The thread where you just open up and vent about something

I knew housing prices were too high in 2005. I knew they were too high in 2006. I knew they were too high in 2007. I watched friends buy at the worst possible time. I urged one friend to sell when he had the opportunity to sell at a profit. I refused to strain to buy something. I refused HELP to strain to buy something. AND I KNEW THIS SHIT WAS GOING TO KEEP GETTING WORSE FOR A LONG FUCKING TIME! IT WAS FUCKING OBVIOUS -- MORE SHIT MORTGAGES RESET = MORE PEOPLE CAN'T PAY THEIR MORTGAGES = MORE FORECLOSURES = SNOWBALL EFFECT. IT'S LIKE WALL STREET DOESN'T GET THE BASIC FUCKING FACT THAT WHEN PEOPLE LIVE EVEN SLIGHTLY BEYOND THEIR MEANS ONE LITTLE THING CAN TIP THE BALANCE. FUCK YOU AND YOUR MATHEMATICAL MODELS AND B-SCHOOL ANALYSTS FUCKING FUCKITY FUCK BULLSHIT FUCK. I WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE IRAQ WAR TOO YOU STUPID FUCKING CUNT FUCKHEADS. NOW I'M GOING TO HAVE TO LIVE THROUGH THE GREAT DEPRESSION BECAUSE OF YOU FUCKS. FUCK THIS ADMINISTRATION, FUCK ALAN GREENSPAN WITH A SHARPENED DILDO, FIST HENRY PAULSON WITH A GLASS HAND.

seconded

they make glass hands?

I was actually thinking of that thing where you wrap up your hand, dip it in glue and then dip it in glass shards. Don't know if it's really called "glass hand" or not but there's a U-God verse where he says "cut em with the glass hand" and I always thought that was what he meant.

I mean, if you look at it on an It's A Wonderful Life basis, old Potter was right after all, wasn't he?

http://boxoffice.com/blogs/steve/demon%20with%20a%20glass%20hand.jpeg

George Bailey and his sub-prime mortgages: "awwww, just pay me back whenever you can, or if I'm not around, give the money to my friend Harvey here..."

FOR FUCK'S SAKE EXPANDING THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS TO TWENTY-FOUR TEAMS IS NOT GOING TO MAKE IT BETTER. IT'S GOING TO MAKE IT WORSE. SLOVENIA, UKRAINE AND SCOTLAND ARE NOT GOING TO SET THE TOURNAMENT ALIGHT. IF THEY WERE, THEY WOULD'VE QUALIFIED ANYWAY. AND WHAT'S MORE, THERE ONLY ARE ABOUT TWENTY-FOUR HALF-WAY DECENT TEAMS IN EUROPE ANYWAY, THE REST OF THEM ARE NO-HOPERS LIKE MALTA AND WALES. SO THAT'S QUALIFYING MADE TOTALLY POINTLESS AS WELL. AND WHO'S GOING TO HOST IT? I'LL TELL YOU WHO - THE SAME FIVE COUNTRIES THAT CAN HOST WORLD CUPS. NOBODY ELSE IS BIG ENOUGH. YOU HAD THE BEST, MOST UNPREDICTABLE TOURNAMENT GOING. IT WAS EVEN BETTER WITH EIGHT TEAMS. I FUCKING LOVED WATCHING IT, AND YOU'VE KILLED IT JUST TO GET YOUR FAT SNOUTS IN THE TROUGH. THANKS A FUCKING BUNCH.

oh my gosh how much can the world despair how much can I despair really radio now how much do you know I don't trust anyone who says they've all figured it out and the world is just one chorus of tenor anuses stretching to sing they know it all well what's true an what isn't blah blah blah but that sure as fuck ain't and I swear if another old borracho talks to me than I will feel even more disagreeable toward the type they type I can barely talk

Hurting otm. Years ago we were telling people to stop hassling us about buying and they wouldn't listen to us and kept on fucking nagging AND NOW WHO'S LAUGHING?? YOU BUSYBODY FUCKWIT WANKERS. Our total debt is so tiny it almost doesn't exist (we could pay it all off today with actual money if we wanted to) but if we'd listened to these aforementioned FUCKWIT WANKERS and bought property at ludicrously inflated prices we'd be 100% fucked by now.

i don't care about anything i just want to make it to tomorrow without being fired All my life I wanted to make it to the top (That's word, we pray) Some said I wouldn't They told me no, but I didn't stop (That's word, we pray) Working hard, making those movies everyday (That's word, we pray) And on my knees every night, you know I pray That's word, we pray (pray) Ah, yeah, pray(pray) we got to pray Just to make it today I said we pray (pray)ah, yeah, pray (pray) We got to pray Just to make it today That's word, we pray

My wife was saying a few days ago that she wanted to flee to some country "safe" from the subprime crisis. I'm all like rite ya good luck us moving to mars.

