The Big Up Thread

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:45 pm

lynt wrote:BIG UP NYC in 3 days! Bigger up to MB.C people being inside the ride aka JBS & Blueprint! Time to serve a little slice of Melbourne me thinks.

Hope you're cooling down. Flicks from the trip you betcha.

have fun!

BUs my gym! great trainers and great atmosphere.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:10 pm

bigups kiddy pool, 2009!!!

nic · Post by **nic** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 4:18 am

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 8 : FWD>> PRESENTS MARTYN ALBUM LAUNCH

D-BRIDGE
MARTYN
KODE9

MC'S SP:MC AND SPACEAPE

quick · Post by **quick** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 5:18 pm

big ups cool change due at 6pm... gonna drop 15 degrees in less than an hour.

Post by **breaksRbest** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 12:24 pm

Big Ups the CFA
Big Ups not smoking green for 39 days, longest break in more than 16 years
Big Ups Sammy Girl

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:05 pm

breaksRbest wrote:Big Ups the CFA
Big Ups not smoking green for 39 days, longest break in more than 16 years
Big Ups Sammy Girl

bloody good effort mate, well done.

Post by **breaksRbest** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:14 pm

Cheers mate, I thought I'd be hangin' from the rafters but I'm not too bad

now to sit back & wait till I stack on the kilo's

fikuss · Post by **fikuss** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 5:09 pm

big ups to Fent and Chicken.

also.. mad big up to Roni Size Reprazent on ABC2 right now! takes me back quite a bit. good times

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:03 am

breaksRbest wrote:Cheers mate, I thought I'd be hangin' from the rafters but I'm not too bad

now to sit back & wait till I stack on the kilo's

Fucking wicked, good on ya Glenny!! We all know the love ran deep with you and MaryJane

The stupid bitch is on my back all the time now

Have you quit the fags as well???

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:04 am

bu glenny for that.

massive props!

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:27 am

bigups to Glenny and Fents, nice work boys, keep at it

Post by **breaksRbest** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:29 pm

Thanks peeps, still on the ciggies but I'll take it one vice at a time

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:33 pm

breaksRbest wrote:Cheers mate, I thought I'd be hangin' from the rafters but I'm not too bad

now to sit back & wait till I stack on the kilo's

Think of the $

Post by **system** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:02 pm

big ups:

playground weekender
off smokes for 4 weeks
new job
life

small downs to the fires and losing things over the weekend.

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:13 pm

BU's to Playground weekender!

BU's to hanging with System @ Playground Weekender

BU's fuckin Primal Scream - Highlight of my weekend!

Charlie73 · Post by **Charlie73** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:34 pm

witty_pseudonym wrote:BU enrolling in post-grad after much deliberation. My happiness is more important than being financially responsible I've decided.

WOO LADY!

Big UPs to returning to study! I am doing it at nights... and will cost, but hang it, i am bored counting beans so want something else...

That something else is a degree that will not aid me in my current job but sure does interest me...

Bachelor of Arts Indigenous Studies.....

I can't WAIT!

Brekkie this Sats yes???? I was already at the shops when you sent the message.....

Charlie73 · Post by **Charlie73** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:48 pm

shepherd wrote:quick some advice if i may ...

firstly - good choice of area. we bought in preston about 15 months ago and we were looking around pascoe vale sth, coburg, preston, thornbury etc ... i like it out here and it's 5 min drive to fitzroy and 15 to city outside of peak hour. great PT as well - trams/train/bus. preston had very minor positive increases in prices last qtr (around 1%) and is holding up pretty well in the current market. anyway - i can't see first home type dwellings (ie 4-600k 2/3 br) going down in price as it's other places and areas dragging down aggregate house prices.

i would buy either a stand alone house or an established semi detached on its own block. There's a lot of unit/townhouse devs around here and my gut tells me they are too common hence will struggle to maintan value. if you have your own house you have the land, you can redev, renovate, restump etc with minimal hassles. If you're going to fork out 4/5/600k for a place you want to have complete freedom I think.

Ultimately it will require more initial investment ... but amortise that across a 30 year mortgage and the difference is pretty trivial ... but in return you'll get better resale, more flexibility etc. it will take more time to find the right place as there's not much supply right now but you'll get a pretty great 2br around the area you're looking at for 500k which you can move right into

Good Advice here....

