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2006 Jun 21, 3:33am   32,839 views  280 comments

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Whack-a-mole

Here's your chance, have at it. The grumpiness level is rising. Longtime readers probably have sensed the subtle shift in discourse here at Patrick.net. We do have a lot more readers now, and this will only continue to grow as the correction proceeds. But us authors are also increasingly disagreeing over issues that before seemed minor, but now seem more fundamental. In the beginning it was easy: do you believe there is a real-estate bubble or not? But now debate is mired in details of sticky this, hard or soft that, or inflation/deflation the other.

So, take this opportunity to whack-the-authors. Let us know what each of the "on-air personalities" here does that annoys, disturbs or bores you. Is it Randy H's never ending econobabble? Or HARM's fundamentals fundamentalism? Maybe Peter P's metaphysical contrarianism? Surfer-X's descriptive suggestions to select commentors? Maybe even SQT's unshakable reasonableness pisses you off, or astrid's philosophical introspection. Perhaps it's just the daily digressions on sushi and kitchen knives...

If we can't laugh at ourselves then we'll never hope to improve upon the lot we've drawn. Consider it a roast. Help us to see ourselves as you see us. (Obviously, the definition of "Troll" will be a bit different for this thread. Feed surfer-X at your own risk.)

--Randy H

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115   MichaelAnderson   2006 Jun 21, 11:21am  

>>Shit, The Who was so wrong, I hope I did before I get old my ass.

Hey, half the Who is dead. Half the Beatles too. Half the Beach Boys. You forget how many dead boomers there aren't.

116   surfer-x   2006 Jun 21, 11:25am  

Man, what I love more than anything, and believe me here in $anta Barbara more than get your chance, is walking down the sidewalk and moving over my 1/2 but no more and when Mr. Vincent and his buddies approach I dip a fucking shoulder and knock them on their ass. Oh how fucking quickly a Boomer realizes their age when faced with a proper fucking ass whipping. You can watch the arrogance melt right out of them, it is quite fulfilling. A fat assed boomer bitch was approaching one day at the local You Crave Liquors, I was looking at Port, I said hello, she said "oh I wasn't looking at you", whatever, she goes into the cooler to get her overpriced chard and on the way out hits me with the door and replies, "oh I guess you didn't see me coming out". I looked at her and said very loudly, "I guess you should consider losing some weight off your big fat ass", she said "what"; I looked her in the eyes and said "get the fuck away from me". Equally as fat assed boomer husband says "is there a problem here". I recommend the following reply (oh be sure to twist your bottle of 20 yo port sideways in club fashion), "there is going to be if you don't back the fuck up". He decided not to play.

Fuck you boomers. I pissed of your fucking shit and I'm not afraid to pop you upside your fat arrogant faces. Oh, "I'll call the police" yeah fuck off, I have initials after my name and am well aware of what mutual combat means. For you boomer fucks it means that if you swing first, it's oh so fucking on. That's the beauty of the boomer fucks, they cannot accept anyone telling them to their faces "get fucked you fucking asshole".

Do it daily. I highly recommend it. Nothing, I mean nothing takes the wind out of their arrogant fuck fat asses like insults backed up with the threat of incredible violence.

117   surfer-x   2006 Jun 21, 11:26am  

Mr. Vincent, you have not lived until you have beaten the fucking shit out of a mid 50's boomer fuck. I highly recommend it. Think of me next time your pushy fat fucking ass gets to thinking you are actually 20.

118   surfer-x   2006 Jun 21, 11:31am  

But I digress.

119   Red Whine   2006 Jun 21, 11:39am  

Mr. Vincent,

You are a vile piece of shit.

120   MichaelAnderson   2006 Jun 21, 11:42am  

>>Michael Anderson, ummm….ok…..yeah, I DO know what a blog is and many of my comments where kinda made off the cuff to rattle some cages.

Heh. My bad. Five people asked me what a blog was this week, so I missed your humor.

121   FRIFY   2006 Jun 21, 12:13pm  

RW,

Mr. Vincent, You are a vile piece of shit.

Come on, dude. X graces us with a Bukowski inspired vignette of sizzling rage, one of his best yet, and this is all you can offer in response to BB teasing? You're letting us down, man!

Vincent is right. Life is wonderful. Statistically speaking, we Gen-Xers have 20 more years of la doce vita than Cruise Ship Vince. The icing on the cake is that they're good years in strong young bodies. He can repent with healthy living all he wants for the next 10 years, Mr. V chief skill is his Keith Richards impersonation.

