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what are you on about payback?0
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heathcote123 wrote: »what are you on about payback?pay·back(p
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n. 1. a. The return gained from or paid on an investment: "One problem with space ventures is that the up-front costs are enormous and the paybacks uncertain and far off at best" (Eric Gelman).
b. The return on an investment equal to the amount invested: expect a payback within six years.
2. A benefit gained as the result of a previous action.
3. The act or process of paying back.
See the payback I get from this is answering your deliberately obstuse line of enquiry, whilst simultaneously highlighting the fact that this pointless side alley was the only place you had to go once I succesfully demonstrated the spurious (and of course hypocritical) nature of your previous comment.0 -
pay·back(pbk)
n. 1. a. The return gained from or paid on an investment: "One problem with space ventures is that the up-front costs are enormous and the paybacks uncertain and far off at best" (Eric Gelman).
b. The return on an investment equal to the amount invested: expect a payback within six years.
2. A benefit gained as the result of a previous action.
3. The act or process of paying back.
Yes, I know what payback means, I am just struggling to understand your use of the word in that particular context.0 -
heathcote123 wrote: »Yes, I know what payback means, I am just struggling to understand your use of the word in that particular context.
Still running full speed down this side alley I see.
Well naturally you were hoping for a bit of return in your investment of time and effort.
Instead, you got it turned around on you.
Forcing you to place your focus on whats essentially a very minor side issue in an attempt to cover up your apparent failure.
Clear enough?0 -
See the payback I get from this is answering your deliberately , whilst simultaneously highlighting the fact that this pointless side alley was the only place you had to go once I succesfully demonstrated the spurious (and of course hypocritical) nature of your previous comment.
I'm beginning to think you may be some kind of random sentence generator.
Are you on sick leave?0 -
Forcing you to place your focus on whats essentially a very minor side issue in an attempt to cover up your apparent failure.
I think I can traslate that. You think that me pointing out that you have financially cocked up in regards to the housing market, while claiming great victory (hence the black knight comparison) is a minor side issue?
The major issue being that you were right (about a hpc), and the minor side issue being that personally you are in a worse financial postion because of waiting for it?
Am I right? You don't make this easy...0 -
heathcote123 wrote: »I'm beginning to think you may be some kind of random sentence generator.
Really. Cos I got the impression you were beginning to think you shouldn't have gone a gambit so trite and juvenile gambit at could readily be turned back against you.
Of course I wont mention that the tired old "you cared enough to post" efforts are a dusty old favourite of Columbo/rinoa.
Would want to suggest that the bulls have quite a limited repertoir of late.0 -
heathcote123 wrote: »I think I can traslate that. You think that me pointing out that you have financially cocked up in regards to the housing market, while claiming great victory (hence the black knight comparison) is a minor side issue?
The major issue being that you were right (about a hpc), and the minor side issue being that personally you are in a worse financial postion because of waiting for it?
Am I right? You don't make this easy...
Except thats not what you did. What you did was suggest that because I was inclined to firmly rebute robmatics tired dogma that he had obviously "cut deeply".
I then rebutted your own efforts by highlighting that
1) its basically a variation of the "touched a nerve did I" playground chat and
2) that by going to the effort you did yourself, by your own rationale I had clearly cut you deeply.
What you've now done is now, having firmly lost what argument there actually was, reverted to the "timing game" fall back position just posts after I noted how dull and predictable it was.
On a scale of 1 to 10 how much more amusing do you think that makes our little exchange?
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Except thats not what you did. What
1) its basically a variation of the "touched a nerve did I" playground chat and
2) that by going to the effort you did yourself, by your own rationale I had clearly cut you deeply.
You are stark raving bonkers. How on earth did you come up with that? It's like you're posting from an alternate reality sometimes, well most the time actually.
But feel free to continue to edit your previous posts after they had already be responded to, you may make it make some sense that way.0 -
You miss the point rob.
The crash happened. End of.
Those who said it wouldn't were quite wrong.
Whoop. I thought that there would be a correction in house prices as well. Do I get a gold star?The timing game is a bullish invention.
Of course the fact that my jibber-jabber effectively negated aspects of the timing game was highly amusing.
If you're delaying purchase because you expect to save a few quid on the price by doing so, you're living out the 'timing game'.Again you fail no appreciate the crucial difference between deconstructing spurious discredited arguments, and being a bitter enough bull to make them.
Who's bitter, really? Are you projecting again?BTW. Talking about an equisite lack of self awareness you appear to be unaware that having been part of the losing team on the great rent debate,
you've fallen back on "timing" in a failed attempt at scoring cheap unrelated points.
What team? My contribution to this thread has simply been to suggest that paying increasing amounts of rent over the last 3 years is not necessarily a reason for a grand hurrah when people who chose to purchase have been making out like bandits on cheap mortgage rates.
Therefore lending unneccesary added credibility to the assement of the timing game as an embittered fall back position.
So thanks for that.
Eugh, keyboard spasm.0
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