Thing you need to know if you have dirt under your feet you are ALWAYS better off. Try to NEVER buy of a plan, an apartment or pref anything with a body corp..

if you ARE going to buy an apartment it needs a fantastic point of difference from the rest otherwise you will make no money...

Best is to get the worst house in the best street, Do not worry about the facade as much these things are comestic and can be changed...

But buy with soil, land is KING.....

I am looking down the coast, can't afford in my neighbourhood (house around the corner went for almost $900K and i personally would have had to re-do kitchen and bathroom and the least..

nic · Post by **nic** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:13 pm

Thing you need to know if you have dirt under your feet you are ALWAYS better off. Try to NEVER buy of a plan, an apartment or pref anything with a body corp..

not true

quick · Post by **quick** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:22 pm

I reckon I'll be happy with a nice house I can call home... something in a good location that I can live in and be happy... this is not for investment purposes, it is to live in. Thanks for the advice all, but I can only afford what I can, and I still want a good house in a good location, can't really have it all with just a single persons motgage.

What I would like to know is, if a place is set to auction in a month, and estimated between $365-$400K, but they accept offers earlier, what should I do? I really want it...

Charlie73 · Post by **Charlie73** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:27 pm

nic wrote:
Thing you need to know if you have dirt under your feet you are ALWAYS better off. Try to NEVER buy of a plan, an apartment or pref anything with a body corp..

not true

you have taken one part of what i said...

i am sure i said IF you are going to get an apartment there needs to be point of difference.... why would you waste money on a cookie cutter place... yeah that will be an easy sale when you out grow it....

Land/Houses are a better option in the long run, you will get more on a return than you will a cookie cutter apartment...

But that is just advice i have been given by people in the industry.. yeah they must be wrong...

nic · Post by **nic** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:45 pm

put a donk on it

quick · Post by **quick** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:15 pm

lol, nic, you're an idiot... a very fukn funny idiot... that i love... sometimes

nic · Post by **nic** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:25 pm

quick · Post by **quick** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:27 pm

80085

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:05 am

Charlie73 wrote:
nic wrote:
Thing you need to know if you have dirt under your feet you are ALWAYS better off. Try to NEVER buy of a plan, an apartment or pref anything with a body corp..

not true
you have taken one part of what i said...

i am sure i said IF you are going to get an apartment there needs to be point of difference.... why would you waste money on a cookie cutter place... yeah that will be an easy sale when you out grow it....

Land/Houses are a better option in the long run, you will get more on a return than you will a cookie cutter apartment...

But that is just advice i have been given by people in the industry.. yeah they must be wrong...

Well I was told by "people in the industry" that currently the best investments are city apartments as the demand over the next 10 years will outweigh supply by 5 to 1.

We should get our industry peoples to have a fight!

nic · Post by **nic** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:09 am

charlie is wrong

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:53 am

you can save a packet buying off the plan, as my ma has with her apartment over the road from workshop. smaller apartments in the bloack are already selling for more than she initially paid, so as far as a sound investment is concerned, I think she's nailed it.

and yes charlie gal, breaky soon for sure. might be going down to volunteer in gippsland if i can this weekend, but if i'm around, i'll be sure to give you a tingle m'love.

BU getting healthy and feeling good
BU resisting booze temptations
BU the streets tonight
BU work feeling more bearable now i have something else to focus on
BU sleeping with a doona again. BLISS.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:00 am

witty_pseudonym wrote:BU resisting booze temptations.

haven't touched a drop for 10 days..... woooo

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:05 am

&

you can really feel a difference eh! physically and financially.
that plus loads of fruit & veg, and hitting the gym, and i'm feeling tops.

nic · Post by **nic** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:11 am

yeah that placebo effect is one hell of a drug tbh

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:29 am

Most amazing big ups to the struggling people of Australia, who in the depths of a world financial crisis and a possible recession, overnight, have come up with over $13 million dollars for the bush fire victims. I'm blown away by this, completely and utterly. Not four days ago we were bitching about the price of petrol moving 3 cents thataway, or the estimated jobless in the coming months. Never would anyone have thought that they would be collectively (and happily) handing over their hard earned dough in such a financial climate. But we Aussies see that there are people worse off...that we can go without a few luxuries because these people are going without families, homes, communities.

This mass involvement and desire to help really moves me, and not to sound tripe but it gives me hope too.

Oh, and big up's to everyone who was nice to me on my birthday

quick · Post by **quick** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:06 am

What I would like to know is, if a place is set to auction in a month, and estimated between $365-$400K, but they accept offers earlier, what should I do? I really want it...

