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btl's not really dead is it?

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  • mr.broderick
    mr.broderick Posts: 3,778 Forumite
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    ad9898 wrote: »
    I think BTL is certainly dead on the scale we have had over the last few years, however I have said before it's the 'dinner party amateur' that is likely to goto the wall, there will always be more fianancially astute LL's (like yourself maybe), who will carry on nicely and good luck to you.

    It's been the real amateurs who have been proping the chains up over the past few years, which now have all but dissappeared.


    Define dinner party amateur.
    I am not sure btl'ers deserve all this negativity.
    I feel a lot of investors are total amateurs, I have done it myself, purchased shares on a whim.
    It is not all dragon's den you know.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    Have you never been asked on a date? Is it possible you misunderstood when someone asked?
    I have been. Just not much for about XX years ... and yes, I would definitely misunderstand if somebody asked. They would have to ask explicitly and clearly using the words "will you go out with me" or I'd have never ever have spotted it at all. And probably didn't 100 times.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    I have been. Just not much for about XX years ... and yes, I would definitely misunderstand if somebody asked. They would have to ask explicitly and clearly using the words "will you go out with me" or I'd have never ever have spotted it at all. And probably didn't 100 times.

    I thought so.

    All the best to you PasturesNew for the future. I have gained a lot from your posts.

    From the tone of your posts I think you are gaining plenty of social skills from this forum.

    I wish you well.
  • Gorgeous_George
    Gorgeous_George Posts: 7,964 Forumite
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    There are still the same number of private houses as there were before the crash started.

    There are less people wanting to/able to buy their own home.

    Therefore, MORE properties need to be bought to let.

    GG
    There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    HammersFan wrote: »
    Calm down - you'll get blood pressure.

    I'd hope so, without it, she's dead!
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    I'm still waiting to be asked out on a date.


    Past the age of having kids now.

    I don't think I was ever much asked out on a date. THings just kinda - happened -

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4971930.stm

    A controversial fertility doctor has defended his decision to give IVF to a 62-year-old woman who is set to become Britain's oldest mother. Severino Antinori says he only treated psychiatrist Patricia Rashbrook, of East Sussex, in an unnamed European country after strict medical checks.
    Dr Rashbrook, who is seven months pregnant with her fourth child, said she was delighted with the pregnancy.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    MissMoneypenny wrote: »
    When I had my first baby at 29, I was considered old. Now it turns out, I was a trend setter:D

    My mother was described as an "elderly prima gravida" when she was heavily pregnant with my sister. She was annoyed for two reasons - she was 31, and I was sitting next to her, aged 2 (-:
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • HammersFan
    HammersFan Posts: 344 Forumite
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    I'd hope so, without it, she's dead!

    I think the world needs pedants. It helps keeps the rest of keep a sense of perspective.

    (checks sentence strucutre and spelling, and for lack of ambiguity - but not very carefully).
    18 May 2007 (start of Mortgage):
    Coventry Offset Mortgage £220800
    Offset Savings: £0
    Mortgage Balance: £220,800

    14 Jan 08
    Coventry Offest Mortgage: 219002
    Offset Savings: 28200
    Mortage Balance: £190802

    And still chucking every spare penny into it!
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    It's an irregular verb.

    I am careful, you are meticulous, he / she / it is a pedant.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    HammersFan wrote: »
    I think the world needs pedants. It helps keeps the rest of keep a sense of perspective.

    (checks sentence strucutre and spelling, and for lack of ambiguity - but not very carefully).
    That is all SO wrong, I can't even start to correct it or the explanation/correction would take up 4x the space of your original posting.

    You've got the full set of errors!

    Aspies are (accused of being) pedants, but we are just checking we understand.
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