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Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:46 am
by Peter Brown
Catbird wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:37 am
seacoaster wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:12 am
Catbird wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:04 am Turns out we can thank KAC's daughter for blowing up her mom's spot again, otherwise we wouldn't have got that additional info; apparently she spent the whole day with her mom without her mom telling her. Transparency indeed.
How can anyone trust these people to count hands for another beer during the commercial break? The stupidity is really mind-blowing.
Correction - apparently LIED to her own daughter about being negative; then they spent the whole day together.


Not to best a dead horse, but it’s amazing isn’t it how gullible the left is. Truly the dumbest among us. They believe anything tossed their way because the narrative is critical to their identity. If I wanted to pretend to be a source of liberal info, do you realize how quickly these birdbrains would rah-rah me?

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:56 am
by Catbird
Peter Brown wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:46 am
Catbird wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:37 am
seacoaster wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:12 am
Catbird wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:04 am Turns out we can thank KAC's daughter for blowing up her mom's spot again, otherwise we wouldn't have got that additional info; apparently she spent the whole day with her mom without her mom telling her. Transparency indeed.
How can anyone trust these people to count hands for another beer during the commercial break? The stupidity is really mind-blowing.
Correction - apparently LIED to her own daughter about being negative; then they spent the whole day together.


Not to best a dead horse, but it’s amazing isn’t it how gullible the left is. Truly the dumbest among us. They believe anything tossed their way because the narrative is critical to their identity. If I wanted to pretend to be a source of liberal info, do you realize how quickly these birdbrains would rah-rah me?
Source was her own daughter, who broke the news about her mom having COVID.

Excuse me if others aim a little higher than Project Veritas and the Epoch Times.

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:57 am
by Peter Brown
Catbird wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:56 am
Peter Brown wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:46 am
Catbird wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:37 am
seacoaster wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:12 am
Catbird wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:04 am Turns out we can thank KAC's daughter for blowing up her mom's spot again, otherwise we wouldn't have got that additional info; apparently she spent the whole day with her mom without her mom telling her. Transparency indeed.
How can anyone trust these people to count hands for another beer during the commercial break? The stupidity is really mind-blowing.
Correction - apparently LIED to her own daughter about being negative; then they spent the whole day together.


Not to best a dead horse, but it’s amazing isn’t it how gullible the left is. Truly the dumbest among us. They believe anything tossed their way because the narrative is critical to their identity. If I wanted to pretend to be a source of liberal info, do you realize how quickly these birdbrains would rah-rah me?
Source was her own daughter, who broke the news about her mom having COVID.

Excuse me if others aim a little higher than Project Veritas and the Epoch Times.


So your source is now a 16-year old girl who appears to have emotional instability issues?

(Color me not surprised).

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:25 am
by seacoaster
Boycott stupid.

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:38 am
by Peter Brown
seacoaster wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:25 am Boycott stupid.



You’re correct. I was wrong. Your lib source isn’t a 16-year old who’s emotionally unstable.

She’s 15.

My apologies. Carry on.

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:40 am
by Kismet
Peter Brown wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:38 am
seacoaster wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:25 am Boycott stupid.



You’re correct. I was wrong. Your lib source isn’t a 16-year old who’s emotionally unstable.

She’s 15.

My apologies. Carry on.
As opposed to you - an adult who often appears emotionally unstable????

Please STFU birdbrain :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:51 am
by Brooklyn
^ :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:53 am
by Brooklyn
Trump says he doesn’t believe in Socialism but he’s about to get tens of thousands of dollars worth of public healthcare that he only paid $750 for
9:58 AM · Oct 2, 2020·TweetDeck



https://twitter.com/gilbertjasono/statu ... 4161139717

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:45 am
by cradleandshoot
seacoaster wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:59 am Six year anniversary:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 3056359424

There's always a badly aged tweet, when you're a moron.

