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From: Eeyore on 17 Nov 2006 11:36 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > re: buying a house > > > > >Which is fine for these Portuguese but what about everyone else who doesn't > >have an extended family ? > > You find friends who will pool. If you're lucky. > In the early 80s, singles > would pool their resources, buy a house and share the mortgage > payments. There are all kinds of ways to get started. I suggest it's not that simple for everyone. Mortgage lenders don't like such arrangements as a rule either. Graham
From: Don Bowey on 17 Nov 2006 11:35 On 11/17/06 1:12 AM, in article dbfd9$455d7cf6$4fe707b$399(a)DIALUPUSA.NET, "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > Don Bowey trolled: > >> On 11/16/06 7:30 PM, in article 90809$455d2cc1$4fe45a8$30258(a)DIALUPUSA.NET, >> "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >> >> >>> Don Bowey wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Life's too short to not have a car you love, or not have excellent wine and >>>> beer nearby. >>> >>> I guess they're acceptable substitutes for >>> intelligence in your case. >> >> >> Piffle! >> > BAH was right, you fools can't even flame worth a damn. Oh Hummmmmmmmm
From: Eeyore on 17 Nov 2006 11:37 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> >> >I wonder how she got health cover on $2 a month ! > >> >> > >> >> I didn't have it. > >> > > >> >Exacttly. So what happened if you got ill ? > >> > >> I went to bed and let nature work. > > > >So what happens if the illness is potentially fatal ? > > Hopefully, somebody would find my carcas and get it removed. Right. So you accept that in America, dying from absence of health care is not unknown ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 17 Nov 2006 11:57 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >> > >> >That's not how people at McDonald's give change. That's not how anybody > >> >gives change any more, they just give over the amount of money the cash > >> >register tells them to. If the bill is 5.35, and you give them a 10, the > >> >register will tell them to give you 4.65 in change, and they do. No > >> >special skills necessary or learned. > >> > >> You are wrong. It takes learning to know which coins are which > >> value. It takes learning to know what 1 and 5 and 10 and 20 > >> mean on the paper bills. > > > >Ohhh ...... puh-leeze.......... !! > > > > > >> There are people who do not know this stuff. If kids have > >> never handled money, have never been taught what money is, > >> how will they know that a dime is $.10? > > > >Ohhh ...... puh-leeze.......... !! > > You are not thinking. If kids' experience is only with > credit card swipes, and their parents don't pay using > cash, how are the kids going to learn about denominations > and counting out currency money? Well..... they won't learn that from working at McDonalds for sure. Graham
From: Eeyore on 17 Nov 2006 11:59
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > > >> There are people who do not know this stuff. If kids have > >> never handled money, have never been taught what money is, > >> how will they know that a dime is $.10? > > > >These things are taught in kindergarten. If a kid wasn't able to learn it > >then, s/he won't be able to learn it now. > > If people never use what they are taught in real life, they will > not know these details. Despite your assertions, it seems that ppl do manage somehow ! Graham |