I DON'T LIKE STEELY DAN

I knew housing prices were too high in 2005. I knew they were too high in 2006. I knew they were too high in 2007. I watched friends buy at the worst possible time. I urged one friend to sell when he had the opportunity to sell at a profit. I refused to strain to buy something. I refused HELP to strain to buy something. AND I KNEW THIS SHIT WAS GOING TO KEEP GETTING WORSE FOR A LONG FUCKING TIME! IT WAS FUCKING OBVIOUS -- MORE SHIT MORTGAGES RESET = MORE PEOPLE CAN'T PAY THEIR MORTGAGES = MORE FORECLOSURES = SNOWBALL EFFECT. IT'S LIKE WALL STREET DOESN'T GET THE BASIC FUCKING FACT THAT WHEN PEOPLE LIVE EVEN SLIGHTLY BEYOND THEIR MEANS ONE LITTLE THING CAN TIP THE BALANCE. FUCK YOU AND YOUR MATHEMATICAL MODELS AND B-SCHOOL ANALYSTS FUCKING FUCKITY FUCK BULLSHIT FUCK. I WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE IRAQ WAR TOO YOU STUPID FUCKING CUNT FUCKHEADS. NOW I'M GOING TO HAVE TO LIVE THROUGH THE GREAT DEPRESSION BECAUSE OF YOU FUCKS. FUCK THIS ADMINISTRATION, FUCK ALAN GREENSPAN WITH A SHARPENED DILDO, FIST HENRY PAULSON WITH A GLASS HAND.

this, pretty much, although honestly there are many people in this country that, for schadenfreude reasons, i'd LIKE to see experience a great depression, to humble them a bit, y'know...

^^^yes. as poor as i am, i have little to lose -- but unemployment would be badness

And you know what else, I was right AND MY OOH LOOK HOW FINANCIALLY CONSERVATIVE WE ARE IN LAWS WERE FUCKING WRONG AND I'M REALLY GLAD I DIDN'T LISTEN TO THEM

even more than homeowners in crisis, i'm really feeling for the mentally ill/addiction-addled homeless i see around town every day, who seem to get more numerous as this economic abyss deepens. if obama is president, i hope he can de-reaganize long-term institutional care for people who would otherwise be roaming the streets, harming themselves and possibly others.

xp Your in-laws did that too? My father-in-law was (and still is) the worst. And yeah, he considers himself a financial conservative. Clueless.

oh what the fuck, seriously: http://www.google.com/search?&q=%22we+deserve+it+dividend%22

oh yeah get angry about it NOW guys

where was that post eisbaer made about how we were all in the wrong line of work

Tombot: angry before it was cool to be angry

Wow, my gf and I just started looking at stuff in Jersey City to "see what's out there."

Well, there's this quote about the dot-com bubble that they play over and over again on NPR spots, something like "Everyone thought it was perfectly reasonable for a company selling dog-food on the internet to be valued more than General Motors."

Let me tell you what I saw:

1) A two-bedroom in a "new" (read "ugly") building in a shitty neighborhood in Jersey City heights with almost no commercial stuff, but granted it had its own parking space, for $375,000.

2) A one-bedroom in a "luxury" building (read, it feels like a Ramada) that happens to have a terrace with a great view of Manhattan (read, you also overlook the holland tunnel and all the visual chaos around it) for $450,000

3) A studio apartment in a converted loft warehouse building. Granted, it's really nice, has exposed brick, a cool layout, and a nice view, and it's close to the PATH and to the waterfront. $520,000. By the way, we looked at the same one six months ago when it was still being finished, and it was $380,000, which already sounded absurd. But that was before an investment group bought it. Now they're re-selling before anyone's even lived in the thing.

If you can't afford to buy now, BE THANKFUL.

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, July 10, 2005 11:10 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

ayo mccain look dawg watch

mira

look

FUCK YOU ON SOME INVISIBLE HAND SHIT YOU WON'T EVEN SEE MY BACKHAND COMIN

motherfucke

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Its even worse here, we get affected by the trickledown and I dont even LIVE in the US but hey, bye bye all my superannuation and possibly my savings eventually, lol?

By worse I mean it feels more helpless, cause wtf can we do about this?

dude none of us can do anything either

at least you're not weird

Haw!

lol at "mira"

I was charged $11.11 for two large iced coffees and a cookie at Grey Dog in the W. Village, NYC, today. Fuck them and their ski lodge wannabe corny hippy vibe lovin' restaurant.

whew.

That, and we don't even have a supply surplus here. So we're fucked for years.

(xxxxxp to Trayce)

isn't australia supposed to be worried about fresh water supplies? Money! Ha!

australia's got coal and it's near china. it'll be fine

Money, water, immijants, gay weddings &c.

not to mention shane warne

WTF Palin McCain CHase WaMu I'm gonna be UNEMPLOYED and I have a 2 year old, you fucks are ruining the world

Tombot: I'm all about the growing my own food and gettin' a water tank soon as I get round to it, you better believe.

