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and the smoke fumes the neighbours washing!
But anyway, at least it is something of a garden to muck around in. I hate what happened to Britain in respectof housing in the last 20 years. OK, we aparantly did well out of it, our place there is paid off and worth 130 streling, 15 down form the peak, but I feel very sorry for the social injustice the whole thing caused, and the financial mess it is responsible for us being in now.
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Rob Philpott wrote: this is just perpuating the stupid state of affairs we've got into over the last
decade or two
Quite. It is utterly moronic for the tax payer to prop up BS house prices. Let the tax payer spend his money where HE sees fit, not be dictated to by incompetent government.
If the government really wants to speed up the inflation-devaluation process then they should force the banks to lend some of the 80 billion pounds they have been given over the last few years.
Personally, I would like to see the government print cash and give it to the pensioners. Add 30% to their pension. That would feed money direct into the high street and benefit the entire economy fomr the bottom up, rather than waiting for banks to trickkle it down. And it would get them big votes.
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The housing bubble has not burst.
From 1997 to 2007 house prices doubled (at least, in some areas it tripled).
Since 2007 they have fallen back, at an average of about 10%.
Reduction or softening in price, yes, but the bubble is still there.
see here[^]
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Dalek Dave wrote: an average of about 10%.
Yes, some areas there is almost no change, London for example, but other have seen up to 30%.
True though, this isnt a sufficient correction, but, as much as we arent out of the recesion caused by the debt crisis, we havent seen the full correction yet.
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I agree with the principle, but in practice it will not fall that much.
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Erudite_Eric wrote: WTF! Who are thes cretins we have in government?
The mob. They own all construction companies, directly or indirectly, mostly directly. So they have a huge interest in keeping the house prices as ridiculous as possible. Of course people have to be buying houses at all for that to work, but a nice bubble benefits them more than realistic prices.
So they're not actually cretins, it makes sense from their perspective.
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Minkey?
Are you Inspector Clouseau[^]?
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Ta geule espece de gros porc! 
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Deffinitely, cheeky thing!
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"It is not backing worker, very cold, and is a perfect reproduction."(11)
Bit late, sorry.
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Anticyclone?
Not backing - Anti
Perfect reproduction - clone.
Not sure about the cy bit but think it may related to the very cold (cryongenic?), which may also come with this weather pattern?
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Right answer, but not quite there with the solution.
Think WORKER and VERY COLD, or did you forget about them?
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It is not backing = Anticyclone
worker = ant
very cold = icy
perfect reproduction = clone
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Ahh, well done. Somehow I arrived at the correct answer via a completely different (and wrong) route.
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Nazi Slaves being Taxed.[^]
How typical of our European neighbours that when things are a bit tight and they will be required to foot the bill of all the profligate countries in Europe that they decide to retroactively tax people enslaved under Nazi Rules.
Hitler would have been proud of them.
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Lost for words.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Hitler would have been proud of them.
How I hate that. Why are you English people always sympathise with the Nazi time? Nice comments in that thread there.
To set a tax on an income - no matter if it's a pension or working income - is absolute normal in Germany. That's why we get along much better than some other states in Europe.
Now this is a special "income" and they need to take a closer look. And there we can find out that other states are the ones that are charging taxes and not the Germany. Russia has no taxes on those compensations. The English regulations on forced laborer compensations can be read here.
I bet there is something more behind the story.
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TorstenH. wrote: How I hate that. Why are you English people always sympathise with the Nazi time? Nice comments in that thread there.
How I hate that. Why are you German people always failing to understand irony and sarcasm?
I was not looking at this article with fondness, I was, in point of fact, highlighting the offensiveness in an almost litotial manner by the use of ironic concepts.
ie Using an awful, hated man's praise as an indication of the objectionable nature of the facts.
Thus Godwin's Law.
Perhaps you need to research into how Godwin's Law works, then re-read my original post.
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Dalek Dave wrote: How I hate that. Why are you German people always failing to understand irony
and sarcasm?
No joke item, no <sarcasm> or <irony> tags.
How the hell is he supposed to read you mind?
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Why would I use a joke icon? There was no joke there.
I cannot help it if other people fail to see sarcasm or irony.
There are no icons for those.
And as for you commenting on my composition style, that is a bit rich considering you cannot make a posting without spelling errors.
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Oooh, touchy touchy!
Actualy I cant type worth a damn. Anyway, sarcasm really doesnt come across in writing, you need to explicitely state it.
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There have been several discussions about invoking a Sarcasm icon.
Perhaps enclosing the phrase is dollar signs would do it.
$Yeah, very useful!$
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Yes, that would do.
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