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by Tim F|  July 23, 20079:23 am| 14 Comments

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It pissed me off when Harry woke up at the end and realized he was a chubby punter from Leeds.

Chat about whatever.

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  1. 1.

    Ned Raggett

    July 23, 2007 at 9:52 am

    If he was from Leeds he’d be a goth.

  2. 2.

    ThymeZone

    July 23, 2007 at 10:39 am

    It pissed me off when Harry woke up at the end and realized he was a chubby punter from Leeds named Adam Cassidy.

    Heh.

  3. 3.

    Stooleo

    July 23, 2007 at 10:41 am

    For all you 24 fans, hope your ready for a woman president.

    politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/07/23/woman-to-be-us-president-in-january/

    and Cherry Jones is a lesbian. (bwhahahaha)

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Jones

  4. 4.

    Punchy

    July 23, 2007 at 11:00 am

    Prez Boooosh down to The Big Duece-Five. Lordy

    And what I find just amazing is that, with the stock market just soaring, 73% disapprove of his handling of the economoy. The one thing he could possibly trumpet…and 3/4ths of the populace can see thru the bullshit.

  5. 5.

    craigie

    July 23, 2007 at 11:05 am

    As clear a case of BDS as you’ll ever get, then.

  6. 6.

    Face

    July 23, 2007 at 11:22 am

    Since when did Rick Santorum start ref’ing and fixing NBA games?

  7. 7.

    Walker

    July 23, 2007 at 11:54 am

    And what I find just amazing is that, with the stock market just soaring, 73% disapprove of his handling of the economoy.

    Because the stock market is irrelevant to your average Joe, while the housing market isn’t.

  8. 8.

    Dreggas

    July 23, 2007 at 12:07 pm

    Walker Says:

    Because the stock market is irrelevant to your average Joe, while the housing market isn’t.

    Driving over to the in-laws yesterday it was interesting to see how many homes were for sale with a sign on them that said bank-owned. Suffice to say most of Orange County will soon be “bank owned” if that trend continues.

  9. 9.

    Tax Analyst

    July 23, 2007 at 1:05 pm

    Dreggas Says:

    Walker Says:

    Because the stock market is irrelevant to your average Joe, while the housing market isn’t.

    Driving over to the in-laws yesterday it was interesting to see how many homes were for sale with a sign on them that said bank-owned. Suffice to say most of Orange County will soon be “bank owned” if that trend continues.

    But-but-but-but the Mortgage Guy who helped me with my 5 Re-Fi’s in 6 years told me Real Estate NEVER loses value, so I shouldn’t worry about hocking my Home Equity up to my balls to buy a New Hummer…and that thing over in Eye-rack was s’posed to bring us reelly cheep oy-yel…WTF happinned?

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    ThymeZone

    July 23, 2007 at 1:38 pm

    Suffice to say most of Orange County will soon be “bank owned” if that trend continues.

    As one who has lived in Costa Mesa, Santa Ana and Mission Viejo, let me say …. OC has always been an idiot’s market in real estate. Hysterical grabbing of property in fear of rising prices, followed by morose periods of flat or falling prices when the bubble bursts.

    With all that open land, they still managed to jack up the housing prices over there until a reasonable single person with an ordinary job ….. me …. couldn’t afford to live there any more.

    The reward for the madness was a commute on the 405 or 5 every day. Ergo, I don’t live there any more.

  11. 11.

    Dreggas

    July 23, 2007 at 2:42 pm

    Tax Analyst Says:

    But-but-but-but the Mortgage Guy who helped me with my 5 Re-Fi’s in 6 years told me Real Estate NEVER loses value, so I shouldn’t worry about hocking my Home Equity up to my balls to buy a New Hummer…and that thing over in Eye-rack was s’posed to bring us reelly cheep oy-yel…WTF happinned?

    Heh…what did Barnum say? There’s a sucker born every minute?

    What is amusing is that those purchasing homes in the Santa Ana area were doing so at prices averaging from 700-900k just two years ago. Now I can get the same house for under 500 (still too pricey) and by my own figuring it will be even cheaper this time next year.

    This bubble was one long parabolic curve. It went up from 350k and will be back down to 350k just as fast. Especially with the over-supply here.

  12. 12.

    Dreggas

    July 23, 2007 at 2:47 pm

    ThymeZone Says:

    As one who has lived in Costa Mesa, Santa Ana and Mission Viejo, let me say …. OC has always been an idiot’s market in real estate. Hysterical grabbing of property in fear of rising prices, followed by morose periods of flat or falling prices when the bubble bursts.

    With all that open land, they still managed to jack up the housing prices over there until a reasonable single person with an ordinary job ….. me …. couldn’t afford to live there any more.

    The reward for the madness was a commute on the 405 or 5 every day. Ergo, I don’t live there any more.

    Yeah it is quite ridiculous. We rent because housing is so expensive but if the trend continues we’ll be able to afford to stay in the area.

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    Tax Analyst

    July 23, 2007 at 5:22 pm

    Dreggas Says: Heh…what did Barnum say? There’s a sucker born every minute?

    Present-day data seems to indicate this phenomena actually occurs quite a bit more often.

    When my step-mother died in May, 2001, my Father’s house in Valley Village (formerly North Hollywood) was appraised at $315,000. When my Father passed away in November, 2005, it was appraised at around $690,000. That’s nuts, it was a NICE house, but come on, almost 700K? Rid-fucking-diculous…

    But it would have fetched 690K if we had fixed it up and gone through an agent at that time. I had to push and threaten the “other side” (step-mother’s side) of the family to get them to let us sell the damn thing early in 2006…I told them if they didn’t sign off we’d get screwed big-time when the bubble burst. We got 610K with no repairs and no agent, which I think was pretty damned good. I think the new owners just tore the whole thing down and put up a monstrosity of about 5,000 square feet where a 1,700 – 1,800 house had once comfortably and spaciously stood with a nice back yard….assholes…

  14. 14.

    Dreggas

    July 23, 2007 at 6:26 pm

    But it would have fetched 690K if we had fixed it up and gone through an agent at that time. I had to push and threaten the “other side” (step-mother’s side) of the family to get them to let us sell the damn thing early in 2006…I told them if they didn’t sign off we’d get screwed big-time when the bubble burst. We got 610K with no repairs and no agent, which I think was pretty damned good. I think the new owners just tore the whole thing down and put up a monstrosity of about 5,000 square feet where a 1,700 – 1,800 house had once comfortably and spaciously stood with a nice back yard….assholes…

    Well now that North Hollyweird is known as “NOHO” I am not suprised they did that. Property up there is expensive and they are trying to renovate and revitalize the place. I am seeing some improvement, it’s come a long way from the shit hole it was when I was living up off of Laurel Canyon in a flop house. But I can see how ya feel WRT them tearing it down.

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