Looks like the ACB Coming Out party was a super-spreader event. A President and First Lady, two GOP Senators, WH Staff members and the President's campaign manager.
Too bad they didn't throw in a couple of FLP folks just to make it fair. I know you Democrats are all about fairness. ;)

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:53 am
by seacoaster
cradleandshoot wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:45 am
seacoaster wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:59 am Six year anniversary:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 3056359424

There's always a badly aged tweet, when you're a moron.

Looks like the ACB Coming Out party was a super-spreader event. A President and First Lady, two GOP Senators, WH Staff members and the President's campaign manager.
Too bad they didn't throw in a couple of FLP folks just to make it fair. I know you Democrats are all about fairness. ;)
Science is fair, old friend.

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:15 am
by Peter Brown
cradleandshoot wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:45 am
seacoaster wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:59 am Six year anniversary:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 3056359424

There's always a badly aged tweet, when you're a moron.

Looks like the ACB Coming Out party was a super-spreader event. A President and First Lady, two GOP Senators, WH Staff members and the President's campaign manager.
Too bad they didn't throw in a couple of FLP folks just to make it fair. I know you Democrats are all about fairness. ;)


The only thing 'fair' about Democrats is they want to make everyone equally miserable.

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:20 am
by cradleandshoot
seacoaster wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:53 am
cradleandshoot wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:45 am
seacoaster wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:59 am Six year anniversary:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 3056359424

There's always a badly aged tweet, when you're a moron.

Looks like the ACB Coming Out party was a super-spreader event. A President and First Lady, two GOP Senators, WH Staff members and the President's campaign manager.
Too bad they didn't throw in a couple of FLP folks just to make it fair. I know you Democrats are all about fairness. ;)
Science is fair, old friend.
;)

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:25 am
by cradleandshoot
Peter Brown wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:15 am
cradleandshoot wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:45 am
seacoaster wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:59 am Six year anniversary:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 3056359424

There's always a badly aged tweet, when you're a moron.

Looks like the ACB Coming Out party was a super-spreader event. A President and First Lady, two GOP Senators, WH Staff members and the President's campaign manager.
Too bad they didn't throw in a couple of FLP folks just to make it fair. I know you Democrats are all about fairness. ;)


The only thing 'fair' about Democrats is they want to make everyone equally miserable.
I have not heard that expression in quite awhile. Sadly to a certain extent I believe it is true. I don't know any FLP folks I could describe as happy or satisfied . I am guessing a Biden win will change that for a few moments. The happiness will be short lived, especially if they don't win the senate. If you look really fast you might catch a glimpse of a smile.

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:33 am
by Peter Brown
cradleandshoot wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:25 am
Peter Brown wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:15 am
cradleandshoot wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:45 am
seacoaster wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:59 am Six year anniversary:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 3056359424

There's always a badly aged tweet, when you're a moron.

Looks like the ACB Coming Out party was a super-spreader event. A President and First Lady, two GOP Senators, WH Staff members and the President's campaign manager.
Too bad they didn't throw in a couple of FLP folks just to make it fair. I know you Democrats are all about fairness. ;)
The only thing 'fair' about Democrats is they want to make everyone equally miserable.
I have not heard that expression in quite awhile. Sadly to a certain extent I believe it is true. I don't know any FLP folks I could describe as happy or satisfied . I am guessing a Biden win will change that for a few moments. The happiness will be short lived, especially if they don't win the senate. If you look really fast you might catch a glimpse of a smile.


One of the unifying characteristics of Democrats across America is their internal bitterness. Look at someone as outwardly attractive and clearly satisfied with life as Amy Barrett (regardless if she is a SCOTUS or not) with children and a husband and frankly the American dream; compare her to Sonia Sotamajor who appears constantly constipated and unbelievably angry, childless, single, and opposed to the American dream.

Democrats hate beauty in all things, humans or monuments, family or life. They abhor success. They can not abide by healthy dialogue. They embrace nihilism and anarchy. They suppress speech. They demand obedience. The US Constitution and all norms from it are their anvil.

They detest America.

