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Ten Things I Hate About Big Boomer And/Or Casey Serin
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2006 Oct 6, 6:06am 34,917 views 232 comments
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SFGuy - if you're paying $4.99 for two lemons...you woz 'ad, mate ;-)
Looks a little bit like Beck, but with a little more poodle in him.
See, see, that's why I come here. Poodle in him, shit you can fun with that all day long. Poodle. Indeed.
has anyone seen that stunning amount of spam that gets posted here? Amazing. Are their slave labor camps in Chindia that turn out this crap?
Surfer-X,
I recommend all the threadmasters go through their old posts, erase all the SPAM at the end and close the threads from new posting for good.
Come on, Casey is good clean fun. If we can put up with ex-drug dealer rappers, we can tolerate a Gen-Y refugee with a bad 70's haircut. You hate him, but admit it, you'd be disappointed if he stopped publishing his idiotic comments for your daily amusement. Casey is going to end up in some county club prison with the guys from Enron and Worldcom, where he might learn some bigger and better tricks.
"Really kid? You got millions in unsecured loans? That's nothing! Me and Kenny created an entire fictional market! Seriously, a whole MARKET! True story! More cous cous?"
His best bet might be to appeal to someone like Martha Stewart. "Martha, all of my illegally purchased homes have your bath mats and fluffy towels. That whole perjury thing was so overblown! Help out a fellow maligned investor fallen on hard times?"
Casey's about to get more fun. Somebody gave him the idea to run a house lottery and now he thinks this is going to save him. Hiding's absolutely right, this kid is a certifiable psychopath.
And he still hasn't talked to a bankruptcy lawyer? I don't think any bankruptcy lawyer would touch him without at least a $20K retainer.
He says:
"Call me crazy (and many of you did), but I’m still hoping and praying for something amazing to happen very very soon - A brilliant solutions to this whole problem."
Yes, there is a Santa Claus and he brings Casey a busload of cash rich moron real estate investors every Christmas.
The true beauty of it all is that Casey and the boomer cartoon character are one and the same.
I'm sorry was that Eddi Amond or Ed Diamond? Which do you use when your ex wives sue you for back child support?
Lilia Says:
> My boss, a boomer, just hired an amazingly
> competent temp for $10 per hour, no benefits,
> in the BA.
> He complains that his own kid does not seem
> to be “making it.â€
> I don’t think he’s making the big connection.
> Have these intergenerational problems always
> existed?
No…
When I was a kid any boomer could get rid of the love beads, get a haircut and get a job in the Bay Area and buy home…
High School dropouts and grads got jobs that allowed them to buy homes near the freeway on the Peninsula, the Western part of SF or Northern Marin.
College Grads all made enough to buy a home West of El Camino on the Peninsula, the Northern Part of SF and Central Marin.
Anyone that went to grad school was buying in Atherton, Hillsborough, Presidio Heights, Pacific Heights, Forrest Hill, Ross, or Tiburon after graduation…
Peter P Says:
> Yes. I agree. I am a borderline anti-environmentalist
> but I am eco-friendly enough not to drive an SUV.
Who was the Boomer idiot that started the “SUVs are bad for the environment rant�
I hate the big lifted Hummer SUVs with big giant chrome wheels and other chrome bolt on stuff just as much as the next guy, but know that the low performance Chevy V8 in the Hummer is actually putting out less pollution than the high performance Chevy V8 in the Corvette (and other Chevy “carsâ€).
My “little German eco friendly†convertible gets about 15 mpg almost the exact same mileage as I get in the SUV (that weighs a ton more). The “car†gas tank is 10 gallons smaller than the SUV so I spend a lot more time idling at the gas station waiting for an available pump (with exhaust gasses polluting the environment) in the car….
One other thing that shocks the tree hugging “I hate SUVs†crowd is when I point out that since SUVs are higher off the ground they have room for bigger catalytic converters and actually pollute less when they have similar engines. The V8 in my SUV actually pollutes less than the similar V8s in BMW “cars†and a lot less than the hot rod V8 in my old M5…
SQT,
Yeah, those first two episodes were GOOD.
FAB,
I hate SUVs because they're heavy(bad for the road), they're tall(bad for people driving behind) and they make the driver feel impervious to their environment.
It's not fair to compare an SUV to an M5 or an AMG55...
The worst thing about those boomer bosses is that many don't even get the hostility against them. Come on! If you don't pay or train your employees, if you throw all your at them while you disappear for 3 hour long lunches, if you don't acknowledge or promote people on merit...the Gen-Xer wage slaves will notice and they will skip town at the earliest possible time.
