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Mid-Morning Open Thread
Winslow Homer
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Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at January 17, 2019 09:41 AM (XK/4h)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 17, 2019 09:41 AM (IPOo2)
Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2019 09:41 AM (cxHbL)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2019 09:42 AM (I2dne)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2019 09:42 AM (I2dne)
Winslow Bucket?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at January 17, 2019 09:42 AM (XK/4h)
Posted by: Eeyore at January 17, 2019 09:42 AM (VaN/j)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 17, 2019 09:43 AM (IPOo2)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2019 09:43 AM (tHAoL)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 09:43 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at January 17, 2019 09:43 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 17, 2019 09:43 AM (4DC4H)
Posted by: Someguy at January 17, 2019 09:43 AM (h5Df3)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 09:43 AM (XSSCs)
Posted by: That guy listening to the lark at January 17, 2019 09:44 AM (e1q4h)
Don't fear the reaper...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2019 09:44 AM (/9p9e)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 17, 2019 09:44 AM (4DC4H)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 17, 2019 09:45 AM (fuK7c)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 17, 2019 09:45 AM (QLvwG)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 09:45 AM (YLHN9)
https://youtu.be/KcXVGIi1m28
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 17, 2019 09:45 AM (4DC4H)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 17, 2019 09:45 AM (fuK7c)
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"I volunteer as tribute!"
-Katniss Everdeen
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 09:46 AM (XSSCs)
This painting is a lie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 09:43 AM (XSSCs)
You have to be a synesthesiac.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at January 17, 2019 09:46 AM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Don Q at January 17, 2019 09:46 AM (NgKpN)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 17, 2019 09:46 AM (pUDQf)
Posted by: Vic at January 17, 2019 09:46 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 09:46 AM (YLHN9)
https://youtu.be/KcXVGIi1m28
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 17, 2019 09:45 AM (4DC4H)
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I shall watch sometime today.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 09:46 AM (XSSCs)
Posted by: Kris at January 17, 2019 09:46 AM (OyyDO)
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at January 17, 2019 09:46 AM (zmIJL)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 09:47 AM (YLHN9)
Posted by: Don Q at January 17, 2019 09:47 AM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Yoder at January 17, 2019 09:47 AM (QLvwG)
Posted by: Free Range Coffe Addict at January 17, 2019 09:47 AM (RrtlF)
Posted by: Yoder at January 17, 2019 09:47 AM (QLvwG)
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He'll never become a jedi like that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 09:47 AM (XSSCs)
Reap?
To have reaped?
To have been reaping?
Reapist?
Hmmm.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 09:48 AM (6qErC)
Sweet Georgia Brown?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 09:46 AM (YLHN9)
He did a fair version of Poison Ivy.
Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2019 09:48 AM (cxHbL)
Come, comrades. Bring your sickles. We will reap the produce of our collective efforts.
Posted by: Sphynx at January 17, 2019 09:48 AM (rXie1)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2019 09:48 AM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at January 17, 2019 09:48 AM (3sjI6)
I like the sky and I've always enjoy Homer's pictures.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2019 09:49 AM (AllCR)
"And here we paint in a few happy little reapers..."
/zombieBobRoss
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 09:49 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 17, 2019 09:50 AM (UGqF8)
Posted by: Kavanaugh Accuser at January 17, 2019 09:50 AM (NgKpN)
Tie it yourself (from "A Martian Boy's Life," 1922)
"First, select a live, healthy human. Holding the human by the torso between thumb and forefinger, insert the blade of the scythe into one--not both--of the human's calves. Insert the handle of the scythe through the human's back, above the waistline but below the sternum. Attach the line with a surgeon's knot at the point where the blade and handle meet. Set the fly in a field at dusk. Others will congregate. Then...strike! Pan-frying is best."
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 09:50 AM (Bdeb0)
I like this one. I know what that guy is feeling, the wind in his hair, the sound of the rustling reeds, sun on his face, in a moment of relaxation after some hard manual labor.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2019 09:50 AM (KUaJL)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 09:50 AM (YLHN9)
Posted by: votermom's phone at January 17, 2019 09:51 AM (EGSGm)
We have started making a plan. It's going to be fun. Hope to catch you in a couple weeks.
Smooch!
