The best thing about the coming recession is..

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.

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 !

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.

The reintroduction of corporal punishment.

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

Cheaper blowjobs.

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!!

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.

The return of hair shirts..