Re: The no Doom only positive comment thread
 

Can we please keep to the original posters perameters

Re: The no Doom only positive comment thread
 

Sorry Mitz, I was just fascinated by what Matt was posting.

Re: The no Doom only positive comment thread
 

Just speaking to a friend this morning. He's a property developre, and he was in a big meeting with finance people and the like.

Their comment was "We are not in a recession, but we sure as hell are talking ourselves into one."

Re: The no Doom only positive comment thread
 

absolutely, bil. US market has bottomed, housing starts up. Doomsters always want to make others miserable. We will not see a repeat too soon of the the growth of the last 15/16 years, but that is very different from a recession.
Only caveat I have is that of course property developers would say that - they need epole to buy, just as government always talks interst rates and inflation down because they need US to lend them money to finance the 600 billion quid they ahve already borrowed and to 75 to 100 billion they plan to borrow this coming fiscal year.
'Put not your faith in princes' has always seemed to me to be the best advice

Re: The no Doom only positive comment thread
 

Ain't it de truf'.

Re: The no Doom only positive comment thread
 

http://www.gibbleguts.com/funny/wp-c...rtingdogs1.swf


These are the famous abandoned Spanish hunting dogs turn on your sound and follow the instruction. Now I know why the Brits have taken them to their hearts :p:p:p:p:p:p sorry farts

Re: The no Doom only positive comment thread
 

Not So Shocking Crime Figures

I haven’t really been looking too hard (honest) but I sat down to a tea break from painting and came across some more good news pertaining to the recent media uproar over the huge outbreak of stabbings in Blighty.

From statistics just published by the Met Police, comparing Jul 07 through Jun 08 with the previous year, in the last 12 months, there were 9,997 knife crimes in the capital. The year before, it was a total of 11,642 so in fact a fall of 14%.

Similarly Gun crime has fallen by 14% and youth violence is down by 7.7%.

Year to Jul 07 there were 175 murders in London. The subsequent 12 months came in at 154 which is 21 fewer.

So, should we keep reading the papers and watching the news to see how terrible it is all getting? To be fair, let’s wait and see how the media handles the new knife crime and murder statistics.

<sound of breath not being held>

Re: The no Doom only positive comment thread
 

I did hear someone say that if you cut yourself while making toast, it goes down as a knife injury/stabbing.

Have a look at figures for injuries involving trousers! Such dangerous things should be banned!

Re: The no Doom only positive comment thread
 

I don't suppose these comments help those mothers who have just buried their children.
Crime figures can be adjusted to tell you anything you want to hear. Car jacking at the traffic lights was flavor of the month a few years ago then burglary and drugs related crime. It so happens a rather lot of people have died in a short time frame which has brought this to the attention of the newspaper editors.

Re: The no Doom only positive comment thread
 

Absolutely - it is the silly season after all.
Positive comment - crime IS falling in the UK. Because the buggers are getting locked up! And if they are in the nick they cannot break the law.

Re: The no Doom only positive comment thread
 

Neither will hysterically talking it up, inciting more idiots to carry knives and then walking away when another more sexy subject is deemed to sell more papers.

Nary a one will do a single bl**dy thing to deal with the causes, they will all scream about the symptoms.

Re: The no Doom only positive comment thread
 

Mitzy has already reminded you......
Read the title of the thread "The no Doom only positive comment thread"
Start your own thread in Siesta time.... don`t hijack.

Re: The no Doom only positive comment thread
 

It'sa lovely day here in the UK. I am just sitting here on my dick relaxing. :o

Ooops ,been watching to many of those New Zealand property programmes.Of courseI meant deck, what else?:eek:

Re: The no Doom only positive comment thread
 

" The positive attitude of Spanish people.

Rosemary "

where oh where do you live ? i want to go there !!

by the way , there are plenty of stabbings and shootings in spain , they just dont quite make it in the media , we couldnt have that now could we ?

i love learning spanish recipes , there thats my positive comment . my one and only.

Re: The no Doom only positive comment thread
 

Looks like theres another white van heading back to blighty :p