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Lazy, Low-Skill Generation Z Zeros Say They Should Be Hired for Their Personalities, Not Their Qualifications or Job Performance
Tech companies actually were hiring unqualified ninnies for their "personalities," and for diversity checkbox purposes. Photos of the staff at tech firms often featured lots of young dorky-looking men -- the actual workers -- and also a lot of cute bubbly sorority girls. These were hired for purposes of decoration and giving the dorky dudes something to look at in between coding.
They're doing less of that now that the Era of Dirt-Cheap Credit is over and shareholders expect them to start turning a profit. But young useless "workers" insist they should be hired no matter how unqualified they are because they bring good "vibes" to an office.Forget the resume -- Gen Z thinks you should hire them for their personalities. According to the youngest generation in the workforce, their humor and wit provides a certain vibrance older employees apparently lack. They've even invented a term -- "personality hire" -- to describe their self-perceived function in a corporate setting: to provide all the jokes, banter and playfulness needed in order to "set the vibes." TikToker and corporate America employee Bella Rose Mortel, a 22-year-old self-proclaimed "chief vibes officer," told Business Insider that her previous managers have appreciated her "energy," calling it "the nicest compliment" she's received. After her series of TikToks calling for an "unserious" workplace and the integration of Gen Z lingo into office parlance went viral, Mortel said her manager at software company Beehiiv found the videos hilarious. "In a team call yesterday, he was like, 'Before we get started, Bella Rose, do you want to set the vibes today for our call?'" the social media strategist told Business Insider. Mortel's videos have sparked realization among fellow so-called "personality hires," who feel their mission is to lighten things up, not lighten someone else's workload.So... I hear you saying you want to be paid just for being a girl. That's what I hear you saying.
... In the video, which scored 6.5 million views, the "personality hire" plays with her colleague's hair and, despite having "no idea" what a certain project is about, fearlessly volunteers to call the "terrifying" boss and sweettalk him into an extension. "The personality hire is also the client whisperer," commented one viewer. "The personality hire is critical to the social equilibrium of the workplace," voiced another. ... For anyone eager to take on the burden of the "personality hire" and "stay playful at work," Mortel recommends slowly integrating Gen Z slang terms into the office to transform your boss into a "girlie." "This is what you gotta do," she instructed, advising viewers to call their managers "king." "Every time they're like, 'Hey, great job,' you say, 'Slay.'" When they begin to say it back, that's when you know you've met your performance goals, or "brought the vibes to the workplace."Basically, they want to change the name of "Diversity Hires," which almost makes it sound like businesses are hiring people who are unqualified for the job (almost!), to "Personality Hires," which makes it sound like unqualified people with bad work ethics are somehow really bringing a lot to the table. Business Insider euphemizes these unqualified deadweights as people with "soft skills." Of course the idiots on TikTok are all self-IDing as personality hires, or demanding they they be given jobs as personality hires. There's a video of the article at the TikTok dullard who started this new meme. She's absolutely insufferable. The "vibe" she brings is a violent hatred of the human race and a desire to see it ended. So the big thing she brings to work is getting her boss to say "slay." But the youngest generation, Generation Alpha, says that's a trap. Saying "slay" is now passe and makes you sound old.
Using the words 'slay', 'bet' and the laughing emoji makes you look old, according to Generation Alpha. The slang terms, popular with Gen Z (those aged 13-26), are 'out' and newer terms including 'GYAT', 'preppy' and the crying emoji are in. Influencer Nicole Pellegrino, 31, from New Jersey shared a clip to Tiktok speaking to her 'Gen Alpha' sister and her 'bestie'. Gen Alpha, those currently aged 13 and under, believe that when texting, if you laugh you should send the crying emoji instead. 'If something is funny, you do the crying emoji, no one laughs by laughing,' Nicole's sister explains in the clip. 'The skull is used if you're insulting someone, as a joke,' she adds. She then goes onto explain that if she got a text saying 'I have a bigger GYAT than you, she would reply saying BSFR ('be so for real') followed by a skull emoji to imply that she disagrees. A dictionary to the new Gen Alpha slang terms Gyat: A term used to describe a person's curvaceous behind (girl your a** thick) Rizzler: Someone who is a good at picking up women Skibidi: Derived from the YouTube animated series Skibidi Toilet, used in gaming to describe someone who is evil or bad Fanum tax: Someone who steals your food, comes from a creator named Fanum who was often seen grabbing bites of his friends' meals Preppy: Wearing pink or pastel Vanilla girl: Wearing collegiate style clothes Crying emoji: Something is funny Skull emoji: Something is funny in a jokey mean way Bet (favoured by Gen Z, now out): For sure Slay (favoured by Gen Z, now out), you've done wellUgh. But seriously - you guys are slay.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 28, 2023 02:33 PM (GYIa4)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at November 28, 2023 02:34 PM (GBKbO)
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And she'll end up lying on a gun background check form, shooting up some kids, and then blaming the ease of getting guns for the violence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at November 28, 2023 02:35 PM (GBKbO)
Grey in here.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 28, 2023 02:36 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 28, 2023 02:36 PM (wtvvX)
I wouldn't mind a work wife. But being a commercial driver I think that would mean a 200 pound lesbian flannel wearing lesbian that could drink me under the table and life the truck with her bare hands to change a tire.
Actually, that's sounds like a good deal.
Posted by: Robert at November 28, 2023 02:36 PM (rLTnQ)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at November 28, 2023 02:37 PM (1t11C)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 02:37 PM (HdzIW)
Posted by: ace at November 28, 2023 02:37 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Archer at November 28, 2023 02:37 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 28, 2023 02:37 PM (ynlJ2)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 28, 2023 02:37 PM (wtvvX)
I feel about this the same way I felt about middle-aged white guys who said "right on" in the 70s.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 28, 2023 02:37 PM (I/Qkd)
Posted by: ace at November 28, 2023 02:37 PM (KRtlO)
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I haven't used that word since a letter I wrote my grandma in 1853!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at November 28, 2023 02:37 PM (GBKbO)
That's what I hear you saying
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:32 PM
That's well, hmm I can see how that attitude came about.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 28, 2023 02:38 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 28, 2023 02:38 PM (82U+n)
They were also sex workers for the powerful higher-ups. Big tech simply adopted the age-old academia model of professors with influence over careers and grant money having hot young TAs and assistants that they used for sex.
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 28, 2023 02:38 PM (iFTx/)
See, I read that as "euthanizes" and I thought, "Aww, a happy ending."
Speaking of happy endings, anyone want to guess which skill these employees should try to master first if they want a promotion?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 28, 2023 02:38 PM (z+89e)
Well, it's worked up until now, so why wouldn't they think it would still be effective?
"A dictionary to the new Gen Alpha slang terms"
AKA how to kill those slang terms as slang terms in one easy step.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 28, 2023 02:38 PM (ou9hh)
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 02:38 PM (iDpzk)
Hence, construction for 25+ years.
Posted by: LenNeal at November 28, 2023 02:38 PM (/BBNv)
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 02:39 PM (CIS44)
Does that include fellatio?
Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 28, 2023 02:39 PM (wtvvX)
Carousel? Enter the Sandman.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 02:39 PM (HdzIW)
*Sees 'pronouns' and 'personality traits'*
*Places in circular file*
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 02:39 PM (CIS44)
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*looks through circular file*
*finds all pronoun listing resumes*
*rescues from trash*
*replaces with resumes that don't list pronouns*
-Head of HR
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at November 28, 2023 02:40 PM (GBKbO)
Manager to Gen Z: "You've claimed that your "humor and wit" is helping the company. Please quantify this, and show your work."
Posted by: Archimedes at November 28, 2023 02:40 PM (I/Qkd)
Hell, we are seriously taking advice from 26 year olds??? Shit... I've been RETIRED FROM THE MILITARY longer than that.
We are so fucked.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2023 02:40 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at November 28, 2023 02:37 PM (1t11C)
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There’s something like two black people in Brattleboro and they both think you’re an asshole.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 28, 2023 02:40 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 28, 2023 02:40 PM (82U+n)
But they were conned into casting that model aside, mostly by corporate interests that desired to double the labor pool and thusly halving the salaries of existing laborers.
Feminism was a lie, swallowed hook, line and sinker by the gullible. They traded the nuclear family and the maternal instinct for a "career". They never had the foresight to envision a time when the same corporate interests would simply replace them, too, with Artificial Intelligence programs and third-world shithole laborers.
There is still time for their redemption if they will but cast off their narcissism, return to their traditional rewarding roles as mother, wife and helper, and stop killing their unborn children in favor of 'followers' and 'careers'.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 28, 2023 02:40 PM (Zqeqr)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 28, 2023 02:40 PM (/xLXP)
*Sees 'pronouns' and 'personality traits'*
*Places in circular file*
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 02:39 PM (CIS44)
Then check social media. Google their names and address. I've filtered out a candidate or three just from this.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 28, 2023 02:40 PM (N39Ws)
😥
💀
Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 28, 2023 02:40 PM (44ww/)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 28, 2023 02:40 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Drive by at November 28, 2023 02:41 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Archer at November 28, 2023 02:41 PM (gmo/4)
*Sees 'pronouns' and 'personality traits'*
*Places in circular file*
Sissy. Placing is for losers. High velocity ejection is for closers.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 28, 2023 02:41 PM (I/Qkd)
https://tinyurl.com/rknakha4
Androgynous, of undetermined ethnicity...perfect! To "her" credit (it's how "she" identifies), I didn't see anything about being trans, so maybe a woman who wants to look androgynous (and grow her mustache?)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 28, 2023 02:41 PM (JCZqz)
That's creepy and probably sexual harassment.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 28, 2023 02:41 PM (ou9hh)
Posted by: Their alleged slang is stupid, like them. at November 28, 2023 02:41 PM (FHllF)
They talked about this, i think on Gutfeld, and asked when did her managers say those were her best traits, probably during one of her many exit interviews where she was fired for being an imbecile.
These girls can go blame feminism for ruining it for them. In a time long ago a mid 7 and above could just marry a rich dork and have it made. But now they need to at least pretend to act like they have some skill that allows then to hold a job, but this generation is even too stupid to do that properly.
Posted by: Rbastid at November 28, 2023 02:41 PM (aBzgN)
Posted by: Archer at November 28, 2023 02:41 PM (gmo/4)
I feel about this the same way I felt about middle-aged white guys who said "right on" in the 70s.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 28, 2023 02:37 PM (I/Qkd)
Radical dude.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 28, 2023 02:41 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at
names like LaShneeka and D'a'Rius'ia are good indicators as well
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 02:42 PM (CIS44)
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And they're not wrong. Every court needs a jester.
It just doesn't need very many.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2023 02:42 PM (d04cU)
At the end of the story, the few original human survivors of the war went to colonize their own planet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 02:42 PM (HdzIW)
Of course, anyone else who jokes, banters, or is playful will get reported to HR and possibly land the company with a lawsuit. Only approved, seal clapping, jokes are permitted here.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 28, 2023 02:42 PM (GYIa4)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 28, 2023 02:42 PM (wtvvX)
We had one kid who was kind of Disney-looking and this one convict type would not stop riding him, calling him 'faggot' and really riding him. We told said convict kid was going to snap and he denied it.
"Pussy ain't gonna do nothing!"
Kid didn't do shit until up on a tall buildout convict pushed him and the kid hit him from knees to throat with a 3-1/2" wired stick nailer.
Cops appeared, called, incredibly, by the convict. We didn't see shit it was an accident.
Posted by: LenNeal at November 28, 2023 02:42 PM (/BBNv)
She was a smokeshow with an absolutely glorious backside.
Nobody knew what she did...except for banging the district manager.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2023 02:42 PM (3Gtis)
Posted by: Archimedes at November 28, 2023 02:40 PM (I/Qkd)
More, the actual basis for almost all humor, if cruelty. Every Joke has a 'butt' to it... a target. It can be your wife, an ethnic group, hell... even yourself as Rodney Dangerfield made a career of.
Even physical comedy, is cruel...
So you don't have a Personality Hire, you have a Cruelty Czar.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2023 02:42 PM (xaFKb)
That's what I hear you saying.
