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Jack

In some way's I'm always on your side. I certainly respect you.

I didn't know it was going to be fairy tale night on the blog. I wish I had known, I could've asked HARM for pointers and everything. Damn.

I NEVER NEVER believe braggarts. If Marinara is God's gift at 28, why's he here with all us "losers" on a Saturday night. Where are all the women panting to get their hands on his "prime real estate?"

And no, no matter what answer Marinara gives to that question, I won't buy it either. No credibility.

I guess he'll have to rent a good night's sleep.

Night Astrid

Fun having you along tonight.

I thought ALWAYS ON TRANSMIT was TWIT.

Jack
Only one beer. You're probably a couple of six packs behind Marinara. Have I been feeding the Trolls? All that negative attention, I know. I should know better.

Jack
I hear ya. Fog obscures everything. Even one's thinking apparently.

AC on all day. Still hotter than hades.

You know, I never thought I'd say this. But I'm really looking forward to Surfer-X's response to tonights blog. It should be really interesting.

Astrid was right, things have slowed down a bit. Did TWIT check out too?

Just an observation: the notion that someone who writes at the level that MP does can own a home at 28 without massive parental (and possibly governmental) intervention is, like, preposterous or something.

And I say this as a 28 year old. Seriously.

Like, Oh My Gah, Cheers,
prat

Prat
I've been saying all night that mummy and daddy must be involved. So far no rebuttals to that effect. But would anyone believe Marinara anyway?

That is, if one believes there is an iota of truth in Marinara's ravings, the only explaination is mummy and daddy.

I LOVE Surfer-X’s posts!

I'm learning to appreciate the finer points of Surfer-X's rants.

I am sitting here, hoping that HARM is working on a new fable to include the dearly deluded Marinara. If not, I'll have to brush off my story telling technique, but I think I could do it as well. I mean, what do I cast him as? Pinocchio?

I remember a really terriffic reply you had to one of Surfer-X's rants that went a tad too far. I really thought you had a good grasp of how to speak his *language*. ;)

Oops. I meant to say I DON"T think I could do the story as well as HARM.

Not sure at all. But the ego seems to be male. I mean women definately don't have the need to compensate that men sometimes do. And boy, is this guy (I thinkk) compensating for something.

Outside of school, I’m a totally unhealthy recluse!

I'm so surprised. (really) You seem like a people person to me.

Jack
Do you think we should hang it up for the night. We seem to be way off topic and I'm not sure anyone else is around. It's fun talking to you, but this is a slow way to do it.

"But would anyone believe Marinara anyway?"

Yeah. Particularly in this thread, the writing has become so absurdly poor that it simply becomes implausible.

In any event, g'night. Golf tomorrow.

_mr burns voice_: excellent

Cheers,
prat

As surfer-X would say. Bazzzactly.

Night Jack.

I don't know. Marinara has quite a bit of free time for an investment banker... oh well. Need another thread again.

You can disagree with me all you want. You can’t be all bad if you actually LIKE exposed concrete, metal and glass!

My wife wants a normal house though. We may need to do half and half. :)

Imagine a house that looks like a craftman from the northern elevation and a post-modern blob of concrete and steel from the southern elevation... interesting, no?

I just cruised craigslist, I like to look and see what the rental market is doing. It seems like there are a lot of condo's appearing for rent these days. Naturally the rents being asked for are rather high, as the speculator/owners have obviously paid too much. I wonder how long they'll be able to hold out before they have to start dropping rents.

I wonder how long they’ll be able to hold out before they have to start dropping rents.

Not very long. A few months at most. :)

It is a weird market because the fundamental demand of housing (as consumption) is not very strong.

SactoQt, have you tried housingmaps.com?

SactoQt, have you tried housingmaps.com?

No I haven't, but I'll be sure to look at it now.
I noticed you put up a new post. But I'm still a student of topics like inflation vs. deflation. Are there any good sites that give a good explaination of the difference and how the housing market and oil prices affect them.

SactoQt, we are all students of the subject. :)

The argument about inflation or deflation is almost as heated as the one about whether there is a housing bubble.

This url has some interesting arguments

http://tinyurl.com/cuxuk

but we need to use our own judgement, as usual.

Please do suggest idea for posts through, we can have several active threads at the same time.

Thanks Peter, as always.

Good God.

Leave this blog for one day and look what happens! Unreal....
Just got home & just checked in for the heck of it. Ended up spending 30 mins just to read/absorb it all.

Let's see if I got it all:
--Brand-new thread gets 200+ posts in under 5 hours (TWIT's right --gotta be a new Patrick.net record).
--Insulting, arrogant braggart called "MarinaPrime" takes over Face Reality's old job (Actually that's not fair to Face --he often used facts and reasoning to support his arguments. He/she/it is less coherent than Face was at his WORST).
--MP manages to insult/attack/alienate virtually everyone on the blog, including JACK, who's now DEFENDING THE POSSE !! ...Wow.
--MP earns TWO nicknames in less than an hour ("Marinara" and "Sauce" --btw, nice one Jack!)
--Jack & the Posse "speculate" on the identity/gender of MP, pretty much rule out Face or Fake P, then wonder if it's ME posing as an Alpha-Bull. (Sorry to disappoint, folks, but no. Not a bad idea, though... hmmm... file that one under Future Consideration).
--Surfer-X is a total no-show, at precisely the time when his acid rhetoric/put-downs are most needed (to bitch-slap MP).
--Peter ends the night by starting two more threads.

Wow, quite a night here in BubbleblogLand. Can't wait to see what happens tomorrow.

C'ya!

Correction --Surfer-X got in one brief swipe at Sauce on the other thread (still reading).

ha,ha bitch-slap LOL - Where's Surfer when we need him?

People that deny bubbles either (1) Own property and bubble reality hurts to much to think about, (2) Never seen or have been affected by a major buuble, (3) The old “people have been saying this for 30 years” argument.

I think (3) is quite understandable. However, talking about the bubble does not prevent its occurance. (Unlike the Y2K problam - focused efforts prevented the problem.)

Peter P says

Why do people deny the existence of housing bubbles?

People those deny are the couch potatoes - relaxing on their butts and calculating(dreaming!) 20% YOY home price appreciation. This is completely against basic laws of economics,making money while doing nothing.

holy old thread resurrection

It's not that they don't believe the bubble is real. It's that they think they can convince a fool that it isn't and get the fool to pay much more for their house than its worth. When money is on the line, the truth goes out the window.

God Bless America.