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 17, 2019 09:51 AM (IPOo2)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 17, 2019 09:51 AM (MKQ/j)
I'll bet back then very few were trying to pass off leafy weeds as "food"
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 09:51 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: Kris at January 17, 2019 09:51 AM (OyyDO)
The reason corporations are going SJW is because marketing research is telling them people 18-35, or whatever, are "socially aware."
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at January 17, 2019 09:51 AM (XK/4h)
You reap
He, she, it reaps
But I'd really prefer if you, he, she, and it would do the reaping.
Posted by: Grammar farmer at January 17, 2019 09:51 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Vic at January 17, 2019 09:52 AM (mpXpK)
Some people call it a sling-blade.
Cool Hand Luke calls it a "yo-yo."
Zod calls it a Two-Pronged Amish-Wulff Scythe Fly.
What do you call it?
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 09:52 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2019 09:50 AM (KUaJL)
Piffle!....Piffle! says I.
Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2019 09:52 AM (cxHbL)
Sowing in the noontide and the dewy eve;
Waiting for the harvest, and the time of reaping,
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 17, 2019 09:53 AM (UGqF8)
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 17, 2019 09:53 AM (IPOo2)
Posted by: Don Q at January 17, 2019 09:53 AM (NgKpN)
That would be because the "marketing researchers" are also lying communists.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 09:53 AM (YLHN9)
doesn't get lost in the tree.
Posted by: Kris at January 17, 2019 09:51 AM (OyyDO)
Maybe he is purposefully de-emphasizing the person...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 17, 2019 09:53 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2019 09:53 AM (cxHbL)
Posted by: Gillette at January 17, 2019 09:53 AM (yODqO)
Posted by: Meadowlark Lemon at January 17, 2019 09:53 AM (FTlwv)
Posted by: Kris at January 17, 2019 09:51 AM (OyyDO)
Hark! Hark! The lark!
Or is it the nightingale?
- drunk guy who is confused about the time
Posted by: votermom's phone at January 17, 2019 09:54 AM (EGSGm)
That's not a sniper.
That's the Blue Oyster Cult...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 09:54 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: RobM1981 at January 17, 2019 09:54 AM (irwM1)
That would be because the "marketing researchers" are also lying communists.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 09:53 AM (YLHN9)
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Isn't the narrative that 18-35 year olds have no money because of the terrible Bush/Trump economy?
Marketers shouldn't be bending over backwards for them, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 09:54 AM (XSSCs)
Did I ever tell y'all about the two pictures I picked up at the flea market last year? Reproductions of a couple American Primitive portraits of small children, a boy with his puppy and a girl with her doll.
Both just sitting on the floor right now, because I can't put holes in the walls of my apartment per the lease agreement and I don't trust sticky hooks to stay put with the weight of a picture and frame on them.
Posted by: Grey Fox at January 17, 2019 09:54 AM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 09:51 AM (6qErC)
This. Spring Mix is weeds, not salad. And I ain't paying $9 to eat lawn weeds.
Posted by: Yoder at January 17, 2019 09:54 AM (QLvwG)
So the FBI shot him.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at January 17, 2019 09:54 AM (3sjI6)
Posted by: votermom's phone at January 17, 2019 09:55 AM (EGSGm)
Posted by: joncelli
No visible blood.
Going out to reap.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2019 09:55 AM (tHAoL)
I love sky! I'm curious why the guy is framed by the tree. Oh well, I'd have this in my house.
Posted by: sinalco at January 17, 2019 09:55 AM (yODqO)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 17, 2019 09:55 AM (FTlwv)
Posted by: rickl at January 17, 2019 09:55 AM (xjiRE)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at January 17, 2019 09:55 AM (/qEW2)
That's not a sniper.
That's the Blue Oyster Cult...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 09:54 AM (6qErC)
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Why are they hiding in a tree? Can't take their own advice?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 17, 2019 09:56 AM (MKQ/j)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2019 09:56 AM (AllCR)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2019 09:56 AM (0tfLf)
I got an e-mail from Joan Salvato Wulff a couple of months ago.
Just braggin.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 17, 2019 09:56 AM (fuK7c)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 09:56 AM (6qErC)
Kid: Why did he throw a broom up into the tree?
Mom: He was trying to get the roosting chickens out of the tree.
Kid: Who put the chickens in the tree?
Mom: You do know chickens can fly, right?
