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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Miss Demeanour on June 19, 2008, 05:27:41 PM
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I am now officially fed up to the back teeth of this phrase. It is the headline news on nearly every occassion. Talk about hyping yourself into a situation.
I am not suggesting that this isn't a difficult time for many people but if there are many more case studies of people that have bought a house on a 100% mortgage on a fixed rate deal and are now facing the reality of an increase in payments and can't afford to have another child / shop at Sainsbury's etc I will scream angry041:
Yes house prices are going down - that makes sense as there was no way in hell it could have continued at the rate it was going and wasn't everyone complaining not too long ago that this was getting out of control.
So the financial services sector is having a diffiult time - what a shame- that was also predicated the way they were positively giving money away to bad causes
Food prices are going up - can't remember many years when they have gone down
The Government is suggesting that pay rises should be kept to a level of below 2.5% for the risk of increasing inflation - for god's sake when have they ever encouraged an above inflation pay rise
aaaahhhhhhhh evil:
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Well said. For a girl.
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Well said. For a girl.
Seconded... cool14:
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Well said. For a girl.
Seconded... cool14:
Yes indeed, good show young lady. angel1
(To complete the triumvirate of patronism)
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Hear hear! Basically it's the same old, same old.
Although my heart did stop when I heard on the news that we can expect gas and electirc to increase by 40% over the next year. eeek:
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Although my heart did stop when I heard on the news that we can expect gas and electirc to increase by 40% over the next year. eeek:
Yes the corporate companies of doom are all happy to compound a miserable situation for many.
What is the government going to do about it - sweet F.A. If there's a way to tax misery they may well forge a way ahead and out of this situation evil:
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Hear Milliband on the wireless this morning...
What a complete waste of oxygen this lot are... noooo:
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Meanwhile, Labour MP Tom Harris is telling us not to be "so bloody miserable" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7464976.stm)
Banghead
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I like barrybeelzebub's (http://www.barrybeelzebub.co.uk/) take on the matter.
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AN OLD folks’ home in Germany has come up with a cunning plan to stem the tide of escaping pensioners – a fake bus stop outside the front door.
What happens is that the elderly residents, most of them suffering from that Old Timer’s Disease, get the urge to go walkabout, see the bus stop and wait for their getaway transport to arrive. Of course it never does and they eventually forget what they’re doing there and go back to their rooms.
It’s a stroke of genius from the people who brought you Colditz.
I said, of course it never does and they eventually forget what they’re doing there and go back to their rooms. Back to their rooms.
;D ;D ;D
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There was an old dear who used escape from the home we put my old man in. Regularly, about 3 times a week. She was usually found on the pavement asking passers by if they'd like to dance eeek:
It was actually very sad but endearing sad24:
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AN OLD folks’ home in Germany has come up with a cunning plan to stem the tide of escaping pensioners – a fake bus stop outside the front door.
What happens is that the elderly residents, most of them suffering from that Old Timer’s Disease, get the urge to go walkabout, see the bus stop and wait for their getaway transport to arrive. Of course it never does and they eventually forget what they’re doing there and go back to their rooms.
It’s a stroke of genius from the people who brought you Colditz.
I said, of course it never does and they eventually forget what they’re doing there and go back to their rooms. Back to their rooms.
;D ;D ;D
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Good old Bazza - compulsory reading every week.
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I SUPPOSE YOU THYINK THAT'S ........ ERMMMMMMMMMMM eeek: cussing: Banghead
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I SUPPOSE YOU THYINK THAT'S ........ ERMMMMMMMMMMM eeek: cussing: Banghead
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Poor old Mozo noooo:
(I believe he's referring to the piece about the the German OAPs)
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Tell him the war is over ..... and our side won.
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Poor old Mozo noooo:
(I believe he's referring to the piece about the the German OAPs)
Ah... silly old sod... noooo:
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Poor old Mozo noooo:
(I believe he's referring to the piece about the the German OAPs)
Ah... silly old sod... noooo:
Looks like Mozo is losing a few marbles as well. ;)
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Poor old Mozo noooo:
(I believe he's referring to the piece about the the German OAPs)
Ah... silly old sod... noooo:
Looks like Mozo is losing a few marbles as well. ;)
That means he qualifies to be a Mod on here whistle:
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You're cruising pal! evil:
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whistle:
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Some of Barry Beelzebub's latest:-
"WHEN I were a lad, there was only one health and safety rule that mattered when you were catching crabs in rock pools – don’t let the little blighters bite you. These days, things are a little more complicated.
Around 10,000 leaflets were handed out last week to Norfolk holidaymakers by students from Cambridge University, who had taken it upon themselves to protect these poor crustaceans from the attentions of the nation’s children.
According to the bunny-huggers, overcrowding crabs in buckets could cause stress for the smaller ones and lead to vicious fights. Consequently, children are “advised” to only keep 10 crabs or fewer in a bucket at a time; to change the water in the bucket every hour; and to make sure that their bucket isn’t in direct sunlight.
It is uncertain what will happen to children who defy these rockpool rules. Perhaps they’ll be captured on CCTV and be subject to a fine from the Crab Police. It’s hard to tell these days.
I’m only glad that we weren’t subject to such strictures when we used to spray them with lighter fuel and send them running down the beach like eight-legged Buddhist monks. Well, we had to make our own entertainment in those days."
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