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Stranglers - Always the sun

In south korea, to be allowed to practise as a masseur, you have to be registered blind. Makes the "extras" more interesting one guesses.

First they told us prices were stabilising. Then they told us that the falsl were stabilising. Today's beauty was

Large discounts by home sellers

Row continues as Smith unveils identity card "Oi darkie, come over here and show us your ID card." "I don't need to carry one" "Oh ok sir, on your way then" What is the point of making ID cards mandatory for a subsection of the community? How do you force people to carry them? Do you arrest every 'suspect' without one until they can prove they don't have to carry one? Does this force everyone to carry their passports with them, thus making ID cards easier to swallow? Well no, not everyone of course, just those without nice pink skintones. And of course it prevents 'ID theft' as your data is secure with them. Personnel records stolen from MoD

Alphaville - Forever Young Listening to spanish radio is like being permanently tuned into heartfm, whatever frequency you select.

Aubergine Cabbage Sprouts Broccoli Spinach Beetroot Celery Courgette Sweetcorn All of the above If god had wanted you to eat these things, he would have made them into silly colours.

Apart from bombing the suppliers of course which set the whol price spiralling bandwagon on it's way.

Or if you are a pensioner without a ticket standing outside holding a placard be prepared to be arrested.

Make sure he brings a good book - security delays last year meant representatives queuing for 3+ hours to get in and missing some of the prime speeches.

Maybe they could get a few of those nice blokes who stash their cash in the cayman islands to bankroll their state management ambitions a la the blue party.

I only posted that as it's your standard response when someone disagrees with you. And yes you are missing the point. I haven't once talked abut supporting a falling market. I am just commenting that the house market is fkd and a lot of people are going to get hurt and however protected I am, I won't be using my 20-20 hindsight vision in order to call other people foolish for having the misfortune of buying at the top of the market, even though I didn't think it was the top of the market.

Nope not saying that, never have done, feel free to read back in the thread for such examples. As for the Drat vs NickRogers ongoing you don't live here debate - irrelevant as I never proposed spending taxpayers money, though I could always use the NR defence of owning UK properties and therefore having a taxable asset / liability in the UK, but I won't bother as you're missing the point.

In the long term you win - as long as you don't die in the meantime, or get divorced and forced to sell your house or lose your job and have to move somewhere else and forced to sell your house or lose your job and not find a new one and forced out of your house. Being intelligent is great. Unfortunately intelligence varies across different disciplines - for instance, you yourself didn't belive house prices would fall, never mind crash. You were lucky that when you went to buy a house, the first time you were in a position to buy the market was at the end of a slump. To show such disregard for others, I'm sure you would agree, is a very tory attitude, not old labour or nu labour at all.

What if you had bought the same house in 1991? You'd have paid close to the same price as you did in 97 and so the rate of return would have been 4k per annum and for five years you would have sat in negative equity unable to move house if you wanted to. Oh it's luck to buy in the upturn isn't, poor deluded fools that fail to realise when the upturn ends hey.

Depressed housing market => Depressed economy => Longtime stagflation / recession

Negative equity could hit 1.3m, says study But it's all their own fault for borrowing too much the poor deluded fools.

<----------------------- <----------------------- Ol' red eyes is back back from all the lies he told before Ol' red's in town The middle east peace mission wore him down No EU presidency No new crown Ol' red is back Only Blair could save Labour now Ol' red eyes is back back from all the lies he told before Ol' red's in town Back to replace the failed Brown No need for change Just return the crown Ol' red eyes is back

Average house prices are around £170k according to Natiowide - so this does save a large group of people a bit dosh in what is an expensive transaction. But if you can't afford a 20% deposit it doesn't help that much. What does is the 30% free loan - it now becomes cheaper for a lot of tenants to buy instead of rent - well it does for the first five years. Wonder how you prove you're a first time buyer?

Non-issue - in the future state world all of those impacted by such issues will have long been terminated once the crystal in their hand started pulsing.

incey wincey spider

Tin hats on - 1984 or brave new world? Unmanned spy planes to police Britain I believe some police forces have already trialled some smaller drones, but this scale gives a little more scope to the data capture. Now we see the usefulness of the afghan / iraq conflicts - the govt can test out their new toys before deploying them in the UK.

A few weeks ago the line was house price falls had stabilised, now the credit crunch has bottomed out? House prices are still going to fall another 10-15%, so I wouldn't be calling the bottom of anything just yet.

No Neil, it's a global problem (please see page 1) ian - levelling out? We have reports saying that prices are going to drop another 10% before booming 25%. That's not very level, that looks like bust and boom again. And... If the landlord has the place rented out, then he won't be default on his mortgage, and they won't be getting kicked out. Would love to see some stats to back up your supposition as it seems rather illogical to me. Of course some landlords will go bankrupt and be pocketing the rent payments instead of paying the mortgage, but this is a small, marginal part of the market. As per northern wrecks results yesterday, teh majority of repos and arrears were in the residential lending, not BTL lending

There ya go