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70% club warning!

macaque_2
macaque_2 Posts: 2,439 Forumite
edited 13 August 2010 at 10:07PM in Debate House Prices & the Economy
The thread:

"100,000 new gardens must be built ev!ery year for the growing population"

Was a legitimate refuff to the ridiculous spin of:

"100,000 new homes must be built every year for immigrants"

Moderator! By relegating this post to the 'money savers arms', you have used your power in an ignorant and ill considered way. The 70% committe invite you to reinstate the above post immediately (and by the way, the 70% club are not impressed with your censorship of the thread about beavers).

If the above post is not reinstated by midday tomorrow, then the 70% club suggests that MSE Martin comes on this website to justify this behaviour. 12 hours!

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  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I prefer the beavers in the arms, to be fair :)
  • macaque wrote: »

    If the above post is not reinstated by midday tomorrow, then the 70% club suggests that MSE Martin comes on this website to justify this behaviour. 12 hours!
    macaque as a felow member ofthe 70 percent club i share your disgust. if we all resigne together therell be nobody left and the forum will have to close
  • macaque_2
    macaque_2 Posts: 2,439 Forumite
    edited 13 August 2010 at 11:13PM
    Dirk_Rambo wrote: »
    macaque as a felow member ofthe 70 percent club i share your disgust. if we all resigne together therell be nobody left and the forum will have to close

    Its good to hear from a fellow club member.

    The matter is somewhat out of my hands now. The 70% club will meet at 1 p.m. tomorrow to review the matter. If my post is judged to have fallen short of 70% club standards by virtue of insufficient wit, intelligence or insight, MSE will be off the hook. If not, sanctions may be imposed based on the percieved severity of the act of censorship.

    The information below is for admin only

    divadee, Finishrich, misskool
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    While we're waiting for the non appearance of Martin - and the subsequent moving of this thread to the Arms (which will please Graham immensely as he can have a 2nd go at the beavers there), I've got some 50% listings for the 70% club to warm up on:

    Development of 10 houses. Odd one imho as those doors look "typical council" to me. Only four sold, leaving six languishing ... so, five are now for sale, but three of those are going to auction at £85-100k, those that sold in 2005 went for £150-155k. Could be a strategy to stimulate interest, but they might crash and burn if there's no interest.

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=POSTCODE^3662248&insId=1&sortByPriceDescending=false&includeSSTC=true&_includeSSTC=on

    Oooh ... links don't work. Odd that.
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