the apprentice is ready to challenge the master!! Only on mse folks....

Cleaver

mewbie wrote: »

What do you think we had last time? Carrier pigeons and the gramaphone?

You must admit that the media in 2008/9 is a completely different beast to the one in the early nineties? I don't think we should underestimate the effect it has on people's perceptions of what is going on.