Community Thread LXI: The President We Deserve

Sofa King · Post #1281 » by **Sofa King** » Tue Nov 6, 2018 6:45 pm

tugs wrote:Yeah I need to do some research and calculations.

Aaaanddd Mr. herms' advise.

The bank and loan officer should give you all the figures. Then check them.

Post #1282 » by **Slava** » Tue Nov 6, 2018 9:26 pm

If you haven't seen Loving Vincent, the Oscar winning short film about Vincent Van Gogh, I'd highly recommend. A museum here in Copenhagen loaned some van Gogh art from another museum in Netherlands and they showed the film with it.

It's amazing how cruelly we treated some of the most talented of our species.

hermes · Post #1283 » by **hermes** » Wed Nov 7, 2018 12:06 am

tugs wrote:Consulted an economist and his simple answer was, "Trying to pay without borrowing is always the best option."

sounds about right

hermes · Post #1284 » by **hermes** » Wed Nov 7, 2018 12:12 am

tugs wrote:Yeah I need to do some research and calculations.

Aaaanddd Mr. herms' advise.

i don't know anything about buying houses

how's the market over there? maybe buy two houses and them flip one for a bunch of money and then use that to pay off the other one you keep

hermes · Post #1285 » by **hermes** » Wed Nov 7, 2018 12:13 am

did everyone vote?

Sofa King · Post #1286 » by **Sofa King** » Wed Nov 7, 2018 3:24 am

hermes wrote:did everyone vote?

I wrote in hermes on my ballots. Good luck!

tugs · Post #1287 » by **tugs** » Wed Nov 7, 2018 5:08 am

hermes wrote:
tugs wrote:Yeah I need to do some research and calculations.

Aaaanddd Mr. herms' advise.

i don't know anything about buying houses

how's the market over there? maybe buy two houses and them flip one for a bunch of money and then use that to pay off the other one you keep

My savings me don't allow me to do that at the moment, lol

hermes · Post #1288 » by **hermes** » Wed Nov 7, 2018 11:19 pm

Sofa King wrote:
hermes wrote:did everyone vote?

I wrote in hermes on my ballots. Good luck!

great!

Post #1289 » by **Danny Darko** » Thu Nov 8, 2018 5:00 pm

I hope everyone in the TO area was not at the Borderline bar last night... smdh

My friend's BF had dated the shooter through high school

Mamba Mentality · Post #1290 » by **Mamba Mentality** » Thu Nov 8, 2018 5:11 pm

These shootings are just getting ridiculous. One a week is starting to feel like the norm.

I'm glad I choose to stay in more and more as I get older. Work, gym, realgm, sleep, repeat...I've got no shame in being boring on most weekends.

Post #1291 » by **Danny Darko** » Thu Nov 8, 2018 6:00 pm

sadly it's listed as the 304th mass shooting in 311 days. Got to keep your head on a swivel out there

Post #1292 » by **Kilroy** » Sun Nov 11, 2018 5:57 am

Glutenberg... The missing ingredient in life since Celiac disease robbed me of all that is good and holy in dining.

That and XO Armengac... Oh, and steaks... Lots and lots of steaks.

Ballerhogger · Post #1293 » by **Ballerhogger** » Sun Nov 11, 2018 6:02 am

The Grench remake reanimated was pretty good

Post #1294 » by **Slava** » Thu Nov 15, 2018 10:01 am

If you Americans want to feel better about yourselves, the British Brexit secretary just resigned saying he could not accept a Brexit deal that he himself negotiated. Hire clowns, get circus.

dAdo dA dEvil · Post #1295 » by **dAdo dA dEvil** » Thu Nov 15, 2018 1:02 pm

Slava wrote:If you haven't seen Loving Vincent, the Oscar winning short film about Vincent Van Gogh, I'd highly recommend. A museum here in Copenhagen loaned some van Gogh art from another museum in Netherlands and they showed the film with it.

It's amazing how cruelly we treated some of the most talented of our species.

