BoE warns of risks of rate rises.

Mr._Pricklepants

ess0two wrote: »

Its like a game of chess you can't win........

That game of chess often goes like this:

- bishop A4 to A8...checkmate!
- you can't do that, bishops only move diagonally
- i never said bishop!
- you sure did, and only queen and rook can do A4 to A8
- oh! we're talking about queens and rooks now eh?? Trying to change the subject now you're losing?
- not at all. Just pointing out the rules of the game.
- ok, but you're still checkmate
- no I'm not.
- that's it, I'm out!!

wotsthat

I fear I've been playing this down.

thisismoney.co.uk have a feature on this with a ticking timebomb

Things must be bad - they've not used that image for a couple of weeks.

OffGridLiving

grizzly1911 wrote: »

Why are you asking me you seem to know the answer.

I thought I'd have a go at 'bottoming out' this discussion once and for all. I don't want to put words into your mouth, so could you emplain why you think interest rates in most developed countries are at their lowest in history?

OffGridLiving

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Really? I mean....what a surprise!

Sorry, I only just spotted this. Your sarcastic response is actually very interesting and probably more enlightening than you think.

You're clearly admitting that you're having the same discussions with the same people (and by the total number of posts, and years on MSE evidenced on your profile) you've been doing this over many, many years. Do you not find it all rather tedious and time wasting?

(this is an open question to everyone on here, not just this chap)

Graham_Devon

You've tried hard reno. Your contributions to the forum so far under this name have been welcome, interesting and thought provoking..

Just stay that way, then there are no issues.

wotsthat

Sounds like the SCA (socky complaint army) are mobilising for deployment.

Nice knowing you OffGridLiving.

ess0two

Sheriff Devon is on the case now.

OffGridLiving

Graham_Devon wrote: »

You've tried hard reno. Your contributions to the forum so far under this name have been welcome, interesting and thought provoking..

Just stay that way, then there are no issues.

Erm, I don't understand. Are you threatening me in some way?

OffGridLiving

wotsthat wrote: »

Nice knowing you OffGridLiving.

I must admit to being a little confused, is Graham_Devon a moderator?

Even so, I've no idea how I've caused offence? I checked the forum rules and there is nothing in there about not being allowed to question whether it's worth discussing certain subjects when the debaters are so entrenched in their views that the discourse is circular and therefore pointless?

Apologies to anyone who may have taken offence, but with finance and economics being such a vast subject, I just felt that there is plenty enough to discuss without going over the same areas again and again without any ground given or taken. It's like trench warfare without end.

GhIFA

OffGridLiving wrote: »

I must admit to being a little confused, is Graham_Devon a moderator?

Even so, I've no idea how I've caused offence? I checked the forum rules and there is nothing in there about not being allowed to question whether it's worth discussing certain subjects when the debaters are so entrenched in their views that the discourse is circular and therefore pointless?

Apologies to anyone who may have taken offence, but with finance and economics being such a vast subject, I just felt that there is plenty enough to discuss without going over the same areas again and again without any ground given or taken. It's like trench warfare without end.

Don't worry about it - the same thing happened to me the first time I challenged him on one of his muddles - his fallback position is to suggest you're the re-incarnation of a previously-banned poster.

As for being a moderator - only if we're talking about being at the moderate end of "we're all doomed".