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ParticipantHolding on to anything for 30 years, a house, a marriage, ones sanity, is easier fantasized about than done.
30 years, and you are basically a different human
ParticipantYes. It definitely applies to relationships. If you don’t think you have options, and fixateon just one mate, you get desperate and unattractive. If you believe there are an abundant number of potential mating options, even while married, you instantly become less needy and more attractive.
Personally, I believe pretty much all women who would know me would likely want me (abundance), but that the global economy’s going down the toilet (scarcity).
Kind of a mixed bag, you might say.
might be delusional on one or both counts.
Liked the article
Participanti mean, I adore electric bicycles. I’d spend good money on them. I’d buy a high end one for my next bike. But 5-10K gets you very very high end.
20k is just silly and is probably the result of buying superlightweight parts.
it’s also absurd because expensive bicycle parts are meant to shave weight, often at a very high dollar cost per gram. but to shave weight in that way on an ebike, a bike that must be heavy by virtue of its having a MOTOR and a BATTERY, is INSANE…you dont NEED a lightweight bike because you have a MOTOR and a BATTERY to help!!!
personally i think weight shaving even on normal bicycles is pretty dumb past acertain fairly cheap point. but on an ebike it’s burning money. ive got my eye on a 4k Giant brand dual suspension ebike, and there’s no way it’s not 95% as good as whatever that 20k bike is for everyday mountain biking and commuting….but that Black Mountain shop was SOLD OUT in pretty much every bike that would fit me (average sized male) so maybe it’s a scarcity thing?
even so, someone has WAY TOO MUCH MONEY lying around. on the other hand, maybe it’s no dumber than a 150k mercedes.
Participantthis receipt/pricetag is gonna sound crazy, but I saw custom bike at Black Mountain cycles by the trader joes on black mountain road. the receipt was stapled to the handlebar. Someone has put down a $1,000 deposit on a $20,000 electric bicycle.
Participantmine needs body work and has weird bumper stickers. so probably only worth 85k
ParticipantMy vehicle history
Honda Civic DX silver 1989-2012
Honda Accord silver 2012-2019
Trek ebike. Pewter. 2019-2023?
Mercedes eqs. Red 2023 – 2029.I think my next vehicle must cost 100k plus, just to balance things out
ParticipantSo many e cars coming. Tesla would be my last choice.
Participant[quote=Coronita]welp…bad news for me. i didnt get the property….it went to some other buyer, i didnt even get a counter offer. i guess one cant be too sure in this market….
oh well. Im $600kish richer today, lol…
wow…. pretty brutal real estate market..im 0 for 3…..[/quote]Bitcoins down. My kids says it’s time to go all in.
Instead I threw another 10k at slv and gld.
What an old fart.
Participant[quote=Coronita][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=Coronita]note to self…. dont piss off scardey….i didnt think it would be possible…but if one manages to achieve the almost impossibility…boy are you in for an inrefutable rude awakening…
holy sheet….
nice kittycat.. nice kittycat..[/quote]
Just joshing. Ultimately, it’s still therapy.[/quote]
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Better to be kind. I’m in the middle of assertiveness training related to personal issues and lost my way.
Participant[quote=deadzone]I’ve observed many older, retired folks falling into the extreme political propaganda stuff. We all know the Fox news stereotype. But I’ve seen the same thing with my own parents on the liberal side. I think it is a combination of early onset dementia and just not having any real world problems (ie job, family, etc) to deal with.
I sure hope when I am retired I have enough hobbies to keep my mind away from politics.[/quote]
Maybe old people just watch too much news. My super liberal mom worries the world’s going to hell too. I beg her to stop watching CNN for hours. She refuses.
As for me, my wife says I’m starting to sound more conservative the last few. YearsOf course, she’s practically a pinko commie.
Participant[quote=Coronita]note to self…. dont piss off scardey….i didnt think it would be possible…but if one manages to achieve the almost impossibility…boy are you in for an inrefutable rude awakening…
holy sheet….
nice kittycat.. nice kittycat..[/quote]
Just joshing. Ultimately, it’s still therapy.
Participantinteresting website; quoteinvestigator…tries to track down where this liberal/conservative brains heart quote actually came from…
In 1923 the “Wall Street Journal” credited King Oscar II of Sweden with a version of the remark using the word “socialist” instead of “républicain” or “republican”.