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Well, they fancy themselves comediennes, Ace - not merely girls.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2023 02:42 PM (d04cU)
This is what happens when you tell job-seekers that the interview is just the company deciding whether you'll fit into the team or not.
They get the idea that the skills on the resume aren't actually important.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 28, 2023 02:43 PM (ou9hh)
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 28, 2023 02:43 PM (iFTx/)
I feel about this the same way I felt about middle-aged white guys who said "right on" in the 70s.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 28, 2023 02:37 PM (I/Qkd)
Radical dude.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 28, 2023 02:41 PM (eYoxG)
Tubular.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 28, 2023 02:43 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: UGAdawg at November 28, 2023 02:43 PM (W6jfi)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 28, 2023 02:43 PM (82U+n)
She was a smokeshow with an absolutely glorious backside.
Nobody knew what she did...except for banging the district manager.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2023 02:42 PM (3Gtis)
___________
See my comment above . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 28, 2023 02:43 PM (iFTx/)
That's what I hear you saying
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:32 PM
That's well, hmm I can see how that attitude came about.
__________________________
Prove it -take off your clothes. (I guess you're not good for anything else).
Posted by: Glenn John at November 28, 2023 02:43 PM (RilAR)
Posted by: Drive by at November 28, 2023 02:44 PM (MNhXM)
It's very typical of these younger generations to encounter things that people have noticed for 3000 years, like "different people are better at different things than others, and a diversity of skill strengths can make a better team," and think that they are the first people on planet earth to notice this
It's also very typical of them to codify it in such an extreme way to make it false, to conclude: "therefore, having no skills is fine," and try to force this on companies and institutions as The New Way Going Forward
Posted by: arminius at November 28, 2023 02:44 PM (Dpgtk)
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2023 02:44 PM (xaFKb)
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"Office Drug Dealers (formally Pharmaceutical Reps) Wanted.
Bonus for ability to organize Nude Twister Tournaments ..."
Posted by: ShainS -- Too Male, Too Pale, Too Stale at November 28, 2023 02:45 PM (znVTO)
Posted by: ace at November 28, 2023 02:45 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 28, 2023 02:45 PM (82U+n)
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dream on , losers !
Posted by: runner at November 28, 2023 02:45 PM (V13WU)
This is what happens when you tell job-seekers that the interview is just the company deciding whether you'll fit into the team or not.
They get the idea that the skills on the resume aren't actually important.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 28, 2023 02:43 PM (ou9hh)
Well theoretically they've already seen your resume and filtered you at by that point if you don't have the required skills. No guarantee HR is actually doing that though.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 28, 2023 02:45 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: Minnfidel at November 28, 2023 02:45 PM (bqazj)
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I get this one. Crop top showing belly, occassionally with belly piercing, black yoga pants, long straight hair. It is a uniform. I call the style 'advertising their fertility'. But vanilla girl works since it is so ubiquitous.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 28, 2023 02:45 PM (fs1hN)
Hence, construction for 25+ years.
Posted by: LenNeal at November 28, 2023 02:38 PM (/BBNv)
Once upon a time my company decided to try and put me in management. I did well with getting things done correctly and on-time. My workers liked me, But...
Managers go to meetings. Managers are expected to produce powerpoints with transitions and animation and shit... the stuff which prevents them from doing the job they were nominally hire for. My powerpoints would be one slide with 5, or fewer, words.
I was transitioned back into engineering.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 28, 2023 02:45 PM (GYIa4)
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Soft skills are real, and in customer service and support jobs, it's something we look for. Comfort will smalltalk. Rapport. Empathy. All good things, as are writing skills and tone (E-Mail work) and speech clarity/enunciation (phone work).
If you give me two support engineers where one of them is technically brilliant but a buffoon and the other is merely technically competent but nice and people like him or her, I'm putting the latter on the phone and holding the former in reserve for just really bad problems.
Soft skills are real, and they matter. Soft skills, however, are an *adjunct* to the job. They are sometimes a job requirement, but are never the *only* job requirement. If all you have to bring to the table is "soft skills" - real or imagined, I don't care - then there is no place for you at the table. You have to be able to do something with those skills.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (d04cU)
Posted by: John Denver fan at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (/xLXP)
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 02:42 PM (CIS44)
I read that as "D'ia'Rius" and LOLd.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (HdzIW)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (R4t5M)
Well, if anyone knows how to lighten someone else's load . . .
Posted by: Monica! at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (hSwza)
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (eV8j6)
Posted by: brak at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (AR07F)
Posted by: Marcus T at November 28, 2023 02:45 PM (82U+n)
One more check: need to make sure last name isn't "Vindman"
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (PiwSw)
Learn to fuck. Learn to fuck a rich man.
Posted by: Archer at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (R4t5M)
That's at the end of Ace's write-up...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 02:47 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2023 02:47 PM (d04cU)
Does that include fellatio?
Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 28, 2023 02:39 PM (wtvvX)
I don't think this article addresses either actresses or political assistants.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 28, 2023 02:47 PM (GYIa4)
Unless your personality includes the willingness to give spontaneous BJs on request,
I don't see how this is gonna work out.
Becuz, you not doing the actual job you're hired for means if they keep you on, then they gotta hire some else to do your job. Soooooo-
what's the advantage to your employer for having hired you, Sparkling Personality?
Posted by: naturalfake at November 28, 2023 02:47 PM (QzZeQ)
When I worked at a tech company I worked closely with a female developer who was a pretty sharp cookie and good looking. There were other female devs, most reasonable good as well but...they looked just like the male devs.
The cute bubble-heads were in HR and marketing.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 28, 2023 02:47 PM (XqcwY)
I feel about this the same way I felt about middle-aged white guys who said "right on" in the 70s.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 28, 2023 02:37 PM (I/Qkd)
Radical dude.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 28, 2023 02:41 PM (eYoxG)
Tubular.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper
gag me....
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 28, 2023 02:47 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (PiwSw)"
Or a fobbit
Posted by: Marcus T at November 28, 2023 02:47 PM (82U+n)
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (eV8j6)
Minoan
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 02:47 PM (ynpvh)
you have just described my current career trajectory
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 28, 2023 02:48 PM (AcWfM)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at November 28, 2023 02:48 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 28, 2023 02:48 PM (GD2xa)
The thing is -- you age out of that by like 27.
So I'd say working on "hard skills" is a better career move than working on "soft skills" unless your plan is to snag a nerdy guy with good career prospects and get married by 25. Then, well, carry on, I suppose.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 28, 2023 02:48 PM (mj0Qp)
So Gen A is so pathetic and useless they have to outsource their own culture to older Millennials?
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 28, 2023 02:48 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at November 28, 2023 02:48 PM (Rbu5d)
If they had strengths they would probably do that.
Poor dears.
Posted by: Just Lily at November 28, 2023 02:48 PM (966kd)
I hope I don't spend a single nickle on companies that hire based on personality unless their job is answering the telephone and making minimum wage.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 28, 2023 02:48 PM (enJYY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 02:48 PM (HdzIW)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (PiwSw)"
Or a fobbit
Posted by: Marcus T at November 28, 2023 02:47 PM (82U+n)
Hey!
Posted by: The Right Reverend David French at November 28, 2023 02:48 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (R4t5M)
That's at the end of Ace's write-up...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
errrr......ahh.....
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 28, 2023 02:49 PM (R4t5M)
I feel about this the same way I felt about middle-aged white guys who said "right on" in the 70s.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 28, 2023 02:37 PM (I/Qkd)
Radical dude.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 28, 2023 02:41 PM (eYoxG)
Tubular.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper
gag me....
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 28, 2023 02:47 PM (fs1hN)
OmaGAWD!!!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 28, 2023 02:49 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (eV8j6)
Minoan
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 02:47 PM (ynpvh)"
Huh. I didn't know they were a titular society.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 28, 2023 02:49 PM (82U+n)
https://youtu.be/E12jN-9lLYU
This is my reward for having middle schoolers and trying to keep up on what their culture is like. And let me be clear, all of this is ironic to them too, they think this is baby shit, but it's good for a laugh. I guess the only ones taking it seriously are the 4-year-olds being raised by iPhones.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at November 28, 2023 02:49 PM (r0Q9B)
Posted by: brak at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (AR07F)
frfrfr.
I'm in the same boat as you.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 28, 2023 02:49 PM (mj0Qp)
Posted by: Minnfidel at November 28, 2023 02:49 PM (bqazj)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper
gag me....
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 28, 2023 02:47 PM (fs1hN)
Heavy!
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at November 28, 2023 02:49 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 28, 2023 02:43 PM (iFTx/)
Spot-on!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 28, 2023 02:49 PM (3Gtis)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper
He's no combat vet. He even covers his eyes during the "scary" parts of Kelly's Heroes.
Posted by: Military Moron at November 28, 2023 02:49 PM (JCZqz)
Rizzler: Someone who is a good at picking up women
Skibidi: Derived from the YouTube animated series Skibidi Toilet, used in gaming to describe someone who is evil or bad
Fanum tax: Someone who steals your food, comes from a creator named Fanum who was often seen grabbing bites of his friends' meals
Preppy: Wearing pink or pastel
Vanilla girl: Wearing collegiate style clothes
Crying emoji: Something is funny
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Hmmm. Square that with this:
The slang terms, popular with Gen Z (those aged 13-26), are 'out' and newer terms including 'GYAT', 'preppy' and the crying emoji are in.
So it's under-13s with the thick asses and 'tween pickup artists. Did Biden help popularize some of these terms?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2023 02:50 PM (d04cU)
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2023 02:50 PM (xaFKb)
So I guess it would be "yes, queen, my friending. You are to be doing the slaying now."
Posted by: Moose4 at November 28, 2023 02:50 PM (+VWnP)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 02:48 PM (HdzIW)
Not NEARLY as violent as the male cultures, right?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 02:50 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at November 28, 2023 02:50 PM (xPJvm)
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 02:50 PM (geLO8)
yeah, boys with perms and mullets, and permed mullets wearing crocs with stickers on them and pajama pants as regular pants, while documenting every move they make on Tik Tok
at least previous generations teenage fashion trends weren't preserved digitally
Posted by: brak at November 28, 2023 02:50 PM (AR07F)
That is the world of retail, they can't even do online picks without traveling with their bestie or their face stuck to their phone.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 02:50 PM (HdzIW)
Someone phrased it this way...
In the old days women more or less "worked for" their husbands. It was really for the family...but fine call it working for the husband. Feminism decided that was bad.
So now most women work for SOME OTHER MAN. Why is that better?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 28, 2023 02:50 PM (XqcwY)
If they had strengths they would probably do that.
Poor dears.
Posted by: Just Lily at
are you saying that constant whining about victimization, not being appreciated and a never ending need for attention and acknowledgement are not strengths??
*GASP*
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 02:50 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 28, 2023 02:48 PM (mj0Qp)
Society just doesn't coach them in that direction so we end up with a lot of old maids without useful skills.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 28, 2023 02:50 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: Mardy Grass at November 28, 2023 02:51 PM (/xLXP)
They want to be receptionists but get paid like engineers.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 28, 2023 02:51 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at November 28, 2023 02:51 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2023 02:50 PM (d04cU)
Well, given how many are overweight and stupid, I'd say thick is appropriate...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 02:51 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at November 28, 2023 02:48 PM
Also has a stripper/pron star name. She's getting sLayed by the boss.
Posted by: Minnfidel at November 28, 2023 02:51 PM (bqazj)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at November 28, 2023 02:49 PM (Mzdiz)
There's that word again. Is there something wrong with the earth's gravitational field?
Posted by: Doc Brown at November 28, 2023 02:51 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2023 02:52 PM (RSbhh)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 28, 2023 02:52 PM (ScR16)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 28, 2023 02:52 PM (AcWfM)
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 02:46 PM (eV8j6)
Minoan
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Yes. For some reason I thought it was Etruscans. Couldn't remember the Tittie People's name.
