France in turmoil (again)
Discussion
85Carrera said:
Ridiculous comment. Average Joe has been busy PCPing cars he can’t afford to impress his neighbours, hasn’t saved or invested a penny and has bought everything on tick in a time of historically low interest rates because he thought they would last forever and now bleats because the state isn’t going to bale him out because they’ve gone up.
Never PCPd anything in my life, or HP, or loan.Decent enough wage but really struggling.
7 years to a retirement I can't afford. Many of my friends, family and work colleagues are in the same boat.
OzzyR1 said:
Funny you typed that...
Had a conversation with a new neighbour today who moved in last week.
His opening line was "is that your car?".
Was looking at my Audi estate, 12 years old but in OK condition.
I said yes.
Bear in mind this was the first time we met, he then asked me to come and look at his car (A7) and his wife's car (Evoque).
Both brand-new, lovely things and I made the usual appreciative noises after nosing round.
After that, this dick I've only known for 10mins asked why my me & my wife don't get new cars too.
Said I couldn't afford it, & he told me his A7 was £680/month and his wife's RR £750/month.
Mental - almost £1,500/month on renting cars and they think that is standard!
My wife & I have an S6, Elise S2, Porsche 996 & a Yaris - all over 10 years old but well-kept and paid for in full - probably for less than they pay in rent over 24 months
Each to their own
Is this your new neighbour?Had a conversation with a new neighbour today who moved in last week.
His opening line was "is that your car?".
Was looking at my Audi estate, 12 years old but in OK condition.
I said yes.
Bear in mind this was the first time we met, he then asked me to come and look at his car (A7) and his wife's car (Evoque).
Both brand-new, lovely things and I made the usual appreciative noises after nosing round.
After that, this dick I've only known for 10mins asked why my me & my wife don't get new cars too.
Said I couldn't afford it, & he told me his A7 was £680/month and his wife's RR £750/month.
Mental - almost £1,500/month on renting cars and they think that is standard!
My wife & I have an S6, Elise S2, Porsche 996 & a Yaris - all over 10 years old but well-kept and paid for in full - probably for less than they pay in rent over 24 months
Each to their own
OzzyR1 said:
Funny you typed that...
Had a conversation with a new neighbour today who moved in last week.
His opening line was "is that your car?".
Was looking at my Audi estate, 12 years old but in OK condition.
I said yes.
Bear in mind this was the first time we met, he then asked me to come and look at his car (A7) and his wife's car (Evoque).
Both brand-new, lovely things and I made the usual appreciative noises after nosing round.
After that, this dick I've only known for 10mins asked why my me & my wife don't get new cars too.
Said I couldn't afford it, & he told me his A7 was £680/month and his wife's RR £750/month.
Mental - almost £1,500/month on renting cars and they think that is standard!
My wife & I have an S6, Elise S2, Porsche 996 & a Yaris - all over 10 years old but well-kept and paid for in full - probably for less than they pay in rent over 24 months
Each to their own
Is this a true story because if it is I never knew people this stupid existed. Had a conversation with a new neighbour today who moved in last week.
His opening line was "is that your car?".
Was looking at my Audi estate, 12 years old but in OK condition.
I said yes.
Bear in mind this was the first time we met, he then asked me to come and look at his car (A7) and his wife's car (Evoque).
Both brand-new, lovely things and I made the usual appreciative noises after nosing round.
After that, this dick I've only known for 10mins asked why my me & my wife don't get new cars too.
Said I couldn't afford it, & he told me his A7 was £680/month and his wife's RR £750/month.
Mental - almost £1,500/month on renting cars and they think that is standard!
My wife & I have an S6, Elise S2, Porsche 996 & a Yaris - all over 10 years old but well-kept and paid for in full - probably for less than they pay in rent over 24 months
Each to their own
Also he sounds like a coke dealer so get some CCTV as evidence for when they want it.
85Carrera said:
Ridiculous comment. Average Joe has been busy PCPing cars he can’t afford to impress his neighbours, hasn’t saved or invested a penny and has bought everything on tick in a time of historically low interest rates because he thought they would last forever and now bleats because the state isn’t going to bale him out because they’ve gone up.
that's one view, another view is that the governing class have hollowed out the west, sent it to Asia and now there's nothing left but managed decline, a middle class taxed to the eyeballs, lack of procreation, 30% child poverty for those that do, mass immigration to pop up the ponzi and a top 2% flashing their winnings on social media .France in turmoil again?
When the UK raised the pension age nothing.
People joked about France in WW2 without any knowledge of the history proceeding and that if the UK was landlocked for hundreds of miles and invaded across said border in WW2 we too would have fallen.
France didn't surrender in WW1 and they lost millions of lives.
I love France. Such an incredible and amazing country.
When the UK raised the pension age nothing.
People joked about France in WW2 without any knowledge of the history proceeding and that if the UK was landlocked for hundreds of miles and invaded across said border in WW2 we too would have fallen.
France didn't surrender in WW1 and they lost millions of lives.
I love France. Such an incredible and amazing country.
Agreed ^
Remember, England got battered in WW2, and that was only due to loss of resources (Men, military supplies, weapons etc) and of course the bombing.
France (and all of mainland Europe really) had the above plus enemy boots/ tracks/ tyres on the ground.
'Savage Continent' was recommended by someone on here, and is about the aftermarth of WW2 on the contineuent.
Remember, England got battered in WW2, and that was only due to loss of resources (Men, military supplies, weapons etc) and of course the bombing.
France (and all of mainland Europe really) had the above plus enemy boots/ tracks/ tyres on the ground.
'Savage Continent' was recommended by someone on here, and is about the aftermarth of WW2 on the contineuent.
