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CLQFuck people who buy property as an "investment." They are going to get fucked over again when this economy crashes in the next year or two. Do people never learn?

I'm not sure I understand your point. Why would you buy property if not as an investment? Trust me renting is way fucking easier.

As long as you view it as a long term investment, structure the loan properly, and don't leverage too hard it'll be manageable through economic ups and downs.

So my dorm building (North Hedges- Montana State) has had 12 fire alarms in TWO months. At what point does the entire goddamn building get kicked out for setting these things off? Will I have an entire floor to myself soon? Even the stupidest motherfuckers on earth know that you can't smoke a doobie in an enclosed space with a FIRE ALARM. FUCK. If any of you reading this are responsible for an alarm in the middle of the night, I hope you crash your car a die in a fire.

mystery3I'm not sure I understand your point. Why would you buy property if not as an investment? Trust me renting is way fucking easier.

As long as you view it as a long term investment, structure the loan properly, and don't leverage too hard it'll be manageable through economic ups and downs.

People make really bad "investments" with money they don't have. I doubt that many people kept onto there second property through 2008. Also many Chinese, Russian, and Saudis buy up condos, apartments, houses, etc in places like Vancouver, London, San Fransisco. They then just sit empty most of the year, these are "investments" by them. This is causing yet another housing crisis

This is not an unpopular opinion in the slightest. They're also really easy to fuck with so usually I leave them alone, but one day i was having a bad day and i was crossing the street. Two missionaries walked up to me on the other side and tried to do their schpeel. I let them talk for about 10 seconds and then interrupted them with Steve buscemi's finest acting delivery from spy kids 2:

They just stared at me blankly with a horrified look for another 5 seconds before I just said, "have a nice day!"

theabortionatorUnpopular opinion probably.


I really dislike missionaries. It's shady and schemey to me. Some learn more about the people than other but many times it's "You're wrong, I'm right, make some fucking changes or burn in hell!"

In history it was even worse. People non only didn't care about their religions, but their cultures in general. If you want to volunteer and help people that's great. If you have a skill and can make a difference, that's fucking awesome! If you're there in some phony way just to convert people to your hokey religion, fuck you.

These people don't need your stupid religion, Fuck off.

Idk, my cousin and her husband are Africa bound for a few years on a missions trip. It's cringeworthy when them or others pray before a meal. And everything out of their mouth has to somehow relate to religion or they feel guilty.

I just hate fake people. If you believe in you're religion that's great, I support you. Don't shove it in everybody's face as an opener though. Build REAL relationships with people without an agenda.

You know when you're talking to a person or watching a discussion and you can just watch one of the people zoned out just waiting for their chance to speak? They don't give a fuck what's being said, because whatever they're going to say is "important". That's the vibe I kind of get. I'm only pretending to be interested in you long enough to spew my religion at you.

Missions and colonialism fucked a lot of things up. Obviously western medicine did some good things. Idk I like people who go and volunteer without a bullshit agenda.

You want to help people? Go there and help them. Do that first. If you're religion comes up and they're interested great, if not whatever. If it's simply a method for you to spew your religion, fuck you.

CLQFuck people who buy property as an "investment." They are going to get fucked over again when this economy crashes in the next year or two. Do people never learn?

Real Estate is actually one of the better things to invest in if you have the excess cash.

Why? You always have a tangible asset. Sure, you can lose money on it like every other asset but you never run the risk of it being worth $0 like a stock.

I know quite a few people who managed to turn excess cash into real estate and eventually were able to retire because of the free cash flow from their holdings.

**This post was edited on Nov 1st 2018 at 2:52:43pm

.MASSHOLE.Real Estate is actually one of the better things to invest in if you have the excess cash.

Why? You always have a tangible asset. Sure, you can lose money on it like every other asset but you never run the risk of it being worth $0 like a stock.

I know quite a few people who managed to turn excess cash into real estate and eventually were able to retire because of the free cash flow from their holdings.

