Comments on: Bleak house

By: Grandad

Grandad — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:14:12 +0000

John O - You have just described my youth perfectly [I'm still not too fond of macaroni cheese]. As for The Others - The only reason I go on about them is that they are ruining the countryside with their forts. I swear if I ever won the lottery, I’d give most of it away!

By: John O

John O — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:43:12 +0000

lots of stuff, security, paranoia, one-upmanship, what does it all get you? Not a damn thing except more of the same and a boat-load of health problems and your kids hate you for no reason. Growing up poor and Catholic meant macaroni and cheese on Friday, confession on Saturday, mass on Sunday and nuns and school again on Monday and all was right with the world. You played outside with your friends, you used your imagination to the fullest and pretended to fly like superman, built forts and made pretend farts with your arm pits. No locked doors and families watching out for one anothers kids. Lots of stuff is no guarantee of anything except maybe anxiety about wanting more and getting less, the poor bastards with the security eye in the sky will never “see” the comet coming until it is too late.

By: English Mum

English Mum — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:33:59 +0000

I know we’re pretty rural up here, but none of us lock our doors and still wander in and out of each others’ places. It’s one of the things that I love about living here. Mind you, there’s a couple of newly built big, flash ivory towers with electric gates. They’re sitting empty with for sale signs outside, though. Shame….

By: Jim C

Jim C — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:33:56 +0000

I grew up in town where you locked the front door to let people know you were not home, and left the back door open in case some needed to get it. We always left the key in the car in case one of them had to be moved. When visiting my dad would get mad because I not took the keys out, I actually locked the car.

By contrast while living in Miami my wifes car was broken into while she was attending mass. They did about 5 times as much damage to the car as they got from the items they stole.

By: Bock the Robber

Bock the Robber — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:40:54 +0000

Give it about a week. That’s all these fuckers have left.

By: Grandad

Grandad — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:17:07 +0000

Thrifty - The majority of the ones I know are miserable bastards. I can guarantee that you may be financially poorer, but you are a lot happier.

By: thriftcriminal

thriftcriminal — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:46:02 +0000

Oh, they might be much less well off, but they are still better off than I, and much better connected. Until the gaffs you describe are being re-posessed they’re doing OK.

By: Grandad

Grandad — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:02:40 +0000

Thrifty - And where are they keeping their money? Shares? Heh! Investment portfolios? Ha Ha! The banks - not worth much. Property? Hmmmm? I’d say a lot of them have suffered.

Baino - I always said that if someone did break in here, they’d take pity on us, tidy the place and leave us some decent stuff.

By: Baino

Baino — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:54:26 +0000

I imagine the burglar’s have walked through out place, eyeballed all four dodgy cars all with keys in their ignition, taken a look around and decided to go down the road to the nice big house with the electronic gate and security cameras because they have to be protecting something valuable when clearly I’m not. I have two dogs . . . neither would wake up if there was a removal truck pulling up outside!

By: Thriftcriminal

Thriftcriminal — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:50:40 +0000

Ya think the recession will change em? They’ll sit in their secure houses counting their money and congratulating themselves on their acumen while the rest of the county wails.