Your Controversial Opinions

[Emoore]

Originally Posted by PaddyD

Was it only in English?

Hers was, but they had different ones in different languages.
We had a good laugh over it, but it is scary that they have to pass those out.

[PaddyD]

Originally Posted by Emoore

Hers was, but they had different ones in different languages.
We had a good laugh over it, but it is scary that they have to pass those out.

Yikes! I was kidding. Now you are scaring me.
Thinking about it....
Should be a lot more on there, like maybe a feeding schedule.
... and on and on ....

[Emoore]

Originally Posted by PaddyD

Yikes! I was kidding. Now you are scaring me.
Thinking about it....
Should be a lot more on there, like maybe a feeding schedule.
... and on and on ....

Hey, you can only fit so many words on one little baby.

[GSDolch]

Originally Posted by Syaoransbear

I think it's silly when people tell me I'm living in sin, as if their religion applies to me even though I don't believe in it. I think if someone mentions that to me again I'm going to grill them about why they are working during the Sabbath, why they are eating non-kosher food, why they are eating meat, why they are disrespecting their Goddesses and Gods by abusing nature, why they aren't wearing a burqa if they are female, and a bunch of other questions about other religions they don't practice until they understand that telling someone they are sinning by the rules of some religion they don't follow is pretty pointless . It's like trying to play Solitaire and someone is complaining that you aren't following the rules of Poker.

*nods*

Thats another controversial one for me to. Sin, I don't believe in it. Kids are controversial too. If someone wants to tell me how many kids I can/can't have, then I should be able to tell them how many dogs they can/can't have.

I mean if we are going to go by how much money people have. I mean its only fair if someone is going to meddle in my life I get to meddle in theirs.

[Falkosmom]

Originally Posted by GregK

Just because it's on your plate doesn't mean you have to eat it.

Isn't eating everything on your plate one of the ten commandments?

[ladyfreckles]

I think there should be a ban on the over construction of "luxury" homes with obscene price tags. They raise the home price of everything else in the area artificially and have all but made this region completely unaffordable.

[Falkosmom]

Originally Posted by ladyfreckles

I think there should be a ban on the over construction of "luxury" homes with obscene price tags. They raise the home price of everything else in the area artificially and have all but made this region completely unaffordable.

I believe the buyer has a lot to do with this, as do real estate appraisers for mortgage companys and bank/mortgage companys themselves. People should value their hard earned money more and not pay the artificially inflated prices and banks should not use appraisers that will appraise these houses at these inflated values (and refuse to use and/or fire those that don't) and banks/mortgage companies should not give full mortgages on these properties full well knowing the properties are not worth it.

[ladyfreckles]

Originally Posted by Falkosmom

I believe the buyer has a lot to do with this, as do real estate appraisers for mortgage companys and bank/mortgage companys themselves. People should value their hard earned money more and not pay the artificially inflated prices and banks should not use appraisers that will appraise these houses at these inflated values (and refuse to use and/or fire those that don't) and banks/mortgage companies should not give full mortgages on these properties full well knowing the properties are not worth it.

Agreed. Up the street they have built an entire luxury townhome community. They are charging $650,000 for town homes with no yard or property. Up north the same/similar building companies are doing the same thing. So now the appraisers are valuing homes nearby these luxury homes as much higher in cost and people just take out loans for that kind of stuff and voila.... now the average home price is $500,000.

[Falkosmom]

Originally Posted by ladyfreckles

Agreed. Up the street they have built an entire luxury townhome community. They are charging $650,000 for town homes with no yard or property. Up north the same/similar building companies are doing the same thing. So now the appraisers are valuing homes nearby these luxury homes as much higher in cost and people just take out loans for that kind of stuff and voila.... now the average home price is $500,000.

It is sad, but it is happening all over this country despite the big real estate bust. Doesn't seem like anybody learned anything.

[ladyfreckles]

Another one I forgot about:

I'm not afraid to talk about money and I don't understand why people are so private about it. If more people were honest about money and stopped being ashamed of their income/spending habits I think more people would learn and not make financial mistakes. I just don't understand the stigma of "oh we just don't talk about salary". If someone asks me what I make, I will tell them. I don't really care. I just don't get the stigma associated with it.