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The "Dirk Rambo Talking to Herself" thread

"Crumbling Piles of Bricks"

An expression often used by housing bears to describe houses. Obviously intended to be derogatory and dismissive.

So why are they all so very desperate for prices to crash so they can buy their own "crumbling pile of bricks"? :think:
“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.”

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  • Because they have just learned about "Entropy" and merely want to watch it in practice.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    First time I ever seen such a description.
  • ruggedtoast
    ruggedtoast Posts: 9,819 Forumite
    "Crumbling Piles of Bricks"

    An expression often used by housing bears to describe houses. Obviously intended to be derogatory and dismissive.

    So why are they all so very desperate for prices to crash so they can buy their own "crumbling pile of bricks"? :think:

    Yeah, another great thread.

    Fantastic. Do keep them coming.
  • "Crumbling Piles of Bricks"

    An expression often used by housing bears to describe houses. Obviously intended to be derogatory and dismissive.

    "often used"? I wouldn't swear I've never seen it, but it's not familiar to me. Can you point to 10 "bears" on this board who've used it? Or 5, even?
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • bendix
    bendix Posts: 5,499 Forumite
    Hamish would be an interesting subject for a psychological study. Never have I seen one poster so one-dimensionally obsessed with one subject, even to the point of spinning immigration issues around to the notion of supporting house studies.

    What worries me about him is that his exposure to property is not even that big - a couple of places in Aberdeen. It's hardly Cannes, is it?

    I'd like to think his obsession is because he built his meagre portfolio himself; at least I'd understand it then. I suspect it's not the case though. I suspect our Hamish had most of his assets passed to him by family or spouse or something similar.
  • 92203
    92203 Posts: 239 Forumite
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    In several months of being a lurker on the HPC forum, I can't recollect ever having seen someone using such a term to describe a house.
  • alpha23
    alpha23 Posts: 33 Forumite
    "Crumbling Piles of Bricks"

    An expression often used by housing bears to describe houses. Obviously intended to be derogatory and dismissive.

    So why are they all so very desperate for prices to crash so they can buy their own "crumbling pile of bricks"? :think:

    Please stop posting dross like this, it's just pointless conjecture and makes you look like an antagonistic @rse.

    This forum deserves better than that.
  • Graham_Devon
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    Well that went well mate :p
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    "often used"? I wouldn't swear I've never seen it, but it's not familiar to me. Can you point to 10 "bears" on this board who've used it? Or 5, even?


    Well, I can help him..I do indeed feel we have bought a crumbling pile of bricks and I'm short term-medium term bearish about house prices. Literally, some are blown and crumbling. But its a crumbling pile of bricks we like enough to waste money on :D
  • datostar
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    Dirk_Rambo wrote: »
    mctavesh your a barnpot

    Aye, time for him to bile his heid.
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