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Oh I love it. Misery Index at highest since Black Wednesday

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  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    That may be so. But we are twice as miserable today as September 2004 don't you know.

    LOL, I suspect if they took the misery-o-meter round your way it would break.:)
    “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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  • Really2
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    edited 18 October 2011 at 9:02PM
    Here is the related graph.sad-graph.jpg

    (only sad looking graph I could find)
  • vivatifosi
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    Really2 wrote: »
    Here is the related graph.

    (only sad looking graph I could find)

    Where's Cleaver when we need him?
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  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    LOL, I suspect if they took the misery-o-meter round your way it would break.:)

    The absurdity of such an index actually humoured me!

    According to the index, we were a pretty happy bunch in 2008!
  • reweird
    reweird Posts: 281 Forumite
    The misery index must have been off the hook yesterday when the +2.8% Halifax figures came in.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    reweird wrote: »
    The misery index must have been off the hook yesterday when the +2.8% Halifax figures came in.

    Your excitement is getting you all flustered.
  • undetterred
    undetterred Posts: 635 Forumite
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    Right up Grays street this one,like a pig in !!!!.
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    WHITE Wednesday :mad:
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
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