# I can't wait until you're the next victim of the financial meltdown! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 15, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293 "2008-12-15T20:57:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/1 "2008-12-15T20:57:44Z")
One of the high points of the current economic meltdown is seeing the demise of horrible businesses that should have failed years ago. Yes, the raw elation at seeing a Circuit City or Office Max go belly-up is one of the few pleasures to be had in these dark times. What are your favorite victims? Who can’t you wait to see on the chopping block? For me, it’s the local gourmet “take-and-bake” pizza place. In what universe is pizza that you have to take home and cook yourself, which costs twice as much as just ordering a delivery a sustainable business mode? Buh-BYE! Also, all of the yuppie baby clothing boutiques here in Chicago. They’re all cutesy, comically overpriced, full of weird ironic baby clothing choices for urban parents, and they’re all on the chopping block. SEE ya! ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/2 "2008-12-15T21:05:08Z")
I don’t think anything will match the satisfaction of seeing all those stupid dot-com businesses fail when the tech bubble burst, where supposedly smart people thought “I’ll offer a pointless, low-margin product or service, but I’ll offer it ONLINE and market the crap out of it!” ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/3 "2008-12-15T21:45:35Z")
I like take and bake pizza (Papa Murphy’s). The ingredient quality is far better than, say, Pizza Hut or Papa John’s - the veggie deluxe is my favorite. You also tend to get a lot more of the individual toppings. Plus, no delivery fees or tips necessary. I wasn’t too sad to see KB Toys go under, though. ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/4 "2008-12-15T21:46:16Z")
Oh, you’re a wuss. A couple electronics stores go belly-up and you’re dancing in the streets, probably because you paid too much for an XBox game or something. If you’re going to root for something, root for full-scale collapse of the socio-economic system as we know it. Go for the gusto. Have some stones, dammit. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/5 "2008-12-15T21:48:03Z")
Electronic Arts? Naw, I don’t think we’re that lucky. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/6 "2008-12-15T21:48:06Z")
I’m actually kind of happy to see a lot of those D-bag investment bankers out of work. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/7 "2008-12-15T22:02:11Z")
The hair salon at American Girls stores. I hate for the “stylists” to be unemployed (though people and animals will always need their hair done), but seeing people pay money to have an overpriced doll’s hair done is one of those things that makes me feel like [Vettrianno’s butler](http://fly4change.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/the-singing-butler.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/8 "2008-12-15T22:27:03Z")
It’s a long shot, but I hope some of the local megachurches go out pof business. They sell an aspirational (rather than inspriational) sort of religious experience that I find unsettling. They’re like some kind of social club for suburban Stepford wives and their Ken doll spouses. To my jaded eye, it looks like most people attend in order to show off and play the same kind of ‘in crowd’ games that they should’ve outgrown in high scool. It’s sad to think of the huge amount of the congregants’ money they spend on multimedia extravaganzas and newer, bigger, more grandiose buildings (now with a coffee bar!), instead of helping the poor or whatever it is churches are supposed to do with donations. ---
**Author:** ![jbmat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@jbmat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jbmat)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/9 "2008-12-15T22:30:17Z")
Bob Nardelli used to run this show, until he went straight into the toilet almost dragging the chain with him. Now he’s doing the same to the auto industry. HD lost sight of their main purpose. The day they go under I will celebrate. Low prices my butt, Lowe’s beats them 80% of the time. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/10 "2008-12-15T22:38:58Z")
**Symantec** Take perfectly good software and great innovation and flush it right down the toilet by buying it, bloating it up, and making it unusable. I’ve been wanting this company to crash for a long, long time. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/11 "2008-12-15T22:44:21Z")
Fuck you **Freejooky**! I can find no perverse pleasure in people losing their jobs, homes, and life savings. I’m suprised at most of the rest of you too. I guess you or no one you know goes to work each day not knowing if you will have a job to return to tomorrow. I guess if it doesnt affect you personally, it gives you permission to be an insensitive prick. So fuck you sideways with a porcupine covered in razor blades. (Yeah the economy has me a little on edge.) ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/12 "2008-12-15T23:31:22Z")