**This post was edited on Nov 1st 2018 at 2:52:43pm

Thats true and I know hindsight is 20/20 but if you invested in Amazon 2 years ago, you would have made 400% profit at its peak. The stock market has been crazy strong the past ~2 years, you would make way bigger gains if you bought stock instead of a house.

Real Estate is a good investment, you're right. It just pisses me off because its starting a housing crisis and Trumps tariffs are only going to make that worse.

The USPS is killer. Fuck you fuck you fuck you, give me my shit, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.

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fuck you fuck you fuck you

Also the scheduled delivery date got bumped till today and clearly it's not coming even though it says it will.

I hope every shitty employee there gets hit by a fucking bus. Mail sucks, your company sucks, you fucking suck.

Priority mail? I got 2 fucking keys, keys, Fucking keys, ordered end of day friday. How the fuck does priority mail from MO to NY take a week, and probably forever because they're MIA.

It's no wonder nobody want's to deal with sending anything USPS anymore.

Now I'm going to probably end up drilling out my lock cylinder. Ruining it. Having to buy another one, and drive to fucking california with my box tied shut. Fucking fun.

Thanks douchers!

Did I mention that I hate them all?

Ok I'm done

.MASSHOLE.Real Estate is actually one of the better things to invest in if you have the excess cash.

Why? You always have a tangible asset. Sure, you can lose money on it like every other asset but you never run the risk of it being worth $0 like a stock.

I know quite a few people who managed to turn excess cash into real estate and eventually were able to retire because of the free cash flow from their holdings.

**This post was edited on Nov 1st 2018 at 2:52:43pm

Real estate is a great investment but I'm gonna get pedantic:

Real estate isn't intrinsically " better " than other investment vehicles. Real estate, Equities, Fixed Income, REIT's, Private Equity Funds, ETF's, Commodities, the list goes on. Each different investment has it's own strength and weaknesses, along with it's unique location in it's market cycle. And to address the advantage of real estate being physical, yes - you will always have a physical holding, but a brokerage account will never have it's pipes burst in the winter, or need a new roof, or have unruly tenants.
Real estate is also highly localized. I wouldn't touch any of the current SoCal inventory with a ten foot pole, but Boise ID still has value left.

Edit: I thought you said real estate was the best investment, my bad. It's frustrating because I know alot of dumb wealthy people just throwing money at real estate cause their adviser said it was failproof, and yet they get miserable returns. One needs a lot of skill and diligence to beat the market in Real Estate.

**This post was edited on Nov 2nd 2018 at 4:31:03pm

I think I'm just in a pissy mood because im waiting on car parts in NY and need to/want to be in CA.


Soon.


Soon


Fack. Sucks though. Im missing mad work and one of my favorite bands is playing Tahoe and SF and I'm gonna miss that. Ugh.

Moms exact words "I don't think it's right for two gay guys to have a kid" because two gay guys adopted a kid somewhere at some point. Not sure exactly who or where. I came in mid convo.

I pointed out how terrible that sounded and that they'd probably be way more stoked in foster care or wherever. I think the story was that some Christians adopted a kid and she went on to do well and was really thankful for having them as parents. That's great and all but out of all the churches I went to as a kid, I can't remember one family that adopted a kid. And people had some big fucking families.

I got dragged to several anti abortion rallies as a child. The big one in D.C. a bunch of times. All over the place. I just think it's kind of fucked to say "You can't have an abortion, put the child up for adoption" Then those people never adopt a kid, and bitch that a gay couple adopted a kid as if it's the end of the world.

I don't have a problem with religion, but it's too often loaded with bigotry, generally straight from the pulpit. Fuck that. It's 2018. Take your weak ass magic trick Jesus and get outta here.

I feel better now. Always a pleasure visiting family.

theabortionatorI got dragged to several anti abortion rallies as a child. The big one in D.C. a bunch of times. All over the place.

There were a few WBC-types outside of our stadium a few games ago. I'm not one to get worked up over the signs and yelling, but it really makes me sad when they have kids in tow.