Oh, somebody (let's hope facetiously) now suggest to Casey to put the houses to rent for very cheap but with no intention of actually renting. So Casey can make money off of application fees.
Casey replies:
"PolarBear… that’s pretty creative! A bit on the shady side with pretending to rent it out… but creative indeed!"
That's the sound of "morality" at work.
Where the hell does this kid go to church? The bank of crooked moneylenders? The Moonies? Realt-whore house of worship?
This kid definitely has the *winning* personality that FAB described a few days ago. He is a psychopath.
Hopefully he will do it. Then he can expose himself to housing discrimination lawsuits, on top of everything else, when his applicants see that the house has remained vacant.
HidingintheBronx Says:
> Sometimes - especially when they (SUV Drivers) tailgate
> me because their car is so “big†and “macho†- I think
> about going out and buying an 92 caprice, putting the
> taxi cab bars on the front, and going out and seeking
> my revenge.
The big fat boomers that think they are “Big†and “Macho†on their motorcycles have been drving me nuts so I bought a 97 Buick Park Avenue from a guy that looked like me with a fake ID and never re-registered the car:
While we're discussing boomers, does anyone care to comment on a theory/question that I have?
My theory is inspired by my boomer parents, who, back in the 60's and 70's, were dropped out hippies to the extreme. My mom lived in a tee-pee for a while, my dad joined a commune, both smoked pot and hitchhiked a lot. You know, pretty typical hippy stuff.
My theory is this: in the late 60's and 70's, the counterculture encouraged people to drop out--move away from the city, live in the country, grow enough food to support yourself, etc. At the same time, the country experienced radical price drops for housing in cities, as well as a weak economy.
So my question is pretty simple--was this casual? And then, when Gen-X was born and decided to move back to the city, did this help create the generational perception that real estate always goes up? (And did it help get the economy back on track too?)
p.s. If it comes as a relief to anyone, my parents still live in Mendocino county which is pretty hippie, even now. Not all boomers are complete hypocrites...
@FormerApt Broker:
Not only does a Muni bus weight 10 times more, it also has 30+ times the passenger load - so in fact does less damage to the road than your average single-occupancy eedjit-in-an-SUV, on a person to person basis.
I hate SUVs.
If ever there was a poster child for the mindless consumption that this country seems to have descended into, then a photo of a single-occupied SUV, driven by someone with a cell phone glued to thier ear, while speeding and tailgating has to be in the top 10 of applicable images.
Satan drives an Escalade, of that I'm sure. And I'll bet he never uses his signals, either ;-)
"Will we read next that he has married ‘lonely girl’?"
If I were Casey Serin, I would get a mail order bride in a third world country with corrupt officials and no extradition laws, sell those remaining homes to cash-only vultures at cut-rate prices, stash the loot in a Swiss bank account and then get on the next plane outta Dodge. Bankruptcy won't protect him from the criminal fraud charges.
"Satan drives an Escalade, of that I’m sure. And I’ll bet he never uses his signals, either"
Ten bucks says that he's got spinny wheels, too. :)
I saw a show on pbs a few months ago about consumer psychology and they interviewed all these SUV owners and asked them why they purchased an SUV. They said things like “It’s sportyâ€, “outdoorsyâ€, “safeâ€, etc.
That was one of the best shows ever.
It's all about the Reptilian Mind. This guys is frickin' awesome:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/interviews/rapaille.html
What's wrong with traditional market research?
They are too cortex, which means that they think too much, and then they ask people to think and to tell them what they think. Now, my experience is that most of the time, people have no idea why they're doing what they're doing. They have no idea, so they're going to try to make up something that makes sense. Why do you need a Hummer to go shopping? "Well, you see, because in case there is a snowstorm." No. Why [do] you buy four wheel drive? "Well, you know, in case I need to go off-road." Well, you live in Manhattan; why do you need four wheel drive in Manhattan? "Well, you know, sometime[s] I go out, and I go -- " You don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand that this is disconnected. This is nothing to do with what the real reason is for people to do what they do. So there are many limits in traditional market research.
I will not criticize too much marketing research. I would say some people are good, like everywhere. Some people are not that good. But in terms of the way they approach people's behavior, I think you need to go beyond words, and my training with autistic children is that I had to understand what these kids were trying to tell me with no words. So that's part of my training.
