At what point do you just swallow your pride and admit you was 100% wrong

triathlon

It's now 20 years on and housepricecrash.com have called the property market drastically wrong on so many hundreds of occasions, when do you just give up and swallow your pride and admit you got it so badly wrong?

20 years ago and then 20 years before that, people purchased property, some could not afford to or never had what it took and some just wanted a nice easy life and opted for social or rental housing, and do you know what, in December 2019 NOTHING has changed

Mistermeaner

its like observing a strange marriage where the husband and wife hate each other but for whatever reason are still co-dependent to the point neither can leave

He keeps berating her and she keeps arguing back

This is a just another of the same arguments you've had with each other a million times before and the outcome will be the same

For what its worth I agree with your stance but its sad for me to watch you obsess so much about your dysfunctional relationship rather than you just leaving and getting a new girlfriend

SmashedAvacado

at some point, the person who says "it will be the end of the world tomorrow" will be correct

That doesn't mean that they "knew" that this would be correct when they said it.

triathlon

SmashedAvacado wrote: »

at some point, the person who says "it will be the end of the world tomorrow" will be correct

That doesn't mean that they "knew" that this would be correct when they said it.

That is spot on, 20, 30 or more years and I dare say something nasty will crop up and show them to be right, but what a wasted life. It's like living in a cold ditch because you know civilisation will soon be at an end and we will all be living that way.

I will be sleeping in a nice warm bed tonight in a cosy home, and the chances are I will be doing the same tomorrow. I will deal with those bleak days should they ever arise at the time, but I won't be worrying about it tonight.

BobQ

I do not know but housing is a long term gamble that generally pays off unless you need to sell in a market trough.

Some things have changed. Now raising the deposit is a major factor in affordability. Twenty years ago it was easier for some people to raise a deposit on a smaller sum.

Another factor is in those days more were willing to save and make sacrifices in the short term.

Zero_Sum

You were.......

Thrugelmir

No one could foresee the ongoing bail out to keep the worlds financial system afloat.

epinjy

SmashedAvacado wrote: »

at some point, the person who says "it will be the end of the world tomorrow" will be correct

That doesn't mean that they "knew" that this would be correct when they said it.

I have a strange affinity for the saying 'a broken clock is right twice a day". :think:

Thrugelmir

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

“A boy called Peter lived with his parents in a village on the hillside. His parents, like most of the other people in the village, were sheep farmers. Everybody in the village took turns to look after the sheep, and when Peter was 10 years old, he was considered old enough to take his turn at shepherding.

But Peter was too easily bored, and he found it very tiresome being on the hillside with only sheep for company. So he’d find ways to amuse himself, running up rocks, climbing trees, chasing sheep, but nothing really kept him amused for very long. Then he hit upon a brilliant idea. He climbed to the top of the tallest tree, and started shouting towards the village: “Wolf! Wolf! Wooolf! Woohoolf!”

One of the villagers heard him, and got all the other men together, and armed with axes, hoes and forks, they ran out of the village to chase away the wolf and save their herd. Of course when they got there, they merely found Peter perched high up in his tree, laughing, and the sheep grazing peacefully. They were very annoyed with him. That night Peter got a spanking from his mother and was sent to bed without any supper.

For a while life went on again as normal, and people forgot about the incident. Peter managed to behave himself whenever it was his turn to mind the sheep. Until one day, he got really bored again. He picked up some sticks, and running through where the sheep were grazing, he started hitting the sticks together, and shouting: “Wolf! Wolf! Wooolf! Woohoolf! Woohoohoooolf!”

Sure enough, somebody in the village heard and before long the men all come running up the hill armed with their sticks and axes and hoes and shovels, ready to chase away the big bad wolf, and save their sheep and the poor shepherd boy. Imagine their consternation when they arrived in the field to see their herd grazing peacefully, and Peter sitting on a big rock, laughing uncontrollably.

That night Peter got a good telling off, an even better spanking from his mother, and was again sent to bed without any supper. For a few days people in the village went around moaning about Peter and his tricks, but before long things settled down again, and life resumed its normal uneventful course, and Peter had to do his turn at shepherding again every now and then. He decided he should behave himself, he really didn’t want to upset everybody all the time, and he especially didn’t want another one of his mother’s spankings!

Then, one afternoon when Peter was in the fields with the sheep, he noticed some of them were getting nervous, they started bleating and running hither and thither. Peter didn’t know what was the cause of this strange behaviour, sheep were running all over and making an ever louder racket. He got worried and decided to climb a tree so he could see what was going on. He balanced on a sturdy branch and looked around, what he saw almost made him fall out of the tree. There was a great big hairy wolf, chasing the sheep, biting at their legs, snapping at their tails. For a few seconds Peter was speechless. Then he started shouting: “Woolf! Woolof! Woohoohooloof!”

In the village an old man heard the shouting. “Oh no, not that Peter again”, he said, shaking his head. “What’s going on?” enquired another villager. “It’s that Peter again, he just can’t help himself”.

“That boy needs to be the centre of attention all the time”, said another. “Wait till his mother gets a hold of him”, added yet another. Nobody believed that this time there really was a wolf, and nobody got their hoe out, or their axe, or their shovel. All the sticks were left in the sheds and nobody rushed up the hillside. It wasn’t until very much later that afternoon, that the boy sent to take over the shepherding from Peter found dead sheep’s bodies strewn all over the hillside, and Peter still up there in his tree, whimpering, that the villagers found out there really had been a wolf this time.

At last Peter learnt his lesson, that if you always tell lies, people will eventually stop believing you; and then when you’re telling the truth for a change, when you really need them to believe you, they won’t.[/QUOTE]

triathlon

https://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/235507-interest-rates-to-rise-growth-to-rise-housing-market-to-be-fixed/

And here is the 1049th "it's about to crash prediction", cannot believe Bootle is still listened to

Norman_Castle

admit you were 100% wrong