This is such a beautiful film. Just sayin'.

Dr Aki · Post #1296 » by **Dr Aki** » Thu Nov 15, 2018 1:05 pm

Slava wrote:If you Americans want to feel better about yourselves, the British Brexit secretary just resigned saying he could not accept a Brexit deal that he himself negotiated. Hire clowns, get circus.

At least mounting public backlash can still force a Brexit reversal with a second referendum.

There's no taking back 4 years of Trump. And he seems intent on doing as much damage as possible while he can.

danfantastk32 · Post #1297 » by **danfantastk32** » Thu Nov 15, 2018 6:29 pm

Slava wrote:If you Americans want to feel better about yourselves, the British Brexit secretary just resigned saying he could not accept a Brexit deal that he himself negotiated. Hire clowns, get circus.

Personally, I just love that the whole thing was born of arrogance. They smugly held a vote "knowing" the brexit side would lose, and they would have to shut up. Oopsies!

And then the best part....the best part. Never once did anyone stop and say "hey....there's this huge population that's really unhappy about some stuff here. Hmmm....should we maybe do some soul-searching? Maybe ask these guys what they would want to see fixed?"

Heeeeeeeeeellllllll no. Not the government! All sides are guilty. Nobody takes a second to look at the other side now.

Has Europe ever thought about maybe making a couple concessions to Britain? Sweetening the deal?? <---- my point. Everyone just doubles down on how rotten the other side is.

You'd like to think the Brexit vote taught someone out there SOMETHING....but it sure doesn't look like it.

danfantastk32 · Post #1298 » by **danfantastk32** » Thu Nov 15, 2018 6:35 pm

Meanwhile the new Rome is building. BBC has a great article on the "re-education camps" for Chinese muslims. Just freaky as hell. Where's the 'revolt' over there? Oh right......they'd get lined up and shot before nightfall. And their families would disappear.

But let's fight over whether the word nationalism is a "dog whistle" <------what a cute term. We're really good at cute terms in the West. Maybe we can beat China with that.

Sheesh....what a world sometimes. Thank god for beer.

Post #1299 » by **Slava** » Thu Nov 15, 2018 7:26 pm

danfantastk32 wrote:
Slava wrote:If you Americans want to feel better about yourselves, the British Brexit secretary just resigned saying he could not accept a Brexit deal that he himself negotiated. Hire clowns, get circus.

Personally, I just love that the whole thing was born of arrogance. They smugly held a vote "knowing" the brexit side would lose, and they would have to shut up. Oopsies!

And then the best part....the best part. Never once did anyone stop and say "hey....there's this huge population that's really unhappy about some stuff here. Hmmm....should we maybe do some soul-searching? Maybe ask these guys what they would want to see fixed?"

Heeeeeeeeeellllllll no. Not the government! All sides are guilty. Nobody takes a second to look at the other side now.

Has Europe ever thought about maybe making a couple concessions to Britain? Sweetening the deal?? <---- my point. Everyone just doubles down on how rotten the other side is.

You'd like to think the Brexit vote taught someone out there SOMETHING....but it sure doesn't look like it.

Expecting Europe to give concessions to Britain is an absolute non starter, if they do that every other member country would step up and want all the benefits of the union with none of the oversight. Italy is likely next but they are debt ridden and an utter **** show themselves.

danfantastk32 · Post #1300 » by **danfantastk32** » Thu Nov 15, 2018 8:28 pm

Slava wrote:Expecting Europe to give concessions to Britain is an absolute non starter, if they do that every other member country would step up and want all the benefits of the union with none of the oversight. Italy is likely next but they are debt ridden and an utter **** show themselves.

Firstly, you are completely correct. I don't expect Europe to give concessions, and I think your reasoning is totally valid.

The point I'm making: Who wins from any of this? The "Powers that be" fold their arms and tell Britain to beat it....losing one of the few countries that post gains. Are they fighting for the betterment of Europe, or the war in their head? The vote feels like a yell that nobody heard.

People gotta start being better than this.