On 7/16/2017 5:47 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2017-07-16 4:02 PM, cshenk wrote:
>> Dave Smith wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>>> On 2017-07-16 3:13 PM, cshenk wrote:
>>>> Dave Smith wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>>>
>>>
>>>>> What can you do when you offer advice and the guy refuses to take
>>>>> it and then boasts about doing things that leave the rest of us
>>>>> shaking our heads.
>>>>
>>>> How about, it's his life and he doesnt want opinionated advice but
>>>> something more legal and financially legit for the specifics he is
>>>> in?
>>>>
>>>> JUst because you think I shouldnt get a new (to me, used) car is no
>>>> reason for you to tell me I can't.
>>>>
>>>> Some go on endlessly in this thread on how John shouldnt be getting
>>>> a house at last. It makes me wonder how many of you screwed up that
>>>> you have to warn him? It's been going on for months now.
>>>>
>>>
>>> He has been given good advice. He has ignored it and scorned it.
>>> Don't forget that the man who scorns money and capitalism was the one
>>> bragging about how he had inherited a whack of enough money to buy
>>> the house he was already living in.
>>
>> In other words, he ignored your advice?
>
> I don't recall giving him any advice. I did comment on what happened
> with a bipolar cousin who inherited a substantial amount of money and
> blew in on a house that she ended up losing.
>
>> Picking and reading, he's been
>> 'told what to do' entirely too many times so tuned you all out, well
>> intended or not on your ends.
>
> Meanwhile, he has apparently posting about some of the idiotic things he
> has done, like spending money to repair air conditioning in a house that
> someone else owns.
>
<sigh> Getting ready to pay for the installation of USA Made window
blinds, too. Done by a friend of a friend or some such. Odd how he
dislikes cheap Chinese whatever but he is willing to pay for cheap
labor. I wonder how the plans for fitting out the previously described
falling apart garage for electric cars is going? (I really don't want
to know.) His claims are just attention getters. And yes, I got sucked
into it, too.

Jill