Anyone notice that some of the 'bulls' here are getting narky ?

StevieJ

pickles110564 wrote: »

I am still confused am I am bull or a bear?
Being born in May I have always regarded myself as a bull but am I a bear?

My, that must be confusing.

WTF?_2

Really2 wrote: »

I find ignore so funny.

I could write that I heared a rumor CF was caught in an uncompising position in a lift with a goat and he would not know.:rotfl:

But it is just a rumor I heared, I am sure it's complatly without any substance so I would not bother writing it.

It's just a forum and everyone is anonymous so ultimately there's no reason to care if some other anonymous person wants to repeatedly post that you like to have congress with chickens for example.

However, when there's lots of nasty, personal insults flying around which are crafted to drag you into a personal slanging match (for the gratification of the posters who are doing the baiting and get their kicks out of slanging matches) then it makes reading and discussing the issues here a lot less pleasurable than otherwise. So IMO the 'ignore' button can serve a very useful function.

(Sooner or later you come to the realisation that you are habitually interacting with some types you'd go out of your way to avoid having any contact with in real life. Why on earth should you 'associate' with such sad, twisted personalities online?)

adr0ck

pickles110564 wrote: »

I am still confused am I am bull or a bear?
Being born in May I have always regarded myself as a bull but am I a bear?

i'm a dragon

Really2

!!!!!!? wrote: »

It's just a forum and everyone is anonymous so ultimately there's no reason to care if some other anonymous person wants to repeatedly post that you like to have congress with chickens for example.

However, when there's lots of nasty, personal insults flying around which are crafted to drag you into a personal slanging match (for the gratification of the posters who are doing the baiting and get their kicks out of slanging matches) then it makes reading and discussing the issues here a lot less pleasurable than otherwise. So IMO the 'ignore' button can serve a very useful function.

(Sooner or later you come to the realisation that you are habitually interacting with some types you'd go out of your way to avoid having any contact with in real life. Why on earth should you 'associate' with such sad, twisted personalities online?)

I agree with most of that but some people just people on ignore just for the fact they disagee with their view (which is fair enough) (but if they could do it withouth starting an ignore ceremony it would be nice:))
But fairly pointless in my view as you just end up of people to agree with which just makes it just a social forum:(

How did you know about the chicken?;)
I heared about the cow incident, most unfortunate I belive you, you can keep your pasty warm there.:eek:

WTF?_2

Really2 wrote: »

I agree with most of that but some people just people on ignore just for the fact they disagee with their view (which is fair enough) (but if they could do it withouth starting an ignore ceremony it would be nice:))
But fairly pointless in my view as you just end up of people to agree with which just makes it just a social forum:(

How did you know about the chicken?;)
I heared about the cow incident, most unfortunate I belive you, you can keep your pasty warm there.:eek:

There's a difference between disagreement and robust debate - and out and out nasty personal insults with attempts to get under the skin and antagonise.

The line is frequently crossed here and the resulting slanging matches ruin the forum as well as being detrimental (for me) to one's overall experience of posting on MSE. Therefore best to just 'ignore' and improve everyone's MSE experience.

Dithering_Dad

chucky wrote: »

why do people on this board like to call them bulls or bears.
can we just use "positve people" or "negative people please?

those that thinks it's bad and not that bad and the others who think it's going to be 70% price drops.

This is my personal bug-bear (no pun intended). It shows a complete lack of understanding about bullishness and bearishness as applied to the stockmarket.

People can bearish in the short-term and bullish in the long term (I am on both the stockmarkets and housing markets). I've been bearish in the stockmarket for quite a while now and so I have moved out of equities and into cash. Very soon (when the FTSE100 gets to around 3500) I'll become a bull and put all my money back into shares.

People on here use the terms 'bull' and 'bear' to describe people who want HPI and HPC respectively. Could we therefore please use the HPC and HPI terms so that newbies don't think we're all stockmarket ludites?

For the record, I'm a HPS - House Price Stagnator - I want prices to stagnate so that people who have bought at the peak are not decimated, and first time buyers can buy.

p.s. I've been busy buying HBOS shares today and so haven't seen all the forum argie-bargie. What's been going on?

Really2

!!!!!!? wrote: »

There's a difference between disagreement and robust debate - and out and out nasty personal insults with attempts to get under the skin.

The line is frequently crossed here and the resulting slanging matches ruin the forum as well as being detrimental (for me) to one's overall experience of posting on MSE. Therefore best to just 'ignore' and improve everyone's MSE experience.

Thats fair enough but it is done by "either side"(we all have our kranks)

PS you know i was only joking and not being insulting? I have not realy done anything with a chicken and I know (well presume) you have not tried to warm a pasty in a cow.;)

fatpig_2

ad9898 wrote: »

Seen it quite a bit today, some of it quite personal, are we entering the next phase ?

Very true. chucky is always RAGING. This comes of his fledgling buy to let SLUM empire crumbling to dust in front of him. Greedy people always get their comeuppance in the end I find.

chucky

fatpig wrote: »

Very true. chucky is always RAGING. This comes of his fledgling buy to let SLUM empire crumbling to dust in front of him. Greedy people always get their comeuppance in the end I find.

!!!!!! - I'm getting to like you more and more.

skap7309

Anyone notice that some of the 'bulls' here are getting narky ?

Understand they need to stand their ground but overall the party is over and reality is finally starting to set in. :rolleyes: