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  1. 3 hours ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

    Is there any way to confirm that the French had such hideous and atrocious table manners? One would think they were uneducated heathens.

    I don't know, but it was disappointing to see they made Louis Auguste and his bro Louis Stanislas aka Provence so skinny. Pure and utter fiction. 

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  2. 7 hours ago, katenm said:

    I love Nate & Jeremiah, but I seldom love their design choices. Again they went with white chairs in the dining room with a family that loves to throw boisterous parties. 

    Unless I misheard, I got the impression they, Nate and Jeremiah, don't throw parties. Nothing wrong with that, but try to understand the clean-up issues that come with that type of entertaining—just saying.

    They throw parties, they just have staff to worry about everything. 

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  3. 6 hours ago, realityplease said:

    Thanks for the article buttersister! The rich are greedy - I guess we always knew that.  But now we're to believe that sale of a $5 million home will be stymied or unprofitable due to a $200,000 transfer tax or $400,000 on a $10 million home. The profit depends on the seller's equity & what they bought the home for - where is it promised that property owners should expect 25% profits or more on the sale of a single home?  Instead of multi-millions in profit, the seller gets $200,000 less?  Cry me a river.  The seller pays more than that in agent commissions, but Altman's not grousing about that! 

    Listing prices here ZOOMED in recent years.  Per Zillow, that $28 million property was last sold in 2015 for $5 million.  Money was no doubt spent to overhaul it, but while a transfer tax of $1,540,000 sounds hefty, there's still many, many MILLIONS to be made on this one sale.

    Altman thinks EVERYONE (all homeowners) should pay the tax, not just the rich.  Sorry - this tax on the rich was specifically passed because only the upper 4% of home sales will be subject to it.  Altman wants to make the big bucks - but wants EVERYONE, not just the rich to whom he caters, to pay for the homeowner greed & overinflated expectations he caused. Too bad.   

    Altman, and those he sells to and socialises with, don't want America to know that it is already a socialist country. It's just that it is only a socialist country for the rich. 

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  4. 2 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

    The one outside the car is wearing a black collar; the driver is in red. I was hoping they'd be pink or blue indicating gender, but red & black was no help. Glad to know they're buddies.

    But my quite male husband and sons wears pink all the time... so the gender thing would just confuse my family lol. 

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  5. 2 hours ago, bichonblitz said:

    That was a whole lotta white! 

    They could have painted a light shade of cream or even a light taupe on some of the walls. I know Mrs. Homeowner wanted light but they could have come up with something more interesting and still kept the home fresh and bright. 

     

    White isn't the only thing to make a space bright. In fact, in a lot of rooms a dark colour works better. 

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  6. 3 hours ago, magicdog said:

    I remember watching it before that!  It was in syndication in the 70s (I'm assuming you're talking about the 50s TV series).  

    I had a giggle when I saw silent serials featuring the original Rin Tin Tin on TCM!!

    Wasn't there also a newer Lassie for a while? I used to watch the black and white Lassie on television, and for a while there was an obviously more up-to-date one. Then there was a not bad film too, with that same kid from The Sandlot. 

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  7. 12 hours ago, Bluesky said:

    This is NYT

    “What is cheap for these Americans is brutally expensive for southern Europeans, whose average wages are substantially lowerthan Americans’. Locals are competing for housing against wealthy foreigners in markets already distorted by Airbnbs and corporate real estate investment. The result is a generation failing to launch, with more than 90 percent of southern Europeans under 35 still living at home, rates that eclipse their American counterparts. Those who have apartments face evictions and unpredictable rent increases in cities with weak rental protections, like Lisbon, Barcelona and Athens.”

    This is ME

    The Portuguese and  Greek people resent the foreigners coming in with their tax breaks buying up the best properties that they couldn’t afford in America.  It’s people with upper middle class incomes who want to live a wealthier lifestyle. 

    Great Americans. Don't fix your own broken country, move somewhere else and ruin it for those citizen. Lovely. I bet some of these American buyers complained at the Chinese rich buying up tonnes of property and raising prices at some point. 

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  8. 6 hours ago, carrps said:

    But I hate having semi-permanent fixtures like that slat wall. It's very restrictive. 

    I know the furnishings don't matter (not that the prices at the end can be trusted anyway....) but I hated that they didn't do a headboard on the bed. How freakin' uncomfortable must it be to sit or lean against those sticks?

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  9. 8 hours ago, chessiegal said:

    Orlando: I was wondering about her cookie business. She clearly plans on making the cookies in her home. Wouldn't you need some kind of permit/inspection to be able to sell cookies made in your home and not a commercial kitchen? Maybe she's just selling the cookies to friends? Just seemed hinky.

