house price crash is effing weird

Mistermeaner

And I'm proud to be here.

I got bored in savings and pensions.

Thrugelmir

ggb1979 wrote: »

I got bored in savings and pensions.

Boring is often the best option. As people often struggle to distinguish between luck and their own abilities.

Mistermeaner

Don't worry my boring passive portfolio and predetermined monthly investments with auto rebalancing are chugging away.

It's just once you do that there's nothing left to talk about as by definition you're not interested in what the world might be doing, hence you end up in here ranting at the moon and howling at the stars

chucknorris

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Boring is often the best option. As people often struggle to distinguish between luck and their own abilities.

They could always boost their abilities by attending this workshop:

http://rf-london.localspecific.com/?vsid=5d4d3416-4030-e511-93f8-a0369f1303c6

I wonder if they give out complimentary cocaine?

I can see why it is free, obviously because they can get all those gullible people on their mailing lists etc.

Cornucopia

I'm all for having unconventional views and thinking outside the box, but there has to be some rationality behind it.

For me, the HPC crowd are obsessives with a wish-fulfilment fixation that is not bounded in logic or even remotely conventional economics. They could be dangerous except for the fact that their main concern is just house prices.

Cornucopia

ggb1979 wrote: »

...hence you end up in here ranting at the moon and howling at the stars

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are howling at the stars...

an aphorism for social media.

purch

house price crash is effing weird

I have always considered that starting a thread on the MSE forum about another forum is totally effing weird.

chucknorris

purch wrote: »

I have always considered that starting a thread on the MSE forum about another forum is totally effing weird.

You should see what they say about you on the bee keeping forum!

Generali

purch wrote: »

I have always considered that starting a thread on the MSE forum about another forum is totally effing weird.

I once went for a meet up with a bunch of people who had been banned from HPC and started a splinter movement. Can't remember what it was called but it was a similar name.

Nice bunch actually. Sir Humphrey who used to post here was there and we chatted for quite a while until his missus got a little abusive (I think she lived in a Guardianista bubble and wasn't used to investment bankers with a rather different take on things. She liked wine in 250ml glasses a lot which I suspect didn't help as the afternoon turned to night).

Betty Page used to post here too and was there. She was very nice, one of those people that really occupy a room. She dressed a bit like a member of the Communards.

The bloke that set up the splinter group was there but I'm not sure if I remember his real name or his username. He was lovely and obviously bright, as was Sir H actually.

mystic_trev

Generali wrote: »

I once went for a meet up with a bunch of people who had been banned from HPC and started a splinter movement. Can't remember what it was called but it was a similar name.

It was globalhousepricecrash.com. I missed the meet up as I was abroad at the time.I remember seeing the pictures though! Blimey Gen, we're talking 10 years ago! :eek: