Torygraph: House slide worst since Great Depression,

lostinrates

snoopy78 wrote: »

Actually academics have come up with a tried and proven method of reducing ALL crime, it's just the British public are too greedy and stupid to listen.

Spead the wealth, reduce the difference between richest and poorest always reduces crime, countries with the lowest crime rates always have good wealth distribution.

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Hmm. well. I know one of the 60s Communist movers and shakers quite well. I am, I regret, related to him (Dithering Dad this is not a boast, far from it ). He calls all new labour champagne socialists and critisises anyone who drives a BMW or merc. He does this in which ever of the four countries he owns a house in he happens to be :rolleyes: His children refer to normal people as 'peasants'. He does not consider himself a champagne socialist, no, he's not keen on champagne, he's rather have a nice glass of red wine, therefore he can't be a champagne socialist. :rolleyes:

I was helping pack up his kitchen for a house move and came across dozens, nay, hundreds of sherry glasses and bread and butter plates....I asked him what he had them for, and the answer was that they had sherry and finger back in the good old days when he hosted communist party stuff in his london home. I'm tickled pink by the idea of 1960s socialists calling modern labour champagne socialists when I think of them politely sipping sherry in the good old days.

Seriously, champagne socialism is not a new thing and rthe very academics who propose these ideals don't, in my experience often live by them.

ultra10

:rotfl: One valuable lesson I have learned..... Arguing on message boards is for suckers !!!

skap7309

Dithering_Dad wrote: »

I'm afraid you'll just have to get used to it. Rather tedious I'm afraid, but there you go.

We should just ignore BOTH OF YOU.

Edited for accuracy. Sorry DD but what started as a very interesting thread has now had me trawling through the best part of THREE pages with your avatar staring me in the face, with nothing remotely interesting on any of your posts. Can i have my 5 minutes back please?

dannyboycey

skap7309 wrote: »

Edited for accuracy. Sorry DD but what started as a very interesting thread has now had me trawling through the best part of THREE pages with your avatar staring me in the face, with nothing remotely interesting on any of your posts. Can i have my 5 minutes back please?

I apologise for my part in that skap - I shouldn't have taken the bait in the first place. Lesson learned. Ignore button used

skap7309

dannyboycey wrote: »

I apologise for my part in that skap - I shouldn't have taken the bait in the first place. Lesson learned. Ignore button used

S'ok dannyboycey

EliteHeat

skap7309 wrote: »

Edited for accuracy. Sorry DD but what started as a very interesting thread has now had me trawling through the best part of THREE pages with your avatar staring me in the face, with nothing remotely interesting on any of your posts. Can i have my 5 minutes back please?

I thought it was very entertaining :j

Dithering_Dad

skap7309 wrote: »

Edited for accuracy. Sorry DD but what started as a very interesting thread has now had me trawling through the best part of THREE pages with your avatar staring me in the face, with nothing remotely interesting on any of your posts. Can i have my 5 minutes back please?

Perhaps we should all be like yourself, members for 2 years with just over 100 posts. Better to have an interesting debate and lively banter than the silence of a monk.

I dare say you're the chap at a party who stands in the corner not speaking to anyone, yet looking disapprovingly at them having fun. You then go home alone after the party ends (with the hosts wondering who you were and who invited you) and feel so superior that you held yourself above all the merrymaking. Meanwhile everyone else has had a great time and when they reminisce about the evening no one even remembers you were there...

Sad really.

As far as the forum is concerned, if everyone was like you, no one would post. I'd also say that if you don't enjoy what you're reading then don;t waste your time, just go elsewhere. You don't own the forum, you have no more right to dictate the content than anyone else.

Yet another case of MSE narcissism - someone who believes only they know what's right for the forum. :rolleyes:

Zelie

Well I declare this thread back on topic and those who wish to get entangled in idiotic posting can henceforth be ignored.

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sympatex wrote: »

I'm not to sure of my facts so go easy but could you also say "house prices rose at their quickest rates 1997-2007 so it's fair to assume without what drove them that high they will fall at their fastest rate" ?

My thoughts: Isn't it obvious that this will be a faster crash? sympatex makes a very good point which I'd agree with. But surely we are also missing the absolutely bleeding obvious in that practically nobody owned their own home in 1931. This time it's going to affect vastly more people so doesn't that skew the figures somewhat?