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/913415/Children-of-the-family-on-a-picket---Louis-Theroux---BBC

Probably gonna quit the school cafeteria all together. It's downstairs in the building I work in so super convenient but it's so overpriced anyways. I've boycotted the place before but hopefully I can go stay away this time. Just gotta put a little work in and I can eat better and stack cash from the $ I'll save.

New jobs already annoying kinda, different eqiupment that my previous but same job and the part timers who all work 3-4 days a week dont work saturdays while the other FT kid and i will be doing i guess. Now ill be skiing all day one weekday and Sunday unless it or my job changes.

Titus69New jobs already annoying kinda, different eqiupment that my previous but same job and the part timers who all work 3-4 days a week dont work saturdays while the other FT kid and i will be doing i guess. Now ill be skiing all day one weekday and Sunday unless it or my job changes.

It’s probabky better to not ski Saturday. Huge crowds compared to dying the week. Even Sunday’s are slightly less busy. I worked mon-fri last session and work was always slow and boring and then skied with the crowds sat and sun. Not Exactly ideal lol

MinggIt’s probabky better to not ski Saturday. Huge crowds compared to dying the week. Even Sunday’s are slightly less busy. I worked mon-fri last session and work was always slow and boring and then skied with the crowds sat and sun. Not Exactly ideal lol

Yeah same i only skied nights on week days then all weekend, just annoying if my roomates wanna go out on friday i really cant, or just cant be out late.

Holy shit. Some peoples parents. I feel bad for kids when they just want to go to college but their parent is doing everything to f it up.

OregonDeadHoly shit. Some peoples parents. I feel bad for kids when they just want to go to college but their parent is doing everything to f it up.

Sounds like the opposite of most parents, mine would love to hear that I wanna go to school, but are fine I'm working and on my own.

The cunts that will ruin anything nice.

FB post could say "opening tomorrow with 100 trails and free food" and somebody would still piss and moan in the comments.

Places talking about opening on time or early "what snow!!!"
"How many trails"
"my pass didnt arrive and in too fucking stupid to get it at the mtn"


Fuck stupid people that want to bitch about everthing. Nothing can be good enough. When it's douchey gaper fucks from the city, fuck fuck fuck. Def the reason i get hammered or avoid holiday skiing at the big places.

People are so fucking dumb they don't undertand that most mtn openings happen with little to no natural snow these days. If you wanna ski in oct or nov that's how it works.

People bitching weeks about because it doesnt say what trails. Nobody fucking knows derp. There's an idea but its all weather dependent. If they listed them and it changed youd complain about that too.

Idk. I hate people who get off on being cunts. Don't be a douche

/rant lol

I hate this. First of all, age-claiming is for losers. Second, many people, including myself, had a better spring break than this little shit. Didn't even need daddy's money to do so.

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I was skiing the exact same lines last year, why would I be jealous? I'm not being forced into it by a chode of a father like the kid.

QuaffI hate this. First of all, age-claiming is for losers. Second, many people, including myself, had a better spring break than this little shit. Didn't even need daddy's money to do so.

bread_bird

Wrong whore slut

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Unfortunately I have met him and he thinks he is the most important dude to ever walk the earth.

QuaffI hate this. First of all, age-claiming is for losers. Second, many people, including myself, had a better spring break than this little shit. Didn't even need daddy's money to do so.

+1 on hating the " ... had a better spring break than you ".

I see people say this with things like " my best friend is better than yourrrsss" captioned on a pic of them holding a bag of Chipotle. Or " my dog > yours

I had a good conversation with someone last night, that ended up with my ranting about standards. I was speaking with a junior programmer about what it takes to become successful. It's not often understood that success is not just the product of time spent on the thing, in contrast to what Malcolm Gladwell says. Doing a thing repeatedly is only part of the equation. In addition to this you must also aim for constant improvement. The Japanese have a fantastic word for this concept - Kaizen - improvement little by little. In order to accomplish this in any meaningful time frame, you must, to some degree, accept a level of asceticism into your life for a period of time while you carve the design space into yourself. Juniors often see masters of the craft and think "oh man, they've been doing ot for 50 years, no wonder they're great", but that's a reductive viewpoint to take. The amount of sacrifice and focus that goes into being successful is inversely proportional to the amount of time spent with loved ones, friends, and family, and directly proportional to time, effort, and improvement.

