Economy and Recession Bingo

Cleaver

Tick off each cliche, phrase or happening as you read it on this forum and win £3.00 in WHSmith vouchers courtesy of MSE Natasha when you've got them all:

• Anything about a 'V', 'W' or 'L' shaped recession.
• "There are no fundementals behind this rise / rally / growth"
• Something about a winter of discontent or a harsh winter.
• Any phrase involving bubbles and hot air.
• "Month on month is just noise."
• "Unemployment is a lagging indicator."
• "Wait and see what effect unemployment will have over the coming years"
• Any mention of 3x lending.
• A post from Brit1234 with red writing in font size 36+
• "They're not building any more land"
• Calling Gordon Brown, 'Clown'.
• Anything based around a change when the Conservatives coming in to power. This could be tax hikes, spending cuts or interest rate rises.
• The phrase 'renting classes'.
• A comparison of the UK economy to Zimbabwe or Japan. Score double points for both being mentioned in one post.
• The phrase 'bull trap'.
• Any joke made by a bear about living in a cave and / or sh*tting in the woods.
• A comment about Sarah Beeney's breasts.
• Any post that contains all of the following words: "BTL", "slum-landord" and "scum".
• The phrase "inflation is theft". No points will be given if this phrase is then explained in any satisfying way. The magic is lost then.
• Any type of smut or innuendo from FC123, lostinrates or viva.
• Any prediction that is made with complete and utter certainty. For example, "house prices will be 20% lower this time next year, mark my words" or "we have hit the bottom, the only way is up from here."
• Any phrase around property doubling over a certain period, especially 7 or 10 years.
• "A good property investor will look at whether the property price = rent x 100"
• A picture / photo of a penis.
• Anything about BTL being "dead" or a "flawed business model".
• The phrase "bank of mum and dad". Score double if used with "not going to last for ever".
• Score double points for any word or phrase used by Julieq that you don't understand, such as "ad hominem".
• Anything mentioning a "50% peak to trough fall"
• That motherf*cking graph. You know the one.
• Any pure bull / bear debate that lasts over 5 pages. No other argument is allowed to score the point.
• Any post with more than four or more smiley rolling heads rather than a cohesive argument: :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
• The phrase "Sheeple".
• Score a point everytime a regular poster posts a story about a rise / fall in house prices, then it gets merged in to an 'official thread'.
• "TIMBER!!!"
• "February was the bottom"
• Any post mentioning Aberdeen.
• Any use of the phrase "debt junkie".
• A mention of the word "hyperinflation".
• Get ten points for any day when Graham doesn't post.
• Get a hundred points for any post from Hamish that isn't completely and utterley in favour or if he posts a negative story.
• 1 point for a thread about the Wilsons, 5 points for a picture of the Wilsons, 10 points for a post mocking the dress-sense of the Wilsons, 20 points for a post pointing out that 700 terrace houses all going on sale at the same time really will saturate the local market.
• Any post from Martin telling us off.
• Any mention of Rightmove figures not being 'proper' figures
• Double points for someone then pointing out that Rightmove figures were fine the last time someone used them for their agenda.
• "Missed the boat".
• Any four page plus debate which goes: "There is a shortage of homes". "No there isn't".
• "Double-dip."
• The slagging off of anyone from the following TV shows: Secret Millionaire, Location, Location, Location, A Place in The Sun, Homes Under The Hammer.
• Any mention of Fleixstowe.

JonnyBravo

Can't be arsed :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Oh !!!!!!.

nearlynew

In case all HPI cheerleading debt-junkies didn't realise by now.............


Debt is not wealth.

Cleaver

nearlynew wrote: »

Debt is not wealth.

I can't quite believe I missed the achingly meaningless 'debt isn't wealth'. Argh.

b0rker

Paying someone else's BTL mortgage for them whilst renting is not wealth.

StevieJ

Deflation :eek:

fc123

Any type of smut or innuendo from FC123, lostinrates or viva.

Dear me...I thought about I wrote about indie retailing and manufacturing and the decline of.....something must have got misunderstood somewhere.
Smut? Moi?

BTW.....Funny Cleaver :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:and I was just about to venture onto iplayer but had a recky on the board first...my brain is too tired to think anymore tonight.

Afriend_2

I have completed my entry and sent it to MSE Natasha. :j

I need a new notepad. I wore the last one out counting ticks.

fc123

Gold? I see no reference to gold. There used to be lots of threads about putting cash into gold.

fc123

I just changed my avatar to the sunset from our window tonight.
Didn't enhance or photoshop or anything....
The Ginger and Badger avatars may have prompted some smut.

mewbie_2

I've grudgingly thanked it, it was quite good. Long way to 20,000 though mate. I got a personal letter from Martin to congratulate me...

Dear member,

not often someone gets to 20k, and in your case quite an achievement given the diet of half truths and obscene nonsense you seem to insist on feeding the other members.

regards, MSE response-monkey

edit: Actually Cleaver, I've read it through properly now. It was very good. No mention of me by name though. Deduct one point.