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  • geneer
    geneer Posts: 4,220 Forumite
    Well given your house buying strategy to date, it's hardly surprising you're so frustrated.

    I rather think I was talking about chaps like yourself Hamish,
    and the excellent supportive response my news has made.

    I'm sure as you tore back to Credit Crunch to copy comments you'd made a week ago, that frustration had nothing to do with it. :rotfl:

    Anyway...

    Hamish Buys 2007.
    House prices crash 2008.
    Geneer buys December 2009.

    Tell me again about my timing? ;)
  • geneer
    geneer Posts: 4,220 Forumite
    edited 27 December 2011 at 9:02PM
    Cleaver wrote: »
    God, I dunno. Reading books, going for walks, speaking to real people I suppose. Doesn't bear thinking about to be honest.

    He typed on the internet forum.
    robmatic wrote: »
    Sounds like hell.

    Replied his pal on the internet forum.






    Yeah, you're living the life chaps.
  • JonnyBravo
    JonnyBravo Posts: 4,103 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    geneer wrote: »
    Anyway...

    Hamish Buys 2007.
    House prices crash 2008.
    Geneer buys December 2009.

    Tell me again about my timing? ;)

    It was Q1 2010 in a different thread a few minutes ago. :D
    Difficult picking the best time for the particular point you're arguing isn't it?

    Why don't you compare your timing to say..... mine? :cool:
  • geneer
    geneer Posts: 4,220 Forumite
    JonnyBravo wrote: »
    It was Q1 2010 in a different thread a few minutes ago. :D
    Difficult picking the best time for the particular point you're arguing isn't it?

    Why don't you compare your timing to say..... mine? :cool:


    You forgot the part where I mention Lag, haven't you.

    Not to worry. Rinoa's been trying to forget the Harsh realities of the same for quite some time.

    JonnyBravo wrote: »

    Why don't you compare your timing to say..... mine? :cool:

    Trying to initiate a dance off are you JB.
    Not that you care right? :rotfl:
    Classy move.
    Real classy.:T
  • JonnyBravo
    JonnyBravo Posts: 4,103 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    The lag.
    Ah yes.
    That well known phenomenon where you have to add months on to when you bought a house to really get an idea of when you bought.
    :rotfl:
    Seems that extra £20k matters quite a lot eh?



    And yep I'm more than happy with the dance off..... you started one and I thought you'd like it if I started another..... didn't realise you were quite so touchy on how they came about :D
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    geneer wrote: »
    Replied his pal on the internet forum. Yeah, you're living the life chaps.

    Just to be clear, by making the comment I did I wasn't trying to make some sort of point that my life is some sort of cool advert for doing wonderful stuff and that posting on the internet is some sort of stupid thing to do. I'm not cool and I happily post on this internet site.

    I was simply making the point that your behaviour, and the others who are obsessed with your behaviour, are both a bit odd. You keep commenting on how I'm just the same, or as odd, as I've commented on it a dozen or so times. But that's a bit different to what must be a hundred thousand posts from dozens of posters, numerous avatars, cross posting on god-knows how many forums on whether one man (one man!) has bought a house or not. You've all even made up your own language and vocabulary on the subject. Whatever way you look at it, it's a bit odd. Surely you see that?
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    geneer wrote: »
    Lets not forget the weirdo who's compelled to spend a significant proportion of his time commenting on it, like he's producing some kind of directors commentary. :rotfl:

    As per my post above geneer, it's around a dozen posts.

    Look, this is the only forum I use (and have ever used) and I really used to like it. There were some great people on here. But what else is there to comment or debate nowadays other than your house purchase? It's pretty much every single thread. I guess I should just stop posting to be honest, but a habit can be hard to break.
  • chucknorris
    chucknorris Posts: 10,795 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 27 December 2011 at 9:42PM
    Cleaver wrote: »
    As per my post above geneer, it's around a dozen posts.

    Look, this is the only forum I use (and have ever used) and I really used to like it. There were some great people on here. But what else is there to comment or debate nowadays other than your house purchase? It's pretty much every single thread. I guess I should just stop posting to be honest, but a habit can be hard to break.

    Cleaver it's not like the old days here now, and I haven't exactly been here that long (not as long as you), but I think our days are numbered here now, don't you? I suspect you know it but just aren't quite ready to admit it for a while.

    Like you say old habits die hard.
    Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop
  • Cleaver wrote: »
    I guess I should just stop posting to be honest, but a habit can be hard to break.
    Cleaver it's not like the old days here now, and I haven't exactly been here that long (not as long as you), but I think our days are numbered here now, don't you? I suspect you know it but just aren't quite ready to admit it for a while.

    Like you say old habits die hard.

    Stick with it guys. Once everyone gets bored of geneers latest revelation and the spotlight moves on, so will geneer. Think about it logically, he can't be in the bear gang anymore because no one will believe that he really wants house prices to fall now that he has 'bought'. He can't be in the Bull gang because, well simply because. He can't be neutral because he really doesn't have any interest in the economy other than the movement of house prices and let's be honest, neutrals are not that interested in the minutae of HP movements.

    There is nowhere left for him to go. He has the choice to stay around and desperately try and get some of the attention he craves by making increasingly outlandish claims, but this will just result in greater amounts of ridicule until he is simply seen as the forum fool (well, even more so) and eventually gets banned. The alternative is that he leaves with some shred of dignity. My money is on the former.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Think about it logically, he can't be in the bear gang anymore because no one will believe that he really wants house prices to fall now that he has 'bought'. He can't be in the Bull gang because, well simply because.

    <shakes head>

    It's what the forum seems to have come too. Stick to hounding him guys, he won't be allowed in anyones gang.

    <shakes head>
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