Blanchflower: House price rises reflect unreliable property data

IveSeenTheLight

Mr.Brown wrote: »

I bet it is absolutely bloody wonderful.

Well many a good golfer has played and commented on the course.
The great Tom Watson won the seniors championship there in 2005

If your not a good golfer (like me) it can be absolutely bloody awful

Mr.Brown_4

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

If your not a good golfer (like me) it can be absolutely bloody awful

Oh yes, there is that of course. Funny game golf - one good shot can make you suffer a thousand more bad ones in the hope...

purch

That looks like one of those courses where you have to give up 1/2 way round cos you've run out of balls. :eek:

P.S. I lost 6 Balls on the 1st Hole at Macrahanish GC once, so I've got previous :cool:

Mr.Brown_4

Golf anecdote: Fluked shot over lake and landed just on a bit of ground at far side. Ball behind tree. Needed to fade the shot around tree in order to approach the green. Stood at strange angle to address ball while explaining to girlfriend that I had read this technique in my Faldo "how to play book". Hit ball directly into tree where it bounced back into lake. Girlfirend laughed so hard she nearly weed herself.

IveSeenTheLight

Mr.Brown wrote: »

Golf anecdote: Fluked shot over lake and landed just on a bit of ground at far side. Ball behind tree. Needed to fade the shot around tree in order to approach the green. Stood at strange angle to address ball while explaining to girlfriend that I had read this technique in my Faldo "how to play book". Hit ball directly into tree where it bounced back into lake. Girlfirend laughed so hard she nearly weed herself.

My anecdote:
I've never had a hole in one.
One time however I hit the pin on a par three and the ball stopped two inches from the hole.
Thing is though, if it didn't hit the pin I would have been right through the back and into a bunker

IveSeenTheLight

Golf joke:
Went to view a new car at BMW.
The salesman was giving us all the specs and really talking the car up.
My wife noticed a couple of golf teas on the car seat and asked what they were for.
The salesman apologised and explained they were for holding your balls while you drive.
My wife said it was amazing and BMW had really thought of everything

Disclaimer: I actually am not a believer in BMW being value for money but I used them for the purposes of the joke.

bernard_shaw

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

And there you have the bear position neatly summarised.

No amount of misinformation too large, no amount of propaganda too much, no lie too outrageous to tell, so long as I get a "cheapo house".

Yup.

Well, sort-of.

I don't think that offering a mainstream-media article by a respected international economist is really 'misinformation', 'propaganda' or an 'outrageous lie', is it?

Actually, now that I think about it, that's pretty offensive. Are you calling me a liar?

Conrad

Hamish, you won't get an uber bear to ever change thier minds. Thier world view is fixed, static, beyond argument and above all 'realistic', of course.

100 million years from now, the uber pessimists will be arguing along the same lines, they always have and they always will. We're doooomed

Mr.Brown_4

Conrad wrote: »

100 million years from now, the uber pessimists will be arguing along the same lines, they always have and they always will.

We'll all be dead by then.

bernard_shaw

Conrad wrote: »

Hamish, you won't get an uber bear to ever change thier minds. Thier world view is fixed, static, beyond argument and above all 'realistic', of course.

100 million years from now, the uber pessimists will be arguing along the same lines, they always have and they always will. We're doooomed

Oh I'm not an "uber bear" (whatever that is!). I've just got a pile of cash and I want to buy a house for as cheap as I can possibly get it. As far as I can see, both commercial and domestic property markets are ridge-walking in a gale a the moment. I'm just trying to help place some loose boulders beneath their walking-boots.

As far as it goes I'm "bullish" on (other forms of) business. Particularly UK exports. :money: