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Overnight Open Thread (12 Feb 2016)
the enthusiasm for Sanders may be as much a search for something different as it is an endorsement of Sanders' 1930s-era economic views. Given the failure of the two party establishments, it's not entirely surprising that young people are looking elsewhere.
This foray into socialism won't end well (it never does) when you factor in possible amnesty for folks that have fled socialist leaning countries and you don't try to Americanize them.
Climate Change
I think this ArsTechnica author would better understand why there is uneven education on climate change if she knew that the 97% scientist consensus (or 95% as she states) is BS and that most of their climate doom predictions fail. Maybe you can't get consensus on teaching this crap because it's all about profit and not science. IllumiBowl So is this something? I don't know. I like the challenge of aiming in the dark. Stunt Double Daisy Ridley's stunt double is pretty good.
Happiness Minister I'm surprised Obama hasn't named a happiness czar although he does have all of the media to make up happy stories about his administration and the direction this country is headed. Meet the UAE's first happiness minister. I had no idea this was a billet out there in the world. The Venezuela vice ministry of supreme social happiness has pretty much failed. Selfies
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Tim in GA at February 12, 2016 10:02 PM (CbHz4)
That's because the idiots have been told that socialism makes everything fair and safe for them and they are dumb enough to believe it
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 12, 2016 10:03 PM (45oDG)
Apparently freedom of speech is a tool of "White Supremacy", and only by silencing incorrect speech can people become free... to blindly agree with hard Left racial bigotry.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=10979
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 12, 2016 10:04 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Anachronda at February 12, 2016 10:04 PM (8yJ7M)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at February 12, 2016 10:04 PM (T78UI)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 12, 2016 10:04 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Tim in GA at February 12, 2016 10:06 PM (CbHz4)
Posted by: derit at February 12, 2016 10:07 PM (OC+TJ)
Posted by: Fat Cthulhu at February 12, 2016 10:07 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Hanoverfist at February 12, 2016 10:07 PM (fOMps)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 12, 2016 10:07 PM (CNHr1)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 12, 2016 10:08 PM (CNHr1)
That's cool
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 12, 2016 10:08 PM (voOPb)
I was an adult before I realized that FDR was not, as sold, the best president ever in the history of ever.
Posted by: Lauren at February 12, 2016 10:09 PM (0C2f1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2016 10:09 PM (iHjB5)
I'll orthogonalize your vectors to do a Taylor series expansion around your origins, IYKWIMAITTYD
Posted by: The Scientific Hat at February 12, 2016 10:09 PM (vBeA5)
to be honest, I think part of the millennial favoritism towards socialism is rooted in some unconscious racism
they want "white people socialism" (i.e. Denmark) but not "brown people socialism" (i.e. Venezuela) because they don't think that is "real socialism"
Posted by: chemjeff - PuppyMonkeyBaby '16 at February 12, 2016 10:09 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 12, 2016 10:10 PM (UpGcq)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 12, 2016 10:10 PM (hVdx9)
The problems in Venezuela are because of the capitalists and the bankers, man.
Posted by: every leftist on the Internet, ever at February 12, 2016 10:10 PM (jV8Mq)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 12, 2016 10:11 PM (UpGcq)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 12, 2016 10:11 PM (hVdx9)
Well fuck me. I'm in Savannah because my daughters' have a cheer comp tomorrow. It's Valentine's weekend. Which means I'm paying a ridiculous amount for an average hotel room. And the wifi sucks.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 12, 2016 10:11 PM (8mbVu)
Posted by: ryukyu at February 12, 2016 10:11 PM (FuBZa)
Posted by: chemjeff - PuppyMonkeyBaby '16 at February 12, 2016 10:09 PM (uZNvH)
Even white people socialism sucks. It's soul crushing unless you're a waste of flesh that just wants to be fed and changed your whole life. Oh..so that's why they like it
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 12, 2016 10:12 PM (45oDG)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2016 10:12 PM (Q7bO0)
Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2016 10:13 PM (91LL3)
Posted by: L, Elle at February 12, 2016 10:13 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 12, 2016 10:13 PM (CNHr1)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 12, 2016 10:14 PM (CNHr1)
Apparently freedom of speech is a tool of "White Supremacy", and only by silencing incorrect speech can people become free... to blindly agree with hard Left racial bigotry.
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=10979
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 12, 2016 10:04 PM (vBeA5)
What a cretin. No wonder why Comrade Bernie is so popular.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 12, 2016 10:14 PM (45oDG)
Well the problem is that in Obama's economy so many young people aren't working and are living at home and they see no path to prosperity so they aspire to free shit to take care of them.
Posted by: Lauren at February 12, 2016 10:14 PM (0C2f1)
Well fuck me. I'm in Savannah because my daughters' have a cheer
comp tomorrow. It's Valentine's weekend. Which means I'm paying a
ridiculous amount for an average hotel room. And the wifi sucks.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 12, 2016 10:11 PM
My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2016 10:14 PM (Q7bO0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2016 10:14 PM (iHjB5)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 12, 2016 10:13 PM (CNHr1)
If it's got a good beat, I'll listen to about anything. But my go to is rock.
I'm a child of the 80s, so a heavy beat from the drums and a screaming guitar gets me going.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 12, 2016 10:15 PM (8mbVu)
Welp, Valentine's weekend again. The one time of year men don't have to feel weird about buying condoms in bulk.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 12, 2016 10:15 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 12, 2016 10:11 PM (8mbVu)
you might want to clarify that last part.......
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at February 12, 2016 10:15 PM (0O7c5)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 12, 2016 10:15 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: huerfano at February 12, 2016 10:16 PM (NSb9d)
Which is impossible.
Remember, this generation is the one fully immersed in socialism and the erasure of individualism from the time they were in diapers. They have been coddled , protected, the government has set rules and regulations that they are told are good for them and has impacted every corner of their life. From school, to church, to the boys scouts, socialism and leftist thought has been taught, preached and reinforced. This is the generation that received participation trophies, that have been drugged into a stupor with ritalin, who have been told that boys are girls and girls are boys and being gay is awesome,etc. They have a higher chance than not to have been raised in an all female household with a single mom with much help from the government, who they think they couldn't have lived without. They more than likely have never had a summer or after school job and likely never worked in college. They have no idea of what it actually takes to be successful because they haven't been allowed to fail.
Posted by: Jen the original at February 12, 2016 10:16 PM (K0Iz7)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2016 10:14 PM (Q7bO0)
Already ahead of you. Got checked in. The wife and girls were in bed by a little after 9. I got in the shower with the water as hot as I could stand and the bottle sitting on the edge of the tub.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 12, 2016 10:16 PM (8mbVu)
Posted by: HRC at February 12, 2016 10:16 PM (JwLCI)
Posted by: mpfs at February 12, 2016 10:16 PM (SlFyt)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at February 12, 2016 10:15 PM (0O7c5)
It's very very slow.
DL and UL speeds of about 1.5mbps.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 12, 2016 10:17 PM (8mbVu)
Posted by: ThunderB at February 12, 2016 10:17 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 12, 2016 10:17 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: rickl at February 12, 2016 10:18 PM (sdi6R)
BRB.
Posted by: rickl
****
More staff trick practice...
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 12, 2016 10:19 PM (hVdx9)
https://youtu.be/PgupfwUeXYY
Posted by: buzzion at February 12, 2016 10:19 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 12, 2016 10:20 PM (voOPb)
DL and UL speeds of about 1.5mbps.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 12, 2016 10:17 PM (8mbVu)
i think it went over your head.......
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at February 12, 2016 10:20 PM (0O7c5)
Posted by: huerfano at February 12, 2016 10:21 PM (NSb9d)
5. Drowning his sorrows in Chick-Fil-A sweet tea
4. Shoving all-in at the Hawaiian Gardens no-limit hold'em poker tables with 7-3 offsuit because nothing really matters anyway
3. Getting blocked by Monica Lewinsky at Twitter
2. Hangin' 'round the hosiery section at Macys for no particular reason
1. Making saltpeter chili
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 12, 2016 10:21 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 12, 2016 10:21 PM (jV8Mq)
Posted by: Seems legit at February 12, 2016 10:22 PM (U+nHb)
Posted by: Willy J. at February 12, 2016 10:22 PM (Nkdwp)
The great fight choreography from the prequels kind of burned me out. It was something a buddy and I talked about after seeing Phantom Menace. They managed to rob the fights of their impact.
One of the things I was really hoping from from the new movies was a much more visceral sense of threat and brutality from the fight scenes. The prequels had the feel of ballet, where they are "acting out" a fight. So far, so good there.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2016 10:23 PM (iHjB5)
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at February 12, 2016 10:23 PM (kpqmD)
.. if you can, go to youtube and check out Shinedown. Good ole rock baby and they are awesome. Another good band is Adelitas Way. Newest song is Bad Reputation. Enjoy!!Posted by: Jewells45 at February 12, 2016 10:24 PM (CNHr1)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at February 12, 2016 10:24 PM (fC9RO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2016 10:14 PM (iHjB5)
HAHA. That connects to my last comment. Scott Bradlee of Post Modern Jukebox created that arrangement of Girls Just Want To Have Fun for that game.
https://youtu.be/5CPbg9ljE4M Robyn Adele Anderson singing.
Posted by: buzzion at February 12, 2016 10:24 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at February 12, 2016 10:20 PM (0O7c5)
Impossible. Nothing would go over my head. My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 12, 2016 10:24 PM (8mbVu)
Posted by: Sofia Toronjas at February 12, 2016 10:25 PM (j8uQ3)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 12, 2016 10:24 PM (CNHr1)
I've been a Shinedown fan for years. They're from my hometown of Jacksonville. I saw them a few years ago in concert. They kicked off their Carnival of Madness Tour in Jacksonville. Most excellent. And yeah, Adelitas Way is very good as well.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 12, 2016 10:26 PM (8mbVu)
Posted by: Millenial at February 12, 2016 10:26 PM (r5IMY)
Posted by: HRC at February 12, 2016 10:16 PM (JwLCI)
First lol of the night.
Posted by: ryukyu at February 12, 2016 10:26 PM (FuBZa)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2016 10:27 PM (iHjB5)
Posted by: buzzion at February 12, 2016 10:28 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 12, 2016 10:08 PM (CNHr1)
I had a pretty good day today. I can tell when I am in a good mood because I start wondering things, like today, if a Wankel rotary engine design could be retrofitted to be used as a pump.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2016 10:28 PM (q2o38)
Some real talent Cyndi had, at least in the beginning.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 12, 2016 10:28 PM (ntObR)
Some will say this "proves the existence of black holes". Well it proves that two very massive objects spiraled into each other and only black holes could pack that much mass into such a small space to produce that kind of bust of gravitational radiation.
That merger converted about 3 solar masses of mass (well black hole mass) into energy in the form of gravitational radiation in a few milliseconds or so.
That blows away gamma ray bursts, and is the most energetic event known in the universe now.
If you happened to be close to such a burst of gravitational waves, say within solar system distances of it, the wave would be strong enough to rip you apart. That is the tidal forces across your body would be such that it would compress and alternative rip across you in two opposite directions such that you couldn't hold together.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at February 12, 2016 10:29 PM (dvuhZ)
that you couldn't hold together.
Pfft.
Posted by: Chuck Norris at February 12, 2016 10:31 PM (jWh67)
Posted by: buzzion at February 12, 2016 10:28 PM (zt+N6)
I like it as well. Thanks for the link.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2016 10:31 PM (iHjB5)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 12, 2016 10:14 PM
Coincidentally that's my poison of choice. Salude!
Posted by: Farmer at February 12, 2016 10:32 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 12, 2016 10:32 PM (9ym/8)
Posted by: CDR M at February 12, 2016 10:32 PM (SCx0h)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 12, 2016 10:34 PM (jV8Mq)
Howdy, classy nighttime people!
I have not put forth many mindful webworks in the past year, but now and then, I crank one out. When inspired or motivated.
One nice thing about being undiscovered and never going viral is, I don't have to deal with comments from crazies, on my site, or (especially) on YouTube.
I hope it stays that way, but I'm tempting the fates now with a new 20-second video.
Donald Trump is a Class Act
The question is, which class?
at mindfulwebworks.com:
http://bit.ly/trump-classy
Note there is a PayPal donation link in the upper corners of the webpage, whatever 20sec of vid is worth to ya.
Or, if you would rather go to YouTube for some reason
https://youtu.be/MJOF6EzqL9U
Well, self-promo's done. Now to see what CDR M and ye common taters have for me tonight.
Posted by: mindful webworker - I'm in trouble now! at February 12, 2016 10:34 PM (ACs58)
Try hanging around outside of Lane Bryant instead of Macy's.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 12, 2016 10:34 PM (JO9+V)
Is it odd I find her double hot because she is doing old timey music?
Posted by: Willy J. at February 12, 2016 10:22 PM (Nkdwp)
Of course not.
Posted by: buzzion at February 12, 2016 10:35 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Willy J. at February 12, 2016 10:35 PM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 12, 2016 10:35 PM (ntObR)
If you do a search on the site for it, it says you have to download their app to view the content.
Posted by: this app requires access to your location, camera, keyboard, passwords and credit card info at February 12, 2016 10:36 PM (jWh67)
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 12, 2016 10:36 PM (NGd+i)
If you happened to be close to such a burst of gravitational waves, say
within solar system distances of it, the wave would be strong enough to
rip you apart. That is the tidal forces across your body would be such
that it would compress and alternative rip across you in two opposite
directions such that you couldn't hold together.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at February 12, 2016 10:29 PM
--------------------------
Much like when your average lefty finds out that Ted Cruz is not Satan, then?
Posted by: irright at February 12, 2016 10:36 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 12, 2016 10:37 PM (kpqmD)
It's government interference and bureaucratic sluggishness with a touch of red tape that makes neither of them a full experience of the type.
They're willing to give Socialism a shot because
1) they've never been taught what that really means
2) they've never have had experience capitalism
3) they've never had to pay for socialism
4) they've never received any benefit of capitalism
5) the education complex has fed them lies for all their lives
6) they're parents have failed.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at February 12, 2016 10:38 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 12, 2016 10:38 PM (CNHr1)
Can we get a Life Czar and a Liberty Czar along with that? It's in the Declaration of Czar Dependence after all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - I'm in trouble now! at February 12, 2016 10:38 PM (ACs58)
Some will say this "proves the existence of black holes". Well it proves that two very massive objects spiraled into each other and only black holes could pack that much mass into such a small space to produce that kind of bust of gravitational radiation.
That merger converted about 3 solar masses of mass (well black hole mass) into energy in the form of gravitational radiation in a few milliseconds or so.
That blows away gamma ray bursts, and is the most energetic event known in the universe now.
If you happened to be close to such a burst of gravitational waves, say within solar system distances of it, the wave would be strong enough to rip you apart. That is the tidal forces across your body would be such that it would compress and alternative rip across you in two opposite directions such that you couldn't hold together.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius)
****
Huh huh, you said blows.
Posted by: Dumb Ass at February 12, 2016 10:38 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 12, 2016 10:36 PM (NGd+i)
Yeah. Her voice I find unique. She's done several songs with them before and usually I've been "meh." She does "Bad Romance" very well though. She wears that dress very well too.
Posted by: buzzion at February 12, 2016 10:38 PM (zt+N6)
https://youtu.be/PgupfwUeXYY
Posted by: buzzion at February 12, 2016 10:19 PM (zt+N6)
Yes, I could envision a foursome...
Back to reality, they've been doing a lot of tap dancing lately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Hrn2_LxDs
Posted by: rickl at February 12, 2016 10:39 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 12, 2016 10:39 PM (CNHr1)
Posted by: BC
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Should have booked a room at Chez D'oh.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 10:39 PM (yddCj)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 10:40 PM (yddCj)
Posted by: Dumb Ass at February 12, 2016 10:41 PM (hVdx9)
I thought that said "cheer coup" at first glance. I'll leave it to the rest of you to figure out what that might be like.
Posted by: Josephistan at February 12, 2016 10:41 PM (7qAYi)
The link goes to a "Page not found" page. Searching at the site for "stratotanker" brings up the a search result with the same link, but also the following:
Please download our app to access this content.
No mention of what app or why I would need an app to look at a webpage on my PC.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 12, 2016 10:42 PM (R+30W)
4) they've never received any benefit of capitalism
5 out of 6 ain't bad
The little bastards are spoiled from the spoils of capitalism. Every day they have benefited from capitalism from their immunizations as babies to their damn iPhones
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 12, 2016 10:42 PM (voOPb)
Doesn't hurt today but it looks like early onset plague.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2016 10:42 PM (wCF3s)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 12, 2016 10:42 PM (8mbVu)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 12, 2016 10:43 PM (hVdx9)
Not a kid movie. But people brought them anyway. Dumbasses. C
Posted by: blaster at February 12, 2016 10:43 PM (2Ocf1)
They think that splashes where they're not wanted is because of poor aim.
They have no idea of how unpredictable it is for someone to squirt liquid through an oval flat tube lined with mucosa cells whose sides may or may not stick together at one point in that tube or another. And the stream pressure itself can also disturb the actual landing spot.
When they're using those prosthesis in health class to show men what it's like to be pregnant, they ought to have a similar setup to show women how tricky and unpredictable it can be to aim that stream of liquid through that flexible tube (which btw also can be shorter or longer than usual).
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at February 12, 2016 10:43 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 12, 2016 10:44 PM (NGd+i)
Doesn't hurt today but it looks like early onset plague.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
****
Never pegged you for a masochist, but to each their own.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 12, 2016 10:44 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at February 12, 2016 10:44 PM (Xo1Rt)
I believe the actual question posed was, "Would you rather be abandoned in a dangerous city during wartime or have an all-knowing, all-caring group of enlightened beings see to your every desire?"
Posted by: t-bird at February 12, 2016 10:44 PM (Z58Xa)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 12, 2016 10:45 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 10:45 PM (yddCj)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale
Oil vey...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2016 10:45 PM (wCF3s)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 12, 2016 10:45 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 12, 2016 10:46 PM (dkExz)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale
Oil vey...
Posted by: weft cut-loop
****
Oooo, that burns.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 12, 2016 10:46 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Seems legit at February 12, 2016 10:47 PM (U+nHb)
I always wanted a urinal in our bathrooms. Space wise it never worked out
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 12, 2016 10:47 PM (voOPb)
Mark Dice gets folks to sign a petition endorsing Hillary Clinton's choice of Karl Marx as a running mate.
https://youtu.be/jPob5-_EAmc
Meanwhile the model socialist people's paradise of Venezuela has run into a tiny little minor glitch - they've run out of food.
Breitbart
http://bit.ly/1oc4y7a
Posted by: mindful webworker - but it's social! at February 12, 2016 10:49 PM (ACs58)
Yeah I don't get that. My kids know who deadpool is because he's a character in Lego Marvel Superheros (a PG version, obviously)
They know he has a movie and asked if we could see it.
"Nope, it's too scary for kids sorry."
The end. How f'ing hard is that other parents of the world?
Posted by: Lauren at February 12, 2016 10:49 PM (0C2f1)
Posted by: blaster at February 12, 2016 10:50 PM (2Ocf1)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2016 10:50 PM (wCF3s)
Me too. I thought they'd be great around the house.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 12, 2016 10:50 PM (9ym/8)
I just unchecked that check box.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at February 12, 2016 10:51 PM (Xo1Rt)
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Were I to build a house, urinal in every bathroom.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 10:51 PM (yddCj)
Posted by: Sofia Toronjas at February 12, 2016 10:52 PM (j8uQ3)
Posted by: eman at February 12, 2016 10:53 PM (MQEz6)
crushing unless you're a waste of flesh that just wants to be fed and
changed your whole life. Oh..so that's why they like it
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 12, 2016 10:12 PM (45oDG)
Explains how in Obamaland a 25 year old could still a "child" under a parent's health care.
Posted by: gracepc at February 12, 2016 10:53 PM (OU4q6)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 12, 2016 10:53 PM (rJUlF)
We have finally hit the I would rather be given than earn point.
I wonder if they would change their answer if it was phrased that way.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 12, 2016 10:53 PM (Nkdwp)
I have used the stuff before, but it's been a while. I guess it's been reformulated.
With in 60 seconds or less, the various parts of my arm where the back-splatter hit, started burning intensely. Nasty stuff.
Good thing I won't be having kids. With all the caustic chemical exposure (including lots of Hoppes) my kids would have 3 eyes and 4 arms.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 12, 2016 10:53 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Colonel Bernie Sanders at February 12, 2016 10:54 PM (Dwehj)
Meanwhile the model socialist people's paradise of Venezuela has run into a tiny little minor glitch - they've run out of food.
Posted by: mindful webworker - but it's social! at February 12, 2016 10:49 PM (ACs5
Sounds like a self-correcting problem.
Posted by: rickl at February 12, 2016 10:54 PM (sdi6R)
The little bastards are spoiled from the spoils of capitalism. Every day they have benefited from capitalism from their immunizations as babies to their damn iPhones
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 12, 2016 10:42 PM (voOPb)
They do not understand TANSTAAFL..
They see the Fed Gov constantly printing money, and think that debt does not mean anything.
Posted by: Don Quixote at February 12, 2016 10:54 PM (f7rv6)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 12, 2016 10:55 PM (CNHr1)
Posted by: Willy J. at February 12, 2016 10:56 PM (Nkdwp)
Snort. Yeah, I'll get right on that.
The not-feeling-good KC-135 story from recent years is about the bird which broke up in flight, with the loss of the entire crew. It's almost as though flying jets in the 21st century whose purchasing began in the Eisenhower administration is hazardous to life and limb, but we all know that can't possibly be true.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 12, 2016 10:57 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Larry King at February 12, 2016 10:57 PM (FkBIv)
People need it gamed out/explained to them to realize they are not going to end up with their salary + a piece of Peyton Mannings earnings, they are going to end up having a couple Uncle Joes ala Petticoat Junction, living off of their efforts.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 12, 2016 10:57 PM (dkExz)
129 Using carb cleaner on fuel injection parts can screw up their special coatings. Always use throttle body and air intake cleaner instead.
And yes a Wankel engine could be used as a pump
Posted by: MAx at February 12, 2016 10:59 PM (LAliD)
"Dude, if I did this, I would tell you! I would be, like, almost proud of this!" - Hank Venture
Posted by: TB at February 12, 2016 10:59 PM (UXEYz)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at February 12, 2016 10:59 PM (dBmVV)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 12, 2016 10:59 PM (CNHr1)
Not by a long shot.
Posted by: The Donner Party at February 12, 2016 11:00 PM (J3phO)
Posted by: Larry King
****
Yes, but it attracts rapey bears.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 12, 2016 11:01 PM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Jen the original at February 12, 2016 10:16 PM (K0Iz7)
And they've also not been allowed to succeed on their own.
There is not drug more intoxicating than being the best at something or winning a contest or overcoming an obstacle.
Too many kids have been over protected and micromanaged.
I point to the mothers who are still pushing their 4 and old BOYS AND GIRLS around in strollers.
The poor kids look like prisoners (because they are)
Under stimulation leads to boredom and lack of involvement not to mention the physical aspects of your child not exercising their new muscles and nerve pathways.
Stop pushing your kids around.
(good for a bumper sticker Heh?)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at February 12, 2016 11:01 PM (Xo1Rt)
Got here late, haven't read the comments, but I think we all know that a big part of the enthusiasm for Sanders is due to disgust with The Beast.
Also, millenials, and anyone else who thinks that our version of welfare/socialism is a good thing, should be told to go live in a neighborhood where two thirds of the people are receiving free shit from the taxpayers.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 12, 2016 11:01 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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The great irony is that the main promoter is a guy who the American system has lifted from the son of a poor Polish immigrant, to a candidate for the most powerful position on the face of the earth. Any *rational* person would be singing praises to the system.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 11:02 PM (yddCj)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 12, 2016 11:02 PM (kpqmD)
And yes a Wankel engine could be used as a pump
Posted by: MAx
****
Whoops. That IS what I used. Just occurred to me that is why it was so nasty.
Different stuff.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 12, 2016 11:02 PM (hVdx9)
Well, it only took a near-decade to get KC-X awarded and those puppies should start rolling off the assembly line in the 4-5-6 years.
Got it covered.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 12, 2016 11:02 PM (9ym/8)
With in 60 seconds or less, the various parts of my arm where the back-splatter hit, started burning intensely.>>>
To save the ozone from CFCs they added base or acid. So instead of just drying your skin it burns it.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 12, 2016 11:03 PM (Nkdwp)
Nice. Thanks, Hammer.
Before that:
have to download their app to view the content.
Never. No. Never.
Posted by: mindful webworker - in app licable at February 12, 2016 11:03 PM (ACs58)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrwsUur6SfE
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 12, 2016 11:03 PM (R+30W)
Plus the vehicle traffic is enormous and being a 3rd world country in so many ways, drivers are very selfish and there is less cooperation than say like a 1st world country.
Respect for the law reaches all aspects of living.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at February 12, 2016 11:03 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 11:05 PM (yddCj)
Grown men on those little razor scooters.
On the sidewalks.
Posted by: navybrat at February 12, 2016 11:06 PM (8QGte)
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*imagines a last selfie, showing a stalking tiger in the background *
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 11:06 PM (yddCj)
Yes. Really.
Posted by: Lauren at February 12, 2016 11:06 PM (3DIzJ)
Oh lord the selfie. I forgot that aspect from the etiquette tea that wasn't. One of the women trying to sell me shit at the table pulled out a freaking selfie stick while the manners woman was presenting.
Posted by: Lauren at February 12, 2016 11:08 PM (3DIzJ)
Grown men on those little razor scooters.
On the sidewalks.
Posted by: navybrat
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I see 20-something bearded hipsters with skateboards all of the time
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 11:08 PM (yddCj)
Fuck the GOP.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at February 12, 2016 11:08 PM (u5gzz)
The cognitive dissonance amazes me.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 12, 2016 11:08 PM (rJUlF)
That's because the idiots have been told that socialism makes everything fair and safe for them and they are dumb enough to believe it
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 12, 2016 10:03 PM (45oDG)
That's because the yutes haven't accumulated any wealth or property yet. So taking from you is easy because they have nothing to take.
Posted by: RickZ at February 12, 2016 11:09 PM (Ix+HS)
>>>
I am so happy these pricks weren't there to protect me from making money for beer in highschool.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 12, 2016 11:09 PM (Nkdwp)
1st generation American and he failed
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 12, 2016 11:09 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 12, 2016 11:09 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Lauren at February 12, 2016 11:10 PM (3DIzJ)
When Sex is Hard
https://youtu.be/VVojXv1lmMo
Where Does Love Come From?
https://youtu.be/gEFMya7zQKo
Do Humans Have Pheromones?
https://youtu.be/kqftxptfm7Y
Special Valentine Science!
https://youtu.be/i89Xhw_RwZg
Sure to win your honey's heart... or some organ...
Posted by: mindful webworker - it's SCIENCE! at February 12, 2016 11:11 PM (ACs58)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 12, 2016 10:39 PM
Back at ya.
Isn't BC here? He should be up for a shot. If he brought the tekillya on the trip for daughter's dance deal.
BTW Has anyone seen ChicagoRefugee on here tonight?
Posted by: Farmer at February 12, 2016 11:11 PM (o/90i)
I'm gonna guess the fat chick and the moped joke doesn't work anymore.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 12, 2016 11:11 PM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: Willy J
****
Better than pepper spray. No joke.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 12, 2016 11:11 PM (hVdx9)
Seriously, that's the whole purpose of the tip. To make up the difference in their base pay. If it's now the same as a the checkout lady or the tire guy, I ain't tipping shit.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 12, 2016 11:12 PM (9ym/8)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 11:06 PM (yddCj)
Something close to that has happened and been caught on tape (or whatever)
3 guys doing a selfie along side a tiger (loose) when suddenly the tiger decides that the nearest one looks tasty and grabs him and starts mauling him.
Luckily, his friends pried him away from the tiger.
Never saw how bad he got hurt if any.
Maybe I'm not a very adventuresome soul but I would NEVER be hanging around a carnivore that outweighed me. I don't care if I raised it from a baby.
That's just stupid in my view.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at February 12, 2016 11:12 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 11:12 PM (yddCj)
http://bit.ly/trump-classy
Posted by: mindful webworker - darn it to heck at February 12, 2016 11:13 PM (ACs58)
Posted by: huerfano at February 12, 2016 10:16 PM (NSb9d)
They all want dope legalized.
Ron Paul was for it, they think Bernie will push for it.
Plus, they think Bernie will forgive their student loans.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper formerly MrCaniac at February 12, 2016 11:13 PM (Z7G74)
I don't think I'll see it. I've liked most of the Marvel movies so far, but I'm not a Deadpool fan.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 12, 2016 11:15 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 11:08 PM (yddCj)
I love when they skateboard down the middle of a street during rush hour traffic. It's a generation of self-absorbed immature twats. No wonder why they love Barry
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 12, 2016 11:15 PM (45oDG)
Good times too be had when they find out how expensive all that "free" shit is.
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 12, 2016 11:15 PM (NGd+i)
That's because the yutes haven't accumulated any wealth or property yet. So taking from you is easy because they have nothing to take.
Posted by: RickZ at February 12, 2016 11:09 PM (Ix+HS)
And in this economy, they can't accumulate any wealth or property.
Feature, not a bug.
Posted by: rickl at February 12, 2016 11:15 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: ThunderB at February 12, 2016 11:15 PM (zOTsN)
Mike, I'm beginning to think you moved to Minnesota and didn't tell anyone.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 12, 2016 11:15 PM (9ym/8)
Not a problem since restaurants would cease to exist.
Posted by: Lauren
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Some places are using the tablets at the table to order and the waitstaff are basically food runners. I have little interest in tipping those folks since I don't think they are providing me with much service, but the restaurant is paying them like they always have.
Posted by: Aviator at February 12, 2016 11:15 PM (c7vUv)
Ron Paul was for it, they think Bernie will push for it.
Plus, they think Bernie will forgive their student loans.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper formerly MrCaniac at February 12, 2016 11:13 PM (Z7G74)
Is he also going to force companies to hire people with a major in Womyn's Studies and a minor in Hate Whitey?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 12, 2016 11:16 PM (45oDG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 12, 2016 11:18 PM (FkBIv)
Feature, not a bug.
Posted by: rickl at February 12, 2016 11:15 PM (sdi6R)
I work with a 20 something who said he'd vote for Bernie over most Republicans. Then a couple of days ago was telling me how most of his friends can't find jobs. They've got degrees from Northwestern and are working part time at a bar. There are no jobs out there. I'm sure they all voted for Barry maybe they should ask him where the jobs are.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 12, 2016 11:19 PM (45oDG)
Have I met too many that were worth as much as a bucket of warm piss? Sigh, yes.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 12, 2016 11:20 PM (hVdx9)
The music has been mentioned before. A barbershop quartet sings a song that you can't completely take out of the 1970s. Retro-cover are fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1i8QTOV20Y
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 12, 2016 11:20 PM (VdICR)
But it's also derived from the root cause of too many people getting stuff for less than it's worth due to distortions by government or custom and when they finally have to pay the actual price they go where they can still get the subsidized price.
Somebody's paying for that service somewhere along the line.
It's like the farmers whining that food will cost too much if they had to pay a decent wage.
But what about the price we're paying for all the turmoil and the coming loss of the American Culture due to the invasion of low cost workers enticed here by the wages? And who's paying for the unemployment of those thrown out of work?
Chicken DO come home to roost. Eventually.
And to many situations have been taking from the future to receive a benefit now. And NOW we're paying for that benefit.
It's why I said above that we've never really had a capitalist economy. We're closer than most other countries but we still have massive amounts of distortion of the market due to coops, cabals, monopolies, government interference.
The problem with capitalism is that it rewards the monopolist so everyone can either gain market share with an excellent product OR remove competition.
Guess which one is usually easier?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at February 12, 2016 11:20 PM (Xo1Rt)
That's a sure sign you're not "Of The Party". I've got four phony jobs and all are high-paying.
Posted by: Huma at February 12, 2016 11:21 PM (J3phO)
If everything is to be free why go to college at all?>>>
So you have people to look down upon.
Like all the ones that make all you shit work. Plumbers. electricians, garbageman...
Posted by: Willy J. at February 12, 2016 11:21 PM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 12, 2016 11:21 PM (9ym/8)
You know what would happen to restaurants if you jacked up server costs like that?
The ones that didn't close would charge like $18 for a burger. It would look like movie theater prices.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at February 12, 2016 11:21 PM (39g3+)
You can't get those 4 year degrees in Transgendered Korean Art anywhere, right?
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 12, 2016 11:22 PM (NGd+i)
last 007 movie,
and then watched emely in,
cosarico.....................
good movies'
Posted by: dan liwese at February 12, 2016 11:22 PM (AG7GB)
Today, I recalled that a couple of years ago I picked up a spool of thermocouple wire at the junkyard. Rummaged around in the base today and Voila! Found it, and it's Type J.
Three small miracles here, first, I remembered something from the dim past, second I actually found the stuff, third, it's the right wire.
Hoarding hourder scores!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 11:22 PM (yddCj)
Never. No. Never.
Posted by: mindful webworker
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Not at my link.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 11:23 PM (yddCj)
Tipping was not a scam. It kept big boobed women serving me with a smile.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 12, 2016 11:23 PM (Nkdwp)
Grown men on those little razor scooters.
On the sidewalks.
Posted by: navybrat
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I see 20-something bearded hipsters with skateboards all of the time
How about the grown people who wear knit hats that make them look like stuffed animals? It's like we're running out of ways to be jackasses.
Posted by: Josephistan at February 12, 2016 11:23 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 11:24 PM (yddCj)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 11:24 PM (yddCj)
Posted by: no matter what you do at February 12, 2016 11:24 PM (AG7GB)
I'm just gonna sit back and watch it all go up in flames and listen to the screams.
Sure eventually it will affect me somehow and I'll have to deal with that when it happens.
But I and so many others could see this happening back in the '90's. I had suspicions before that but the '90's is when I was sure. I just didn't know how long it would take and I hoped to have more money when it happened.
Unfortunately I experienced premature LIB in 2007. So I was only about 75% prepared.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at February 12, 2016 11:24 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 11:25 PM (yddCj)
Posted by: Colonel Bernie Sanders at February 12, 2016 11:25 PM (Dwehj)
It's a great idea. The problem is that young minds aren't fully developed and so they fail to see the analogy. And regardless, even the vast majority of grown up progressives are only "progressive" about the things that won't affect them. See Hollywood, DC, and frankly, every commie f*cker known to man.
Posted by: Mega at February 12, 2016 11:25 PM (JwLCI)
Dude. Restaurant are barely open with prices as is. They can't pay a lot to super low skill jobs that much money and yet have prices for meals that people will pay.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at February 12, 2016 11:26 PM (39g3+)
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heh, heh.
That's the beauty of 18-20 year-olds voting
Posted by: The Left at February 12, 2016 11:27 PM (yddCj)
That's...not bad. "God Only Knows" is one of my favorite songs ever. Here's another from someone recently gone...
https://youtu.be/HOadV_CPT_k
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 12, 2016 11:27 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Willy J. at February 12, 2016 11:23 PM (Nkdwp)
Also, do your server a big one and tip in cash. If you tip on the credit card
a) chances are the owner is taking the merchant fee out of the tip, not the bill
and
b) the server can get it today to buy smokes tonight, not on the 19th
Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2016 11:28 PM (q2o38)
Posted by: there's noth'n wrong with red meet at February 12, 2016 11:28 PM (AG7GB)
This was something that McGovern ran on 44 years ago.
There's nothing new under the sun. We just forgot about it from before.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at February 12, 2016 11:28 PM (Xo1Rt)
I kinda like the party girls in kitty cat ears.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at February 12, 2016 11:29 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at February 12, 2016 11:26 PM (39g3+)
Dude. And right there is what I was talking about.The customers don't want to pay a fair price so the restaurant owner runs his scam to make it appear less than what it is actually costing.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at February 12, 2016 11:30 PM (Xo1Rt)
It was a Diane Sawyer thing on 20/20.
Sorry story that much wasn't done before hand.
Posted by: Farmer at February 12, 2016 11:30 PM (o/90i)
then as surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn -
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 12, 2016 11:30 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 12, 2016 11:30 PM (MSgeA)
It also allows the server to choose not to report the income, which the best reason of all to tip only in cash.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at February 12, 2016 11:31 PM (u5gzz)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2016 11:31 PM (q2o38)
It's a human trait.
Doesn't mean it's right or that we're entitled to something for nothing.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at February 12, 2016 11:31 PM (Xo1Rt)
No, because it allows them to pay what they feel the meal was worth. If you got lousy food and terrible service: no tip or a small one. If you got great service and food: spend more. Its a bit more free market, one of the few places in our society that has that.
Most people don't pay more than 10%, but some pay 20% or more to shove the average up which keeps the prices reasonable.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at February 12, 2016 11:32 PM (39g3+)
Guess my comment was unclear? That's why I thanked you. Or, maybe you were just clarifying for others.
Anywho, after reading it, interesting as it was, it was hardly worth downloading some app to read! Thanks^2.
Posted by: mindful webworker - but not as confused as Hillary at February 12, 2016 11:32 PM (ACs58)
What is this "fair price" nonsense? They pay what the market supports.
Posted by: Lauren at February 12, 2016 11:33 PM (0C2f1)
My kid spent an entire year - one solid academic year - in his smart kids honors middle-school English class writing papers about himself. Each and every paper was about him. They were supposed to collect them all into an end-of-year book - about themselves.
And people wonder why this generation is narcissistic?
They've been carefully taught.
Posted by: ChicagoRefugee at February 12, 2016 11:33 PM (N+8NE)
Posted by: Cottonwood Kulak at February 12, 2016 11:34 PM (j8uQ3)
a) chances are the owner is taking the merchant fee out of the tip, not the bill
and
b) the server can get it today to buy smokes tonight, not on the 19th
Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2016 11:28 PM (q2o3
If you tip on a credit card, some places hold those tips and issue a weekly or bi-weekly check with withholding.
I saw this happen at a ritzy supper club I worked at as a busboy right after high school (summer of '74). The management made the change while I was there. The waitresses were not amused.
Posted by: RickZ at February 12, 2016 11:34 PM (Ix+HS)
Is that you Bernie?
Posted by: Aviator at February 12, 2016 11:34 PM (c7vUv)
Besides if you take pride in your work, you don't care about a gratuity but the restaurant owners take advantage and rip off the servers and make it a server/customer thing.
Which is wrong. Charge what it costs and don't try to hide it with scams.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at February 12, 2016 11:35 PM (Xo1Rt)
The 20% keeps waitresses/ waiters that are worth a shit showing up night after night.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 12, 2016 11:35 PM (Nkdwp)
The other X-Men movies seemed to try to hit the same scale as Avengers, and soooooo much energy and personality is squashed by that. Having twelve fantastic buggers fight twelve other fantastic buggers isn't entertaining. X-Men First Class, a good movie, would have been better if there had been hard budget choices.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 12, 2016 11:36 PM (VdICR)
Horrible acting from most except the lead most of the time. Terrible sound dubbing. Editing is for shit.
But they are fun to watch.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 12, 2016 11:36 PM (9ym/8)
Posted by: Colonel Bernie Sanders at February 12, 2016 11:36 PM (Dwehj)
...which would be totally illegal of course, so we're just speaking hypothetically and not recommending tax evasion in any way. Of course. Ahem.
(Fixed for Freud)
Posted by: mindful webworker - hypo thetically at February 12, 2016 11:37 PM (ACs58)
Posted by: Willy J. at February 12, 2016 11:37 PM (Nkdwp)
What are you talking about? It's not me that expects something for nothing.
I'm not talking about giving stuff away. I'm talking about restaurants that don't pay their staff a decent wage for the work they do.
(we're not talking McDonalds here)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at February 12, 2016 11:38 PM (Xo1Rt)
They are in my class every day
They want to be science majors but cannot figure out how to manipulate percentages to calculate their grade in the class
How do they think they will be able to handle quantum mechanics? FML
Posted by: chemjeff - PuppyMonkeyBaby '16 at February 12, 2016 11:38 PM (uZNvH)
After 962 years, Pope and Russian patriarch of Russian Orthodox church meet in Cuba
http://tinyurl.com/jp9v5cg
Posted by: SMFH at February 12, 2016 11:38 PM (rlfds)
But you should really wear more.
Posted by: Chotchkie's at February 12, 2016 11:39 PM (jWh67)
I wasn't aware tips made on cards could be manipulated like that. I guess I'll have to make sure I have cash on hand when dining out.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 12, 2016 11:39 PM (rJUlF)
Probably he understood his little hitgirl better than I did, but it was still really uncomfortable (for me).
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 12, 2016 11:39 PM (6FqZa)
I do min' 15%. More if service is better. I get my hair cut at a Sport Clips and I've gotten a regular girl the last several months and I tip her 20-25% because she does such a good job.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 12, 2016 11:39 PM (9ym/8)
I generally tip 20% for good service, less for mediocre, more for great service. At places that I go to frequently there are wait staff that want our table because we tip decent. It is usually the good servers that bust their ass to take good care of us and we take care of them.
Posted by: Aviator at February 12, 2016 11:39 PM (c7vUv)
Posted by: buzzion at February 12, 2016 11:39 PM (zt+N6)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/698221975836233728
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/698222121340833792
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/698222259425701888
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/698222407065190401
Posted by: kbdabear at February 12, 2016 11:40 PM (yZnGH)
Posted by: Ralph at February 12, 2016 11:40 PM (j8uQ3)
As she handed me a sample warm from the oven, she warned me, these are not chocolate, they're molasses. And those aren't chocolate chips, they're currents.
(Knowing how I complain when cookies that look like chocolate chip turn out to be oatmeal-raisin.)
It's okay, as long as I was duly warned beforehand.
Mmmmmm.
Posted by: mindful webworker - nom nom nom at February 12, 2016 11:41 PM (ACs58)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at February 12, 2016 11:41 PM (dBmVV)
Where did I say eliminate the profit?
Are you all having a problem understanding basic economics?
I'm 180 degrees from Bernie. Bernie wants everyone to work for nothing and everything's for 'free'.
I'm saying that you sell your goods or service for the cost of it (plus a profit of course or you can't stay in business).
but too many businesses push off the true cost onto someone else or somewhere else. So as to create the impression on the customer that it costs less than it does.
that's why we're not living in a true capitalist economy.
Too many cost shifting, government subsidies and scams like tipping.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at February 12, 2016 11:42 PM (Xo1Rt)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/698222571037319168
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/698222703485054977
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/698222827879714817
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/698222974671912960
Posted by: kbdabear at February 12, 2016 11:42 PM (yZnGH)
Posted by: eman at February 12, 2016 11:42 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 12, 2016 11:43 PM (VdICR)
Actually you are. A good server can make good money. They get paid what the customer feels they are worth by way of the tip. You want to pervert that direct feed back. We can all be paid the same no matter how good or bad at the job we are, eh comrade?
Posted by: Aviator at February 12, 2016 11:43 PM (c7vUv)
They don't know what or where Venezuela is. Now would be a good time for conservative candidates to, you know, educate them!! Jeez.
Posted by: PJ at February 12, 2016 11:43 PM (cHuNI)
I called the bank, Rogalski, and the Kentwood police about the credit card business.
Ann had said to contact the bank, Rogalski said to report it to the police, but didn't seem to think that it would be a problem for us.
I had called an 800 number for the bank last night and the lady said the guy wouldn't be able to access the estate account. I called Suada this morning and she said she would put a notation to be on the lookout for any questionable transactions.
The police officer said that he will contact Lowes, file a report. If we have any problems with creditors, or there are further problems to contact them. We can also use the police report. He said we aren't the victims, the credit card company is.
According to a couple of online sites, the credit card company might contact us, but can't collect from us.
The gist of it all seems to be that this is more of a problem for the credit card company than for us.
Ev
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 12, 2016 11:43 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 12, 2016 11:43 PM (6FqZa)
But you should really wear more.
I SEE FOUR PIECES OF FLAIR!
Posted by: Captain Jean-Luc Picard at February 12, 2016 11:44 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: Lauren at February 12, 2016 11:45 PM (3DIzJ)
Posted by: ThunderB at February 12, 2016 11:46 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: ChicagoRefugee at February 12, 2016 11:33 PM (N+8NE)
Very .... carefully.
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at February 12, 2016 11:46 PM (zYV5P)
Which is wrong. Charge what it costs and don't try to hide it with scams.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at February 12, 2016 11:35 PM (Xo1Rt)
It's not a scam. You don't want to tip, don't tip.
A tip does not pay for the food or the cleaners or the dishwasher or the cook, that is all covered by the price of the meal.
The tip is for service. Service is not free. Sure, there is a paycheck there, and a diner can opt to not pay, but I have know very successful waitresses who would consider knifing you if you proposed their tips be taken away and replaced by a wage in spite of that all.
A tip is not a scam. A good waitress at a good place makes good money in tips. The bored surly teenager in a dive does not. But she starts making more if she gets better, and if she is better she can get on at a nicer place. And she has reason to get better because the tips are better when you are good.
Do you think that is not fair? What makes you think it is supposed to be fair? Making it fair makes it into Venezuela.
What it does do is make it equitable. Which is very different. To each according to his abilities, from each according to his needs.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2016 11:47 PM (q2o38)
20%, no less.
I often do the math in my head, and figure how many tables a waitress can manage, or are served in a night, multiply by my tip, and come up with a fairly sad number for the hours worked. I mean, if I have a $10.00 meal, that's only $2.00. If the waitress gets, say 20 tables on a 4-hour shift (which seems a bit much), then that's $40.00. Of course, there will be some hourly, but at a mom & pop restaurant the earnings are not much for the waiter/waitress.
Posted by: The Left at February 12, 2016 11:47 PM (ZxmMG)
Agreed, but I got in a big fight on here for saying as much one night so I will say no more.
Posted by: Lauren at February 12, 2016 11:47 PM (3DIzJ)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 12, 2016 11:48 PM (MSgeA)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 12, 2016 11:49 PM (VdICR)
Posted by: Willy J. at February 12, 2016 11:49 PM (Nkdwp)
About 15% of the people I deliver to have been smoking weed just before I got there. This does not seem to affect the tip amount.
One of the other drivers last night had the woman show up completely naked at the door to pay.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 12, 2016 11:49 PM (9ltS8)
That's true with almost all films though. Its almost a law.
With tips, they have to pay a certain percentage of presumed taxes from the IRS, but cash carries no records, so if they get investigated, a card record shows exact numbers, but cash is just estimated.
I dated a waitress in the late 90s who got angry when she pulled in less than $80 a night. She had red hair and big boobages, plus she was cute and charming, so she did well, but that was more than her wages.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at February 12, 2016 11:49 PM (39g3+)
the harder you work, the more money you make, it's the anti-socialism
Posted by: chemjeff - PuppyMonkeyBaby '16 at February 12, 2016 11:50 PM (uZNvH)
Now I'm missing him. Thanks a lot.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 12, 2016 11:50 PM (rJUlF)
Did she have cash or was she offering alternate arrangements?
Posted by: Vivid Video at February 12, 2016 11:51 PM (jWh67)
Posted by: Josephistan at February 12, 2016 11:51 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: Vivid Video"
I think she paid cash. Apparently, her dude (also nude) was in the room with her.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 12, 2016 11:52 PM (9ltS8)
Yeah but... sometimes its not so bad. There are a lot of people working behind the scenes who never get tips. Cooks for example can see nothing from tips (although smart servers give them a cut) and pooling it kicks some to them. The quality and speed of food coming out can really affect tipping.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at February 12, 2016 11:53 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 12, 2016 11:53 PM (9ym/8)
Posted by: The Left at February 12, 2016 11:47 PM (ZxmMG)
The waitresses at our local mom and pop diner type cafes make $2.50-$3.50 an hour. Not sure about the chains, except I know they make about that at Cracker Barrel, too.
I'd have to catch them spitting in my food to leave less than 30%.
Posted by: prewittlassie at February 12, 2016 11:54 PM (WjuJ3)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 12, 2016 11:55 PM (9ltS8)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at February 12, 2016 11:55 PM (1xUj/)
Posted by: skippy at February 12, 2016 11:55 PM (AG7GB)
young people aren't working and are living at home and they see no path
to prosperity so they aspire to free shit to take care of them.
Posted by: Lauren at February 12, 2016 10:14 PM (0C2f1)"
I trace the problem back to Griggs v. Duke Power that made a college degree one of the few tests that employers could use for potential employees. Colleges then took advantage of their status as gatekeepers to employment to raise their prices. In response government loans were made available and colleges kept raising their prices along with the money that was available. With student loans exempted from bankruptcy relief, an entire generation is trapped with the equivalence of a mortgage payment at the beginning of their working life. Seven years into Obama's shitty economy they are looking at a genuinely raw deal and are quite amenable to some other way of doing things because the present system does not seem to be working out too well for them.
My personal solution would be to eliminate the student loan bankruptcy exception, create a series of government approved tests that employers can use to test employees and comply with Griggs v.Duke Power and fire or kill about 30% of federal government employees to reduce the regulatory burden on employers.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at February 12, 2016 11:56 PM (QHgTq)
Posted by: skippy at February 12, 2016 11:57 PM (AG7GB)
20%, no less.
I often do the math in my head, and figure how many tables a waitress can manage, or are served in a night, multiply by my tip, and come up with a fairly sad number for the hours worked. I mean, if I have a $10.00 meal, that's only $2.00. If the waitress gets, say 20 tables on a 4-hour shift (which seems a bit much), then that's $40.00. Of course, there will be some hourly, but at a mom & pop restaurant the earnings are not much for the waiter/waitress.
Posted by: The Left at February 12, 2016 11:47 PM (ZxmMG)
You're also assuming one person per table. And what restaurant are you eating at where you can get a meal and drinks for only $10 that isn't fast food or buffet?
Posted by: buzzion at February 12, 2016 11:57 PM (zt+N6)
Back when I was a pump jockey at a gas station. I did run into the note under the hood a couple times offering something other than cash for gas. Never was brave or stupid enough to make the trade though.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 12, 2016 11:57 PM (Nkdwp)
The cooks were all on their way up and out. None of them expected to stay there, they were heading onto better paying jobs once they got the time and experience in.
It was years later that I talked to a bunch of cooks and discovered the biggest job of the head cook is getting the undercooks past their hangovers and pointed at the right stations to start working.
Gah.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2016 11:57 PM (q2o38)
Claudia Cardinale was hot, but eye mascara that looked like it was applied with a trowel was always a bit of a turnoff for me.
It was a late '60s-early '70s thing, I know.
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at February 12, 2016 11:57 PM (dBmVV)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 12, 2016 11:58 PM (9ltS8)
Why must it be either/or? How about killing them with fire?
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at February 12, 2016 11:58 PM (u5gzz)
Some full-throated free market capitalism. Now THAT would be different.
Posted by: dissent555 at February 12, 2016 11:59 PM (GdgAM)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 12, 2016 11:59 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 12, 2016 11:59 PM (9ym/8)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 12, 2016 11:59 PM (rJUlF)
Adblock Plus - If you are running ABP, you might want to check your settings and opt out of their approved whitelist filter.
Yep. If you click [open blockable items], anything showing in green in the lower plane is whitelisted -- and you can't block it. Scam.
But if you're the tidy sort, set aside some time to go thru the filter lists under [filter preferences], uncheck anything highlighted in green -- those are whitelisted items. Then you can right-click block those sites individually as you come across them.
Takes time, hundreds of advertisers have bought into this "feature", but it's that or try one of the alternatives, none of which seem like a real competitor at this time.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 12, 2016 11:59 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 13, 2016 12:00 AM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Oy! at February 13, 2016 12:01 AM (7qAYi)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 13, 2016 12:01 AM (9ltS8)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 12, 2016 11:55 PM (9ltS
I'm sure that's part of the "pooling tips is ok/awful" equation. If everyone is busting their ass then you're probably not going to be too beat up about it because hey tonight you had a bad night so you make a bit more than otherwise but tomorrow it could be your friend with the tightwad customers and you had the good night. But if you have the crappy waiters that don't try and then are getting money you busted your ass for then awfulness sets in.
Posted by: buzzion at February 13, 2016 12:01 AM (zt+N6)
I think of it as the waitress has two bosses. The restaurant pays her to turn in orders and deliver the food; the customer pays for our end of the service. Of course, in a true capitalist arrangement, the waitress would negotiate the tip up front, but that has problems of its own which I'm too tired to bother typing about this. :/
AshevilleRobert: One of the other drivers last night had the woman show up completely naked at the door to pay.
[something something...] "just the tip..." ??
Posted by:
Posted by: mindful webworker - nips tips at February 13, 2016 12:01 AM (ACs58)
cafes make $2.50-$3.50 an hour. Not sure about the chains, except I know
they make about that at Cracker Barrel, too.
I'd have to catch them spitting in my food to leave less than 30%.
Posted by: prewittlassie at February 12, 2016 11:54 PM (WjuJ3)
That is so far below Federal Minimum Wage as to invite special attention from the USDoL.
Are you in a tip credit state? That is a state that allows an employer to deduct the tips earned from the hourly rate?
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2016 12:02 AM (q2o38)
Posted by: Leonard DiCraprio at February 13, 2016 12:02 AM (WOyz5)
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 12:03 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: valamine times day at February 13, 2016 12:03 AM (AG7GB)
Posted by: buzzion at February 13, 2016 12:01 AM (zt+N6)
Then that awfulness leads to fewer customers, then fewer tips, then eventually no job at all as the place closes due to lack of customers.
Reality: She be a real bitch, eh?
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2016 12:04 AM (Ix+HS)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at February 13, 2016 12:04 AM (39g3+)
Amazing. Fantastic.
Fantastically amazing.
Amazingly fantastic.
Posted by: the littl shyning man at February 13, 2016 12:05 AM (U6f54)
Posted by: Willy J.
Cheap? That's Moo Moo money.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 13, 2016 12:05 AM (FkBIv)
Tipping the bartender is a wise thing.
Posted by: mindful webworker - don't drunk and drive at February 13, 2016 12:05 AM (ACs58)
Posted by: 800 yds, dautgher hoodie at February 13, 2016 12:06 AM (AG7GB)
Posted by: the littl shyning man at February 13, 2016 12:06 AM (U6f54)
Oh, and unchecking the ABP whitelist button in settings doesn't work, quelle surprise, hence the need to manually unapprove sites in the individual filters.
The hoods running the program express constant amazement that the whitelist approve function isn't working worth squat, and promise to fix it in #TwoWeeks.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 13, 2016 12:07 AM (kdS6q)
We really should have got laid more. I guess that young and dumb thing is true.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 12:07 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: govrnment=coroption at February 13, 2016 12:08 AM (AG7GB)
Love. Medium Love. Extra Love. Double Extra Love.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 12, 2016 11:59 PM (9ym/
Deep dish love. Love-alanche, Love-a-nami, Love-a-cane.
Extinction level kinetic bolide strike of love.
What were we discussing again?
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2016 12:08 AM (q2o38)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 13, 2016 12:08 AM (9ltS8)
Posted by: Sheriff Achmed Mohammed at February 13, 2016 12:08 AM (sl+zA)
Posted by: Farmer at February 13, 2016 12:08 AM (o/90i)
Have I met too many that were worth as much as a bucket of warm piss? Sigh, yes.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 12, 2016 11:20 PM (hVdx9)
Absolutely. I don't bash them all.
Every generation has its share of heroes and villains; geniuses and idiots. The Millennials are no exception.
Posted by: rickl at February 13, 2016 12:09 AM (sdi6R)
So that's why the inexplicable comment. Sorry. I need to get some sleep.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 13, 2016 12:09 AM (+lVUW)
Posted by: mindful webworker - dink dive and dron't at February 13, 2016 12:11 AM (ACs58)
So that's why the inexplicable comment. Sorry. I need to get some sleep.
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 13, 2016 12:09 AM (+lVUW)
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Darn. I was just preparing a bill.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 13, 2016 12:11 AM (sl+zA)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 13, 2016 12:11 AM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 13, 2016 12:11 AM (FkBIv)
Posted by: rickl at February 13, 2016 12:11 AM (sdi6R)
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Wait, what?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 13, 2016 12:12 AM (sl+zA)
Posted by: Blano at February 13, 2016 12:13 AM (3eoPa)
tomorrow.
asked wife if we can get $50.00
when we trade in the cats
tomorrow.
Posted by: married at February 13, 2016 12:13 AM (AG7GB)
Posted by: Ralph at February 13, 2016 12:13 AM (j8uQ3)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at February 13, 2016 12:04 AM (39g3+)
I'm just used to the opposite.
State-by-state breakdown:
http://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm
Posted by: A Tip of the Hat at February 13, 2016 12:14 AM (vBeA5)
Unfortunately my latest hopeless starcrush is on Rebel Wilson. ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 13, 2016 12:14 AM (ntObR)
Have I met too many that were worth as much as a bucket of warm piss? Sigh, yes.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 12, 2016 11:20 PM (hVdx9)
Absolutely. I don't bash them all.
Every generation has its share of heroes and villains; geniuses and idiots. The Millennials are no exception.
Posted by: rickl at February 13, 2016 12:09 AM (sdi6R)
***
Still, it's fun to tease the little blighters.
Why, one of my favorite games at work is "Stump a Millennial," wherein I reference a world-historic event pre-1990, or just mention in passing that there was a time before social media and smart phones.
Today, a young colleague of mine noticed my old Nikkormat camera, brought to document an important event.
She hefted it - "Man, this thing is heavy," she said.
"How many mega-pixels?" she asked...
"it's 35mm," I told her.
"Pretty cool, huh?" she asked. "all those pixels, and it looks like an antique."
She furrowed her brow....
"There's no USB port," she noted.
Long pause.....
"Bluetooth," she said, answering her own question...
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:14 AM (/33sy)
Posted by: Sheriff Achmed Mohammed
See that large bunch of motorcyclists over there? Go molest their women - they don't mind. (See the beards? They're just like you!)
I'll watch from over here at the bar.
Posted by: mindful webworker - punch the guys, while you're at it at February 13, 2016 12:14 AM (ACs58)
Speaking of which, the Oregon Legislature passed a triple level minimum wage for the state that would increase the wage to as much as $14.75 per hour over the next sixyears.
"The measure sets up three different minimum wages:
One for the Portland metro area, a lower one for mid-size communities,
and the lowest for rural parts of the state. Democratic Senator Diane
Rosenbaum called it the most important bill that lawmakers would vote on
thissession."
http://preview.tinyurl.com/hn4qmj6
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2016 12:15 AM (q2o38)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 13, 2016 12:15 AM (ntObR)
Yes, she'll crush you, alright.
Posted by: Josephistan at February 13, 2016 12:15 AM (7qAYi)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2016 12:02 AM (q2o3
I have no idea, but I can say with fair certainty that any state that has a Cracker Barrel also has a Federal Wage Exemption for any employees who get tips or other compensation as a part of their services. Cracker Barrel won't open restaurants in any state that does, which is partly why their food is cheap.
I live in Arkansas, by the way.
Posted by: prewittlassie at February 13, 2016 12:16 AM (WjuJ3)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 13, 2016 12:16 AM (MSgeA)
Why, one of my favorite games at work is "Stump a Millennial," wherein I reference a world-historic event pre-1990, or just mention in passing that there was a time before social media and smart phones.
Today, a young colleague of mine noticed my old Nikkormat camera, brought to document an important event.
She hefted it - "Man, this thing is heavy," she said.
"How many mega-pixels?" she asked...
"it's 35mm," I told her.
"Pretty cool, huh?" she asked. "all those pixels, and it looks like an antique."
She furrowed her brow....
"There's no USB port," she noted.
Long pause.....
"Bluetooth," she said, answering her own question...
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine
****
Ask them if they know what microfiche is.
They may guess a very small fish.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 13, 2016 12:16 AM (hVdx9)
Clicking back to Barney Miller.
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 13, 2016 12:16 AM (NGd+i)
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 12:17 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 13, 2016 12:15 AM (ntObR)
***
Bless their hearts....
Last week I watch one try to help another write a check....
You'd think they were doing differential calculus and showing their work in cuneiform.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:17 AM (/33sy)
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Wait, what?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 13, 2016 12:12 AM (sl+zA)
Makes sense to me. You're taking up a table for a long time, even though you haven't spent that much money so you're costing the server a spot they could have had one or two more groups sit down there and tip. So you tip a bit more generously than whatever you did order would be expected/
Posted by: buzzion at February 13, 2016 12:17 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 13, 2016 12:17 AM (ntObR)
It is strange how much of a divide there is. My generation is sort of astride both analog and digital, so I am fairly at ease with both. Young people are utterly mystified by non-digital stuff, its sort of cute in a way.
What is this bizarre incomprehensible object????
A Walkman, you child.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at February 13, 2016 12:18 AM (39g3+)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 13, 2016 12:18 AM (9ym/8)
***
I used to work in microfilm and microfiche, both.
Man, I could splice a snapped reel of microfilm in like ten minutes, flat.
And de-accessioning microfiche - we'd save it up in a copy paper box and use it to decorate windows, or to make plate-mail costumes for Halloween.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:19 AM (/33sy)
>>>
Did you invite her back to your dark room?
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 12:19 AM (Nkdwp)
312
Hey, where all da infidel wimmen at?
Posted by: Sheriff Achmed Mohammed at February 13, 2016 12:08 AM
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It's twue! It's twue! They like wape!
Posted by: Lili Von Shtupp (lately of Cologne, Germany)) at February 13, 2016 12:19 AM (DtNNC)
Their lead singer, sadly enough, already passed away. Cancer.
Call me crazy, I think the lyrics of this 1982 new wave song are near-Shakespearean. (Until near the end when they run out of ideas and just start shouting the name of the song, unfortunately)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXeBjLGuCGQ
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 13, 2016 12:19 AM (ntObR)
Super 8, microfiche, open-reel audio...
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 13, 2016 12:17 AM (ntObR)
***
120 film, Rodinal and dark rooms....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:20 AM (/33sy)
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I just didn't get the "drinking little or not at all" part
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 13, 2016 12:20 AM (sl+zA)
>>>
Did you invite her back to your dark room?
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 12:19 AM (Nkdwp)
***
Not her - she's not my type - but others......
let's just say many gorgeous things have developed in my dark room
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:21 AM (/33sy)
Yes, she'll crush you, alright.
Posted by: Josephistan at February 13, 2016 12:15 AM (7qAYi)
I'm kind of partial to Rob Schneider's daughter, Elle King. She seems like she'd be quite fun. And probably would laugh at Christian Grey's idea of D/s and call him a pussy.
Posted by: buzzion at February 13, 2016 12:22 AM (zt+N6)
Yeah there needs to be a term for us. You know, the poor saps who had to risk talking to someone's dad if you called them at home.
Posted by: Lauren at February 13, 2016 12:23 AM (3DIzJ)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2016 12:23 AM (q2o38)
Super 8, microfiche, open-reel audio...
Posted by: qdpsteve
****
8 track, MS-DOS, Commodore 64.... Atari 2600...
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 13, 2016 12:23 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 13, 2016 12:17 AM (ntObR)
Try recording on an 8-track. It was a pain in the ass when it was new technology. At least recording on a cassette, you could see the tape (or know the length of the tape) and time the recording not to be cut off.
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2016 12:23 AM (Ix+HS)
Posted by: Josephistan at February 13, 2016 12:24 AM (7qAYi)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 13, 2016 12:24 AM (9ym/8)
Part of my job is Industrial Radiography. I miss my darkroom. I even miss the smells.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 12:25 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 13, 2016 12:26 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 13, 2016 12:26 AM (NGd+i)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 13, 2016 12:26 AM (ntObR)
I mean, things I took for granted as permanent features of the world - the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet Union (on the large scale), and people losing touch with each other when they move (on the smaller scale) are simply unimaginable to the under-30 crowd.
The idea of choosing to live in a university town, or a large city, because they have good libraries and museums makes no sense to them, but this is what people did since time immemorial....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:26 AM (/33sy)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 13, 2016 12:24 AM (9ym/
***
Yep...all the under-30 crowd can get off my lawn. Except for the cute girls...they can come inside....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:28 AM (/33sy)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 13, 2016 12:29 AM (hlMPp)
Part of my job is Industrial Radiography. I miss my darkroom. I even miss the smells.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 12:25 AM (Nkdwp)
***
glacial acetic acid reminds me of Gretchen.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:29 AM (/33sy)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 13, 2016 12:26 AM (ntObR)
Once, back in the early 90's, I saw someone's professional digital cassette recorder (smaller cassettes). I thought that was pretty stupid idea from the get-go.
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2016 12:30 AM (Ix+HS)
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 12:30 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 13, 2016 12:30 AM (MSgeA)
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 12:31 AM (Nkdwp)
Anybody else remember DAT tapes and recorders? I once knew someone who actually had a DAT walkman. It was actually an okay format, but the record companies killed it; they were scared shitless about piracy.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 13, 2016 12:31 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 13, 2016 12:26 AM (ntObR)
Once, back in the early 90's, I saw someone's professional digital cassette recorder (smaller cassettes). I thought that was pretty stupid idea from the get-go.
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2016 12:30 AM (Ix+HS)
***
Reminds me of the digital backs they make for Hassy's - it's a stupid sort of bridge-technology that reminds me of the first copper axes, cast in imitation of the stone ones, right down to the flake-marks on the surface.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:31 AM (/33sy)
Oddest thing I have noticed is kids (high school age) don't go out.
Have they ever hung out at McDonalds or Taco Bell until someone finds a party. Do they know what a party train is? (Granted, had many firearms pointed at my face due to a faulty party train but at least I was out experiencing it.)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 13, 2016 12:32 AM (hlMPp)
LOL
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 12:31 AM (Nkdwp)
***
laugh all you want - she was beautiful in the safe-light.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:32 AM (/33sy)
You spew so much BS. I like you, take this no wrong way. You don't insult or attack.
Come on. "Nieces" and "Asian wives." All the time?
Put up a pic or something.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 13, 2016 12:33 AM (9ym/8)
It might be opt-out instead of in, but it's not like it's hidden. The first page you see when you open the extension settings on chrome shows you that check box. And there are good reasons to make it be opt-out (besides them making more money, which to be honest they probably deserve given what a useful service they've provided).
Letting through some non-malicious ads by default is actually a good thing on average, because it probably slows down the arms-race by admins to disallow access entirely to users blocking ads and then users/filter trying to circumvent these prohibitions and on and on. Additionally some of the less technically inclined, but still able to install adblock, crowd may have trouble knowing how to whitelist sites they need to allow in order to get access to the content. Meanwhile the average user pretty much eliminates 99% of ads online just by unchecking that box and running a filter.
tl;dr: Adblock is still great and the people that don't care enough to even open the settings are doing the rest of us a favor.
Posted by: Sjg at February 13, 2016 12:34 AM (gDSJf)
Don't pull the chain to hard or you'll wreck the film.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 12:34 AM (Nkdwp)
Oddest thing I have noticed is kids (high school age) don't go out.
Have they ever hung out at McDonalds or Taco Bell until someone finds a party. Do they know what a party train is? (Granted, had many firearms pointed at my face due to a faulty party train but at least I was out experiencing it.)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 13, 2016 12:32 AM (hlMPp)
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Social media is for them what the McDonald's or BK or Taco Bell was for us.... whether it's an improvement, a devolution, or just a different path, is more than I know.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:34 AM (/33sy)
Yeah, I'm sorry, that was confusing. Let me rephrase.
Cette remorque a été approuvé para todos los públicos. Tulipalon sattuessa, pārtraukums stikls. Πλύνετε τα χρώματα ξεχωριστά.
Posted by: mindful webworker - tip your waitress not the cow at February 13, 2016 12:35 AM (ACs58)
My daughter, now in her mid-20s, would go out with her friends. That was about 10 years ago.
My son is 19. He hardly would go out with friends, unless it was to a movie. They just chat online.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 13, 2016 12:35 AM (rJUlF)
Kinda feel sorry for him.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 12:37 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:34 AM (/33sy)
When you have a table with four people not talking to each other but rather furiously texting someone, often at their very table, then I vote 'devolution'.
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2016 12:38 AM (Ix+HS)
You spew so much BS. I like you, take this no wrong way. You don't insult or attack.
Come on. "Nieces" and "Asian wives." All the time?
Put up a pic or something.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 13, 2016 12:33 AM (9ym/
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Not all the time, but google "David Metis" on Flickr.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:38 AM (/33sy)
Oh, I totally get it and you're spot on with the social media taking place of hanging out. Why sit at a parking lot when you can text....although the random chick you meet....
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 13, 2016 12:39 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 13, 2016 12:39 AM (hVdx9)
Oddest thing I have noticed is kids (high school age) don't go out."
My nephew is 18 and doesn't have a driver's license. He doesn't want one. His sister told me he cried when his dad told him he needed to man up and get one.
Now, he's not completely irresponsible. He has a job. He just doesn't want to drive or go out.
I just don't get it at all.
Posted by: Lauren at February 13, 2016 12:40 AM (3DIzJ)
Posted by: SMFH at February 13, 2016 12:40 AM (rlfds)
The idea of choosing to live in a university town, or a large city, because they have good libraries and museums makes no sense to them, but this is what people did since time immemorial....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:26 AM (/33sy)
This might save us, since there is now no disadvantage to living in the country. Even people living in the boondocks have access to all of the stored knowledge of humanity. That was never the case before the internet.
Posted by: rickl at February 13, 2016 12:41 AM (sdi6R)
So all that probably factors into it too.
Posted by: buzzion at February 13, 2016 12:41 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Hanoverfist at February 13, 2016 12:42 AM (fOMps)
Well, he's an introvert, much like me. He does have a close circle of friends, but a lot of them moved away in the year leading up to, and following, his high school graduation.
Usually, he's the one telling ME to put my phone away.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 13, 2016 12:43 AM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 13, 2016 12:35 AM (rJUlF)
It's weird. I don't know how to feel about it. One hand...the kids are safe.
Other hand...the kids are safe.
They're basically having a party via FaceTime. I am so glad I was born when I was.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 13, 2016 12:43 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 13, 2016 12:43 AM (FkBIv)
My girls couldn't wait to get theirs.
And when I said they couldn't wait, they could. not. wait.
Especially my 14 year old at the time who thought it would be ohsofun to go joyriding in my truck with her friends, then get busted by the MPs.
Mixed blessing, that.
Posted by: SMFH at February 13, 2016 12:44 AM (rlfds)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 13, 2016 12:44 AM (9ym/8)
I just don't get it at all.
Posted by: Lauren at February 13, 2016 12:40 AM (3DIzJ)
Cocooning. Leaving safe spaces is risky and dangerous.
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2016 12:44 AM (Ix+HS)
Lauren, CW Jr. didn't want to learn to drive, either...until he started working a few months ago. Now he's ready to learn, then save to get a car of his own.
So, there's hope on one small piece of the front.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 13, 2016 12:44 AM (rJUlF)
Hassy's - it's a stupid sort of bridge-technology that reminds me of the
first copper axes, cast in imitation of the stone ones, right down to
the flake-marks on the surface.....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:31 AM (/33sy)
The initial castings for hammers and axes had a central tang that went into a socket in the handle. This both mimicked stone tools and was a simpler casting technique. This later changed as the technology of casting bronze allowed for things like casting objects with holes for shafts.
However, my prize construction hammer, a weight forward Estwing, is forged with a central tang that fits into the socket grooved into the handle . . .
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2016 12:45 AM (q2o38)
Yeah (to go back to the nurture argument) it probably has to do with him feeling insecure since their mother abandoned them when they were very young and has fluttered in and out of their life ever since.
Posted by: Lauren at February 13, 2016 12:47 AM (3DIzJ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 13, 2016 12:47 AM (YJmuy)
I always excused my large collection of books by thinking that I would host the library when civilization disappeared.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 13, 2016 12:47 AM (hipNa)
He has an app to Uber.
*seriously, that right there makes me weep for our country.
He doesn't want to get his license and have semi-freedom.
Bad sign. Very bad sign.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 13, 2016 12:47 AM (hlMPp)
Few probably have their own car now that is a "piece of junk" but was cheap enough their parents could afford it.>>>
My daughters boyfriends are fucking useless at fixing cars. I know things are different but you never hung out at a buddies garage and learned anything? Fuck If i didn't know how to fix one I would have never driven in HS either.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 12:48 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: SMFH at February 13, 2016 12:48 AM (rlfds)
Posted by: Kromedome at February 13, 2016 12:48 AM (n2a+b)
And when I said they couldn't wait, they could. not. wait."
Yeah I got my license the day I turned 16. I tried to convince my mom to let me get a hardship license but since we were boringly middle class, that was not happening.
I was a terrible driver though because I'd never touched a car before drivers ed.
Apparently the drivers ed teachers hate the good little girls but love the wild boys because those boys have all been driving for years.
Posted by: Lauren at February 13, 2016 12:49 AM (3DIzJ)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 13, 2016 12:51 AM (9ym/8)
My girls couldn't wait to get theirs.
And when I said they couldn't wait, they could. not. wait.
Especially my 14 year old at the time who thought it would be ohsofun to go joyriding in my truck with her friends, then get busted by the MPs.
Mixed blessing, that.
Posted by: SMFH at February 13, 2016 12:44 AM (rlfds)
Did they think they'd be driving what momma drove? 'Cause I'd cry to after the realization I have a Civic instead of an Abrams.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 13, 2016 12:51 AM (hlMPp)
He has an app to Uber."
This is true, although his dad is strict so I'm not sure he's able to use it.
At this rate his little sister is going to get her license first. BIL doesn't want her walking to school on her own once her brother's out of high school.
Posted by: Lauren at February 13, 2016 12:51 AM (3DIzJ)
Posted by: Willy J.
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I have seen two schools of behavior on that one. I have seen kids that dive into car repair like it was a swimming pool. The other ones barely know more than how to put gas in it.
My dad MADE me help him when he worked on cars. As a result I can do a lot more than many people my age (gen X'er).
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 13, 2016 12:51 AM (hVdx9)
English bird who's one the leads in the latest Star Wars movie.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 13, 2016 12:18 AM (9ym/
Ah yes, just another star in a movie I'll never see.
Posted by: Blano at February 13, 2016 12:52 AM (3eoPa)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at February 13, 2016 12:52 AM (iQIUe)
I had my grandparents old car. The dream of the 80s was alive in Texas.
Posted by: Lauren at February 13, 2016 12:52 AM (3DIzJ)
the wild boys because those boys have all been driving for years.>>>
Not a wild boy but yes I started driving my brothers jeep out in the woods when I was 13. Hell even had my first fender bender with a tree before drivers ed.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 12:53 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 13, 2016 12:47 AM (hipNa)
I never make excuses for my books, besides the obligatory, "sorry, you have to move the books to sit down, not enough shelf space"
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2016 12:53 AM (q2o38)
Yeah, they couldn't wait.
Especially while I was deployed.
Stories are still trickling out to this day the hijinks my daughters were involved in with my truck while I was deployed.
Posted by: SMFH at February 13, 2016 12:54 AM (rlfds)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:21 AM (/33sy)
You're just taunting us now.
Posted by: Blano at February 13, 2016 12:54 AM (3eoPa)
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 12:48 AM (Nkdwp)
With so much computer technology in cars today, it's difficult to be an amateur mechanic.
I didn't know the first thing about fixing a car when I was a kid, but I could still change the oil or a flat tire.
Maybe kids today just don't like getting dirty as even their playgrounds are covered in plastic.
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2016 12:54 AM (Ix+HS)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 13, 2016 12:54 AM (9ym/8)
Between my truck and tanks, they're not fond of cars.
Posted by: SMFH at February 13, 2016 12:55 AM (rlfds)
Posted by: SMFH at February 13, 2016 12:55 AM (rlfds)
Posted by: Deety at February 13, 2016 12:56 AM (xPWMR)
Posted by: buzzion at February 13, 2016 12:56 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 13, 2016 12:56 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:21 AM (/33sy)
You're just taunting us now.
Posted by: Blano at February 13, 2016 12:54 AM (3eoPa)
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"Gloating." The word you're grasping for is "gloating."
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:56 AM (/33sy)
I got my ass chewed for using a 9/16 open end to fix my own bike. Not because I didn't put it back, because somebody else hadn't put the previous one back.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 13, 2016 12:56 AM (YJmuy)
(Just search it, my phone won't let me copy and paste in the comment box)
Posted by: pookysgirl at February 13, 2016 12:56 AM (K27gs)
I think we could cooperate rather than compete, considering distance between us and possible different interests. Books do make good friends, don't they?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 13, 2016 12:57 AM (hipNa)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at February 13, 2016 12:57 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: prewittlassie at February 13, 2016 12:57 AM (WjuJ3)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 13, 2016 12:57 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: SMFH at February 13, 2016 12:58 AM (rlfds)
I bought both my girls first cars for them ($1400ish) And then made them pay insurance and gas. Repairs were buy the parts and stand by me to fetch tools. They know more about cars then their boyfriends. Actually they got bored enough watching to do some of the work.
I am way proud of my daughters. Hope I do better with teaching the grandkids male and female.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 12:59 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: SMFH at February 13, 2016 01:00 AM (rlfds)
Posted by: Blanco Basura
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My dad always reminded me when I failed to put a tool back where I'd found it.
In an uncanny coincidence I seemed to be able to know what tool he would need in advance...and "hide" it from him.
God I miss him.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 13, 2016 01:00 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2016 12:54 AM (Ix+HS)
Heck, with all the copyright protection for the computer hardware/software, it can be downright illegal to try to fix a newer car.
Posted by: A Digital Hat at February 13, 2016 01:00 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 13, 2016 01:01 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: Kromedome
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try http://tinyurl.com/guw7lwb
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2016 01:02 AM (RrDm2)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 13, 2016 01:02 AM (YJmuy)
"
And when I said they couldn't wait, they could. not. wait."
Yeah I got my license the day I turned 16. I tried to convince my
mom to let me get a hardship license but since we were boringly middle
class, that was not happening.
I was a terrible driver though because I'd never touched a car before drivers ed.
Apparently the drivers ed teachers hate the good little girls but
love the wild boys because those boys have all been driving for years.
Posted by: Lauren at February 13, 2016 12:49 AM (3DIzJ)
One memorable moment from Driver's Ed -- the instructor says, "turn into the next driveway"....before we fully engage the previous one. I didn't quite get up on two wheels and was fully in-control of the car at all times, though high g-forces were involved. I was thinking, "stuck that landing!", but when I looked over at the poor bastard he was white as a sheet.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 13, 2016 01:03 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: buzzion at February 13, 2016 01:03 AM (zt+N6)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2016 01:03 AM (RrDm2)
And when I said they couldn't wait, they could. not. wait.
Especially my 14 year old at the time who thought it would be ohsofun to go joyriding in my truck with her friends, then get busted by the MPs.
Mixed blessing, that.
Posted by: SMFH at February 13, 2016 12:44 AM (rlfds)
I got my daughter a car before she turned 16, so for a few months she couldn't drive it without me (she lived with me the last 3 years of high school). It was killing her she couldn't drive unsupervised.
On her 16th birthday she drove me to the gas station, I filled the tank, then she drove me back home.
She pulled in the driveway, stopped and said "Dad, I love you very much....NOW GET OUT."
I got out, and away she went.
Posted by: Blano at February 13, 2016 01:03 AM (3eoPa)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 13, 2016 01:04 AM (hipNa)
Get yourself an OBD code reader (under $100) and most minor repairs are bolt on.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 01:05 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: dogge at February 13, 2016 01:05 AM (AG7GB)
I am way proud of my daughters. Hope I do better with teaching the grandkids male and female.
Posted by: Willy J
Sounds like you did a good job. When it came to my own car, my dad would give me advice and explain things, but it was up to me to fix. He might supervise, but I understood it was on me to do it.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 13, 2016 01:05 AM (hVdx9)
My dad MADE me help him when he worked on cars. As a result I can do a lot more than many people my age (gen X'er).
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 13, 2016 12:51 AM (hVdx9)
I read books.
Posted by: Blano at February 13, 2016 01:06 AM (3eoPa)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2016 01:06 AM (RrDm2)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 13, 2016 01:06 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: prewittlassie at February 13, 2016 01:07 AM (WjuJ3)
Posted by: Blano at February 13, 2016 12:54 AM (3eoPa)
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"Gloating." The word you're grasping for is "gloating."
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:56 AM (/33sy)
Yeah that too.
Posted by: Blano at February 13, 2016 01:07 AM (3eoPa)
Posted by: chemjeff - PuppyMonkeyBaby '16 at February 13, 2016 01:07 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Willy J
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I second that. Stuff that may cost $300 at a mechanic's shop can be done for $50-$60 sometimes.
I have saved thousands by working on my cars.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 13, 2016 01:08 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2016 01:08 AM (RrDm2)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 13, 2016 01:09 AM (hVdx9)
I actually think a stick shift is the best protection against car theft. No one today seems to know how to drive stick. I still love sticks. It gives one's left leg something to do in daylight; at night, in an automatic, the left foot only hit the hi-beam button on the floorboard.
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2016 01:09 AM (Ix+HS)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 13, 2016 01:09 AM (hipNa)
Okay. Few pictures of some Asian chicks. Also pics of fauna and flora. Some B&W's.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 13, 2016 01:10 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: RickZ
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Heh. Next, you'll be telling us that the wiper switch was on the dashboard..., and the car had vent windows.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2016 01:10 AM (RrDm2)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 13, 2016 01:09 AM (hVdx9)
Nah, I was reading Collier's Encyclopedia, World Book Encyclopedia, etc. etc. while everybody else was working on cars.
Posted by: Blano at February 13, 2016 01:11 AM (3eoPa)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 13, 2016 01:11 AM (FkBIv)
give me advice and explain things, but it was up to me to fix.>>>
My dad knew dick about cars. Luckily I had older brothers and friends. Not to dis my dad though he did teach me a crapload about plumbing and electrical. If any of what he taught me is to code will be decided after the first fire or flood.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 01:11 AM (Nkdwp)
That's what I hate about the newer cars. They put the high beam switch on a stalk coming out of the steering column, and I can never get my left foot up there.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 13, 2016 01:13 AM (YJmuy)
Mostly because I thought the name was incredibly clever.
Posted by: Lauren at February 13, 2016 01:13 AM (3DIzJ)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 13, 2016 01:14 AM (9ym/8)
Hardcore Henry. I saw the parking garage scene in it's entirety, and the stunt work in this movie is incredible.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 13, 2016 01:14 AM (VdICR)
I sat in the family car behind the wheel at age 14 until I could get my
license at age 16. I was ready. I also wanted to go away to college and
live on my own. Kids are so weird these days.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at February 13, 2016 12:57 AM (iQIUe)
My parents felt it was important for me to know the controls to the point they had me driving in some open fields when I was about 10. My biggest 13th birthday present was a motorcycle.
One of my earliest memories was reaching up to tug my mom's skirt in a department store and asking her, "do you know what happens when you push the red button on the escalator?" -- then watching the dawning horror in her expression before telling her, "it stops." I was probably about five.
My parents soon determined that they'd better tell me everything in advance because I might cause incalculable damage figuring things out on my own.....and I was a curious child.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 13, 2016 01:15 AM (EzgxV)
I now buy a lot parts from Rockauto or PartsGeek. Just got new rotors for the kids car. Got 2 rotors delivered to my house for the price of one at the parts store in town. Same for a lot of parts but it is still cheaper to go to the parts store for anything that requires a core charge.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 01:18 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2016 01:10 AM (RrDm2)
Front seat side vent windows were great! My '70 VW Squareback didn't have a/c, so using that side vent window got the outside air blowing right on me.
I also loved the stick in that car because I could glide in neutral toward a traffic light, kicking it into gear as the light turned green. I loved driving on curvy mountain roads with a stick, downshifting in the turns. Sticks give great gas mileage. A bunch of us would pile into the car, pool our money to get $5 for gas, then drive around all night.
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2016 01:19 AM (Ix+HS)
Posted by: RickZ
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You just jogged a childhood memory.
From time to time I played around in my dad's van, sitting in the driver's seat and pretending to drive. I was pushing the high beam switch on the floor over and over. Now I had no idea what it was, but I eventually learned.
At times my dad would be out driving at night and drivers were flashing their lights at him. He was wondering WTH was going on as HE didn't turn on the high beams. He looked down and saw the HB light was on.
One day I asked him what the switch was for. He told me and I replied that no lights came on when I pushed it. That is when it clicked for him. He had thought there was some kind of short in the wiring or whatever because he had replaced the "malfunctioning" switch a couple times.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 13, 2016 01:20 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 13, 2016 01:21 AM (hipNa)
I was driving when my legs were long enough for the feet to reach the pedals. Tractors and farm machinery. I think I drove a truck, a big truck, before I even tried a passenger car. This was out in fields and off public roads. There was no (and still isn't) a license requirement for tractors on public roads and I did that well before I got a license.
I did sneak and drive some on the road a little but my father put a stop to that quickly fearing the liability.
Hell, IIRC, I flunked the on-road driver's test and had to re-take the damn thing. I just used one hand on the wheel a time or two and didn't come to a complete stop before making a left-hand turn at a stop sign or something. The cop giving the test just didn't like me, I could tell.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at February 13, 2016 01:21 AM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 13, 2016 01:13 AM (YJmuy)
If Hillarity! can take yoga classes, so can you.
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2016 01:22 AM (Ix+HS)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc
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No vent windows on my LeSabre, but wiper switch was on the dash as was the headlight switch.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 13, 2016 01:22 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 13, 2016 01:23 AM (hipNa)
Posted by: Blano
Did she come back?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 13, 2016 01:11 AM (FkBIv)
Oh yes, and never violated curfew. She knew better.
Posted by: Blano at February 13, 2016 01:23 AM (3eoPa)
When I took drivers ed, we had stick shift Opels. Many a donut was pulled during drivers ed.
I actually think a stick shift is the best protection against car
theft. No one today seems to know how to drive stick. I still love
sticks. It gives one's left leg something to do in daylight; at night,
in an automatic, the left foot only hit the hi-beam button on the
floorboard.
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2016 01:09 AM (Ix+HS)
Current car is a 1994 Honda Accord Wagon with California emissions, the EX trim line, with a stick. When I bought it, there were only 14 in dealer inventory.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 13, 2016 01:23 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel>>>
There are several books written about the crap I don't know that you do also. I just liked cars and was in the right place at the right time.
I because I didn't do the school learning crap am only saved by the fix it rap I learned.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 01:26 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: Blano at February 13, 2016 01:27 AM (3eoPa)
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 01:30 AM (Nkdwp)
Fixing, working on cars is such a good practical knowledge, I'm glad it's a strength of yours. It's a skill that will always be useful.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 13, 2016 01:32 AM (hipNa)
Don't drive on the beach during high tide.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 13, 2016 01:34 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 13, 2016 01:35 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 01:36 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 13, 2016 01:38 AM (hipNa)
I eventually sold it to a random stranger and bought a Nissan Sentra that was so stripped it didn't even have a radio. Cost $4,709 out the door with sales tax, plates, delivery, and everything else. In my first year with the Sentra, my down payment and monthly payments were less than I'd spent the previous 12 months in repair bills for the Mustang.
It's funny how much your attitude changes when it's your own money.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 13, 2016 01:43 AM (EzgxV)
I for one welcome our new robot overlords and never speaking to another human being as i order my food /sarc
Now to trundle off to bed. Took gramma to see Romeo and Juliette ballet tonight. Long and good. Now there were some dumb kids who did not get to live long enough to learn from their mistakes.
Posted by: Sugar Plum Fairy #176-671 at February 13, 2016 01:44 AM (CjKGu)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 13, 2016 01:43 AM (EzgxV)
Hence the appeal of Feel the Burn-ie.
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2016 01:45 AM (Ix+HS)
You complain about a problem, I tell you how to avoid the problem and you complain about that.
If you were drowning in a vat of whiskey, would you also complain about how fast we were draining it with our shot glasses?
Not that any of the horde would complain about that in the first place...
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 13, 2016 01:45 AM (YJmuy)
Not interesting. Just a joke on some one else hearkening back to when the high beam switch was on the floor of the car. In the north the floor of the car where the switch lived is a salty wet place. And required replacement regularly. Or at least taking apart and cleaning. Something post 70s car mechanics will never enjoy the fondling of parts in alcohol and lube and the work again.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 01:46 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at February 13, 2016 01:47 AM (hipNa)
470
My driver's license is up for renewal this year. The eye doc told me
last year I wouldn't be able to pass it without glasses, don't even try.
But I think I'm going to give it a try. I hate glasses, and I don't
want that stamped on the license if I can possibly avoid it.
I
was driving when my legs were long enough for the feet to reach the
pedals. Tractors and farm machinery. I think I drove a truck, a big
truck, before I even tried a passenger car. This was out in fields and
off public roads. There was no (and still isn't) a license requirement
for tractors on public roads and I did that well before I got a license.
I did sneak and drive some on the road a little but my father put a stop to that quickly fearing the liability.
Hell,
IIRC, I flunked the on-road driver's test and had to re-take the damn
thing. I just used one hand on the wheel a time or two and didn't come
to a complete stop before making a left-hand turn at a stop sign or
something. The cop giving the test just didn't like me, I could tell.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at February 13, 2016 01:21 AM (dvuhZ)
You don't want that stamped on your license because you might want to drive to the store to pick up your glasses -- and it's not like you're going to miss a truck in the next lane....most of the vision-intensive stuff is road signs, and you likely already know what they're going to say. Back pre-LASIK when my vision was really bad, I'd just memorize the charts in advance of the test -- they could have thrown a hood over my head and faced me the other way.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 13, 2016 01:49 AM (EzgxV)
If you were drowning in a vat of whiskey, would you also complain about how fast we were draining it with our shot glasses?
*glub* bastards are playin' quarters!*glub glub*
Posted by: Hanoverfist at February 13, 2016 01:51 AM (fOMps)
Posted by: eleven at February 13, 2016 01:52 AM (qUNWi)
The Irish in me says you're right.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 01:53 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: Hanoverfist at February 13, 2016 01:53 AM (fOMps)
Pretty weird using google street to revisit all the places of your life.
Posted by: eleven at February 13, 2016 01:52 AM (qUNWi)
Could be worse.....could have a cyberstalker visiting the current places in your life.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 13, 2016 01:57 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Lauren at February 13, 2016 02:01 AM (3DIzJ)
Posted by: quarter bxck at February 13, 2016 02:03 AM (AG7GB)
Is it cheaper, though? I'm trying to think how much travel it takes before it's more economical to own a car. I'm thinking a lot.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 13, 2016 02:04 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: black or white at February 13, 2016 02:05 AM (AG7GB)
496
If I tried to drive without my glasses I would kill someone within 100 ft. Without them all I can see is vaguely colored blobs.
Posted by: Lauren at February 13, 2016 02:01 AM (3DIzJ)
Even with four diopters of astigmatism, I could avoid the blobs.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 13, 2016 02:07 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: run home, lttle boy at February 13, 2016 02:07 AM (AG7GB)
before it's more economical to own a car. I'm thinking a lot.>>>
Not to be conspiratorial but is this just more leftist crap fed to kids in school. Back in my day a car meant freedom. They slowly hammer in a car means something else and normal males quit wanting one. I don't know they didn't teach me.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 02:10 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2016 10:27 PM (iHjB5)
A steam organ is a calliope, no?
Please to be ceasing the bending of the underfoot foliage.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2016 02:11 AM (Z8fuk)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2016 10:28 PM (q2o3
You could pump gases with it, e.g. air. Not liquids, because they are incompressible, at least to any practical extent.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2016 02:13 AM (Z8fuk)
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 02:14 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: Adriane the Music Critic ... at February 13, 2016 02:15 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 13, 2016 02:19 AM (EzgxV)
because I start wondering things, like today, if a Wankel rotary engine
design could be retrofitted to be used as a pump.>>>
At the right speed it would be a wonderful water pump. At pressure it might be lacking. Hell really thin wankles pump water or as there better known turbines.
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 02:20 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: Willy J. at February 13, 2016 02:24 AM (Nkdwp)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 11:12 PM (yddCj)
Heh. Close to 80 here in Apache Junction. Lovin' it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2016 02:24 AM (Z8fuk)
I turned 15 in 64, got my license and he started letting me drive it after he got home from work. I learned a lot about driving in a hurry and if I hadn't I wouldn't be here to tell the tale.
Posted by: Al Sharpturd at February 13, 2016 02:28 AM (3myMJ)
Hoarding hourder scores!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2016 11:22 PM (yddCj)
Woo-Hoo! I wouldn't know or recognize Type J thermocouple wire if somebody tried to strangle me with it, but being a hoarder, I have had that same experience of suddenly striking gold in my own stash.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2016 02:29 AM (Z8fuk)
Posted by: Meremortal at February 13, 2016 02:30 AM (3myMJ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - nom nom nom at February 12, 2016 11:41 PM (ACs5
AC or DC?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2016 02:35 AM (Z8fuk)
Good tip on CBDs - except dealer/repair stuff. If you can't fix it, you really don't own it.
"Something post 70s car mechanics will never enjoy the fondling of parts in alcohol and lube and the work again."
This!
Thanks Morons for keeping me sane!
Posted by: stonecutter at February 13, 2016 02:36 AM (2ReCv)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 12, 2016 11:49 PM (9ltS
One hopes he gave her more than just the tip.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2016 02:38 AM (Z8fuk)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert
****
We all assume she was some svelte, sexy woman and not some 300 pounder...
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 13, 2016 02:41 AM (hVdx9)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 13, 2016 02:43 AM (YJmuy)
Going to rectify that now.
Wanted to talk about learning to drive on the old Allis tractor and go-karts, and when I was teaching my twin sons to drive, and we got stopped by a cop, but I'll save all that for another night.
Good night, laddies and ladies and all the slips at hee.
Posted by: mindful webworker - eventually at February 13, 2016 02:43 AM (Q1QrS)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert
Bow-Chika-Bow-Bow
Posted by: Tucker at February 13, 2016 02:52 AM (fOMps)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 13, 2016 12:17 AM (ntObR)
***
120 film, Rodinal and dark rooms....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at February 13, 2016 12:20 AM (/33sy)
Brings back memories. When I was about ten years old, and kinda-sorta interested in photography, one of my father's friends, Vernon (long deceased, RIP) said to me, "So, why don't you try developing and printing your own pictures?" I said, "I don't think I could possibly learn to do something that difficult." He tells me, "It's only difficult if you never try it." So he laid on me some chemicals, trays, a contact print frame, a safelight, a timer, and a big box of ancient Xray film, which he said would work fine in the back of old view cameras, if I cut it to size. And damn if it didn't. I got to be quite proficient at it. And it wasn't hard at all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2016 02:55 AM (Z8fuk)
So all that probably factors into it too.
Posted by: buzzion at February 13, 2016 12:41 AM (zt+N6)
My first car cost me $25. It was a 1951 Studebaker Champion, and while it was tired, and had a dent in the right rear door, it was no POS. I sold it a year later for $100, and figured I was so damned smart. What I wouldn't give for a '51 Champion in that shape now...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2016 03:02 AM (Z8fuk)
Posted by: Adriane the Music Critic ... at February 13, 2016 03:05 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 13, 2016 03:05 AM (YJmuy)
Posted by: Deety at February 13, 2016 12:56 AM (xPWMR)
Hey Deety! Long time, no see here. Hope you are well.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2016 03:07 AM (Z8fuk)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at February 13, 2016 03:09 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: RickZ at February 13, 2016 01:09 AM (Ix+HS)
Man, it's been a long time since the dimmer switch was on the floorboard, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2016 03:12 AM (Z8fuk)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2016 01:10 AM (RrDm2)
Naw, the wiper switch was on top of the dash, directly under the middle of the windshield, which is the logical place for it, no?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2016 03:14 AM (Z8fuk)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at February 13, 2016 03:09 AM (iQIUe)
Someone has lots of unpaid parking tickets.
Posted by: The Dream Police at February 13, 2016 03:15 AM (fOMps)
Oh, how Obamaesque.
In his [Obama's] first race for office, seeking a state Senate seat on Chicago's gritty South Side in 1996, Obama effectively used election rules to eliminate his Democratic competition.
As a community organizer, he had helped register thousands of voters. But when it came time to run for office, he employed Chicago rules to invalidate the voting petition signatures of three of his challengers.
The move denied each of them, including incumbent Alice Palmer, a longtime Chicago activist, a place on the ballot. It cleared the way for Obama to run unopposed on the Democratic ticket in a heavily Democrat district.
"That was Chicago politics," said John Kass, a veteran Chicago Tribune columnist. "Knock out your opposition, challenge their petitions, destroy your enemy, right? It is how Barack Obama destroyed his enemies back in 1996 that conflicts with his message today. He may have gotten his start registering thousands of voters. But in that first race, he made sure voters had just one choice."
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at February 13, 2016 03:20 AM (e8kgV)
Or else a 1974 VW SuperBeetle. Another treasure.
Le Sigh!
Posted by: JTB at February 13, 2016 04:44 AM (FvdPb)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2016 05:22 AM (BkhW6)
Posted by: David at February 13, 2016 05:33 AM (TeSnk)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2016 05:38 AM (BkhW6)
----
And looking at the Muslims pouring in, Americanization is known to be a filthy word among the left.
Also: the thing is, it's worse down the road and people today have NO inkling of doing anything for their offspring.
Offspring used to be the focus of people's thoughts. "I'll work this crappy job so my children won't have to." But now it's "Screw that! I want what I want and I want it now!"
Posted by: RKae at February 13, 2016 05:51 AM (lF8sf)
Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2016 05:54 AM (zLDYs)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2016 06:08 AM (BkhW6)
First car (well, truck) was a 1952 Chevy pick up, 5 window. All original. That was in 1980.
Posted by: Kudzu King at February 13, 2016 06:20 AM (CU2RV)
Posted by: fluffy at February 13, 2016 06:29 AM (AfsKp)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2016 06:32 AM (BkhW6)
We grew up, worked hard, had kids, talked to the hand of the 25 year old living in our basements after them going trough 4+ years of schooling to not have a job or any decent prospects due to our wonderful politicians who foisted the part time economy on they're backs.
That being said I think we can correct the situation by tweaking Ocare, sending more companies out of country and issuing 500% more visas(to start with) to take the decent jobs at cheaper costs inside country.
Don't sweat it kids. The cavalry is on the way. (rolls eyes)
Posted by: Drider at February 13, 2016 06:33 AM (6Xbsz)
During the debate the old Bolshavik stated flat out he wanted 11,000,000 illegals made immediately citizens, Hildabeast agreed.
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2016 06:32 AM (BkhW6)
__________________________
Heh,, what about the other 10+?
Posted by: Kudzu King at February 13, 2016 06:35 AM (CU2RV)
Posted by: fluffy at February 13, 2016 06:36 AM (AfsKp)
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2016 06:44 AM (BkhW6)
Posted by: Steve Walsh at February 13, 2016 06:45 AM (SPxQP)
But I thought it was cool as hell.
I look for Mustang IIs every once in a while for nostalgia but apparently they weren't very durable. All they made (a lot apparently) not many around. Also it seems many hot rods use Mustang II front suspensions so no doubt many were stripped just for that.
Posted by: blaster at February 13, 2016 06:49 AM (2Ocf1)
Posted by: fluffy at February 13, 2016 06:52 AM (AfsKp)
Setting aside social, cultural, and other differences that make it easier to implement in Norway and Sweden, and using Sweden as an example:
1. Low defense spending
They spend ~1% of their GDP on defense. For us, that would mean cutting our defense spending by ~80% to ~$130 billion.
Effectively, that would mean the end of the Nuclear Navy, the end of anything except a small force of F-16 fighter jets for self defense and some strategic B-52s, and the reduction of the Army to 1800's levels.
2. 50% of GDP as government spending.
This would represent a ~62% increase in government spending for us from ~$4 trillion to $6.5 trillion.
The taxes that go along with this are horrific- to run the same 1% of GDP deficit as Sweden, tax receipts would need to increase to $6.3 trillion, which represents approximately a 100% increase.
So in short:
If you cut the military by 80%, and double taxes, you can have everything Bernie Sanders wants you to have.
Funny thing is one of the main things that makes it work is they have a comparatively low corporate tax rate- they get 6% of their revenue from corporate taxes vice 10-15% for the USA.
Instead, they have a massive VAT (essentially a complicated sales tax) that accounts for 21% of their revenue and a sales tax that accounts for 8%.
So all these socialists you see praising the 'Swedish model' should be right on board with slashing the corporate tax rate and putting a national sales tax in place, since that's what the Swedes do.
Posted by: Zack at February 13, 2016 10:51 AM (rEXZX)
Different than what?
What's on offer now? What's on offer over the last few years? Decades? Centuries? Something different than capitalism? Cronyism? Affinity fraud? Banksters? Dictatorship? How is "Socialism" not "something different" than all those?
That's the problem with reading Instaputz: he doesn't think thru shit before he writes crap. He's like that famous Mad cartoon cycle of life of an Arby's fish sandwich: you eat it, you shit it out, a fish eat your shit, the fish gets caught & sold to Ariby's, and there you are again, lined up for more.
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