The Painspotter's Guide to Broken Britain
50 People to Love, Hate, Blame, Rate
1. Auflage September 2009
220 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Kurzbeschreibung
With recent setbacks in the financial system, politicians and policy-makers, the housing market, and jobs, The Painspotting Handbook provides an amusing insight into the worldwide recession. This handbook explores fifty hilarious caricatures and descriptions of people who emerged from the recession. Through a humorous approach, the book goes into detail on characters like the Enthusiastic Estate Agent, the Overpriced-Property Developer, and The Cohabiting Divorcee. The Painspotting Handbook is just the antidote needed to take the crisis out of the credit crunch and rise out of the recession.
Welcome to Broken Britain!
MPs are blaming 'The System' for their thieving behaviour. Bankers have burnt through more cash than President Mugabe and still been bailed out. Britain is Broke. Only one thing's going to sort this mess out - some good old-fashioned finger pointing. It's time to take revenge... Painspotting style.
Let the Painspotting commence!
This book is more effective than Prozac and cheaper than therapy. You may be angry, you may be mad, you may even be institutionalised, but put the baseball bat away, hang up your lynching rope, and let the Painspotting commence!
50 of the best
Love them, hate them, blame them, rate them: The Painspotter's Guide to Broken Britain introduces the 50 most frightful characters you'll meet in a financial crisis, so prepare to laugh out loud at the Frightened Fat Cat, the Miserable Middle Class, the Self-help Saddo and many more.
Acknowledgements.
Let the bad times roll.
The About to Retire Retiree.
The Bailout Beggar.
The Buy-to-Let Basket Case.
The Cash Finder.
The Celebrity Money Saver.
The Cohabiting Divorce.
The Conspicuous Consumer.
The Credit Crunch Scrounger.
The Deadbeat Debtor.
The Desperate Estate Agent.
The Disposed of Worker (previously known as Our Most Important Asset).
The Downwardly Mobile.
The Dubai Deserter.
The Economic Rioter.
The Economically Stressed.
The Elusive Tax Evader.
The Escaping Entrepreneur.
The Ex, Expat.
The Extended (to breaking point) Family.
The Financial Oracle.
The Frightened Fat Cat.
The Good Lifer.
The Gravy Train Politician.
The Grumpy Undergraduate.
The Humbled (but still incredibly wealthy) Bank Boss.
The Irate Investor.
The Living Big Loser.
The Low-Bonus Banker.
The Miserable Middle Class.
The Newly Liberated.
The No Responsibility Regulator.
The Not Quite Such a Master of the Universe.
The Nuevo Altruist.
The Organic Food Fly-by-night.
The Out of Touch Politician.
The Outbound Immigrant.
The Petty Thief.
The Pissed-off State Pensioner.
The Ponzi Schemer.
The Pseudo Rich.
The Relegated Rich.
The Repossessed.
The Savvy Squatter.
The Secure Civil Servant.
The Self-help Sado.
The Self-righteous Tightwad.
The Taxed to Death.
The Unabashed Bankrupt.
The Worthless Degree Holder.
Afterword - The Blame Game.
DAN WILSON is trained as a transforming robot Jedi ninja and regularly scribbles over boundaries betwixt low and high brow art. A fan of decreating remolicious words, he has won innumerable awards for nothing special and hopes to achieve inter-spatial awareness sometime soon. Dan lives with his family in a post-postmodern treehouse, and plans on retiring to the Sea of Tranquility in the 25th Century.