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Bears in Despair Part 4.....

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  • JonnyBravo
    JonnyBravo Posts: 4,103 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Edit: My point is simple. Hamish starts a thread "bears in despair" to laugh at said people. Then, claims he too is a bear. Bit pointless?


    Ah right.

    Agreed.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    You'll enjoy the last few posts on this one too from an older thread now bumped and updated.....

    http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=122016&st=30

    And it's interesting just how many more bears have turned bull in the last two months over there.

    The only problem is, once that lot start buying the market will probably collapse, they are not very lucky you know icon7.gif
    '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
  • Wookster
    Wookster Posts: 3,795 Forumite
    Joeskeppi wrote: »
    That's the definition that's been created on here, pretty much everyone who's been labelled a bull was predicting 10% drops at the beginning of the year.

    Rubbish.

    Bulls are the ones who didn't think property would ever fall in price.

    How the goalposts have moved.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    The only problem is, once that lot start buying the market will probably collapse, they are not very lucky you know icon7.gif

    So true....

    I've always been of the opinion that you make your own luck though. And those as risk averse as hpc junkies will never see any return.

    Still, nice of them to fund mortgages through their savings and BTL's through being eternal renters for all the bulls though. :D

    Their loss is our gain, and all that.....
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • Really2
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    Wookster wrote: »
    Rubbish.

    Bulls are the ones who didn't think property would ever fall in price.

    How the goalposts have moved.

    :cool: so you are now calling me a bear.:confused:

    come to think of it who did actualy post that prices will never fall?
  • Wookster
    Wookster Posts: 3,795 Forumite
    Really2 wrote: »
    :cool: so you are now calling me a bear.:confused:

    come to think of it who did actualy post that prices will never fall?

    I thought you were ignoring me.
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    Wookster wrote: »
    I thought you were ignoring me.

    I need entertainment occasionally :)
  • Lotus-eater
    Lotus-eater Posts: 10,789 Forumite
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    Really2 wrote: »
    come to think of it who did actualy post that prices will never fall?
    A few did, all gone now.

    Before there were any falls at all, that was the heyday and easy to see any difference between bulls and bears.
    Plenty of people then saying it would never go down.
    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
  • Really2
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    Lotus-eater wrote: »
    A few did, all gone now.

    Before there were any falls at all, that was the heyday and easy to see any difference between bulls and bears.
    Plenty of people then saying it would never go down.

    Berfore the days of me!
    How did you all cope :D
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    Wookster wrote: »
    Rubbish.

    Bulls are the ones who didn't think property would ever fall in price.

    How the goalposts have moved.

    I recall saying that house prices had to correct 22%.
    I have regularly been described as a bull.

    The reason is because I still hold a long term bullish view on house prices.

    P.S. wasn't far wrong with the 22% was I although I did think it could overshoot, which we havent seen.
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
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