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Even with the best intentions, it seems like some people just find their way to open windows ripe for defenestration. Let’s hope Harry isn’t one of them else my prediction will come true. Nobody wants that… Meanwhile, it’s not often one sees HIV in the same dialogue as “classy.” 😂

It’s been a while since the clan has executed anyone. Should be an interesting time ahead!

Two months after the date of the lecture and around 20 miles away from Harvard, I started underwriting the sort of mortgages that Stefan was talking about in his comments: Alt-A paper. Not the bottom of the barrel subprime loans, but loans where the borrowers had documented income but less-than A credit ratings or slightly too high debt-to-income ratios. The issues weren’t just the underwriting (even for people like me who did their best to be diligent in their underwriting). It was the fraud among buyers to inflate the values of the homes, selling borrowers variable rate mortgages with huge balloon payments after 5 years, lying brokers with fraudulent claims of multiple bids to drive up prices, and lenders lending 100% of the value of the purchase: 80% on a first mortgage at market rate and the other 20% at the maximum legal rate (almost 13% in MA). Those were crazy times, and the fall afterward felt like a years long hangover. Of course, investors couldn’t get enough of the high interest rates and wanted to buy those loans from us. $2-2.5 billion worth every month, just from one company of underwriters throughout the US. I enjoyed reminiscing about past financial downturns so much I almost forgot to mention Will sucks. Great writing indeed!

Don’t get me wrong…Will is a dick. We all know this. However…even he will be hesitant to encourage Travis to do what he needs to for his career, say he will be understanding, and then snap at the first moment of inconvenience. It will take a few more moments of inconvenience at least.

Thankfully, I can absolutely answer Jeremy without any hesitation. He’s got snarky comments! At least Jeremy intermittently knows his behavior is shitty…Will always behaves as if what he thinks and wants is right. Who needs a sanctimonious friend? I won’t pretend that my preferences in people aren’t idiosyncratic, however. 🤷‍♂️

Maybe this is fundamentally my problem with Will. I don’t like big dick. I much prefer boyfriend dick…enough to get tot he uvula, but not enough to bruise it. I’ll need to think this over…

It’s important to keep perspective on things when it comes to random internet commenters. Most of them are just out for a bit of fun for themselves. @rjostlie, perhaps you should also keep in mind that even people who disagree with you care enough to read and react to your comments. How hostile can they really be toward your contributions? We all take our licks when it comes to this community. Back when all this was on a Yahoo message board, Mark once replied to a comment of mine by saying I was the sort of person who would complain anout an orgasm after having one. By far the funniest line he’s ever written, in my humble opinion. 😂

100% on the money. I spent a long time teaching in the Ivy League…these sorts of people are all over the place there. If you think Will is bad now, you all should see some of the more recent brand of tech money children. Absolutely insufferable lot!

But…but…he has a big dick! How can he be boring? 🙄

It’s hard to tell from this chapter whether Jeremy is simply struggling with his emotions, having put himself out there with Will and gotten a cautious reply, or whether he’s actually a great manipulator/actor and Mark Arbour is simply softening us up in preparation for Jeremy to be murdered. Either way, I don’t like it one bit. Will and Brad continue to ignore any part they have played in Jeremy’s feelings of alienation from the family, which reeks of their general douchebaggery! My only solace is the possibility for a story character who recognizes what a prick Will is and publicly calls him out for it. Alas…we wait in hope!

For the record, I’m just taking easy pot shots at Will because he’s a prick. I also get a kick out of seeing little angry bomb emotes on my comments. 😂 I 100% get the distinction in standards of consent between then and now (having been approximately Wade’s age at the time this story is set), and I get the poetic license taken in presenting Thor’s “get out” as relatively feeble.

I mean…clearly it’s ok because Thor actually wanted it, right? And because it’s Will, of course. 🤷‍♂️

You mean the part where will sexually assaults Thor after he says no three times?

Yet again, Brad chooses to parent through money rather than through any actual parenting. Having spent the last month binging Billions, however, I now realize this is just how wealthy people behave. They use money as a solution to everything - money and manipulation through money. Additionally, Will still sucks.

I’ll be back in a few chapters and see if this crapstorm has passed…my heart can’t take it. This is exactly why I completely set aside CAP for 3 years and just read about Captain Granger. ::crawls into a hole and hides::