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 02:52 PM (eV8j6)
Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2023 02:52 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (HdzIW)
Posted by: Ed at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 02:50 PM (geLO
Also happens the longer a groups is away from reality. Where does your food come from, eh? The Supermarket? Really?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (ynpvh)
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Minoan Crete.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (ScR16)
Posted by: Glenn John at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (RilAR)
The girls are entitled, nasty, bratty, spoiled, and vicious.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: Drive by at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (MNhXM)
Viewers don't know anything about clients (beyond perhaps those who leave cash on the nightstand). The last thing a client wants is bullshit artists who know nothing about the products or production. Those were known collectively as "the sale team".
Just like with 13-year-olds' slang, the Generation Z's mouthpieces should be ignored because they'll go away.
(Not to mention: Preppy = collegiate wear, and always has. It's like the kids are afraid to call pink "girlie" because they might offend a man in a tutu.)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (fxCK2)
I've seen arguments they were "egalitarian" which I guess explains why the Romans kicked their asses. Note this isn't the Samnites who gave the Romans trouble - the Etruscans folded like a cheap suit...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (XqcwY)
Posted by: look whats not at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (nakGR)
Posted by: Decaf at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (3JfbU)
Lookaheah ... if they want to play their sillyass little psycho-schizo game with 'pronouns' (whatever happened to amateur nouns?), then my reply is: My 'pronouns' are 'Lord' and 'Master' - but you may call me 'King'. Got it?
Posted by: Dr_No at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2023 02:52 PM (RSbhh)
I'd make food for the wife and kids and would take a bite sometimes. I called it the "Daddy" tax...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 02:54 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 28, 2023 02:54 PM (nnp+f)
it's actually true, pretty good book called "At Our Wits' End" was written on it a few years back
Posted by: brak at November 28, 2023 02:54 PM (AR07F)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 28, 2023 02:54 PM (l5HoH)
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at November 28, 2023 02:54 PM (ntk8v)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 02:54 PM (HdzIW)
The first parts of the companies to flip are the HR departments. They are the ones deciding who to hire - and who to lay off - right now
Posted by: arminius at November 28, 2023 02:54 PM (Dpgtk)
3rd degree steam burns.
People left him alone after that.
Old Guys don't like to discuss how brutal workplaces could be Back In The Day.
Posted by: LenNeal at November 28, 2023 02:55 PM (/BBNv)
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Minoan Crete.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (ScR16)
They were a bunch of Cretans.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 02:55 PM (ynpvh)
It was hilarious - a bunch of dorky guys with beautiful women in cosplay outfits (its Asia) hovering around them.
I bet it worked as well...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 28, 2023 02:55 PM (XqcwY)
Posted by: Ripley at November 28, 2023 02:55 PM (JojsZ)
H. Beam Piper wrote a few stories along that line. Space Viking was one I think.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 02:55 PM (HdzIW)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 28, 2023 02:56 PM (V71h7)
This is sort of the plot of "Don't Worry Darling" where it is presented as a dystopia. I suspect most people viewing from Biden's America would not agree...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 28, 2023 02:56 PM (XqcwY)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 28, 2023 02:56 PM (NtVYv)
ARE WE NOT MEN???
WE ARE DEVO!!!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 28, 2023 02:56 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 02:57 PM (HdzIW)
Posted by: SMOD at November 28, 2023 02:57 PM (RHGPo)
"Everyone gets a trophy" brigade is going to find a lot of hard truths. No one gives a shit how you feel.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2023 02:57 PM (spU3M)
I never thought I'd pity HR managers but the number of applicants who show up to not work or frame a lawsuit about their hurt feelings caused by the company are increasing by frightening margins.
Posted by: Auspex at November 28, 2023 02:57 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Noah Bawdy at November 28, 2023 02:57 PM (KUobI)
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 02:57 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Drive by at November 28, 2023 02:57 PM (MNhXM)
Well, that makes sense. You're clearly not 12-17.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2023 02:57 PM (RSbhh)
So now most women work for SOME OTHER MAN. Why is that better?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 28, 2023
***
I've alwaysbeen annoyed by the lyric in that country song where the female narrator tells us that the supposedly downtrodden housewife has had "twenty years of work but not one raise in pay."
BS. Every time Hubby got a raise in pay, so did she, automatically.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 02:57 PM (J2vNu)
"Everyone gets a trophy" brigade is going to find a lot of hard truths. No one gives a shit how you feel.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2023 02:57 PM (spU3M)
But Joey Bidet is more than happy to see how they feel...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 02:58 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Noah Bawdy at November 28, 2023 02:58 PM (KUobI)
Intelligence of the sense you mean used to be highly rewarded.
Now it is mostly ignored, occasionally penalized.
You get more of what you reward, less of what you punish.
So is humanity getting dumber or are we just encouraging the intelligent to give up?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 28, 2023 02:58 PM (XqcwY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2023 02:58 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: rickb223 a
No one gives a shit how you feel. Is a Mantra in the Wayne Family.
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 02:58 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Drive by at November 28, 2023 02:57 PM (MNhXM)
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Herbert!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 28, 2023 02:58 PM (ScR16)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 28, 2023 02:58 PM (2NHgQ)
My ethics, both work and personal, were not valued or, most times, even noticed.
I couldn't work at most places now with the current environment. Or I should say, wouldn't.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2023 02:58 PM (SAX5G)
Posted by: rickb223 a
No one gives a shit how you feel. Is a Mantra in the Wayne Family.
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 02:58 PM (CIS44)
========
It's what you do that defines you.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (GBKbO)
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ZOMG muh emotional labor!!!!11eleven
Posted by: Cave Johnson at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (SkU44)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Drive by at November 28, 2023
***
Which goes from the silly, "Herbert! Herbert!" and "We reach," to the quiet chill of Spock's comment, "Dr. Sevrin is insane. I have not consulted Dr. McCoy . . . but I have no doubt of it."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2023 02:50 PM (xaFKb)
King is fine. Master is out unless he's a hot billionaire.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (GYIa4)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (BdMk6)
his discussion reminded me of my favorite Star Trek episode, The Way to Eden.
Posted by: Drive by
HERBERT!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (63Dwl)
Yet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (HdzIW)
>>"This is what you gotta do," she instructed, advising viewers to call their managers "king."
Not gonna happen.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 02:50 PM (geLO
Brawndo! It's what plants crave!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (PiwSw)
'soft skills' are bewbs, right?
Posted by: Ciampino - Geology rocks but Geography is where it's at at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (qfLjt)
David Williams, who directly worked on at least one of several loans obtained by Trump over several decades, testified on Tuesday in Manhattan that it's "atypical, but not entirely unusual" for a bank to internally slash a client's stated asset values by 50% and approve a loan anyway, as they did with Trump, Bloomberg reports.
Posted by: SMOD at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: rickb223
The 23 yo and 11 yo are black pilled. They know the score.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 28, 2023 03:00 PM (NtVYv)
Useless is a strong term.
Posted by: Moloch at November 28, 2023 03:00 PM (I/Qkd)
>>"This is what you gotta do," she instructed, advising viewers to call their managers "king."
Not gonna happen.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (ZLI7S)
How 'bout we compromise and call him "queen"?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 28, 2023 03:00 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2023 03:00 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: brak
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oh thanks. I mean, I know we'll always have tech geniuses and brain surgeons, etc- but Sly & The Family Stone's "Everyday People" are just getting dumber and dumber. I wonder how society will function when NOBODY knows how to stock a grocery shelf or fix a flat tire.
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 03:00 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM
Alright Alfred...
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:00 PM (CIS44)
Most very successful men, at least if they have kids, have some sort of trad wife. Why? Because you can't have two people doing 60+ hours AND have kids AND take care of everything else you need to do.
I've seen feminists complain about this - they can't get to the V/C level if they have kids because they can't get someone to hire then home. But women do NOT want men that would do this. Sorry feminists...that's thousands of years of biology at work...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 28, 2023 03:00 PM (XqcwY)
>>"This is what you gotta do," she instructed, advising viewers to call their managers "king."
Not gonna happen.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (ZLI7S)
How 'bout we compromise and call him "queen"?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 28, 2023 03:00 PM (eYoxG)
But call him GYAT Queen, as Slay Queen is out.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:01 PM (ynpvh)
it's actually true, pretty good book called "At Our Wits' End" was written on it a few years back
Posted by: brak
1940-50's automotive owners manual taught you how to set point & gap plugs.
Current owners manual tell you not to drink the battery acid.
What do you think?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2023 03:01 PM (spU3M)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 28, 2023 03:02 PM (NtVYv)
hey- I did my part by not having kids
this is on you breeders
I kid of course- children are a blessing amirite
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 03:02 PM (geLO8)
_______________
You DO realise the HR department is thoroughly Communist in its mission statement, yes ... ? It exists not to protect and serve the employees, but to direct the actions of the (ahem) 'boss' and tell him/her/it what to do, who to do it to, and how to avoid consequences.
It has no other mission.
Posted by: Dr_No at November 28, 2023 03:02 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM
Alright Alfred...
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:00 PM (CIS44)
========
*pulls off Rachel Dawes mask to reveal Michael Caine visage underneath*
How'd you know?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at November 28, 2023 03:02 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARIK) at November 28, 2023 03:02 PM (WWWlq)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 28, 2023 03:02 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Rolling Stones at November 28, 2023 03:02 PM (hirWM)
Aren't you glad most batteries are now sealed?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 03:02 PM (HdzIW)
it's actually true, pretty good book called "At Our Wits' End" was written on it a few years back
Posted by: brak
1940-50's automotive owners manual taught you how to set point & gap plugs.
Current owners manual tell you not to drink the battery acid.
What do you think?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2023 03:01 PM (spU3M)
Yup. Here, have a Tide Pod...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:02 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Fat Jonah of Krypton at November 28, 2023 03:02 PM (PwP1X)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (R4t5M)
garrett?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 28, 2023 03:03 PM (GYIa4)
it's actually true, pretty good book called "At Our Wits' End" was written on it a few years back
Posted by: brak at November 28, 2023
***
C.M. Kornbluth pointed it out in his "The Marching Morons" way back in the Fifties. In a modern tech society, where natural selection does not operate, the dull-witted breed faster than the intelligent and hyper-intelligent do. Result: Idiocracy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 03:03 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Drive by at November 28, 2023 03:03 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Muldoon at November 28, 2023 03:03 PM (991eG)
How'd you know?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, cel
*SNORT*
forgot she was who said that DUMMY
*sits in corner*
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:03 PM (CIS44)
There was once another name for that position.
Posted by: clams on the half shell and roller skates, roller skates at November 28, 2023 03:03 PM (kvDvI)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2023 03:03 PM (WWWlq)
The HR-ette leading the meeting wore a see-thru shirt and pants so tight you could see she was wearing a thong.
We live in a truly stupid time.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (XqcwY)
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (geLO8)
It has no other mission.
Posted by: Dr_No
If we were paying attention, the very moment that group switched it's name from 'Personnel' to 'Human Resources' told us all we needed to know.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (SAX5G)
.......
There's a word for that: whore.
Posted by: wth at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (p+1gI)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (J2vNu)
Skip Homeier was also in the episode "Patterns of Force" and the Outer Limits episode "Expanding Human."
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (ahKaX)
_______________
You DO realise the HR department is thoroughly Communist in its mission statement, yes ... ? It exists not to protect and serve the employees, but to direct the actions of the (ahem) 'boss' and tell him/her/it what to do, who to do it to, and how to avoid consequences.
It has no other mission.
Posted by: Dr_No at November 28, 2023 03:02 PM (ayRl+)
We are currently undergoing an "office renovation".
Guess who is moving next door to the Office Manager?
Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (wtvvX)
Machiavelli, "we called them cannon fodder."
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (HdzIW)
There was once another name for that position.
Posted by: clams on the half shell and roller skates, roller skates at November 28, 2023 03:03 PM (kvDvI)
That errr ummmm profession goes by many names...
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Montec at November 28, 2023 03:05 PM (fNkOQ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (ynpvh)
The absolute pride in not knowing how anything works is a weird cultural phenomena.
Years ago, I was out at dinner with a group of coworkers / friends, and was laughing about how my then-girlfriend didn't know how to change a tire and had to call me from the side of the road to change the tire for her.
