I'm really disturbed by how homophobic many of these posters are. I can't imagine how the little chit-chat between dave, biff, etc. is either harmful to Brownstoner or innately dangerous in any way. Once again, but not for the last time, I'm sure, I'm mildly shocked at how provincial/racist/homophobic/intolerant the would-be cultured brooklynites are...Especially the person bragging about living in Brooklyn Heights, which is a pretty tacky place-Southampton--genuinely gross--and "Paris"--as if those three signifiers mean anything linked together. It just tells me that a rich, tacky person, who probably doesn't even speak enough French to realize that their Parisian neighbors despise them, has the bad taste to go to wherever people with more money than common sense go. I bet the "Paris" place is somewhere like St. Germain, where only an idiot would buy something, and its full of fearful fat American tourists. Seriously. I know this isn't Manhattan, even virtually--but honestly. Daveinbedstuy and the What are more interesting than most of this posturing, flatulent, "I'm so rich" dreck. I seriously wonder, not to get overly psychoanalytic, but--how "small" some of these "big" men actually are--it really is too rich.
I'm really disturbed by how homophobic many of these posters are. I can't imagine how the little chit-chat between dave, biff, etc. is either harmful to Brownstoner or innately dangerous in any way. Once again, but not for the last time, I'm sure, I'm mildly shocked at how provincial/racist/homophobic/intolerant the would-be cultured brooklynites are...Especially the person bragging about living in Brooklyn Heights, which is a pretty tacky place-Southampton--genuinely gross--and "Paris"--as if those three signifiers mean anything linked together. It just tells me that a rich, tacky person, who probably doesn't even speak enough French to realize that their Parisian neighbors despise them, has the bad taste to go to wherever people with more money than common sense go. I bet the "Paris" place is somewhere like St. Germain, where only an idiot would buy something, and its full of fearful fat American tourists. Seriously. I know this isn't Manhattan, even virtually--but honestly. Daveinbedstuy and the What are more interesting than most of this posturing, flatulent, "I'm so rich" dreck. I seriously wonder, not to get overly psychoanalytic, but--how "small" some of these "big" men actually are--it really is too rich.
Posted by: anniewilde at April 16, 2008 12:57 PM in response to Housing Collapse: A Global Domino Effect?