AIBU to believe that the cost of living crisis is a load of nonsense

[MaryWils24]

So I wake up this morning to find that 14 million people are trying for Oasis tickets. A mediocre rock band and a “reunion” tour just to create a retirement fund for two already multi-millionaires.

The question is - where are so many people getting the money from to buy tickets? On one hand people moan about the “cost of living” but can easily find £500 to fund this nonsense.

Madness.

People should stop moaning about the cost of living if they can waste money on things like this. They are either getting too much income from their job/benefits (if they can afford this) to complain about “cost of living” or they should stop moaning about increasing food/fuel prices!

Rant over!

how do you know that those buying tickets are affected/poor due to the COL crisis? it affects many but then, millions in this country are fine and not destitute. How on earth do you claim to know which cohort is buying tickets? I tell you, you don't (and you are largely talking out of your arse).

You're literally making up scenarios in order to piss yourself off.

You've totally invented these people who are complaining about the COL paying £500 on a credit card to get oasis tickets and then defaulting on their payments. There hasn't been time for any payment defaults aside from anything else.

@MaryWils24 You are Damon Albarn and I claim my five pounds.

This is such an embarrassing thread lmao, imagine actually typing this out and thinking "fuck yeah, I don't sound like an out of touch moron at all!". Bet you're one of those people who spouted bollocks about "if millennials stopped drinking lattes and eating avocados they'd be able to buy houses" aren't you? Think the poor peasants should do nothing but work eat and sleep, how dare they want nice things too the ungrateful peons?

The people I know buying them are all 40s/50s well off with good jobs and no need to spank a credit card.

Some people just have a lot of money and are unaffected by COL increases. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t cripple those with absolutely no leeway in finances.

I have saw it with my own eyes. People who ordinary complain about about the Cost of Living then suddenly are buying tickets for this.

Crikey, god forbid anyone spend any of their hard-earned income having FUN. Is people going on holiday also evidence that there's no cost-of-living crisis? rolls eyes so hard they fall out

OP your posts are like a cut and paste out of the Daily Mail comments section. Embarrassing really.

Its very unlikely to be 14 million people, it will be 14 million hits to the site. Including genuine buyers from all over the world, some of them clicking away repeatedly like my nan trying to open her Web browser on her 15 year old laptop. Some people will have multiple devices logged on, but the majority are probably coming from bots trying to snap them up faster than anyone else.

If they want to go and can afford it, why is it ‘wasteful spending’? Should they only spend their disposable cash on things you like? The economy would come to a complete standstill if people only spent on necessities.

People do moan about the cost of living, usually those with money but they still moan as it's the thing to moan about, don't mean they don't go on holiday or concerts though, they just don't like spending money on utilities and food, unless it's eating out or takeaways of course

NO.

Hope this helps!!

Why the Random Capitalisation from the OP? Is that also something they did in Victorian times, when (rich) people originally touted the (now very much discredited and actually quite vile) concept of the deserving/undeserving poor?

It's doesn't make sense to you because you are not intelligent enough to understand the very basics of economic principles. Maybe go back to reading FB posts about lost cats and enjoy a nice cup of tea.

Have a day off Mary.

To be honest, I wouldn’t even know Liam or Noel Gallagher if I was standing next to them in the street. No idea about them. My mum got me waiting in this queue since 8am this morning for these tickets and I can’t for the life of me understand the hype around them. Nonsense really.

I'm friends with a couple who live on minimum wage. No kids. They struggle day to day but put away about £20 a month to pay for their yearly holiday in their camper van

They aren't camping next year. They are seeing Oasis. Doesn't detract from the fact they find food and utilities take up most of their income.

You've solved everyone's financial problems just like that. Amazing!
Never heard of credit?

So you know a few scallies who normally complain about being skint but are willing to buy Oasis tickets.

That doesn't mean that the CoL isn't real. It doesn't mean that everyone buying Oasis tickets is a scally who can't afford it.

It just means that you know a few scallies who normally complain about being skint but are willing to buy Oasis tickets.

Round of applause OP, you've discovered wealth inequality! Unfortunately, you've mistaken it for something else entirely, the absence of the cost of living crisis, but still, its a start.

So because 14m people want tickets there's no COL crisis?

Are you a Tory MP?!

I'm not affected by the col crisis as mortgage is paid off and have substantial household income. I'm trying to buy tickets (and failing)

There’ll be ppl buying then reselling for hundreds if not thousand of £. Smart move, if immoral. You can put it on a card and save up for your fuel bills.

OP, it is possible to be pissed off with my money not going as far as it would 10 years ago (I work in the public sector and am effectively paid a lot less than I was 10 years ago, so inflation calculator tells me) and still be able to go on holiday/and or to concerts. I even go to Nando's occasionally, much to my mothers horror; "people can't be that hard up if they can afford to eat out of the house".

Well these are the richer people who don’t moan about the cost of living crisis, then.

You make a huge generalisation