    You can and pretty easily according to /ij.org/issues/economic-liberty/homemade-food-seller/florida/ Selling homemade food is relatively easy in Florida, thanks to a series of legislative reforms. The first big change came in 2011, when lawmakers expanded the Florida Food Safety Act to allow the sale of non-perishable food prepared in home kitchens without a permit. With support from the Institute for Justice, the state amended the rules in 2017 to allow online sales, while tripling the revenue cap on homemade food sales to $50,000 per year. The changes were good, but the law did not protect homemade food businesses from local interference. The result was a patchwork of regulations with heavy restrictions in places like Jacksonville and Miami-Dade County. State lawmakers ended the confusion with the Home Sweet Home Act and other reforms that took effect in July 2021. Besides creating statewide standardization, preempting local regulations, the new rules raised the revenue cap on homemade food sales to $250,000, legalized mail delivery, and allowed homemade food entrepreneurs to have business partners.

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  10. On 3/13/2023 at 2:23 PM, greekmom said:

    I would like to know how Robyn and Miles ever got together. They are just two different personalities and not two people I would ship. 

    I think they used to be a lot more alike and Miles decided he wanted to "settle down", whereas Robyn has realised that she can't help people if she does what Miles considers "settling down". They just grew out of each other, like a lot of couples. I wouldn't mind seeing a prequel of adventures from their younger days. 

    On 3/14/2023 at 11:54 AM, MicheleinPhilly said:

    The only thing I can think of whenever Miles shows up is how similar he is physically to Detective Dante. Robin has a type! 😉

    You're giving me all sorts of.... image ideas lol. And fanfic ideas. 

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  11. 2 minutes ago, SusanwatchingTV said:

     Plus these designers don't care about books, they care about looks and they like this look better.  I don't know why.  I agree with you that it's stupid.

    The "designers" don't really care about looks or books IMO. They care about blandness and not having to bothering coming up with a true design. Easier. 

  12. 31 minutes ago, retired watcher said:

    With 9 children a safer place for the parents to be an assisted living home with the payment split 9 ways.

    Even if each child was able to pay, 9 together might not cover what it would cost.

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  13. 22 minutes ago, amarante said:

    Maybe it's me but I also don't understand why someone who is single and without children would want to live in that kind of out of the way suburb. Putting aside distance from boyfriend, don't most single people want to socialize with friends as well as have proximity to places or experiences that only exist in a relatively urban area. 

    There are single introverts and homebodies. Sometimes I'd love to be one (don't tell the hubby lol). 

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  14. 11 hours ago, chessiegal said:

    To be fair, I think someone can have a knack for design without formal training. La-z-Boy offers free interior design advice. I have no idea what kind of training their salespeople have.

    I have a friend who I would trust to do my house - her home is fabulous. My husband commented that her home looks like something out of Architectural Digest.

    Sadly, instead of your friend it's people with no design talent whatsoever like Christina and Heather who get television programmes. 

  15. On 3/17/2023 at 10:50 AM, Irlandesa said:

    From all accounts, he has treated him well. Especially since he has been in that situation.  He seems to mostly place the blame on the execs and doesn't hold it against Love. Favre was much cooler towards Rodgers than Rodgers has been towards Love.

    Rodgers is mostly liked in the locker room. Some might think he's kooky but I don't think he's as much of a dick 1 on 1.

    From what I've read as long as they're helping the team win, most NFL players would be fine with a child killer on the team. 

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  16. 13 hours ago, Danielg342 said:

    I can understand, on a level, why Hollywood organizes their marksmen the way they do. Obviously, you want your heroes to look effective, and an easy way to build dramatic tension is to have that "video game sequence" where the enemies get progressively harder for the hero to take out (for more tension, add some redshirts).

    The problem is that Hollywood tends to take this unbelievable levels, with characters you'd think shouldn't be sharpshooters being able to shoot with precision and supposedly well-trained, elite soldiers forgetting all of their training at the worst moment. The Stormtroopers are the poster boys for Hollywood's poor treatment of marksmanship and deservedly so- they were built up so much only to let us down in epic fashion.

    How do we solve this problem? I'd like to see heroic characters get a bit more creative in finding ways to counteract superior marksmanship. One way is to always stay in motion and making great use of hiding spots- it's not perfect, but it would frustrate even the best snipers. Muhammad Ali wasn't wrong in saying "you can't hit what your eyes can't see".

    I think I'll clear my bad-shooters-shooting-way-too-well palate by watching Wanted again. That was just the right side of "not supposed to be believable" to work when it comes to this trope. Plus, James McAvoy looks damn good.

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  17. 15 minutes ago, Notabug said:

    People who live in major cities are often insistent that they couldn't live anywhere else, not that they're ever tried.  There are plenty of folks from London and New York City who are convinced that leaving those cities is akin to moving to Mars.  It's a quirk, not a very charming one, though.

    Just as there are people living in tiny villages that say and think the same. Too many people with such fixed opinions. I've often wondered if instead of drafting people into the military or a service corps, the government should instead move city/country people to places the opposite of where they live for 2-5 years? Walk a mile, and all that.

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  18. On 3/14/2023 at 8:11 PM, Spartan Girl said:

    The end of the latest season of You pissed me off, but to be be fair, I’m probably at fault. I said over and over again that I wish Joe would just be honest about being a monster instead of acting like he’s a misunderstood tragic hero. Cue the monkey’s paw. 

    Just the fact that there IS a programme like You on the air pisses me off. Why is the media glorifying men like that?

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