Watch the step when getting helped onto the boat Vince. Bon Voyage!

122   Joe Schmoe   2006 Jun 21, 12:56pm  

Mr. Vincent is just joshing us. He's pretty funny, too.

123   surfer-x   2006 Jun 21, 1:01pm  

Wow, i was just posting that link,

tinyurl.com/epvoj

suck if fucking long, suck it fucking hard.

How's your equity, fuckers?

124   Randy H   2006 Jun 21, 1:43pm  

If you bother to RTFA, it is a textbook example of price stickiness.

Sales volume is down by 20% (and thus inventory is up). Yet the most recent month's prices YoY were still up by 6.1%.

This should be the point where the market discovers the top, albeit much more slowly than any of us would desire. The problem is, as many have pointed out to me arguing the contrary, that prices are set on the margin. Ok, I agree. That just means that we have to drive the last fool out of the buying market before this price correction really gets underway.

Many people go broke and bald underestimating the supply of fools.

125   Randy H   2006 Jun 21, 1:47pm  

Fewlesh,

Come by capitalism2.org when you get a chance. We missed your input on the "creating personal hedge devices" thread. The more I think about your initial comments, the more I am convinced that we should be running a global macro hedge ourselves.

126   NARB   2006 Jun 21, 2:00pm  

Let's skip Mr. Vincent's regularly scheduled crap load so Mr. Vincent can get back to snorkeling on the boloney pony.

127   Randy H   2006 Jun 21, 2:02pm  

DinOR,

You are among my favorite posters here. I don't find you negative, just practical and pragmatic in a way only someone with our common roots would understand.

128   surfer-x   2006 Jun 21, 2:07pm  

DinOR, DinOR, DinOR, the Randy H lovefest not withstanding, I find your anti-amerika rhetoric very very unpatriotic. Want to spoon?

129   Michael Holliday   2006 Jun 21, 2:11pm  

Whack-an-Author:

Takes a piping-hot flap jack and whaps Surfer-X in the face for his excessive vulgarity...THWAP!

130   Randy H   2006 Jun 21, 2:13pm  

surfer-x,

You are a 5th Columnist and hereby banished to "The Futurist" blog. Enjoy your time in hell with SFWoman.

[for those who missed it, some months back "The Futurist" author came in here under alias and called out SFWoman as a communist infiltrator]

Actually, I think many would jump at the chance to spend eternity in hell with SFWoman.

131   surfer-x   2006 Jun 21, 2:17pm  

To all ya boomers out there,

I believe Alan Parsons, of Grand Theft Parsons, said

"what goes up, must come down"

Pass the bowl, and repeat

"what goes up, must come down"

Oh, fuck what fun. Rolling bubble? They must have meant the rolling bubble in their bong.

132   surfer-x   2006 Jun 21, 2:18pm  

Randal H, I dig your scene and generally dig SFWomans, but she went a little grey poupon on the last thread. It's cool I understand. Personally i never fly off the handle and write the first thing that pops in the ole knoggin without thinking.

ahahahahahahah,

that's 560K/yr

133   Randy H   2006 Jun 21, 2:26pm  

X, my scene ain't so great. To get into it you have to spend the first 22 years of your life in Ohio. Just fire up some Chrissie Hynde and you'll get the picture.

134   surfer-x   2006 Jun 21, 2:28pm  

Sir Randal, Viceroy of the Fat Stacks, i saw the pretenders with U2 on the Joshua Tree tour.

I am sure your scene is just fine my liege

135   tsusiat   2006 Jun 21, 2:28pm  

Brass in Pocket, now that will always be cool, even if your city is gone, man...

136   tsusiat   2006 Jun 21, 2:30pm  

I once saw Queen with Billy Squier, now that was a strange combination, I mean, stroke me stroke me and Bohemian Rhapsody?

Maybe there's something about boomer Billy Squier we don't know...

137   tsusiat   2006 Jun 21, 2:32pm  

Speaking of odd concert combos, once saw Bryan Adams open up for Supertramp....

The bong honking boomer Supertramp fans in there yuppy clothes made fun of my Bryan Adams T-shirt, man, it was terrible...

138   tsusiat   2006 Jun 21, 2:34pm  

The Headpins, they were good man...

139   Michael Holliday   2006 Jun 21, 2:36pm  

U-2 with Red Rockers at the Cow Palace, 1984.

Killer show.

I got to go for free since my friend got me a job at Togos, and the owner's deal was if you could bring in a friend and he stayed more than three months, you got two tickets to any show.

