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.

No Brussels Sprouts -brilliant news 😀. Missing point of thread entirely

It’s shit, but then so was the 3 day week in the 70s, and the depression in the 30s and 2 WWs, also see the rest of human history.

i’m not dismissing your concern, but these eras cycle round.

Expect our particular democracy doesn’t actually work like that.

PR would be a start but without mandatory voting being politically engaged is essentially a hobby-status.

Then, given our greater understanding of psychology and behaviour than when democracy was first born, you have to account for how much is actually true choice and how much is manipulation. Technological advances have benefited us in many ways but also made us hugely vulnerable.

Insecurity.

The old chestnut that we’re all only three meals away from anarchy is unnerving when it starts looking possible. Not even happening, just possible.

Ah don’t be catastrophising…. Some people are anxious enough.

We are so rich and lucky we dont have to worry but might pull in bootstraps for DD12's private education, she's much more at home with self employment considering already running 6 successful businesses at 14.

Our house is too large, i admit, it does make us feel a bit vulgar admitting to having 20 bedrooms and 2 indoor pools and a gym, but we worked for our luxuries and are thankful every day for being so lucky and smart. I have no idea why other people are so lazy. It only takes one decision to make something of your life, not to mention prioritising your daughters marrying well.

One thing we do chuckle about - the proles voting tory every damn time, lol. Like turkeys voting for christmas. Well, it's all fair as we are guaranteed to take the cream off the top with every election. But don't tell them it doesn't trickle down!

And people still shop at Waitrose?
The last time we were in there (shudder) we spotted at least 4 working class people. Onwards and upwards ladies, please!

I hope you are are enjoying your pool today, it's lovely and warm

These things come and go. We need to tackle climate change for sure, but other stuff is transitory. Be glad you are not living in Ukraine. Life here has been very easy for quite a long time now and people forget that that there's always stuff happening and some of it is often bad.

I wouldn’t call it an apocalypse.
Life is difficult for many, no doubt about it.
But generally, if you are living in a first world country like the UK, you are currently living in the overall safest and most stable period of human history.

I think as long as McDonalds cheeseburger price rises and Walkers crisp shortages are still making the UK headlines, rather than actual famine, we’re still doing ok overall. It’s far from an apocalypse. Bare in mind there are countries going through brutal and violent civil wars and genuine famine and water shortage and have done for years - where people actual starve and die of thirst, rather than simply being unable to fill up their paddling pool and can’t cook with their favourite brand of olive oil - calling the situation in the UK an ‘apocalypse’ is extremely self indulgent and inappropriate.

I genuinely can't work out if you are okay

I was high risk of suicide most of my 20s and some of my 30s.

so you say you would top yourself if not for the children - is that a "joke" or do you need help? If you can indicate a region, sometimes smaller local charities have more resources.

I too am old enough to remember the previous situations and for once, I am not at risk of suicide but I'm concerned about you.

No one that snidey and judgemental is worried about an apocalypse.

Have a lie down and a cup of tea OP

I wouldn't say we were at the end of days but I have noticed a reduction in the amount of stuff available in the shops, both choice and volume. A few supermarkets near me have had to rejig the layout to conceal the problem, both to not put customers off but also I suspect this is what is in government advice to not panic people.

All the strikes hark back to the 70s so it's a bit like look how far we have (not) come. The winter doesn't seem an attractive proposition, the energy prices seem almost unbelievable. You feel like we are going into a deep curve (years) where standards of living decline.

House prices are inevitably going to fall with more repossessions.

Internationally things seem shaky with Russia and China in particular.

And it feels like neither the government nor the opposition has any solutions.

But there have been bad times before and people have been born, lived and died and they will continue doing so. No need to throw yourself off a roof.

Seems to be a lot of these threads recently - riots, collapsed government etc but it not just us there are prices rising around the world.

have you seen the pictures from Europe are dry riverbeds and shrivelled crops in fields? That was not caused by our government. It will result in higher food prices.

Russia - Ukraine crisis. Again not caused by our government. It will result in higher food prices and higher energy costs.

It does matter who governs us - they cannot control a global supply chain etc

Another ridiculous doomsday post.

I take a self injecting immunosuppressant every 2 months to keep my condition at bay, fulfilled and home delivered by Lloyds pharmacy.
Sadly they are struggling to source it like many other medications and I will get very I’ll without it, many others in same predicament.
Without medicine availability we all have serious issues.

A lot of these ‘let’s riot and bring down the government’ smacks of a little bit like ‘The Undeclared War’.

I feel a little bit excited 😜!!

Surely the shit has to hit the fan before things get better right? Clearing the path for better things to come……

Well you could call it that, but it's a reset, revolution. The fourth industrial revolution to be exact. The "great reset" to be exact. We are at a turning point in humankind.

soundcloud.com/world-economic-forum/the-great-reset-resetting-the?in=world-economic-forum/sets/the-great-reset

I wonder if you're using the word apocalypse because they used it on the BBC News the other day to talk about fuel bills & you've subliminally absorbed it. I was astonished they did that, talk about creating panic. I do wonder about their motives.

If we have an apocalypse, please can it be a zombie one? I have two petrol chainsaws and live near a helipad so I have a plan.

Also a couple of days warning would be nice so I can go on a massive spending and drinking binge.

P.S. No Brussel sprouts??? Well, that's Christmas cancelled!

"I think as long as McDonalds cheeseburger price rises and Walkers crisp shortages are still making the UK headlines, rather than actual famine, we’re still doing ok overall."

You do realise there are actually people in the UK who are starving and going without to make sure their kids eat each day, etc. right? It doesn't seem to suit the media to report on it, but it absolutely exists. See food banks.

I think it’s more that there were a few decades when everything in UK was very very easy for most people and we had a series of competent governments, low inflation, great exchange rate etc

I think there is a lot of truth in this. As a child at school in the 60s we were told that population explosion was going to lead to mass famine.
As a teenager in the 70s I was genuinely terrified of nuclear war. There was planning for it and it seemed inevitable. I decided then not to have children (changed my mind in the 90s).
Of course these things didn't happen for reasons unexpected at the time.

There have been ups and downs since but there are a lot of downs all at once just now. I am a bit concerned about what might happen in the next few months.

This is about the hundredth thread like this I've seen this week.

You need to see your GP, you may have depression.

Same job role here.
8000 people in temporary accommodation in Wales, no-one is moving out of it as there's nowhere to move into.
Lack of social housing,private landlords selling and rents going through the roof 😩