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Good things about the recession
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Is the recession a good thing for Ireland.
By losing a lot of money and jobs we might go back to the old days when everybody had time to chat on the street when you met someone, without a car at the back of you beeping their horn.The other positive thing. If I go to the local forecourt to get my sandwich I can acutally park my car.
There must be lots of nice things about recession. Lets make this into something positive.
Can you name temWhen I get laid off, I will have so much more time to take photos :D
But won’t be able to afford any new kit :cry:
We can go back to smaller houses and 5 or 6 to a room.
Turn off the central heating and bring the cattle in to warm the place up.
Dig our own turf and grow our own spuds.
Carve our shoes out of pieces of bog oak.Life expectancy will come back down to 45 so there’ll be none of this nonsense of waiting
till we’re 37 before we have kids – we’ll want grandchildren by then.De hool ting will be idyllic.
We may be able to get tradesmen to do all of those jobs around the house that they deemed below them during the good times.
PeteTheBloke wrote:
We can go back to smaller houses and 5 or 6 to a room.
Turn off the central heating and bring the cattle in to warm the place up.
Dig our own turf and grow our own spuds.
Carve our shoes out of pieces of bog oak.Life expectancy will come back down to 45 so there’ll be none of this nonsense of waiting
till we’re 37 before we have kids – we’ll want grandchildren by then.De hool ting will be idyllic.
:D :D :D :D
We can have our elderly relatives live with us and harness
the static electricity they produce from their crimpelene dresses
and acrylic cardys to run our tellys :)peter hoenderdos wrote:
Is the recession a good thing for Ireland.
By losing a lot of money and jobs we might go back to the old days when everybody had time to chat on the street when you met someone, without a car at the back of you beeping their horn.The other positive thing. If I go to the local forecourt to get my sandwich I can acutally park my car.
There must be lots of nice things about recession. Lets make this into something positive.
Can you name temHi Peter,
is this a description of pre-recession, or pre industrial revolution times? :)
I thought the only benefit to a new recession would be that the Celtic Tiger hype would be killed off.
It has, but been replaced by the recession hype!
In my view, the only downside to the world in the more recent past IS the hype, and people’s tendency to believe it.
We have gone from 100yrs ago of very few people knowing whats going on, to millions thinking they do!
Other than the hype, EVERYTHING is much better than the past, recession or not!
I reckon Ken’s right. There’s not a lot to recommend about being poorer.
I know the schadenfreude feels good when you see the value of second-hand
Ferraris dropping like a stone, but Ireland’s come an awful long way in the
last 20 years and you’d have to ask yourself if you really wanted to go back
to the way things used to be. The hippie idyll where everyone is nice to each
other as they comb the hedgerows for edible plants is grand until you’ve got
a sick child or we get a cold winter.PeteTheBloke wrote:
I reckon Ken’s right. There’s not a lot to recommend about being poorer.
I know the schadenfreude feels good when you see the value of second-hand
Ferraris dropping like a stone, but Ireland’s come an awful long way in the
last 20 years and you’d have to ask yourself if you really wanted to go back
to the way things used to be. The hippie idyll where everyone is nice to each
other as they comb the hedgerows for edible plants is grand until you’ve got
a sick child or we get a cold winter.Hey Pete
Well I think you’re right. But my idea was to make a little bit of fun out of this recession thing. You don’t win by feeling depressed on top of it. I’m not worried about this recession at all. Things will be grant next year or the year after. There will be something to build up again.
And we don’t get cold winters here.peter hoenderdos wrote:
Hey Pete
Well I think you’re right. But my idea was to make a little bit of fun out of this recession thing. You don’t win by feeling depressed on top of it. I’m not worried about this recession at all. Things will be grant next year or the year after. There will be something to build up again.
And we don’t get cold winters here.ah well, I come from a country that is going down day after day in all sectors, after 20 years of “tiger” (65-85)…….
I won’t be as confident as you are Peter, it’s much easier to get used to happy days rather than being in dire straits….
things are changing quickly, we’re in the middle of a big thing, we’ll probably see the end of the capitalistic world….. plus the climate change.
I’d be more happy if I was a farmer….Just heard my son’s company is closing at Christmas :(
But I still believe that we are much better off! :D
PS Peter, nice try on putting some levity into the current situation – I agree that we should not be down – life is
definitely too short for that.I firmly believe in my motto below!!
kenh wrote:
I firmly believe in my motto below!!
yes, I agree.
but are we sure that we’re ready for it????
it’s like people that tell you “yes, the climate change is cyclic. like the icy ages”.
fair enough. is this enough to be ready for it???
How many people we know that went _successfully_ through an icy age??? :DPersonally…I never saw the damned Tiger..life has been pretty much constant over the last 20 years. Go to work..get a wage..slowly build up the things you want around you..grow the family..feed the kids. Read the papers and see how well the dot.com millionaires are doing..watch politicians glowing… telling us how successful we are as a nation…
Keep working..getting the same wage barely keeping up with inflation most of the time.
I’m not poor..but I’m certainly not rich..I’m not in debt and I don’t have any shares to worry about or foreign property investments that are suddenly worth less than the price I paid for them.
That’s the way it’s pretty much always been..and I suspect how it is for the average working person..and I’ll keep reading the papers and watching the news as the politicians now tell us that we are a nation in recession and times will be hard and tighten the belt etc…
Seen it all before…
and it’s very hard to have a sympathetic thought for the falling share values.
The captains of Industry will get more bullish in the workplace no doubt…and that’s gonna be harder for the young people starting out..
But it all comes around again eventually…and hopefully the younger generation will have more confidence to stand up to the inevitable backlash..the wage cut demands…the longer hours for less money.
Tiger..what Tiger… 8)
Bedst thing about the recession: the news is about important stuff and not crap about mindless celebrities
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