I'd like to think my leaving this board would at least alleviate your troll issues, but sadly. the troll seems to be ever expanding. I had a look last night, for nostalgia, at the thread that occurred before our first meet up at wine and roses. it was so fun! this isn't any longer. this board has meant a great deal to me, and I've made numerous friends as a result of it. I'm confident they'll... [more]
I'd like to think my leaving this board would at least alleviate your troll issues, but sadly. the troll seems to be ever expanding.
I had a look last night, for nostalgia, at the thread that occurred before our first meet up at wine and roses. it was so fun! this isn't any longer.
this board has meant a great deal to me, and I've made numerous friends as a result of it. I'm confident they'll remain friends, and for that I'm extremely grateful. NYC real estate is obviously a topic that fascinates me (believe me, nobody looks at as many comps as I do without being obsessed with the topic).
this has been destructive for awhile, but I was loath (that fighting Irish spirit) to let the trolls win. I no longer care. any victory seems destined to be a pyrrhic one at this point. but the bottom line is that this is just no longer interesting or fun. so what have I been fighting to keep going?
I'm not going off in a huff, and this may seem melodramatic, but like many others I find se more than a bit addictive. this public farewell hopefully will provide me with the incentive to stay off the board. if I don't feel free to heap abuse upon me!
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Response by Riversider
over 15 years ago
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Suddenly I'm reminded of that great Carol Burnett Nora Desmond clip
AR, you are one of the most generous, intelligent posters in this board. You'll be greatly missed. I thank SE for having met you. I consider you my friend, and I hope I get to see you again next time I am in NY.
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over 15 years ago
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aboutready, see you in 3 weeks
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Response by inonada
over 15 years ago
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Farewell, AR.
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over 15 years ago
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Farewell. I hope not forever.
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Response by ph41
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From the Wine and Roses thread 15 months ago. Looks like AR's "piss off" was a very early feature.
youcannot
about 15 months ago
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report abuse aboutready, I'm in Rome now, so I won't meet you.
aboutready
about 15 months ago
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report abuse when in rome...
youcannot
about 15 months ago
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report abuse To be honest, I have this aversion to anonymous posters who don't mind have their cover blown. If you really don't, post under your real name. Otherwise it smacks of childish egocentric attention starvation. Gimmicky stuff.. But it's just me.
aboutready
about 15 months ago
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report abuse youcannot, if my husband weren't a local managing partner at an international law firm, and my daughter weren't at an ues private school, i'd announce. but a limited amount of discretion, at the least, seems reasonable. if i get raging drunk one night and post something i shouldn't, i'm sure the reprecussions won't be severe. but for the benefit of the others in my life, a thin veneer of discretion isn't too much to aim for.
aboutready
about 15 months ago
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report abuse by the way, youcannot, who are YOU?
patient09
about 15 months ago
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report abuse patient09 is my real name, I think my mother may have been a bit omniscient about when I would make my next purchase. Amazing really.
aboutready
about 15 months ago
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report abuse at least she didn't name you Elvis.
youcannot
about 15 months ago
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report abuse aboutready, again, I already know about you a million times more than I want to. Sorry.
youcannot
about 15 months ago
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report abuse Also, I don't believe I'm interesting or intriguing enough to pique popular interest. I'd rather know about different real estate-related services. Not opinions, mind you.
aboutready
about 15 months ago
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report abuse then go elsewhere. ciao.
youcannot
about 15 months ago
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report abuse Is this your site, Aboutready? Or is it free to everyone to post and chose the topics and posters?
aboutready
about 15 months ago
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report abuse Oh please. You tell me that you find anon posters full of pretense. Then I tell you why I don't come forth freely and you give me some bs about why you won't. Then you post some oblique comment about how you "know about" me. Then you give some lame-assed excuse about how your own rules about revealing yourself don't apply to you because you're not interesting.
Are you implying that I am interesting so I should reveal myself to you, who is certainly adverse to my self-interests?
There are some threads that deal with real estate-related services. Find them if you need to. You are on a thread about a gathering of people.
