Stuff that benefits during a recession

Darkbloom

• Radio talk shows - more people at home to call in, a plethora of loudmouths willing to talk about how dem Nigerians in the mansion next door claim €20,000 a week off the DSFA, while eating swans.
• Scapegoating - the Poles! the Chinese! the US! the teachers!
• Smugness - "ahahahaha I saved my communion money and put it in a deposit account and now earn millions in interest, ye should have been clever like me."

Any more?:D

jaffa20

Less traffic on the roads. I can get to work on time.

Rent has gone down.

Prices have decreased.

Turd Ferguson

Kleenex - for all the people to cry into when they lose their jawbs

Vain

My body been going to the gym everyday since i lost my job. Get to sleep more too.

Rocky Balboa 2

bumsekz

kelle

Newry

Darkbloom

ctrl + f + "my taxes".

holly1

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Kleenex - for all the people to cry into when they lose their jawbs

S.A.P.

gurramok

Exercise as more people moan hence more calories burnt :P

Darkbloom

gurramok wrote: »

Exercise as more people moan hence more calories burnt :P

Judging by your performance in the teacher thread, you must be fairly scrawny by now.;)

gurramok

Darkbloom wrote: »

Judging by your performance in the teacher thread, you must be fairly scrawny by now.;)

Yeh, the beer belly has disappeared in the last 24hrs.

I'd sell you my secret diet to lift me out of recession but its too late now

mick.fr

Darkbloom wrote: »

how dem Nigerians in the mansion next door claim €20,000 a week off the DSFA, while eating swans.

Damn, I wish I was a Nigerian sometimes lol

KnifeWRENCH

Undertakers and funeral directors.
Worsening economic situation -> more misery and poverty -> more deaths -> jackpot for funeral homes.
If there's a huge market crash we'll see loads of bankers and business type people tragically leaping to their deaths off high buildings.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to undertaker college. *fetches Victorian-style top hat*

Jet Black

Caviar bars, the recession has not hit dublin airport as there opening one at the end of this month.

hop2it

pawn brokers , repro men and auction houses

phasers

lidl

Ruu_Old

McDonalds and Walmart.

[-0-]

Shrinks get more customers.
More people do the lotto.
Supermarkets do more business as less people eat out.
Off licenses do more business as less people go out.

Saibh

Any discount stores

Thundercats Ho

Milkmen are busier.
(I'm not a milkman, or a milktray man)

Terry

holly1 wrote: »

S.A.P.

What does that mean?

gurramok wrote: »

Yeh, the beer belly has disappeared in the last 24hrs.

I'd sell you my secret diet to lift me out of recession but its too late now

You mustn't be on the dole if your beer belly is smaller.

mukki

mechanics! You can't buy or sell a car so you have to get it serviced or repaired.

Aidric

Satellite TV companies.

drunkymonkey

Get to make more sticky! ..... nothing else to do!

Necronomicon

Receivership companies. Must be a lucrative one to get into right now.

keane2097

Butchers due to less people eating out.

Similarly chicken farmers apparently...

ejmaztec

The Nazi party and AK47 Plc.

Soulja boy

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Shrinks get more customers.

they actually don't, its deemed a non-essential by most people and is the first to go when money gets tight. Theres a lot of psychiatrists and psychoanalysts finding it really tough right now.

southofnowhere

mukki wrote: »

mechanics! You can't buy or sell a car so you have to get it serviced or repaired.

True, especially with tyres.

Ask any dealer, when the country went mad with money people weren't buying tyres, just new cars. Sounds stupid, but it's true.

As for the psychiatrists and psychoanalysts finding it really tough right now at least they're well equipped to deal with it!

Debt collectors doing very well, especially the real thugs and gangsters.

All fast food places, pizza places particularly.

Job recruitment websites.

xOxSinéadxOx

cobblers

Sam Vimes

Butlins in England has had something like a 30% increase in bookings