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Participant[quote=Blogstar][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=Blogstar]The making a family stage is the easiest as far as maintaining a pair bond. Kids are consciousness altering for the better even it they do poop their diapers all the time .
Loyalty is an interesting topic and thanks to CaRenter I am considering the possibility of getting kicked to the curb when the kids are out of the house in about 10 years. Never really trust anyone. Thanks CaRenter! You have spoken well for your gender.[/quote]
Once the kids are a little older the males inadequacy comes into better focus again.[/quote]
Is that ICU time or flat line?[/quote]Just part of the cycle of life. Females view males as useless and dumb or overbearing and a b surd. I think even in the animal kingdom males are ridiculed. Surplusage.
Participant[quote=Blogstar]The making a family stage is the easiest as far as maintaining a pair bond. Kids are consciousness altering for the better even it they do poop their diapers all the time .
Loyalty is an interesting topic and thanks to CaRenter I am considering the possibility of getting kicked to the curb when the kids are out of the house in about 10 years. Never really trust anyone. Thanks CaRenter! You have spoken well for your gender.[/quote]
Once the kids are a little older the males inadequacy comes into better focus again.
Participant[quote=CDMA ENG]Today is my fourth anniversary… and my son is 3 months old today as well…
Fuck the money! The ROI is incredible no matter how much I spent on my wedding.
CE[/quote]
Let’s not get crazy.
Participant[quote=njtosd][quote=scaredyclassic]Prostitutes?
Please buy and read PAYING FOR IT by Chester brown. Autobiographical very thoughtful comic strip about a guy who gives up on relatio in ships and buys sex.[/quote]
Freakonomics has a great riff on that, too, indicating that demand for prostitutes has declined with increasing supply of non-committed sexual relationships, so prices have gone down.[/quote]
Comic strip is really earnest and sincere and thoughtprovoking. Really works through the numbers the stigma and the feelings
Participant[quote=flyer]Kev, I think you’ve probably learned from this thread that there is no “one size fits all” when it comes to relationships, weddings, marriage, and life in general.
What one person considers “great” would be of little interest to another person, because we each define our “perfect” or “close to perfect” situation differently–and that’s a good thing.
IMO, as long as each of us is happy with the choices we make, and living the lives WE want to live–that’s all that really matters–so go for it, and enjoy!![/quote]
Marry in haste repent at leisure.
ParticipantAfter all, the prize truly is me not the wedding
Participant[quote=harvey][quote=spdrun]Personally, I hope that a slowdown in the financial industry would force a diversification of the city into things like tech firms and R&D. A lot of creative effort put towards the finance industry (shifting Monopoly money around) is actually wasted effort — imagine if more of our best and brightest went into engineering and hard science vs finance. We have the world-class universities and a lot of damn smart people.[/quote]
Many people don’t seem to realize that much of the financial system that drives our world had to be invented, just like any other technology.
Example: One of the most important innovations in human history was the notion of the cost of money, i.e. charging interest for a loan. Today we think nothing of the idea that one can borrow money to start a business, etc. But like any other technology, debt capital had to be “invented” and perfected over centuries. And our world today simply would not function without it.
It took a lot of smart people to develop the technology of pricing financial risk — an essential aspect of business lending that happens every day. Naysayers like to point out the failures, but claiming that financial technology is dangerous because of an occasional market crash is like saying internal combustion engines should have never been invented any time Toyota does a recall.
Today we have our best and brightest doing all sorts things that could easily be labeled as “wasted effort.” Social media websites are a perfect example – how many Stanford grads go to work for Facebook?
But the meaning of “wasted effort” is subjective. If millions of people use Facebook, then they must derive some value from it. Same with what goes on in the financial world. If there is someone on the other side of the table paying for something, it has value, by definition.[/quote]
I’d say Facebook like heroin takes more than it gives.
Still heroin must have value…
Who’s on the other side of the magic bean tradeParticipantThis is kind of a deep thread.
ParticipantUp the CA coast. We were happy and dumb. And basically like my kids age plus a few years.
I think we spent 1000?
Participant[quote=UCGal]Lets see – we were married on a bluff above the beach in La Jolla. I had a beautiful, hand-sewn raw silk dress and a lovely rose bouquet. My family and his family was there, along with close friends. We had a luncheon reception at a beachfront restaurant in North County. We arrived at the reception in a vintage, convertable Edsel. After the lunch we had a really nice reception for a bigger group of friends at my sisters house with beer and wine.
Since we lived in Philadelphia at the time – we had a separate reception for 100 at a catering hall, a month later. Menu included a choice of stuffed fish or chicken, etc. (The food was super yummy).
Both events (wedding and bigger reception a month later) came out to less than $5k. The additional $2k included our travel to/from San Diego for the wedding, our lodging for the trip. and a trip to my best friend’s house in WA state for a fitting on the dress she made me.
We spent an additional $3500 for a trip to Maui for our honeymoon. Had a balcony overlooking the water… that we got a great deal on. It had a kitchenette in the room, so we were able to eat some meals in – which is my strong preference. (I don’t like having to get dressed and ready to go just to have breakfast!… I want to lounge comfortably and drink coffee while looking at the water.)
Yes. It was *my* dream wedding. But I never had the dream of having little net bags of jordon almonds, 12 bridesmaids and groomsmen, and a catered meal for semi-strangers.
Couldn’t have asked for a prettier place to get married. Here’s a picture with my maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather.
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Your dad’s grandpa looks kind of fun.
Participant[quote=spdrun]FlyerInHI, IMHO, NY being a “financial capital” is actually a negative because it’s made NY’s economy less diverse than it was historically. It’s still pretty resilient due to foreign investment, people playing both sides of the markets, and controls on apartment purchase down payments (by condo/co-op boards), but it’s less diverse than it was 40-50 years ago. This makes it less resilient and I daresay less interesting.[/quote]
Interesting comic strip
Julius knipl real estate photographer.
Really gives a feel for what an old nyc was like
ParticipantWe got married in a church and had the reception in the basement of Carlos Obrien so a Mexican restaurang. Food was cheap. Venue was close to free. Dress was made by a relative. Biggest expense was a hippie rabbi willing to do his thing inside a Catholic church. That cost me 500 which he used to feed the homeless or something.
Was worth 500 so my mom didn’t have to rend her garments and wail.
No ring. Offered to get her one now. She refused.
ParticipantNeed?
The market, the earth and society cares less what we need.
The only person who loves me is my mama and she might be jiving too
ParticipantMaybe they need to change the question from “good husband”e” to “selecting a life partner with whom to produce and raise educated, healthy and successful children and enjoy a reasonable lifestyle into old age.”
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