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October 2, 2017 at 9:05 PM in reply to: Commentary | Why full funding of pensions is a waste of money #808029
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ParticipantUcodegen – Interesting:
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/climatescience/climatesciencenarratives/its-water-vapor-not-the-co2.htmlAll those vaping people should be ashamed of themselves 😉
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]for some random reason it looks like its pablo.[/quote]
Is he artistic – like Picasso? Or is he a devotee of Kanye West? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_Pablo
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]boy.
maybe puma.[/quote]
Maybe George Hamilton – due to the orange color. Then you could just call it Hamilton for short – which would seem very modern and relevant, even though it wasn’t. Kind of like a friend who had called his dog Brock, which sounded very tough. It was short for Broccoli.
Participant[quote=phaster]kitten, orange
surprised no one mentioned the obvious “tigger”
or was that name not put out there because disney charges licensing fees to use the name?
[/quote]Only when the name is used for a commercial purpose. On the other hand, posting graphics that could very well be a copyright infringement is another matter …. People have to get their IP laws straight.
ParticipantClementine (which is a small orange)
Kumquat
TwinkieI guess I’m hungry ….
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=njtosd] FYI: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/15/oxytocin-makes-new-mouse-mothers-focus-on-cries-of-lost-pups/
[/quote]Very interesting. Are pharmas working on a pill to neutralize Oxytocin so humans can be more rational?[/quote]
I hope not.
Participant[quote=spdrun]No, I mean it’s literally inhumane. Newborns come out programmed to want to be close to their parents.[/quote]
Again, spoken like someone who has no kids. One of ours would awaken at the slightest sound – we even figured out where the slightly squeaky subfloor was so we could avoid it. A cough or sneeze meant he was awake for a minimum of two hours. Have that happen to you night after night and you will change your tune. He slept in our room for a while but everyone slept better when he moved to the room next door.
New parents have enough to worry about without armchair quarterbacks like you and Brian pontificating.
Participant[quote=spdrun]Why is the infant in a separate room, not in proximity to mom as nature intended?
Most cultures outside the US/Western Europe would see this as barbaric.[/quote]
If that’s what you want to do when you have kids – fine and dandy. It’s a personal decision. Plus, I think it is dependent on the availability of a separate room for the child.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]I don’t see the difference between those tri level houses and a larger house where the bedrooms are in opposite sides. The number of steps are the same. The stairs are good exercise, haha
Those houses may not good for parents who dote on their kids. ……[/quote]
Spoken like someone who has no kids. It’s not a matter of doting – it’s self defense. You are desperate for sleep and they will not leave you alone. You don’t have to look far to find pictures on the internet of people who’ve finally crawled into the crib with their infant not out of doting but simply so they (the parents) can get some sleep. Children will break the spirit of even the most determined parents. It’s really a matter of instinct, which overwhelms most efforts at resistance. FYI: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/15/oxytocin-makes-new-mouse-mothers-focus-on-cries-of-lost-pups/
ParticipantThis sounds like a very bad idea unless you want to have the child(ren) sleep in your room. I’m not sure how new a dad you are, but be prepared for frequent visits in the middle of the night (even in middle school), whether out of nerves, illness, worries about finals etc.
Remember the laws of supply and demand – the reason you are looking at these homes probably means they are a good price. The reason that they are well priced is because people with kids don’t want them. Never forget that you will want to sell it someday.
And privacy? HA! Good luck with that. (I have one in middle school, one in high school and one about to leave for college….). The youngest walks through my room every morning to get to our bathroom so she can use my makeup.
ParticipantFWIW – In my experience, the cost of a mortgage payment plus private school tuition is rarely less than the cost of a mortgage payment in a place where you like the school. On average, private elementary schools in SD are about 10,000/yr. (The big names are much more than that and high school is closer to $20,000/yr, even at an average school). With any extras for uniforms, etc. you are probably looking closer to $1000/month. If there are two kids, there’s no question you’re better off buying in a good school district (plus you get the interest deduction and appreciation).
ParticipantFor what it’s worth – I would always recommend consulting with a real estate attorney if there are any issues that you have any question about. An attorney makes money whether you buy the property or not, so they are more likely to give you an objective viewpoint. I would recommend this whenever a property is purchased, but certainly in this case, which has a huge element of “let the buyer beware”. (I am an attorney myself, although not of the real estate variety, and have followed this advice in the past. It saved us from making at least one very bad real estate choice, and maybe more.)
Participant[quote=plm]In my rental, one neighbor replaced the fence with a white vinyl one. and the other side is still wood painted brown and it doesn’t look bad having two different types. What is ugly though is the vinyl fence. Wood looks so much better than the vinyl fence.[/quote]
The vinyl ones that I notice look shiny and cheap, but maybe there are good ones that I don’t notice that are higher quality vinyl with a more natural look….
July 15, 2017 at 6:17 AM in reply to: OT: what happens in other democracies when opposing parties can’t agree on an infrastructure spending bill.. #807186ParticipantThat’s hysterical. The lady in the light brown/grey suit is clearly formidable. And the throwing of the large chairs is very entertaining. It gives me a whole new impression of Taiwan.
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