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The protein flavor of smoothie is really disgusting. I tried once. It tasted like medicine.

test test again

I really wonder: Does anyone really take himself seriously, despite his appearance of doing so?

"Priced to sell...$788,000...Square Feet: 1,647...Lot Size: N/A...Year Built: 1973...On Market: 153 days..."

Ha, ha!

Now isn't that precious?

Michael,

Is that a northern Arizona listing?

No, that's the Fremont address above.

I grew up in San Jose, moved to Pheonix seven years ago.

Even so, those figures look zany! I can picture the house: your average, nothing much, '70s suburban house.

Simply wacky for the common working man to pay so much for so little!

Bork
Thank you

But you must agree that I did make some contributions other than these outrageous comments.

Also, some people take themselves too seriously.

If one takes himself too seriously, he is susceptible to manipulation (by people close to him, by the media, by the government, by anything).

requiem Says:
Well damn, there goes my chance to revive one of the older wars.

That war is over. All sane people now use VI. The more sane of the lot use (G)VIM in particular.

Now if that goes unanswered, the war is really over !

emacs in vi mode

FB = Fvcked Buyer.

emacs in vi mode
Uh... burn the heretic?

Softest, since technically you could eventually pay off the loan, "renting the money" doesn't feel quite right. (But I use it anyway.)

Assuming the property is sold, it's closer to renting the house from the bank, combined with an enforced savings account. Eventually, if you've saved enough, you can use that account to buy the house.

dual flush toilets are mandatory here as a building standard -- there are 2 buttons -- 3 litres and 6 litres... so the concept works well enough when you have 2 choices...

and water is so scarce they are giving away low flow showerheads... but they fail to recycle stormwater at all, they modelled the whole system on european ideas where there's so much rain the aim is to get it out to sea asap.

dual flush toilets are mandatory here as a building standard — there are 2 buttons — 3 litres and 6 litres… so the concept works well enough when you have 2 choices…

That is perhaps a good idea. It is confusing though. How about pulling up for 3L and pushing down for 6L?

they are usually designed now with two different sized buttons, in a stylish interlocked design or whatever -- the equal sized ones will have a logo with a half circle and a full circle or similar...

to say nothing of composting toilets and waterless urinals...
http://www.watersave.com.au/Uridan/default.asp

I like Parisienne life. Life in US is too harsh, too rushed, too unpleasant. In Paris, right now, I can sit in the cafe, debating philosophy and contemplating meaning of life

probably not advisable doing that in here, cheetah... the nation of shopkeepers has morphed into a bigger nation of bigger shopkeepers...

D.S.,

here = ?

D.S.,

because I remember seeing somewhere that England was called the nation of shopkeepers.

slyly oblique reference, hee hee. but i have lived and worked in UK and Oz, and have dual citizenship. currently in Oz...

I despise those low flow showerheads though. They must only work on the bald. I would consider a great showerhead with an on/off valve for times of drought.

alternatively, they were also giving away electronic timers for 3 minute showers, heh

maybe the bald could get away with the revolutionary new waterless showers...

maybe the bald could get away with the revolutionary new waterless showers…

That's bad, 'cuz when he goes to his barber his head is going to stink.

GC
Your posts are showing not just a moodiness but a genuine and disturbong imbalance and inability to hold a train of thought.
Have you gone off your lithium?

Meanwhile, my Opinel is now incredibly sharp and ready to do damage on some Fuji apples...

Linda,

Yum, lithium. I can chase that with a vodka tonic and some Nick Drake :)

I think perhaps that GC has proven himself to be the worst kind of troll. His blatherings have engaged some badinage, however all in all, he has derailed several of our threads and offended some of our lurkers and posters(ie Bork). His meandering mind is dangerous to the integrity and reputation of Patrick.net.
For the longevity of this site,
I vote that he is banned.
Honestly, this blog has degraded somewhat thanks to Gentle Cheetah and his multiple alter egos. I have to skip a lot of comments originated by/in reply to GC. It started with homosexual fantasies, turned into pedophilia topic and now it seems to be taking a “suicide” turn.

BTW- Polished concrete sinks...MMMMM

Anybody?
Or are you just too tired to think?

Linda,

It's really best to ignore him and erase on an comment by comment basis. He just throws a lot of random stuff out. But honestly, I can see where he's coming from, even though I don't happen to agree with that perspective.

Here's a song for you:

http://www.candlerecords.com.au/candle/bin/candlebands.cfm?bandName=han#

go down and click on "I wish I was beautiful for you"

Linda -

should I repeat it? GC is some bored Microsoft desk jockey, perhaps even assigned to pick up the pulse of the times here at Patrick.net.

Either that, or he is a bored financier with a real interest in Auburn Bank Corp.

Take your pick.

Astrid
I know you've been a fan of his as you've defended him from the start. You said that he probably wouldn't act on such statements...(BTW...how do you know? Is he an old friend or something?)
I'm talking about for the integrity of the site to have someone throwing out random flamelike comments...

