The couch thread

[CultBuster]

I dig Melissa Urban on several levels;

1) She is a Rob Wolf protege and actually has good food stuff
2) Met her and she is a free thinker
3) She turns my knobs

I am hoping she will tell @fit to cram it up their cramhole, she got all her food stuff from Wolf and seems to hold less love for couch than most of them

[Crust Bucket]

[TerryB]

I have expect some 50s-era lab-coated Russian scientists to wander out from behind a two-way mirror, clipboards in hand, shaking their heads in agreement at the outcome of their experiment.

[theoverman]

crossfit new york, circa 1915.

fucking strong intensity on that concept 0 rower asshole. this ain't a poetry jam.



vibram analogs - check
medicine ball - check
shirts off - check
oly rings - check

how long till couch brings back those wooden bowling pins? wtf were those even for?

[theoverman]

this can't be serious.

[Jag Panzer]

this can't be serious.

It's funnier this way

[Yes I Have Balls]

Who is this little hosebeast?

Her name is Penny Mathis

[The Nightman]

Nice.

[Sofa King]

After winning at hopscotch little Timmy gives himself a high five.

Jeebus Gawd Almighty! Crusty is on fire today.

Keep the lulz coming.

[Sofa King]

Who is this little hosebeast?

Her name is Penny Mathis

Go on. . .

[Yes I Have Balls]

The way I perceived it he [Barry Cooper] was earnestly trying to be a peacemaker and was effectively silenced. That was what I observed before being blocked from the affiliate section of the board. Not sure what unfolded after wards.

We need moar intel from these affiliate boards. We need this now.

[Sassenach]

Hmm... redirecting to some bondage site. I can't say I mind entirely.

[CultBuster]

I can't get links to work. What site do you type into the box? Also if we put links into every post, is it more work for mods? I agree about the affliate section, but everyone I know with access would never give anything up.

[theoverman]

I can't get links to work. What site do you type into the box? Also if we put links into every post, is it more work for mods? I agree about the affliate section, but everyone I know with access would never give anything up.

[tough old man]

Hmm... redirecting to some bondage site. I can't say I mind entirely.

So... thats not @fit.com? I couldnt figure out what everyone was complaining about.

[Danny John]

45 Guests.

[Sofa King]

What's the name of this WOD?

[Turdacious]

Lovely, IGx gets referred to a BoundGods.com , a gay S&M site. HAHAHAHHAHAH.

Just the fact that they've done that means that we've won.

That's the only exercise couch can do since his ring injury.

[theoverman]

What's the name of this WOD?

Gitmo

For Time
21 waterboarding
15 battery electrocutions
5 naked dogpiles

post confessions to comments

[Yes I Have Balls]

What's the name of this WOD?

Gitmo

For Time
21 waterboarding
15 battery electrocutions
5 naked dogpiles

post confessions to comments

You see, you fail to intuit correctly, and are more passively incongruous about the correct modal domain of the @fit rep range. These ideas of the value of revolution can only be uttered by Westernized intellectuals. They can only be uttered by people not forced to endure the conditions which they want to keep others in. You do nothing to further this process by ignoring my open invitation to agree with me, as simply stated that I am a pimp. Rather, you again betray either ignorance or disingenuousness. American interests are to squelch this scenario, and we are well along the way. It is within our grasp. But our grasp at times exceeds our will, our reach exceeds our vision. Of course one's reach always exceeds one's hindsight. We have been attacked many times, and surely you can understand there is no need for a global power to sit by idly and wait for more attacks without doing anything, simply because someone could--inadvertently, or more likely intentionally--misconstrue our motives. Sometimes these clowns are so self obsessed that the look of themselves looking back at them in the mirror is sufficient for their on-going affective and cognitive continuity, but much more often they combine their radical "freedom" with activities designed, ultimately, to reduce their freedom through the physical compulsion of a tyrannical government, typically a Communist one, although what I have termed Black Fascism would work just as well, as it did for Heidegger.

Signed

-Coach

[theoverman]

Signed

-Coach

Greg apropro of nothing, I just thought of this brief comment:

This is an enormously complex issue, but I think Jeff basically has it right, as usual. Not having time to dig into this in detail, based on the roughly 6 editorials and summaries I've read, here is what makes sense to me:

The Community Reinvestment Act was for all intents and purposes a tax on corporations. They were compelled by law to make loans they otherwise would not have made. If they would have made the loans, there would have been no need for the law, which did not create incentives for investment, but rather punished lack of investment. This is typical leftist policy.

Somewhere along the way--not sure if it was under Bush--banks were allowed to charge higher interest rates in these areas, at which point the economics made sense, at least in the short term. So-called "predatory lending" was simply lending money to people who could be expected to fail to make their payments a fairly high percentage of the time. Banks do not want to own foreclosures--they aren't profitable, and wind up sitting a long time as "Real Estate--Owned" (REO), and then getting sold by a realtor, hopefully for a profit, but not necessarily. Actual loss is especially likely in urban areas with relatively low property values. Since loss of money is likely, you have to charge more money to make up the difference.

Now--and here is where I'm a little fuzzy--it appears that much of the deregulation that was done to help people into homes, which was intended both for CRA projects, but also for the middle class more generally, worked to make it easy for banks to achieve strings of profitable quarters. You make a loan, then sell it before it goes bad. You have many creative options possible which go far beyond what would normally be considered sound business practice.

MBA schools teach you how to become rich. They don't, it seems to me, teach you how to create generalized wealth any more. It is almost a zero sum game, where for every winner, there is a loser.

Be that as it may, the basic precipitating factor behind this crisis was a collective loss of confidence brought on by an inaccurate rating system, as Jeff said. If you have an investment that is high risk, you expect it to pay high rates of return. If it's low risk, you expect less.

These investment banks bought--paid cash for--many billions of dollars of securities which in effect represented the collective profit of 100's of thousands of homes. Loaning money is profitable, and in effect the intent in buying these securities would be to make a long term profit off of the interest all of these homeowners paid.

In this system, the local bank that originates the loan sells it off to another bank for a reduced profit. Let's say over 30 years they would have made $50,000 on a $100,000 home. I don't know what the numbers are, but that's hopefully not too far off. They sell it for $110,000, and have made $10,000 profit for a few hours of work. Then they repeat that a thousand times, and they are doing well. They have their money, so they don't care if the money is repaid or not.

The banks that buy them think longer term, and in bigger numbers. They know there will be some defaults, but they figure that overall, on balance, these are good investments. So they talk the credit rating agencies to make them look like sure things, and give them AAA ratings.

Problem is, some of these houses were not worth what was paid for them. The whole thing was blown up by excessively easy credit. This means that if the home-owner falls behind, the house cannot be sold for anything close to what was loaned on it. Money will be lost.

Your fuck buddy,

Barry Cooper

PS- I forgot to mention William James, but keep in mind, I am familiar with the work of William James.

[Crust Bucket]

Kinda speechless right here.....

[Yes I Have Balls]

I can't get links to work. What site do you type into the box?

What are you asking exactly?

[Yes I Have Balls]

PS- I forgot to mention William James, but keep in mind, I am familiar with the work of William James.

strong edit skilz

[theoverman]

Kinda speechless right here.....

The real test of dedication is WADs with burpees.