[PenultimateManStanding]

I see these all the time and it bugs me: "this is the worst blah blah blah since 2003" or "this is the lowest this or that since 1997" I think to myself that only cretins could write such stuff as if it were really bad news. The only one that ever got my attention as significant was the lowest savings rate since 1930. I mean, really, I saw one that said "the lowest wheat stocks in 20 years." So, OK wtf, we were just as low 20 years ago and what happened? You see what I mean?

[PenultimateManStanding]

I see this on all kinds of things, foreclosure rates, gasoline stocks, etc. I want to know the lowdown. But this business of saying breathlessly the THIS IS THE WORST BLAH BLAH IN TEN YEARS! doesn't impress me. Thanks for listening.

[threadbear]

A petty gripe of mine is these people who keep approaching me asking "Where can I get a decent horsehair and yak rope? Supplies have NEVER been lower." How do you tell them politely that it isn't the end of the world? It seems these people just never got over the boar bristles for brushes crisis of the mid nineties, now it's the rope thing...Yada yada yada.

[NEOPO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I') see this on all kinds of things, foreclosure rates, gasoline stocks, etc. I want to know the lowdown. But this business of saying breathlessly the THIS IS THE WORST BLAH BLAH IN TEN YEARS! doesn't impress me. Thanks for listening.

[PenultimateManStanding]

I'm looking for real END OF THE WORLD stuff and all I get is this lousy t-shirt that sez "the worst housing market since 1989".

[NEOPO]

Come now, you know it is a culmination of many things and not just one thing, death by 1000 cuts and all that...

And that all endings are simply new beginnings...

[threadbear]

Ahhhh....so that's it, PMS. You crave excitement. You want the world aflame, rioting in the streets....AND the scarcity of boar bristles. Stick around...the planet is sure to oblige.

[NEOPO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'A')hhhh....so that's it, PMS. You crave excitement. You want the world aflame, rioting in the streets....AND the scarcity of boar bristles. Stick around...the planet is sure to oblige.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NEOPO', 'd')eath by 1000 cuts and all that...

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NEOPO', '
')I will defeat your post count! Resistance is futile!!!

[SinisterBlueCat]

bitch, bitch, bitch! the last time i read such a petty griping thread as this was in 1998!

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SinisterBlueCat', 'b')itch, bitch, bitch! the last time i read such a petty griping thread as this was in 1998!

[threadbear]

Yep. This is the worst petty gripe thread, in years! There otta be a law.

[SinisterBlueCat]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I')t was even worse in 1953!

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SinisterBlueCat', 'i') was not yet even a glimmer in the eye of my mummy and daddy!

[eastbay]

I feel your pain. Sometimes some of us are searching for signs that The End Is Near when in fact, The End Is Near, but not quite near enough yet to cause panic or material discomfort for most people.

At the point in time when a clear sign is served up there will be heard from all quarters a collective, WOW!! That hasn't happened yet so relax everyone. We still have quite a ways to go.

[NEOPO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SinisterBlueCat', 'i') was not yet even a glimmer in the eye of my mummy and daddy!

[PenultimateManStanding]

"This week’s serge in the price of gold, which traded above $700 per ounce for the first time since May of 2006, reveals that some investors are finally beginning to figure this out."

There they go again. This from http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/edito ... /0907.html

[NEOPO]

It is not that gold is setting a record high it is perhaps that dollars are setting a record low

[PenultimateManStanding]

Sure the dollar is slipping. But if the dollar was worth more a year ago, then $700 for gold made gold worth more in May 2006, it seems to me. So saying breathlessly that gold is now as high as it was only little over a year ago! is not only silly, but wrong as well.