Feels like the apocalypse

[housinghero]

Is just me or does it just feel like the bloody end of the world at the moment..

ridiculous heat
water shortages
food shortages
Collapsing government
cost of living
energy prices
impending recession
staff shortgages
risk of fires

We are only just getting over a world wide pandemic- i haven't forgotten that yet....

If I didn't have kids then I would be looking for the nearest tall building.

Good point well made.

@Suetwo couldn't have said it better myself. All the other issues like energy bills pale in comparison to the climate crisis. I feel like everyone is sleepwalking into it. We are reaching the limit of population size that the world can sustain, if we haven't reached it already.

Surely Truss is more likely to cause riots than Rishi?

Crikey you lot get worked up don’t you! Happy Friday all

The winter blackouts and bad harvest later this year are going to cause a lot of problems, both social and economic. Next year will probably be worse.

Get out of the cities while you still can as they will have amplified problems due to population density.

Interesting response given you were the OP of this cheerful thread.

I’m intrigued by you saying this!

But not if Liz does?!

@housinghero I too want to know about the Rishi Riots? Whats the problem? I'm obviously not reading the same newspapers as you.

I'm not being snippy, I genuinely want to know.

And I sympathise with your comments. To be honest, it felt bad about 8 years ago, I had a chat with my dad about it. It's been getting worse ever since!

I agree. The denial about climate change is astonishing.

Climate change is the biggie. Everything else will pass. Except maybe Brexit but we'll learn to live with our crap status as the only country in Europe outside the EU/EEA (once the likes of Serbia and even eventually Ukraine join).

I am not a Tory so I’ll be rioting whoever is leader.
I have been told that I am ridiculous and that I should find something to kill myself over….
apparently I’m unreasonable …
you all have no sense of humour.
however I have no sense of humour over the people that I work with being in total poverty due to a fucking pandemic and fucking Tory decisions and policies.
have a great Friday people - have a drink and look at yourselves very now and then.

We have a stable, democratically-elected Government.
The weather is a bit warm, but we'll be moaning that it's cold & wet in a few weeks time.
Most of us have realised that the pandemic was nothing like the drama it was made out to be, and are getting on with our lives.
We may be approaching economic recession, but we've been there before & will be there again - these things go in cycles.
Our lives are vastly better than at almost any time in the last 120 years.
So let's not make mountains out of molehills, hey?

In terms of your list:

ridiculous heat - climate change
water shortages - climate change but we can save water ourselves
food shortages - Putin, and climate change
Collapsing government - well we voted this lot in (I didn't but you know we as in UK voters)
cost of living - Putin, Brexit, and climate change
energy prices - Putin
impending recession - all of the above
staff shortgages - fixable - partly by employers stopping being so fussy
risk of fires - climate change and human stupidity.

And I hope my last comment gives you all something to write abiut

go fuck yourself

Our lives are vastly better than at almost any time in the last 120 years

this is mainly true unless you are trying to get healthcare - but then again, at least we have healthcare to get

People were saying on another thread that the NHS was better in the 1970s. It was in some ways, like being able to get to see a GP. But if you were scraped up off the road, it was by an "ambulance driver", not a paramedic, and your chances of a good outcome were much lower than now.

Yep then prepare for the coldest winter in history!..

I would stop watching the news and come off social media.
Im old enough to have lived through the 70’s and 80’s and was affected by it e.g dad on strike, mines shut down.
However it didn’t seem so bad at the time as we didn’t have constant news telling us how bad it was and how we are all going to die. Most of us just carried on with our mundane life’s.

This is a good post providing some perspective

We’re not used to this weather (granted I love it) but soon it’ll be threads re people freezing

Hopefully there’ll be some moderate temperature as a break between the two

Another ridiculous tread and attitude from an OP, it really is silly season on here and it’s getting tiresome. As are the constant multiple treads a day about the COL ‘crisis’ with posters all battling to a race to the bottom. Everyone’s ‘scared’, ‘terrified’, ‘petrified’. Does no one just worry anymore?

Fuck me I’ve just read there won’t be any Brussels sprouts at Christmas now.

I’ve changed my mind - it’s definitely the bloody end times. I can’t live a life without sprouts.

<downs cyanide pill>

Exactly, perfectly said.

The newspapers sensationalise everything. Stop reading them and you’re anxiety will disappear. Check BBC news once a week for a round up of anything important, and get on with your life.

We don't live in a dictatorship. In a democracy you don't riot for regime change, you vote. And if there are more people who disagree than agree with you, then you suck it up, because that's the deal with living in a democracy.

Everyone’s ‘scared’, ‘terrified’, ‘petrified’. Does no one just worry anymore?

Hey, the apocalypse is no reason not to encourage a wider vocabulary

Everyone’s ‘scared’, ‘terrified’, ‘petrified’. Does no one just worry anymore?

it is odd especially from posters who are comfortable in life but still scared. So much hyperbole

I don’t understand why they get in a state - is it too much SM