The recession hits people in different regions in different ways.
The recession hits people in different regions in different ways.
you mean like how manufacturing activity in the UK is currently at 12 year lows, how your FTSE 100 has regressed to levels from 2002, or how the euro lost 20% gain on the US dollar?
You're right DS, time to load up on food, water, shotgun shells and xbox games!
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
The system has gotta hit rock bottom before you build it back up, or they'll just bandage it and this will happen again in the future.
Xelbair is a 17 year old guy. Video games and fast food are probably the two most important commodities to him at this stage in his life. Nothing wrong with that.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
everyone, regardless of age, is perpetually young in these forums.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
I absolutely love that, yet another great Assertn quote. Surprised you're making such a fuss over the current financial crisis though. You've been here long enough to know GW doesn't pay heed to such things.Originally Posted by Assertn
Dreaming impossible dreams.
Sapphire is awesome!
Every region is different, there was only one bank here that almost died, but it was taking care off, people here joke about the economic crisis, simply cause, it hasn't really hit as hard as in other regions of the world. Everything still costs the same, people aren't getting fired, heck the only ones really experiencing some of it are people that are in stocks or large corporations.
So if the price of anything else wouldve gone noticably up, even games, I'm sure it isn't really that weird to bitch about it.
My example was based on games because its something I usually import. Like a book, a manga, a game or a movie. And because it would be easier to explain to many of those that post here.
I have no problem buying local things nor paying services (phone, isp, etc).
Plus... I leave at the North of Mexico, so going to USA and watch the cost of the dollar is quite usual.
Well - i just continued from what RZ said - about games and manga etc. most important thing for me right now is my guitar.
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I'm starting to feel like everything in the world is losing density and falling apart.
My neighbor asked me a while ago to help her with a computer problem, turns out she was trying to copy-paste text from a webpage, and it turned out all backwards. this WAS an issue about ten years ago, when right-to-left text (like hebrew) didn't show up well on explorer so every site was written backwards so it would show up right. freakin' nostalgia.
but that's aside, how the hell is it Wednesday already? I have no recollection of doing anything this week, where has the entire week gone? on the same note, did we just skip out on February?
the most bitching thing is, however, the fact that my underpants somehow lost their rubberband. I have no idea how it happened, maybe I hulk out during nighttime and the rubber snapped (not to be taken is perverse context), but if sudden super powers is the best explainnation I have for why clothes don't fit me and I need to use my belt to keep my underpants up, something must be wrong in the world.
oh, economic recession, I don't personally feel it, my parents workplace isn't much effected by it, and my job is the kind of shit that I'd hate no matter what.
sig made by Itachi-y2k5, thanks, dude!
Currently Watching: probably a show directed at 9 years old girls, lets be honest.
You know the important distinction between Batman and me? Batman is fictional. In real life, there isn't always an alternative.
I don't know, one of the few industries actually doing very well according to economists was the video game industry. At least the publishers anyway...
It's a pretty solid investment, and it will keep you entertained when you can't afford much of anything else.
All that said, my 401(k) states otherwise when I try to say I haven't been hit too hard by this depression.
Gotwoot will survive this recession
Regarding business, ever since my state's changed road rules so that Learners have to clock 100hrs over a 1yr period has been bad for driving instructors. People would rather learn from their parents now, since they have to drive for a year and clock up those times anyway, whereas before, it was 6 months, and as little practice as you wanted (~6-12 driving lessons?). This, more so than the economy, has made living as a driving instructor difficult. - a personal account from someone I know.
I'm blind as a bit these days. Yesterday, I beeped my card on the bus as I got on, and failed to notice a mum from our neighbourhood who was sitting right behind the beeper.
Today, I went and sat down on a seat only to find there was no seat.
There were 3 fold-up-able seats on the left and 3 on the right side of the bus. Sideway facing seats that could fold to allow wheelchairs/babyprams to fit if needed.
I moved to the front left and sat. All the seats were folded out/down except mine....
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
friggin internet. Been down forever at my house and I can't do crap at work dealing with torrents...about all I can do is read Wikipedia since its a resource....and my brain hurts.
But I'm back...thank god its fixed....and screw you hughesnet!
I just heated up some fish fillets to make a sandwich for tomorrow's lunch, and then found out that there's mold on my bread. Now I have to eat the fish fillets and buy lunch tomorrow.
Goddamn it.
I guess buying some more bread is out of the question?
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
At 11 PM, yes.
I had to do a speech for my speech class yesterday and spent at least 8-12 hours preparing it and all of that was based on my powerpoint I made...
Get to class and the teacher doesn't have a key for the podium, which has the computer / projector remote in it ( 2 months into this class.. wtf ) so i had to just wing my speech and it went horrible. I was perfectly prepared to do it w\ the powerpoint I had prepared, but without that I just had a weak speech outline and 2 pages of works cited.
Daylight savings time started yesterday [as opposed to the scheduled day a few weeks from this point], where we had to change our clocks one hour forward, meaning I lost an hour of sleep.
This adds to my everlasting deficit of several hundred hours of sleep lost.
Screw the projected conservation of millions of oil barrels or the minuscule 0.03% savings in electrical consumption this year. I want my one-hour back.
On another note that correlates with the aforementioned topic, napping increases diabetes risk. God damn it.
Last edited by enkoujin; Mon, 03-09-2009 at 06:26 AM.
Interesting. Like they said though, I wouldn't concentrate on napping being a risk factor too much. Not until they sort out whether it's "Napping causes diabetes" or "Those who nap are more likely to get diabetes because they also tend to do X activity".
Nap if you need to. Just stay healthy.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
McDonald's delivery boys always forgot my fuckin straw.
You can't compare Bush to Hitler cause Bush is the village idiot and Hitler was border line genius, unfortunately he was border line insane also, so sad such a mind went to waste.
McDonald has got delivery?
New to me - they don't do that here... i feel like i live in ancient times compared to you.
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