The best thing about the coming recession is..

El_Dangeroso

I won't have to listen to my smug friends who have their mortgages and talk about rent being 'dead money'. Not as dead as paying interest on negative equity for years to come. Muhahaha!

Also, the (hopeful) demise of many recruitment agencies, one of the most useless by-product of the celtic tiger. Why do they exist? We all look at Irishjobs.ie anyway..

Anything else?

Joe Cool

Racism, higher crime, emigration...
Ah, the 80's...

Ross_Mahon

The empty apartments and cheap property. :rolleyes:

javaboy

Our writers and musicians were always much better when we were poor and downtrodden. Less Westlife and Cecilia Ahern and more Behan and Thin Lizzy.

taidghbaby

less oompa loompa's as fake tan becomes 'way to expensive'

Saibh

no more big houses built - that look like they could house 20 people instead of the 2-4 who reside in them

WindSock

I agree, the more miserable the better the choons. Also, haha for negative equity. Foolz :pac:

constitutionus

ripp off pubs will have to drop the price of a pint to get punters in, particularly seein they can now only open for a couple of minutes a day

in fact ive noticed that once again were getting irish bar staff who actually bother their hole to look after you !

thieveslikeus

The ruturn of grunge fashion. Cant wait to get down to oxfam for a baggy jumper and battered jeans to wear with pride.

staker

passing out all those empty 4*4s on the side of the road after running out of juice coz they got no money for gas! and then pulling away every time they approach my passenger door thinking i'll help em out,repeatedly...arf arf:rolleyes:
JUSTICE WILL BE MINE

Ross_Mahon

thieveslikeus wrote: »

The ruturn of grunge fashion. Cant wait to get down to oxfam for a baggy jumper and battered jeans to wear with pride.

Does that mean that punk music will be back in? YES!

Charlie

In about 10 years or so we should have cracking films like The Van and The Snapper coming out about the hard times of the late naughties.

cance

brain dead cnuts nationwide in sales jobs, on their arse... it brings a smile :pac:

Joe Cool

AIDS

gixerfixer

Everyone will be as broke as i have been the last few years:)

connundrum

The reintroduction of corporal punishment.

A bitto shtick batin' will get dem young wans into action.

becah

better service from many people working in retail/the service industry. I'm sick of being served by grumpy, frowning people in shops etc who grab the money off you and throw your change at you; when jobs become a bit more scarce, hopefully the attitude will disappear aswell!

Black Swan

The Bush administration will lose seats in both houses of the US Congress, and consequently, lose power.

watsgone

Do you think we will actually think about and care what goes on in our community when the recession comes??

Fringe

Cheaper blowjobs.

javaboy

watsgone wrote: »

Do you think we will actually think about and care what goes on in our community when the recession comes??

Oddly enough yeah. The poorer we are the better we know our neighbours. Scientific fact. Remember street parties in the 80's?

taidghbaby

watsgone wrote: »

Do you think we will actually think about and care what goes on in our community when the recession comes??

you make it sound like a plague!!

chopperbyrne

javaboy wrote: »

Oddly enough yeah. The poorer we are the better we know our neighbours. Scientific fact. Remember street parties in the 80's?

Best things ever!

dotsman

Ultimately, those that ride the wave will be fine (safe jobs such as civil service and some private sector companies, own their own houses and don't intend selling for a few years), older people with a large asset base and little to no debt and young kids who couldn't give a ****!

Those that are ****ed are those without jobs now (if you haven't already got a job, how the **** do you expect to get one now that there's people competing for them?), those who don't own a house and will spend the next few years getting further and further away from the property ladder, those that are returning from a gap year "discovering themselves" only to "discover" that maybe they shouldn't have given up that cushy job/offer, those that were making far too much money for what they were worth (ie lack of real education/skills, such as those in the building trade/sales etc who were lured in by the easy money instead of completing their studies/training etc)

Those that are truly ****ed are those mortgage/borrowed to the hilt, having just bought a home in a middle-of-nowhere development, and are now looking at a P45. They did everything right. Did everything that was asked of them. And now, one final time, they are being asked to bend over, take a deep breath and prepare for the big one!

Oh, and there won't be much of a recession (unless we keep having threads like this!). One or two shakey years definitely, but we have the ability to recover fairly easily (if we take it). I for one am doing my bit by blowing my hard earned cash nd keep the economy flowing! Spent 200 yo yos on a pair of shades last week. Still can't believe what a tool I am:o

Back on topic, there is nothing good about a recession.

One good thing I could see from this is that maybe prices will go down a bit as people spend less. Probably not for food or oil though.

Jack Sheehan

The return of hair shirts..