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:38 am
by MDlaxfan76
ABV 8.3% wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:38 am
cradleandshoot wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:56 am
cradleandshoot wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:52 am
MDlaxfan76 wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:49 pm
ABV 8.3% wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 7:44 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 4:18 pm
Peter Brown wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 3:15 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 2:46 pm
Peter Brown wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 2:37 pm
kramerica.inc wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 2:31 pm
RedFromMI wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 2:01 pm Find the post I did yesterday looking at his golf courses in Scotland (analysis from Twitter). Vastly inflated values of real estate, that keep going up to cover the fact that Trump is probably money laundering...

And no, those loans will not roll over with no problems UNLESS Trump is still president, and then the ask will be large for Trump - and potentially dangerous for the USA.

I thought you were in the air services business. What the heck are you holding hotel real estate for? No wonder you are so desperate for "opening" the country up...
Didn't you accost me yesterday for posting "unsupported speculation. Not a whit of real evidence?" as fact?

Yet you do it here.

So I was right- you don't REALLY care about speculation, just the target of it.

Practice what you preach, big guy.


Red’s post is junk. Straight up. I don’t care what Trump’s assets are worth but Mar a Lago has to be over $500,000,000 alone.
Nope, Mar a Lago may be worth $100-150 million at most. Revenues are declining and post election, hoo boy expect big declines. But it has some hard asset, location value, so someone may take it off his hands when push comes to shove.

But hey, he only paid $10 million for it back in 1985, so there's some solace.
MD anybody that wants to get in to a grammer debate with you is barking up the wrong tree.
:)
There are PB estates selling with 1/4 the acreage for $150 million and worse location.
untrue, $105 millón was a recent record sale, full property, house, etc.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/2020 ... to-recover

My aunt recently sold a 'small' home there.
Can you try replying, just once, with little to no pronouns. please.
Hey, any time you (pronoun) decide to use proper spelling, grammar and punctuation, please alert us (pronoun).

BTW, I (pronoun) think you meant first person personal pronoun. I (yes, that's 1st person) share whatever personal context I (again) have for an opinion, rather than just spouting off incoherently and without context.

Don't read my posts if you don't care about what I say.
I'm not sure why he picked a grammar fight with you. I know you take great pain to be meticulous in your word structure. I may disagree with your content but you are grammatically perfect. Dammit.
I, mostly, misspell on purpose.....to annoy the annoying. The begging to stop using pronouns is a cry for the vanity to stop.
I, me, I, me. Strange need to tell us all about who he is, who he knows. After all, who doesn't tell their sons it's super important to own a TUX, just in case, you never know. He awtta take a drive to Hagerstown and Cumberland, give that same advise to HIGH school kids there. :roll:
hey, rrr, abc, fatty, how about you just stop trying to annoy others? why pick fights?

I don't mind at all you poking some fun at me, I can laugh at myself. (Look at all those personal pronouns!).

It's not "vanity" to provide context for an opinion based on personal experience. That tux story, if I recall correctly, was in context of another discussion...and I was poking fun at the situation not some sort of vanity. Quite the opposite actually. It's just a suit, but sometimes required for the occasion. I've never bought a brand new tux for me or my son, but we did do the math on having one at the ready versus rental. The humorous aspect of that story was that my son had been turned off by the high preppy style of a southern school that was recruiting him, the tuxes and colorful bow tie set, so when he went off to Harvard my wife and I knew that it was quite likely that he'd find himself needing a tux in order to go to some of the parties. Would never have occurred to me for my own alma mater, a rival to the north, blue jeans and a sweatshirt being the typical 'suit' for a party, so I found it funny. He thought his mother and I were being ridiculous, he'd never need the tux, but we stuck it in the back of his closet. So, when he came home at Thanksgiving and asked for another formal shirt for Christmas, we thought he must have stained the first one...but no, he sometimes had back to back formal parties with no time to get a shirt cleaned...I found that humorous. And yes, I'd give the same advice to a lacrosse player headed to Harvard or Yale or Princeton (or a number of other schools) from Hagerstown or Cumberland...I'd also tell them to buy a used one from the rental folks. Perfectly fine.