Piss off.
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about 15 months ago
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report abuse Aboutready, are you all right?
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Response by alanhart
over 15 years ago
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The nerve! She played the "when in rome..." card.
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Response by conradcounty
over 15 years ago
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columbiacounty also said he'd leave. And he did. For a while. And then he came back.
We'll see aboutready back. I'm guessing 3 weeks, though her vacation plans (can you believe ANOTHER vacation??) may impact that some. Even my posting here might impact that (see Heisenberg).
If she comes back, maybe she even changes her name. But perhaps when she comes back and isn't so nasty to others, others won't be nasty back (see Newton).
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Response by columbiacounty
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i never said i would leave. and i haven't left. you'll be gone shortly.
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nope you did leave then you came back
aboutready
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who cares? he's not banned, he's just not here. i actually admire his restraint.
http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/18649
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"columbiacounty also said he'd leave"
no, i didn't.
you are of course a great liar and distorter.
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oh, so your claim is that you didn't say it, but you just did it?
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Response by ph41
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AR - in your honor will play "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" substituting "SE" for "Argentina" many times today.
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Response by columbiacounty
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my claim?
you posted yet another lie.
you love this, don't you?
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dnfcc
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that certainly clears up your lying.
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so you didn't disappear for an extended period of time, after streeteasy greyed you out?
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Let's try this again.
"columbiaciunty also said he'd leave"
No, I didn't.
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over 15 years ago
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you just left, right?
by the way, how does my direct quote keep changing spelling? alanhart, can you help?
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Response by columbiacounty
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What does frantic searching sound like?
You are a proven liar. Who does that remind you of?
Obsessive poster, distorter and outright liar.
And offended by profanity.
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"What does frantic searching sound like?" don't know
"You are a proven liar. Who does that remind you of?" Is that a political question?
"Obsessive poster, distorter and outright liar." cc?
"And offended by profanity." Now I'm hurt.
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What have I lied about?
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Response by bjw2103
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Sad. ar, I hope you eventually reconsider, but to be honest, I've had many of the same thoughts in the past few days, as most of the recent threads are toxic and rather scary. It just isn't much fun anymore. Not sure if I'll follow you out yet, but it's on my mind.
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Response by spinnaker1
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How tacky of you conrad to hijack AR's fake wake.
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Response by Riversider
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My money is she declares some false victory and posts again. She's addicted.
aboutready
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report abuse I'm sure a number of you will be happy to see my departure (although Spunky, I will truly miss you) but I have found a number of real estate blogs where I don't even feel compelled to post very often, because I agree generally with what's being said (and they're run by real estate brokers, no less.) I'm sure that nervous habit, or excessive boredom, will cause me to check in once in awhile (particularly about specific buildings I might be interested in), but generally I find you guys to be storks with your heads so stuck in the sand its gotta cause some major itching.
New York IS different, just not THAT much. Bye, and good luck.
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She will reconsider. she'll be back. I'm guessing about 3 weeks, although as I think about it perhaps waiting until the kid goes to school at the beginning of September. The real estate topic still interests her. And she'll make a vow to herself to limit the amount of personal detail she shares, and to try to be a bit more balanced. She might even change her name from aboutready which long ago lost applicability to her situation. And the funny thing is, if she returns and doesn't attack other people and isn't nasty, she won't hear a peep out of me with comments directed toward her. And that might even be the case for others too.
Bon voyage aboutready. See you in a few weeks.
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jsmith, you are outdoing yourself, thank you!
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Response by columbiacounty
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But since your stated goal from day one was to drive her and others away, why are you so pleased at the thought of her return?
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Which of course goes to the bigger question. Why are you entitled to relentlessly and personally attack her?
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Response by Riversider
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What's good for the goose is good for the gander?
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Response by ph41
over 15 years ago
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jsmith - can't give you odds, because I'm sure she'll post again - time frame is the only questionable part of that bet. AR just finds it too compelling to be a would-be cross between Mother Teresa, Eleanor Roosevelt,Arianna Huffington, Milton Friedman (add whatever economists names here), and Eva Peron.
