Nothing wrong with trying to stay neat. As a bachelor I gave up, now that I’m a married man in a new home I am making a bit of an effort (it helps my spouse is a clean person who tries to declutter).
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:34 (one month ago) link
_Let us not forget the son named “McKenzie”. (How did that become one of the most popular child names?)― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland)_It happened . . . one day at a time.
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:35 (one month ago) link
lotta tree names where we live. willow. cedar.
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:49 (one month ago) link
dylan and jaden waning though...
― scott seward, Thursday, April 11, 2024 4:49 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink[
Aww! My family house where we grew up was named "The Cedars" long before we got there. It was sweet. No one called it that, there was just a very picturesque old plaque on the gate to the driveway.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 11 April 2024 17:19 (one month ago) link
My mum's house in devon has a name. Last time I sent her a package the lady at a midtown USPS rolled her eyes at me when she had to copy out the address.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 11 April 2024 17:56 (one month ago) link
This Daily ep about Mexican cartels doing timeshare fraud is quite something. I cannot stop thinking about the retired state cop who sent this supposed Mexican businessman a million bucks, his entire retirement savings PLUS money he had to borrow! because he's a retired law enforcement official who "has a pretty good sense about people." Do you though. And of course his wife "had doubts" but the little lady doesn't handle their money.
People who defraud seniors are evil, beneath contempt--no question. But this is a funny case for the NYT to choose to cover.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 12 April 2024 14:43 (one month ago) link
And by funny I mean it's very NYT of them.
Well it sounds like an entertaining story at least, I want to listen to it now
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 12 April 2024 15:32 (one month ago) link
calling my house* "dunpoastin (i will never be dunpoastin)"
*flat
― mark s, Friday, 12 April 2024 15:51 (one month ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLaQqXxWEAAm-yC?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 April 2024 00:20 (three weeks ago) link
Too on the nose. WSJ?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 19 April 2024 00:29 (three weeks ago) link
indeed
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 April 2024 00:30 (three weeks ago) link
It is funny how the WSJ is so much more openly ruling class, whereas the NYT tries to hide it a bit.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, January 8, 2024 4:12 PM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah, its a bit obvious when the WSJ weekly real estate section is called "Mansion", no beating around the bush.
― o. nate, Monday, January 8, 2024 4:35 PM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 19 April 2024 00:33 (three weeks ago) link
I have to admit, it's a really nice house
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/inside-the-sag-harbor-home-of-interior-designer-bryan-graybill
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 19 April 2024 00:38 (three weeks ago) link
meanwhile, the post is aghast that the CEO of a major media organization spent . . . $2.7m on a 'sprawling' brooklyn townhouse
https://i.imgur.com/1oXP6Wr.jpeg
sorry, i know these aren't precisely NYT quiddities but NYC real estate coverage is so insane
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 April 2024 00:40 (three weeks ago) link
there are brownstones on my block going for twice that
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 April 2024 00:42 (three weeks ago) link
Same people that piss and moan about Bernie "Socialist" Sanders living well.
― nickn, Friday, 19 April 2024 01:18 (three weeks ago) link
you're right, she's just like us
― budo jeru, Friday, 19 April 2024 02:26 (three weeks ago) link
I just looked up some currently-for-sale $2.7M NYC townhouses in a real estate database, and their square footage is roughly equivalent to that of my cramped Maryland single-family home.
― peace, man, Friday, 19 April 2024 12:08 (three weeks ago) link
(which is currently appraised under $300,000)
― peace, man, Friday, 19 April 2024 12:09 (three weeks ago) link
assessed, not appraised
― peace, man, Friday, 19 April 2024 12:10 (three weeks ago) link
That's probably completely detached from value, some places wait a really long time to re-assess properties or don't assess at full value
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 19 April 2024 15:02 (three weeks ago) link
I do find something kind of quid-aggy about the new NPR CEO, like she's this rich white lady from Connecticut who has perfectly memorized the Ibram Kendi/Robin DiAngelo talking points but it rings hollow.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 19 April 2024 15:05 (three weeks ago) link
Don’t confuse CEOs with people
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 19 April 2024 15:22 (three weeks ago) link