You ate a puppy. Raw. I have limits.
How long should puppies be cooked?
Niska: Mr. Reynolds? You died, Mr. Reynolds. Mal: Seemed like the thing to do.
'War Stories'
Natter 57 Varieties
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Mar 20, 2008 3:34:55 pm PDT #6326 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Daisy Jane - Mar 20, 2008 3:37:56 pm PDT #6327 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Scrappy, glad to hear your neice has stabalized. ~ma to you and yours.
ita, I had a situation a year or so ago where my sister didn't tell me the whole truth about someone, and I regretted I didn't know.
Lastly, I used to sort of work in the mortgage industry, and we did a lot of delinquency counseling. I wish I had the time to get into it, but I will say, there were a lot of brokers getting people higher loans than they could afford with exotic products when the homebuyers could have had conventional fixed rates.
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2008 3:38:37 pm PDT #6328 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Chomp chomp!
Be careful of splinters!
Ginger - Mar 20, 2008 4:01:07 pm PDT #6329 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I recognize that some of these borrowers should have known they were in over their heads, but I think that one of the main purposes of the law is to protect stupid people. For example, we just had one of those cons in which two people convinced an older woman that she was helping them with a bank investigation, which is one of the older cons out there.
Bonny, I think all you can do is say no, politely, in the vein of "I don't think I'm in a position to help you with this suit, but I wish you well."
Susan W. - Mar 20, 2008 4:10:29 pm PDT #6330 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Dear CBS:
Stop cutting away from the Belmont-Duke game to show me the stupid boring "local interest" game where WSU is up by over 30 points.
SuziQ - Mar 20, 2008 4:26:27 pm PDT #6331 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Ginger said what I was going to say Bonny.
Nutty - Mar 20, 2008 4:47:18 pm PDT #6332 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
My perception is likely colored by my usual thinking that I'm the dumbest person, ever.
Just chant as your mantra: I have not yet been featured in the Darwin Awards. I have not yet been features in the Darwin Awards. On the one hand, not, i.e. any mistakes you might have made are recoverable and nonfatal; and yet, i.e. you've got to be eternally vigilant against the impulse to tie hundreds of helium balloons to a lawn chair and float into LAX airspace.*
* The only Darwin Award I could think of, and it wasn't even a winner, since it wasn't fatal. The guy did get arrested, though!
Jesse - Mar 20, 2008 5:16:36 pm PDT #6333 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think I'm already screwed with my NCAA bracket. Ah well.
beth b - Mar 20, 2008 5:17:19 pm PDT #6334 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
We bought a house just before the peak. Mortgage people would have given us a bigger loan - we said no . Got an ARM - refinance at a fixed rate would leave me about the same dollars in payment - but if they pass the law that Changes the # for jumbo loans - we should be in a good place for a refi - and we would be low risk . Currently the house is worth about 100K more than when we bought it and maybe 20 - 30 K less than top of the market.
but , I bought a home, not a house. I expect to live here a long time and slowly do improvements over time. So the ups and downs of the market - not really a factor.
My dad says he has never lost on a house. But , you buy within your budget - and with the expectation that some years are going t be harder than others. and harder than today , rather than the more usual way of thinking it will get easier , because you'll have ore.
Sending out the ma~~ to Scrappy's niece.
beekaytee - Mar 20, 2008 5:19:18 pm PDT #6335 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
"I don't think I'm in a position to help you with this suit, but I wish you well."
Brevity is my friend and this is a good response. Thanks Ginger.
I think I'm going to punk out and answer her phone call via email. Hers is a difficult personality type...rich with pathology. So the possibility of explaining in a way that will work for her is remote.
I guess that is the thing that bothers me the most. There is no way for me to do this 'right'...where all values or right = painless.