tazbert

seems the scots aren't too upset... http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/news-he...ng-20071121549/ TRIBUTES are being paid to Scotland this morning after the entire country laughed itself to death. The alarm was first raised at around 10pm last night as thousands of phone calls and text messages went unanswered. Small groups of volunteers from Berwick-Upon-Tweed and Carlisle ventured north just after midnight only to find houses full of dead people gathered around still blaring television sets. By dawn, as RAF helicopters flew over deserted city streets, it was clear that the whole country had suffered a catastrophic abdominal rupture. Wayne Hayes, a special constable from Northumberland, said: "We went into one house in Dunbar and found three men sitting on the sofa with huge smiles on their faces, still holding cans of 70 shilling. They seemed to be at peace." He added: "In a house near Edinburgh we found a man face down on the living room floor with his trousers and pants round his knees. "It seems he may have been showing his bare buttocks to the television when he keeled over." Roy Hobbs, a civil engineer from Northampton, said: "I got a call from my friend Ian in Stirling at about 9.50pm. "He was already laughing when I answered the phone, but after about 25 minutes of the most vigorous and uncontrollable hilarity, everything suddenly went very quiet." Moving tributes are already being placed along the Scotland-England border with many mourners opting to leave a simple bag of chips or a deep fried bunch of flowers.

hi, can i suggest one thing that may be making a difference here? the last crash was around the early nineties, when the internet was in its' infancy. not many people used it, and there certainly weren't any sites like this around! so people looking to buy now will most probably use the internet as part of their searching, and may well come across news and/ or websites that clue them in a little more. getting this kind of information and analysis would have been almost impossible before! when people realise what may be about to happen, either they decide to wait before putting in an offer,or maybe pull out of an offer they have already made. again, this realisation may have taken years last time, but could happen in minutes now. (this is what happened to me- i looked around in 2004, as house prices seemed to be going up and i needed to get on the bandwagon. looking at the graph on the front page of this website was my first clue things were not as they should be) on the other hand, people who are selling are probably not searching the internet for info, so they may be less clued in. they figure once they have sold they can start looking properly! hence they will leave their house on for a high price that we may feel is unjustified now. ok, ramble over

was a momentary lurker in 2004 (can you lurk momentarily?) when i split with my wife. found the site again a month or two ago. decided to register after being double dared here! not that i have anything meaningful to say

hi all, been a long time off-and-on lurker here. first found the site in 2004 when i split with my wife. needed to see what sort of house i could afford. needless to say i took one look at the graph on the front page here and thought 'whoah!' i am currently staying in my parents' house (they work away from home so i have the place to myself!) hopefully i will be able to afford a house before my folks retire and want this one back again!