Good things about the recession

kelle · 03-11-2010 09:37PM

Trog wrote: »

Her parents were ar*eholes. :pac: (just kidding)

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Cranky Mc Funhouse · 03-11-2010 09:39PM

Less people telling you about how much their house cost. Now its a source of embarrasment.

EverEvolving · 03-11-2010 09:39PM

easyeason3 wrote: »

How is that a good thing about the recession?
I presume it's subsidized?

Lost job due to the recession - placed on a Fas course. €2.50 meals everyday! It's good for me, and the excitement at wondering what they will have on everyday is what gets me through the morning! Oh how I love that course.

I would imagine they are subsidised yes, or it's not really chicken they are serving in the curries!

03-11-2010 09:41PM

Retro sweets making a comeback. Dipdabs rock!
Cheaper alcohol in pubs.
Better customer service in general.
Food, etc getting cheaper.
People slowly realising that acting like knobs to other people gets you nowhere.

+1 on the disappearence of SUVs and flashy cars - my banger is starting to blend in

And I won't feel like a skanger keeping it on the road another two years...
+1 on house prices coming down, I definitely could not have bought 2 years ago. Still don't feel the need, but at least I have the option!

Yaaaaaay for the positive thread!
Most of us remember the previous recession: the hand me downs, the penny sweets, the 12p Taytos, the outcry when they brought in the £1 coin because people had to start putting in £5 notes into communion cards(or taping the coins into the card), Dempsey's Den.
It wasn't all that bad. We lived through it.
We came out the other side eventhough we had muppets in charge that time as well.

Great thread.

Sea Sharp · 03-11-2010 09:42PM

We no longer have to listen to older people telling us we don't know how lucky we are to have employment and how easy life is for us.

easyeason3 · 03-11-2010 09:43PM

EverEvolving wrote: »

Lost job due to the recession - placed on a Fas course. €2.50 meals everyday! It's good for me, and the excitement at wondering what they will have on everyday is what gets me through the morning! Oh how I love that course.

I would imagine they are subsidised yes, or it's not really chicken they are serving in the curries!

I hope it's not cut in the budget, that's a really good deal.

It probably is chicken but maybe keep on eye out to see if an unusual amount of cats go missing in your area

scientific1982 · 03-11-2010 09:45PM

Its good small talk conversation. A lot of people are getting their full 8 hours of sleep.

Trog · 03-11-2010 09:46PM

Clarehobo wrote: »

Retro sweets making a comeback. Dipdabs rock!

May I just take this opportunity to say

BRING BACK 5p WOPPA BARS

Thank you.

veryangryman · 03-11-2010 09:48PM

I like the fact that people in general are starting to knock their heads together and be more innovative

Needs must and all that but still. Good to see that people aren't completely helpless.

mal1 · 03-11-2010 09:48PM

scientific1982 wrote: »

Its good small talk conversation. A lot of people are getting their full 8 hours of sleep.

The small talk is a good point. Have spent the last three days in Stuttgart with German Engineers and the recession has saved me from a lot of silence

veryangryman · 03-11-2010 09:53PM

realies wrote: »

No more breakfast rolls, slowly dying out .

Can i fight you? Outside NOW!! :mad:

genericguy · 03-11-2010 09:55PM

i can now laugh at the cnuts who gave me grief for spending so much time studying ("being a dry shyte") and working poorly paying jobs to get by during the good times. now they're on the dole and i have an amazing job that i love, and i'm getting fookin' rich.

schadenfreude is a great word...

veryangryman · 03-11-2010 09:58PM

mal1 wrote: »

The small talk is a good point. Have spent the last three days in Stuttgart with German Engineers and the recession has saved me from a lot of silence

True, i end up using alot of political phrases in my everyday life now even in relation to other things, even to complete strangers ive just met!

"We are where we are"
"Better to have and not need than to need and not have"

and so forth :pac:

alwaysadub · 03-11-2010 09:59PM

Em... Oh, i get to go home a fair bit more than when i was working, and so i've become my little nieces favourite aunty

That's about the only positive thing i can think of tbh.

longshanks · 03-11-2010 10:01PM

Tracker mortgages

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 03-11-2010 10:03PM

Being somewhat self sufficient. There is nothing like eating some food that you have grown yourself whilst sitting in front of a log and turf fire that your sweat and labour has made possible.
That and having days out which don't inevitably end in a piss up with half the day wasted

St._Andalou · 03-11-2010 10:03PM

longshanks wrote: »

Tracker mortgages

*stands up on bus*

... I still don't know what a tracker mortgage is!

DublinWriter · 03-11-2010 10:04PM

Sea Sharp wrote: »

We no longer have to listen to older people telling us we don't know how lucky we are to have employment and how easy life is for us.

Being an older person and telling the young that I've seen this all before.

03-11-2010 10:06PM

DublinWriter wrote: »

Being an older person and telling the young that I've seen this all before.

You've seen recession before but nothing surely like this !!!

jackiebaron · 03-11-2010 10:09PM

Recessions/Hard Times of the past spawned some good music. Stiff Little Fingers, Thin Lizzy, The Undertones, The Blades, Boomtown Rats, Aslan.

Might get some more of that stuff.

Also when I come home for Christmas I won't have to suffer the constant gibberish from the cock-wallopers down the pub sputtering on about how they've got 3 houses and are eyeing up some shoe-box in Bansko Bulgaria. These bricklayers and plumbers are all on the dole now so maybe they can shut up and stop slagging me off for buying an apartment in Amsterdam and not buying a sh!thole in Lucan.

The reduction of exorbitant prices for ANYTHING will always be welcome. Snottiness and snobbiness was always a product of the CT that I will be glad to see reduced.

Young kids might become less spoilt and develop a bit of character and value when they have to cut the grass or clean the house or run errands for the neighbours if they want a few quid instead of sticking out their paw whenever they "need" 20 Euros for some crap.

Pherekydes · 03-11-2010 10:12PM

St._Andalou wrote: »

Less kids being named Sorcha and Fionn.

WTF has this to do with anything?

Ghandee · 03-11-2010 10:28PM

Recession made me start going to Lidl, and in doing so discovering I could get SIX (pint) bottles of DECENT beer for 6.29.
Previously I had been buying THREE bottles (330ml) crap for the same price!

Ghandee · 03-11-2010 10:30PM

Pherekydes wrote: »

WTF has this to do with anything?

You obviously haven't read any ross o' carroll kelly books?

Pherekydes · 03-11-2010 10:38PM

Gucky wrote: »

You obviously haven't read any ross o' carroll kelly books?

No. Humour me: what does his post mean? In terms of the recession?

TIA.

brendansmith · 03-11-2010 10:42PM

Pherekydes wrote: »

TIA.

POW TIA
We will never forget

smk89 · 03-11-2010 11:09PM

mal1 wrote: »

Lower CO2 emissions. We might miss our EU deficit targets but we should make our emissions target if all this industry keeps shutting down.

If we keep it up we can be like North Korea!

nice1franko · 03-11-2010 11:47PM

I got 2 raises AND every things cheaper.

What recession?

Princess Peach · 03-11-2010 11:57PM

Lording my employment over my unemployed friends, making them feel bad and me feel better.

ArtSmart · 03-11-2010 11:57PM

Love this thread.

just wondering how many are actually happy the madness stopped?
(leaving aside the hardship aspect)

I mean, it was getting insane - across all areas. or am i just out of touch?

mickrock · 04-11-2010 12:02AM

Being work shy, er, I mean unemployed, is now socially acceptable.

Also, the cost of prostitutes has plummeted. Ace!

Good things about the recession

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