Are we going to Hell in a handcart and whose fault is it?

Duffman

Duffman

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Never been so anxious about turning on the news;
Energy provision - out of control
CO2 - desperately low levels
Trade agreements- not queuing up
HGV - A petrol stations latest to limit numbers
HGV desperate for a deal to let more non Brits to be allowed in
Hotels and hospitality- desperate for staff
COVID infections rocketing- deaths and hospitalisation rising steeply
UK borrowing higher than expected
Brexit deal unravelling - USA issuing big threats on Irish deal
Soaring cost rises raises real fear of economy stagnating
Fears on food supplies in stores
Lack of pickers - another plea for easier access to migrant Labour
Poverty levels rising and the just coping about to tilt into despair
Billions underpaid to pensioners
Price rises see record rise as food prices soar
Vacancies soar
Furlough ends with fears of staff having new reduced contracts

Are we as a country along with the rest of the world just unlucky?
 
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Don’t watch the news for a month and see how you feel based solely on what you personally experience day to day, your reality.

I haven’t noticed most of those things you mention.

I did have to buy chicken thighs rather than breast the other day as Aldi didn’t have any. But I’ll get over it - i prefer them anyway, was just trying to reduce fat intake. Local Co op had plenty of breast like but I refuse to pay their prices. Not the end of the world.

some people might be ****ed, most will be okay. But it’s never been any different. There are fewer people in the first category now than there was in my youth, certainly.
 
bumface said:
I'm basically the new Jesus mate. They'll nail me up at some point and I'll have died to absolve all of the rest of you of your sins. You ought to be thanking me for that really.
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Well I thank you sincerely and can I say I for one will be proclaiming that your passing should celebrated every year. In years to come children will talk of the sacrifices made by bumface as they excitedly carve bumfaces in to now scarce broccoli.
 
ThirdLeg said:
Don’t watch the news for a month and see how you feel based solely on what you personally experience day to day, your reality.

I haven’t noticed most of those things you mention.

I did have to buy chicken thighs rather than breast the other day as Aldi didn’t have any. But I’ll get over it - i prefer them anyway, was just trying to reduce fat intake. Local Co op had plenty of breast like but I refuse to pay their prices. Not the end of the world.

some people might be ****ed, most will be okay. But it’s never been any different. There are fewer people in the first category now than there was in my youth, certainly.
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So how’s life in La La Land.?
 
Johnny Vincents Motorbike said:
try watching the news ! - the green and pleasant land is more like Gehenna, than Jerusalem
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The most important reality to me is the one in which I exist and experience every day. I don’t need to know that some young woman was murdered walking to her pals house or that our country is responsible for the deaths of many young children in Afghanistan, both news stories friends have sent me today. Humans aren’t equipped to deal with the problems of 7 billion people. 150 maybe.
My reality is this: my family are healthy and thriving, I have a more fulfilling, higher paying job that I did pre pandemic. I couldn’t buy chicken breast in Aldi recently.
It’s not I’m alright jack. It’s just surviving in the modern world. And as the op was someone apparently struggling with it all I think it’s a worthwhile suggestion to maybe take a break from the doom and gloom and bask in the present moment

I am of course aware suffering exists and would rather the trend in living standards was upwards. But what would you have me do about it? I’ll vote for the closest thing to a socialist party available next time around like I did last time and the time before that and so on
 
ThirdLeg said:
The most important reality to me is the one in which I exist and experience every day. I don’t need to know that some young woman was murdered walking to her pals house or that our country is responsible for the deaths of many young children in Afghanistan, both news stories friends have sent me today. Humans aren’t equipped to deal with the problems of 7 billion people. 150 maybe.
My reality is this: my family are healthy and thriving, I have a more fulfilling, higher paying job that I did pre pandemic. I couldn’t buy chicken breast in Aldi recently.
It’s not I’m alright jack. It’s just surviving in the modern world. And as the op was someone apparently struggling with it all I think it’s a worthwhile suggestion to maybe take a break from the doom and gloom and bask in the present moment
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Why don't you just dig a hole and stick your head in it.
At least that way we could all give you a kick up the ares as we walked by.
 
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