mhifoe Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I'm pretty upbeat most of the time, for most of the same reasons given by wifeling-smi (apart from being married to the man she loves, that would be bigamy ) The sun is shining here in Sheffield and it's amazing what a difference that makes to one's spirits. My god I'm letting the side down aren't I? The sunshine does it for me too. This week I see the sun when I get up and it's no longer pitch black when I leave work. Roll on summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandylegs Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Frankly, Mr Bandylegs - The Smiths is the last thing we need - Morrissey left the UK a long time ago for the LA highlife - hardly the action of someone truly depressed and gloomy... It's all a terrible scam to get us miserable half-wits here on HPC and the like to buy records... LOL. Do you think that when Mozza gets home at night and closes the door on the world he ruffles his quiff, changes into his lounge pants and wrestles with the dog whilst enjoying re-reuns of "are you being served" and laughing heartily like a contented musical genius? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underpressuretobuy Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Just because we don't own houses, doesn't mean we all have to be miserable you know... I'm not sure you know. According to Barratts all these people have just bought houses and they look really happy. Not a gloomy face amongst them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmy_30 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I'm often very gloomy these days, don't really know why, materially and finacially no reason to be, but everywhere I look it seems sad, I have this costant feeling that in the West we are living in the end of days, people seem to be more stupid and self centred than ever, and all the time Asia is pulling ahead of us. Today we have asian slave workers making our shoes, asian house keepers, we use asians as prostitutes when we're not using Eastern europeans, and we take cheap holidays to asia. I can't help but think that very soon the boot will be on the other foot. But unlike them, we have very little to give to the asians that they don't already have. Taking the last 3000 years of history, the last 300 years of European/US dominance is starting to look to me like a blip in the natural order of things. The sadness for me is that there is no need, it's as though our society is deystroying itself from the inside and at such an incredible pace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wifeling-smi Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 (edited) I'm not sure you know. According to Barratts all these people have just bought houses and they look really happy. Not a gloomy face amongst them. Wow - now I know what happiness truly looks like... I'm moving into a Barratt home today and don't even attempt to stop me. Actually re happy photo no. 1 - notice the target on the bloke's sweater - is that for people like us on HPC to aim at when we're doing our drive-by shootings? Edited March 3, 2006 by wifeling-smi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuyingBear Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 (edited) I'm not gloomy at all, far from it, I've put my evil reserves to much better use over the last 12 months, far better than anything property could have produced I feel sorry for all those gloomy souls sitting on a batch of BTL's with 3.5% yields before the mortgage. As for a crash, I find the prospect of decent housing for the majority of people to be a good thing, I can't think why pricing people out and reducing children to sleep in kitchens or bedsits (see the shelter report) is a good thing or healthy for wider society, nor do I see why such circumstances should be constantly celebrated as "good news". If it wasn't for the fact many journalists have a BTL empire, or the fact their political party of choice relies on this stupid situation to perpetuate itself, people would see through this bizarre reasoning. Remember, higher gas, electric, water, council tax = bad. Higher house prices, more unaffordable housing and high density squalor = good, very good. Imagine this story :- "Centrica, the parent company of British Gas announced encouraging news today has gas prices in January alone rose 25%, this suprise jump will please many suppliers and hoarders of gas, it is estimated that up to 50% more pensioners will die of the cold this winter alone, a positive up tick on last winter. However, industry 'experts' are gloomly predicting lower prices in the following months, but hopefully things will pick up again despite a dip, hopefully leaving ever more people freezing to death. Some pressure groups accused the market of "leaving people out in the cold" and are looking forward to lower prices, lets hope their gloomy predictions are wrong. Next week I will cover council tax rises, which may be as low as 10%, an alarming downward trend that threatens to undermine confidence". Edited March 3, 2006 by BuyingBear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 (edited) As we have now been marked out as gloomy i thought perhaps we should have a topic to wallow in our self pity. I just looked out the window at the dark dreary and cold day out there, while drinking my coffee from a half empty cup.Looked in the mirror at the black rings around my eyes and realised again the mogadon had not done its stuff.Young fred the paper boy just delivered the newspaper and now the lunatics are in the hall,The paper holds their folded faces to the floor, and everyday the paperboy brings more. I would carry on but im just to gloomy and depressed Quite gloomy about the future of this country, poor education system, high/badly spent taxes, social division, unchecked immigration, corruption amongst politicians (all of them), the extreme Right, the Extreme Left, geopolitics/war/Islamism... Oh yes and house prices as well... I'm not sure you know. According to Barratts all these people have just bought houses and they look really happy. Not a gloomy face amongst them. They look brainwashed or simple... Edited March 3, 2006 by Scooter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khali Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 David Byrne : Sad Song You may think I look sad But I am just sleeping It's my facial expression I'm probably dreaming Would you like to be sad? Would you like me to teach you? Well, you can learn to be sad But you must practice like I do Na na na, na na na na ... You must follow directions And learn it right from the start There isn't a short cut It must come from your heart Well there are those who are happy And there are those who are wise But it's the truly sad people Who get the most out of life Na na na, na na na na ... You may think I look sad But I am just sleeping It's my facial expression I'm probably dreaming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeless Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 lou reed the bed off the most gloomy album ever made called berlin (voted in many polls), but an excelent album non the less, and a must for the gloomy hpcer This is the place where she lay her head when she went to bed at night And this is the place our children were conceived candles lit the room brightly at night And this is the place where she cut her wrists that odd and fateful night And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling This is the place where we used to live I paid for it with love and blood And these are the boxes that she kept on the shelf Filled with her poetry and stuff And this is the room where she took the razor and cut her wrists that strange and fateful night And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling I never would have started if I'd known that it's end this way But funny thing, I'm not at all sad that it stopped this way This is the