Turns out no one at my table had ever changed a tire. Basically got variations of "that's what AAA is for" or "I don't even know if my car has a spare" and they thought I was the weird one. And they all seemed proud of their ignorance.
I've run in to that many times in my life.
I'm an older millennial FWIW, but I think the younger generations are even worse.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 28, 2023 03:05 PM (mj0Qp)
The one where Mace Windu lights up his sparklesword and yells, "Say 'what' again Mother Hubbard. I dare you." And the goose lady just quacks in despair. It is a good one for sure.
Posted by: Ghats Nor Gyats at November 28, 2023 03:05 PM (FHllF)
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (ahKaX)
to replace what's lost on the top of the head?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:05 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: weft cut-looop at November 28, 2023 03:05 PM (IG4Id)
There was once another name for that position.
Posted by: clams on the half shell and roller skates, roller skates at November 28, 2023 03:03 PM (kvDvI)
That errr ummmm profession goes by many names...
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (CIS44)
And is very, very old.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:06 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:06 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Drive by at November 28, 2023 03:06 PM (MNhXM)
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Were you dating Pete Buttigay?
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 03:06 PM (ahKaX)
The number one female answer to "what do you bring to the table" is...sex.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 28, 2023 03:06 PM (XqcwY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2023 03:00 PM
What's with the tits on the HR manager? Amirite? And don't get me started on those cunts down in I.T. Heyoooo.
Posted by: Minnfidel at November 28, 2023 03:06 PM (bqazj)
Posted by: JoshO at November 28, 2023 03:06 PM (n1Lvm)
Posted by: Montec at November 28, 2023 03:05 PM (fNkOQ)
Sick burn, bro
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 28, 2023 03:06 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Equate at November 28, 2023 03:07 PM (Ltgtd)
Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2023 03:07 PM (fwDg9)
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Try that at 0630 on the 395 nine miles south of Big Pine.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 28, 2023 03:07 PM (ScR16)
Posted by: Pudhinhead
to replace what's lost on the top of the head?
Posted by: jim
Hair comes from deep inside you. As you age, hair gets tired. That's why it no longer makes it to the top of your head and comes out your ears & nose.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2023 03:07 PM (spU3M)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 28, 2023 03:07 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: Moose4 at November 28, 2023 03:07 PM (+VWnP)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 28, 2023 02:50 PM (XqcwY)
As per usual, the Holy Scripture offers us insight that we don't particularly care for.
Upon original sin, let's review the consequences for men and women.
Men: You will labor to survive. What was once easy and plentiful, will now come only through immense toil and often will yield discomfort and misfortune, and so it will be until all your life until you return to the cold, dead ground from whence you came.
Women: Your primary gift, childbearing, once natural and easy, will now be accompanied by immense pain and displeasure. In your marriage, rather than enjoy your role as helper, mother and companion, in harmony with your husband in abundance, you will be at odds with him constantly, always desiring to be the head of the family and yet you will never achieve the dominance in which you long for.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 28, 2023 03:07 PM (Zqeqr)
the mission of my company's HR seems to be to sit around all day eating Crumbl cookies, decorating each other's cubicles with balloons, and standing around chatting
Posted by: brak at November 28, 2023 03:07 PM (AR07F)
Posted by: Zombie William S. Buckley at November 28, 2023 03:07 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (ahKaX)
God likes a good joke.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 28, 2023 03:07 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Madison Cornbread (aka Cassidy Hutchinson) at November 28, 2023 03:08 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (ahKaX)
to replace what's lost on the top of the head?
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I, like Trump, have a full head of hair but I have hair growing out of my ear lobes. That's not right. Its not like it filters out Rap music or anything useful.
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 03:08 PM (ahKaX)
Posted by: weft cut-looop
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come on in, the water's fine
embrace the horror
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 03:08 PM (geLO8)
There was once another name for that position.
Posted by: clams on the half shell and roller skates, roller skates at November 28, 2023 03:03 PM (kvDvI)
That errr ummmm profession goes by many names...
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (CIS44)
And is very, very old.
Posted by: jim
And every company has some.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2023 03:08 PM (spU3M)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023
*
Skip Homeier was also in the episode "Patterns of Force" and the Outer Limits episode "Expanding Human."
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 28, 2023
***
He gives Dr. Sevrin a quiet psychotic quality without screaming or gnashing his teeth. You could imagine him calmly picking up a club and bashing in a child's head, if the child were obstructing Sevrin's plans to get to Eden or anything else.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 03:08 PM (J2vNu)
Human Chattel would have given the game away
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 03:08 PM (HdzIW)
A girl in my class didnt know who scooby doo was. At this point the 'didnt know how to change a tire' seems like a breath of fresh air.
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:08 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2023 03:08 PM (RSbhh)
Posted by: Pudhinhead
to replace what's lost on the top of the head?
Posted by: jim
Hair comes from deep inside you. As you age, hair gets tired. That's why it no longer makes it to the top of your head and comes out your ears & nose.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2023 03:07 PM (spU3M)
::: now worried about hair where the sun don't shine :::
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:08 PM (ynpvh)
"Lady, I refuse to address my manager by a dog's name, no matter how much I dislike him."
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 28, 2023 03:08 PM (ou9hh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2023 03:08 PM (63Dwl)
>>"This is what you gotta do," she instructed, advising viewers to call their managers "king."
Not gonna happen.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (ZLI7S)
"King" just sounds sarcastic.
If I was addressed with that kind of smart-alecky shit by an employee, I would not take it well. I can't imagine most bosses would like it either.
Unless, it was clearly a joke and we were joking around.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (QzZeQ)
I read something a while ago which attributed this to the rise in data retention technology. Once you had to memorize everything, then you could write stuff down, then you could buy a book which contained stuff others had written down, now you have the internet on your phone.
All the world's knowledge, unless banned by the algorithm, at you fingertips but you don't KNOW anything. No one retains anything because you can always just look it up again and they'll just blindly accept whatever comes up first in a google search.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (GYIa4)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 28, 2023 02:56 PM (V71h7)
----
But what if it isn't your dick?
(Musk has Twitter, buys Facebook and YouTube - calls it YouTwitFace)
Posted by: Ciampino - Velcro is a complete ripoff at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (qfLjt)
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Oh man, that is SO 'fetch!!
(Fetch IS a thing, right?)
Posted by: Muldoon at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (991eG)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (SAX5G)
THIS!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: Equate at November 28, 2023 03:07 PM (Ltgtd)
what about Buttigieg ? Oh, nevermind, I get it
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Drive by at November 28, 2023 03:06 PM
Not to go all Cliff Claven, but the lady never asked for that much. McD's had memos that sunk them. They knew the coffee was way too hot and could cause burns. But they said the yield from the beans at a hotter temp would offset the costs of medical claims. The judge saw that and said, oh yea?
Posted by: Minnfidel at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (bqazj)
Huh.
Posted by: wth at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (v0R5T)
Lock yourself in the car. And use Lizard Flare.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: Zombie William S. Buckley at November 28, 2023
***
That's from, like, some old Greek homos.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (J2vNu)
I handed him a Kleenex and said, "Don't drip on the books, that's gross."
Then he got all snotty, "Don't you even know what I'm saying?"
"Of course I do," I lied. "But it's been since before your parents were born since I cared a single tiny smidge what some middle school kid's slang was. It will happen to you too so don't be snotty."
He seemed quite deflated that I cared not about the latest jargon.
BTW, Drip means, outfit one is wearing.
I found that out watching a commercial that ran during a football game I was watching with my dad.
Posted by: Just Lily at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (966kd)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Eloi---schools are basically trying to send every kid to college so they don't have to do manual labor. Previous generations did manual labor to earn spending money. That was ended by the huge waves of immigration and the increasingly competitive colleges required all sorts of bullshit portfolio crap for admissions.
You get a bit of a view of that long gone world of the 80's in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Posted by: whig at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (5v5d+)
Posted by: Ripley at November 28, 2023 02:55 PM (JojsZ)
Wait wait wait, I've been assured (sometimes in these very pages by commenters) that the Evil Very Bad Boomers destroyed western civilization from the womb!! Is that not true any more??
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (Rbu5d)
"Lady, I refuse to address my manager by a dog's name, no matter how much I dislike him."
Posted by: FeatherBlade
"Prince" is right out.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2023 03:10 PM (63Dwl)
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Smote is a word that should be used moar often.
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 03:10 PM (ahKaX)
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (CIS44)
I hear it's the oldest profession, followed closely in age (9 months) by another profession known as (consults notes, clears throat, adjusts glasses) 'motherhood'.
You're welcome!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2023 03:10 PM (WWWlq)
Am I slay?
Posted by: Doof at November 28, 2023 03:10 PM (+cH+C)
Posted by: Zombie William S. Buckley at November 28, 2023 03:07 PM (PiwSw)
Maybe it's steatopygian they're looking for.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:10 PM (ynpvh)
Gyat: A term used to describe a person's curvaceous behind (girl your a** thick)
Rizzler: Someone who is a good at picking up women
Skibidi: Derived from the YouTube animated series Skibidi Toilet, used in gaming to describe someone who is evil or bad
-Ace
Wait...wasn't a video of this posted here just a few days ago? If not...how did I stumble upon it, and thank God for this explanation.
There's a short, poor quality video of an almost 40k-like chant of slang like Ace mentions above https://tinyurl.com/mry4ey8p
Followed by a longer, futuristic (and completely wrong) analysis of the phrase https://tinyurl.com/bdersn74
Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 28, 2023 03:10 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 28, 2023 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)
Turns out no one at my table had ever changed a tire. Basically got variations of "that's what AAA is for" or "I don't even know if my car has a spare" and they thought I was the weird one. And they all seemed proud of their ignorance.
I've run in to that many times in my life.
I'm an older millennial FWIW, but I think the younger generations are even worse.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 28, 2023 03:05 PM (mj0Qp)
Gun to my head I’ll change a tire. I know how. But I haven’t done it in at least 20 years. Cuz, well yeah,
That’s what AAA is for. Not AAA in my case, insurance company that provides roadside assistance. But you get the point.
Posted by: Montec at November 28, 2023 03:11 PM (fNkOQ)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, I don't know, I just saw that LiMu commercial at November 28, 2023 03:11 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (ahKaX)
to replace what's lost on the top of the head?
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I, like Trump, have a full head of hair but I have hair growing out of my ear lobes. That's not right. Its not like it filters out Rap music or anything useful.
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 03:08 PM (ahKaX)
Just push it into the earholes.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:11 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 28, 2023 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)
Probably end up being cheaper overall too.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at November 28, 2023 03:11 PM (fKIdX)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2023 03:11 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, I don't know, I just saw that LiMu commercial at November 28, 2023 03:11 PM (PiwSw)
How my 20-year-old uses it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:11 PM (ynpvh)
Since when does walking around the cubicle farm, drinking Starbucks coffee milkshakes and spouting cliches count as "having a personality"?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 28, 2023 03:11 PM (n+4am)
Posted by: Montec at November 28, 2023 03:11 PM (fNkOQ)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Have you got to pass a test?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at November 28, 2023 03:12 PM (FVME7)
You're welcome!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) a
BUT if that what the oldest profession, how was she paid? If it was in fish wouldnt that make fisherman the oldest profession?
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:12 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Montec at November 28, 2023 03:11 PM (fNkOQ)
My daughter is almost 19 and still uses that term as well.
Guess she's not in the in crowd.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 28, 2023 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 28, 2023 03:12 PM (iFTx/)
I had summer jobs in construction and a loading dock way back in the 70's when I was in school.
There would be a dust-up almost every week, sometimes with punches being thrown. Then it was over and you'd go back to work. High-T.
These would not be considered high IQ positions today but looking back some of these dudes were geniuses.
Posted by: Auspex at November 28, 2023 03:12 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Networking and nepotism beat competence any day of the week at November 28, 2023 03:12 PM (r/JV0)
Posted by: HR Reality Check at November 28, 2023 03:13 PM (OdSb2)
Sorry but that’s the legal logic that has been making us more stupid and a victimization society over the last 50 years.
