Silliest way to measure the effects of a recession

kaflinkle

What an astonishing non-story

The media do print a load of tosh and now every story is going to be linked to the recession?

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Shark-Attacks-Recession-May-Have-Led-To-A-Drop-In-Attacks-Because-Of-Less-Tourists-On-Beaches/Article/200902315226208?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15226208_Shark_Attacks%3A_Recession_May_Have_Led_To_A_Drop_In_Attacks_Because_Of_Less_Tourists_On_Beaches

PasturesNew

STOP PRESS: Web host companies report an increased income from bandwidth charges in the credit crunch .... as an increasing number of people are going online full-time to search for jobs and read links in forums about how bad things are

Kez100

STOP PRESS: Councils report pavements outside job centres is suffering the worst wear and tear levels on record.

(records started January 2008)

chewmylegoff

STOP PRESS: desperate journo scrapes news barrel and produces tenuous article based on nothing.

mr_jetlag

STOP PRESS: presses stopped more frequently due to the credit crunch. Press-stopping has increased to the highest levels on record. Experts(!) say the credit crunch has "exacerbated" the situation. Gordon Brown declined to comment, but hissed ferally when approached.

Castleman

STP PRSS: n rdr t ct prntng csts, nwspprs bnnd frm sng vwls - nly lttrs bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz r llwd.

:rotfl:

piggeh

Castleman wrote: »

STP PRSS: n rdr t ct prntng csts, nwspprs bnnd frm sng vwls - nly lttrs bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz r llwd.

:rotfl:

Heh, reminds me of..

[FONT=times new roman,helvetica]The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world![/FONT]

mystic_trev

Castleman wrote: »

STP PRSS: n rdr t ct prntng csts, nwspprs bnnd frm sng vwls - nly lttrs bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz r llwd.

:rotfl:

Looks like any of this 'well known' posters comments - take your pick!

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search.html?searchid=52839257

He's managed to delete ALL of his other posting prior to September last year!

I wonder why must have taken him hours to delete over a thousand postings! Trying to hide his true ID? Who knows

Jennifer_Jane

Deleted this one too. Who was it?
Jen
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Castleman

I'm confused? Are you talking about me?

mystic_trev

Jennifer_Jane wrote: »

Deleted this one too. Who was it?
Jen
x

No - he's trying to block it for some reason so I'll relist it!

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search.html?searchid=52839257