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Uber-Bear Wakes Up and Smells Coffee, Prices Heading UP

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  • System
    System Posts: 178,371 Community Admin
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    It was me that made the apostrophe comment, but by all means carry on using it against Hamish, seeing as it's the ONLY counter argument you have.

    As usual.
    This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    buglawton wrote: »
    So we are supposed to look forward to being like overcrowded lab rats in a cage? This isn't about economics, its simply about being overcrowded.

    What's your option then?

    Surely better to canvas for more property to be built, which would solve the oversrowding issue along with keeping a restraint on house prices.

    Far better to spend your time doing something constructive like that than waste your time on here moaning about overcrowding and increasing prices.
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Joeskeppi wrote: »
    It was me that made the apostrophe comment,

    LOL, I made a similar comment in a thread a week or two ago that was asking for the most annoying grammatical errors.

    I'll give nearlyclued credit for dragging it back up.
    it's the ONLY counter argument you have.

    As usual.

    Indeed.

    Not having any form of counter argument is fairly pathetic.

    Even by the usually poor standard of bear responses.
    “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”
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    Japan.

    Property prices reached almost US$1,000,000 per square metre in some areas at peak.

    Japan.

    20 years later, and after a 90% fall, Tokyo house prices are STILL more expensive than London house prices.

    Japan.

    Population is falling, and has been for quite some time.

    Japan.

    Is therefore totally irrelevant to the UK situation.

    Don't forget they have to rebuild their property every 25 years due to living very near a Tectonic Plate

    65437478.jpg
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • Wookster
    Wookster Posts: 3,795 Forumite
    hamish, you are really just a troll.
  • Doctor_Gloom
    Doctor_Gloom Posts: 397 Forumite
    Wookster wrote: »
    hamish, you are really just a troll.
    Yeah, no wonder HPC booted him out on his big fat a$$
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Wookster wrote: »
    hamish, you are really just a troll.

    I'll refer you to my earlier comment.
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    Not having any form of counter argument is fairly pathetic.

    Even by the usually poor standard of bear responses.
    “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”
  • nearlynew
    nearlynew Posts: 3,800 Forumite
    IveSeenTheLight wrote: »
    Don't forget they have to rebuild their property every 25 years due to living very near a Tectonic Plate

    65437478.jpg


    How did you find that ISTL?


    It's not on the BBC website.
    "The problem with quotes on the internet is that you never know whether they are genuine or not" -
    Albert Einstein
  • Wookster
    Wookster Posts: 3,795 Forumite
    Doctor_Gloom wrote: »
    Yeah, no wonder HPC booted him out on his big fat a$$

    You mean big, fat, loaded in debt a$$
  • Doctor_Gloom
    Doctor_Gloom Posts: 397 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    Nadeem Wallayat over at marketoracle is one of the bears favourite guru's.
    I've never heard of him. It's only obsessive nutters like you that avidly follow the pronouncements of these nobodies.
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