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<p>I thought we need a little humor here! <a href="http://www.dallasobserver.com/2007-11-29/news/douchebags-in-the-mist/">This is a very funny read</a>.</p>

<p>We can vote on wheather it is better than or worse than Real Housewives of OC.</p>

<p>OC doesn't have an exclusive on "players". They just play at a higher level.</p>

<p>Enjoy!</p>

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<p>Great article, and so true. I spend a good deal of time in Dallas with my job --- and we have nothing on them. The fake bodies and fake hair and fake wealth abound in that lovely city. It seems like every day someone from somewhere else likes to come to our blog and crap on OC for the "lifestyle" here --- when all they know is what they see on "The OC" or "Real Housewives" and have no clue what it is really like for the vast majority of the 3 million of us living our lives here. The fake people such as highlighted in this article exist <em>everywhere</em>. </p>

<p>I spent the past week in Minneapolis visiting extended family, and my wife and I managed to make it out on a date to a hipster club while we were there. Trust me, even in the coldest reaches of the midwest, the so-called "OC" lifestyle is in full tilt. The best part is that everyone was dressed like they were in Laguna --- except that it was 4 degrees!! I left Minneapolis for So Cal in 1993, and every time the cost of living here gets me down and I think that maybe I should give my hometown another look, all I need to do is book a flight there for anytime between October and April.....It puts everything into perspective.</p>
 
<p>Effen</p>

<p>Thats pretty funny. </p>

<p>Its hard to escape the image of OC drifting over the land!! Hair highlights, plastic body parts, and Rolexs for all via the magic wall of the ATM.</p>
 
<p>I saw RHOC last night. Well, a short part of it. I was looking for something to watch and noticed it on. So I flip to it for about 2 minutes, got disgusted flip away, then went back like looking at a car wreck for another couple minutes.</p>

<p>Let's see, what did I see. The daughters of one putting on bikinis to pimp some energy drink knock off and their dad's friends complaining and leering that they don't get to see the bikini's they are buying for them.</p>

<p>Then in the second dose, I get to see the monster Hummer pimp in orange for the knock-off energy drink get pulled over by the cops for an illegal u-turn. Oh, and no license plates and then the little bimbette driver and all three girls trying to jiggle out of the ticket and then whining about the no license plate ticket and saying something like 'where am I suspose to put the license, it looks so ugly on the car, I can't believe he gave me a ticket'.</p>

<p>Argh, schadenfruend reservior instantly filled.</p>

<p>Watching the sense of entitlement, I will have no pity if their parents BK.</p>

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<a href="http://forums.irvinehousingblog.com/account/406/"><em>No_Such_Reality</em></a><em> </em>



<p><em>Argh, schadenfruend reservior instantly filled.</em></p>

<p><em>Watching the sense of entitlement, I will have no pity if their parents BK.</em></p>



<p>Reality, </p>

<p> I get this feeling also, but aparently alot of these kids get this sense of entitlement because the parents DO NOT correct them. I remember what my Dad told me once ,"What you have and what "I" earn are two different things...". Watching the crash and burn is just that much sweeter though. </p>

<p>Anyways good luck</p>

<p>-bix</p>

<p>p.s. how do you pronounce schadenfruend and what is the definiation? <--- I've always wondered.</p>

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<p>It helps if I spell it right. Schadenfreude. </p>

<p>Schaden is 'harm' Freud(e) is 'joy'. The translation is roughly 'pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune' <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude</a></p>

<p>I tend to mix it up with Schatten (shadow) and Fruend (friend)</p>

<p>Oddly, all four pairings will produce roughly the same meaning as the intended American usage.</p>
 
<p>I don't get it. Only two of the five "Real Housewives of the OC" are wives. The other three are unmarried. I can only surmise the producers chose non-wives as housewives for the "interesting" drama in their lives, but not because they are housewives.</p>

<p>From wikipedia: A <strong>homemaker </strong>is a person whose prime occupation is to care for their family and/or home. The term homemaker is used in preference to either housewife or househusband because it is inclusive ...</p>

<p>If we use wikipedia's definition, it would seem none of the five women on the show qualify as housewives, because it seems their prime occupation is something other than caring for their family and/or home.</p>

<p>My wife is a stay at home wife and mother, but she is more appropriately described as a <strong>Domestic Goddess</strong>. She can seriously give Martha a run for her money. </p>

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I recorded RHOC last night and will watch it tonight. It does remind me of my time in the new home building business when "enough was not enough" but "too much was always better".



The show does set expectations for some people out of the area. I used to work with corporate relocation people from other states and most of them mentioned the show if they had never been to OC. Often the women were a little intimidated by the OC Housewives.It really does paint a certain picture.



It is fun to watch things from afar.
 
I'll admit it. I watched the show last night. My favorite part was when Gina told Vicky that she should be thankful that she made Vicky buy the $2million(?) home because in two years she can sell it and make a $500,000 profit. Or something to that effect.
 
<p><em>"My favorite part was when Gina told Vicky that she should be thankful that she made Vicky buy the $2million(?) home because in two years she can sell it and make a $500,000 profit"</em></p>

<p>Seriously? She said that? Well, they filmed last spring and summer, so Jeana must still have been drinking the kool-aid before she took it off her diet list.</p>

<p>Zillow puts the last sales price for that property at $1,650,000 on 4/06/2007, but I think Vicki had alot of work done on it, so her cost basis would be a bit more. Zillow is calling present value at $1,614,796 and it is my experience that Zillow over-estimates values in Coto. It looks like Vicki will have to wait a bit longer than two years for a $500,000 profit. </p>

<p>I think Slade Smiley was renting that property this summer, but I don't see his Hummer around there anymore, so I do not know who is renting it. </p>

<p>It is a nice property, but the others around it are selling for less than $1,000,000. Oops!</p>

<p>I wonder what the "cash flow" is on a rental like this.</p>
 
I'm sortof on another planet but I visited Hermes, Gucci, and LV last Sunday and all were nearly empty. I guess the asian gals here are going to be screaming for xmas. It's not 100% Gucci/LV/Chanel penetration in the asian community here but I would say at least 1/2 the handbags I see on asian gals here are LV or Gucci regardless.
 
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