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How does losing a fifth of your wealth feel?

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  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    bluey890 wrote: »
    ... not a realised loss of wealth ..

    Or as Mr Bovey puts it: "profits yet to materialise"... about 6 months before he went under.
  • FungusFighter
    FungusFighter Posts: 1,163 Forumite
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Bless you, only 17 posts. Here, have the benefit of my research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_bounce

    Another one bitesthe dust eh babe?:beer:

    Been thinking of you, did a course last week and one day of it was about treating birds as equals :eek:
    Thought I might owe you an apology:A
    You can't win an argument with a stupid person.

    I'm dyslexic ie I can't be @rsed to check for typos
  • FungusFighter
    FungusFighter Posts: 1,163 Forumite
    honeypopper wrote: »
    You don't need to apologise to me! I live in a fabulous house and I paid off my mortgage in 2005! :beer: It's people like you that makes me puke. Thank God you'll never be able to afford to buy round my way!

    Heres a question hun - why bother signing up a new id and not changin you writing style? :confused:

    I mean, where's the fun in that?:confused:
    You can't win an argument with a stupid person.

    I'm dyslexic ie I can't be @rsed to check for typos
  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Was that the one with the hot tub, the sports car he was polishing ... and he'd just lost his job?
    Yes. I think he had the hot tub in a garden shed. He looked and sounded like a gambler.
  • motch
    motch Posts: 429 Forumite
    mewbie wrote: »
    Yes. I think he had the hot tub in a garden shed. He looked and sounded like a gambler.


    I think I saw that program. Was he the guy from Colchester, Essex ?
  • space_rider
    space_rider Posts: 1,741 Forumite
    sandiep wrote: »
    I bought my house in Dec 2006. New build.
    House over the road has just sold for more than I paid in Dec 2006.
    i'm happy.

    Wow, well done you! Wish I could say the same for my house.
  • space_rider
    space_rider Posts: 1,741 Forumite
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    No need to be PC. Just call them midgets.

    They are the biggest drain on my wealth but I love em!
  • A_fiend_for_life
    A_fiend_for_life Posts: 1,643 Forumite
    Wookster wrote: »
    Spot on.

    (bhah why is "Spot on" too short!)

    Eh?.......
  • pickles110564
    pickles110564 Posts: 2,374 Forumite
    A_fiend_for_life wrote: »
    Eh?.......
    Only 8 characters
  • moggylover
    moggylover Posts: 13,324 Forumite
    honeypopper wrote: »
    You don't need to apologise to me! I live in a fabulous house and I paid off my mortgage in 2005! :beer: It's people like you that makes me puke. Thank God you'll never be able to afford to buy round my way!


    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    What a p................
    "there are some persons in this World who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them"
    (Herman Melville)
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