Well, he gets more distance the bit he swims prior to the tide being sucked-back, you can't run in flippers or anticipate perfectly the rate of cycles in a swell-Not really so much a fail with that as it was his enthusiastic, man-gait to the shore and subsequent false-alarm, swimmer-in-distress.

A bigger MAMMAL than expected. Wait... not a fish but a mammal... no, no -- a thing that's bigger than another thing which was expected but this was not... expected. A bigger flipper than -- no, no, flipper was a dolphin, but was a mammal. Definitely definitely too small. This was BIG.

You had me at "flipper slippers".

Three's a charm [as in third "admitted" pinball fan]

How flashy are those ruby "flippers"? LOVE THIS!

Great, these stupid humans have disturbed the natural order. When the last whale dies at the hands/flippers/fuzzy appendages of the genocidal otter horde we'll have only ourselves to blame.

Oncrayawbluh.

In a few million years those big paws are going to be flippers.

"Oh thats just Flapper... Flippers older brother. He's a thrill seeker... racing in wakes, ramming sharks, riding on whales,... always looking for the next 'extreme' thing to do."

I would have your babies...your little flipper-babies>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^rottenseed:
I would like the background of each and every comment I post to have a watermark of an American Bald Eagle transposed in front of "Old Glory" waving in the winds of triumph, success, and baby Jesus. I also want the phrase "Never Forget..." as a signature. That way I always remember to lock the door before going to work.

I can totally make you a userstyle that does that. But I probably won't.
Actually, if I get my comment flags, I'll make you your userstyle.

>> ^rougy:

@bcglorf,
There were a lot of "house flippers" as I've heard them called, but I doubt it was a majority of the "bad loans" that Wall Street was packaging in their CDO's. I'm guessing 20% of those loans would be a high guess, most likely in the 10% range.
I'm convinced that the Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMs) were a major culprit that caused a lot of people to lose their homes. Back around 2004, there was a big advertising blitz here in the states about how people could refinance their homes using an ARM and make themselves some easy money.
What actually happened was that those loans were sold---which I don't think was always allowed---and the fine print said that each time the loan was sold, there was an adjustment to the mortgage.
My parents bought a little house for a rental. Their first month's mortgage payment was about $180. Not six months later, they were paying almost $500, and they couldn't get out of it. They were lucky. It wasn't their primary residence and they were able to sell the place suffering a relatively minor loss.
Anyway...I still haven't found anything new about Greece's problems, but as of today it still seems to be a powder keg situation.
Cheers.
EDIT:
Look at this graph from Wikipedia.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Sovere
ign_credit_default_swaps.png
One look at that tells me that Greece's problem probably doesn't have much to do with its social spending.


The 'making easy money' off of ARM's is a big part of what I was talking about. Regular people were encouraged to make 'easy money' upgrading their primary residence. There's of course big fault on the banks for encouraging and profiting off that, but there's also fault on the regular folks making the easy money too.

I didn't just mean professional house flippers, even a regular Joe that noticed his house had gone up by $40k since buying it a year ago deciding he'd sell, use $20k of the profits as down payment on a bigger home, and the other $20k to furnish the new home with nice toys. More than just a few of those guys did it a second or third time too, an why not? The problem ones were the ones that extended themselves to the max where they couldn't make their mortgage payments unless their planned sale at a profit panned out. The banks were stupid to lend to those kind of people, and that's been well established. It's been less popular though to point out that the borrowers were stupid to take the deal too. It's been even less popular to point out that the borrowers often made a lot of money along the way too. My beef is that the banks stupidity got cushioned by tax payers. The right approach was taken by letting the borrowers live with their decision, the banks should've been treated the same.

@bcglorf,

There were a lot of "house flippers" as I've heard them called, but I doubt it was a majority of the "bad loans" that Wall Street was packaging in their CDO's. I'm guessing 20% of those loans would be a high guess, most likely in the 10% range.

I'm convinced that the Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMs) were a major culprit that caused a lot of people to lose their homes. Back around 2004, there was a big advertising blitz here in the states about how people could refinance their homes using an ARM and make themselves some easy money.

What actually happened was that those loans were sold---which I don't think was always allowed---and the fine print said that each time the loan was sold, there was an adjustment to the mortgage.

My parents bought a little house for a rental. Their first month's mortgage payment was about $180. Not six months later, they were paying almost $500, and they couldn't get out of it. They were lucky. It wasn't their primary residence and they were able to sell the place suffering a relatively minor loss.

Anyway...I still haven't found anything new about Greece's problems, but as of today it still seems to be a powder keg situation.

Cheers.

EDIT:

Look at this graph from Wikipedia.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Sovereign_credit_default_swaps.png

One look at that tells me that Greece's problem probably doesn't have much to do with its social spending.

>> ^BoneRemake:

>> ^sillma:
Yeah, the spatula is clearly plastic.

Hey and you said it without sounding like an asshole, GREAT JOB !
Clearly a metal handle with a plastic flipper or maybe its metal spatula with silicon dip


Thank you.

>> ^sillma:

Yeah, the spatula is clearly plastic.


Hey and you said it without sounding like an asshole, GREAT JOB !

Clearly a metal handle with a plastic flipper or maybe its metal spatula with silicon dip

Your link is pointless.
Each person in the world practices Capitalism each and every day. So why do you dog it so much?

Your link is about the various causes of homeless.
The lack of Affordable housing is not the fault of capitalism. Capitalism does not raise costs but reduces costs through competition. Government rules and regulations add costs. Go blame them.

Another on that list is "Government policy - Child support enforcement keeping drivers licenses from citizens and other civil rights violations." Once again Government messing with people from enjoying their freedom which costs them more money. Go fight the government, not Capitalism.

Lastly another item on you list is low wages. Low wage is not meant to live on but a stepping stone as one advances in their career. The only people who live on low wages are those who decided not to pay attention in school and got left behind. That's their fault. If they really want a better wage then they will make the necessary adjustments and turn themselves around towards the part of prosperity.

Granted some are born with low IQ or such and would not ever be much more than a burger flipper. That is sad and the local community should be the helping hand in times of need, not Government.


>> ^Peroxide:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States

>> ^bobknight33:
Capitalism it the best. It serves all people equally.

LOL nice! Nothing better than high heel flippers!

In reply to this comment by Lann:
Don't get too hot over these... \^\^