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Prime BTL returns in London are now at September 2000 levels.

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  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    spal123 wrote: »
    Ok, just read this funny funny thread.
    To get back to the original post by Chucky... if 2 people charge each other for sex (but one puts up costs by 3% a year and the other doesn't) does make one, or both, of them a prostitute(s)? I really don't know - do prostitutes really charge each other for sex? Doesn't seem very tax efficient. Or even very sensible. Unless sex with a fellow prostitute can be claimed as training for tax purposes??

    Maybe they can both write it off as a training expense on their income tax return. It makes sence.

    Has anyone seen this related news story? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7988169.stm . It appears that chimpanzees exchange meat for ... well, raw meat 2 style gratification.
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  • mewbie_2
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    It's actually a record attempt by Cleaver to divert us from the topic of BTL bashing. One OP, one post on topic, and then Mr. C turns up. Followed by five pages of rubbish, which I must admit to contributing to.

    However, Misskool has asked me to use my considerable personal effluence and wrest this thread back to topic.

    Prime BTL returns in London are now at September 2000 levels.
    This sounds like bad news for any one buying in the last ten years really. Apparently recession could last till 2012 said some survey or economic pundit today. At some point surely housing as investment becomes a truly busted flush.
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
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    mewbie wrote: »
    It's actually a record attempt by Cleaver to divert us from the topic of BTL bashing. One OP, one post on topic, and then Mr. C turns up. Followed by five pages of rubbish, which I must admit to contributing to.

    However, Misskool has asked me to use my considerable personal effluence and wrest this thread back to topic.

    Prime BTL returns in London are now at September 2000 levels.
    This sounds like bad news for any one buying in the last ten years really. Apparently recession could last till 2012 said some survey or economic pundit today. At some point surely housing as investment becomes a truly busted flush.

    That's all very well and good.

    But I've heard your wife is sleeping with other men for money. Any truth in that?
  • mewbie_2
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    Cleaver wrote: »
    But I've heard your wife is sleeping with other men for money. Any truth in that?
    No because we did not invest in Prime London property at the height of the boom.
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
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    mewbie wrote: »
    No because we did not invest in Prime London property at the height of the boom.

    Now that's how you handle a comedic slur. You reading this Chuck? That's how mewbie rolls my friend. Bust out a pad and pen and take notes like a secretary buddy.
  • chucknorris
    chucknorris Posts: 10,795 Forumite
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    Cleaver wrote: »
    Now that's how you handle a comedic slur. You reading this Chuck? That's how mewbie rolls my friend. Bust out a pad and pen and take notes like a secretary buddy.

    Did he or she also post any PM's on a public forum or threaten (although threaten doesn't seem an appropriate word) to go running to the mods?
    Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    Look, its before lunch guys. Its well accepted I do not let my sense of humour or sexually related diversionary tactics out of the box till the evening. If you pick this back up...you're on your own.
  • chucknorris
    chucknorris Posts: 10,795 Forumite
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    edited 9 April 2009 at 12:31PM
    lostinrates wrote: »
    Look, its before lunch guys. Its well accepted I do not let my sense of humour or sexually related diversionary tactics out of the box till the evening. If you pick this back up...you're on your own.


    You are quite correct of course, I had moved on, and I wrongly assumed that he had too, but the internet twerp in him just wouldn't let it lie.

    Whilst he was quite correct in flagging it up that I showed a lack of sense of humour (I would add uncharacteristically as opposed to normal) but then who on here has never ever over reacted at some point?

    To err is human but I would NEVER do what he has done in posting a PM on a public forum I also fight my own battles I would never dream of saying to someone that I would report them to the moderators, those acts would be totally alien to my nature.
    Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop
  • JonnyBravo
    JonnyBravo Posts: 4,103 Forumite
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    chucknorris wrote: »
    To err is human but I would NEVER do what he has done in posting a PM on a public forum I also fight my own battles I would never dream of saying to someone that I would report them to the moderators, those acts would be totally alien to my nature.

    Get over it Mr Norris. You sent a PM offering to pretend to show up and beat him up. Or some such rubbish.

    Childish PM's get all they deserve.
  • chucknorris
    chucknorris Posts: 10,795 Forumite
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    edited 9 April 2009 at 1:20PM
    JonnyBravo wrote: »
    Get over it Mr Norris. You sent a PM offering to pretend to show up and beat him up. Or some such rubbish.

    Childish PM's get all they deserve.

    I have got over it, and yes my PM was a bit childish but as I said I would never show a PM in a public forum.
    Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop
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