I vote 2010. This will be a severe recession but not a depression.
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Originally posted by SallyAnne View PostWhat actually happens if the world collapses? Outright anarchy or just back to basics?
Get a boat, learn to sail. Provision your boat for 5+ years. Find an island in the middle of nowhere - somewhere in the Falklands would be good - and stay there until you've created your own little society.
If the world goes to tulip, a lot of people are going to die."See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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Juxtapose these apocolypse scenarios with the tales of limitless wealth from BTL et al being posted just a few years ago.
There is something about human psyche that can't deal with steady, it has to be one extreem or the other. Fear/Greed, Panic/Ephoria, I wonder why this is?The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”Comment
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You mean BTL heroes like Judith and Fergus?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fergus_and_Judith_Wilson
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Fergus Wilson predicts that prices will double every seven years and says the typical property he owns - a £200,000 two- to three-bed starter home - will cost £400,000 by 2013, £800,000 by 2020 and £1.6m by 2027.Last edited by DimPrawn; 24 February 2009, 17:40.Comment
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Originally posted by Bagpuss View Postseriously?
I think the 2012 buzz will lift usFiscal nomad it's legal.Comment
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