My mention of an aunt selling a house in Palm Beach recently is just context. It's not my money. Her husband, my father's only cousin, was the son of small garage owner in Frederick. He went to Hopkins, then into the Navy in Intelligence, then to Southeast Asia in the early 60's, then was tapped to work at AIG, in Japan, Thailand, Nigeria, ultimately was part of the Starr group and ran the life business of AIG worldwide. Their house in PB was relatively modest...in a town of very little modesty. High conspicuous consumption.

In the discussion of Trump's debts, our Florida pal, Petey, was suggesting that Mar a Lago is worth multiples of its actual value. I pointed out that was inaccurate with a specific fact of the top price paid for any property, and provided additional context as to why I'd paid a bit of attention previously to market values down there. Not vanity.

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 12:09 pm
by Peter Brown
MDlaxfan76 wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:38 am
ABV 8.3% wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:38 am
cradleandshoot wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:56 am
cradleandshoot wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:52 am
MDlaxfan76 wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:49 pm
ABV 8.3% wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 7:44 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 4:18 pm
Peter Brown wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 3:15 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 2:46 pm
Peter Brown wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 2:37 pm
kramerica.inc wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 2:31 pm
RedFromMI wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 2:01 pm Find the post I did yesterday looking at his golf courses in Scotland (analysis from Twitter). Vastly inflated values of real estate, that keep going up to cover the fact that Trump is probably money laundering...

And no, those loans will not roll over with no problems UNLESS Trump is still president, and then the ask will be large for Trump - and potentially dangerous for the USA.

I thought you were in the air services business. What the heck are you holding hotel real estate for? No wonder you are so desperate for "opening" the country up...
Didn't you accost me yesterday for posting "unsupported speculation. Not a whit of real evidence?" as fact?

Yet you do it here.

So I was right- you don't REALLY care about speculation, just the target of it.

Practice what you preach, big guy.


Red’s post is junk. Straight up. I don’t care what Trump’s assets are worth but Mar a Lago has to be over $500,000,000 alone.
Nope, Mar a Lago may be worth $100-150 million at most. Revenues are declining and post election, hoo boy expect big declines. But it has some hard asset, location value, so someone may take it off his hands when push comes to shove.

But hey, he only paid $10 million for it back in 1985, so there's some solace.
MD anybody that wants to get in to a grammer debate with you is barking up the wrong tree.
:)
There are PB estates selling with 1/4 the acreage for $150 million and worse location.
untrue, $105 millón was a recent record sale, full property, house, etc.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/2020 ... to-recover

My aunt recently sold a 'small' home there.
Can you try replying, just once, with little to no pronouns. please.
Hey, any time you (pronoun) decide to use proper spelling, grammar and punctuation, please alert us (pronoun).

BTW, I (pronoun) think you meant first person personal pronoun. I (yes, that's 1st person) share whatever personal context I (again) have for an opinion, rather than just spouting off incoherently and without context.

Don't read my posts if you don't care about what I say.
I'm not sure why he picked a grammar fight with you. I know you take great pain to be meticulous in your word structure. I may disagree with your content but you are grammatically perfect. Dammit.
I, mostly, misspell on purpose.....to annoy the annoying. The begging to stop using pronouns is a cry for the vanity to stop.
I, me, I, me. Strange need to tell us all about who he is, who he knows. After all, who doesn't tell their sons it's super important to own a TUX, just in case, you never know. He awtta take a drive to Hagerstown and Cumberland, give that same advise to HIGH school kids there. :roll:
hey, rrr, abc, fatty, how about you just stop trying to annoy others? why pick fights?

I don't mind at all you poking some fun at me, I can laugh at myself. (Look at all those personal pronouns!).

