Fall Banter and General Discussion

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

15 minutes ago, mreaves said:

I agree and I glossed over all the problems with the draft and only focused on benefits.  The idea of mandatory national service as mentioned by Phin is where I would go but we can't even get people to agree on masks so getting something like mandatory service is a looooong shot at best.

“This is America, my family fought for this...wait, you want me to fight now? Hell no...this isn’t communism, I have a choice.”

[Lava Rock]

Was walking around Stowe neighborhood last weekend while at friends and found out this 10,000sqft home going to get leveled. Owners are building a $15M mansion. Nuts. The current house looks good to me. To each their own

 

 

[PhineasC]

7 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

Was walking around Stowe neighborhood last weekend while at friends and found out this 10,000sqft home going to get leveled. Owners are building a $15M mansion. Nuts. The current house looks good to me. To each their own

 

 

Maybe it's full of asbestos or something.

[Hoth]

18 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

Was walking around Stowe neighborhood last weekend while at friends and found out this 10,000sqft home going to get leveled. Owners are building a $15M mansion. Nuts. The current house looks good to me. To each their own

 

 

I believe that qualifies as "f*** you money."

[powderfreak]

1 hour ago, Lava Rock said:

Was walking around Stowe neighborhood last weekend while at friends and found out this 10,000sqft home going to get leveled. Owners are building a $15M mansion. Nuts. The current house looks good to me. To each their own

 

 

Lot of that around here, but I also love the mix of humanity between that and people like my wife and I who live here in a 1,200 square foot townhome.  I’m never jealous and everyone gets along just fine in a common love of the local area... I love my life and know I get to spend probably 300+ of 365 days at or on the mountain.  People ask what it’s like to live among that wealth but you just don’t notice it with people.

It’s funny how passions of outdoor recreation can bring folks together as we have several friends who are wealthy beyond anything I can imagine (such as Boston area commercial real estate who spend time between coastline in Mass, Stowe and Bermuda) but when you go skiing or hiking, none of that matters.  You’re just humans who love being outdoors on a mountain.  We get invited to dinners and gatherings where I’m amazed at how successful these people are, but all they want to talk about is what skiing 100+ days a year is like, measuring snow at 5am on a mountain, and they dream to get in a Stowe powder photo someday.

That sort of community and sport transcending wealth is what makes the stories of rifts at Killington so hard to fathom.  It’s supposed to be this joint passion of the mountain community that doesn’t matter where you are from, how much money you have, etc.  

[dryslot]

1 hour ago, PhineasC said:

Maybe it's full of asbestos or something.

Black Mold? Being made of brick or stone from what i can see would make for a candidate for it.

[NorEastermass128]

2 hours ago, Hoth said:

I believe that qualifies as "f*** you money."

That’s how I feel when I reach for a name brand item at the grocery store when the perfectly good generic item is sitting right next to it.  A little different I guess. 

[Hoth]

3 hours ago, PhineasC said:

Maybe it's full of asbestos or something.

Too symmetrical.

[tamarack]

3 hours ago, PhineasC said:

Maybe it's full of asbestos or something.

More likely the owners didn't want to be associated with the poor folks who can only afford $5 million mansions. 

[BrianW]

14 minutes ago, tamarack said:

More likely the owners didn't want to be associated with the poor folks who can only afford $5 million mansions. 

That's probably exactly what it is. I have friends that do construction work down in Greenwich. People do the exact same thing down there. They level a perfectly fine multimillion dollar 20 year old mansion and build some ridiculous new mansion. 

 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

1 hour ago, BrianW said:

That's probably exactly what it is. I have friends that do construction work down in Greenwich. People do the exact same thing down there. They level a perfectly fine multimillion dollar 20 year old mansion and build some ridiculous new mansion. 

 

Same thing all over Cape Cod.  In some cases they build almost exact replicas of the older houses they tear down on the coast line.

[dryslot]

33 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Same thing all over Cape Cod.  In some cases they build almost exact replicas of the older houses they tear down on the coast line.

Probably don't care for the dated look interior.

[Baroclinic Zone]

In real estate there is only one thing. Location, location, location.  If the owner of the property likes the location but does not like the house and have money to spend, they’ll tear it down and build what they like.  Happens all the time of varying scale.

[Skivt2]

Such awesome discussion here.  I think there is this almost universal feeling that where we are as a society is bad with the “us vs them”.  Yet we don’t seem to be able to stop it.  

[CoastalWx]

Was a stone’s throw from Brian today in Sanborton. Wood fired sauna and cabin Ftw.

[weatherwiz]

Talk about some wild pattern swings in the west...70's, 80's, and 90's across parts of MT, WY, and CO through Monday then some areas could get snow then back into heat a few days later. ahh the good ole Inter-mountain West

[powderfreak]

49 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Talk about some wild pattern swings in the west...70's, 80's, and 90's across parts of MT, WY, and CO through Monday then some areas could get snow then back into heat a few days later. ahh the good ole Inter-mountain West

Check out the ECMWF prog Ginxy posted earlier in one of the threads... 95-100F at DEN and then possible snow a day later, lol.  I still can’t get over those numbers on that chart.

