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Bulls & Bears -What's the difference?

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  • System
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    Rollerball wrote: »
    Bulls tend to be on this forum from early morning to late at night and have lets say some serious personal issues. - a fear of going outside and meeting real people. They prefer to converse with their internet buddies in a virtual world. In the unlikely event of them ever meeting a woman they'd run a mile.

    Whereas bears tend to be somewhat more normal folks who are just interested in putting a roof over their family's heads.

    What a remarkably pathetic post, well done.
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  • Really2
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    edited 1 July 2009 at 4:19PM
    Rollerball wrote: »
    Check out any thread on this forum, you'll find the same sad individuals (chucky, Joeskeppi, Really2, StevieJ) on here 24/7 come rain or shine with nothing more purposeful to do than try to wind Graham Devon up and thank each other posts. Get a life guys please.

    We love you fatpig.:T No one talking to you :( didums.
    We love ranting sockys, who do you log in under the rest of the time? I have better things to do most evenings:)
  • Conrad
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    Rollerball wrote: »

    Whereas bears tend to be somewhat more normal folks who are just interested in putting a roof over their family's heads.


    Bulls bare much closer resemblance to the majority public, in that the general spirit is to get on with life and accept a modicum of risk and not measure everything.

    Bears conversely are extreme money centric individuals who have a pathalogical fear of loss, which psychologists say stems from early imprints they wont likely be even aware of - for a example being left too long without sustinance thereby having an early imprint shaped by this loss of control over bio security.
    This manifests later on as overly controlling / uber bargain hunting / money ticket preservationist.

    Bears will typcialy feel the need to over prepare, hence the desire to amass cash before buying and then scoff piously at others with a more sanguine, mature approach to life.

    A bear has a general sense all could be better with the world. A bull has the general sense the world is probably about as good as can be expected.

    A classic bear processing of the UK economy would highlight the lack of the prodcution of real things.
    A classic bull will instead focus on all the sports we gave the world, the music, the film expertise and less Germanic outputs.
  • JonnyBravo
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    Rollerball wrote: »
    Check out any thread on this forum, you'll find the same sad individuals (chucky, Joeskeppi, Really2, StevieJ) on here 24/7 come rain or shine with nothing more purposeful to do than try to wind Graham Devon up and thank each other posts. Get a life guys please.

    Rich coming from somone who mysteriously* seems to crop up on ad44downey/fatpig/napoleon (how I miss him, please come back)/pizzagirl/cardsharps threads and thanks them religiously.

    * Perhaps they not only share sentiment, but a keyboard too??

    :cool:
  • System
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    Arf, someone is having a bit of a breakdown.
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  • Really2
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    edited 1 July 2009 at 4:26PM
    Rollerball wrote: »
    Good luck guys, don't forget to all post on this thread now and then thank each other for doing so!

    OK will do, if you could get fatpig, nepoleon and a few of the others to do the same for you
    You are obviously felling a bit under thanked today.

    Must be the hot weather.
  • ad9898_3
    ad9898_3 Posts: 3,858 Forumite
    Bulls & Bears -What's the difference?

    The answer to this is simple

    A bull as a VI in prices rising. Maybe they have bought at or near peak, maybe they are a BTL'r, maybe their employment has direct contact with the housing market, maybe they used their house as a cash machine once to often etc..... or maybe they are just greedy.

    A bear as a VI in prices falling. Maybe they are too young to have bought previously, maybe they don't earn enough to buy, maybe they missed the boat in '96-2000, maybe they have suffered a death/divorce which has left them financially poorer, or maybe they are just bitter.
  • StevieJ
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    ad9898 wrote: »
    Bulls & Bears -What's the difference?

    The answer to this is simple

    A bull as a VI in prices rising. Maybe they have bought at or near peak, maybe they are a BTL'r, maybe their employment has direct contact with the housing market, maybe they used their house as a cash machine once to often etc..... or maybe they are just greedy.

    A bear as a VI in prices falling. Maybe they are too young to have bought previously, maybe they don't earn enough to buy, maybe they missed the boat in '96-2000, maybe they have suffered a death/divorce which has left them financially poorer, or maybe they are just bitter, or maybe they are just greedy .

    You missed a bit out icon7.gif
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  • Really2
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    ad9898 wrote: »
    Bulls & Bears -What's the difference?

    The answer to this is simple

    A bull as a VI in prices rising. Maybe they have bought at or near peak, maybe they are a BTL'r, maybe their employment has direct contact with the housing market, maybe they used their house as a cash machine once to often etc..... or maybe they are just greedy.

    A bear as a VI in prices falling. Maybe they are too young to have bought previously, maybe they don't earn enough to buy, maybe they missed the boat in '96-2000, maybe they have suffered a death/divorce which has left them financially poorer, or maybe they are just bitter.

    I don't know why I found that funny.:)
  • Really2
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    mmm debate or just fire out insults. Sounds familiar.:rolleyes:

    But not a great advert for the difference between bears and bulls post is it.
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