The rant comes when one asks many masterful people how they got to where they were. The reply is generally "i put in the time and effort" (a partial truth), but this usually skips over the most relevant part of the concept, which is the way in which time and effort are achieved. Time and effort can only exist continuously in a stable setting, with few distractions; an environment of asceticism and peace, which is not generally achievable in the context of what one would consider a healthy and balanced life. In fact, asceticism is decidedly an unhealthy unbalancing of life, with a singular goal in focus, and the constant repetition to achieve it. Juniors tend to be surprised when you tell them of this unhealthiness, and the absence of this fact tends to instill a kind of insecurity which causes people to feel a negative self-worth in contrast to their heros - "how come I can't be like him? We're the same age and he's so much smarter!" "How did you get so good at this? I've been doing it for longer than you!" No one has been honest in telling many of these Juniors that becoming great means sacrificing health, time, and your body for your goal.

Anyway, the rant came when having this conversation with someone who was just entering NYC who had asked me how I managed so much in 3 years. I gave the whole story, and they did not believe me, so I pulled aside my boss, an incredibly smart man, to ask him how he got to where he is. At first, he would not cop to it, but after pressing him, he admitted he "tried and failed 3 times to get into programming, over the course of 3 year period," then he "finally decided to shut himself in for the better part of 2 years and didn't come out until he knew [insert programming language]," and then he was given the opportunity to join a research group on the basis of his skill.

I then pulled aside a colleague who taught himself how to program and made his way from Australia to New York on the basis of his skill (within 2 years of learning his language), and he wouldn't cop to it either... then he remembered he had no friends in Highschool and allhe would do was learn stuff from IRC.

I don't know why people are so ashamed to admit what they went through in order to achieve skill. I feel like it should be a more honest conversation. Hiding the story causes a self-esteem crisis in unskilled people, and telling the story seems to cause shame in the teller, due to the unhealthy nature in which skill is achieved. In Japan, it is celebrated if you dedicate your life to becoming a shoku-nin - a master of one's craft for the good of the community. It's a very odd cultural difference.

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ArabianI had a good conversation with someone last night, that ended up with my ranting about standards.

Been on here for a while, always remembered some of the silly shit you did on NS - years back. I figured if you posted it'd be worth my time. Thanks for the rant, it just re-enforces something I've been thinking about for a while.

I'm 5 yrs into my career, but I've been struggling with how to move closer to my goals. (transition from traditional graphic design to MGX) I've known I need to be more versatile in software abilities to create the stuff I've been sketching/planning. I shut myself in an obsessed over tutorials & skill building from 19-21... I know I needed to do it again to develop the chops I want... just gotta shift priorities & manage my time better.

Stay Rad!

SEABURNBeen on here for a while, always remembered some of the silly shit you did on NS - years back. I figured if you posted it'd be worth my time. Thanks for the rant, it just re-enforces something I've been thinking about for a while.

I'm 5 yrs into my career, but I've been struggling with how to move closer to my goals. (transition from traditional graphic design to MGX) I've known I need to be more versatile in software abilities to create the stuff I've been sketching/planning. I shut myself in an obsessed over tutorials & skill building from 19-21... I know I needed to do it again to develop the chops I want... just gotta shift priorities & manage my time better.

Stay Rad!

She left out the part where suicide rates are high and birth rates are low in Japan. That country is dying due to its toxic culture of dedicating your life to work.

CLQShe left out the part where suicide rates are high and birth rates are low in Japan. That country is dying due to its toxic culture of dedicating your life to work.

Arabian is a dude. and I'm not about to judge a culture I don't fully understand.