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over 15 years ago
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How did I miss this. Aboutready isn't genuinely leaving. She's just going on vacation. How conveniently timed with her "farewell" . (by the way, wasn't she just on vacation 3 weeks ago, in Rome).
http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/21954-se-get-rid-of-somewhereelse aboutready
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report abuse what do you have truth? my husband is due to arrive at 10 from a business trip and my teenaged daughter is at the movies with two friends, who will be going on vacation with us tomorrow.
why are you here at 9:40 on a Friday?
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over 15 years ago
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riversider---are you answering for the county or acknowledging that you are the county?
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over 15 years ago
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columbiacounty, which county are you referring to?
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Response by dwell
over 15 years ago
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AR,
whatever you decide (stay or go), I wish you all the best
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Response by w67thstreet
over 15 years ago
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WTF? Did I miss something? Come back anytime. Remember shits and giggles.
Conradcounty, congrats all your se friends will be back now, yeah! What a tool.
Ph41, stay minty.
Smithers, get 'me my coffee.
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Response by JuiceMan
over 15 years ago
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Spunky gave AR a twist a while back and she left and returned many months later
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Response by conradcounty
over 15 years ago
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Is aboutready on a flight right now without wireless access?
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Response by Truth
over 15 years ago
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"Oh,
when you think you're ready,
come down to Crazy Eddie..."
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Response by lobster
over 15 years ago
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Aboutready, I'm truly sorry that you've decided to leave SE. I certainly can understand how you feel since I've often felt the need to take a break from participating.
I enjoyed meeting you and your husband at the last SE meet-up. I don't know if you have Lizyank's email, but if you do, please get my contact information from her. I'd love to meet you for a cup of coffee or a drink sometime. Best wishes to you.
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Response by Truth
over 15 years ago
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That was my B.F. posting. A new thread is about ready to start. We have requests and don't want to censor our guests.
Spinny, see ya over there. jsmith, ph41 ( all is forgiven )...
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Response by alanhart
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I agree with the unanimous demand on this thread that aboutready return within three weeks. And I hope (or "predict" as you people state) that it happens much sooner.
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Response by conradcounty
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when is her vacation over?
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Vacations end?
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Maybe you are right. 3 weeks ago she was in Rome. A couple months before that, another vacation. February she was on vacation. December she was on vacation.
Maybe it's just all one big vacation for her. After all, the farewell from 2 years ago, she hardly lived up to that:
aboutready
about 2 years ago
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report abuse I'm sure a number of you will be happy to see my departure (although Spunky, I will truly miss you) but I have found a number of real estate blogs where I don't even feel compelled to post very often, because I agree generally with what's being said (and they're run by real estate brokers, no less.) I'm sure that nervous habit, or excessive boredom, will cause me to check in once in awhile (particularly about specific buildings I might be interested in), but generally I find you guys to be storks with your heads so stuck in the sand its gotta cause some major itching.
New York IS different, just not THAT much. Bye, and good luck.
plus its clear that you are also someone else. who?
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I'm also colombiacounty
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Response by apt23
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AR: Thank you for all the work you did on comps. It was certainly painstaking work and very helpful. Your work -- along with 30 yrs, W81, NWT --was a significant part of the reason I engaged with SE. But your departure is certainly understandable. SE has become significantly less informative since I started visiting. And undeniably less fun. Too bizarre for most -- including me.
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didn't columbiacounty chase away 30yrs?
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say anything you want....its just confirming my decision to stay here.
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columbiacounty, you missed the apostrophe in lets. I figured I'd let you know before alanhart.
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columbiacounty
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report abuse say anything you want....its just confirming my decision to stay here.
so? you think this is a chore for me?
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Response by ph41
over 15 years ago
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ColumbiaCounty - AboutReady has, as they say "left the building" (well, she WAS as legend in her own mind). If all you can do is stalk, snipe and be a troll, please join her.
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your friend hfs has changed the game.
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columbiacounty, are you upset that you haven't been able to hit anyone with a bus, you haven't changed your status from gray to normalized, and now aboutready has left (although as we all know, it's just because she's going on vacation, and she has a two year record of leaving and returning).
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i'm not upset. i'm looking forward to the next stage of this game. should be loads of fun.
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CC- LOL you impotent craxy old coot. Go back on the porch with your BB gun and shoot some rabbits.
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is this confusing, both me and penthouse lady (aka me) posting at the same time?
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Response by columbiacounty
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i'm neither old, nor crazy. nor any of the other bullshit you have made up about me. you are a pretentious, wannabe. go back to brooklyn whence you came.
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Oh, right, that should have been "crazy" but could also have been cranky, cantankerous, and curmudgeonly
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whence is a pretty cool word
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possibly, but can you clarify what you refer to when you say 'it'?
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penthouse lady of course.
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well then absolutely
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take a picture for us.
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That's kind of hard to pose for. I'll need someone to help.
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how about truth?
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sure why not, good suggestion
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I guess this is the way ColumbiaCounty goes through his stages of grief at losing AR from the board - rage, expletives, total filth. Fitting send-off for AR
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What about the fake niceness or a pretend helpful post in the morning?
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Response by lucillebluth
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wtf is going on? what did you bitches do to scare off ar?
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Hfscomm1 finally got to her with some nice support from riversider and the crazy loon, truth.
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Or she was going on vacation this morning and figured that this would be a way to get attention while she was gone.
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Response by Salut
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Why did she feel the need to declare her departure? What did she expect, the site to fold? The sky to open? Give me a break.
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Response by Salut
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lucille, maybe, just maybe her taking over the boards and being rude had something to do with it...
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lucille, maybe because on a thread about carpeting, this is an example of how she responds to people. Compilation courtesy of jsmith
jsmith9005
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report abuse "romary, again, PLEASE READ. i don't have an issue now. none"
Then why were you cursing everyone out in this thread? Here's just a sample of your diatribe:
"how the f did you take "a glimpse of their living room" without their consent?"
"how do you have a rats ass clue as to why they don't have floor coverings? "
"you're a tard. "
"btw, you're still a tard. no compassion."
"once again you're absolutely full of shit matt. absolutely. "
"maybe one day you'll have a kid with asthma. happy days!"
"do you get it now? your kid can be a fucking obnoxious loud nightmare "
"Matt, you are such an asshole. such an asshole."
"btw, you're a jerk of the highest order."
"good f'ng lord the assumptions here are crazy. maly, same for you."
"give me a f'ng break"
"and really. what an assholic thing to write"
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I do find a long-winded announcement of the emotional effect of deciding to no longer post on this board to be quite comical. Instead of thinking about why so many reasonable people on this board dislike her posts, she plays the victim.
I agree with riversider, ar will be back posting asap.
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lucille, maybe because her farewell was conveniently timed right before going on vacation yesterday morning, so this just gives her an excuse to get some attention?
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or maybe because, another gem courtesy of jsmith posted in this thread, this is not the first time she said farewell.
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report abuse I'm sure a number of you will be happy to see my departure (although Spunky, I will truly miss you) but I have found a number of real estate blogs where I don't even feel compelled to post very often, because I agree generally with what's being said (and they're run by real estate brokers, no less.) I'm sure that nervous habit, or excessive boredom, will cause me to check in once in awhile (particularly about specific buildings I might be interested in), but generally I find you guys to be storks with your heads so stuck in the sand its gotta cause some major itching.
New York IS different, just not THAT much. Bye, and good luck.
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I agree with LICcounty, AR should be back posting ASAP.
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Hopefully. Otherwise we're stuck with the endless lies from Truth.
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she will alan, she's said farewell in the past, and then returned. This time she just happened to be headed on vacation yesterday morning so she wanted a bit of drama. You know how it is.
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Goodbye
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Farewell
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Don't you think she'd want us to take her at her word?
