I can't stand the doom crew anymore

Dithering_Dad

ad44downey wrote: »

withering dad, I didn't know they gave Broadmoor patients internet access? Gets you out of the padded cell for a while which is good.

Ouch. That's me told!

Your ascerbic wit and faux highschool drollity puts me to shame. I may never post on MSE again under the weight of such professional put downs.

Amazing. You really are wasted on MSE, you should be on the stage!

ad44downey

withering dad aka justpurchased aka Dan: aka........etc.

withering dad - more identities than Carlos the Jackal.

napoleon

pizzagirl wrote: »

. So can't see why you'd believe there was such a conspiracy.

Labelling Dithering Dad a conspiracy theorist is putting it rather mildly. He's as mad as a box of frogs.

napoleon

God no. Another of Dithering Dad's numerous aliases pops up right on cue.........

Dan:_4

All this accusing people using deifferent login and usernames is getting a bit silly now. I've been accussed of being Mr Broderick on more then one occassion, and now im also DD???

I really don't think that any of us is childish enough to use mutuple usernames in order to back up arguements/give 'thanks'. Even Carol aint that sad.

It's the newbies coming here for the first time I feel sorry for.

mewbie_2

Dan: wrote: »

I really don't think that any of us is childish enough to use mutuple usernames in order to back up arguements/give 'thanks'.

er.. I am.

Dan:_4

mewbie wrote: »

er.. I am.

except Mewbie

PasturesNew

carolt wrote: »

It's a good position. Can't be bothered with it meself. Don't care too much if everyone likes me.

Thought you'd gone while I was on holiday. Glad you're still around. Life a duller place etc.

No, instead of posting here 15 hours/day, I turned that energy to my own websites. So I've been posting a load of old tosh on those, er, I mean, I've been creating quality content for my future website visitors...

Pobby

OH OK guys. Hands up, I really am pickledpink !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PasturesNew

from #138, 1994 was the year to compare notes.

In 1994 I was lucky, I'd been living in a caravan but got a shared-equity studio flat about 6-7 miles out of town on a nice council close. It cost me £26k as 50% of £52k about 4 years before, so I was in negative equity.

I was earning £14k, but, yet again, I was laid off in the middle of that year, having been there just one year. Then I went temping 15 miles away where I stayed for nearly a year (no permanent jobs as the IT department had been outsourced so temps were being used while they downsized staffing). It was 1996 before I got another permanent job, for a year before they closed down too. So in 1997 I bought myself out of my negative equity on my shared ownership studio place.

To be honest though, back then, we didn't have knowledge like we do now of these things. Mortgages were harder to get, multiples were lower, you had to jump through more hoops, your face had to fit. Certainly a LOT less mortgages for people who were not in full-time, permanent employment.

Although, at time, the numbers would appear to stack up in any point in time, my situation never stacked up. I've been really unlucky I think. Never knew there was a bigger picture, other ways. Back then, before the information age/Internet, one pretty much really only knew your own experiences and local area.