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Dinner Party Conversation

shakerbaby
shakerbaby Posts: 413 Forumite
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
With the recent boom in house prices is anyone putting off or dreading an up coming dinner party engagement for fear they end up sitting beside a repetitious, interminable bull endlessly gasconading about the price of their slavebox? :rolleyes:
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  • Mr_Matey
    Mr_Matey Posts: 608 Forumite
    Property talk should be banned from dinner parties, unless it's along the lines of "I just got a new place and we're having a housewarming".
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    '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 Thatcher
  • Dan:_4
    Dan:_4 Posts: 3,795 Forumite
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    shakerbaby wrote: »
    With the recent boom in house prices is anyone putting off or dreading an up coming dinner party engagement for fear they end up sitting beside a repetitious, interminable bull endlessly gasconading about the price of their slavebox? :rolleyes:

    Do you get invited to Dinner Parties?
  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
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    My wife, and our three children, plus two grandchildren share a one bed flat in Thamesmead. It was all we could afford. When we have the neighbours round for a lager and chips soiree it can get a bit crowded.
  • shakerbaby
    shakerbaby Posts: 413 Forumite
    Dan: wrote: »
    Do you get invited to Dinner Parties?

    Not the sort you would enjoy. ;)
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    edited 28 August 2009 at 3:01PM
    shakerbaby wrote: »
    With the recent boom in house prices is anyone putting off or dreading an up coming dinner party engagement for fear they end up sitting beside a repetitious, interminable bull endlessly gasconading about the price of their slavebox? :rolleyes:

    Use the time more productively, like looking at breasts.:confused:(even if you are a woman :))

    Or just do the decent thing, get drunk and don't listen. I thought that was the idea of dinner partys
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    shakerbaby wrote: »
    Not the sort you would enjoy. ;)

    You are Max Moseley I claim my £5.
  • Harry_Powell
    Harry_Powell Posts: 2,089 Forumite
    shakerbaby wrote: »
    With the recent boom in house prices is anyone putting off or dreading an up coming dinner party engagement for fear they end up sitting beside a repetitious, interminable bull endlessly gasconading about the price of their slavebox? :rolleyes:

    They're not a patch on the ones where we bears sit around talking about how little we're going to buy our houses for. :)
    "I can hear you whisperin', children, so I know you're down there. I can feel myself gettin' awful mad. I'm out of patience, children. I'm coming to find you now." - Harry Powell, Night of the Hunter, 1955.
  • chopperharris
    chopperharris Posts: 1,027 Forumite
    Havent been to one in a while , do they still put the car keys in the bowl?
    Have you tried turning it off and on again?
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    To tell you the truth I went to the 40th the other day and we were talking about how things are.

    Can't say I have been one or know anyone who goes on about the price of their house.
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