Posted by: Drive by at November 28, 2023 03:13 PM (MNhXM)
You're welcome!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) a
BUT if that what the oldest profession, how was she paid? If it was in fish wouldnt that make fisherman the oldest profession?
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:12 PM (CIS44)
That was just a hobby.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:13 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, I don't know, I just saw that LiMu commercial at November 28, 2023 03:11 PM (PiwSw)
Nah - the correct terms for that are "neato" and "swell".
Posted by: Doof at November 28, 2023 03:13 PM (+cH+C)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (PiwSw)
Also Ollie Weaver in "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken"
"Oh no, he's gonna cry!"
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 28, 2023 03:14 PM (/HDaX)
You're welcome!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) a
*
BUT if that what the oldest profession, how was she paid? If it was in fish wouldnt that make fisherman the oldest profession?
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023
***
I've seen "shaman" touted as the truly oldest profession.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 03:14 PM (J2vNu)
A robot could do this job. ...
There is no doubt, some degree of usefulness for people with good personalities and personal skills. BUT that has not generally been considered part of the job description, it is just "useful".
Posted by: illiniwek at November 28, 2023 03:14 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Montec at November 28, 2023 03:14 PM (fNkOQ)
Posted by: Oldcat at November 28, 2023 03:14 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:12 PM (CIS44)
We used, how you say, "IOUs".
Posted by: The Paleo Paolo at November 28, 2023 03:14 PM (PiwSw)
Reading that, I could only think of The Simpsons flashing forward to Lisa as president & Bart getting other countries off her back.
https://youtu.be/dClSW3H8hUg?feature=shared
Posted by: The Mantastic Tor at November 28, 2023 03:14 PM (dwzrA)
Why, as we age, do our ears grow fucking hair?
You need one of those grooming machines that heats up to 200 degrees within seconds of starting, while cutting those ear hairs and fills the room with the bouquet of burnt hair. Repeat daily.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 28, 2023 03:14 PM (enJYY)
I can't do without the fact that my eyebrow hairs have started to go completely insane.
It's like a dogfight between unkempt Shih Tsus up there.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 28, 2023 03:14 PM (QzZeQ)
It's just another way of saying "I'm so important I can't be bothered with the things done by the lower orders." It's nothing new. Aristocrats in the old days would have been aghast at someone who had an actual "job".
And yes, we're getting stupider. I suggest it's happening a lot faster than some seem to think.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 28, 2023 03:14 PM (I/Qkd)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, I don't know, I just saw that LiMu commercial at November 28, 2023 03:11 PM (PiwSw)
Nah - the correct terms for that are "neato" and "swell".
Posted by: Doof at November 28, 2023 03:13 PM (+cH+C)
gnarly
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:14 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 28, 2023 03:14 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 28, 2023 03:14 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 03:14 PM (HdzIW)
Posted by: Kyle at November 28, 2023 03:15 PM (hsDZG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at November 28, 2023 03:15 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Ripley at November 28, 2023 03:15 PM (JojsZ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 28, 2023 03:15 PM (63Dwl)
what about Buttigieg ? Oh, nevermind, I get it
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (NtVYv)
I don't think he was hired because of his personality or to lighten things up. He was hired simply because he didn't stay in the Presidential race, but primarily because he's gay.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2023 03:15 PM (RSbhh)
Guess she's not in the in crowd.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
She's far too old.
Posted by: Joey Fingerbang at November 28, 2023 03:15 PM (v0R5T)
***goes off looking for the Head Ewok***
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at November 28, 2023 03:15 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Oldcat at November 28, 2023 03:15 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, I don't know, I just saw that LiMu commercial at November 28, 2023 03:11 PM (PiwSw)
Nah - the correct terms for that are "neato" and "swell".
Posted by: Doof at November 28, 2023 03:13 PM (+cH+C)
gnarly
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
dope and hot
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:15 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 28, 2023 03:15 PM (Zqeqr)
So we are now listening to kids 12 years old and younger for advice on language???
Posted by: Doof at November 28, 2023 03:16 PM (+cH+C)
When they begin to say it back, that's when you know you've met your performance goals, or "brought the vibes to the workplace."
***
Anyone in my corporation who hired someone like this would be immediately fired themselves.
Posted by: Azathoth at November 28, 2023 03:16 PM (wb1YC)
You're welcome!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) a
*
BUT if that what the oldest profession, how was she paid? If it was in fish wouldnt that make fisherman the oldest profession?
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023
***
I've seen "shaman" touted as the truly oldest profession.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 03:14 PM (J2vNu)
________
I will always believe the oldest profession was the troll
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 28, 2023 03:16 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: SMOD at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (RHGPo)
Rule one of visiting the pawn shop, accept a pawn for the value far less than the actual value of the item. That way you are likely to redeem it. That Letitia James never negotiated a temporary loan at "Uncle's" is not surprising, I bet she always went to the Pay-Day Loans and got ripped off.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2023 03:16 PM (D7oie)
I've alwaysbeen annoyed by the lyric in that country song where the female narrator tells us that the supposedly downtrodden housewife has had "twenty years of work but not one raise in pay."
BS. Every time Hubby got a raise in pay, so did she, automatically.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 02:57 PM (J2vNu)
True, but the next line is that she's now in the typing pool making minimum wage. I always took that as a comment that walking out on her husband and family was a stupid thing to do.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 28, 2023 03:16 PM (N3zMI)
Good luck assholes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 28, 2023 03:17 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at November 28, 2023 03:15 PM (FVME7)
You keep that up and Doof will recite the entirety of Valley Girl by Frank Zappa.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 28, 2023 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Archimedes at November 28, 2023 03:17 PM (I/Qkd)
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2023 03:17 PM (l3Uxg)
Posted by: Montec at November 28, 2023 03:17 PM (fNkOQ)
Posted by: deadrody at November 28, 2023 03:17 PM (OeYsY)
It's like a dogfight between unkempt Shih Tsus up there.
Posted by: naturalfake
"the Brezhnev"
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 28, 2023 03:17 PM (R4t5M)
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So his job, like so many in media, is to annoy the normies with constant focus on abby normies, rite?
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 03:17 PM (ahKaX)
Sorry but that’s the legal logic that has been making us more stupid and a victimization society over the last 50 years.
Posted by: Drive by at November 28, 2023 03:13 PM
I didn't say it was right, but that's why the McD's covefe lawsuit was so high.
Posted by: Minnfidel at November 28, 2023 03:17 PM (bqazj)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
**********
There is a lot of truth to this notion.
Data is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Posted by: Muldoon at November 28, 2023 03:17 PM (991eG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 03:18 PM (HdzIW)
BS. Every time Hubby got a raise in pay, so did she, automatically.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023
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True, but the next line is that she's now in the typing pool making minimum wage. I always took that as a comment that walking out on her husband and family was a stupid thing to do.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 28, 2023
***
Exactly.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 03:18 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2023 03:18 PM (SAX5G)
Unless we cryogenically freeze a couple of normal humans...now.
Posted by: The plot to Idiocracy at November 28, 2023 03:18 PM (XqcwY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 03:18 PM (HdzIW)
I thought Mike Oldfield was dead.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 28, 2023 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Drive by at November 28, 2023 03:06 PM
Not to go all Cliff Claven, but the lady never asked for that much. McD's had memos that sunk them. They knew the coffee was way too hot and could cause burns. But they said the yield from the beans at a hotter temp would offset the costs of medical claims. The judge saw that and said, oh yea?
Posted by: Minnfidel at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (bqazj)
Yeah, I think it was a textbook case of why civil actions are better than government regulation.
McDonald's lowered to temperature of their coffee from nearly boiling to just pretty fucking hot after that lawsuit.
Average home coffee maker brews at like 160 degrees. McDonald's amped it up to 200-210 degrees, despite knowing that at those temperatures, 3rd degree burns are all but guaranteed. But they got a hire yield of coffee from the beans AND they could brag that their coffee stayed hot longer than their competitors.
And the plaintiff had to have like major reconstructive surgery of her genitals. It wasn't a minor burn.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 28, 2023 03:18 PM (mj0Qp)
Posted by: Minnfidel at November 28, 2023 03:17 PM (bqazj)
Roger that.
Posted by: Drive by at November 28, 2023 03:18 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: wth at November 28, 2023 03:18 PM (v0R5T)
What do you think?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2023 03:01 PM (spU3M)
The plaintiff bar loves its attorneys more than it loves its children
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2023 03:19 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 28, 2023 02:37 PM (ynlJ2)
Its ok, the new ones don't breed anyhow.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 28, 2023 03:19 PM (eoQWY)
I will always believe the oldest profession was the troll
Posted by: Elric Blade
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We did our best.
Posted by: Billy Goats Gruff at November 28, 2023 03:19 PM (XeU6L)
I would like to ban the term "influencer". Fuck off influencers, you don't impress me.
Posted by: Cheri at November 28, 2023 03:19 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2023 03:18 PM (SAX5G)
......
That means to connect your trailer to the truck, right?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 28, 2023 03:19 PM (Zqeqr)
Posted by: JSchuler at November 28, 2023 03:19 PM (l6eKM)
Good luck assholes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 28, 2023 03:17 PM (Q4IgG)
Understanding the whims of the machine spirits is the business of the tech-priests.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 28, 2023 03:19 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at November 28, 2023 03:19 PM (hirWM)
Posted by: Elric Blade
Where did the Troll get his questions?
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:20 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at November 28, 2023 03:15 PM (FVME7)
You keep that up and Doof will recite the entirety of Valley Girl by Frank Zappa.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 28, 2023 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE I TOTALLY COULD DO THAT!
Posted by: Ben "Doof" R. at November 28, 2023 03:20 PM (+cH+C)
You're welcome!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) a
*
BUT if that what the oldest profession, how was she paid? If it was in fish wouldnt that make fisherman the oldest profession?
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023
***
I've seen "shaman" touted as the truly oldest profession.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 03:14 PM (J2vNu)
You're all wrong. Fruit pickers are the oldest profession.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 28, 2023 03:20 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
dope and hot
Posted by: BruceWayne'
.......
Savage
Posted by: wth at November 28, 2023 03:18 PM (v0R5T)
BOOM! Headshot!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 28, 2023 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)
One nice big Carrington Event and all the zombies will be looking at their phones in desperation begging no pleading for their Info God Siri to come back.
Then we go Feeders of Vaal meets Lord of the Flies.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 03:20 PM (HdzIW)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
dope and hot
Posted by: BruceWayne'
.......
Savage
Posted by: wth at November 28, 2023 03:18 PM (v0R5T)
bitchin'
Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 28, 2023 03:20 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 28, 2023 02:37 PM (ynlJ2)
Its ok, the new ones don't breed anyhow.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 28, 2023 03:19 PM (eoQWY)
It's been downhill after the Greatest Generation.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:20 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Montec at November 28, 2023
***
Weren't those slang terms that came from the surfer and custom car worlds in CA in the early '60s? A car could be a "radical" custom, later shortened to "rad." A really great wave was referred to as "tubular." Or am I thinking of something else?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 03:20 PM (J2vNu)
I don't think he was hired because of his personality or to lighten things up. He was hired simply because he didn't stay in the Presidential race, but primarily because he's gay.
In Soviet America giving up the backdoor is a much better ladder to success then the fronthole...
Posted by: Words to live by at November 28, 2023 03:20 PM (XqcwY)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 28, 2023 03:16 PM (N3zMI)
Mary Chapin Carpenter, "He Thinks He'll Keep Her," (co-written with Don Schlitz). Great song (Rickenbacker 6-string), stupid lyrics.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 28, 2023 03:20 PM (PiwSw)
So now most women work for SOME OTHER MAN. Why is that better?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 28, 2023 02:50 PM (XqcwY)
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It isn't but the bored upper middle class women in the 50s resented their husbands and thought they would be happier if they also worked. It worked out that then nobody was happy.
Posted by: Decaf at November 28, 2023 03:20 PM (3JfbU)
Husband and I are elderly. We don't understand wtf has happened to our country. I keep telling him the evil *uckers have taken over.
