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by Monty
Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:19 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER
Replies: 25164
Views: 949894

Re: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER

Rylinks wrote:maybe trump will activate the presidential emergency alert system that texts every phone in america
That would honestly be amazing
by Monty
Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:19 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER
Replies: 25164
Views: 949894

Re: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER

Rylinks wrote:maybe trump will activate the presidential emergency alert system that texts every phone in america
That would honestly be amazing
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 10:29 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

I am enjoying this Devo-and-Tracy Chapman thing they have going on) Dear God in heaven... It was "Whip It" into "Give Me One Reason". Mostly it's the bassline that we can hear clearly, so there's this moment of "Wait...that sounds familiar...they're blasting THAT at midnigh...
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 10:27 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

holy fuck That was what I was going for! Yeah, but you live on the coast in a place lots of people want to live. Higher demand means higher rental rates and mortgage costs. I live in a good neighborhood in a suburb and rent a 2 bedroom for $1500. Of course, it's also 15 degrees outside right now, b...
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 10:24 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

holy fuck That was what I was going for! so is the actual mortgage not very high then, and rent is just jacked up because of limits on new home construction? or is the home value actually just super high because of some other reason and so your landlord also has to pay all of the dollars? I don't k...
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 10:12 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

I don't get this at all. You don't have sympathy for someone who is trying to make a better life for themselves by offering a product or service you need? I get what you're saying, but I think it's not that clean. The product in question is the house that already existed before they came along. The...
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 10:09 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Khaos wrote:
Monty wrote: Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:41 pmMy rent for a two-bedroom in an um not ideal neighborhood is $2250.
holy fuck
That was what I was going for!
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:51 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

I don't either! I thought it was an interesting data point combined with a complaint that I phrased in a way that I thought would be fun to read. Rent isn't as bad as Silicon Valley here, but it is very high compared to Nebraska. Do I have to contradict you with every post? no, in fact ideally no-o...
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:45 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

My rent for a two-bedroom in an um not ideal neighborhood is $2250. Even with high-density going up all over the place, it is nuts around here. And for the last year, I haven't even gotten the fun of being in a big city where all the action is! I don't think that contradicts what I said! I don't ei...
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:44 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

I had a long boring answer about the effects of a rent freeze and how one's opinion changes depending on how one views houses, but instead I'm going to swerve and take on a much easier target: HOAs. Some people just want to live in their house and paint it purple and have a giant animated Halloween...
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:41 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

My rent for a two-bedroom in an um not ideal neighborhood is $2250. Even with high-density going up all over the place, it is nuts around here.

And for the last year, I haven't even gotten the fun of being in a big city where all the action is!
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:38 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

See, I'd be a great homeowner!
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:37 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

I don't know, but I do know they have an awful lot of opinions about things people aren't allowed to do with and in their own property.
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:33 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

EDIT: I think that houses being both "places to live" and "investment properties" is causing some conflicting goals among the population. I can think of ways in which this is true but none that map on to "the problem is people renting out property". insofar as housing-...
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:26 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Yeah, they're building like maniacs around here. I can see from my living room window three buildings that went up in the last two years.
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:24 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

I don't think there is any way to achieve your goal of getting rid of renters so that the rental housing is sold to you instead that also constitutes "prioritising low-income people", no in retrospect this sounds very harsh so I want to make it clear that I'm describing the implications o...
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:22 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

EDIT: I think that houses being both "places to live" and "investment properties" is causing some conflicting goals among the population.
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:18 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

As someone who doesn't own even one house, I have to admit that I don't have a great deal of sympathy for people who own several with the intention of making money off of people like me. If the banks take the houses back, they end up selling them again and the ensuing property value crash means I m...
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:14 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

My theory is that if the prospective landlords didn't buy four houses each so they could rent out three and pay their mortgage on the fourth with the proceeds, there would be many more houses available for purchase, thus lowering the overall price, so the people who are currently forced to rent hou...
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:13 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

Ah, that's the problem, then. I do live somewhere like California: Seattle, where all the land is full of houses until you're very far out of town. What with Microsoft and Amazon, there's a lot of House Money floating around. Right now they're building these super-narrow three-story townhomes around...
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:07 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER
Replies: 25164
Views: 949894

Re: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER

Is the White House still? I know it used to be, but now it's got that big wall around it. And I definitely would turn off the tours for the next couple of weeks regardless.
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:05 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

As someone who doesn't own even one house, I have to admit that I don't have a great deal of sympathy for people who own several with the intention of making money off of people like me. If the banks take the houses back, they end up selling them again and the ensuing property value crash means I m...
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:57 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: the belligerent thread
Replies: 46
Views: 916

Re: the belligerent thread

"War" is definitely better than both. It's so concise, it's the fucking John Wayne of words. Guerra is fuckin feminine for chrissakes, at least bellum had the good sense to be neuter. I definitely will join your belligerence if we can rail against all these goddammit languages that decide...
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:55 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: the belligerent thread
Replies: 46
Views: 916

Re: the belligerent thread

I think "antebellum" was used to describe the pre-Civil War South because Latin sounds fancy to English speakers and it gave kind of a nostalgic haze to the whole thing. Then they had to use "pre-war" to describe Scotch.
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:45 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Charho-oh Virus Thread
Replies: 4742
Views: 117321

Re: Charho-oh Virus Thread

As someone who doesn't own even one house, I have to admit that I don't have a great deal of sympathy for people who own several with the intention of making money off of people like me. If the banks take the houses back, they end up selling them again and the ensuing property value crash means I mi...
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:40 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER
Replies: 25164
Views: 949894

Re: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER

Dantes wrote:I said sedition, I meant insurrection.

Sedition is what Trump did.
Insurrection! There's a good woody sort of word.
by Monty
Fri Jan 08, 2021 3:44 am
Forum: Juri's Nondescript Subforum
Topic: This thread is for posting cards you forgot existed
Replies: 214
Views: 6229

Re: This thread is for posting cards you forgot existed

I think the second token represents the Wurm's tail.
by Monty
Thu Jan 07, 2021 10:17 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Doug's Fiendish Trick Trivia Questions
Replies: 668
Views: 133380

Re: Doug's Fiendish Trick Trivia Questions

There are going to be some pretty tough questions about movies from 2020. It ended a week ago, so surely it should be possible to think of the top five box office movies, right? 2020 Domestic Box Office 1) Bad Boys For Life: $204M 2) Sonic the Hedgehog: $146M 3) Birds of Prey (etc.): $84M 4) After W...
by Monty
Thu Jan 07, 2021 4:55 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: Time Travel
Replies: 34
Views: 547

Re: Time Travel

There's a time travel horror movie called Triangle that I liked a lot.
by Monty
Thu Jan 07, 2021 3:25 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: Time Travel
Replies: 34
Views: 547

Re: Time Travel

That's a little like Primer, although it goes in a different direction from that setup.