How can I decode this kind of behavior which is not a word? My theory is very simple: The reptilian always wins. I don't care what you're going to tell me intellectually. I don't care. Give me the reptilian. Why? Because the reptilian always wins.
One example I can give you about reptilian: mothers. I've done a lot of work for people that market products to mothers, right? Women in America have a different program that starts kicking in when they become mothers. When a woman becomes a mother, the reptilians take over. Suddenly she is a mother first. The husband is second; the baby is first. Suddenly she feels at the gut level that she has to be permanently aware, in charge, protecting this child, for the child to stay alive. And this is like a divine mission, so this has become a very strong priority which is very reptilian. The code for mothers, for me, is total paranoia. Total paranoia. Mothers know that you can't stop watching, being careful, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They feel the danger before anybody else. Now, sometime[s] they behave in a very irrational way, so if you try to ask them, "Tell me how you behave in this situation," and so on, well, they're going to tell you something that makes sense. But if you are really right there when something happens, you see suddenly the reptilians take over -- bingo. And that what is interesting.
Wow
speedingpullet Says:
> Not only does a Muni bus weight 10 times more,
> it also has 30+ times the passenger load - so in
> fact does less damage to the road than your
> average single-occupancy eedjit-in-an-SUV,
> on a person to person basis.
The Muni bus will do more damage “and†more damage per person to roads. For an example you can try at home drop a one pound weight on your wood desk from five feet up 60 times, then drop a 10 pound weight twice and see what does more damage…
> I hate SUVs. If ever there was a poster child for the
> mindless consumption that this country seems to
> have descended into, then a photo of a single-
> occupied SUV, driven by someone with a cell
> phone glued to their ear, while speeding and
> tailgating has to be in the top 10 of applicable images.
With the exception of idiots (like Satan) that drive the big “Bling Machines†the people that drive SUVs are just regular people who can’t afford a second car. If you gave most SUV owners a little Lotus Elise or a Mini they would only drive the SUV when they were hauling stuff, towing the boat, going camping or going skiing. The problem is that most people “need†a SUV on a regular basis throughout the year and can’t afford to rent one twice a week every time they need to do things like pick up 20 white powder coated metal closet poles and 20 new boxed bedroom light fixtures, lock up four mountain bikes while eating lunch or pick up ten 20" monitors to donate to the computer lab of a Charter School (I drove the SUV three times in the last week for the above reasons).
P.S. There is a photo of Satan’s Escalade on the link below:
FormerAptBroker - Yes, indeed, different weights will do different damage.
Having earned a degree in applied mathematics proving this, and other mindbending things - like how to find the length of a toliet roll by measuring the thickness, or how heat dissapates on a flat metal surface over time - i can attest that a Muni bus is very very damaging to road surfaces, especially if you drop them from a height ;-)
But I think you're missing the point: for every drop-from-a-height Muni bus catasrophe, you need to compare 30 SUV drops. Not to mention that each person on the Muni bus isn't driving thier SUVs while on the bus. 30 times less gas, polloution, consumption etc...a saving of 'more than enough money' (a scientific term) to pay for road damages, should said Muni bus go Dukes of Hazard on your ass.
As for 'needing' and SUV...judging from the stuff you carry around, you more than qualify for needing one! But I doubt you're 'normal' in that regard. Ok, that sounds bad, I'm not questioning your sanity - but 'most people' commute/grocery shop/go to the beach/parks/etc..in SUVs. Hardly the purpose they were intended for.
For that matter - you'd be amazed at the ridiculous amount of crap you can shoehorn into a Nissan Centra if you fold down the back seats: standard lamps, flatware bookshelves, 8' long planks of wood, curtain rails, tables, wheelbarrows, compost, etc...I know this because I've done it myself.
Ok, so driving home with a lampshade in your ear isn't too much fun, but it can be done. Most people really only need the carrying capacity of an SUV once or twice a year, and Budget hire vans for $80 a day.
As eurbed's piece says - its all about the Reptillian Mind - most people don't need an SUV, but they want one...and will find justification for it, one way or another
...and nice pic! Although I'm pretty sure Satan's Escalade would be metal flake black with hand-painted flame details.
It's child's play to reconstruct the anti-boomer rhetoric here into its equivalent 1960s form.
The tailgating asshat in 1958 wasn't in an Escalade - it was a Fleetwood Sixty Special, not that it matters. And in 2041, members of your own generation will develop a thousand-yard stare over their checkbooks in the grocery checkout line. You, of course, will have a remotely sensed smartcard, but your generation will be the subject of rants (crisply intelligent) by people a bit younger than your nieces and nephews.