Posted by: four seasons at November 28, 2023 03:21 PM (ichPI)
Posted by: Tonypete at No
Well you see when a man and woman dont love each other at all BUT...
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:21 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2023 03:18 PM (SAX5G)
......
That means to connect your trailer to the truck, right?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 28, 2023 03:19 PM (Zqeqr)
Or your TV to cable?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:21 PM (ynpvh)
Good luck assholes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 28, 2023 03:17 PM (Q4IgG)
When I was younger, I used to think about what it must have been like to be a peasant during the dark ages. They saw the roman roads and aqueducts and crumbling infrastructure, but no one knew exactly what it was for, how it worked, how to maintain it, nor did they have the (political, I guess) will to do so.
Must have been very weird.
I think that it is possible, maybe even likely, that future generations will experience that as well.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 28, 2023 03:21 PM (mj0Qp)
Posted by: Montec at November 28, 2023 03:21 PM (fNkOQ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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It's the ready availability of weed.
Posted by: Billy Goats Gruff at November 28, 2023 03:21 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:12 PM (CIS44)
Holy hunter-gatherer Batman! You make a good argument. Perhaps the predecessor occupations weren't considered 'professions'?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 28, 2023 03:21 PM (WWWlq)
In many ways this is also the story about me.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at November 28, 2023 03:21 PM (1oN8o)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 28, 2023 03:21 PM (ZV+pB)
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 03:04 PM (ahKaX)
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I explained this sometime ago. Often when one gets old, hairs on top of the head stop growing. Instead the roots keep growing and eventually come out at the ears and nose.
You don't want to know about the 'where the sun don't shine' hairs, suffice to say it has to do with nasty, alien KlingOns.
Posted by: Ciampino - Velcro is a complete ripoff. at November 28, 2023 03:21 PM (qfLjt)
Good luck assholes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 28, 2023 03:17 PM (Q4IgG)
Those Venezuelan illegals in NYC and Chicago could use that fire-building skill right about now. Those tarp tents used to work fine in the old shithole down by the equator.
Posted by: Roy at November 28, 2023 03:21 PM (z+ik4)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2023 03:18 PM (SAX5G)
......
That means to connect your trailer to the truck, right?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
Power and water to your fifth wheel.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 28, 2023 03:21 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: InZona at November 28, 2023 03:21 PM (NZJTI)
I'm sure he's intended to annoy the normies. His main job seems to be not addressing transportaion problems but being a spokesman for gay rights.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2023 03:22 PM (RSbhh)
Posted by: Drive by
Someone at work said 30 years ago and I thought, "oooohh. 1973." Now I need to go lay down.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2023 03:22 PM (spU3M)
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The big thing in the '90s was "volunteer" and "community" work.
Step-daughter's Northern CA Bay Area high school had a mandatory requirement to graduate of a semester of "volunteer" work (as a cheerleader, she "volunteered" to coach Pop Warner football cheerleaders).
I used to mock "That's the old volunteer spirit!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Too Male, Too Pale, Too Stale at November 28, 2023 03:22 PM (TDl5K)
It isn't but the bored upper middle class women in the 50s resented their husbands and thought they would be happier if they also worked. It worked out that then nobody was happy.
Even NOW I talk with women outside of the corporate world that think working in it is just like in soap operas. You work on "the important project" once a year and spend the rest of your time eating out, gossiping, and having affairs.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 28, 2023 03:22 PM (XqcwY)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (R4t5M)
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I have noticed that as well, no wonder boys don't particularly want to engage, in every sense of the word.
Posted by: Decaf at November 28, 2023 03:22 PM (3JfbU)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
dope and hot
Posted by: BruceWayne'
.......
Savage
Posted by: wth at November 28, 2023 03:18 PM (v0R5T)
BOOM! Headshot!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 28, 2023 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)
I scored quite well on that game. Loved getting the headshots on those penguins.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:22 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Tonypete
......
That means to connect your trailer to the truck, right?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
.......
I thought it was when you tie their nose ring to a fence.
For breeding.
Posted by: wth at November 28, 2023 03:22 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at November 28, 2023 02:49 PM (r0Q9B)
The whole point of jargon is to drive the other groups away with stupid slogans. Then you speak normally to the in group.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 28, 2023 03:22 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2023 03:18 PM (SAX5G)
......
That means to connect your trailer to the truck, right?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 28, 2023 03:19 PM (Zqeqr)
Or your TV to cable?
Posted by: jim
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I think of connections at an RV/camping park
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 28, 2023 03:22 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Montec at November 28, 2023 03:21 PM (fNkOQ)
Good thing she didn't use the balm!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at November 28, 2023 03:23 PM (xPJvm)
Posted by: Montec
Yeah, everyone jokes about the case, but when you hear all the details...I don't know if I'd hold McD's liable, but they certainly weren't blameless.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 28, 2023 03:23 PM (JCZqz)
I think of connections at an RV/camping park
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 28, 2023 03:22 PM (XeU6L)
In a sense, since a sewage system is probably being connected in both cases.
Posted by: Roy at November 28, 2023 03:23 PM (z+ik4)
You don't want to know about the 'where the sun don't shine' hairs, suffice to say it has to do with nasty, alien KlingOns.
Posted by: Ciampino
It's like trying to wade thru an uncut wheat field.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2023 03:23 PM (spU3M)
It's makes me literally cringe when I hear it improperly peppered into every argument.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 28, 2023 03:24 PM (Zqeqr)
"It isn't but the bored upper middle class women in the 50s resented their husbands and thought they would be happier if they also worked. It worked out that then nobody was happy."
Even NOW I talk with women outside of the corporate world that think working in it is just like in soap operas. You work on "the important project" once a year and spend the rest of your time eating out, gossiping, and having affairs.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 28, 2023 03:22 PM (XqcwY)
Reminds me of that letter of a WW1 wife talking about how her husband must been having a grand adventure in the war and how jealous she was.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 28, 2023 03:24 PM (eYoxG)
I found that out watching a commercial that ran during a football game I was watching with my dad.
Posted by: Just Lily at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (966kd)
I informed my kids that the drip used to mean having an active case of gonorrhea.
Posted by: They were only mildly amused at November 28, 2023 03:24 PM (r/JV0)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2023 03:18 PM (SAX5G)
That means to connect your trailer to the truck, right?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 28, 2023 03:19 PM (Zqeqr)
Or your TV to cable?
Posted by: jim
I think of connections at an RV/camping park
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 28, 2023 03:22 PM (XeU6L)
Actually, last time I was camping, I hooked up... but only had a tent.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2023 03:24 PM (xaFKb)
Go, go, go. Run through the ruts. Splash mud on clean, little people. Stay in the muddy rut. Splash mud at the sun. Wear a mask to hide a muddy face. Squares. Ask me about the squares. I'm Madame Bertha, mystic reader. I understand it better than anybody. I put them down. Liars, hypocrites, slaves.
I'm beat, daddy. I'm beat. No past, no present, no future. Alone. Me. Nothing else except chaos and confusion and squares.
Posted by: Buzzie at November 28, 2023 03:24 PM (63Dwl)
The big thing in the '90s was "volunteer" and "community" work.
Step-daughter's Northern CA Bay Area high school had a mandatory requirement to graduate of a semester of "volunteer" work (as a cheerleader, she "volunteered" to coach Pop Warner football cheerleaders).
I used to mock "That's the old volunteer spirit!"
Posted by: ShainS --
We had to do community service for NHS in the 90s.
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:24 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Drive by
My favorite is the one where a woman bough an RV, drove it down the highway, and put cruise control on, then went in the back to make herself a sandwich.
Yes, she wrecked, yes, she survived, and yes, she sued successfully.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 28, 2023 03:24 PM (PiwSw)
What do you think?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2023 03:01 PM (spU3M)
Oh, man, bummer. Why didn’t you say that sooner?
Posted by: Cheechen Chong at November 28, 2023 03:24 PM (OdSb2)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2023 03:22 PM (spU3M)
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LOL. In many ways, this too is the story of ShainS.
Posted by: ShainS -- Too Male, Too Pale, Too Stale at November 28, 2023 03:24 PM (J4DET)
Posted by: Cave Johnson at November 28, 2023 02:59 PM (SkU44)
I love this one.
Because I can control my own emotions and don't overreact to things, I'm the problem.
Not the people who are ruled by their emotions. They should be paid money to keep being emotional.
That's a great plan for society.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 28, 2023 03:24 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 28, 2023
***
I'd forgotten that was hers. She was capable of top-notch lyrics, like "The Bug," "I Feel Lucky," and "I Take My Chances."
Schlitz, by the by, wrote "The Gambler" and issued it as a single. It flopped. Kenny Rogers came along and turned it into a monster hit and a TV-movie franchise.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 03:24 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Montec
Yeah, everyone jokes about the case, but when you hear all the details...I don't know if I'd hold McD's liable, but they certainly weren't blameless.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 28, 2023 03:23 PM (JCZqz)
Our society today. Someone is always to blame for something bad that happens to them.
Posted by: Drive by at November 28, 2023 03:25 PM (MNhXM)
*Sees 'pronouns' and 'personality traits'*
*Places in circular file*
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 02:39 PM (CIS44)
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THAT!
Posted by: Ciampino - Learn to spell, AutoCorrect isn't always write at November 28, 2023 03:25 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 28, 2023 03:25 PM (R4t5M)
Maybe GenAlpha will correct recourse from GenZ.
Posted by: Montec at November 28, 2023 03:25 PM (fNkOQ)
Posted by: four seasons at November 28, 2023 03:25 PM (ichPI)
I found that out watching a commercial that ran during a football game I was watching with my dad.
Posted by: Just Lily at November 28, 2023 03:09 PM (966kd)
I informed my kids that the drip used to mean having an active case of gonorrhea.
Posted by: They were only mildly amused at November 28, 2023 03:24 PM (r/JV0)
Will anybody Clap?
Posted by: JEB! at November 28, 2023 03:25 PM (ynpvh)
LOL. In many ways, this too is the story of ShainS.
Posted by: ShainS -- Too Male, Too Pale, Too Stale at November 28, 2023 03:24 PM (J4DET)
Bob Dole loves it when others speak about themselves in 3rd person.
Posted by: Bob Dole at November 28, 2023 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)
I'm beat, daddy. I'm beat. No past, no present, no future. Alone. Me. Nothing else except chaos and confusion and squares.
Posted by: Buzzie at November 28, 2023
***
Sounds like Jack Kerouac meeting Holden Caulfield
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 03:26 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Turn 2 at November 28, 2023 03:26 PM (JfxgE)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 03:20 PM
The surfers I knew in school used words like "I'm so stoked, I caught a righteous left at the break and was totally tubed until some kook cut me off. Hey dude, locals only and no dropping in on my wave". Or "I shot the pier and knocked out my front teeth"
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2023 03:26 PM (l3Uxg)
Yeah...I would have told them to fuck straight off.
Back then, I went to work for me, not others.
Posted by: garrett at November 28, 2023 03:26 PM (hsDZG)
The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
Disney Awarded Defense Contract After Producing More Bombs Than Lockheed Martin
Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 28, 2023 03:26 PM (CwhoI)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at November 28, 2023 03:26 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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People that are literate will do okay absent something like a massive nuclear exchange or a super volcano and the dissemination of books and other learning material makes it unlikely we have total extinction of technology an learning. We might however regress to the 1800's to early 1900's for a bit.
Posted by: whig at November 28, 2023 03:26 PM (5v5d+)
Posted by: four seasons at November 28, 2023 03:25 PM (ichPI)
It TAKES a VILLAGE!!!!!
Arbeit Mach Frei!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 28, 2023 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 28, 2023 03:23 PM (JCZqz)
McDonalds was selling coffee at a temperature no normal person would expect it to be at. Literally just a few degrees shy of boiling. A good 30-40 degrees hotter than coffee you make at home or buy in a bodega.
At those temperatures, you only need it on your skin for seconds before you get third degree burns. Normal coffee spilling on you will cool down before it causes any kind of severe burn.
McDonalds was in the wrong. They were selling an inherently unsafe product that was causing severe burns if it leaked.