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this public farewell hopefully will provide me with the incentive to stay off the board. if I don't feel free to heap abuse upon me!
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alan, "will" and "should" have two different meanings.
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Kind of like circumscion and circumnavigate?
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Uh - "circumscion" go around the little car? CC- starting the Scotch a little early?
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Would account for his tirade scorch earth policy postings yesterday..
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Response by GLthirton
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Another asshole with his own thread about himself? This is the ultimate height of arrogance. We don't care about you. Want to leave? Do it. Quietly. You and the other asshole, two in one weekend.
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This soap opera is better than Mad Men!!!! And the pacing is similar, too...........
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Say it isn't so,aboutready. You have contributed a lot to this board and I hope you will reconsider your decision to leave it. Thanks for all your efforts that have informed and entertained those of us who do not always have as much to offer.
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Suddenly I'm reminded of that great Carol Burnett Nora Desmond clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKfBCitChcg
I just reread the W&R thread. It's sad. Did meeting up IRL somehow contribute to this?
I had this piece commissioned in your honor AR. I have another waiting for when you come back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI_PtQrp640&feature=PlayList&p=C1A3A076B569E466&playnext=1&index=22
sorry I'm kind of on a budget
AR, you are one of the most generous, intelligent posters in this board. You'll be greatly missed. I thank SE for having met you. I consider you my friend, and I hope I get to see you again next time I am in NY.
aboutready, see you in 3 weeks
Farewell, AR.
Farewell. I hope not forever.
From the Wine and Roses thread 15 months ago. Looks like AR's "piss off" was a very early feature.
youcannot
about 15 months ago
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report abuse aboutready, I'm in Rome now, so I won't meet you.
aboutready
about 15 months ago
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report abuse when in rome...
youcannot
about 15 months ago
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report abuse To be honest, I have this aversion to anonymous posters who don't mind have their cover blown. If you really don't, post under your real name. Otherwise it smacks of childish egocentric attention starvation. Gimmicky stuff.. But it's just me.
aboutready
about 15 months ago
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report abuse youcannot, if my husband weren't a local managing partner at an international law firm, and my daughter weren't at an ues private school, i'd announce. but a limited amount of discretion, at the least, seems reasonable. if i get raging drunk one night and post something i shouldn't, i'm sure the reprecussions won't be severe. but for the benefit of the others in my life, a thin veneer of discretion isn't too much to aim for.
aboutready
about 15 months ago
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report abuse by the way, youcannot, who are YOU?
patient09
about 15 months ago
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report abuse patient09 is my real name, I think my mother may have been a bit omniscient about when I would make my next purchase. Amazing really.
aboutready
about 15 months ago
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report abuse at least she didn't name you Elvis.
youcannot
about 15 months ago
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report abuse aboutready, again, I already know about you a million times more than I want to. Sorry.
youcannot
about 15 months ago
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report abuse Also, I don't believe I'm interesting or intriguing enough to pique popular interest. I'd rather know about different real estate-related services. Not opinions, mind you.
aboutready
about 15 months ago
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report abuse then go elsewhere. ciao.
youcannot
about 15 months ago
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report abuse Is this your site, Aboutready? Or is it free to everyone to post and chose the topics and posters?
aboutready
about 15 months ago
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report abuse Oh please. You tell me that you find anon posters full of pretense. Then I tell you why I don't come forth freely and you give me some bs about why you won't. Then you post some oblique comment about how you "know about" me. Then you give some lame-assed excuse about how your own rules about revealing yourself don't apply to you because you're not interesting.
Are you implying that I am interesting so I should reveal myself to you, who is certainly adverse to my self-interests?
There are some threads that deal with real estate-related services. Find them if you need to. You are on a thread about a gathering of people.
Piss off.
youcannot
about 15 months ago
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report abuse Aboutready, are you all right?
The nerve! She played the "when in rome..." card.
columbiacounty also said he'd leave. And he did. For a while. And then he came back.
