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Property and spin
macaque_2
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Is the internet driven by spin or truth? The housing market offers us an opportunity to answer this. We know that anyone sitting on investment property today (who bought within the last few years) has been about as smart as a bucket of mackerel heads. If the internet is truthful, the references to dumb house buyers should therefore heavily outweight smart house buyers. This is what I found:
Google results
savvy home buyers - 7940 hits
dumb home buyers - 731 hits
smart home buyers - 3700 hits
foolish home buyers - 190 hits
So there we are, spin wins the day. Despite millions of people in negative equity, plunging house prices and soaring reposessions; references to 'savvy home buyers' are 10 times higher than 'dumb home buyers'. Perhaps this explains several things.
Google results
savvy home buyers - 7940 hits
dumb home buyers - 731 hits
smart home buyers - 3700 hits
foolish home buyers - 190 hits
So there we are, spin wins the day. Despite millions of people in negative equity, plunging house prices and soaring reposessions; references to 'savvy home buyers' are 10 times higher than 'dumb home buyers'. Perhaps this explains several things.
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What ya smoking, king of the swingers
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
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Is the internet driven by spin or truth? The housing market offers us an opportunity to answer this. We know that anyone sitting on investment property today (who bought within the last few years) has been about as smart as a bucket of mackerel heads. If the internet is truthful, the references to dumb house buyers should therefore heavily outweight smart house buyers. This is what I found:
Google results
savvy home buyers - 7940 hits
dumb home buyers - 731 hits
smart home buyers - 3700 hits
foolish home buyers - 190 hits
So there we are, spin wins the day. Despite millions of people in negative equity, plunging house prices and soaring reposessions; references to 'savvy home buyers' are 10 times higher than 'dumb home buyers'. Perhaps this explains several things.
pointless forum post - 367 hits0 -
Good grief, some people really do have waaayyy too much time on their hands. That probably includes me for bothering to post a response to this thread.0
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i like the mackeral head comment..i may use that myself!!TO FINISH LAST, FIRST YOU HAVE TO FINISH....0
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