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  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    edited 21 May 2014 at 6:17PM
    CLAPTON wrote: »
    I didn't see the interview
    however, such interviews are purely to entertain and not to inform

    PMSL. So you didn't actually see the interview, but you are TELLING us what was said?

    This forum just get's worse. Not only do we have to ignore all journalists, politicians or commentators should they say anything which could effect HPI....

    ....but now you are telling us not to listen to what the public are actually saying on the TV as you have decided, without even seeing the interview, they were under instruction to say it.

    All because they have gone against your love of HPI!

    The bit about "did you witness detailed budgets" is just the icing on the cake.
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    PMSL. So you didn't actually see the interview, but you are TELLING us what was said?

    This forum just get's worse. Not only do we have to ignore all journalists, politicians or commentators should they say anything which could effect HPI....

    ....but now you are telling us not to listen to what the public are actually saying on the TV as you have decided, without even seeing the interview, they were under instruction to say it.

    All because they have gone against your love of HPI!

    The bit about "did you witness detailed budgets" is just the icing on the cake.


    no I wasn't telling what was said; I was saying what was meant
    and commenting on the useless nature of random people being asked for soundbites on TV.

    and you haven't answered my questions about how considered the responses were or what he mean by 'struggle'.

    For the record I have no love of HPI and NONE of my posts ever celebrate increase in prices although sometimes they do explain them or discuss the consequences.
  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
    This forum just get's worse. Not only do we have to ignore all journalists, politicians or commentators should they say anything which could effect HPI....

    Not ignore but take with a pinch of salt - whether it's anything to do with HPI or not.

    ...and occasionally, it can be done, find the source data, read it and try and form your own opinion instead of letting yourself be spoon fed by people who are trying to manipulate you.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    no I wasn't telling what was said; I was saying what was meant

    Seriously, how could you possibly know if you didn't even watch the interview?

    I'm lost for words really.
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    Seriously, how could you possibly know if you didn't even watch the interview?

    I'm lost for words really.

    you're never lost for words.

    Do you truely consider that a few soundbite on TV are going to provide any serious insight into the effect of rises in interest rates?

    Do you really expect to get a considered analysis from a random person from such a soundbite?

    Do you really have to listen to this rubbish before knowing it's rubbish?

    If there had been a 20 minute detailed discussion of the person finances with full facts and figures about his income, his spending, his debts and his mortgage etc something worthwhile might emerge ; but a few seconds on TV interview, no.

    It would be a benefit to us all if you were lost for words more often.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    It would be a benefit to us all if you were lost for words more often.

    Well, it's nice to know not only do you speak for people on the street and inform them of what they really meant, but now you speak for the enitre forum too.
  • danothy
    danothy Posts: 2,200 Forumite
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    It would be a benefit to us all if you were lost for words more often.

    I disagree. There are many posts by this so called 'Graham_Devon' that I have responded to and received no subsequent response. I therefore equate being at a loss for words with being unaccountable for your previous assertions.
    If you think of it as 'us' verses 'them', then it's probably your side that are the villains.
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