And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

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.


amych - Jun 23, 2011 6:06:59 am PDT #13907 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I don't think you are supposed to come to them with a house all picked out!

Eh, I wouldn't get anxious about doing the homebuying class wrong -- it's a tickybox to be checked off so that things like first-time homebuyer programs can be considered a public good. The class will be about what's the process, and advice like "don't spend a basquillion dollars you don't have" and "get an inspection" (which your bank will probably require anyway, so, like, duh). They'll give exactly zero shits if you've done anything out of order. It's also impossible to fail.

In other words, if you decide want to do it, something like a class is purely a box to be checked off, not something to stress about.


Sophia Brooks - Jun 23, 2011 6:09:46 am PDT #13908 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I just got an email about a Cornhole event. I swear to god, we don't have that here.

I definitely get the "urban dictionary" type meaning of cornhole in my head, rather than the game. I don't even think I have heard of the game before a couple of years ago.

I think I probably will take the classes. I am sort of in the get ready to start to think about it stage. But I also want to get in while the prices are still so cheap! I could impulse-buy a house!


lisah - Jun 23, 2011 6:12:18 am PDT #13909 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

In other words, if you decide want to do it, something like a class is purely a box to be checked off, not something to stress about.

And may actually provide you with good information as you head into the homebuying process. Do you need to settle w/in a certain amount of time of doing the class/getting the money? I got a grant from the city that had a time limit attached but, like you may be doing, I had a house picked out and was in the process of getting a contract on it, when I applied for the grant. I don't think that was the normal way the grant went but it worked out fine. And allowed me to buy my place even though I didn't have a lot of money available for a down payment.

Oh! Jesse! I thought of you this morning when I heard Whitey Bulger was finally captured! crazy.


Jesse - Jun 23, 2011 6:16:03 am PDT #13910 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I am excited that people thought of me WRT Whitey. His brother was my first favorite politician! After he spent a good while talking to me at an event when I was like 12 or something.


Frankenbuddha - Jun 23, 2011 6:16:21 am PDT #13911 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I just got an email about a Cornhole event. I swear to god, we don't have that here.

I seem to remember reading that it's the new big thing with hipsters in, I think it was, the Phoenix.


Amy - Jun 23, 2011 6:17:49 am PDT #13912 of 30001
Because books.

I had never heard of Whitey Bulger before yesterday. I'm not up on my Irish crime lords, I guess.

It's so humid outside it's like being trapped under an overturned wet bowl. Blech.


Jesse - Jun 23, 2011 6:17:51 am PDT #13913 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Midwestern hipsters! Fucking newcomers.


Kathy A - Jun 23, 2011 6:18:02 am PDT #13914 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Whitey Bulger was finally captured

Oh, they got him? Was that because of the FBI's appeal on the View to look for his girlfriend, or something else?


Jesse - Jun 23, 2011 6:19:14 am PDT #13915 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I had never heard of Whitey Bulger before yesterday. I'm not up on my Irish crime lords, I guess.

It's impossible to overstate what a big deal he was here, back in the day. Not only was he a huge crime lord, but his brother was the state Senate president for yonks.


Frankenbuddha - Jun 23, 2011 6:19:37 am PDT #13916 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Midwestern hipsters! Fucking newcomers.

Or locals who've adopted it "ironically". See also, PBRs.