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  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    It was looking for that damn hamster for my son. MSE came up on a google, and BANG, here I was again.

    I know - I've had weeks, months off. Then you come back to get a voucher code for a purchase, to sort out a problem with a bank, or ebay, or whatever it might be...for a recipe, and you have to scroll past house prices. And you think, I'll just pop in and see if anything's changed. And before you know it...another couple of thousand posts down.

    Darn. :rolleyes:
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    edited 27 November 2009 at 5:01PM
    carolt wrote: »
    I know - I've had weeks, months off. Then you come back to get a voucher code for a purchase, to sort out a problem with a bank, or ebay, or whatever it might be...for a recipe, and you have to scroll past house prices. And you think, I'll just pop in and see if anything's changed. And before you know it...another couple of thousand posts down.

    Darn. :rolleyes:

    Do you know if they take on MSEers here :confused: just for info I may add icon7.gif

    http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/
    '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
  • StevieJ
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    Really2 wrote: »
    I bet he feels a chump on all that fixed rate mortgage stuff though.

    What was that?
    '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
  • Harry_Powell
    Harry_Powell Posts: 2,089 Forumite
    lostinrates wrote: »
    verruca, surely, not stone.

    Frankly, none of us are guiltless, and I am always amazed that so many fail to see the irony of pointing fingers at the rest. Its pretty depressing.

    I'm pausing to wonder what the wives/girlfriends/partners would think of this/their partners' finger pointing behaviour. I just can't imagine dh getting involved in something like this.

    You're guiltless LiR! You're always lovely on here. :)

    I'm assuming our partners already think we're strange for investing/wasting so much time on this forum, regardless of where our fingers are pointing. I know my gf has started to groan when she looks over my shoulder at our PC and see's the green banner and Martin's face beaming down at her. :rotfl:

    It's incredibly addicted though isn't it? :o
    "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.
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    What was that?

    He used to go on about how you would be better off buying on a long term fix last year even if prices were falling as you would be paying more next year.

    The smart money was on trackers. :)
  • Harry_Powell
    Harry_Powell Posts: 2,089 Forumite
    carolt wrote: »
    I know - I've had weeks, months off. Then you come back to get a voucher code for a purchase, to sort out a problem with a bank, or ebay, or whatever it might be...for a recipe, and you have to scroll past house prices. And you think, I'll just pop in and see if anything's changed. And before you know it...another couple of thousand posts down.

    Darn. :rolleyes:

    I'm glad you can't escape carol, your posts are always great value. IIRC yours was the first thread I ever read/commented on this here board. :)
    "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.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Really2 wrote: »
    He used to go on about how you would be better off buying on a long term fix last year even if prices were falling as you would be paying more next year.

    The smart money was on trackers. :)

    Still a good a point from DD, I don't think you can get a decent 10 year fixed rate now and who knows where interest rates will be in a few years.
    '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
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    Harry_Powell wrote: »
    I'm glad you can't escape carol, your posts are always great value. IIRC yours was the first thread I ever read/commented on this here board. :)

    Great value - it makes me sound like Tesco's. :rolleyes:

    Is it supposed to be a compliment?

    I have to say I have not the faintest idea when I first encountered any of the posters on here - I have vague mooshy ideas that some posters have been here longer than others, but that's about it.
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    I can't imagine why NDG left. :rolleyes:
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    Still a good a point from DD, I don't think you can get a decent 10 year fixed rate now and who knows where interest rates will be in a few years.

    I agree if you wanted a 10 year fixed yes he was right but, nut not ad a FTB (they would rely on the market to get rid of any NE rather than overpaying)

    I would argue that similar fixes will be available when lending becomes a bit more normal, and that could be a good year or so yet.

    In the mean time some will have knocked years off there mortgages overpaying trackers.
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