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Ultimate Suburban McMansions
- Thread starter LowPolygon
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LowPolygon
Senior Member
hey that's a cool chart. i'm jealous you can attack me that way. i'm pretty sure Jesus wouldn't live in a McMansion though.
TKTKTK
Senior Member
Jesus was very likely McMansion-neutral.
I wasn't trying to attack you by graphing your opinions. Are you not Anti-McMansion/judgmental, with 63 units of negativity?
55 units?
I was trying to think of a name for the units, but 'Negstroms' seemed oblique.
TKTKTK
Senior Member
urbandreamer
recession proof
Ha ha hilarious! But as the master of graphs, could you make a graph for the real estate section showing price/volume in Toronto housing market during the past 10 years?
LowPolygon
Senior Member
i'm happy for you that you have so much time on your hands. i guess it beats internet porn.
Mustapha
Senior Member
Wow, a scolding in the best vice-principal style. Is your tie too tight? Tweed sports coat too itchy?
detroitbootybass
Active Member
Hmmmm... I was unaware that individual expression of one's ideas/thoughts is now considered 'square'.
TKTKTK
Senior Member
TKTKTK
Senior Member
Either way I'm dealing with a jerk-off, right?
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Hydrogen
Guest
Since you took it that way, it appears that you have an issues to resolve. One can only assume vice-principal issues on your part.
Maybe you have not tuned into the notion that burning down homes is an unreasonable approach to dealing with things that run contrary to your opinions?
It has also been noted that you have neglected/failed to address this point:
Uprising against what?
Mustapha
Senior Member
Class uprising.
You know, one of those things that regularly happens in history.Look, we have a values system difference here. Somehow there will always be folks who aspire to one of these homes. My position is that I hate them with a passion. Of all the stupid indulgences to foist on this planet that also happen to offend the discerning eye and taste, mcmansions are hard to outdo. As far as I am concerned the owners are unconcerned fools. These houses are the equivalent of a finger in my face.
I posted a reply to a similar topic months ago ... I said that I knew the owner of one of these. He called his mansion 'my f-k you house'. This was followed with the mandatory smirk. Think about it. No one needs a house like this. They are purchased to - going down the scale here - impress/cause envy/evoke jealousy.
Of course, in no way am I counseling arson either, that's just rhetoric. People get hurt that way.
If I was invited to a function at one, I wouldn't go. If a vacant one caved in my feelings wouldn't be hurt.Notice I didn't say a bad thing about the old mcmansions on South Drive; they are lovely.
Redroom Studios
Senior Member
I would have throw my voice behind those that find such homes offensive and a threat to the common good of the planet. Its doubtful whether debating it will change anyones mind... but when frustrated by such extravagent behaviour I often remind myself, the bigger you are the harder you fall. And we must all remember that this type of grotesque consumption is not endemic to our cushy little part of the world... billionaires in China have now joined the club and are eating up land and resources in a country already starved for space. China will be the first to see the real crash and burn.... will it be a lesson that enlightens the rest of the world, or will our wealthy remain stubbornly blind ego maniacs?
I have an uncle that has made it big owning McDonald's outlets... I hate going to his house because the talk is always about money and 'toys'. He is always trying to impress me with his new big screen tv, built in sound system, new SUV etc... I am really very unimpressed and personally cant relate to anyone so one dimensional (and selfish) in their approach to life.
I have an uncle that has made it big owning McDonald's outlets... I hate going to his house because the talk is always about money and 'toys'. He is always trying to impress me with his new big screen tv, built in sound system, new SUV etc... I am really very unimpressed and personally cant relate to anyone so one dimensional (and selfish) in their approach to life.
adma
Superstar
Perhaps, come the Kunstlerian post-mortgage-crisis time that such a ridiculous white elephant is subdivided into apartments. And not without a touch of knowing irony, too. Then again, maybe not, if it's a vermin-infested drug den in that incarnation...
Lilibet
Active Member
I'm guessing none of the builders, buyers or residents of these oversized monstrosities have read or support the concept behind "Little House on a Small Planet."