I hate Jennifer Garners ex boyfriend in Alias

CLQShe left out the part where suicide rates are high and birth rates are low in Japan. That country is dying due to its toxic culture of dedicating your life to work.

I mention that it's an unhealthy process several times. I made no judgements either way, because i don't have answers, only a process which gets results (and all the shortcomings thereof). We also have an incredibly high suicide rate in the US for various reasons, but not the worst, actually. We are within 4 ranks of Japan, which is currently ranked at 30. Finland is in between us and Japan, surprisingly. There isn't much you can glean in the way of work-suicide relationships just from the data. It seems far more complex than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

SEABURNArabian is a dude. and I'm not about to judge a culture I don't fully understand.

Female, actually.

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That's me, we're all jealous.

bread_bird

Almost every time I walk my dog on trails he gets a tick on him happens at least 3 times a week.

Spent eight hours in the airport because of delays. Fuck that

Flight leaves at 5am and I can't trust myself to wake up in time if I fall asleep. Guess I'll just be zombie boy.

I hate my job

When you're making snow 12+hours but can't ride after you're shift because blacked out until more terrain opens. Bitch, who do you think is opening that terrain? I can make those guns piss water, or make whales. You're not really motivating any of us.

I get if you're working at fucking starbucks starting in Jan maybe you shouldn't be able to ride, but this is bullshit. We've been working for weeks getting snow down and terrain open. The groomers that are out there as well. Fuck, even just let me ride for an hour in the morning if we get out early.

Tomorrow I think I'm gonna hike some rails. If somebody gives me shit I might cut them. Also a park groomer there so about that park lyfe. Just making snow because better hours and way more needed for getting terrain open.

Idk, it's kind of bullshit. I get that it would be kind of weird to tier your employees regarding riding on these days, but if you're mtn ops and putting in huge hours towards getting shit open, you should be able to ride. I mean fuck, we pretty much do nothing but sleep when not at work, but it would be chill to be able to grab an hour of riding after work. We wouldn't even be on the hill while it's crowded.

Idk,I get that it's just corporate bullshit. But it's read, and reasonably so, as a big fuck you to the people out there working all night. Soaking wet up on ridges getting blasted by winds. Dragging guns around in snowstorms. Just let us fucking ride you cunts.

Why are mustard-colored hats so popular right now? Especially with the ladies.

Working at a ski shop when an entire family of 6 comes in and needs gear. Generally not an issue, but always seems to happen around that hangry part of the day. Anyway, standard process get some boots, get some skis and poles and sometimes even a few buckets. Everything is sized up and then they bail out and get nothing or want to "think about it". Its pretty transparent when you write down all the info that you'll just take that info and go shop online. Some people suck, right?

Anyway moral of the story is support the local shop. If you are good to them, they will be good to you, it's simple.

I myself am part of the crowd that has gotten gear online as I'm sure most people have, which makes sense in terms of money. But the shops are where we go to get our gear tuned up. If you bought the gear from them they'll do you a solid. If not, may cost extra and the sticker of the shop that you got your skis at may no longer be on the skis.

Gotta love living in a shitty area of salt lake, I never lock my car cause there's nothing worse stealing besides my change. Found my driver door cracked open this morning, about 3 bucks in change is gone and my glovebox was open with repair orders everywhere, just glad we pay 1500 a fucking month for a basement surrounded by druggos.

everyone thinks I'm some kind of snob for liking skiing so much/being so enthusiastic, no one gets that it's basically therapy for me/what I genuinely want to do all of the time and so they just think I'm showing off

Why do swiss cheese have holes? It's literally the Lays chips air bag of the Cheese Industry

neonedgeeveryone thinks I'm some kind of snob for liking skiing so much/being so enthusiastic, no one gets that it's basically therapy for me/what I genuinely want to do all of the time and so they just think I'm showing off

An observation that you didn't ask for but might help: Is this from what you post on social media? It's easy to overshare when you get stoked about something. Especially with social media, people don't always want to hear about how great you're doing and because it does come across as bragging. I have friends who do this with Europe / Africa travels. I live in a dream ski town and I restrain myself so much about oversharing it.