By 1929 the saying had inspired the title of a play: “Before You’re 25” by Kenyon Nicholson which opened in New York and received a lukewarm review by a well-known drama critic:
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BUT: the one I like best is playwright george bernard shaw’s version, which basically subverts the meaning you intend…
… a thematically connected statement was made by George Bernard Shaw when he delivered a speech at the University of Hong Kong in 1933:
If you don’t begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty then at fifty you will be an impossible old fossil. If you are a red revolutionary at the age of twenty you have some chance of being up to date when you are forty.
So, yeah, you botched not only the attribution of the quote, but its probable actual meaning, which is, move somewhat to the middle from your youthful extreme, or risk becoming a useless old fart who’s stuck in a fairy tale past conservative fantasy land that doesn’t and shouldnt exist.
No one wants to be an “impossible old fossil”, right.
maybe itd be better for you to stay in so cal, where the youth culture, the sun and salt air, the vibrant populace and culture that INFLUENCES THE ENTIRE WORLD has a chance of keeping you out of fossildom!
let me ask you this; if me and Flyer can acquire the international exclusive rights to the property BEFORE YOU’RE 25, the play, would you be willing to finance a production at a local theatre? I can guarantee you 35% of the proceeds from any subsequent movie deal.
I guess at heart I am PROUD of california and hate when people piss on it. Retirement fantasies are for the old, the dying, the fossils.
ParticipantAlso, Churchill never said that quote about liberals.
I’m not saying that to be pedantic or be smarter than you. I’m saying your head, and my head, is stuffed full of SHIT that is flat out UNTRUE. For instance your claim that Utah people are FRIENDLIER. Haha
https://sltrib.com/news/education/2020/05/12/utah-dead-last-again-per/
Clearly the state of Utah doesn’t value education with money. Not sure how that bodes for the future. On the bright side, old rich farts like you who decamp with their cali cash what ch they never would’ve made in Utah, don’t have to pay taxes to help the little fuckers in school by way of taxes. Haha. Winning….you get to piss on the state that made you rich, and give none of it back to where you’re going.
Brilliant
I really doubt the neighbors will LOVE a Know it all California professor…
Participant[quote=sdrealtor][quote=EconProf]Thanks Flyer, and you are quite right that the move was prompted less by financial motives than other factors.
Commentators on the left and the right agree that the nation is dividing into two geographic directions, or what could be called factions. The big cities, especially coastal ones versus the inland ones, the latter perhaps including the ex-urban parts of all cities.
Given current trends, I want to be part of the inland, more rural part. The culture, politics, and friendliness of the people are entirely different. We will never buy motels to house the homeless and addicted or free repeat-criminals from our jails or teach school children to be race-conscious. We won’t close our schools unnecessarily. Our taxes and fiscal future will stay healthy, crime rates will stay low, and education levels high. Our influx of escaping “refugees” from the woke cities will continue.
As a long-ago liberal–it’s hard to be a college teacher and not be liberal–my entry into the private sector via real estate investing and being a contractor in the inner city gave me a rude awakening.
Of course much of this change is due to simply getting old. As Winston Churchill said, paraphrasing, “To be young and not liberal is to have no heart. To be old and not conservative is to have no head.”[/quote]What hogwash and intellectual dishonesty. You moved to be near your children and grandchildren. You could’ve just left it at that! If they were here you still would be and you know that. You’re just using your move to be near them as an excuse to bash CA on your way out.[/quote]
utah’s just 1 percent black. maybe utah schools can just teach that there’s such a thing as other races, and work up to race consciousness, since your grandkids probably wont ever actually interact witha black kid at
school. and wait…Utah is NEVER gonna release a repeat offenor from jail? 3 shopliftings and you get life? deadzone will buy a house before you see you’re full of crap! basically, the republicans of utah will talk a good game of “personal responsibility” and instead of actually taking responsibility for its people, they’ll export their problems of their homeless people who fail to get with the program to california, not keep them in utah jails forever. haha! sucks to get old. Us Old people think we have more brains, but really it’s just a narrowing, of the arteries, the heart, the vision for the future.hunker down in utah old man. keep on believing you’re getting “smarter”. i think old people get crankier and dumber because of aches and pain, general inflammation, and decreased blood flow, and fear, fear based on weakness…a sense that the world is slipping away, out of control, and the only way to ensure predictable safety is to bring the hammer down hard on everyone who presents any risk whatsoever.
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