I'm gentrifying your comments, Maurer. Please consider this comment to be a microbrewery with a "take a book, leave a book" mini-library on the sidewalk out front of it.
To nitpick one minor comment you made, there is actually one disease that is caused by having too much blood. It's called polycythemia vera, it's a bone marrow disorder, and one of the things you do to treat it actually is bleeding the patient.
I think you are missing the intra-elite/intra-gentifier angle. In the 90s and early aughts, it was possible to buy a place in now desirable places. Early 21st century, prices were higher but now they are even higher. A lot of this “debate” are class dynamics between younger middle/upper class college educated people moving to the city, annoyed that people beat them to it.
One other thing that is often overlooked - the 20th century vogue for urban projects basically made it impossible for those consigned to them to build wealth. There has been a deep private market for lower end housing, that while not luxurious, worked. The urban projects destroyed it.
I have personally met Jeff (hey, remember me, I'm the late thirties balding, kinda pudgy white guy...sure there's only one of me) and I have to say he's a very physically fit dude. Very svelte.
All of this to say it's two weeks in a row with a very impressive sound effect that sounds like he's actually shaking his jowls.
Whoops — sorry about the mistake! I made an assumption based on the fact that he was (at the time I was reading these papers) standing in opposition to the Conservative Party. I’ll make a correction in the Monday episode.
Good point. DLG left office way back in 1916, the last Liberal PM. He was followed by a Tory named Bonar Law - Jeff absolutely MUST mention Bonar Law just because of his first name - followed by Stanley Baldwin, and the first Labour PM ever was Ramsay McDonald in 1924. I'd have thought Jeff would know all this from his 'recent' newspaper reading.
I'm gentrifying your comments, Maurer. Please consider this comment to be a microbrewery with a "take a book, leave a book" mini-library on the sidewalk out front of it.
To nitpick one minor comment you made, there is actually one disease that is caused by having too much blood. It's called polycythemia vera, it's a bone marrow disorder, and one of the things you do to treat it actually is bleeding the patient.
Does this fall under "even a medieval barber is right twice a day" or some other aphorism?
I think you are missing the intra-elite/intra-gentifier angle. In the 90s and early aughts, it was possible to buy a place in now desirable places. Early 21st century, prices were higher but now they are even higher. A lot of this “debate” are class dynamics between younger middle/upper class college educated people moving to the city, annoyed that people beat them to it.
One other thing that is often overlooked - the 20th century vogue for urban projects basically made it impossible for those consigned to them to build wealth. There has been a deep private market for lower end housing, that while not luxurious, worked. The urban projects destroyed it.
I have personally met Jeff (hey, remember me, I'm the late thirties balding, kinda pudgy white guy...sure there's only one of me) and I have to say he's a very physically fit dude. Very svelte.
All of this to say it's two weeks in a row with a very impressive sound effect that sounds like he's actually shaking his jowls.
Why do you keep calling David Lloyd George a Labour politician? I can assure you that he was a Liberal
Whoops — sorry about the mistake! I made an assumption based on the fact that he was (at the time I was reading these papers) standing in opposition to the Conservative Party. I’ll make a correction in the Monday episode.
Good point. DLG left office way back in 1916, the last Liberal PM. He was followed by a Tory named Bonar Law - Jeff absolutely MUST mention Bonar Law just because of his first name - followed by Stanley Baldwin, and the first Labour PM ever was Ramsay McDonald in 1924. I'd have thought Jeff would know all this from his 'recent' newspaper reading.