Everyone in Qld has 230 watertanks each

Thanks Trayce for putting The Good Life theme tune in my head.

forget the food, trayce, you need your own winery

Curse my neighbours in the upstairs who have a leak under their bath which is ruining my ceiling, which is ruining my ceiling, which they are refusing to do anything about.

I can imagine having to take them court eventually - if I don't flip out first, abandon my pacifist principles, and whack them robustly around the hrad to wake them up to their responsibilities.

Erm...Did i mention it's runing my ceiling :)

I'm a bit upset about that as it's the 3rd fucking leak from upstairs, and I'd like to sell this place a.s.a.p which is impossible with a growing stain above.

I came into my office this morning and someone STOLE MY FUCKING CHAIR!

RRRRRRRRRRRR stupid fucking PC power supply. Why did you have to fail just before a weekend when I can't do anything about getting a replacement until Monday which means I have to use this noisy old spare until Tuesday, and it's already giving me a migraine FUCK FUCK FUCK

The original post on this thread is one of the best I've seen on ILX.

idiot free-daily vendors, get the FUCK outta the subway stairwell.

IT'S GONNA BE MAYBE THE LAST WEEKEND OF NICE WEATHER AND YOU ARE UNAVAILABLE TO DO ANYTHING OUTDOORS CAUSE YOU NEED TO WATCH EVERY SINGLE FRIGGIN' FOOTBALL GAME??? i hate football fanatics.

idiot free-daily vendors, get the FUCK outta the subway stairwell.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, September 26, 2008 1:10 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

this but it was "fliers for a fucking cat sitting service"

CAR DEALERSHIP PEOPLE - PLEASE DO NOT OFFER ME SOMETHING WHICH IS VIRTUALLY WORTHLESS LIKE 7 DAYS FREE INSURANCE AND WHICH THEN MEANS I HAVE TO SPEND THREE DAYS ON THE PHONE SPEAKING TO 4 DIFFERENT INSURANCE PEOPLE SO THAT YOU CAN GET THE CAR REGISTERED EASIER. IF YOU DO HAVE TO OFFER THIS PLEASE MAKE SURE THE PEOPLE I HAVE TO SPEAK TO CAN TAKE DOWN BASIC DETAILS LIKE MY NAME AND THE CAR REGISTRATION NUMBER AND ARE SUFFICIENTLY COMPUTER LITERATE TO ABLE TO THEN PASS THESE DETAILS ONTO YOU WITHOUT ME HAVING TO SPEAK TO THEM AGAIN.

(i know it's not a big deal compared with the shit real people have to deal with every day but i'm usually a really nice, calm person and these shenanigans have turned me into one of those people who moan about this kind of thing on internet boards AND I DON'T WANT TO BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE)

DAEREST MAGAZINE PEOPLE, STOP DOING DUMBASS THINGS THAT WIND UP DAMAGING RELATIONSHIPS WITH ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE WE HAVE TO WORK WITH.

DEAR MY BANK. ALL I WANTED TO DO BACK IN JULY 2009 WAS CHANGE MY ADDRESS, BUT NO YOUR IDIOT ADVISER INSISTED ON TAKING UP MY ENTIRE LUNCH BREAK BY "REVIEWING" MY ACCOUNT WITH ME i.e. trying to sell me stupid shit like car insurance when i don't drive, and home insurance that got refused because i live in a "high-risk flood area" (NB i live on the second floor of a building in the middle of the town centre which has been standing since Tudor times and AFAIK has never been flooded). SAID ADVISER ALSO TRIED TO DUPE ME INTO A HIGHER APR ON MY OVERDRAFT, BUT ONE THING SHE DIDN'T DO WAS CHANGE MY ADDRESS. THIS MEANT THAT COME THE TIME OF MY REDUNDANCY IN OCTOBER 2009, I WASN'T ABLE TO PRODUCE THE REQUISITE BANK STATEMENTS IN ORDER TO CLAIM ESSENTIAL HOUSING BENEFITS, HENCE MAKING ME INCREDIBLY POOR AND INDEBTED TO FAMILY MEMBERS, AND, WELL, YOURSELVES (CUNTS). FOLLOWING A COMPLAINT, YOU SAID YOU'D FORWARD ME THE MISSING BANK STATEMENTS, WHICH YOU DID, BUT NOT UNTIL I WAS GAINFULLY EMPLOYED AGAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FOLLOWING JANUARY. THANKS A BUNCH YOU BUNCH OF USELESS HANDPUMPS.

Didn't Douglas Adams try and write a computer game based on trying to get your bank to acknowledge a change of address?

About a week before I moved one time, I once called in personally at my own bank branch with a filled-out change of address form, handed it directly to a woman at a customer service desk and watched her input the info into 'the system', only to discover about three months later that somehow the info did not 'take'. I'm also pretty sure that the clerks that I interacted with every single damned week maybe, possibly could have asked for the missing info at any time that I appeared at their windows instead of asking me if I needed travel insurance or whatever. Negligent bullshit -- and in some ways I'm still suffering the aftereffects of the maladministration.