America's house price time bomb - BBC

carolt

Not at all - assuming the next housewife spends as much time as I do reading up on the subject. Assuming she does, then of course, no reason why she should know any less. And may well know more, depending on her experience.

Most 'housewives' amazingly, actually have brains that extend beyond calculating the size of the ironing pile versus the level of dirt on the dishes. I couldn't classify myself as a housewife; but it's certainly one of my roles (certainly not the one I'm best at! - all hail Money Saving Old Style, where they really know their onions - literally).

mewbie_2

Dithering_Dad wrote: »

Sorry for raising it - I wasn't having a go. You just seemed to be so sure of what you were saying that I assumed you worked in the industry and so were privy to some information that made your statements more than mere speculation.

Pleas accept my apologies for my assuming that you had any more idea of what's going to happen in the next 6 months than the next housewife.

You stupid t0sser. I can't be bothered to dress it up for a tw4t like you. f*ckw1t.

PasturesNew

I'd love to be a housewife.

I'd bake little cakes and have cold beer waiting for when Mr Right came home.

I'd be really good at that.

I'd do all those housey and wifey things that would make Mr Right's home his sanctuary. Far from the madding crowd.

Oh, if only I'd been lovable

WTF?_2

Dithering_Dad wrote: »

Which literary sources do you use while 'reading up on the subject'?

I'd imagine 'the subject', being financial strategies of world markets that affect UK individuals would be quite a large area to cover between getting the kids off to school and making your husband's tea for when he gets home. When do you find time to do the shopping, dusting and hoovering?

Do you have a financial specialization or try to cover most bases equally?

Hmm, I didn't realise that people needed some sort of financial qualification to post their opinions here.

What's yours then?

rsykes2000

Dithering_Dad wrote: »

Which literary sources do you use while 'reading up on the subject'?

I'd imagine 'the subject', being financial strategies of world markets that affect UK individuals would be quite a large area to cover between getting the kids off to school and making your husband's tea for when he gets home. When do you find time to do the shopping, dusting and hoovering?

Do you have a financial specialization or try to cover most bases equally?

Being so patronising doesn't show you in the best of lights. Of course, you may be attempting humour, but I don't get that impression; it seems you are just a middle-aged middle-class buffoon who has a fairly outdated and disrespectful attitude to women.

carolt

rsykes2000 wrote: »

Being so patronising doesn't show you in the best of lights. Of course, you may be attempting humour, but I don't get that impression; it seems you are just a middle-aged middle-class buffoon who has a fairly outdated and disrespectful attitude to women.

Well said.

I find your idea of my daily existence charming, though sadly rather distant from the truth.

I assume you spend your day hunting mammoths in caves? Whilst not appropriating random women/sheep (delete as appropriate) when they take your fancy?

As you are (probably) aware, I do actually work part-time, whilst looking after a baby who is still at home. Little time for dusting. I read all the usual sources - newspapers, Economist etc. As I said elsewhere, it's not rocket science.

Out of interest, is your aim (a) to offend me, (b) to offend all the female posters here or (c) to make yourself look like a bit of an idiot?

Just wondering.....

carolt

Dithering_Dad wrote: »

The person in question didn't post an opinion, she stated it as factual and so I merely asked what she based her absolute certainty on the future of the financial markets on. I assumed she worked in the City and so was privy to some information the rest of us were not.

My own opinion is that no one knows for certainty what will happen in the next 6 weeks, 6 months or 6 years. One can imagine a few scenarios and prepare for the worst case and hope for the best case. That's it.

Please state where I did this.

On the contrary, if you bother to look at my post, and the post to which I was replying, you will see that all I did was restate exactly what you have said in your second paragraph - namely that one can't know what will happen - that's why we should come back and look at the data in 6 months, rather than attempting to draw wider conclusions (as I've Seen The Light was doing) from one day's rise or fall.

Please bother to actually read what you're commenting on, otherwise you just make yourself look stupid as well as rude.

carolt

Dithering_Dad wrote: »

Sorry, I'm not aware of your part time work. It never ceases to amaze me how people on forums feel so important that they expect everyone to know all their doings. You're not famous carol.

I suggest that if you're struggling to find time for your dusting and other housekeeping chores that you spend less time on MSE spouting your half-baked financial ideas compiled from the Daily Mail, et al.

You owe it to your hubby to provide him with a clean and tidy home, he's working all day for you. Go on, run along, little lady.

Amazingly, I married someone who does their fair share of the housework and knows how to cook!

I feel genuinely really, really sorry for your poor wife! Poor woman. I also sincerely hope you don't have any daughters. That said, for the sake of the next generation of young women who might come into contact with them, I really hope you don't have any sons either.

Anyway - job done - you have successfully managed to make yourself look like a patronising idiot.

Out of interest, not quite clear why you post. I assume you have the same financial expertise you demand from others. Do share - we'd all love to know what really important, high-level job you do. Go on - tell us just how many paperclips you counted today - we'd all love to know...

Conrad

Dithering_Dad wrote: »

I'd imagine 'the subject', being financial strategies of world markets that affect UK individuals would be quite a large area to cover between getting the kids off to school and making your husband's tea for when he gets home. When do you find time to do the shopping, dusting and hoovering?

Do you have a financial specialization or try to cover most bases equally?

Impicit in these and other posts is the sense you feel deeply threatened by Women. I wonder what your important career is - let me know.

You dispense plenty of advice to those that were "too chicken to buy recently", which must mean you felt it was a good time to buy, which in turn required you to have an in depth handle on world financial matters.:rolleyes:

My wife stays at home. She's highly intelligent. She provides a stable, attentive enviroment for our children.

Pobby

Quote ``She"is a stones throw away from my level of intelligence", high praise indeed.``

Bet she is pretty darned impressed with that!