We'll see aboutready back. I'm guessing 3 weeks, though her vacation plans (can you believe ANOTHER vacation??) may impact that some. Even my posting here might impact that (see Heisenberg).
If she comes back, maybe she even changes her name. But perhaps when she comes back and isn't so nasty to others, others won't be nasty back (see Newton).
i never said i would leave. and i haven't left. you'll be gone shortly.
nope you did leave then you came back
aboutready
about 5 months ago
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who cares? he's not banned, he's just not here. i actually admire his restraint.
http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/18649
"columbiacounty also said he'd leave"
no, i didn't.
you are of course a great liar and distorter.
oh, so your claim is that you didn't say it, but you just did it?
AR - in your honor will play "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" substituting "SE" for "Argentina" many times today.
my claim?
you posted yet another lie.
you love this, don't you?
dnfcc
that certainly clears up your lying.
so you didn't disappear for an extended period of time, after streeteasy greyed you out?
Let's try this again.
"columbiaciunty also said he'd leave"
No, I didn't.
you just left, right?
by the way, how does my direct quote keep changing spelling? alanhart, can you help?
What does frantic searching sound like?
You are a proven liar. Who does that remind you of?
Obsessive poster, distorter and outright liar.
And offended by profanity.
"What does frantic searching sound like?" don't know
"You are a proven liar. Who does that remind you of?" Is that a political question?
"Obsessive poster, distorter and outright liar." cc?
"And offended by profanity." Now I'm hurt.
What have I lied about?
Sad. ar, I hope you eventually reconsider, but to be honest, I've had many of the same thoughts in the past few days, as most of the recent threads are toxic and rather scary. It just isn't much fun anymore. Not sure if I'll follow you out yet, but it's on my mind.
How tacky of you conrad to hijack AR's fake wake.
My money is she declares some false victory and posts again. She's addicted.
Although spin (and sideline) are hysterical.
I think I've heard this before - http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/2496-the-sky-is-falling
Who wants to take an over/under that she posts again within 3 months?
aboutready
about 2 years ago
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report abuse I'm sure a number of you will be happy to see my departure (although Spunky, I will truly miss you) but I have found a number of real estate blogs where I don't even feel compelled to post very often, because I agree generally with what's being said (and they're run by real estate brokers, no less.) I'm sure that nervous habit, or excessive boredom, will cause me to check in once in awhile (particularly about specific buildings I might be interested in), but generally I find you guys to be storks with your heads so stuck in the sand its gotta cause some major itching.
New York IS different, just not THAT much. Bye, and good luck.
She will reconsider. she'll be back. I'm guessing about 3 weeks, although as I think about it perhaps waiting until the kid goes to school at the beginning of September. The real estate topic still interests her. And she'll make a vow to herself to limit the amount of personal detail she shares, and to try to be a bit more balanced. She might even change her name from aboutready which long ago lost applicability to her situation. And the funny thing is, if she returns and doesn't attack other people and isn't nasty, she won't hear a peep out of me with comments directed toward her. And that might even be the case for others too.
Bon voyage aboutready. See you in a few weeks.
jsmith, you are outdoing yourself, thank you!
But since your stated goal from day one was to drive her and others away, why are you so pleased at the thought of her return?
Which of course goes to the bigger question. Why are you entitled to relentlessly and personally attack her?
What's good for the goose is good for the gander?
jsmith - can't give you odds, because I'm sure she'll post again - time frame is the only questionable part of that bet. AR just finds it too compelling to be a would-be cross between Mother Teresa, Eleanor Roosevelt,Arianna Huffington, Milton Friedman (add whatever economists names here), and Eva Peron.
How did I miss this. Aboutready isn't genuinely leaving. She's just going on vacation. How conveniently timed with her "farewell" . (by the way, wasn't she just on vacation 3 weeks ago, in Rome).
http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/21954-se-get-rid-of-somewhereelse
aboutready
about 14 hours ago
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report abuse what do you have truth? my husband is due to arrive at 10 from a business trip and my teenaged daughter is at the movies with two friends, who will be going on vacation with us tomorrow.
why are you here at 9:40 on a Friday?
riversider---are you answering for the county or acknowledging that you are the county?
columbiacounty, which county are you referring to?