place where she lay her head when she went to bed at night And this is the place our children were conceived candles lit the room brightly at night And this is the place where she cut her wrists That odd and fateful night And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbie Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I'm often very gloomy these days, don't really know why, materially and finacially no reason to be, but everywhere I look it seems sad, I have this costant feeling that in the West we are living in the end of days, people seem to be more stupid and self centred than ever, and all the time Asia is pulling ahead of us. Today we have asian slave workers making our shoes, asian house keepers, we use asians as prostitutes when we're not using Eastern europeans, and we take cheap holidays to asia. I can't help but think that very soon the boot will be on the other foot. But unlike them, we have very little to give to the asians that they don't already have. Taking the last 3000 years of history, the last 300 years of European/US dominance is starting to look to me like a blip in the natural order of things. The sadness for me is that there is no need, it's as though our society is deystroying itself from the inside and at such an incredible pace. When you realise things have always been bad, you may cheer up. Have a look at this thread:- William Corbett / John Ruskin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Blek Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I feel a song coming on... "always look on the bright side of life, da dum ..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Frankly, Mr Bandylegs - The Smiths is the last thing we need - Morrissey left the UK a long time ago for the LA highlife - hardly the action of someone truly depressed and gloomy... It's all a terrible scam to get us miserable half-wits here on HPC and the like to buy records... "Manchester, so much to answer for." "What do we get for our trouble and pain? Just a rented flat in Whalley Range." Mosser saw the HPC bubble 25 years ago and tried to warn us (permanent renters and "luxury" flats in central Manchester). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandylegs Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Not gloomy any more, I have been offered a second interview for a good job in Cornwall. Not even Dog's Tax abusers thread could put a downer on the weekend now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockdoctor Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I'm waiting. Waiting for my wife to go into labour sometime in the next couple of days (false alarm this morning). Waiting to hear how big my payrise and bonus are going to be, after one of the best years in the oil industry I can remember. Waiting for the sunshine and warm weather that is on its way (but dragging its feet). ...and waiting for the inevitable collapse in HPs to burst this ridiculous bubble and let everyone get on with buying the house they want. I'm not waiting to buy - I already did that around the peak of the local bubble here in London, and I have no regrets so far. Life is good - cheer up everyone. When I grew up, air travel was expensive, mobiles were for millionaires, computers were weedy, and the internet didn't exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I'm waiting. Waiting for my wife to go into labour sometime in the next couple of days (false alarm this morning). Waiting to hear how big my payrise and bonus are going to be, after one of the best years in the oil industry I can remember. Waiting for the sunshine and warm weather that is on its way (but dragging its feet). ...and waiting for the inevitable collapse in HPs to burst this ridiculous bubble and let everyone get on with buying the house they want. I'm not waiting to buy - I already did that around the peak of the local bubble here in London, and I have no regrets so far. Life is good - cheer up everyone. When I grew up, air travel was expensive, mobiles were for millionaires, computers were weedy, and the internet didn't exist. splitter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockdoctor Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 It woz my wife made me do it. But I have a bad DIY habit to feed.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I'm not sure you know. According to Barratts all these people have just bought houses and they look really happy. Not a gloomy face amongst them. I don't know, that guy in the dark blue t-shirt looks like he he is thinking "oh crap, we just spent how much?" Waiting for my wife to go into labour sometime in the next couple of days (false alarm this morning). Babies feel a lot better going in than they do coming out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuyingBear Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I like the blue t'shirt, talk about a sitting duck! Let's paint a target on his chest for good measure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyewackitt Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 "Life... don't talk to me about life." Marvin Marvin would definately be an HPC'er.... "Brain the size of a planet and I still can't afford a one bed flat in Peckham" -Pye (Property Sepculation Ninja ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyShears Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I'm not sure you know. According to Barratts all these people have just bought houses and they look really happy. Not a gloomy face amongst them. I think having a picture of a recent house buyer with a target on his shirt is a bit of a Freudian slip. The slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune and all that. Billy Shears Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I think having a picture of a recent house buyer with a target on his shirt is a bit of a Freudian slip. The slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune and all that. Billy Shears I thought that was the symbol the British put on their planes in WWII so that the Germans knew what they were shooting at? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wifeling-smi Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I like the blue t'shirt, talk about a sitting duck! Let's paint a target on his chest for good measure! please make the cheque out for £5.00 to 'wifelingsmi Jokes plc' for the target gag... look forward to hearing from you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FedupTeddiBear Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 (edited) O’Toole’s Axiom: Sod was an optimist The best thing about being a pessimist is that you can only ever get pleasantly surprised. Edited March 3, 2006 by FedupTeddiBear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamus Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Can I add another song to the mix...? Reworked from "I've been waiting for tomorrow all of my life, Soul Mining, The The": All property desires have been denied to put me in this state of mind Another year older and what have I done All my deposit has been bled dry for government fun! I'm crippled by rental guilt Blinded by earnings to loan ratio I've been waiting for tomorrow all of my life I've been filled with useless information Spewed out by VI's and government ministers I've been hounded by well off relatives Preaching that property prices always rise Houses should have a low rung And I'm trying to get onto it I threw in my money but it wasnt enough Would be buyers are up against bigger (BTL) fish!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Totally cheery. Totally facile. Expect to meet a millionaire in the next couple of days, but if his empire is property I expect I'll pass. Wait for something more tangible. Its all about perspective really. Best not to think too deep and prefer to have multiple credit cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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