Comments | kristamm: wah wah wah, you total eejit

kristamm

wah wah wah, you total eejit

Oct 15, 2010 11:13

So you bought an apartment in the Docklands at the height of the boomPerhaps I am cold and unfeeling and unreasonable but I cannot muster up any emotion other than a Nelson-like "HA, ha!" for this woman. Wah wah wah, you did a stupid thing. Even presuming there had been no global economic collapse, a scenario I don't expect her to have foreseen, ( Read more... )

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unav October 15 2010, 10:27:44 UTC

The Irish Times have some cheek running a property sob story (albeit one that makes me spit with rage at her sense of entitlement and complete lack of perspective) in the same supplement that suggests a 1.3m 3 bed redbrick as a reasonable aspiration, and that people should be paying 210k for a one-bed shoebox half way out to Wicklow.

unav October 15 2010, 10:31:39 UTC

(thank god I'm a calm person now, right?)

kristamm October 15 2010, 14:35:25 UTC

I can practically feel your zen from here.

ext_100439 October 15 2010, 10:29:35 UTC

"The market’s collapse is the worst thing that has happened many young people of my generation."

And it's the best thing that happened many of her generation too, those who couldn't buy in. The market's inflation is the thing that hurt almost everyone in that generation.

kristamm October 15 2010, 14:36:12 UTC

Agreed.

Also, part of me is all "well, if that's the worst that's happened, you shouldn't be complaining." I am already turning into someone's cranky granny.

lazy_hoor October 15 2010, 10:31:13 UTC

Jesus Christ. What is it with the Irish Times and idiots and their tales of woe?
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/1004/1224280310852.html
Speaking as someone whose family was technically homeless for a while, I can confirm losing a house doesn't mean that you sleep rough. Also, this writer could contact the bank and come to an agreement, but where's the drama in that?

There was a couple on the news a few months ago in a boo-hoo-hoo piece about how they'd spent their
entire savings on buying three (three!) apartments in Dubai and that had all gone tits up and they were left with NOTHING. Sorry, you were idiots and I have no sympathy with speculators who gamble and then cry because the gamble didn't pay off.

unav October 15 2010, 10:39:30 UTC

I currently presume that the IT runs these articles as comfort to the other idiotic speculators among their readers. That, or this is all a complex test of my new-found calm. I can actually feel my blood pressure rise as I read the property section.

lazy_hoor October 15 2010, 10:43:13 UTC

Did you see the piece in the Guardian a few weeks ago about how 'poor' the British middle classes are? They have to get rid of the nanny, and one 4x4 apparently.

unav October 15 2010, 10:54:31 UTC

No! The horror! Actually, I feel a bit of a fraud writing that, as I was brought up with a lovely nanny for a while, and we would have been heartbroken if she was made redundant because my parents couldn't pay her anymore.

I am becoming more and more convinced that the media now only exists to create unrealistic aspirations, and dissatisfaction with our own quality of life. Maybe I'll give up reading the papers again.

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