
I asked for suggestions on the best thing about the credit crunch - and here they are. Now I need you to order them by voting for your favourite.
It's going to all go into a book-like thingie the I Spot Internet Humour one we did.
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 15:33,
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It's going to all go into a book-like thingie the I Spot Internet Humour one we did.
The best thing about the credit crunch

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Don't know about my favourite thing, but the saddest thing about it is that the b3ta proof-reader has been laid off.
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 15:34,
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Don't know about my favourite thing, but the saddest thing about it is that the b3ta proof-reader has been laid off.

if anything with the weak pound I would have thought it would be more expensive
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 15:35,
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Hooray for the buy-to-letters not finding it so easy though. I remember when we were looking for our first place to buy and every one we saw for ages had been already bought by Sara and Tarquin from fucking Islington or wherever.
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 15:36,
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Last summer everyone was saying "Get a fixed-rate mortgage, get fixed-rate energy tariffs" ... so we did.
Now all the variable rates and variable tariffs are down, and we're still paying the same fucking rates for the next 5 years.
Cunts.
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 15:41,
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Now all the variable rates and variable tariffs are down, and we're still paying the same fucking rates for the next 5 years.
Cunts.

We got a tracker rate.
A year ago we were paying £1150 a month.
We are now paying £150 a month.
Is there an opposite of shadenfreude?
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Tue 10 Mar 2009, 16:58,
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A year ago we were paying £1150 a month.
We are now paying £150 a month.
Is there an opposite of shadenfreude?

I'm going out for a cigarette.
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 15:51,
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But it's certainly my favourite Vegtable. Can you imagine trying to use broccoli to support your desklamps?
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Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:47,
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because they had no votes and it made me sad
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 15:53,
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I'm not even sure I've ever tried a turnip
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 15:59,
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Because I would have voted for cauliflower had I been given the chance.
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 16:00,
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in the semi-final at Villa Park in February.
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 16:07,
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he's obviously in a vegetative state, and therefore a cabbage
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 16:10,
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Cauliflower cheese is one of the finest things you can do with a vegetable
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 16:11,
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Of course, this is all irrelevant because onions will win every time.
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 16:14,
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brocolli's like a better cauliflower.
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 16:16,
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I do have some purple sprouting stuff for tea though.
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 16:17,
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there's someone else on the board who can spell 'broccoli'.
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 21:35,
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so should be eaten by those exposed to atomic radiation; some of us feel, not otherwise." Katherine Whitehorn, Cooking in a Bedsitter
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Phil Spencer (He of Location, Location, Location fame) having to pass his Home Finding company into the hands of administrators.
So, Holidays in Britain it is then :)
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 15:39,
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So, Holidays in Britain it is then :)

Going down end of this month to check out some
up-for-sale places. I can no longer work for someone else.
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 15:46,
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up-for-sale places. I can no longer work for someone else.

I hope it all goes well. I'll be coming to visit if it does. YOU CAN'T STOP ME.
You can, but I'll cry.
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 15:47,
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You can, but I'll cry.

I'd do you a good rate too ;¬)
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 15:54,
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Looking around Pembrokeshire, Cardigan Bay, but not ruling out Brecon!
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 15:58,
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really hope it all works out for you :)
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 15:48,
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and hadn't noticed a no-frills brand, I'll look out next time.
I'm looking forward to Harvey Nicks Food Halls getting in on that one.
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 15:41,
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I'm looking forward to Harvey Nicks Food Halls getting in on that one.

www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/11/tinfoil_hats_as_government_plot/
It's all a plot by the Evil Bacofoil Committee.
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 15:56,
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It's all a plot by the Evil Bacofoil Committee.

They raised the duty on fags so they didn't drop in price with the cuts.
Bastards!
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 16:32,
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Bastards!

Not sure their suicide is as good as them having to slum it like the rest of us
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 17:54,
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...my unemployable neighbour and his six-strong spawn of Satan going on holiday for a month in California on the back of his benefits counts as "The poor being smug", then.
Clicks, HARD
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 20:41,
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Clicks, HARD

...that the thing we celebrate the most is someone else's failure. Sigh.
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Mon 9 Mar 2009, 21:16,
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My last 3 big purchases have been
Flights and included visa/insurance/etc. to australia - €1332
iPod - €170
digital camera - €140
Fucking win.
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Tue 10 Mar 2009, 0:08,
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Flights and included visa/insurance/etc. to australia - €1332
iPod - €170
digital camera - €140
Fucking win.

A stilted conversation about the busyness/quietness of the evening seems to have been replaced by moans about the credit crunch as the default conversation on the way home.
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Tue 10 Mar 2009, 11:43,
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although it kind of misses the magic of oblivious racism
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Tue 10 Mar 2009, 23:47,
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while the pound was strong against the Euro laughing in the faces of people stupid enough to stay in "Bloody" Britain whilst swanning around the Costa's ruining the Spanish building industry with their high disposable incomes and bragging to their stay-at-home friends and family that they could buy a cup of tea for 3p.
Thanks to the collapse of Sterling, they now can't afford to buy a loaf of bread on the state pension and their luxury apartments with swimming pools are worth fuck all, which means they can't return "home".
Boo Hoo
THAT is the best thing about the credit crunch.
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Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:51,
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Thanks to the collapse of Sterling, they now can't afford to buy a loaf of bread on the state pension and their luxury apartments with swimming pools are worth fuck all, which means they can't return "home".
Boo Hoo
THAT is the best thing about the credit crunch.