Kid: I've seen chickens flap around and get a few inches off the ground but I've never seen one actually fly.
This painting reminds me of that conversation, for some reason. This guy needs a broom. And some flying chickens.
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at January 17, 2019 09:57 AM (zmIJL)
You are casting pearls before swine with that reference...
Posted by: The MBM at January 17, 2019 09:57 AM (wYseH)
Rapier Wednesday
Reaper Thursday
Posted by: votermom's phone at January 17, 2019 09:55 AM (EGSGm)
Oooooh. Can't wait till Friday!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 17, 2019 09:57 AM (pUDQf)
Marketers shouldn't be bending over backwards for them, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 09:54 AM (XSSCs)
It's not about the product. Advertising aims to sell you a way of life. It has become as converged as the news media has always been.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at January 17, 2019 09:57 AM (3sjI6)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 17, 2019 09:57 AM (veoSD)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 17, 2019 09:56 AM (fuK7c)
This doesn't make you fly-fishing royalty. It does, however, make you an acquaintance of fly-fishing royalty, which is pretty damned good.
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 09:57 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 17, 2019 09:57 AM (pUDQf)
Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2019 09:53 AM (cxHbL)
I thought that was a shovel, scoop on one end and an idiot on the other.
Posted by: Vic at January 17, 2019 09:58 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 09:58 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 17, 2019 09:58 AM (ty7RM)
Godzilla.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 09:56 AM (6qErC)
So THAT'S why he's looking up. "Dang. Not gonna get much reapin' done today with that huge reptile thingy stompin' around."
Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at January 17, 2019 09:58 AM (RD7QR)
____
30 year olds today, who entered the workforce during Obama's years, are broke because of Bush.
Or something.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 09:59 AM (gpinW)
Sowing in the noontide and the dewy eve;
Waiting for the harvest, and the time of reaping,
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 17, 2019 09:53 AM (UGqF
I don't watch TV anymore, but back when I did, I noticed that this was the hymn being sung whenever a church service was depicted. I think it was chosen because no Divine Persons were mentioned. Can't say "Jesus" on TV unless you are swearing.
Posted by: Emmie at January 17, 2019 09:59 AM (4HMW8)
Yet doesn't look like its been reaped? (as it would be even shorter?)
Posted by: Don Q at January 17, 2019 09:59 AM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2019 09:59 AM (aKsyK)
Rapey Tuesday
Rapier Wednesday
Reaper Thursday
Posted by: votermom's phone at January 17, 2019 09:55 AM (EGSGm)
Oooooh. Can't wait till Friday!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 17, 2019 09:57 AM (pUDQf)
Flail Friday?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 17, 2019 09:59 AM (veoSD)
can't put holes in the walls of my apartment per the lease agreement and
I don't trust sticky hooks to stay put with the weight of a picture and
frame on them.
Posted by: Grey Fox at January 17, 2019 09:54 AM (bZ7mE)
That's what they make Spackle for.
Posted by: Vic at January 17, 2019 09:59 AM (mpXpK)
Kim Yong Chol, a former spy chief, arrived at Beijing's airport and was booked to leave on a flight for Washington with two other North Korean officials later in the day, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said.
A motorcade that included the North Korean ambassador's car and a Chinese car with a sign reading "state guest" could be seen departing from a VIP area at the airport.
Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2019 10:00 AM (QkjLD)
You, sir will live to eat another day. Other less observant humans will be taken in by the dry fly and will be harvested for the pan.
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 10:00 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Archer at January 17, 2019 10:00 AM (gmo/4)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 17, 2019 09:57 AM (pUDQf)
********
Sodomy Saturday is a real bitch.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2019 10:01 AM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 09:58 AM (6qErC)
Dry fly.
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 10:01 AM (Bdeb0)
Even better, Falchion Friday
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 17, 2019 10:01 AM (veoSD)
Lefty Kreh liked my casting enough that he taught me the hook cast.
*dons royal t-shirt*
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 17, 2019 10:01 AM (fuK7c)
doesn't get lost in the tree.
Posted by: Kris at January 17, 2019 09:51 AM (OyyDO)
Maybe he is purposefully de-emphasizing the person...
Posted by: The MBM at January 17, 2019 09:53 AM (wYseH)
Maybe, but to me, the figure is too large and too central. He's definitely emphasizing the sky, tho.
