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Northern Rock is accused of selling off 1,100 repossessed homes at bargain prices

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  • SGE1
    SGE1 Posts: 784 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    No, not really. The printing press hadn't been invented in the Middle Ages, photography didn't exist, almost no-one could read or write, and portrait painting was not common either. We don't even know what a lot of medieval Kings and Queens looked like.

    So, nothing to do with the Middle Ages, really.

    Apart from the HOUSE PRICE CRASH after the Black Death epidemic started in 1349.

    Are you being serious?

    I didn't mean the printing side of things was middle-age like, I was referring to the somewhat barbaric attitude that some people take - an attitude akin to the middle-ages man. I wasn't making an exact historical analogy...

    Are you pulling my leg?

    Evidently there was a serious house price crash, but I believe it was more 1352 rather than 49 :p
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    No, I wasn't being entirely serious!
    ...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'.
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