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Claire,

I'll take it that you've never been a "homeowner" then?

Take it from me, it's not all it's cracked up to be. From crummy neighbors that you are now stuck with to a whole laundry list I will spare everyone else from for the 569th time!

Let's just say that Oregonians believe in their "propitty rights".

http://www.mercextra.com/blogs/realestate/

Mercury News now has a real estate blog.

This is not really a complaint about the authors, but I would like to point out that some of you blame the baby boomers for just about everything.

I actually like the boomers.

DinOR,

Yes, we did own a property, but found it to be a real moneypit - we couldn't afford a perfect house, so bought a fixer-upper....

My husband took a job in CA because the pay was better, but we still can't afford a house, so we rent.

But I worry that our landlord (as happened to a friend of ours 2 times in 6 months) decides to sell and cash in and we have to move out.

BTW - just visited craigslist - didn't post - they are not civil at all, won't go there again. I much prefer you guys.

We DO hold all the strings however - we own the best stocks, have the highest paying jobs, and bought our houses in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Prop 13 is more important to us than God.

True.

MercuryNews Blog - but whose side is he on?

We DO hold all the strings however - we own the best stocks, have the highest paying jobs, and bought our houses in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Prop 13 is more important to us than God.

Hmm - don't know about the best stocks shit head. I had a good laugh after the tech bubble which was largely held by BB pensions. Your gloating makes me sick. Prop 13 is BS and everyone knows it. I am to come over to your house and plop a big brown turd in your gold toilet. As a non BB it is my intention to get back everything BBs have taken and more. Prepare for a rough landing mr bitch. Maybe not tomorrow but it is coming.

Mr. Vincent, you guys are great, I love the Boomers, shit I can't get enough of the Zep, can you please tell us some stories from your still present past? I love hearing how ya'll changed the world. Man it must be nice to have the world cater to your every whim. Trouble getting it up so you can bang your 3rd trophy wife, walla, no problem we'll throw the weight of the pharma industry at it. No savings? No problem, debt = wealth.

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

60 is the new 20. Party on my fiend you so deserve what is coming to you.

>>bated? I’ve seen it both ways so I wasn’t sure which was more proper.

It's a common mistake. Your breath is bated, not baited, unless you've been eating worms.

whooops -did
=DIE

265 posts in 7 hours! (all working hours too, i note :P)

time zone's got me again, everyone is 'sausted and the thread is played out...

and i'm meant to be writing a nasty letter to the Minister for Planning... oh, and getting to work...

>>Blog…hmmm….not sure what that word means. See, us boomers are not technically savvy as many of you have pointed out.

Well, I'm a boomer and I know that blog is a shortened form of weblog.

Don't forget that some boomers are nerds. ;-)

>>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.

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.

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.

But I digress.

Mr. Vincent,

You are a vile piece of shit.

>>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.

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!

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

Wow, i was just posting that link,

tinyurl.com/epvoj

suck if fucking long, suck it fucking hard.

How's your equity, fuckers?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Whack-an-Author:

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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...

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...

The Headpins, they were good man...

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.

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

job at Togos

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

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