Reply to: Bank of Mum and Dad 'feels the pinch'

[tomtomagain]

Here is my evidence that there's a recession coming:

There is always a recession coming.

When is it coming though? That is the question.

[original PM]

No, my wife.

Is she disappointed but understanding?

[WTFH]

Have you spoken to a sympathetic GP?

No, my wife.

[Old Greg]

Not everyone. I've not been on safari for 2 years.



Someone has to. It's not going to be me, so it could be you.



No we're not. House is about 200 years old, in a conservation area. Any erections that go up around here require about 6 months of planning and consent and cost an absolute fortune.

Have you spoken to a sympathetic GP?

[WTFH]

3. Everyone (well not literally every single person) I meet is going on holiday to Japan, or Mauritius, or Acapulco or to see orang-utans tulipting from trees in Borneo. No-one is going to Benidorm for a week.

Not everyone. I've not been on safari for 2 years.

4. I've got the tuliptiest car in the car park.

Someone has to. It's not going to be me, so it could be you.

5. Everyone is getting extensions, to both hair and houses.

No we're not. House is about 200 years old, in a conservation area. Any erections that go up around here require about 6 months of planning and consent and cost an absolute fortune.

[Zigenare]

Not sure a Professorship is right for me at the moment.

I concur.

[HugeWhale]

Have you considered applying for Harvard?

Not sure a Professorship is right for me at the moment.

[LondonManc]

Here is my evidence that there's a recession coming:

1. The baby boomers were born from about 1945 onwards. The average life expectancy is 85 so they'll typically die off from 2030. Some will go earlier, some later, but we're probably on the rise of the bell curve right now.
Won't we then see a rush of granny's properties entering the market as the boomers start to, er, boom? And won't this rush of properties cause an oversupply?

2. In the 1970s there was a recession. Then the Thatcher recession followed by the Lawson boom. A decade later, the Major/Lamont 1990 recession. The bursting of the dotcom bubble a decade later. Then the credit crunch about 8 years later. That alone means that a recession is due. It's cyclical.

3. Everyone (well not literally every single person) I meet is going on holiday to Japan, or Mauritius, or Acapulco or to see orang-utans tulipting from trees in Borneo. No-one is going to Benidorm for a week.

4. I've got the tuliptiest car in the car park.

5. Everyone is getting extensions, to both hair and houses.

QED.

Have you considered applying for Harvard?

[HugeWhale]

Here is my evidence that there's a recession coming:

1. The baby boomers were born from about 1945 onwards. The average life expectancy is 85 so they'll typically die off from 2030. Some will go earlier, some later, but we're probably on the rise of the bell curve right now.
Won't we then see a rush of granny's properties entering the market as the boomers start to, er, boom? And won't this rush of properties cause an oversupply?

2. In the 1970s there was a recession. Then the Thatcher recession followed by the Lawson boom. A decade later, the Major/Lamont 1990 recession. The bursting of the dotcom bubble a decade later. Then the credit crunch about 8 years later. That alone means that a recession is due. It's cyclical.

3. Everyone (well not literally every single person) I meet is going on holiday to Japan, or Mauritius, or Acapulco or to see orang-utans tulipting from trees in Borneo. No-one is going to Benidorm for a week.

4. I've got the tuliptiest car in the car park.

5. Everyone is getting extensions, to both hair and houses.

QED.

[original PM]

We had family round for a barbecue, and the kids (all younger without their own phones) were asking for our ipads or their handheld games consoles. We said no, play in the garden. They moaned a little, but accepted it.

I can imagine it will become harder when they are older and we relent and get them their own phones.

Interesting point about reading books too.

yup especially to the older generation -

bloody kids always on their bloody phones v's ooh isn't little Billy good for sitting in a corner quietly reading a book.

Also I know one of the kids was reading books on her phone soooo..

[GreenMirror]

Can't they just invest their bitcoin profits? Or was that all spent on gender realignment therapy?

[jmo21]

Well interestingly enough this weekend we went to a family bbq - the kids were fine and not naughty - but spent most of the time on their phones with ear phones in and were not so interactive!

Kind of pissed me off a bit as we do not get together as a family that often but it is not like they were bad - would I have been as bothered if they had sat quietly in a corner reading a book?

As you say it's that tricky balance

suppose next weekend we are going camping which is anything but posh soooo....

We had family round for a barbecue, and the kids (all younger without their own phones) were asking for our ipads or their handheld games consoles. We said no, play in the garden. They moaned a little, but accepted it.

I can imagine it will become harder when they are older and we relent and get them their own phones.

Interesting point about reading books too.

[LondonManc]

As ever it's relative

So were your parents, which explains so much.

[sasguru]

You know it's heading downhill when the likes of "sasguru" and "Old Greg" think they're top of the heap!

As ever it's relative

[Zigenare]

Sheesh you guys don't half moan much.

Moan this, phone that, hole this, capital punishment that.

It's like an episode of EastEnders every day here on CUK.

It never used to be this bad

You know it's heading downhill when the likes of "sasguru" and "Old Greg" think they're top of the heap!