So the question becomes, how do we as a society, discourage that kind of thing? Through regulations and government dictates, or through civil actions where a jury decides if you were wrong, and how wrong you were?
I definitely land on the civil suit side of things.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 28, 2023 03:27 PM (mj0Qp)
I was confused at first, but as we were talking about good German biers, I figured it was a good thing.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 28, 2023 03:27 PM (uSHSS)
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 28, 2023 03:12 PM (iFTx/)
ah, man that's bad. I mean really sick. Gonna do that myself next.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2023 03:27 PM (D7oie)
https://tinyurl.com/ykbwuzuz
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2023 03:27 PM (RSbhh)
Data is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom, wisdom is not a pickle, a pickle is not data.
Thus, the great circle is closed for all eternity.
Posted by: naturalfake at November 28, 2023 03:28 PM (QzZeQ)
Posted by: four seasons at November 28, 2023 03:28 PM (ichPI)
Thus, the great circle is closed for all eternity.
Posted by: naturalfake at
and a hot dog is not a sandwich.
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:28 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: whig at November 28, 2023 03:26 PM (5v5d+)
It's possible. But then again, while literacy was certainly lower in the dark ages, it's not like no one knew how to read in latin.
They just ... lost the institutional knowledge of how to maintain massive infrastructure.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 28, 2023 03:28 PM (mj0Qp)
It's makes me literally cringe when I hear it improperly peppered into every argument.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 28, 2023 03:24 PM (Zqeqr)
I literally couldn't agree with you more on this!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Doof at November 28, 2023 03:29 PM (+cH+C)
LOL. It must be fun to work there.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2023 03:29 PM (RSbhh)
Posted by: JEB! at November 28, 2023 03:25 PM (ynpvh)
I can.
https://youtu.be/1KN2qvtosmM
Posted by: Steve Howe at November 28, 2023 03:29 PM (PiwSw)
Thus, the great circle is closed for all eternity.
Posted by: naturalfake at
and a hot dog is not a sandwich.
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:28 PM (CIS44)
then must be a taco.
Posted by: JEB! at November 28, 2023 03:29 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: sidney at November 28, 2023 03:29 PM (Uy/WF)
Posted by: Drive by at November 28, 2023 03:29 PM (MNhXM)
If you don't agree a hot dog is a sandwich I will literally fight you sir!
And by literally I mean figuratively.
Also, is my wife a sandwich when she is servicing two bulls? I say yes.
Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at November 28, 2023 03:29 PM (XqcwY)
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2023
***
I guess "tubed" could evolve into "tubular."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 03:29 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 03:14 PM (HdzIW)
attlavey, Ooma! Nadsat is pasé
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2023 03:29 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Montec
iirc - the woman, or one of her family, tried to strip off her pants and underwear to get boiling clothing off of her and much of the skin from her thighs and um, lap, came off with them.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2023 03:30 PM (SAX5G)
The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
Disney Awarded Defense Contract After Producing More Bombs Than Lockheed Martin
Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 28, 2023 03:26 PM (CwhoI)
Could you send us some?
Posted by: Zelensky at November 28, 2023 03:30 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:30 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Montec at November 28, 2023 03:30 PM (fNkOQ)
If I hold it between my butt cheeks, the dogs don't seem care though.
Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at November 28, 2023 03:30 PM (hsDZG)
Posted by: look whats not at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (nakGR)
If that grosses you out, do NOT read Glyceride/Greased by Junji Ito
Posted by: I warned you at November 28, 2023 03:30 PM (r/JV0)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
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Some guys did. Others lived out the remainder of their short lives in terror, pain, mud, and anguish. But envy causes many harms to oneself and others when contentment can cause stagnation.
Proverbs and Ecclesiastes have some timeless wisdom and part of it is that life itself is often a contradiction and the choices that one faces is never cost free.
Posted by: whig at November 28, 2023 03:30 PM (5v5d+)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at November 28, 2023 03:31 PM (1oN8o)
It's been downhill after the Greatest Generation.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:20 PM
Trump, Biden, Pelosi... all GG not boomers. Need I site more?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 28, 2023 03:31 PM (enJYY)
I literally couldn't agree with you more on this!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Doof at November 28, 2023 03:29 PM (+cH+C)
I can literally accept the abuse of literally easier than I can the use of LIKE every 3rd word.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 28, 2023 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: garrett at November 28, 2023 03:31 PM (hsDZG)
The big thing in the '90s was "volunteer" and "community" work.
Step-daughter's Northern CA Bay Area high school had a mandatory requirement to graduate of a semester of "volunteer" work (as a cheerleader, she "volunteered" to coach Pop Warner football cheerleaders).
I used to mock "That's the old volunteer spirit!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Too Male, Too Pale, Too Stale
My kids had the same thing. They went to a private school. I don't think the public schools made the kids volunteer. The private schools still do around here.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2023 03:31 PM (l3Uxg)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 28, 2023 03:32 PM (ZV+pB)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2023 03:32 PM (AhZSY)
Posted by: Montec
Yeah, everyone jokes about the case, but when you hear all the details...I don't know if I'd hold McD's liable, but they certainly weren't blameless.
Posted by: Moron Analyst
Ever see the video of facebook where the mom goes to hand her daughter a hot pot?
Mom: it's hot. Kid tries to grab it by the bottom
Mom jerks it away.
Mom: It's hot!
Kid tries it again.
Mom: IT'S HOT!
Kid tries again.
Mom: GOD DAMN IT! IT'S FUCKING HOT! GRAB THE HANDLES!
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2023 03:32 PM (spU3M)
Posted by: SMOD at November 28, 2023 03:32 PM (RHGPo)
If I hold it between my butt cheeks, the dogs don't seem care though.
Posted by: Jonah Goldberg
*thumbs up*
Posted by: Mr T at November 28, 2023 03:32 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: cheshirecat at November 28, 2023 03:32 PM (TwA+r)
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 28, 2023 03:32 PM (hNi4N)
Posted by: Lance McCormick at November 28, 2023 03:32 PM (l8gTz)
Proverbs and Ecclesiastes have some timeless wisdom and part of it is that life itself is often a contradiction and the choices that one faces is never cost free.
Posted by: whig at November 28, 2023 03:30 PM (5v5d+)
Indeed. Everything has a cost, even if it doesn't have a price.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:33 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: garrett
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Labor unions were to blame for that crusade when many kids would be far better doing a job plus school during their formative middle and teen years.
Posted by: whig at November 28, 2023 03:33 PM (5v5d+)
Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at November 28, 2023 03:29 PM (XqcwY)
.......
More like an Oreo cookie.
Posted by: wth at November 28, 2023 03:33 PM (v0R5T)
Does that include fellatio?
Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 28, 2023 02:39 PM (wtvvX)
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See #260
Posted by: Ciampino - Learn to spell, AutoCorrect isn't always write at November 28, 2023 03:33 PM (qfLjt)
I can literally accept the abuse of literally easier than I can the use of LIKE every 3rd word.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 28, 2023 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)
I say like too much. It depends on the circumstances but I know it's like a terrible habit I need to break.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2023 03:33 PM (l3Uxg)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 28, 2023 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)
Both words mean nothing anymore. "Like" has 2 cringey uses. The way you described it (just thrown in as filler) - and also "he/she was like", instead of "he/she said". I despise them both.
Posted by: Doof at November 28, 2023 03:34 PM (+cH+C)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at November 28, 2023 03:34 PM (1oN8o)
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Big infrastructure requires cash flow. Cash was very hard to find in the dark ages.
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 03:34 PM (iDpzk)
It's been downhill after the Greatest Generation.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:20 PM
Trump, Biden, Pelosi... all GG not boomers. Need I site more?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 28, 2023 03:31 PM (enJYY)
Those are Boomers. Trump born in 1946.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:34 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023
*
Trump, Biden, Pelosi... all GG not boomers. Need I site more?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 28, 2023
***
GG were the men and women who were of age and fought in WWII. Biden wasn't born until the war was on, Trump right after, and Pelosi was a young (and rather attractive) woman in JFK's day. Silent Generation, I think, with Trump being an early Boomer.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 03:34 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Lawyers and coffee, one doesn't suck at November 28, 2023 03:34 PM (FHllF)
Posted by: look whats not at November 28, 2023 02:53 PM (nakGR)
If that grosses you out, do NOT read Glyceride/Greased by Junji Ito
Posted by: I warned you at November 28, 2023 03:30 PM (r/JV0)
Junji Ito is one hell of a horror writer/artist. That is both a compliment and a warning.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at November 28, 2023 03:34 PM (xcxpd)
Getting a job via connections is nothing new. I’ve got a few myself. I’d say most jobs out there are through some in like that vs an application.
Posted by: Montec at November 28, 2023 03:34 PM (fNkOQ)
Posted by: wth at November 28, 2023 03:34 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2023 03:33 PM (l3Uxg)
I kind of need to do that too.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 28, 2023 03:34 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Turn 2 at November 28, 2023 03:26 PM (JfxgE)
It means the guy gets sex with no commitment and the gal can also be used by other dudes in the same way. Then when she gets dumped because the fellow was out of her league, she can make horrible TikTok videos and become a lesbian.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 28, 2023 03:34 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: whig at November 28, 2023 03:30 PM (5v5d+)
Indeed. Everything has a cost, even if it doesn't have a price.
Posted by: jim
For everything there is a season.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2023 03:35 PM (spU3M)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 28, 2023 03:32 PM (ZV+pB)
A clam is the cruchiest taco there is.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:35 PM (ynpvh)
*finds all pronoun listing resumes*
*rescues from trash*
*replaces with resumes that don't list pronouns*
-Head of HR"
*notices productivity bottoms out
*notices employees listing pronouns
*fires employees
*fires HR department
*does the hiring himself
-The boss.
Posted by: cheshirecat at November 28, 2023 03:35 PM (TwA+r)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2023 03:30 PM (SAX5G)
Yeah.
So she was an older woman in the passenger seat of the car, her son (or maybe even grandson) was driving. The drive thru guy handed them their order, driver hands it to grandma, it ends up all over her lap.
She's in excruciating pain, they tried to get the clothes off, and --- yes, the medical details are pretty horrific.
It's disputed whether or not the lid was on tightly, whether the driver fucked it up, or the grandma squeezed the coffee too hard and the lid popped off, etc. etc. but what is not disputed is that McDonald's policy was to serve coffee are ludicrously high temperatures.
Which is why the jury found for the plaintiff.
Also, another part of the story is that the appeals court knocked down the jury verdict pretty dramatically. Grandma did not get rich off the case at all.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 28, 2023 03:35 PM (mj0Qp)
Posted by: FR FR at November 28, 2023 03:35 PM (r/JV0)
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2023 03:33 PM (l3Uxg)
Right?!?!
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 28, 2023 03:35 PM (Zqeqr)
Both words mean nothing anymore. "Like" has 2 cringey uses. The way you described it (just thrown in as filler) - and also "he/she was like", instead of "he/she said". I despise them both.
Posted by: Doof at November 28, 2023 03:34 PM (+cH+C)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 28, 2023 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2023 03:33 PM (l3Uxg)
I kind of need to do that too.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 28, 2023 03:34 PM (PiwSw)
You need to be more bitter, then you don't 'like' anything.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 28, 2023 03:35 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 28, 2023 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: garrett at November 28, 2023 03:36 PM (hsDZG)
I’m sure those Gen Z-ers be as amused as I will when their triple bypass is performed not by an actual cardiac surgeon, but some dude who “stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.”
Lotsa laffs and yuks!
Posted by: SMOD 2024 at November 28, 2023 03:36 PM (sJSth)
Posted by: FR FR at November 28, 2023 03:35 PM (r/JV0)
I adore the energy your are vibing, man.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 28, 2023 03:36 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: cheshirecat at November 28, 2023 03:32 PM (TwA+r)
No one said preppy unless they were describing clothes, they called me and my friends. Sosh (sp?)
