CasualBear

Supermarkets have proven (just like banks) excellent at externalising cost while taking profit. The supermarkets are sociopaths. They were found guilty of price fixing milk last year [1], yet everyone thinks they provide low prices. If you shop at a supermarket, you are the problem. Of course, since most couples mostly both work full time, everyone has to go to the supermarket - all my local butchers close at 12 on saturday, and I almost never manage to get out of bed before then. [1] http://www.theweek.co.uk/business/3185/oft-fines-supermarkets-%C2%A350m-milk-price-fixing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry0Bv1HQRD4

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/feb/16/british-tanks-sent-germany-storage

Why doesn't anyone raise the question: why is worked tax so much that everyone will do what they can to divert income to other tax classes? This is from the guardian, which is probably taking the line we should tax supermarket booze to discourage it. Surely an honest society work tax capital gains higher than work income.

House off mill road, sold sep 2006 for 270,000 [1] on market now for 395,000 [2]. WTF! Meanwhile avg house price in cambridgeshire almost exactly at sep 2006 levels [3] [1] http://www.zoopla.co.uk/house-prices/cambridgeshire/cambridge/kingston-street/?q=14%20kingston%20st%2C%20cambridge&search_source=nav&yr=3865871 [2] http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-32709388.html [3] http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/www/wps/portal/!ut/p/c1/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3gfN1MTQwt381BD_2A3A08LT2cL49AwIwMDY6B8JB55Q2J0G-AAjgYEdIeDXIvfdpA8HvP9PPJzU_ULckMjDLJMFAF9iqN5/dl2/d1/L2dJQSEvUUt3QS9ZQnB3LzZfTEY1NDE4RzdVMU9TRjBJOElDODNVVjIwMDM!

no parking

This one's quite good:

Keep the faith people - asking prices down 3% this month, right? This really is the phoney war - all the weapons deployed, no real action but the rumblings in europe will not disappear.

from http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=8312 I lol'd. It certainly fixed our economy

Friend got this email. Reminded me of why I'm not buying yet....

Losing Faith in HPC? I'm losing faith in the UK. In 2030, I'll still be working to pay a larger debt bill. In 2050, I might be retired but given the expected level of public debt I don't see much NHS/winter fuel payments coming my way: http://flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/recession-or-not-the-public-sector-would-have-needed-to-cut-its-costs/ When you factor in the youth of today will not want to pay anything because they had to fund their own educations with debt, it doesn't look pretty. By 2050, 2 in 10 people will be supporting that whole debt burden: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article1980413.ece Just doesn't add up, no-one is doing anything about it. Want to vote with my feet and leave, but where to? Berlin perhaps, but I'm not sure they will have it any better.

Flippers in Sawston feeling the heat. This place been reduced: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-34553174.html?premiumA=true I wonder how low they can go? I remember it being for sale unimproved a while back, can't find the sold price. Even has the haart board outside it on google street view. Its a shocking do up, with laminate floorings etc. A quarter of a million to live in Sawston, what a joke!

Aha!

A bit like The Wörgl Experiment? Seemed to work.

Wat! I'm just asking for a link (that's how the internet works), otherwise I cannot judge either way. It was a joke on the well known internet phrase 'pics or it never happened'.

Source or it never happened.

PricedOut guy should have mentioned tenants rights, or lack thereof.

Almost all my contemporaries in London are now mocking me because of my bearish opinions on house prices! They all bought in the 2009 dip to start families, etc. The ideas that they were saved by IR cuts and that house prices in real currencies are back to the eighties are not taken seriously. They can also point to the state of London rents.

Yourself is the reflexive form of 'you', not a posh way of saying it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexive_pronoun They should teach this to candidates for the Apprentice, who always use 'myself' instead of me.

This. And the debt will end up on the public books when the lender goes to uk.gov for a bailout.

If they'd looked into the practices london estate agents use to let a flat they would come up with a lot more dirt.

Nice, I'll add that in the PS

Not a bad plan!

Sure, it's only trolling in the sense that it forces them either to admit that there is a nice crash happening or ignore a proceedable buyer. But really, surely any agent worth their salt would chase the transaction not their ego.

I'm considering sending a letter to all the local EAs: Whaddya think? Could be amusing? Probably ignored?