> [@fluiddruid](#): > > I like take and bake pizza (Papa Murphy’s). The ingredient quality is far better than, say, Pizza Hut or Papa John’s - the veggie deluxe is my favorite. You also tend to get a lot more of the individual toppings. Plus, no delivery fees or tips necessary. > > I wasn’t too sad to see KB Toys go under, though. I’m going to take a random guess from the clothing store comment that the OP lives in or near Bucktown and means [this](http://www.homemadepizza.com/) pizza place. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/13 "2008-12-15T23:33:03Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > So fuck you sideways with a porcupine covered in razor blades. (Yeah the economy has me a little on edge.) Would that be the edges of a razor blade porcupine?😛 I hear ya though brother, or sister. These are interesting times of the Chinese curse. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/14 "2008-12-15T23:56:37Z")
In a good economy, I’d be happy to see some businesses fail because I loathe them, but I can’t even get a perverse pleasure about any of them failing anymore. It’s just more bad news when we’re already standing on the precipice of a worldwide economic crisis. We don’t need more bad news. But if I could conjure up that dark side of my soul, I’d have to say Time Warner. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/15 "2008-12-15T23:59:40Z")
> [@Freejooky](#): > > One of the high points of the current economic meltdown is seeing the demise of horrible businesses that should have failed years ago. Yes, the raw elation at seeing a Circuit City or Office Max go belly-up is one of the few pleasures to be had in these dark times. I’m pleased at Circuit City dying not because they are inherently evil (they used to be fine) but because they fired all their senior employees - and then discovered that people didn’t want to buy $1,000 boxes from clueless newbies. > [@](#): > > For me, it’s the local gourmet “take-and-bake” pizza place. In what universe is pizza that you have to take home and cook yourself, which costs twice as much as just ordering a delivery a sustainable business mode? Buh-BYE! Around here the take and bake pizzas are a lot cheaper and better than delivery. I think your view is distorted from living in one of the few places in the country with really good pizza. I don’t know if any tanning salons have gone under, but it would improve the health of the public if they did. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/16 "2008-12-16T00:06:08Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I’m actually kind of happy to see a lot of those D-bag investment bankers out of work. Give me two to three years with a million dollar salary and two to three million dollar bonuses and I’d gladly be out of work for the rest of my life. ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/17 "2008-12-16T00:10:26Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I’m actually kind of happy to see a lot of those D-bag investment bankers out of work. This. But I’d rather like to see them living under bridges as well ---
**Author:** ![Wiggie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/0ea827/32.png) [@Wiggie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wiggie)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/18 "2008-12-16T00:20:02Z")
> [@Furious\_Marmot](#): > > It’s a long shot, but I hope some of the local megachurches go out pof business. They sell an aspirational (rather than inspriational) sort of religious experience that I find unsettling. They’re like some kind of social club for suburban Stepford wives and their Ken doll spouses. To my jaded eye, it looks like most people attend in order to show off and play the same kind of ‘in crowd’ games that they should’ve outgrown in high scool. > > It’s sad to think of the huge amount of the congregants’ money they spend on multimedia extravaganzas and newer, bigger, more grandiose buildings (now with a coffee bar!), instead of helping the poor or whatever it is churches are supposed to do with donations. Amen. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/19 "2008-12-16T00:22:04Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > Fuck you **Freejooky**! I can find no perverse pleasure in people losing their jobs, homes, and life savings. I’m suprised at most of the rest of you too. Just because I want to see a failed business, you know, out of business… does not mean that myself or others who feel the same take pleasure in folks losing their jobs. So cut the shit with that accusation already. Sustaining jobs for the sake of jobs sounds oh so nice and sweet on the surface, but isn’t realistic. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293/20 "2008-12-16T00:53:24Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > Fuck you **Freejooky**! I can find no perverse pleasure in people losing their jobs, homes, and life savings. I’m suprised at most of the rest of you too. I guess you or no one you know goes to work each day not knowing if you will have a job to return to tomorrow. I guess if it doesnt affect you personally, it gives you permission to be an insensitive prick. So fuck you sideways with a porcupine covered in razor blades. (Yeah the economy has me a little on edge.) I guess the tampon business is safe from going under. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-wait-until-youre-the-next-victim-of-the-financial-meltdown/477293.md?page=2)