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On May 13, 5:22*pm, Richard Henry wrote:
On May 13, 3:35*pm, pigo wrote: On May 12, 10:25*am, Richard Henry wrote: On May 12, 9:14*am, Walt wrote: BUT, the ARMs were used, abused, twisted, folded, spindled, and mutilated into the mess we have now. *Yeah, the borrowers should shoulder a lot of the blame, but it takes two to tango: Mortgage brokers gave loans without regard to whether the borrower could pay; they didn't care since they sold the loans immediately. *Investors bought these bad loans, pretended like they were It is interesting to note that the mortgages were allowed to fail all over the country until some big Wall Street firms started having trouble because of their sub-prime investments. *Suddenly we heard calls from Washington to save the homeowners. Replying to both: Here's my problem with it. Instead of an ARM I got a standard loan. Because I could and because I didn't want the volatility. Like Walt says, I could have and had lower payments all these years but had I missed the refinancing opportunity when it was right I could be screwed. But some people went out and got too much house and or were just ignorant of the big picture and now are in trouble after 5 years (?) of payments 1/2 of mine and they are going to get bailed out?????? What about me. I am still able to afford my house!!!! I did the responsible thing from the start!!!!!! Where's my money that I paid in higher payments this whole time?????? My bet is that many of the bailed out will have Escalades with the 22" rims, cell phones, giant plasma tv's, travel, all that ****, and keep it if not get more because their scam worked!!!! IT'S BULL**** Jealous?- Hide quoted text - If you think it's jealousy for me to be ****ed of for being hosed for doing the right thing, then yeah I guess so. |
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On May 6, 10:39*am, taichiskiing
wrote: Do you mean GAPER here, or are you talking about people whose clothing is too small? Gapper is referring to those who have a "gap" in their perception, thinking, and actions; we have a lengthy discuusion on RSA and determined that "gapper" is the proper spelling for the word. IS Your memory must be going there Itchy. From our conversation last season: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.s...1d0ed5ce2e30ea snoig: Now as someone who claims to be an instructor, I find your teaching methods somewhat curious. You are trying to convince us that your skiing style is innovative but when people who obviously have some knowledge of skiing question you ridicule them and call them gapers. IS: A gaper is those who think that they are knowledgeable, but don't know that they have a huge "gap" in their knowledge and reality. I only pointed out the matter of fact. I didn't ridicule them; it's the gaper's own little knowledge did that to them. snoig: No, actually a gaper is someone, usually from places that don't have mountains who are awed by the spectacular vistas of our mountain community and tend to stare at things with their jaws 'agape'. Gapers can frequently be spotted by their eyes not looking in the direction they are skiing/snowboarding/driving/biking etc. Texas plates are also usually a giveaway. Hence, the pronunciation with the long a, not a short a as would be suggested if the word was derived from 'gap' and not 'gape'. IS: Maybe you're right, the meaning of the term "gaper" I learned is from some internet ski forums. Wow!!! Itchy actually admitting that somebody else may be right! All you need to do is Google the terms 'gaper' vs 'gapper'. There are lots of correct hits for 'gaper' including some good image results. The ony Google hit for 'gapper' is urbandictionary.com and was apparently added by someone from the Lake Tahoe region. Go figure. |
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snoig wrote:
All you need to do is Google the terms 'gaper' vs 'gapper'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gapper Gapper may refer to: * Gapper, a DOS-based computer game. * Agkistrodon piscivorus, a.k.a. the cottonmouth, a venomous pit viper found in North America.[1] I think he's trying to say that we're a bunch of snakes. Or we're just a DOS-based computer game. Or something. //Walt |
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On May 6, 5:23 am, Walt wrote:
ant wrote: Tai Chai, the fact that no one's pegged you for a troll yet doesn't mean they won't! Sometimes your broken English gets temporarily sticky-taped together and very erudite before it reverts. As long as you are in denial, or perceive it in your narrow-minded English, the beauty and erudition of Taichi Skiing remain beyond your reaches. You know, I had him pegged as troll at first. Then I saw a couple of people actually Tai Chi skiing in person - it wasn't him, but there are others who practice the discipline, believe it or not. It was at Alta, and IIRC the day after we skied together. The same trip, anyway. While you gappers are gapping, the rest of the world started to catching on, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JupuDmuGzLA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGT0l-kMbE&NR=1 IS //Walt |
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On May 21, 11:07 am, taichiskiing
wrote: On May 6, 5:23 am, Walt wrote: ant wrote: Tai Chai, the fact that no one's pegged you for a troll yet doesn't mean they won't! Sometimes your broken English gets temporarily sticky-taped together and very erudite before it reverts. As long as you are in denial, or perceive it in your narrow-minded English, the beauty and erudition of Taichi Skiing remain beyond your reaches. You know, I had him pegged as troll at first. Then I saw a couple of people actually Tai Chi skiing in person - it wasn't him, but there are others who practice the discipline, believe it or not. It was at Alta, and IIRC the day after we skied together. The same trip, anyway. While you gappers are gapping, the rest of the world started to catching on, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JupuDmuGzLA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGT0l-kMbE&NR=1 IS //Walt How do those videos prove "the rest of the world" is catching on ? It shows yet more over-hyped garbage. By you. And a friend of yours. So you can wave your arms for 40 vertical feet down a slope. You want a trophy or something ? |
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On May 21, 9:21 am, Yabahoobs wrote:
On May 21, 11:07 am, taichiskiing wrote: On May 6, 5:23 am, Walt wrote: ant wrote: Tai Chai, the fact that no one's pegged you for a troll yet doesn't mean they won't! Sometimes your broken English gets temporarily sticky-taped together and very erudite before it reverts. As long as you are in denial, or perceive it in your narrow-minded English, the beauty and erudition of Taichi Skiing remain beyond your reaches. You know, I had him pegged as troll at first. Then I saw a couple of people actually Tai Chi skiing in person - it wasn't him, but there are others who practice the discipline, believe it or not. It was at Alta, and IIRC the day after we skied together. The same trip, anyway. While you gappers are gapping, the rest of the world started to catching on, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JupuDmuGzLA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGT0l-kMbE&NR=1 IS //Walt How do those videos prove "the rest of the world" is catching on ? From Utah to BC? Yah, they are parts of "the rest of the world" from "here." It shows yet more over-hyped garbage. By you. And a friend of yours. So you can wave your arms for 40 vertical feet down a slope. You want a trophy or something ? No, I don't know those people, and I'm as surprised as you are. Though they can use some pointers for how to apply the Taichi techniques to skiing, nevertheless, their movements quite authentic Taichi, so, Taichi Skiing it is. 'later, IS Ps. Actually, the above post was one of the posts that bumped given the same posting condition. So as this point, I have no idea which of my posts would be posted. So, don't be disappointed if you don't see my reply. Google has to fix their bugs first. |
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