the thing is....
this 'credit crunch' is just the next in a long line of the nation's grand list of
THINGS TO BE AFRAID OF
Yes,a few banks went bust but this sort of thing happens fairly regularly.I am allllmost old enough to remember the last 'credit crunch',which was almost a decade before this one.Roll back the clock to 1987 (remember black monday?),and then another decade or so when there was a crunch in the seventies...etcetera.Capitalism is cyclical.Shares go down as well as up.It is inherent in the nature of capitalism that companies will go down the pan - it happens.

If you're interested,here's a rundown of all the things since 1991 (that I can remember) that someone,somewhere, has told me to
BE AFRAID OF.
E-coli,BSE,MMR,Mobile phones ,Terrorism, MRSA, Terrorism ,H5N1, Terrorism, Bird Flu, Terrorism, Stock market Crash, Rampant Inflation, The Millennium Bug , The Conservatives, New Labour, A Fascist state, The Credit Crunch, The 'panopticon' , House Prices, Terrorism, terrorism and terrorism.
Have I ever paid a blind bit of notice?No.
Have I ever been affected by any of them?Well,not really...
(Fuckpig "That's not even a pound a midget.", Fri 23 Jan 2009, 15:01, 10 replies)

Don't forget salmonella
Oh, and terrorism. And drinking. And hoodies.

Funny how noone mentions things that really will kill you, like bad driving. Apparently that's not worth sorting out, even though it knocks all the others into a cocked hat.
( Olembe Refuses to write in this space, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 15:04, closed)

it's also funny how we've got such a downer on smoking
when its alcohol that causes far more health,social and psychological problems.....
d'ya think that's because of the money HM's Govt. makes on booze?Hm?
(Fuckpig "That's not even a pound a midget.", Fri 23 Jan 2009, 15:12, closed)

ahhh, the other thing is...
that there isn't a huge industry of "smoking houses" unlike the pub/club/leisure industry that would rape the Government if they weren't allowed to sell booze.

Also, because they can palm off all alcohol-related diseases as an "ism" (alocoholism), then it's a mental illness, not a case of drinking cheap export lager in a bus shelter like a tramp. Smoking can (and does) cause a lot of ailments that a) can't be limited purely to smoking as a cause and, b) aren't bunched together as an "ism" - this means no profitable Social Services schemes to help you quit smoking by living in governmetn shelters and getting 3 social workers. So, smoking loses out because:
1) Health and Safety don't like things that burn.
2) You can be an alcoholic but not a tobaccoholic.
3) There is more middle-management and social work employment (not to mention police jobs, first-aid staff, etc), to be generated by people getting pissed.

In fact, I firmly believe the only reason Weed and Smack aren't legal and being taxed is that you can't ban smoking fags, but allow joints - it sends a mixed message - and Health and Safety don't like the idea of sharp needles and no-one has invented a syringe full of heroin that is both able to hit a vein and totally blunt...
(Chad, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 16:12, closed)

Oh Chad
You are funny.
(cherrynicola, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 13:43, closed)

So....
...Bt3a is where all the intelligeent and sensible people live! Hooray!

Clicky.

By the way, you missed AIDS, terrorists, terrorists with AIDS, and insolvent avian terrorists with AIDS, in a bank, carrying a knife.
(NoveltyCondomHead Clanks Wams., Fri 23 Jan 2009, 15:16, closed)

i'm not old enough to remember AIDS :P

(Fuckpig "That's not even a pound a midget.", Fri 23 Jan 2009, 15:17, closed)

As soon as we stop worrying about one thing...
...Another thing to worry about comes along.

There's always 'something which is going to kill us all', which we are groomed to fear.

It's the governments way to keep the masses in check... If we have something to fear, which the government is able to save us from...We are less likely to revolt!
(NoStrings Tastes like zombies!!, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 15:26, closed)

100% agree.long live democracy!

(Fuckpig "That's not even a pound a midget.", Fri 23 Jan 2009, 16:07, closed)

Baked beans are off.
Can I have some Terrorism instead?
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Fri 23 Jan 2009, 18:39, closed)

thanks fuck for that
...a sensible person. Have a click.

How about SARS as well? That was fun.

I'm sick of being told I'm cold and disaffected because I don't have THE FEAR.
(Samara Morgan is a small blue thing, like a marble or an eye, Sat 24 Jan 2009, 22:49, closed)