AR,
whatever you decide (stay or go), I wish you all the best
WTF? Did I miss something? Come back anytime. Remember shits and giggles.
Conradcounty, congrats all your se friends will be back now, yeah! What a tool.
Ph41, stay minty.
Smithers, get 'me my coffee.
Spunky gave AR a twist a while back and she left and returned many months later
Is aboutready on a flight right now without wireless access?
"Oh,
when you think you're ready,
come down to Crazy Eddie..."
Aboutready, I'm truly sorry that you've decided to leave SE. I certainly can understand how you feel since I've often felt the need to take a break from participating.
I enjoyed meeting you and your husband at the last SE meet-up. I don't know if you have Lizyank's email, but if you do, please get my contact information from her. I'd love to meet you for a cup of coffee or a drink sometime. Best wishes to you.
That was my B.F. posting. A new thread is about ready to start. We have requests and don't want to censor our guests.
Spinny, see ya over there. jsmith, ph41 ( all is forgiven )...
I agree with the unanimous demand on this thread that aboutready return within three weeks. And I hope (or "predict" as you people state) that it happens much sooner.
when is her vacation over?
Vacations end?
Maybe you are right. 3 weeks ago she was in Rome. A couple months before that, another vacation. February she was on vacation. December she was on vacation.
Maybe it's just all one big vacation for her. After all, the farewell from 2 years ago, she hardly lived up to that:
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I think I've heard this before - http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/2496-the-sky-is-falling
Who wants to take an over/under that she posts again within 3 months?
aboutready
about 2 years ago
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report abuse I'm sure a number of you will be happy to see my departure (although Spunky, I will truly miss you) but I have found a number of real estate blogs where I don't even feel compelled to post very often, because I agree generally with what's being said (and they're run by real estate brokers, no less.) I'm sure that nervous habit, or excessive boredom, will cause me to check in once in awhile (particularly about specific buildings I might be interested in), but generally I find you guys to be storks with your heads so stuck in the sand its gotta cause some major itching.
New York IS different, just not THAT much. Bye, and good luck.
lets vote:
conradcounty
about ready
very simple
aboutready gone + columbiacounty gone = conradcounty gone
that seems to be a threat.
plus its clear that you are also someone else. who?
I'm also colombiacounty
AR: Thank you for all the work you did on comps. It was certainly painstaking work and very helpful. Your work -- along with 30 yrs, W81, NWT --was a significant part of the reason I engaged with SE. But your departure is certainly understandable. SE has become significantly less informative since I started visiting. And undeniably less fun. Too bizarre for most -- including me.
didn't columbiacounty chase away 30yrs?
say anything you want....its just confirming my decision to stay here.
columbiacounty, you missed the apostrophe in lets. I figured I'd let you know before alanhart.
columbiacounty
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report abuse say anything you want....its just confirming my decision to stay here.
so? you think this is a chore for me?
ColumbiaCounty - AboutReady has, as they say "left the building" (well, she WAS as legend in her own mind). If all you can do is stalk, snipe and be a troll, please join her.
your friend hfs has changed the game.
columbiacounty, are you upset that you haven't been able to hit anyone with a bus, you haven't changed your status from gray to normalized, and now aboutready has left (although as we all know, it's just because she's going on vacation, and she has a two year record of leaving and returning).
i'm not upset. i'm looking forward to the next stage of this game. should be loads of fun.
CC- LOL you impotent craxy old coot. Go back on the porch with your BB gun and shoot some rabbits.
is this confusing, both me and penthouse lady (aka me) posting at the same time?
i'm neither old, nor crazy. nor any of the other bullshit you have made up about me. you are a pretentious, wannabe. go back to brooklyn whence you came.
Oh, right, that should have been "crazy" but could also have been cranky, cantankerous, and curmudgeonly
whence is a pretty cool word
possibly, but can you clarify what you refer to when you say 'it'?
penthouse lady of course.
well then absolutely
take a picture for us.
