Scottish house prices down 1.5% over the year

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Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

I don't see it that way. To be frank, you do that perfectly well on your own....

Let me put it this way, as diplomatically as I can. If I saw a colleague walking around with his flies open, I would almost certainly tell him about it. That would not be rude, but simply a helpful 'comment'. He's made a mistake, as all of us do.

Now if I were to find him, say, 9 times in the same day, and every day, with his flies open, I would start to think of only two possibilites. Firstly, he could deliberately be drawing attention to himself and deliberately making this sartorial mistake. Or the other possibility is that he repeatedly fails to learn from his mistake or eccentricity.

It would be no surprise, therefore, if each time I pointed it out, I might get a bit more irritated each time.

Now don't confuse this with, say, the colour of his trousers. They could be baggy multicoloured things that I wouldn't wear if my life depended on it. No matter. I would defend his right to wear such silly (in my opinion) trousers, but after the 112th time of pointing out his flies were open, don't be surprised if I criticised the colour and cut as well. Don't be surprised if the whole office sniggered, became critical, and perhaps started enjoying 'having a go', calling him 'Mr Flasher' or whatever...

Then consider that if this person then decided not to keep making the mistake (flies open), but kept wearing the same trousers (that looked silly to me), then I could live with that. Future discussions would start to become far more civilised and polite, and we could have a sensible debate on all the different types of trousers.

If, on the other hand, this guy didn't take any care, and continued to make this simple mistake time and time again, I would tend to think he was either completely stupid, deliberately provocative, or just plain weird.

I suspect no-one's asking you to wear more conventional trousers. But I can hear loud voices telling you to do your flies up for your own good.... but equally loud voices saying no, keep them undone because we enjoy [and have the perfect right] to tell you we don't like your trousers, and why don't you 'shut the flies up' or words to that effect.

An almost perfect analogy, which is only missing the fact that when you point out the open flies, the colleague looks at them and totally denies that they are open, then flounces around the office in tears saying you're bullying him. The office girls crowd around him at first and you get dragged into the [STRIKE]moderator's[/STRIKE] boss's office and you are occasionally asked to leave. Eventually the office girls notice that he not only has his flies open but his tallywacker hanging out. They stop reporting you to the boss and you don't get [STRIKE]banned[/STRIKE] asked to leave anymore.

IveSeenTheLight

Graham_Devon wrote: »

The thread stated house prices in Scotland were falling. They were 13 months ago when it was started.

It's now 13 months later. Prices are not falling in Scotland. Things have changed, as they do.

I'm interested to know why you chose the article and stats you did and not a more respected organisation such as the ROSEA?

what does your link report now?

Graham_Devon wrote: »

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hQTSD5wMZ7oQ8XdmbqGxn7UxMa2g?docId=N0008971345116142307A

Just an informative post!

Seems it was not that informative.