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I’m self-employed. I earned less than £100 last month. When things were good I was earning £2000+ per month and could have earned a lot more except I valued my spare time more than the extra cash.
Things are bad, but people are just seeing a snapshot and don’t realise how bad things might get soon. Some people are trying to say there are bargains out there in the property market because prices have fallen. But your bargain soon stops looking like a bargain if it continues to fall in value. A good saying of the moment is: “There are no bargains in a falling market”.
Businesses I know of (including myself) have seen trade drop to virtually zero. I was at Focus Do-it-All yesterday 23 Dec – 2 cars in the car park and hardly any customers.
Supermarkets are busy but nowhere else is.I think there is a wave of big bankruptcies coming in Jan / Feb. It can’t be long before one or two of the big housebuilding companies go under, I reckon.
Volvo trucks had 41,000 orders for heavy trucks throughout Europe during one quarter last year. The figure for the same quarter this year was 150.
My view is it’s going to be a lot worse than most people think. Depression rather than recession.
Well-run businesses are going under too. Suddenly their markets have evaporated. I mean, a car manufacturer can, over time, switch their product range. But, for example, Jaguar and Land Rover can’t sudenly switch to making small economical hatchbacks as they don’t have time or money to develop them. They could, I suppose, take a short cut and use re-badged Tata cars from their parent company. These would probably kill the Jaguar and Land Rover brand images, but perhaps those brand images themslves are redundant now.
Your right!!!!
That man is a danger ready to happen ffs!Since when has dressing eccentrically been an offence?
Further to my original point, the foreigners I’m referring to appear to be muslims, probably from the Indian sub-continent.
I’m not coming at this from a discriminatory angle. I could understand Zimbabwean refugees or impoverished Romanians selling Big Issue, but I thought islamic charities were good at helping muslims who’d fallen on hard times so I’m just surprised to see muslims selling Big Issue.I blame the feral boy. People should know not to behave in such a way. If they don’t know or don’t care that they should be locked up. I see this as a public safety issue.
It’s also the end-game of the 60’s permissiveness, which started harmleesly enough with nice middle-class girls and boys doing things that shocked their mummies, daddies and teachers, and has now filtered down to the lowest class as knife-crime, binge drinking etc.
Father Christmas (or Santa Claus) is a job description. A portly man who dresses up in a Santa outfit IS a Father Christmas. If another similar man dresses in a similar outfit and sits goes to another childrens’ party, he is also a Father Christmas. It’s just like being a traffic warden or a vicar or a soldier.
But children need to learn early that there’s no mythical Santa who flies around in a sleigh pulled by reindeer and squeezes down chimneys to leave presents. Then a few years later they will be prepared for the realisation that there’s no God either.
He’ll still be imprisoned in about 15 stone of excess fat. That’s worse than being tagged, isn’t it?
At the moment the BNP is a legal political party. I don’t support them, but people should have the same right to belong to the BNP as to other extremist parties like the Socialist Workers’ Party, Sinn Feinn etc.
However I would support legislation to ban publicly constituted political parties that stand in national or local elections from expressing certain views. Among things they would not ba allowed to promote would be racism and nationalism. Political parties should have to adhere to the view of a fair, united Britain for all its people. Unfortunately the name ‘British National Party’ expresses just that sentiment while it seeks to do the opposite.
In effect, seeking to deny equal rights of all British citizens or questioning territorial integrity of our nation should be off-limits. However calling for abolition of the monarchy should be permitted. :lol:
Times are hard and haulage firms are feeling the pinch. If you have a big 2-axle lorry and you need to carry more than it’s allowed, why not make it an extra set of wheels out of MDF and paint them to match the other wheels. Then your lorry will look ‘legal’ again when it’s actually 30% overloaded. This would cost a matter of a few pounds, compared to a few thousand to have an real extra axle fitted.
If you like a nice strong curry, why waste money on prime beef or chicken when a tin of Whiskas will suffice?
lol this thread is nuts
I could have told you that before I started it :lol:
However, those two meaningless strands of letters, numbers and symbols were genuinely typed by two of my three cats putting their front paws on the keys, with a little help from me.
What’s the story behind this thread? Is there one? Yes.
I was typing a message on another forum when our big ginger trod on the keyboard and typed some letters. I thought to myself immediately: ‘I know, I’ll get him to type something on Just Chat, he’d like that’.