DonkeyStyle \o/

thick cotton tracksuit bottoms/doc martens/wooly jumper/leather jacket/shaved head ensembles... oooh yes

Bijoux

Other people will be just as broke as the students are

BraziliaNZ

will good looking hookers from eastern europe still come over?

Eating is dead money. You should be pumping that cash into cows, seeds and water collectors on the roof.

*shakes fists*

FOGOFUNK

Off topic but hey....

A recession is when your neighbour loses his job, a depression is when you lose yours.

-Ronald Reagan

Classic

Run_to_da_hills

Out of work.....the Dole......Medical card and Free Dentistry Free Doctors Visits Free Butter :)

j1smithy

The thing I'm looking forward to the most are good irish bands (we write great songs when we have nothing better to do!), The death of the D4 mentality and the end of boasting of people spending ridiculous amounts of money on frivolous things like €500 shoes!!

Sherifu

More people cycling. Hmmm, maybe not.

judas101

freeloading immigrants getting the hell out of here.

huzzah for the recession!

super_furry

Jaysus we might even get a decent snowfall this winter!

DO0GLE

Tradesmen ringing you back to see if you still want that work done that you got quoted for

Steve_o

j1smithy wrote: »

The thing I'm looking forward to the most are good irish bands (we write great songs when we have nothing better to do!), The death of the D4 mentality and the end of boasting of people spending ridiculous amounts of money on frivolous things like €500 shoes!!

+infinity...

My thoughts exactly!

LouOB

That just because you can bulid a wall does not mean you should have a salary to rival a well paid CEO.

IvaBigWun

FOGOFUNK wrote: »

Off topic but hey....

A recession is when your neighbour loses his job, a depression is when you lose yours.

-Ronald Reagan

Classic

Brilliant

Although Reaganomics didnt do America any favours.

Relevant

Emigration, repossession of peoples homes, people unable to provide a good standard of living for their kids...

People in Ireland seem to be talking the country into a recession!

dr.bollocko

People won't be able to refill their chelsea tractors anymore and will be forced to walk to work on the famine roads, barefeet, uphill both ways, stopping only to drain blood from a cow.
4 people on a scooter will be great fun.

The coffin ships have a MC. Donalds now.

Steve_o

forgot to mention earlier... BUTTER VOUCHERS!!! and as tommy tiernan said, you wont be able to find a job if you look for one and everyone will secretly be delighted!!!

Neamhshuntasach

We all might become a bit nationalistic again and renew the war against the Brits. And also a socialist revolution. I can see it all just over the horizon.

Relevant

Oh I just thought of a benefit... Nobody will be able to afford to go see Tommy Tiernan live or buy his DVD so he'll go broke and maybe we won't have to listen to the pr*ck anymore!!

Kashkai

Did any of you peeps leave school like I did in the mid 80's (yeah I'm old) when the best you could hope for was a job stacking shelves in Dunnes?

This isn't a bloody recession, its just a climb down from the airy fairy heights that people have been living in for years. So the celtic tiger cubs have gotten a dose of reality, perhaps they'll stop with their mid Atlantic accents (e.g. like, oh my god, loser, etc), stop blowing all their cash on sh!te and start growing up. There's still jobs out there, unemployment is 5% when in the 80's it was 17%. Interest rates are 6%, they were 10 - 14% in the late 80's/early 90's.

And maybe, just maybe, the Irish will rediscover their natural friendly, unpretencious character and we'll finally get our selfish heads out of our collective a$$es.

And yes, the music was better in the 80's, bands like westlife would have been tarred and feathered. Its not too late you know;):D:D

Steve_o

Also, we might win the Eurovision again...

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Butter vouchers!

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Steve_o wrote: »

forgot to mention earlier... BUTTER VOUCHERS!!!

Damn... Beat me to it...

dr.bollocko

Prosperous Dave wrote: »

Did any of you peeps leave school like I did in the mid 80's (yeah I'm old) when the best you could hope for was a job stacking shelves in Dunnes?

This isn't a bloody recession, its just a climb down from the airy fairy heights that people have been living in for years. So the celtic tiger cubs have gotten a dose of reality, perhaps they'll stop with their mid Atlantic accents (e.g. like, oh my god, loser, etc), stop blowing all their cash on sh!te and start growing up. There's still jobs out there, unemployment is 5% when in the 80's it was 17%. Interest rates are 6%, they were 10 - 14% in the late 80's/early 90's.

And maybe, just maybe, the Irish will rediscover their natural friendly, unpretencious character and we'll finally get our selfish heads out of our collective a$$es.

And yes, the music was better in the 80's, bands like westlife would have been tarred and feathered. Its not too late you know;):D:D

Thats easy for you to say. You're prosperous!
I'm pre-prosperous which makes your views seem preposterous!

IvaBigWun

Maybe we need a mod to do a mega merge with the "I for one welcome the 80's thread". Basically the same thing no?