Anyone?

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:21 am

offer what you think is fair. somethings only worth what someone will pay for it. i'd say $375,500 and see what they say. can always offer more if it gets rejected.

Post by **breaksRbest** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:41 am

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

same o · Post by **same o** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:05 am

breaksRbest wrote:Thanks peeps, still on the ciggies but I'll take it one vice at a time

when u actually quit cigis try champix..

it helped me ssoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much.

i havnt smoked any cigis in 7 months now.

quick · Post by **quick** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:16 pm

Fents wrote:offer what you think is fair. somethings only worth what someone will pay for it. i'd say $375,500 and see what they say. can always offer more if it gets rejected.

Cheers bud

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:09 pm

mixtress wrote:Most amazing big ups to the struggling people of Australia, who in the depths of a world financial crisis and a possible recession, overnight, have come up with over $13 million dollars for the bush fire victims. I'm blown away by this, completely and utterly. Not four days ago we were bitching about the price of petrol moving 3 cents thataway, or the estimated jobless in the coming months. Never would anyone have thought that they would be collectively (and happily) handing over their hard earned dough in such a financial climate. But we Aussies see that there are people worse off...that we can go without a few luxuries because these people are going without families, homes, communities.

This mass involvement and desire to help really moves me, and not to sound tripe but it gives me hope too.

word. makes me so proud. and gives me a lot of hope too, cos the world is gonna be dealt some bad cards in the years to come, and its great to know we can actually help each other on this scale.

BU to teaching my first classes at TAFE today, and them going a ok!

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:55 pm

mixtress wrote:Most amazing big ups to the struggling people of Australia, who in the depths of a world financial crisis and a possible recession, overnight, have come up with over $13 million dollars for the bush fire victims. I'm blown away by this, completely and utterly. Not four days ago we were bitching about the price of petrol moving 3 cents thataway, or the estimated jobless in the coming months. Never would anyone have thought that they would be collectively (and happily) handing over their hard earned dough in such a financial climate. But we Aussies see that there are people worse off...that we can go without a few luxuries because these people are going without families, homes, communities.

This mass involvement and desire to help really moves me, and not to sound tripe but it gives me hope too.

Oh, and big up's to everyone who was nice to me on my birthday

too right Mixxy, Aussies do it right.

even this morning watching people help each other on the tram (which i do see fairly often) made me smile.

bigups again to the firefighters and volunteers, doing awesome work

Shifty-Sly · Post by **Shifty-Sly** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:25 am

Big Up's pulling almost a all nighter (4.15am back up at 6.15am) playing with my new mixer

Big Up's getting bargins on quality gear from fellow melbourne beaters

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:10 am

biggups Dave and family! (greensborough homebrew shop). Worried sick they might have been stuck up at their house in Toolangi but just got news they fought spot fires all sunday then bailed for their holiday up to Merimbula sunday night! way safer up there. such a load off.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:16 am

good to hear Fents. He's a lucky man!

big the fuck ups to The Streets gig last night! Absolute SMASHER! Played every tune I wanted to hear, danced and sung and cheered like an idiot. So many oldies...at least 80% of O.P.M. and all the good'uns from A Grand Don't Come for Free. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:36 am

Big Ups getting an offer for Post Grad!!!!

nic · Post by **nic** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:57 am

BADMAN TASH!!!!!!!

want teh DR prefix tbh

quick · Post by **quick** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:02 am

nice work Tash

beatnick · Post by **beatnick** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:40 am

Shifty-Sly wrote: Big Up's getting bargins on quality gear from fellow melbourne beaters

Big ups good gear going to a good home!

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:04 pm

BU BrB off the green- go forth and amplify!

BU kitty with the teaching. Excellent potential to warp impressionable minds

BU Coffs Crew. Mad mad holiday- total relaxo and sideways fun in puff daddy pad with people i love. best

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:33 pm

bigups Tash, nice one!!!!!!!! i said nice one bruva!!!!!

Post by **fooishbar** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:47 pm

witty_pseudonym wrote:Big Ups getting an offer for Post Grad!!!!

congrats!!

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:54 pm

fooishbar wrote:
witty_pseudonym wrote:Big Ups getting an offer for Post Grad!!!!
congrats!!

x2. You should be uber proud Witty

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:38 pm

thanks ya'll. i cannae wait.
prepare for a flooding of freak out gripes towards the end of march.