Hugo Stiglitz said:
France in turmoil again?
When the UK raised the pension age nothing.
People joked about France in WW2 without any knowledge of the history proceeding and that if the UK was landlocked for hundreds of miles and invaded across said border in WW2 we too would have fallen.
France didn't surrender in WW1 and they lost millions of lives.
I love France. Such an incredible and amazing country.
There was also nothing when the UK was taken into the EU, with FIRST giving the people of the UK a democratic vote on the matter. Even when the people of the Uk `were' finally given a democratic vote on the matter in 2016 the liberal party, and some other tory and labour politicians tried to get the democratic vote overturned. When the UK raised the pension age nothing.
People joked about France in WW2 without any knowledge of the history proceeding and that if the UK was landlocked for hundreds of miles and invaded across said border in WW2 we too would have fallen.
France didn't surrender in WW1 and they lost millions of lives.
I love France. Such an incredible and amazing country.
Ignoring democracy seems to be a trend these days.
If any European country has even a remote chance of keeping its pension age down, it's arguably France, as the only country still having more than 2 children per family, and even then it's only just at 2.02!
We dropped below 2 in 1996, I believe, and are now at around 1.7. Germany and Spain are even more screwed at 1.3!
We dropped below 2 in 1996, I believe, and are now at around 1.7. Germany and Spain are even more screwed at 1.3!
JagLover said:
OzzyR1 said:
Funny you typed that...
Had a conversation with a new neighbour today who moved in last week.
His opening line was "is that your car?".
Was looking at my Audi estate, 12 years old but in OK condition.
I said yes.
Bear in mind this was the first time we met, he then asked me to come and look at his car (A7) and his wife's car (Evoque).
Both brand-new, lovely things and I made the usual appreciative noises after nosing round.
After that, this dick I've only known for 10mins asked why my me & my wife don't get new cars too.
Said I couldn't afford it, & he told me his A7 was £680/month and his wife's RR £750/month.
Mental - almost £1,500/month on renting cars and they think that is standard!
My wife & I have an S6, Elise S2, Porsche 996 & a Yaris - all over 10 years old but well-kept and paid for in full - probably for less than they pay in rent over 24 months
Each to their own
Is this your new neighbour?Had a conversation with a new neighbour today who moved in last week.
His opening line was "is that your car?".
Was looking at my Audi estate, 12 years old but in OK condition.
I said yes.
Bear in mind this was the first time we met, he then asked me to come and look at his car (A7) and his wife's car (Evoque).
Both brand-new, lovely things and I made the usual appreciative noises after nosing round.
After that, this dick I've only known for 10mins asked why my me & my wife don't get new cars too.
Said I couldn't afford it, & he told me his A7 was £680/month and his wife's RR £750/month.
Mental - almost £1,500/month on renting cars and they think that is standard!
My wife & I have an S6, Elise S2, Porsche 996 & a Yaris - all over 10 years old but well-kept and paid for in full - probably for less than they pay in rent over 24 months
Each to their own
S600BSB said:
Kermit power said:
One of my French friends' father used to be a copper. He retired on full pay at 55!
Don't coppers in the UK retire at 55? Although presumably not on full pay..Probably all changed now, this was back in the 90’s.
JagLover said:
OzzyR1 said:
Funny you typed that...
Had a conversation with a new neighbour today who moved in last week.
His opening line was "is that your car?".
Was looking at my Audi estate, 12 years old but in OK condition.
I said yes.
Bear in mind this was the first time we met, he then asked me to come and look at his car (A7) and his wife's car (Evoque).
Both brand-new, lovely things and I made the usual appreciative noises after nosing round.
After that, this dick I've only known for 10mins asked why my me & my wife don't get new cars too.
Said I couldn't afford it, & he told me his A7 was £680/month and his wife's RR £750/month.
Mental - almost £1,500/month on renting cars and they think that is standard!
My wife & I have an S6, Elise S2, Porsche 996 & a Yaris - all over 10 years old but well-kept and paid for in full - probably for less than they pay in rent over 24 months
Each to their own
Is this your new neighbour?Had a conversation with a new neighbour today who moved in last week.
His opening line was "is that your car?".
Was looking at my Audi estate, 12 years old but in OK condition.
I said yes.
Bear in mind this was the first time we met, he then asked me to come and look at his car (A7) and his wife's car (Evoque).
Both brand-new, lovely things and I made the usual appreciative noises after nosing round.
After that, this dick I've only known for 10mins asked why my me & my wife don't get new cars too.
Said I couldn't afford it, & he told me his A7 was £680/month and his wife's RR £750/month.
Mental - almost £1,500/month on renting cars and they think that is standard!
My wife & I have an S6, Elise S2, Porsche 996 & a Yaris - all over 10 years old but well-kept and paid for in full - probably for less than they pay in rent over 24 months
Each to their own
"Very nice cars,but how do you find them after leaving Waitrose?"
fourstardan said:
I wonder what demographic are rioting in France?
Is it nothing more than glorified by the news and just a bunch of yobs ?
There is much, much more to this than pension reform. 1 million on the streets, King Charles uninvited for state visit.Is it nothing more than glorified by the news and just a bunch of yobs ?
Some serious s
t (even for France) 
Looks like they’re re-enacting the battle of Waterloo among themselves .. crazy scenes from rural France one protestor critical and 16 cops hospitalised
https://twitter.com/lauzi_marco/status/16399071410...
Meanwhile cafe culture parisien style
https://twitter.com/akbrews/status/163975052093489...
https://twitter.com/lauzi_marco/status/16399071410...
Meanwhile cafe culture parisien style
https://twitter.com/akbrews/status/163975052093489...
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