That's kind of hard to pose for. I'll need someone to help.
how about truth?
sure why not, good suggestion
I guess this is the way ColumbiaCounty goes through his stages of grief at losing AR from the board - rage, expletives, total filth. Fitting send-off for AR
What about the fake niceness or a pretend helpful post in the morning?
wtf is going on? what did you bitches do to scare off ar?
Hfscomm1 finally got to her with some nice support from riversider and the crazy loon, truth.
Or she was going on vacation this morning and figured that this would be a way to get attention while she was gone.
Why did she feel the need to declare her departure? What did she expect, the site to fold? The sky to open? Give me a break.
lucille, maybe, just maybe her taking over the boards and being rude had something to do with it...
lucille, maybe because on a thread about carpeting, this is an example of how she responds to people. Compilation courtesy of jsmith
http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/17818-80-carpet-rules?page=2
jsmith9005
about 6 months ago
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report abuse "romary, again, PLEASE READ. i don't have an issue now. none"
Then why were you cursing everyone out in this thread? Here's just a sample of your diatribe:
"how the f did you take "a glimpse of their living room" without their consent?"
"how do you have a rats ass clue as to why they don't have floor coverings? "
"you're a tard. "
"btw, you're still a tard. no compassion."
"once again you're absolutely full of shit matt. absolutely. "
"maybe one day you'll have a kid with asthma. happy days!"
"do you get it now? your kid can be a fucking obnoxious loud nightmare "
"Matt, you are such an asshole. such an asshole."
"btw, you're a jerk of the highest order."
"good f'ng lord the assumptions here are crazy. maly, same for you."
"give me a f'ng break"
"and really. what an assholic thing to write"
I do find a long-winded announcement of the emotional effect of deciding to no longer post on this board to be quite comical. Instead of thinking about why so many reasonable people on this board dislike her posts, she plays the victim.
I agree with riversider, ar will be back posting asap.
lucille, maybe because her farewell was conveniently timed right before going on vacation yesterday morning, so this just gives her an excuse to get some attention?
or maybe because, another gem courtesy of jsmith posted in this thread, this is not the first time she said farewell.
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I think I've heard this before - http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/2496-the-sky-is-falling
Who wants to take an over/under that she posts again within 3 months?
aboutready
about 2 years ago
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report abuse I'm sure a number of you will be happy to see my departure (although Spunky, I will truly miss you) but I have found a number of real estate blogs where I don't even feel compelled to post very often, because I agree generally with what's being said (and they're run by real estate brokers, no less.) I'm sure that nervous habit, or excessive boredom, will cause me to check in once in awhile (particularly about specific buildings I might be interested in), but generally I find you guys to be storks with your heads so stuck in the sand its gotta cause some major itching.
New York IS different, just not THAT much. Bye, and good luck.
I agree with LICcounty, AR should be back posting ASAP.
Hopefully. Otherwise we're stuck with the endless lies from Truth.
she will alan, she's said farewell in the past, and then returned. This time she just happened to be headed on vacation yesterday morning so she wanted a bit of drama. You know how it is.
Goodbye
Farewell
Don't you think she'd want us to take her at her word?
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this public farewell hopefully will provide me with the incentive to stay off the board. if I don't feel free to heap abuse upon me!
alan, "will" and "should" have two different meanings.
Kind of like circumscion and circumnavigate?
Uh - "circumscion" go around the little car? CC- starting the Scotch a little early?
Would account for his tirade scorch earth policy postings yesterday..
Another asshole with his own thread about himself? This is the ultimate height of arrogance. We don't care about you. Want to leave? Do it. Quietly. You and the other asshole, two in one weekend.
This soap opera is better than Mad Men!!!! And the pacing is similar, too...........
Say it isn't so,aboutready. You have contributed a lot to this board and I hope you will reconsider your decision to leave it. Thanks for all your efforts that have informed and entertained those of us who do not always have as much to offer.