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

2 hours ago, Skivt2 said:

Such awesome discussion here.  I think there is this almost universal feeling that where we are as a society is bad with the “us vs them”.  Yet we don’t seem to be able to stop it.  

We are a much more connected country and a world so one thing can have a huge ripple effect. That’s great if it’s something positive but negativity is more powerful...it picks up steam...hard to stop. 

[Whineminster]

5 hours ago, BrianW said:

That's probably exactly what it is. I have friends that do construction work down in Greenwich. People do the exact same thing down there. They level a perfectly fine multimillion dollar 20 year old mansion and build some ridiculous new mansion. 

 

Kinda sickening when you think about it.  Out of touch with reality and the rest of the world.  At some point you just have too much money. 

[klw]

8 hours ago, Whineminster said:

Kinda sickening when you think about it.  Out of touch with reality and the rest of the world.  At some point you just have too much money. 

Poor man wants to be rich

Rich man wants to be king

A king ain't satisfied til he rules everything

I want to go out tonight and find out what I got.

[weatherwiz]

9 hours ago, powderfreak said:

Check out the ECMWF prog Ginxy posted earlier in one of the threads... 95-100F at DEN and then possible snow a day later, lol.  I still can’t get over those numbers on that chart.

yeah Euro is going nuts lol. I wonder what algorithms are used for those charts though...seems like the Euro charts across many locations are wacky...especially temperatures and snowfall. There are some west locations it goes nuts...even with Anchorage it goes nuts. During the heat wave in Oakland a few weeks back I think the Euro charts were spitting out 60's for Oakland while they were in the 90's. 

[HimoorWx]

1 hour ago, klw said:

Poor man wants to be rich

Rich man wants to be king

A king ain't satisfied til he rules everything

I want to go out tonight and find out what I got.

And Bruce actually wrote a verse about Wiz and his chasing . . .

Talk about a dream, try to make it real
You wake up in the night with a fear so real
You spend your life waiting for a moment that just don't come
Well, don't waste your time waiting

[klw]

27 minutes ago, HimoorWx said:

And Bruce actually wrote a verse about Wiz and his chasing . . .

Talk about a dream, try to make it real
You wake up in the night with a fear so real
You spend your life waiting for a moment that just don't come
Well, don't waste your time waiting

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true or is it something worse?

[HimoorWx]

8 minutes ago, klw said:

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true or is it something worse?

My freshman year at URI.  I had seen the posters around campus.  Some friends asked me if I wanted to go with them, but I was not a fan of Sha-Na-Na and had never heard of this Springsteen guy . . . and the rest is history.

[tamarack]

17 hours ago, BrianW said:

That's probably exactly what it is. I have friends that do construction work down in Greenwich. People do the exact same thing down there. They level a perfectly fine multimillion dollar 20 year old mansion and build some ridiculous new mansion. 

 

Reminds me of a parable in Luke's Gospel.   Paraphrasing it very loosely, a man has crop yields too great to fit in his barns, so he decides to tear them down and build bigger.  He thinks that then he'll be all set for years and years.  But God says, "Thou fool!" and says the man's life ends that very night, "and whose will be your goods now?"

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

12 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Reminds me of a parable in Luke's Gospel.   Paraphrasing it very loosely, a man has crop yields too great to fit in his barns, so he decides to tear them down and build bigger.  He thinks that then he'll be all set for years and years.  But God says, "Thou fool!" and says the man's life ends that very night, "and whose will be your goods now?"

Sounds a lot like socialism...but America says that is the devil. 

[Angus]

Close...Luke 12 - English Standard Version

Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?” And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

[STILL N OF PIKE]

 

 

NASDAQ bubble This Am. 

Valuations have reached past 2000 Tech bubble at a time when we are entering the most economic uncertainty of a winter ..ever after worst GDP quarter in people's lives.

This could facilitate what the market has priced in and is losing patience to see. A 1.5 to 2.5 trillion or greater stimulus bill and money put into citizens hands as consumer spending is collapsing in early Sept. again and tons of  business plan to close doors this winter for good.  Congress does move when the market falls , but  we may need more than a day or two of this to make them move for real..this is probably just their first warning. 

[Ginx snewx]

Signed up to be a Starlink beta tester for high speed internet.  Should start in January. 

[Ginx snewx]

2 hours ago, HimoorWx said:

My freshman year at URI.  I had seen the posters around campus.  Some friends asked me if I wanted to go with them, but I was not a fan of Sha-Na-Na and had never heard of this Springsteen guy . . . and the rest is history.

My dorm at URI was filled with NJ kids. I was introduced to Bruce then. Special concerts.