If renting DOESN'T make you bitter, what really DOES hack you off?

twadge_face

Hello everybody. I don't post here often and rarer still begin threads, but I was in the fortunate position of finding myself quite profoundly inspired by Sibley's thread of why, in his/her opinion, renting makes people bitter.

You see, I thought it might be fun to really look at what does make people a little hacked off about this country's economic upheavals and its inexorable drift toward social unrest.

From my perspective it seems that the "have-nots" are getting increasingly peeved against the "haves", and understandably so. I don't think I'm imagining this.

I am personally hacked off with my taxes being used to bail-out banks in order to "save the [STRIKE]world[/STRIKE] housing market". Let's call it prop number 1.

Then I find it annoying that homeowners/landlords were handed an extraordinary windfall by way of 0.5% interest rates. Housing market prop number 2.

Furthermore I am frustrated that the power of my hard-earned pound in my pocket continues to be debased so that foreign investors come in at the top part of the market. Housing market prop number 3.

I'm sure my moans are pretty typical of the young disenfranchised, but what else hacks you off? Both sides of the coin welcome. I'd love to hear from the landlords who are hacked off at their tenants in particular!

twadge_face

Hello !!!!!!,

Yes, I agree with you. In fact, several thousand students seem to agree with you too! Student debts of epic proportions combined with an impossible housing "ladder" and the weakest tenancy laws in the developed world (quite possibly a fact) combine together to make a heady and destructive brew.



What could possibly happen if ALL the disenfranchised non-homeowners get together a enact a similar shindig? It would be an ickle bit mental, wouldn't it?

You see, if current homeownership stands at 67%, it can be calculated that the remaining third or so of the UK population adds up to around 20 million disenfranchised, non-UKPLC stakeholders.

As a government, I would be concerned about so many intelligent, thoughtful, passionate and motivated people who, crucially, don't have a great deal to lose by rising up against the state and getting those bankers heads on sticks! :T

But they needn't worry. For there is an internet where we can vent our frustrations and unhappinesses. Forums like this very one you happen to be reading are the new narcotics of the mind, an opiate of the people, a new religion.

So this little tirade will amount to nothing, right?

Just look at Al-Qaida. They never amounted to much did they? Just a few bombs. Hee hee hee.

Replying to my own threads, !!!!!!? What are you like?

Cheers,

!!!!!!

twadge_face

!!!!!!_face wrote: »

Hello !!!!!!,

Yes, I agree with you. In fact, several thousand students seem to agree with you too! Student debts of epic proportions combined with an impossible housing "ladder" and the weakest tenancy laws in the developed world (quite possibly a fact) combine together to make a heady and destructive brew.



What could possibly happen if ALL the disenfranchised non-homeowners get together a enact a similar shindig? It would be an ickle bit mental, wouldn't it?

You see, if current homeownership stands at 67%, it can be calculated that the remaining third or so of the UK population adds up to around 20 million disenfranchised, non-UKPLC stakeholders.

As a government, I would be concerned about so many intelligent, thoughtful, passionate and motivated people who, crucially, don't have a great deal to lose by rising up against the state and getting those bankers heads on sticks! :T

But they needn't worry. For there is an internet where we can vent our frustrations and unhappinesses. Forums like this very one you happen to be reading are the new narcotics of the mind, an opiate of the people, a new religion.

So this little tirade will amount to nothing, right?

Just look at Al-Qaida. They never amounted to much did they? Just a few bombs. Hee hee hee.

Careful Twunty, with comments like that you'll get the Echelon and the MI5 on your case! :eek:
Anyway, you're obviously a thickie, as that's not 20 million active revolutionaries, is it? And you're too stupid to bother to do your own research.

But the question really is whether it is more fun to tear apart your own ill-thought-out blatherings than to wait and let a gloaty Hamish come and do the job for you? Probably best wait and see, for whilst he is a pretty smart guy he loves being a little git. Small man syndrome I think. Entertaining persona nonetheless.

You're probably just flattering yourself that he'll even bother reading it.

Does this self-referential conversation avec moi make me a troll?

Or just a boring !!!!!!?

I think I'm making a point. Sort of.

Replying to my own threads, !!!!!!? What are you like?

Cheers,

!!!!!!

Oh, stop it you.

Graham_Devon

I'm annoyed that I'm still hunting down the cheese BOGOF's.

Really2

Green Lemons. (or limes come to think of it)

Or the ultimate give someone a Seville Orange, that will make some one very bitter (funny trick also)

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Graham_Devon wrote: »

I'm annoyed that I'm still hunting down the cheese BOGOF's.

Plenty of them about. :eek:

twadge_face

Graham_Devon wrote: »

I'm annoyed that I'm still hunting down the cheese BOGOF's.

Maybe I can help?

Couple of good half-pricers in Sainsburys which I've taken advantage of, both Save 50% was £4.50 now £2.25... They're both extra mature. :cool:

Sainsbury's Taw Valley Extra Mature Cheddar 500g

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp?bmUID=1289771289731

Sainsbury's Canadian Extra Mature Cheddar 500g


http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp?bmUID=1289771261101

twadge_face

Really2 wrote: »

Green Lemons. (or limes come to think of it)

Or the ultimate give someone a Seville Orange, that will make some one very bitter (funny trick also)

When one separates out a segmented fruit, does that make one "a bitter", i.e. to separate out into bits, as if there were a verb "to bit"?

I should get my digital coat...

olly300

Shopping in Tescos. They change the f**king store around every 6 months I go. There as Sainsburys don't even if I don't shop at their store for a year.

PasturesNew

I am bitter that I can't afford to rent a 1-bed flat, due to the rent floor the DWP put in place.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

Graham_Devon wrote: »

I'm annoyed that I'm still hunting down the cheese BOGOF's.

Only BOGOF,I got buy one get two free on Cathedral City at Tesco's the other day :rotfl:.