It's not "vanity" to provide context for an opinion based on personal experience. That tux story, if I recall correctly, was in context of another discussion...and I was poking fun at the situation not some sort of vanity. Quite the opposite actually. It's just a suit, but sometimes required for the occasion. I've never bought a brand new tux for me or my son, but we did do the math on having one at the ready versus rental. The humorous aspect of that story was that my son had been turned off by the high preppy style of a southern school that was recruiting him, the tuxes and colorful bow tie set, so when he went off to Harvard my wife and I knew that it was quite likely that he'd find himself needing a tux in order to go to some of the parties. Would never have occurred to me for my own alma mater, a rival to the north, blue jeans and a sweatshirt being the typical 'suit' for a party, so I found it funny. He thought his mother and I were being ridiculous, he'd never need the tux, but we stuck it in the back of his closet. So, when he came home at Thanksgiving and asked for another formal shirt for Christmas, we thought he must have stained the first one...but no, he sometimes had back to back formal parties with no time to get a shirt cleaned...I found that humorous. And yes, I'd give the same advice to a lacrosse player headed to Harvard or Yale or Princeton (or a number of other schools) from Hagerstown or Cumberland...I'd also tell them to buy a used one from the rental folks. Perfectly fine.

My mention of an aunt selling a house in Palm Beach recently is just context. It's not my money. Her husband, my father's only cousin, was the son of small garage owner in Frederick. He went to Hopkins, then into the Navy in Intelligence, then to Southeast Asia in the early 60's, then was tapped to work at AIG, in Japan, Thailand, Nigeria, ultimately was part of the Starr group and ran the life business of AIG worldwide. Their house in PB was relatively modest...in a town of very little modesty. High conspicuous consumption.

In the discussion of Trump's debts, our Florida pal, Petey, was suggesting that Mar a Lago is worth multiples of its actual value. I pointed out that was inaccurate with a specific fact of the top price paid for any property, and provided additional context as to why I'd paid a bit of attention previously to market values down there. Not vanity.


I'll give MD a rare shoutout of credit here; I did not take his post to be anything but a casual fact, and I think ultimately (and with extreme irony since I find so little of what writes to be correct) correct. I was wrong; he was right, and I live in Florida!! It happens once a century.

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 12:14 pm
by njbill
Peter Brown wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:38 am
seacoaster wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:25 am Boycott stupid.



You’re correct. I was wrong. Your lib source isn’t a 16-year old who’s emotionally unstable.

She’s 15.

My apologies. Carry on.
Pete, you might want to delete this one.

Not too cool calling a 15-year-old kid “emotionally unstable.”

How would you react if someone said something similar about Barron who is about the same age?

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:01 pm
by MDlaxfan76
Peter Brown wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 12:09 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:38 am
ABV 8.3% wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:38 am
cradleandshoot wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:56 am
cradleandshoot wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:52 am
MDlaxfan76 wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:49 pm
ABV 8.3% wrote: Fri Oct 02, 2020 7:44 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 4:18 pm
Peter Brown wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 3:15 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 2:46 pm
Peter Brown wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 2:37 pm
kramerica.inc wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 2:31 pm
RedFromMI wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 2:01 pm Find the post I did yesterday looking at his golf courses in Scotland (analysis from Twitter). Vastly inflated values of real estate, that keep going up to cover the fact that Trump is probably money laundering...

And no, those loans will not roll over with no problems UNLESS Trump is still president, and then the ask will be large for Trump - and potentially dangerous for the USA.

I thought you were in the air services business. What the heck are you holding hotel real estate for? No wonder you are so desperate for "opening" the country up...
Didn't you accost me yesterday for posting "unsupported speculation. Not a whit of real evidence?" as fact?

Yet you do it here.

So I was right- you don't REALLY care about speculation, just the target of it.

Practice what you preach, big guy.


Red’s post is junk. Straight up. I don’t care what Trump’s assets are worth but Mar a Lago has to be over $500,000,000 alone.
Nope, Mar a Lago may be worth $100-150 million at most. Revenues are declining and post election, hoo boy expect big declines. But it has some hard asset, location value, so someone may take it off his hands when push comes to shove.

