How can people be so pessimistic all the time?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Saw someone post this on hpc and LMAO..... Then thought about it some more, and realised it so perfectly encapsulates the mentality of our more pessimistic posters.

I just don't understand how some people can be so pessimistic and afraid of the future.

In the great depression, you saw people walk around with sandwich boards claimning the "end is nigh", nowadays those same types of people congregate on hpc.co.uk or here on the debate house prices/economy board.

Why? And how can these people get through life being so bl00dy miserable and pessimistic?

Dan:_4

These people will never have the bulls to buy a home as the debt scares the living daylights out of them - basically very little idea of how finance really works. Therefore home ownership will be nothing more then a dream for these people.

the_ash_and_the_oak

I'm not bullish about house prices in the uk I have to admit but tbf not really feeling an asteroid is going to land in my head (at least in the short term imo)

PasturesNew

If somebody's opinion or view differs from your own that doesn't mean it's wrong, why do you feel the need to bully them?

Some people are called pessimistic, when they feel they are realists due to experience or their local environment.

You're just one big bully.

:P

leveller2911

Personally I've always seen the glass as "Half empty" rather than "Half Full", so I guess I'm pessamistic by nature.

I would go on to say that where I have my worshop on a small industrial estate if you go back 12 months there were 10 businesses running from the site.Today there are 4 left trading and of those 2 of them are struggling and I wouldn't be surprised to see at least one of them go after Christmas.This is one small industrial Estate ,in one small town in one small corner of the country....

In the depression of the 30,s we had very little in the way of a welfare system compared with today. Today if you lose your job at least there is a safety net which compared to the 30,s is very generous.
People are generally more materialistic and when we see our lifestyles suffer ,be it buying cheaper brands of food or fore going a holiday we moan and whinge, compared to the 30,s we are lucky.

I don't think it helps anyone in society when we have so many stealth taxes which people will have to pay whether they're working or not.Things like "insurance premium tax" (we are told by government to insure because its important )and yet they tax it, if you lose your job you still have to pay it and there are so many taxes like this...Its wrong and indefencable..

Cannon_Fodder

Of course there are two ends to any spectrum;




Why do some choose to be SO far to the falsely positive end?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

the_ash_and_the_oak wrote: »

I'm not bullish about house prices in the uk I have to admit but tbf not really feeling an asteroid is going to land in my head (at least in the short term imo)

Yes but it's more than just being short term bullish or bearish on house prices, and I wouldn't really count you as one of those posters.

But those that are this way (and theres plenty of them here) feed on a non-stop diet of doom and gloom about everything, economy, unemployment, recession, depression, house prices, swine flu, etc etc etc..... and seek out the gloomiest news they can find about anything related to the board topic, before posting it with more instances of "we're doomed" than Private Fraser on a Dads Army X-Mas special.

the_ash_and_the_oak

I think it basically comes down to the fact that we are right and others are overly optimistic/pessimistic

leveller2911

Dan: wrote: »

These people will never have the bulls to buy a home as the debt scares the living daylights out of them - basically very little idea of how finance really works. Therefore home ownership will be nothing more then a dream for these people.

The threads got f**K all to do with house buying , if you just want to have the same old arguements about HPI and HPC then well done.

Clever boy:rolleyes:

PS theres a clue in the thread title...

Dan:_4

PasturesNew wrote: »

If somebody's opinion or view differs from your own that doesn't mean it's wrong, why do you feel the need to bully them?

Some people are called pessimistic, when they feel they are realists due to experience or their local environment.

You're just one big bully.

:P

I guess it's the nature of this board (and why it's hidden from the public domain) or maybe it's simply pay back time? Cast your mind back 12-18 months when this board was very bearish and if anyone had a different opinion they were bullied off by !!!!!!? and Carol. How times have changed.

abaxas

How about this...

I'm pessimstic about the outcome of the Afghan war, I think our troops should pull out.

Is that a bad statement?