Anyway, Bork said it well.

Whatever the rest of you choose as a group.

I come
to
this site
for sanity
not
insanity

tsusiat
But the pulse of Patrick.net has been the same for a long time.
Steady, strong, and very furry. :)

tsusiat,

How exciting! Patrick could be bought out with Big Bill's money. Maybe he could treat us all to sushi.

Linda,

Huh? If you thought that, you really don't know me at all. I don't advocate banning unless the individual is clearly a troll. I don't see it yet. I don't even advocate banning Bap33 or DS or Robert Cote or Ha Ha, even though I disagree with just about everything they've said.

nomadtoons:
I’d much rather get on with my life somewhere else.

with the animation work being virtual, etc, you could probably live and work anywhere and cyber-commute, couldn't you? or look at more lucrative areas in similar types of work in LA like hollywood special effects in Maya or something... assuming those guys are getting good pay, and not living at home with their parents, heh

or have i got the wrong profile?

the other options here seem to be that people are moving further and further out of the greater metro area up and down the coast to where i assume it is more affordable -- i just did a 1 hour trip about 80km south and had forgotten what regional living is like -- more relaxed and costs are 2/3 of the city for many things, and yet they have a beach lifestyle. only nuisance is having to commute if you are working in the city, altho there's a good train line up and down the coast. i don't think it's fair that housing allocation works like that, but it's a reasonable compromise in the market society -- i bandy phrases like 'key worker initiatives' around with govt people in affordable housing, but they tend to look blank. further, the US has got huge areas of affordability still in comparison with the pattern in other boom countries.

like someone was saying, tradesmen have to drive for hours these days to get to a job -- from an embedded energy and personal cost point of view, it's incredibly wasteful -- i.e. these are extra 'hidden' costs of construction, altho i don't know what the answer is -- michael mobbs points out that when he is constructing a best practice 'green' village somewhere, there's an endless convoy of tradesmen arriving from 2 hours drive away each way every day from the affordability belt...

I don’t even advocate banning Bap33 or DS or Robert Cote or Ha Ha, even though I disagree with just about everything they’ve said.

and others agree and voice similar views. so i don't think it's worth 'even advocating banning' simply on the basis of belonging to a faction.

SFWoman -

I don't mind digressions into economics, but statements meant to be un PC and designed to draw ire, well, I agree they could be better directed elsewhere.

Unfortuantely, I think surfer x opened the door in this direction with his *direct* diatribes, but for some reason I like Surfer X, maybe because the surfer's statements are rarely accompanied with pontifications about childhoods in China and cafe culture in Paris, all a kind of bloggish name dropping, if you know what I mean...

Linda,

Intellectual voyeurs are a different creature from sexual predators. I've contemplated plenty of actions that I would never act upon. Thus far, you have no conclusive proof either ways. Furthermore, GC's offending comments were already erased (noticed that I have no problem with erasing on a comment by comment basis, only with all out banning?) and he more or less said he was wrong.

Are his comments obnoxious? Perhaps. But this blog doesn't delete for obnoxiousness alone. Or insults? You have no problem with Surfer-X's diatribes.

Yet you expect me to agree with you on a decision to ban and since I disagreed, then I must be a fan and a pedophila enabler.

What is the harm of GC unbanned, other than that he made a series of ill judged comments that pissed a bunch of unforgiving concerned mothers off? If he was indeed a sexual predator (a very unlikely thing, even his worst comments spoke of distant hypotheticals), what would be so bad about having him on this site, which has virtually no children traffic, no openly available contact information. His offending comments were already taken off.

Anyways, that's just fantastic. I'll keep in mind not to respond to your future queries, for fear of offending you further.

I personally do not care for people that use multiple screen names. What's the point?

Astrid
Why are you being all snippy with me?

This is a housing site
Not a site for perverts to drool.

Girgl,

when you experienced the German property bubble, were average German homebuyers heavily leveraged in their own personal finance?

I was in Japan in 1990-1991, and based on my expereince, I never saw an average japanese as leveraged as an average American middle class. The Japanese companies were in deep doo doo for property flipping, but property flipping was very rare for an average Japanese family, the younger generation just couldn't buy a home, Neg-am, No-money-down was unheard of. The most creative Japanese mortgage loan was 100 years in duration, and the 100-year mortgage deserved a lot more sound bytes than its true market share (No statistics, but I believe it to be below 10% of the total loan share). On top of this, Japanese are obsessive savers, they never let their annual savings rate get below 5%.

That's why I think what we are about to experience in this property market will be quite unprecedented.

Astrid said
Yet you expect me to agree with you on a decision to ban and since I disagreed, then I must be a fan and a pedophila enabler.

I never said you were a ped. enabler.
I did say that you've been chatting away with him.
I've never asked for anything from you.
I expect nothing from you.You can agree or disagree. I asked the group.
He has *offended* plenty of people.

Read your own posts.
You've been clearly defending this guy.
Even in your most recent post.