Young Men Playing Video Games Instead Of Finding Jobs

LabR@t · 27 Oct 2017 at 19:27

Vonhelmet said:
I'll second this. I like playing video games, but I'm sometimes guilty of doing it because it's an easy way to pass the time. I could put in some effort and go play the piano for half an hour instead and it'd be harder work but far more rewarding and far more likely to actually impress someone or be worth something one day.

Yer but the mod ain't going to come knocking for you are they,

Vonhelmet · 27 Oct 2017 at 19:37

LabR@t said:
Yer but the mod ain't going to come knocking for you are they,

I could be a spy, playing piano in a jazz bar... really badly.

LabR@t · 27 Oct 2017 at 20:15

Vonhelmet said:
I could be a spy, playing piano in a jazz bar... really badly.

Travelling the world, you and your piano.

silversurfer · 27 Oct 2017 at 21:49

Flack88 · 27 Oct 2017 at 22:13

silversurfer said:

Typical of London right there. Instead of using common sense and saying "hey Ill enjoy the music" she has to come up and ruin the entertainment. Surprised the police didn't bust in and accuse him of having a bomb in the piano. Orwell 1984; it appears is getting close to reality, she even got the CCTV statement in there

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[TW]Fox · 28 Oct 2017 at 12:10

Rotty said:
purchased first house in 90s with double digit interest rates

Must have been only just into the 90's? Double digit interest rates were pretty much gone by 1992.

Rotty · 28 Oct 2017 at 14:29

might have been earlier, was long ago, remember mortgage rate hitting 17% for a very brief time :eek:

malachi · 28 Oct 2017 at 15:00

Rotty said:
might have been earlier, was long ago, remember mortgage rate hitting 17% for a very brief time

Would be interesting to see if that happened now. Watch the whole country just default into poverty within days.

The people who are struggling now on low interest rate will have a harder time coming up. People need to prepare for the worst but they don't\can't.

LabR@t · 28 Oct 2017 at 15:51

malachi said:
Would be interesting to see if that happened now. Watch the whole country just default into poverty within days.

The people who are struggling now on low interest rate will have a harder time coming up. People need to prepare for the worst but they don't\can't.

Cancel sky, Netflix, Amazon etc, buy 10 year old car and stop the car payments on the nice Audi on the drive. Stop eating out then they might be ok.

Mason- · 28 Oct 2017 at 15:59

So to sum up

Old people had it easy

Young people are lazy

Women have it easy

Think we can close the thread now. Pick your category from above and admit defeat.

Ayahuasca · 28 Oct 2017 at 16:00

LabR@t said:
Cancel sky, Netflix, Amazon etc, buy 10 year old car and stop the car payments on the nice Audi on the drive. Stop eating out then they might be ok.

Can't be doing that as then they won't be able to attract any females, quick look at our OCUK relationship thread and some poor fella is no longer loved as he wants to better himself and his partner can't stand paying for a meal herself.

CREATIVE!11 · 28 Oct 2017 at 16:28

Mason- said:
So to sum up

Old people had it easy

Young people are lazy

Women have it easy

Think we can close the thread now. Pick your category from above and admit defeat.

Yep.

malachi · 28 Oct 2017 at 16:45

LabR@t said:
Cancel sky, Netflix, Amazon etc, buy 10 year old car and stop the car payments on the nice Audi on the drive. Stop eating out then they might be ok.

Interesting when I try to drum that into my friends and I get the excuse "But have it for the kids" When I go round to their houses, the TV is on in the background while their kids are on their phones or tablets. :rolleyes:

LabR@t · 28 Oct 2017 at 17:54

malachi said:
Interesting when I try to drum that into my friends and I get the excuse "But have it for the kids" When I go round to their houses, the TV is on in the background while their kids are on their phones or tablets.

I keep thinking I need to cancel sky, we only ever seem to watch Netflix, the occasional thing on Amazon.
It's so easy to just keep signing up for the odd thing here as there, I think of the top of my head I have.
Openvpn, Untangle, sky, Netflix, Amazon, nowtv(films), xboxlive, PSn+, three

Half the time the TV is not even in
On,I suspect most people are the same. When I was younger there was nowthing like that to fritter your money away on. Just the pub

Vonhelmet · 28 Oct 2017 at 18:05

LabR@t said:
Cancel sky, Netflix, Amazon etc, buy 10 year old car and stop the car payments on the nice Audi on the drive. Stop eating out then they might be ok.

You're kidding yourself if you think those changes would allow people to cope with 17% interest rates. Maybe 5%, but even that would be very painful for a lot of people. It looks like they might go back up next week to like 1% or something, and even that little move could have painful knock on effects.

Outcast · 28 Oct 2017 at 18:29

Mason- said:
So to sum up

Old people had it easy

Young people are lazy

Women have it easy

Think we can close the thread now. Pick your category from above and admit defeat.

Without any shadow of doubt we had the best decades. I wouldn't want to be young now. I'd probably just be a Bum !

V F · 28 Oct 2017 at 18:39

G-MAN2004 said:
Just wait until VR properly takes off and we've got some sort of Vanilla Sky situation where you can choose to live permanently in a virtual world. I'd be very tempted.

Flack88 said:
Typical of London right there. Instead of using common sense and saying "hey Ill enjoy the music" she has to come up and ruin the entertainment. Surprised the police didn't bust in and accuse him of having a bomb in the piano. Orwell 1984; it appears is getting close to reality, she even got the CCTV statement in there .

O_o He got fined £130 for it?

Outcast · 28 Oct 2017 at 19:17

The £130 was a parking ticket !!

Ryan-3 · 28 Oct 2017 at 21:32

Avenged7Fold said:
I think these people have neither suffered the reality check required or benefited from how work can expand your life. Staying in and playing games all day may be good, but it will get boring and life will feel dull and hollow.

Exactly this for me too. I’m at the age of leaving uni, starting a career, buying cars, etc. and totally agree. A lot seem to live in a bubble and don’t seem to understand what responsibility really is. Quite a few leave School and haven’t given their future any real thought, hence why they end up this way, or do a low paid job that they hate.

Bassmansam · 28 Oct 2017 at 22:31

Vonhelmet said:
You're kidding yourself if you think those changes would allow people to cope with 17% interest rates. Maybe 5%, but even that would be very painful for a lot of people. It looks like they might go back up next week to like 1% or something, and even that little move could have painful knock on effects.

Thats only if you are on variable rate though right?