Another Generation fight...



Let's get one thing clear all the generations suck we still don't have flying cars
- gerbe75pts

Those are fighting words, meet you at the Flag pole at 3

Funny how Beane can pull of a trade in 45 minutes and Botts takes a year.
- Buff36

He did start before the trade deadline, so a little longer than 45 minutes.

He did start before the trade deadline, so a little longer than 45 minutes.
- adambuffalo

Yeah, true but he was basically shut down.

It’s amazing how Trump can blow smoke about Oil and send it crude prices up 10% with spreading nothing but lies.

It was able to offset the unemployment records today to keep the market stagnant.

I’m all in though on the inverse. This market is going for a tumble.

Some stock symbols to keep an eye on
$SPXS $SQQQ (bear market indicies)
$APT $LAKE $INO (Corona related stocks)

The threads don’t lie, I won’t be able to hide from this.

For my Canadian friends out there if you’re interested in some risky plays and have spare change

$HUV
$HSD

For some reason I thought of this movie
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zFFtyczUWIE

"Keep the change." 🤣

Every generation and every human in general is responsible for how the world looks today.

Not every person in every generation is the same.

Every one will and has made mistakes and everyone has or will make improvements to the world we live in.

Those are fighting words, meet you at the Flag pole at 3
- Buff36

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1EwgvDvtqQs

I think there's some truth to this, but think about this situation which is not uncommon in my generation:

One of my buddies, 29, is married and is a teacher and a coach. His wife is a teacher as well. Home prices has inflated so drastically over the past 20 years that 2 professionals literally could not save enough money to buy a modest house in the suburbs. They have had to live with relatives for two years to save enough to TRY to be competitive with other buyers.

So this is where the narratives clash. They are not loafers or developmentally stunted to adolescence, but they are forced to live "at home" if they ever want to own a home of their own.

I could be wrong, but I just dont think that was a reality 30 years ago.

What I'm saying is that conditions are different. These narratives are born partially from truth and partially from circumstance

/rant
- jcragcrumple

One of my uncles lived in the upper flat of my grandparent's 2 home house...it wasn't free, but it was a reduced rent for several years. Separate living quarters as well...not the same but 1/2 way there.

So, my 1st home cost $35,000 back in like 1981/82, and my mortgage interest rate was 16.5% when my first job paid $17,000 with a BA-Accounting from Canisius. I had $10,500 in student loans and not much money to do squat after paying fir my car, gas, house, Stnd loans and food. It was touch and go for a couple years.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1EwgvDvtqQs
- Ratsreign

Funny stuff

I don't assume all are loafers, that wasn't at all what I was trying to convey. I know it's hard to make it nowadays. I was mostly ripping on the stupidity of the arbitrarily drawn lines to divide people into categories. Not at all trying to say everyone of a certain age are all the same, as everyone wasn't raised the same way. I was just saying the whole need to break everyone in categories with their labels is rather stupid, everyone is different.
I was also ripping on the people who first created this sense of entitlement in their children, that many current adults exhibit today. Like the ones coming in for entry level job, with no knowledge or experience, expecting $18/20 an hr to start. Then get pissy and indignant when I tell them that they would start much lower than that and then earn raises as they learn more. They seem to think that they should start halfway to the top.
- Ratsreign

Hopefully not one of the "entry level jobs" that require 3-5 years experience

All I will say is I'm positive he didn't work at the steel plant for 35 years so you could use his work-ethic as a badge of honor to try and d!ck-down "millennials" on a hockey forum.

I'd be ashamed of you if I were him.
- BeadyEyedDouche

Didn't you just blindly marginalize his grandfather?

I took Buff36's comment about his grandfather talking about "these young kids" to mean Buff36's generation are the young kids, not today's young kids. Could be wrong.

Didn't you just blindly marginalize his grandfather?

I took Buff36's comment about his grandfather talking about "these young kids" to mean Buff36's generation are the young kids, not today's young kids. Could be wrong.
- IonSabres

Someone that got it.

Someone that got it.
- Buff36

Their young...everything needs to be explained to them, lol.

One of my uncles lived in the upper flat of my grandparent's 2 home house...it wasn't free, but it was a reduced rent for several years. Separate living quarters as well...not the same but 1/2 way there.