Cool deal for an 18 year old.

140   tsusiat   2006 Jun 21, 2:37pm  

Actually, I'm kind of partial to Bela Fleck, now that I think about it...

141   surfer-x   2006 Jun 21, 2:37pm  

job at Togos

Dude, I worked at togos, I was the slicer.

142   Randy H   2006 Jun 21, 2:39pm  

Supertramp. That brings a smile to my face. They played the state fair every year. Probably still do.

143   tsusiat   2006 Jun 21, 2:42pm  

The weird thing is, now I can't stand Bryan Adams and like Supertramp...

But at the time, Cuts Like A Knife was soooo much cooler than the Logical Song.....

except to all the 40 somethings wandering around with their shades and Hawaiian Shirts trying to look cool....

Waitaminnit, don't I do that now...

144   Randy H   2006 Jun 21, 2:42pm  

When I was 18, I was going to see no names like the Femmes and The The. But back when i was 14 I saw Bon Jovi open for Ratt at Cincinnati Gardens. Bon Jovi got boo'd off the stage and had only one hit: "She's a Little Runaway".

145   tsusiat   2006 Jun 21, 2:47pm  

Actually,

I had the option of Queen, Scorpions, Van Halen or the Police within a week, but limited cash - at the time Another One Bites the Dust was BIIIGGGG, so I went to see Queen, but now I kinda wish I woulda gone and seen the Police...

Naw, Queen were good, I mean We Will Rock You was more of an anthem in the 70s because it was still REAL!

Not regurgitated boomer bromides for the fatstacks sportsbox sitting masses of moneyed minions, pretending to be involved in rebellions and rocking YOU! for 30 seconds every San Jose Sharks game...

hahahaha!

Those were the days...

146   tsusiat   2006 Jun 21, 2:53pm  

The only Bon Jovi song I ever liked was "Dead or Alive", otherwise, Mr Jovi can go back to Noo Joisey, regardless of the fact he recorded all his biggest hits in Vancouver, no loyalty or credibility from me.....

147   Randy H   2006 Jun 21, 2:55pm  

Ok, weirdest experience ever was a music festival at the Ohio Center in Columbus. Headliner was Neil Young, but one of the early openers was Skinny Puppy. They closed with "Tin Omen" and Niel closed with "Ohio". It was a rare moment of generational unity.

148   Different Sean   2006 Jun 21, 10:31pm  

time check

149   Different Sean   2006 Jun 21, 10:44pm  

a mere 17 hours ahead...

have supertramp ever gotten back together since the 80s? i played the 'paris' double album non-stop for a year in my adolescence ('84 i think), flipping the C90 cassette over and over until it wore out... i play keyboards, so got their sheet music and mastered quite a lot of the material...

the intervening 20 years seem a bit of a blur...

150   Different Sean   2006 Jun 21, 10:49pm  

except to all the 40 somethings wandering around with their shades and Hawaiian Shirts trying to look cool….

Waitaminnit, don’t I do that now…

magnum PI has a lot to answer for... style god of the 40 somethings...

151   Different Sean   2006 Jun 21, 10:56pm  

anyone want to start a Nostalgia thread?

152   DinOR   2006 Jun 21, 11:45pm  

Little Al,

I believe the correct quote is:

"Are you "not" entertained?"

Yes I am quite frankly and I'll give you a quick example.

When Enron was rockin' and rollin' they bought a little known utility company here in the Northwest. The shareholders had been in the stock for generations, nothing exciting by any measure but they paid and increased dividends w/regularity. Along comes Enron, converts the shares to rock and roll mode and all of a sudden shareholders (and employees) are talking early retirement. We all know the rest of the story. 50 something employees are decimated and now have nothing to retire on (they are starting over). Now they are looking for scapegoats where ever they can find them. These people worked for a really nice company, had steady paychecks with a comfortable retirement. They opted for rock and roll. Same-e same with the HB. It's not about hard working people taking "deep pork" it's about people that are all about short-cuts taking deep pork. God I love it!

153   DinOR   2006 Jun 21, 11:52pm  

DEEP PORK!

(and sideways no less!)

154   edvard   2006 Jun 21, 11:56pm  

Hey guys,
woah! 322 posts? Guess we like to beat the crap out of each other. Anyhow... this morning as I was on my way to work, I saw a logo out front of a small bank I've never noticed before. The name of the bank is Financial Banking. The logo is a big "FB"- I kid you not!
How terribly unfortunate! Thought you guys would get a kick out of that.

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