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Forti: Morning All, Here it is Hump Day already. it appears SA has decided to stick it's hand up as the worst DV dealer in the country. Despite the truth being Dv cases have gone down in the last few years, they are still a misery to deal with
May 15, 2024 5:35:14 GMT 10
Forti: Morning All, I see a headline reporting that 40% of 18 to 34 year olds are still living at home. Cost of living crisis has them pumping mum and dad for everything.
May 16, 2024 5:41:35 GMT 10
Forti: 44% spend on general living, 43% on travel 29% on a new car 27% on clothes and accessories leaving 24% to save for a home. Clearly this wasn't written by anyone my age for a luddite like me in maths can see we got more than 100%. You need a UNI degree for
May 16, 2024 5:44:52 GMT 10
Forti: all that clever journalism and the 167% total would amaze even Albo's Treasurer big Jim.
May 16, 2024 5:46:29 GMT 10
Lurx: I am no longer phased by the maths attached to life today 40. It just does not compute. Who can work out the electricity fiasco. You would have to be a fuckwit to consider the economics involved as being feasible. Beyond me.... Daft I call it
May 16, 2024 5:52:32 GMT 10
Lurx: I have my son stopping with me at the mo... he never came home last night. I don't think I will worry he hasn't been home for 43 years. But he is one on a 200 plus a year. His kids are only just into the work scene, eldest lad on 140.. holly dooley
May 16, 2024 5:55:48 GMT 10
Forti: Not only a tabloid report but it appears as a channel none tv report, they put the same numbers up. So one wonders how many of us General public people looked at it and went "that doesn't add up. My Daughter is at home still, She's not saving either.
May 16, 2024 6:10:06 GMT 10
Forti: I recall buying lollies back in 1973 10 a cent for chocolate cobbers stars buddies. they are 10 cents each today. First wage 16,000 a year and yes now the wages are up there as well. School Bus Driving today 30K a year boy am I behind doing societies chore
May 16, 2024 6:13:16 GMT 10
Lurx: Hmmmmm I can recall my father back in 1970 being bewildered by my ability at scoring more than the Prime Minister of the day (NZ$44gs). Now my pension is more than that. .... And I too am equally bewildered. Its all bullshit... my only conclusion
May 16, 2024 8:44:45 GMT 10
Forti: From memory i required 4 years wages to buy a home back in 1979. Might have been five. But not like today where the average wage requires 12 years to match the price of a house or eight even if you include the entire households wages,
May 16, 2024 18:03:09 GMT 10
Forti: All I've seen these clowns do is feather their nests and route ours.
May 16, 2024 18:03:30 GMT 10
Forti: Today we have by this news article an issue where 40% of people between 18 and 34 are sitting at home wasting their coin on boutique clothes and not much else. A false economy from where I stand. Perhaps inevitable given the win a trophy just by entering
May 16, 2024 18:06:00 GMT 10
Lurx: The figures and the time you quote to acquire a house ... 4x4 years wages still exist, if you are a wash plant manager, or you are employed in some other manufactured hierarchy within the grubment. Even holding a stop go sign can put you in the higher zone
May 16, 2024 19:58:33 GMT 10
Lurx: I do firmly believe we are in a bewildered society.... multiplied by our own inability to know how many beans make 5. Crazy shit and made crazier by the information highway where the traffic moves at a rate of knots we are unable to fully comprehend.
May 16, 2024 20:03:15 GMT 10
Lurx: Hence the age old ..... stop this world I want to get off
May 16, 2024 20:04:17 GMT 10
Forti: Morning, I prefer to use the majority of workers wages at the bottom where i was when I started saving for a home. I took Home 16K a year. Bought our first home with that. Mind you I had no side interests, no Netflix subscriptions etc like today.
May 17, 2024 5:58:35 GMT 10
Forti: Anyway Thank god it's Friday, it came around fast enough though.
May 17, 2024 6:00:58 GMT 10
Forti: I see that NSW has dropped the need for manditory jabbings for employees and that we now need to wear a mask in the hospital, again.
May 17, 2024 10:22:07 GMT 10
Forti: Our Police Departments are now declaring they are short 1500 officers, even though the Sinners City capitol basin took most of regional down there to sure up their fook ups. Crikey we've been short 700 bus drivers for over the last three years.
May 17, 2024 10:24:26 GMT 10
Forti: 50% of our Society is over the age of 50 and many are over the age of 60 an age where retiring and doing the lap or a cruise then returning to do societies chores is being shirked. Ain't gonna end well I say
May 17, 2024 10:25:59 GMT 10
