LandM wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 7:19 am
MD,
NO is New Orleans - my point is you grew up in a family that 95% of America did not grow up in. Can I afford a peloton (spelling) - yes. Do I have one? No, I ride a bike that my wife bought at a garage sale for $20 and still lift with my 30 year old weights - I get the same calorie loss. Sometimes it is ok to mingle with the deplorables or average - it can be refreshing.
ahh, NO means New Orleans...I assume NE really did mean New England?
But
again you are way off base in your "guesses" despite your apparent homework gleaning through my prior posts (hard to imagine anything more boring
).
Nope, my grandfather and his family was from NO, and yeah, I know how to pronounce the town, love me some gumbo and nothing better than 'pinching tails and sucking heads' with some cold beers overlooking the river.
Crawfish reference for those not having had the experience.
Analogous to picking hard crabs in Baltimore.
Take your time, savor being with friends.
Heck, I even have some Klan in my family background. Prefer the crawfish.
Of course I understand that I was born into all sorts of advantages that 95% or some such statistic were less lucky to have. Two educated parents who loved each other and us, married over 60 years until my dad's passing last year...mother who read to us...dad who couched my rec teams, showed up for dinner each night...committed to our getting an education...never totally without resources, never had to live in a neighborhood with folks shot on the block, never lost a friend or family member to violence...
Ton of advantages. Not a 'silver spoon' and certainly that was not the family ethic, but yeah, ton of advantages.
Enjoy your $20 bike; you sound a lot like me, why pay more if existing equipment gets the job done?
But yeah, I've recently become addicted to the Peloton experience, using it near daily...Ally Love, Emma Lovewell, Alex, et al make me peddle harder !
I gotta say LandM, the arrogance and pretensions you display towards others comes through pretty darn ugly in all your wrong-headed assumptions.
Do you really think you're the only one on here who has "mingle(d) with the 'deplorables' or average"? Stood in hip boots in a waterman's bar or dug ditches all summer or helped out at a soup kitchen or mentored kids from broken families...or all sorts of ways your fellow posters have gotten off their high horses and "mingled"?
Probably better that you simply express your opinions, make your case with facts and logic, without attacking other posters based on 'assumptions' about their backgrounds.