Random thoughts

[Mudcat]

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

 

[Matty]

How much you need to earn to buy a house in every major Canadian city

http://www.thestar.com/business/car...buy_a_house_in_every_major_canadian_city.html

Note that this was written by my hipster colleague who can't wrap her brain around the fact that the average person has a car payment, which means that her income requirements are lower than reality for most people.

 

[bacon]

lol yeah on $587k it's gonna make a difference

holy crap

so average price of $587k and all borrowers required to refi within 5 years

I am packing my bags and I am SO fucking hard

 

[bacon]

yet median income of 46.5

#nosteam

 

[Mudcat]

My cat's fokken breath smells like fokken cat food!

 

[Archie]

why do most right handed people learn to play guitar with the right hand strumming and left hand playing the notes, do the chords?



seems like the easier task for the weak less coordinated hand would be to strum

 

[Matty]

why do most right handed people learn to play guitar with the right hand strumming and left hand playing the notes, do the chords?



seems like the easier task for the weak less coordinated hand would be to strum

You would think so indeed.

In an interesting twist, most left-handed people also learn to play guitar the right-handed way. Us hardcore lefties (write with the left, play the left-handed guitar) are a tiny minority - 2% or so according to guitar sales.

Handedness is a strange thing.

 

[Matty]

Muddy let's pool our money together and buy a house.

I have $42.

 

[Mudcat]

Noice. So we've got 49 dollorz between us.

 

[bacon]

If your credentials are high enough I can do no money down AND no money out of pocket.

Call me maybe.

 

[Matty]

I don't wanna be house-poor.

Prolly gonna end up moving back to Montreal.

 

[bacon]

Ok but don't forget that if it can pass a certification we can consider manufactured homes.

 

[Matty]

Mommy Rain lives in such a home, but she had a HUGH empty lot to put it on. In the middle of buttfuck nowhere.

 

[bacon]

I've seen some nice ones actually. Recently did one with a hot tub, pool all this stuff, if it were stick built it would have been worth like 3x the price.

Mamarains won that.

 

[Matty]

Hers is not bad at all. It was used as the family cottage before she retired 2-3 years ago.

She paid $10k for a 100' by 100' lot and $50k for the prefab house. About to expand it for another $20k.

Mommy Rain has simple tastes. I don't know what's wrong with me.

 

[reno cool]

Maybe just because most guitars are positioned that way, so when you pick it up thats the way you learn

Rent has gone up like 50% here over last couple years. I'm even considering buying something (unlikely still) and I hate the idea of owning stuff that you don't have to.

 

[Matty]

Maybe just because most guitars are positioned that way, so when you pick it up thats the way you learn

Nah. When I started I immediately picked up the guitar backwards and learned playing with the low string at the bottom. My dad played most of his life that way, and some professional musicians did the same.

There was no way I was going to play right-handed.

You either have a strong preference for one side or you don't.

 

[Matty]