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― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
however, once i decide i want short hair again i am going to have to start going to the salon more :(
― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link
better than what you get at a pub.
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link
most expensive glass of coke ever.. 93 feet east, 3 quid for a glass of coke. it was more expensive than beer (or maybe same price)!
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, but guess what they fill it up with to make up the volume!
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link
9. pro audio gear
Ha! I'd say high-end consumer audio gear is worse cos at least you know you're guaranteed good, accurate sound with the pro stuff but, again, the "high-end" thing kinda exempts it from the bafflingly expensive tag. It's "high-end", of course it's going to be pricey (even if yr £2,000 CD player is just a cheap Philips transport, some mass-produced electronics, a massively-overspecified PSU and some dubiously-placed vacuum tubes in a chunky brushed-steel box and sounds no better than a Sony at a tenth of the price).
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link
fucking tossers.
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Nathalie (dotdotdo...), January 5th, 2007.
it's worth the price because you know they pay the miners well -- a bit like fair trade coffee, but more bling.
― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Katrina and Rita destroyed much of the 2005 crop up the path of the storm, LA and MS, but the yield here is higher this year. The 2006 Georgia crop is only half of '05's because of a warm winter, and Texas' crop is down because of lack of rain.
“You need a good, cold winter for the tree to go into dormancy, and we haven’t had that in the past few years,” Leger said. “That doesn’t mean the tree won’t produce. It just produces a lower amount of pecans.”
― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link
OK, why are green cardomums more expensive than any other curry spice (except maybe saffron)?
― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
SO OTM it hurts.
We looked at an identical flat to ours to buy nearly two years ago and it would have cost over £300 more a month to buy rather than stay renting our current place +£100 in leasehold charges + other assorted repairs (£630 pcm). House prices have apparently gone up 15% in Brighton since then...
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
You could just as well say [size of housing stock remaining fairly constant]+[desire for buy-to-let as an investment alternative to underperforming pensions]=[demand to buy outstrips supply]+[demand to rent met by supply]. This needn't necessarily be a bubble, it could just be a change in market (and cultural) conditions.
It's probably a bubble, mind.
cross posts
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link
For houses in particular and especially on buy-to-let, the "real" future value is basically their rental return, which isn't increasing much beyond inflation. More bubbles than Fairy, here.
But you can't live in tulips. xposts
― stet (stet), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link