Definition of being broke..... whinge

pendragon_arther

This springs to mind:

Michael Palin: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.

Graham Chapman: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?

Terry Jones: You're right there Obediah.

Eric Idle: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?

MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

GC: A cup ' COLD tea.

EI: Without milk or sugar.

TJ: OR tea!

MP: In a filthy, cracked cup.

EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.

GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.

TJ: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, 'Money doesn't buy you happiness.'

EI: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.

GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!

TJ: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!

MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.

EI: Well when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.

GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!

TJ: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.

MP: Cardboard box?

TJ: Aye.

MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!

TJ: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.

EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing 'Hallelujah.'

MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

ALL: Nope, nope..

Le_Kirk

eskbanker said:

Threads like this don't make any meaningful contribution to the subject of budgeting and bank accounts, so would be better posted where vents are more acceptable:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/categories/praise-vent-warnings

Unless it has been moved (without a message saying it has been moved), that's where we are!

MovingForwards

Le_Kirk said:

eskbanker said:

Threads like this don't make any meaningful contribution to the subject of budgeting and bank accounts, so would be better posted where vents are more acceptable:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/categories/praise-vent-warnings

Unless it has been moved (without a message saying it has been moved), that's where we are!

It has been moved.

Le_Kirk

Without a message stating this!

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baser999 said:

Ambulances take that long because the system is being clogged up and gradually taken down by people that simply don’t appreciate that an ambulance is for an emergency. It’s not a taxi because “the parkings difficult at A&E”, it’s not there for a child that’s got a cold, a runny nose or sore arm after their jab, people that ‘don’t feel well after a skinful’ . . . how much longer do we have here?

That's rubbish though. You've got no evidence for this, because it's made up. 

True, there will be occasional cases of abuse, but that's all they are - occasional. 

JetpackVelociraptor

I confess myself thoroughly entertained by this spectacularly ageless whinge! I definitely remember being a teenager and listening to various much older adults tell me (and my friends) that we didn't know what real hardship was because we hadn't been through what they went through. In my mid-thirties now and I look forward to the day when I can regale ungrateful teens with stories of how they don't know what it was like back in the day, when we had to sneak into the "computer room" in the early hours and throw a towel over the router so we didn't wake the whole house up with boing-boing-bweep-cccrrcckccccc noises just so we could wait three hours for a dancing skeleton gif to load.

Instead of being satisfied with what we have now, we should absolutely strive to do better. The NHS is struggling due to a huge lack of funding and the past 10+ years spent siphoning money and resources away from it. Social welfare is no longer as helpful as it used to be.

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Zanderman said:

Ok, I'll rise to that, at least for now:

It's not the 19th century you should be comparing to, it's the latter half of the 20th - when, for example, the NHS really was there for you in an emergency (i.e ambulances didn't take 10 hours to arrive like many do these days) and when social security, whilst not perfect, was more reliable than now. And I suspect some people do still, in effect, starve to death, not least via malnutrition causing illness.

Grumbling about people's understanding of money is another matter entirely.

But the whole purpose of this site and forum.
Educating and learning is why we're all here.

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JetpackVelociraptor said:

I confess myself thoroughly entertained by this spectacularly ageless whinge! I definitely remember being a teenager and listening to various much older adults tell me (and my friends) that we didn't know what real hardship was because we hadn't been through what they went through. In my mid-thirties now and I look forward to the day when I can regale ungrateful teens with stories of how they don't know what it was like back in the day, when we had to sneak into the "computer room" in the early hours and throw a towel over the router so we didn't wake the whole house up with boing-boing-bweep-cccrrcckccccc noises just so we could wait three hours for a dancing skeleton gif to load.

Instead of being satisfied with what we have now, we should absolutely strive to do better. The NHS is struggling due to a huge lack of funding and the past 10+ years spent siphoning money and resources away from it. Social welfare is no longer as helpful as it used to be.

Depends who you're talking to !

sheramber

John Swinney says 'Scotland is skint'. Is that  being broke?

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sheramber said:

John Swinney says 'Scotland is skint'. Is that  being broke?

That's what happens when you get your pocket money on a Saturday morning and squander it all by lunchtime without thinking about what you need for the rest of the week then have a strop when you ask dad for more and he tells you no because you are already getting more pocket money than your brothers and sisters so you need to behave responsibly like them.