The Recession Thread.

[dead_on_arrvial]

This has nothing to do with mobile phones, more to do with greedy banks. If they didn’t offer people 6 times there income on a interest only mortgage we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Has far has the oil and gas prices ago, I am more than happy to see them high.

For a long time we have been arguing for better “home heating systems”, we all know the main gas supply companies have been blocking them and there use.

I am hoping that electric cars will start to make there mark and improve in the next 5 years.

[Pete]

They’ll make a mark when you cant hear them and they leave a tyre track accross ya back :?

[ForumHostPB]

So the Stock Markets come ”crashing down” – as was said earlier on. Fact is that it is only share prices that are temporarily reduced, reflecting tha fact that more traders are selling than buying right now. The immediate shock will pass and within a short while they will return to their previous level. Life will go on as before.

The only companies that will suffer will be those who are badly managed; those with insufficirent cash resources to weather a temporary downturn; those that have been carrying losses forward month after month, year on year. The remaining 99.9% of the market will come through this pretty much unscathed.

Meanwhile, in the ‘real world’, all those silly women will keep endlessly on blathering about absolutely nothing at all on their bloody mobile phones and irritating the shit out of the rest of us who don’t want to have their stupid and inane conversations foisted on us.

[sharongooner]

PB your sounding more and more like Victor Meldrew every day!

[ForumHostPB]

I don’t believe it !!!

[dead_on_arrvial]

Well it will only get worse pb……….

Women will spend less time working and more time on the phones.

Call plans will get cheaper……… Someone did offer me 2000 min per month for only £15 per month only last week.

But with the down turn anyone who’s in middle management or manufacturing will have a hard time.

Computer sales are down by 30% Pb, it may be a good time for you to review your “prospects”.

[ForumHostPB]

You’re quite right DOA …. I have just reviewed my prospects and discoverd that I don’t have any. C’est la vie huh?

Oh well I’d better make a few mobile phone calls and ask everybody how they are or what they’re doing or something.

[Pebbles]

@sharongooner wrote:

what about mobile phones though?

:lol:

[Esmeralda]

@sharongooner wrote:

PB your sounding more and more like Victor Meldrew every day!

Actually I reckon that Victor Meldrew..or rather Richard Wilson..looks rather tasty in his role as court physician Gaius in the forthcoming series of Merlin.

Either that or I’ve been smoking nutmeg again..
:roll:

[stephen1]

The mobile phone was used as an example of a greater epidemic. It is a symptom of a crass, consumerist society that not only speaks of nothing, but apparently, has nothing to write. The mono-syllabic phone conversation that are ubiquitous nowadays has found its mirrored companion in the mono-syllabic sentence. Judging from what some people have to contribute, not just to this debate, but others, it sounds as though they were vaccinated with a Haiku needle at birth. Either that or the doctor slapped them a little too hard.

So, it isn’t the phone that is at issue, or even the accompanying bells and whistles, but rather an attitude of shocking self-centredness and self-entitlement that places import on technological trivialities over human relationships. This, in turn, diminishes our society.

Hard times come, and hard times go, and it seems us humans need always to reach crisis before we “reach out” to save what vestige of our humanity is left. There is beauty in that, for in spite of ourselves, most of us wish to do some good.

Stephen

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