So, my 1st home cost $35,000 back in like 1981/82, and my mortgage interest rate was 16.5% when my first job paid $17,000 with a BA-Accounting from Canisius. I had $10,500 in student loans and not much money to do squat after paying fir my car, gas, house, Stnd loans and food. It was touch and go for a couple years.
- IonSabres

I happened to be talking about this with my friend last night, and I was using the inflation calculator to figure out how much my parents' first house cost. I just used the calculator on your $35,000 figure which is about $96,000 now. Idk what part of the area you lived in, but I can tell you $96,000 will buy you a smallish 2-bedroom house in a "transitional" neighborhood on the west side, currently. That's doable. If you want a smallish house in a quieter suburb with a good school district, you're looking at double that for an entry level home. That means coming up with $40k for a down payment. Not easy.

This isn't meant as a "woe are we" post, but somewhere along the line, home values outstripped inflation and salaries by a sizable margin

He did start before the trade deadline, so a little longer than 45 minutes.
- adambuffalo

Someone mentioned a similar thought on the trade as Beane's comments below. I think that is a very solid way to look at the trade.

“The way I’m viewing it with the draft capital that we moved to acquire him is that we moved up, let’s just say, four spots. We traded up there and we got him and we know the player. It’s just a more proven thing right now,” Beane said.

I question other takes that he paid too much, or quite a haul for Diggs based on this thought process. Good deal for both teams.

So if there is a buyout next year and I have seen some people calling for Skinner if there is one. I really can't see Pegula dishing out that out.

I happened to be talking about this with my friend last night, and I was using the inflation calculator to figure out how much my parents' first house cost. I just used the calculator on your $35,000 figure which is about $96,000 now. Idk what part of the area you lived in, but I can tell you $96,000 will buy you a smallish 2-bedroom house in a "transitional" neighborhood on the west side, currently. That's doable. If you want a smallish house in a quieter suburb with a good school district, you're looking at double that for an entry level home. That means coming up with $40k for a down payment. Not easy.

This isn't meant as a "woe are we" post, but somewhere along the line, home values outstripped inflation and salaries by a sizable margin
- jcragcrumple

$96,000 where I live in the GTA would be lucky to get me enough square feet to put a bidet to wash my a$$

Someone mentioned a similar thought on the trade as Beane's comments below. I think that is a very solid way to look at the trade.

“The way I’m viewing it with the draft capital that we moved to acquire him is that we moved up, let’s just say, four spots. We traded up there and we got him and we know the player. It’s just a more proven thing right now,” Beane said.

I question other takes that he paid too much, or quite a haul for Diggs based on this thought process. Good deal for both teams.
- IonSabres

Yeah I saw that to, don't think that is really is a high price to pay for a proven commodity.

$96,000 where I live in the GTA would be lucky to get me enough square feet to put a bidet to wash my a$$
- Pegullaville

You're going to hear gunshots on or near your block a few times a year for $96k, I can tell you that

I happened to be talking about this with my friend last night, and I was using the inflation calculator to figure out how much my parents' first house cost. I just used the calculator on your $35,000 figure which is about $96,000 now. Idk what part of the area you lived in, but I can tell you $96,000 will buy you a smallish 2-bedroom house in a "transitional" neighborhood on the west side, currently. That's doable. If you want a smallish house in a quieter suburb with a good school district, you're looking at double that for an entry level home. That means coming up with $40k for a down payment. Not easy.

This isn't meant as a "woe are we" post, but somewhere along the line, home values outstripped inflation and salaries by a sizable margin
- jcragcrumple

i bought my house in snyder for 130k 3.5 years ago now its worth 180k

neighbors added a 2nd bathroom (literally a toilet and a shower in the basement) and sold theirs for 220k

its ridiculous

Hopefully not one of the "entry level jobs" that require 3-5 years experience
- BareMetal

Nope, talking pure entry level laborer. Just need to be willing to work and able to learn. The sooner you learn more skills, the sooner you'll get paid more.

i bought my house in snyder for 130k 3.5 years ago now its worth 180k

neighbors added a 2nd bathroom (literally a toilet and a shower in the basement) and sold theirs for 220k

its ridiculous
- robz228

We got lucky finding a place in the town of Aurora that was totally decked out in early '80s decor and needed 2 months of reno. People couldn't see past the wallpaper (everwhere) chair rails and door insets (everywhere) and popcorn ceilings (most of the house).

Also got lucky that we pulled the money out of the stock market in Early January right before the 'Rona hit.

Our house has a random toilet in the basement, but they didnt advertise it as a quarter bath

Idk, it's ridiculous out there right now

i bought my house in snyder for 130k 3.5 years ago now its worth 180k

neighbors added a 2nd bathroom (literally a toilet and a shower in the basement) and sold theirs for 220k

its ridiculous
- robz228

Virus is gonna tank the market. Will be a able to get steals on houses in a couple months if you have the cash

Those are fighting words, meet you at the Flag pole at 3
- Buff36

You two (frank)ers can fight.

But 6 feet apart.