Another Gen X moan, this one being about the 100th recession I've had to live through with its attendent exhortations to lower expectations, etc. Well, I'm fucking sick of it. Can't we start a conventional Third World War if it means adrenalizing the economy?
― dave q, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Also, does everyone clamouring for more airline security realise that
it will make the price of lovely material things go up?
― dave q, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Ping Pong
it's alright 'cos the historical pattern has shown
how the economical cycle tends to revolve
in a round of decades three stages stand out in a loop
a slump and war then peel back to square one and back for more
bigger slump and bigger wars and a smaller recovery
huger slump and greater wars and a shallower recovery
you see the recovery always comes 'round again
there's nothing to worry for things will look after themselves
it's alright recovery always comes 'round again
there's nothing to worry if things can only get better
there's only millions that lose their jobs and homes and sometimes
accents
there's only millions that die in their bloody wars, it's alright
it's only their lives and the lives of their next of kin that they
are losing
it's only their lives and the lives of their next of kin that they
are losing
it's alright 'cos the historical pattern has shown
how the economical cycle tends to revolve
in a round of decades three stages stand out in a loop
a slump and war then peel back to square one and back for more
bigger slump and bigger wars and a smaller recovery
huger slump and greater wars and a shallower recovery
don't worry be happy things will get better naturally
don't worry shut up sit down go with it and be happy
dum, dum, dum, de dum dum, de duh de duh de dum dum dum... ah ah
dum, dum, dum, de dum dum, de duh de duh de dum dum dum... ah ah
― Trevor, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
ooh that's nice Trevor. and despite knowing the song off by heart i
still misread "slump" as "shrimp"!
― katie, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
also, i've always heard it as people sometimes losing "their sense"
rather than "accents". but both make sense!
― katie, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
If bigger wars means huger shrimps, then let's armagedditon!
― Trevor, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)