Has PH gone the other way?
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Not so long ago, the general tone was of invasion by chavs and general wailing and gnashing of teeth about textspeak, and similar "underclass" tendencies.
Now we're getting topics about having to give up Elises or Cerberas at 21 (oh WOE is me), and people wondering why the government won't shell out benefits to people with saleable assets.
Did someone flick a switch somewhere?
Now we're getting topics about having to give up Elises or Cerberas at 21 (oh WOE is me), and people wondering why the government won't shell out benefits to people with saleable assets.
Did someone flick a switch somewhere?
Famous Graham said:
I know.
I'm clearly in a jealous and frustrated frame of mind (particularly since I've just become aware of a salient fact in Andrew's thread).
But the point does still stand - there has been a marked change in the...circumstances, for want of a better word, of people posting lately.
I know what you mean, hell when i was in my early twenties i was too busy pissing my life up the wall to be posting on an internet forum.I'm clearly in a jealous and frustrated frame of mind (particularly since I've just become aware of a salient fact in Andrew's thread).
But the point does still stand - there has been a marked change in the...circumstances, for want of a better word, of people posting lately.
We've all got our crosses to bear, but there is some, well insensitivity on here at times as to some people's circumstances.
Internet willy-waving at it's very best.
ETA: You can always rely on Charlie to lower the tone.
Edited by LHD on Saturday 25th July 00:33
LHD said:
We've all got our crosses to bear, but there is some, well insensitivity on here at times as to some people's circumstances.
Well, I do have sympathy with people being made redundant, being out of work, falling on hard times and so on (I've been there, after all). But, to be honest, it's the mentioning of Cerberas (and before I fully understood the situation in the aforementioned thread, houses) and so on in the same breath that gets my goat.
Famous Graham said:
LHD said:
We've all got our crosses to bear, but there is some, well insensitivity on here at times as to some people's circumstances.
Well, I do have sympathy with people being made redundant, being out of work, falling on hard times and so on (I've been there, after all). But, to be honest, it's the mentioning of Cerberas (and before I fully understood the situation in the aforementioned thread, houses) and so on in the same breath that gets my goat.
If they do, they certainly don't have a mortgage or pay rent of any kind and will be bankrolled by Mum and Dad.
Hell, i financially crippled myself to buy my first flat when i was 21 and the majority of cars i've had was/is down to the fact of the job i do.
When i thought i was in the position to buy a nice car for myself i did, then very quickly discovered that it was going to put me in the poorhouse, and thus was very quickly moved on.
BTW, if anyone has got a Cerbera or the such and has a mortgage and is under 21 then i salute you, as i don't have a clue how you do it.
Edited by LHD on Saturday 25th July 00:53
LHD said:
Famous Graham said:
LHD said:
We've all got our crosses to bear, but there is some, well insensitivity on here at times as to some people's circumstances.
Well, I do have sympathy with people being made redundant, being out of work, falling on hard times and so on (I've been there, after all). But, to be honest, it's the mentioning of Cerberas (and before I fully understood the situation in the aforementioned thread, houses) and so on in the same breath that gets my goat.
If they do, they certainly don't have a mortgage or pay rent of any kind and will be bankrolled by Mum and Dad.
Hell, i financially crippled myself to buy my first flat when i was 21 and the majority of cars i've had was down to the fact of the job i do.
When i thought i was in the position to buy a nice car for myself i did, then very quickly discovered that it was going to put me in the poorhouse, and thus was very quickly moved on.
BTW, if anyone has got a Cerbera or the such and has a mortgage and is under 21 then i salute you, as i don't have a clue how you do it.
But that's drifting off my main point, which was that the demographic of the more recent posters seems to have shifted a bit.
Famous Graham said:
LHD said:
Famous Graham said:
LHD said:
We've all got our crosses to bear, but there is some, well insensitivity on here at times as to some people's circumstances.
Well, I do have sympathy with people being made redundant, being out of work, falling on hard times and so on (I've been there, after all). But, to be honest, it's the mentioning of Cerberas (and before I fully understood the situation in the aforementioned thread, houses) and so on in the same breath that gets my goat.
If they do, they certainly don't have a mortgage or pay rent of any kind and will be bankrolled by Mum and Dad.
Hell, i financially crippled myself to buy my first flat when i was 21 and the majority of cars i've had was down to the fact of the job i do.
When i thought i was in the position to buy a nice car for myself i did, then very quickly discovered that it was going to put me in the poorhouse, and thus was very quickly moved on.
BTW, if anyone has got a Cerbera or the such and has a mortgage and is under 21 then i salute you, as i don't have a clue how you do it.
But that's drifting off my main point, which was that the demographic of the more recent posters seems to have shifted a bit.
I know what you mean now.
It's the 'Me' society that we live in now, that life is measured by tangible possesions.
Look, the big house and the nice car mean bugger all if the baliffs are at the door and you can't put food on the table.
Not wanting to go into too much detail, but my family were victims of the last recession (not a bloody credit crunch) and life as i knew it was over.
House, cars and business all gone.
We lost everything, and anything that was left was sold to make ends meet.
You do what you have to when the poo hits the fan.
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