If people are getting annoyed just because you go skiing alot... well thats on them haha. Time to start hanging with other rad skiiers.

I'm so fucking sick of people complaining about the new lifts not being done yet. The resort said in the fucking press release in March that it wouldn't be til mid December for the d-line and later for shedhorn. We're out here working 70+ hours a week in shit weather trying to be done on schedule so it's not for lack of trying. Turns out when you build the first lift of its kind in North America and all the parts have to come from Austria, it takes a little while. People see a chair coming down the line and lose their gourds thinking it opens soon and it's like bruh, these things take weeks of testing and commissioning once they're operational before theyre ready for public. People read false bullshit from the marketing team online and think they're fucking experts and it's driving me insane. Also this 8 pack might be the death of me. Holy balls this things complicated.

WillgumAn observation that you didn't ask for but might help: Is this from what you post on social media? It's easy to overshare when you get stoked about something. Especially with social media, people don't always want to hear about how great you're doing and because it does come across as bragging. I have friends who do this with Europe / Africa travels. I live in a dream ski town and I restrain myself so much about oversharing it.

If people are getting annoyed just because you go skiing alot... well thats on them haha. Time to start hanging with other rad skiiers.

That’s really good advice actualky, I think that could be part of it . It’s hard to hide the stoke haha, I have a low quality home hill but still

theabortionatorThe cunts that will ruin anything nice.

FB post could say "opening tomorrow with 100 trails and free food" and somebody would still piss and moan in the comments.

Places talking about opening on time or early "what snow!!!"
"How many trails"
"my pass didnt arrive and in too fucking stupid to get it at the mtn"


Fuck stupid people that want to bitch about everthing. Nothing can be good enough. When it's douchey gaper fucks from the city, fuck fuck fuck. Def the reason i get hammered or avoid holiday skiing at the big places.

People are so fucking dumb they don't undertand that most mtn openings happen with little to no natural snow these days. If you wanna ski in oct or nov that's how it works.

People bitching weeks about because it doesnt say what trails. Nobody fucking knows derp. There's an idea but its all weather dependent. If they listed them and it changed youd complain about that too.

Idk. I hate people who get off on being cunts. Don't be a douche

/rant lol

Lol. I exacerbate their bitching.

"well, yeah. It kinda sucks. I would probably give it up if I were you and try a whole new sport. It's just not worth it"


Responding like that helps 2-fold.

It either does 1. Make them never come back to the mountains again - which is good because who the fuck wants them or 2. Makes them realize that they're being extra as fuck about their bitching and they end up saying shit like "well.. actually I guess it's not THAT bad..."



City fuckers are so annoying.

That said, I always laugh when customers come into my shop go "um, so I need my skis mounted up tonight right now. I'm trying to go skiing tomorrow morning"

And then when I tell them no, they either have a hissy, or sometimes they even say "well I'll just go somewhere else then" Lol good luck with that bye felicia.

neonedgeThat’s really good advice actualky, I think that could be part of it . It’s hard to hide the stoke haha, I have a low quality home hill but still

Nice, get em on the hill and share that stoke! My best memories of skiing are from small shitty mountains, messing around with a group of close friends.

DingoSeanLol. I exacerbate their bitching.

"well, yeah. It kinda sucks. I would probably give it up if I were you and try a whole new sport. It's just not worth it"


Responding like that helps 2-fold.

It either does 1. Make them never come back to the mountains again - which is good because who the fuck wants them or 2. Makes them realize that they're being extra as fuck about their bitching and they end up saying shit like "well.. actually I guess it's not THAT bad..."



City fuckers are so annoying.

That said, I always laugh when customers come into my shop go "um, so I need my skis mounted up tonight right now. I'm trying to go skiing tomorrow morning"

And then when I tell them no, they either have a hissy, or sometimes they even say "well I'll just go somewhere else then" Lol good luck with that bye felicia.

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