I believe it's short for social. As in, she's a sosh. As opposed to a cholo, aggie, surfer, and jocks/soshes.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2023 03:36 PM (l3Uxg)
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 03:36 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Jaimo at November 28, 2023 03:37 PM (DBrN4)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 28, 2023 03:32 PM (AhZSY)
Totally boss!
Posted by: Diogenes at November 28, 2023 03:37 PM (uSHSS)
Posted by: Doof at November 28, 2023 03:34 PM (+cH+C)
I have a Peanuts cartoon book that has a strip where Lucy, I think, is going on and uses that to which Linus responds with "Whatever happened to the word 'said?'"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 28, 2023 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)
For everything there is a season.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2023 03:35 PM (spU3M)
Turn
Turn
Turn
Posted by: The Byrds at November 28, 2023 03:37 PM (r/JV0)
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 03:37 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2023 03:38 PM (d04cU)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at Novem
They are Silent Generation
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 28, 2023 03:38 PM (CIS44)
Posted by: Montec at November 28, 2023 03:38 PM (fNkOQ)
Posted by: Doof at November 28, 2023 03:38 PM (+cH+C)
Posted by: Turn 2 at November 28, 2023 03:26 PM (JfxgE)
It means the guy gets sex with no commitment and the gal can also be used by other dudes in the same way. Then when she gets dumped because the fellow was out of her league, she can make horrible TikTok videos and become a lesbian.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 28, 2023 03:34 PM (eoQWY)
My generation (millennials) uses that language too.
"Talking" is the equivalent of "dating" to you old folks, and "dating" is the equivalent of "going steady."
There ya go, translated Gen Z talk in to Boomer talk.
There's nothing new here, no reason to insinuate the dudes daughter is a slutty lesbian or whatever.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 28, 2023 03:38 PM (mj0Qp)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 28, 2023 02:33 PM
"What's wrong with saying 'Hey, nice tits!' When did THAT go out of style?"
https://bit.ly/47Vbf30
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 28, 2023 03:38 PM (UKWFA)
This Thread is Slayer than Ace and I spending a 3 Day Weekend at a Fire Island Bed and Breakfast.
Posted by: garrett at November 28, 2023 03:39 PM (hsDZG)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 28, 2023 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)
"Woot"? You aren't really 29 are you?
Posted by: I'm surrounded by the geriatric! at November 28, 2023 03:39 PM (r/JV0)
---------------
Big infrastructure requires cash flow. Cash was very hard to find in the dark ages.
Posted by: Pudhinhead at November 28, 2023 03:34 PM (iDpzk)
We just in the last few years learned how to make Roman Concrete. We still aren't sure of the recipe for Greek Fire. Some info did get lost.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 28, 2023 03:39 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Montec at November 28, 2023 03:39 PM (fNkOQ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 28, 2023 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023
***
"She lay down."
"Let sleeping dogs lie."
The problem is that one is the past tense form of the other. The bigger problem is I don't remember which is which.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 03:39 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 03:39 PM (geLO8)
I definitely land on the civil suit side of things.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
If I recall correctly, other people had been burned previously...documents obtained from McDonald's showed that from 1982 to 1992 the company had received more than 700 reports of people burned by McDonald's coffee to varying degrees of severity, and had settled claims arising from scalding injuries for more than $500,000. The lady attempted to settle for $20k, to cover her medical bills (which included skin grafts), and McDonald's choose to gamble on court. But, as Drive noted:
Our society today. Someone is always to blame for something bad that happens to them.
Posted by: Drive
Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 28, 2023 03:40 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: wth at November 28, 2023 03:40 PM (v0R5T)
*finds all pronoun listing resumes*
*rescues from trash*
*replaces with resumes that don't list pronouns*
-Head of HR"
*notices productivity bottoms out
*notices employees listing pronouns
*fires employees
*fires HR department
*does the hiring himself
-The boss.
*files complaints with EEOC
*Biden Admin (and in Kali Newsom Admin) gear into action
*company sued for $100millions
--former employees
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 28, 2023 03:40 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Montec at November 28, 2023 03:40 PM (fNkOQ)
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 03:40 PM (geLO8)
Obviously we don't know the exact details of settlement discussions, but it sounds like McDonald's (or, more likely, their insurance company) did try to settle. They just came in really low.
But I agree, I would not want to have to defend McDonalds against grandmas melted cooter in court.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 28, 2023 03:41 PM (mj0Qp)
Yeah...I would have told them to fuck straight off.
Back then, I went to work for me, not others.
Posted by: garrett at November 28, 2023 03:26 PM (hsDZG)
No shit. Summer was when I earned the ducats for the next school year.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 28, 2023 03:41 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 28, 2023 02:40 PM (/xLXP)
----
Good hearing also is wasted.
When young you don't have the surplus funds for a fancy sound system, only tinny sound.
When you are old enough and can afford a really high-end sound system, you can't hear the upper frequencies any longer.
(Learn to spell, AutoCorrect isn't always write)
Posted by: Ciampino - Cold water is insecure because it's never been callled hot. at November 28, 2023 03:41 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: CaliGirl
I swear too ****ing much.
No fooling - I need to get a grip on it.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 28, 2023 03:41 PM (SAX5G)
naw. it's still groovy.
Posted by: anachronda at November 28, 2023 03:41 PM (sGtp+)
Lotsa laffs and yuks!
Posted by: SMOD 2024 at November 28, 2023
***
"Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard to the operating room."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 03:41 PM (J2vNu)
I thought that's what it meant, and I'm a Boomer.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2023 03:41 PM (RSbhh)
https://is.gd/y6L84u
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 28, 2023 03:41 PM (d04cU)
Posted by: Montec at November 28, 2023 03:40 PM (fNkOQ)
Talking is scanning on dating apps and hooking up these days.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 28, 2023 03:41 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Joey Baloney at November 28, 2023 03:42 PM (FjYaO)
It's Pickleball, innit? C'mon, say it's Pickleball. Even if it isn't.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 28, 2023 03:42 PM (nfrXX)
preppy is wearing the shirt with the little alligator on it
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 03:44 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 28, 2023 03:44 PM (spU3M)
Posted by: anachronda at November 28, 2023 03:41 PM (sGtp+)
Beat me to it.
Posted by: Joey Baloney at November 28, 2023 03:44 PM (FjYaO)
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 03:44 PM (geLO8)
I believe it's short for social. As in, she's a sosh. As opposed to a cholo, aggie, surfer, and jocks/soshes.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2023 03:36 PM (l3Uxg)
Per my step sister, shosh/jock/hood goes back to the 50's
Posted by: Kindltot at November 28, 2023 03:44 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: SMOD at November 28, 2023 03:32 PM (RHGPo)
Be amusing to have it tossed ashore by a storm.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 28, 2023 03:45 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 03:44 PM (geLO
Thats boss.
Posted by: Joey Baloney at November 28, 2023 03:45 PM (FjYaO)
Yes McDonald’s was beyond stupid not to settle for 20k if that was the demand , though I find that hard to believe unless that was before she obtained an attorney. Unfortunately sympathy combined with extent of injuries overshadows liability.
Posted by: Drive by at November 28, 2023 03:45 PM (MNhXM)
*
preppy is wearing the shirt with the little alligator on it
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023
***
And calling pizza "za."
(Well, that's what TV Guide told me in 1980)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 03:45 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 03:45 PM (geLO8)
I own 3 Izod Lacoste shirts, thank you very much. They are pricy ($80) but they last a long time.
Posted by: cheshirecat at November 28, 2023 03:46 PM (TwA+r)
preppy is wearing the shirt with the little alligator on it
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 03:44 PM (geLO
preppy is dressing like those attending east coast Prep schools to get into those Ivy league schools. The 80s was when the look spread nationally, which probably pissed off prep schoolers.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 28, 2023 03:47 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2023 03:47 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2023 03:36 PM (l3Uxg)
Per my step sister, shosh/jock/hood goes back to the 50's
Posted by: Kindltot
Right, daddy-o. 23-skiddoo! Let's grab ourselves a wet back and have a zoot suit riot!
Posted by: Clueless Boomer trying to be "hip" at November 28, 2023 03:47 PM (JCZqz)
https://is.gd/y6L84u
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
......
There's a world class wedgie hiding in there somewhere.
Posted by: wth at November 28, 2023 03:48 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: John Denver at November 28, 2023 03:51 PM (lZVy/)
Posted by: Don Black - (was DB) at November 28, 2023 03:52 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 28, 2023 03:26 PM (l3Uxg)
I am from a beach town. I still call people kooks
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 28, 2023 03:53 PM (NtVYv)
Posted by: Stacy0311 at November 28, 2023 03:55 PM (HvIu2)
https://tinyurl.com/2p9hasb5
Posted by: Lance McCormick
I recently read an older novel, Squadron Airborne by Elleston Trevor, about the RAF during the Battle of Britian. I could barely understand what was going on because of all the period slang.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at November 28, 2023 03:59 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at November 28, 2023 04:02 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: They were only mildly amused at November 28, 2023 03:24 PM (r/JV0)
Very good.
I will not, however, consider using this on any middle school boy who is not one of my direct descendants.
Wouldn't be prudent.
Posted by: Just Lily at November 28, 2023 04:06 PM (966kd)
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 28, 2023 04:07 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: cheshirecat at November 28, 2023 03:32 PM
Yep. That was AC Slater's nickname for Zack Morris in "Saved by the Bell" (aired '89-'93).
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 28, 2023 04:07 PM (UKWFA)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 28, 2023 03:31 PM (enJYY)
Probably addressed, but Trump is an early boomer, just like my parents, Biden is from the very fitting Lost Generation. I think Pelosi is too, but I try to ignore her.
Posted by: Catherine at November 28, 2023 04:10 PM (ZSsrh)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at November 28, 2023 04:12 PM (YVB7m)
No longer seems to be the case.
Posted by: RM at November 28, 2023 04:16 PM (urbih)
I volunteered for one, and chatted with about 4 groups of 5-6 students. Each guy was interested in programming, enthusiastic, was already doing something in tech, using actual languages, writing actual code and had a good idea of what they wanted to do when they joined the work force.
The ladies on the other hand, all but one, had no real interest, just saw the offer of a visit to a company and signed up. They were studying all sorts of subjects - good subjects like math, economics, but no idea or interest in tech, they had nothing to say, nothing to ask.
Women had no interest in the workplace when it was 12 hours down a mine getting black lung, as soon as they think its surfing the web all day in an air conditioned office in a mangerial position they are all over it.
Also, there is a super strong correlation between DEI enthusiasts and people who stand around all day talking, playing games and well, doing anything but working.
Posted by: PoliticalMcguffin at November 28, 2023 04:48 PM (7969A)
Posted by: MartynWW at November 28, 2023 06:21 PM (sHP7b)
Posted by: Kevin at November 28, 2023 06:51 PM (WqOXW)
skills
-no abilities
-no knowledge
but their personalities are:
-repellant
-massively ego centric
-are a cross between Howard Stern and Smallwell
-remind one of something dwelling at the bottom of a sewer
-have ego's so large they generate their own gravitational fields
Yeah, my geek died and the circus needs a replacement.
Posted by: Jane at November 28, 2023 07:07 PM (EcD5Y)
Posted by: Aivanther at November 28, 2023 08:36 PM (9Xq7m)
Posted by: mustng66 at November 28, 2023 10:33 PM (8lhUm)
Posted by: DOYLE at November 29, 2023 12:11 AM (Z8Yh2)
Posted by: Al in St. Louis at November 29, 2023 02:39 PM (XU3QZ)
Why not just buy a parrot then. Same effect.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2023 02:37 PM
Because you can't fuck a parrot.
Posted by: Al in St. Louis at November 29, 2023 02:41 PM (XU3QZ)
Hell, we are seriously taking advice from 26 year olds??? Shit... I've been RETIRED FROM THE MILITARY longer than that.
We are so fucked.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2023 02:40 PM
Yes, yes, we are.
Posted by: Al in St. Louis at November 29, 2023 02:44 PM (XU3QZ)
Posted by: Their alleged slang is stupid, like them. at November 28, 2023 02:41 PM
Hear! Hear!
Posted by: Al in St. Louis at November 29, 2023 02:47 PM (XU3QZ)
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