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Anyway, back to dishwashing.

Brush or sponge?

1 hour ago, Xela said:

Classic suspense thriller and Spielberg's first movie, I think

One of the first films we recorded on our 1st VHS player in about 1986.

I must have watched it about 25 times. Great film!

I'm sure Rodriguez is going to cheat a goal. He did for Southampton (diving) and Albion (handball.)

Close from El Ghazi!

2 hours ago, villakram said:

That is a tough one. My 2c.

I think it really depends on what your time horizon is. Of course it's unknown in the modern economy, but with what you know now and the current interest rate market, it is a good time to buy, even if you are paying the hot market rate. If your dream house points to a certain amount of "gentrifying", perhaps it will be possible to feed the extra tax take into schools in a few years with the right number of like minded neighbors... and kids are adaptable. 

We had a similar decision house-wise (less so with schools) and we made our decision with a long time horizon in mind, even though we are both only stable for maybe ~3-5yrs and who really knows come the post covid world.

 

Now it's a mute point because it went under contract this morning  Too slow!

The market here is nuts - but those interest rates make me salivate - 2.75% 30 years fixed! It's basically free money.

We got 2.99% on a USED car 2 months ago from the credit union. Madness.

2 hours ago, Rds1983 said:

Find a smaller house so they have to stay elsewhere. 

Lol. They are alright actually. My wife loves seeing them because they are all in California and see each regularly (pre-Covid) and she's been stuck on the East Coast for years until this past March. 

We moved to Denver in August.

The area we rented in we really like. It's not too boujee and everyone we've met (neighbors, folks at the park with the nipper) have been fine.

Thing is, its public schools are pretty crap. We've been looking in the 'right' areas for school districts and they are nice, but anything that's affordable gets snapped up within hours - literally a house went in 6 hours the other day. I used to live in Florida and was burnt in a 'hot' real estate market but Denver seems to have real growth in many sectors and the real estate market looks like it's going to just keep rising (famous last words.)

We saw a house earlier this week that my wife and I fell in love with. It's got everthing we want and will be big enough if we have another kid. It's in the area with not great schools but it's entirely possible that she begins working (once this pandemic is done) so we may be able to pay for a reasonable school.

So any advice? The house was just renovated, is close to work and things we like. Has enough room for her family to come and stay and just felt great when we walked in. Should we do the 'practica'l thing and move into something we don't really love for the right public school or should we go for the renovated house that admittedly is one of the most expensive on the block / in the area.

Klopp doing his Downfall impression on the sidelines.

4 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

Yes, yes, yes, this is it. Plates at odd angles, sizes all mixed up, cutlery all mixed up, space not properly utilised. Unloading one of MY washer loads is easy, it's all 'like with like'. Hers needs an elaborate sorting and triage. 

It blows my mind how can anyone load a dishwasher haphazardly. It's made for order and neatness.

You are welcome over for a meal any time Mike 

10 hours ago, bickster said:

You appear to be missing the point. Its a dirty protest, she thinks you should be doing this

If a job isn't worth doing, it's worth doing badly

Bicks, this isn't after a big meal or anything. The dishwasher is empty - Mrs. A puts a plate in at a 45 degree angle. Someone just explain the logic to me?!?!????

Will someone please teach women how to load a friggin' dishwasher FFS

11 hours ago, VillaChris said:

Would be shades of 2012.

No way. Just such a stronger team mentally now.

2 hours ago, HanoiVillan said:

Just thinking back over this bonkers year, and some of the wilder minor characters:

Who was your favourite?

Mate, that only covers about 6 months ! 

This was February 6th of 2020. I remember watching this like this 

Edit: Sorry I see now that you said minor characters. But I still couldn't even remember which year his impeachment was.

5 hours ago, mykeyb said:

We do write off players far too quickly as a fanbase.

I think there is a player in there.

Look at Traore. He's played less than 200 minutes of football for Villa. Is settling back into the UK ( not London a different part of the country) and a new club.

Fans on here have already written him off. It's unreal. Petrov, Milner (the era many look back on with nostalgia)  both took a whole season before we saw the best of them.

Anyway off topic..... But I like what I've seen of Traore and he obviously needs games. Yes he's made mistakes but he's another player just like AEG. Needs confidence and things going their way and then they can become a very useful weapons. (the good type.)

17 hours ago, Brumerican said:

 

I'm confused (and admittedly I only skipped through it) but what is that video meant to convey?

It seemed like an unhinged rambling YT video but I couldn't even get the thrust of what it was going for. 

On 06/12/2020 at 12:56, bickster said:

This map also features Four Corners (though doesn't say.) The only place in the USA where four states meet at right angles

I went here once on a road trip. It was about 4pm and we'd just driven into Utah from Arizona and aware that Utak can be a little alcohol unfriendly we decided to stop at a motel but it had to fulfil the requirement of haqving a bar or on our way we'd be going. Stopped at a motel, asked the bloke in reception if there was a bar in the town. No Sir, this is a dry county, you'll have to cross the county line if you want to buy alcohol. On we went... 500 yards.... Wait, thats a bar... drive into the car park, yep obligatory Budweiser sign in the window and  perfectly a Motel opposite.

We went to that bar that night, walked in and yep, the only thing we heard was the click of the pool balls and.... silence. We were being stared at by the entire bar. Walked up to the bar, ordered beers and were treated with some suspicion. Then the bar tender announced to the whole bar, that it was OK, we were Australian. I think we met everyone in the bar that night, we were even introiduced to everyone as they came in. They did learn we were English eventually and we left with a... Shit you guys sure can drink!

We beat quite a few of them at pool too

What year were you there just out of interest?

Also, 4 corners is about the most boring place in the entire US. It's in the middle of nowhere and there is nothing there. (It was in an episode of Breaking Bad though. )

If anyone is ever in the area there a million and one other places worth driving to other than Four Corners,

He's being going mental on Twitter this morning (more than usual.)

He's going to incite a whole lot of violence before he dies.

10 hours ago, cyrusr said:

Texas GOP Chairman Allen West’s Response to SCOTUS Decision

They'd be absolutely broke if they seceded from the so called 'blue states.'

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700 

6 hours ago, villakram said:

Parler was developed due to the increasingly active censorship taking place on Twitter. Much of which has a distinct political leaning. In my opinion, we should be very wary of such developments. E.g., were Twitter a British company, how do you imagine the whole Brexit business would be reported given the goings on at the BBC, which are bad enough. 

Sounds a bit French to me. 

A real red blooded American (white) should avoid that.