it should be a red flag.

the guy that makes $4000/month and applies for a $1000/month apartment is a drug addict loser and they are looking for cheap housing so they can do drugs inside without getting evicted.

if this person wasn't a drug addict, they wouldn't be interested in $1000/month housing, they'd be looking for something in the $2000+/month range.

landlords offering cheap rentals should tell the people making $3000-$4000/month to apply for something more expensive, and to follow the fucking rules in the more affluent buildings, when they move in there. don't move into low income housing so you can smoke drugs inside.

that higher income isn't an asset, it's evidence that the applicant is a piece of shit.

if you're only paying 30% of your income on rent, why haven't you bought a house yet?

because you spend 50% of your income on drugs. 

there's no other conceivable explanation. anybody with 70% leftover after rent should have enough to buy a house in six months, unless they waste it on drugs.

that's why the rentals are full of addicts, because the landlords screen them in by asking for people with disposable income. disposable income is just another term for "drug money".

ideal tenants should seek to spend 50-80% of their income on rent.

anybody that would want to move in somewhere that is less than half of their income is a loser and should be avoided.

if i was managing a property and seeking to rent a place for $1300, and somebody filled out an application for it with an income of $3000, i would tell them their income is too high to rent the apartment and that i'm looking for somebody that makes under $2000/month for $1300/rent.

the reason is that the only conceivable reason that somebody with an income over $2000 would be looking for such a cheap apartment is if they spend $1000/month on drugs, and i don't want drug addicts on my property.

by screening in tenants that make more than they need for a low income apartment, which today is under $1500, landlords are just screening in drug addicts.

a good manager should realize that, and refuse to rent to somebody at less than 50% of their income. the way that landlords currently do this is backwards - instead of saying rent should be less than 50% of income, landlords should be screening out people that want to pay less than 50% and only renting to people that want to pay more than 50% of their income in rent, in order to ensure they aren't renting to drunks, potheads and addicts.

a sober, responsible person will want to spend at least 50% of their income on rent, because what else would they spend it on, besides drugs?

what am i supposed to put on this bagel?

my electricity bill?

to the person that left the bagel in my box: come back and leave some humus. 

it was very inconsiderate of you to leave the bagel without the humus.

it's not entirely clear what trudeau saw in freeland, but carney was right to demote her. she had essentially no qualifications to be in the role she was in, or to act as any sort of envoy for ukraine.

i would describe her as a conservative. i won't miss her.

i don't have a wonky jew nose. it's a bumpy italian nose.

my dad's nose was a mess, but it's because he used to be a boxer in his youth, and it was broken something like ten times. you couldn't figure out anything about his nose by looking at it, other than that it was busted and smashed.

now, somebody has left a bagel in my box, which i'm interpreting as anti-semitic, and which is weird because i'm not a practicing jew. i have less than 3% jewish dna, according to the ancestry.com report.

the arabs that are stalking me, and who apparently thought i was arab at one point, have repeatedly called me a jew and repeatedly expressed frustration that i'm not reacting as expected because i'm a jew, rather than the arab they thought i was.

in fact, my ancestry is overwhelming viking in origin, both directly (swedish/finnish) and indirectly (scottish, irish, norman, russian, gothic). the 3% jewish dna was from philadelphia, which i have deduced is sephardic, and traveled from philly to n'awleans to frisco to vancouver, and then to ottawa, where i was born. my father's side had some north italian that was gothic/germanic in origin. the test did pick up 1% sicilian, which was probably mostly greek in deep origin. the 1% sicilian is the closest thing to any sort of arab ancestry, but it's probably not really there.

the semitic dna is unambiguously on my mom's side, and the ancestor was certainly jewish, as he got in trouble in jewish court for being mean to his wife. i don't know what the point of a court intervening in a domestic dispute is when your wife is jewish, but the documents exist, and it demonstrates the point pretty clearly, as do the noses on my mother and aunts, which are all quite substantive.

i'm not a dj, but some people wish i was one.

so this one goes out to tyler robinson.