Do you think the western world is becoming harder to live in?

BunnyKillBot · 9 May 2012 at 13:58

realBabelfish said:
isnt it impossible to tarnish the church any more?

Har, Har, Har, and nice use of a double negative. Try again.

Pate · 9 May 2012 at 15:07

Fuzz said:
When people stop buying **** they don't need, then the world will be a better place.

Says the guy who wants to not only buy an X5, but a 4.6 or 4.8 petrol version....

realBabelfish · 9 May 2012 at 15:09

BunnyKillBot said:
Har, Har, Har, and nice use of a double negative. Try again.

you need to learn some basic english i think. no double negative there.

'isnt it impossible.....' isnt a double negative. i guess me reading English and you reading the bible teaches us all something.....

antijoke · 9 May 2012 at 15:15

gibb said:
I agree with your viewpoint, in the 80s when my parents were 'joining real life' and getting their first proper jobs, cars and renting their own house they would not have dreamed of spending 500 pounds each per year for a phone. Yet now I work in a store at weekends and there are people on minimum wage (+ a little bit) spending that amount on their phone and getting year old cars on credit.

I don't see how you can make such claims, I'm sure had the technology existed to your parents, I dare say they would do exactly the same thing.

Tyron · 9 May 2012 at 15:18

anticonscience said:
I don't see how you can make such claims, I'm sure had the technology existed to your parents, I dare say they would do exactly the same thing.

Work ethic was different in those days though and people lived within their means.

Btw who are those people in your sig? (looks interesting).

antijoke · 9 May 2012 at 15:19

Mr. White & Jesse Pinkman.

From the TV series Breaking Bad.

It is possible the ethic was different back then but I'd still imagine they would have a phone on a monthly contract if such technology was available.

Tyron · 9 May 2012 at 15:23

Thanks, he looks like Eminem in that pic.

elmarko · 9 May 2012 at 15:28

I lol every single time I see the term "average salary".

Why on earth use an average for something with such an unbalanced distribution, the mode is a far better indicator for income distribution - but hey, I guess it fluffs to the figures to make everybody think the typical Brit is earning more than they do.

Hell, I'd cut off anything 3 times above/below the standard deviation (removing the outliers & extremes) - but that would royally screw the figures (to show the actual state of the typical person in the UK).

Amp34 · 9 May 2012 at 18:25

[TW]Fox;21873124 said:
And the massive reduction in interest rates - see earlier in this thread for the calculation of the percentage of a persons salary a mortgage took up in the land of super cheap wonder houses that was the 1980's versus today...

And that. I hadn't got to the third page by then.

Amp34 · 9 May 2012 at 18:27

elmarko1234 said:
I lol every single time I see the term "average salary".

Why on earth use an average for something with such an unbalanced distribution, the mode is a far better indicator for income distribution - but hey, I guess it fluffs to the figures to make everybody think the typical Brit is earning more than they do.

Hell, I'd cut off anything 3 times above/below the standard deviation (removing the outliers & extremes) - but that would royally screw the figures (to show the actual state of the typical person in the UK).

Actually the median is generally considered the most "accurate". Which comes out as £26k for a full time worker at the moment.