Enjoy yourselves. Your stint in the barrel awaits.
FAB,
Like many others here, my beef with SUV lies in how they are used and their sheer number. I hate big trucks like F-150s even more and wish the government require special licenses and extra fees.
I'm also no fan of 18 wheelers on highways and heavy construction trucks, esp. when they take up 40% of the road during rush hour. I would certainly support a move towards upgrading railroad infrastructure and move more of the long haul transportation to the rails.
I think that's a pretty consistent position for me. Much more consistent than people who buy FWD SUVs on some vague notion of fighting the soccer mom midlife crisis and of safety.
(Also, there should be a special layer of hell for women who rear end while talking on the cellphone and an extra special layer if they're driving a large SUV or large truck)
Randy H
2006 Oct 7, 10:34am
astrid,
The rail infrastructure of the US is currently being upgraded. There was a piece in either the Economist or FT, I forget which now, that claimed there's currently more $ (infl adjusted) going into US rail infrastructure than during any period since the late 1800s. There was a woman from Union Pacific on CNBC last week practically begging laid off auto-industry workers to consider moving South or West to work for the RRs. She said they can't find enough workers, even though they pay slightly more than the auto mfgs, have equivalent pensions, and workers enjoy special tax breaks.
Astrid and Randy,
I'm a big supporter of improving U.S. railroads both for passengers and freight. The investment is happening as Randy points out. It is certainly very needed as well. For example, they say it takes a frieght train longer to get through Chicago on it's way to New York than it took to get here from LA. I'm unable to find the article that detailed how they are upgrading some of the busiest interchanges currently manned by an operator who has to manual switch track just as it was done almost 100 years ago! Anyway, here's my link for passenger rail in the midwest: http://www.midwesthsr.org/index.htm
Paul
Ha Ha,
FED is always on speculator's side and against savings, reason and prudence.
Randy H and Paul,
Thanks for the information about trains. That sounds like very good news indeed!
Bap33,
Sorry. I'm all for people who can justify owning an SUV or a truck (people who drive unpaved roads a lot or people who really needs to tow large objects on a regular basis. But I don't buy the safety arguments, especially in light of the danger SUVs pose to other drivers and pedestrians.
SQT,
Your situation doesn't sound very egregious :) Just don't talk when you're in a bad traffic situation or while backing out of a parking spot. The current crop of mini-vans and wagons are super nice though. They're actually more family/kid friendly since they generally offer more storage space and are easier for kids to get into.
I don't think SUVs are evil per se, though I think the evidence against "sporty" SUVs like the Cayenne or the X5 are pretty obvious. SUVs are big vehicles that are purpose built and should be driven respectfully by knowledgeable drivers. I admit that seeing women yakking away on a cellphone while driving a hulking SUV out of busy parking lot, that really sets me fuming.
Randy, FAB and all you savvy finance type folks,
My cousin (an international business undergrad in China) is looking at US grad schools. I recommended that she look at finance and accounting programs, since she is very good at math, meticulous and has a near photographic memory. She's too young and her English is too academic (since she's never been out of China, though allegedly her English is quite good) to take on MBA or law school, so something math-centric makes more sense for US grad school.
Do you folks have any recommendations? I know there's generally a lot more money in finance, especially for bilingual Chinese/English speakers, but I think there's also a steady demand in China for auditing and high level accounting. I also worry that there's been a little too much focus on China and financing lately, so that if she goes in now she'll face a lot of competition when she gets out of school.
Anyone?
Hiding,
Hmmm, I didn't even think about the Firefly angle, though I do love the show. I'm a major nerd.
Must work in the holy hand grenade for my next comment...
PS - just to make Peter P jealous, I ate local blue crabs two nights in a row. 99 cents a pound and pretty darn near perfection. The meat and the roes were succulent and very delicious.
(Oh darn, forgot to work in the holy hand grenade...help, anyone? anyone?)
Hiding,
Thanks. I hope so. I found my economics classes to be the most enlightening classes I've taken, since they explain so much of human behavior.
My cousin is still a bit immature to be as self motivated as your friend. Mostly, it's just the lack of practical experience and knowledge (just a systemic problem with Mainland Chinese education). Probably nothing that can't be fixed with a little law and economics education, a couple years of subscription to the Economist and the New Yorker, and a good mentor (because all my uncles seem to teacher are F1 racing and Chinese business dinner etiquette).
She should go a lot further than me, since my mom tells me she has all the great qualities my mom wish I had.
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