Underwhelmed by webcast

[SolPlyr]

In most cases, it is better to buy resale.

Adding on 100 pts at BLT or 250pts at BLT are fair deals, especially for December and February Use Years (last years points for free).

100 pts @ 120pp-$12-$4.5=$103.5pp plus no closing costs. Pretty equal to resale, except you can get the exact contract you want.

250 pts @ 120pp-$18-$3=$99pp plus no closing costs......no this is a good price.

Where are you getting the extra $3-4.50 that you are taking off the price?

 

[nolanboys]

Where are you getting the extra $3-4.50 that you are taking off the price?

Think they are taking into account the gift card - 250pts x $3 = $750. Cound be wrong though because 100 pts is only $350 gift card which doesn't equal $4.50 off a point.

 

[sleepydog25]

This is so off topic but I am shocked that it has been brought up. I was just saying to my husband the other day that "drinking the Kool-Aid" is a pretty disrespectful phrase since so many people died doing just that at Jonestown. That actually IS where the phrase comes from; the mass murder/suicide of men, women and children under the control of a crazed cult-leader. I just think it's time to retire that phrase as it is over used and actually disrespectful to those hundreds of people who died. I cringe thinking of those poor souls every time I hear that Kool-Aid reference.

Yep, off topic, but that's okay with me as long as it doesn't get too out of hand. What is disrespectful to some is innocuous to others. I'll give you a good example: how often do people refer to their favorite sports team (or its members) as "warriors," or that their team is fighting a war of attrition with other team, or it's a battle in the trenches (especially for linemen in football), or that a player exploded into another , or launched a rocket over center field, or even go so far as to do war chants? Answer: lots. Is it disrespectful to the men and women serving in actual combat roles? Certainly could be construed so. In fact, I clearly remember that many sportscasters and writers said they would stop using war terms after we started losing so many soldiers in the aftermath of moving into Afghanistan and Iraq. That held true for about six months.

My point is that words lose their grip on our psyche as time moves on--"once more unto the breach!" no longer carries the emotional heft it did on the battlefield of Agincourt. I wouldn't put too much stock or worry into a phrase that has, indeed, become part of the casual lexicon through the past few decades.