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  • julieq
    julieq Posts: 2,603 Forumite
    Nice factual response Daddybear, and not a hint of a personal attack. Well done.
  • System
    System Posts: 178,371 Community Admin
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    DaddyBear wrote: »
    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    you really do have delusions of grandure.

    Reality check. You live in a 3 bed terrace in Aberdeen, and clearly have no life outside your 'job' and this forum.

    I see the quality of posting just gets better and better.
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  • DaddyBear
    DaddyBear Posts: 1,208 Forumite
    julieq wrote: »
    Nice factual response Daddybear, and not a hint of a personal attack. Well done.


    Non-factual response to a non-factual post. I'm just calling a spade, a spade.
  • Rinoa
    Rinoa Posts: 2,701 Forumite
    edited 26 January 2010 at 5:46PM
    I notice a number of other prominent bulls have also stopped posting recently.

    Bateman, SpivT and Mammon haven't posted since 18th January.

    Also, although he's never been a frequent poster, Sibley hasn't posted since Jan 4th.

    I guess the bulls are a constant reminder of how HPC got it so wrong.

    ;)
    If I don't reply to your post,
    you're probably on my ignore list.
  • DaddyBear
    DaddyBear Posts: 1,208 Forumite
    Rinoa wrote: »

    I guess the bulls are a constant reminder of how HPC got it so wrong.

    ;)


    Not quite sure how they got it so wrong. The prediction was that HPI would cause a financial crisis. They just got the endpoint wrong. Instead of massive house price drops (which would have happened were it not for targeted government policy and deliberate currency devaluation) we got economic depression.
    If Broon & co hadn't sold out future generations to protect the banks then 70% off wouldnt have been too far off.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    Rinoa wrote: »
    I guess the bulls are a constant reminder of how HPC got it so wrong.
    they obviously got the price rises in 2009 wrong too

    they called a HPC was going to happen in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and they finally got it right in 2007.

    even a stopped clock is right twice a day :T
  • DaddyBear
    DaddyBear Posts: 1,208 Forumite
    chucky wrote: »
    they obviously got the price rises in 2009 wrong too

    they called a HPC was going to happen in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and they finally got it right in 2007.

    even a stopped clock is right twice a day :T

    The website didnt start until 2005.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    edited 26 January 2010 at 6:23PM
    DaddyBear wrote: »
    The website didnt start until 2005.
    it was actually 2003 before McLoughlin bought the site in Jan 2006 after the initial owners sold out the HPC cult and ran away with the profit
  • andykn
    andykn Posts: 438 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Turnbull2000 wrote: »
    I was glad to see the back of you on HPC to be honest. You're pretty annoying :p

    Anyway....

    Seeing so many people on HPC wallow in self-agreement was half the reason I started posting some opposing views. It was becoming unhealthy. If even moderate bullishness is no longer acceptable on HPC, I guess it's not a forum worth bothering with any more.

    I was banned at the same time as Hamish, you're in very good company :rotfl:

    That Banner loon is a troubled man, he thought I was a reincarnation of another poster that disagreed with him because obviously two separate individuals couldn't possibly disagree with him.

    The mods on there aren't too hot technically either, one of them cited my logging on from home, parents, g/f and holiday let residential ip addresses and a work address (over 4 months) as suspicious. I should get out less.

    The no warning, notice or explanation is what passes for Fubra (owners of the site) etiquette.

    This is amusing:

    http://www.brunopowroz.150m.com/
  • System
    System Posts: 178,371 Community Admin
    10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Is Gavin Greenway the same person as MSW?
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