But hey, he only paid $10 million for it back in 1985, so there's some solace.
MD anybody that wants to get in to a grammer debate with you is barking up the wrong tree.
:)
There are PB estates selling with 1/4 the acreage for $150 million and worse location.
untrue, $105 millón was a recent record sale, full property, house, etc.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/2020 ... to-recover

My aunt recently sold a 'small' home there.
Can you try replying, just once, with little to no pronouns. please.
Hey, any time you (pronoun) decide to use proper spelling, grammar and punctuation, please alert us (pronoun).

BTW, I (pronoun) think you meant first person personal pronoun. I (yes, that's 1st person) share whatever personal context I (again) have for an opinion, rather than just spouting off incoherently and without context.

Don't read my posts if you don't care about what I say.
I'm not sure why he picked a grammar fight with you. I know you take great pain to be meticulous in your word structure. I may disagree with your content but you are grammatically perfect. Dammit.
I, mostly, misspell on purpose.....to annoy the annoying. The begging to stop using pronouns is a cry for the vanity to stop.
I, me, I, me. Strange need to tell us all about who he is, who he knows. After all, who doesn't tell their sons it's super important to own a TUX, just in case, you never know. He awtta take a drive to Hagerstown and Cumberland, give that same advise to HIGH school kids there. :roll:
hey, rrr, abc, fatty, how about you just stop trying to annoy others? why pick fights?

I don't mind at all you poking some fun at me, I can laugh at myself. (Look at all those personal pronouns!).

It's not "vanity" to provide context for an opinion based on personal experience. That tux story, if I recall correctly, was in context of another discussion...and I was poking fun at the situation not some sort of vanity. Quite the opposite actually. It's just a suit, but sometimes required for the occasion. I've never bought a brand new tux for me or my son, but we did do the math on having one at the ready versus rental. The humorous aspect of that story was that my son had been turned off by the high preppy style of a southern school that was recruiting him, the tuxes and colorful bow tie set, so when he went off to Harvard my wife and I knew that it was quite likely that he'd find himself needing a tux in order to go to some of the parties. Would never have occurred to me for my own alma mater, a rival to the north, blue jeans and a sweatshirt being the typical 'suit' for a party, so I found it funny. He thought his mother and I were being ridiculous, he'd never need the tux, but we stuck it in the back of his closet. So, when he came home at Thanksgiving and asked for another formal shirt for Christmas, we thought he must have stained the first one...but no, he sometimes had back to back formal parties with no time to get a shirt cleaned...I found that humorous. And yes, I'd give the same advice to a lacrosse player headed to Harvard or Yale or Princeton (or a number of other schools) from Hagerstown or Cumberland...I'd also tell them to buy a used one from the rental folks. Perfectly fine.

My mention of an aunt selling a house in Palm Beach recently is just context. It's not my money. Her husband, my father's only cousin, was the son of small garage owner in Frederick. He went to Hopkins, then into the Navy in Intelligence, then to Southeast Asia in the early 60's, then was tapped to work at AIG, in Japan, Thailand, Nigeria, ultimately was part of the Starr group and ran the life business of AIG worldwide. Their house in PB was relatively modest...in a town of very little modesty. High conspicuous consumption.

In the discussion of Trump's debts, our Florida pal, Petey, was suggesting that Mar a Lago is worth multiples of its actual value. I pointed out that was inaccurate with a specific fact of the top price paid for any property, and provided additional context as to why I'd paid a bit of attention previously to market values down there. Not vanity.


I'll give MD a rare shoutout of credit here; I did not take his post to be anything but a casual fact, and I think ultimately (and with extreme irony since I find so little of what writes to be correct) correct. I was wrong; he was right, and I live in Florida!! It happens once a century.
well, a broken clock... ;)

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:27 pm
by PizzaSnake
New WH limo bumper sticker:

“My karma ran over my dogma.”

Re: Orange Duce

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:37 pm
by RedFromMI
:lol:
PizzaSnake wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:27 pm New WH limo bumper sticker:

“My karma ran over my dogma.”