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The most evil house for sale in the UK

nej
nej Posts: 1,526 Forumite
in House buying, renting & selling
Whilst browsing RightMove for houses in Wells, Somerset, I found this one being advertised as "like Pandora's Box".

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-10669317.rsp?pa_n=2&tr_t=buy

I'm not sure that advertising a house as containing all of man's evils is a positive selling point, really!
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  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    ROFL, too funny.

    Maybe its the now open Pandora's box, with only hope left in it?
  • LouLee2008
    LouLee2008 Posts: 306 Forumite
    oooo is that what a pandoras box is? all evil in it?
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,930 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Name Dropper
    "This house is like Pandora's Box with a sleek, contemporary finish located in the ever popular Tor Woods side of Wells. With a gorgeous family sized kitchen/dining room and a great rear garden that does the trampoline test, this a brilliant family house in a quiet residential cul de sac position."

    What is a trampoline test?
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  • zebulon
    zebulon Posts: 677 Forumite
    silvercar wrote: »

    What is a trampoline test?


    i think, it's their 'witty' way to say that you can fit a trampoline in there

    (the EA tried and spent the afternoon having fun :p )
  • nej
    nej Posts: 1,526 Forumite
    I missed the "trampoline test" bit. Surely completely ambiguous.... depends rather on the size of the trampoline!
  • Idiophreak
    Idiophreak Posts: 12,024 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    zebulon wrote: »
    i think, it their 'witty' way to say that you can fit a trampoline in there

    (the EA tried and spent the afternoon having fun :p )

    So it's not just really bouncy grass? :(
  • zebulon
    zebulon Posts: 677 Forumite
    Idiophreak wrote: »
    So it's not just really bouncy grass? :(

    :rotfl:


    That's what they want you to believe!
  • Debt_Free_Chick
    Debt_Free_Chick Posts: 13,276 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    LouLee2008 wrote: »
    oooo is that what a pandoras box is? all evil in it?

    Originally it had all the evils of mankind - greed, vanity etc - plus hope. But Pandora was created with curiosity so she opened it. All the evils escaped before she could put the lid back, but when she did so, then "hope" was left inside.

    "Box" is thought to be a mistranslation and it was more likely to have been a jar or urn
    Warning ..... I'm a peri-menopausal axe-wielding maniac ;)
  • maninthestreet
    maninthestreet Posts: 16,127 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    Some of the property description's here are a little 'fruity':

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/action/publicsite.PropertySearchForBranches?ag_u=52201&tr_t=buy&eventsubmit_dosearch=1
    "You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"
  • churchrat
    churchrat Posts: 1,015 Forumite
    maninthestreet wrote: »
    Some of the property description's here are a little 'fruity':

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/action/publicsite.PropertySearchForBranches?ag_u=52201&tr_t=buy&eventsubmit_dosearch=1
    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
    I loved the royally rogered bit (did I mean to say that?)
    LBM-2003ish
    Owed £61k and £60ish mortgage
    2010 owe £00.00 and £20K mortgage:D
    2011 £9000 mortgage
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