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Brick wall?

Well, easy to see then that it is difficult for such a middle-aged dude to shed weight.

The solution?

Well, let it bother them.

Here, we’ll remain focused on “brick wall” the term itself. Instead of hitting a brick wall, people are also often said to smash into a brick wall, like a car, i.e. hitting the brick wall hard, or talk to a brick wall (keep talking to someone who doesn’t listen), or one way or another keep coming up against a brick wall.

Anyways, here are two recent media examples:

1. More than 15 million American homeowners currently owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth, up from 13.9 million in the previous three months. The numbers indicate that higher foreclosure rates could be on the horizon, a potential trend supported by a sobering report from real estate website Zillow.com that details 27 percent of homeowners are “underwater.” That’s up from 23.2 percent the previous quarter.

Economist David Blitzer with Standard & Poor’s tells Fox News the new numbers need to be put in perspective. Blitzer says, “First of all, you may have somebody who’s underwater, you know, they owe $200,000 on the mortgage and the house is only worth $198,000. Well, they’re technically underwater.”

That’s not much he says but, on the other hand, “You may have somebody else who owes $200,000 and his house is $75,000 and he is really way, way underwater.”