Smashed Avocado-Gate - Bernard Salt

Lol at the utter outrage over an article that was posted on The Facebook from a satirical website;

What Crisis? – How To Buy A Sydney Apartment On A $29,000 Salary – The Betoota Advocate

 

The postively geared at 1M with 90% purchase LVR gives it away...

 

“I saved $2,500 — my parents lent me $127,500,” she says.

Did I read this right? So pretty much telling me that her parents lend her the money and for the guarantor.

 

Yes completely agree. Compromises are essential to getting into home ownership. It all comes down to priorities. As the famous quote goes

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. Create your own future.
You have the power within so embrace it!

If i can do it, I'm sure all of you can too. It takes a shift of mind. Focus on what you "can do", not what you can't.

 

The comments on that article are hilarious. How do so many people not realise it's a joke?!?

 

People can be blinded a little when they're looking to be outraged.

 

Like post # 623 here.

 

"I spent most of my bat-mitzvah money on travel. I adore travelling. Dad was a bit angry when I told him I’d spent nearly all the 400k. Mum had an aneurysm and she hasn’t been the same since,”

I have no words. . . .

 

No its great PR for Bernard Salt, it's got him in the headlines, made him a topic of conversation, made a PC forum chat out of it and definitely raised his profile.
We are not in the dark.

 

Been lots of pages since my last read....

My avo is "STUFFED" tonight 2 mashed avo's $6
Finely chopped garlic, cucumber,capsicum, 1 lunch tin of tuna, shallots, (and a little pan fried bacon if you need MEAT).
Mix and stuff back in avo Shell, habanero chilli to garnish
Serves 2
Costs under $11 at home
Not available in cafe/restaurants due to ($47 cost) using hands to eat

Cheers to the chef

 

Today one young guy was telling me he previously worked at a Max Brenner chocolate/coffee shop. They'd make chocolate milkshakes using a scoop of no brand icecream, milk etc. And sell it to people for $9.50. And people would pay that!

He also says they don't make the waffles, they come as they are to the store and they warm them up, so they arent even freshly made. A waffle dessert is sold for $16.95 or thereabouts.

 

Probably because the media has posted many real stories in a very similar fashion e.g. 'look at how this young person bought a house', whilst playing down the involvement of parents or some other factor that wouldn't be repeatable by most.

 

I would have thought the smashed avocado would have gone off by now and be in the rubbish bin .

 

'But I paid 17pc interest rates in the 1980s': which generation really had it tougher in the housing market

This came out today in the newspaper

 

I think the earlier generation had it tougher. We have the option of cheaper/regional property (even if the whingers don't consider it), but there was no escaping the ridiculous interest rates of the time.

 

Jess, I hadn't even tried smashed Avo on toast until I read the article and this thread. It's created a monster. Now I crave it when I see it on the menu board grabbing my morning coffee at work

 

The Betoota Advocate is kind of like The Onion.

 

And the high unemployment and the opportunity to work a second job. I know some people refuse to work a second job but I think that's a poor attitude to have because if you really want it, you'll move mountains to make it happen, instead of doing just what everyone else is doing. I don't see Sir Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Jack Ma, Steve Jobs and etc having that mentality.

 

My First read through of this was "you'll move to the mountains to make this happen" and I thought "hey that's me!!"

 

Beautiful place to live and really nice eating places now