Hark! Hark! The lark!
Or is it the nightingale?
- drunk guy who is confused about the time
Posted by: votermom's phone at January 17, 2019 09:54 AM (EGSGm)
LOL. Thanks. This helped. A working man going out to work his field at the beginning of the day, taking in the new day, the fresh clean dawn air, the bird songs before getting down to work. His attitude is no lark.
Posted by: Kris at January 17, 2019 10:01 AM (OyyDO)
Turkeys on the other hand....
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2019 10:02 AM (tHAoL)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2019 10:01 AM (0tfLf)
Does that lead to Sore Sunday?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 17, 2019 10:02 AM (pUDQf)
Just kidding.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 17, 2019 10:02 AM (2RBkF)
But that's also Bush/Trump's fault, I guess.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:02 AM (gpinW)
Posted by: Tentotwo at January 17, 2019 10:02 AM (yhf6w)
Posted by: Archer at January 17, 2019 10:02 AM (gmo/4)
Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2019 10:03 AM (YPJrZ)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 17, 2019 10:01 AM (fuK7c)
You keep very good company.
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 10:03 AM (Bdeb0)
Lefty Kreh liked my casting enough that he taught me the hook cast.
*dons royal t-shirt*
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 17, 2019 10:01 AM (fuK7c)
Hey, give that back!
Posted by: Don Q at January 17, 2019 10:03 AM (NgKpN)
The snake has seen its own tail, and it looks tasty.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 17, 2019 10:03 AM (ty7RM)
Beautiful.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2019 10:04 AM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 17, 2019 10:04 AM (iW7OB)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 10:04 AM (6qErC)
You didn't finish the painting. "Circling sharks around a capsized boat bearing a forlorn but relaxed black guy who looks like he's thinking, 'well, I guess I'm pretty much fucked.'"
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 10:05 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: red speck at January 17, 2019 10:05 AM (6Krd7)
The Best a Man Can Get.
Posted by: Hikaru at January 17, 2019 10:06 AM (UnA8+)
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that - without toxic masculinity - pretty much nothing would get done.
Posted by: Moron Robbie Abridged at January 17, 2019 10:06 AM (4E/ZH)
Posted by: Archer at January 17, 2019 10:06 AM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:06 AM (gpinW)
It was oddly sexy.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 17, 2019 10:07 AM (fuK7c)
*******************************************************
The president should invite Kim to the SOTU.
"And now, I'd like to introduce a very special guest who travelled very far to be here tonight. Very, very far." (Points to balcony, in the seat next to Melania. Chairman Kim smiles and waves to crowd.) "We're in the midst of talks to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula..."
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at January 17, 2019 10:07 AM (zmIJL)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Does Gilette Sell Pink Razors? Why? at January 17, 2019 10:07 AM (4E/ZH)
FIXED.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 17, 2019 10:07 AM (ty7RM)
Indeed. I'm still befuddled by our previous neighbors in NoVa who had all cable channels, broadband, the latest iCrap w/unlimited plans, regular deliveries of water and dry cleaning, 30 month leases on the BMWs, and couldn't figure out why I seemed to have good bourbon and cigars ...
Funny, that.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 10:07 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: Field Peasant of Ulm at January 17, 2019 10:07 AM (Y7cpQ)
Cause I'm all kinds of cultured now with all these purty drawings.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 17, 2019 10:08 AM (pUDQf)
Matching the hatch at an Amish barn-raising with an Amish-Wulff in a 'youngster' color and landing a creel full of squirming rumspringa.
That's fun.
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 10:08 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: red speck
Watched a video of a 110 lb chick work one like it was a hot knife thru warm butter.
Jeez. Knowing the above and how hard it is, mucho props.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2019 10:08 AM (tHAoL)
FIXED."
Largemouth = popper
Smallmouth = fly
Saltwater fly - holy cow!
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 10:09 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: Archer at January 17, 2019 10:09 AM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Dragline at January 17, 2019 10:09 AM (QLvwG)
...gonna cut yo' name...
Posted by: ibid at January 17, 2019 10:09 AM (ZFQup)
734 728 https://youtu.be/NYA1i-WPaI4
I want to see this movie
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2019 05:04 AM (/rm4P)
That looks really hard to watch.
Posted by: m at January 17, 2019 10:09 AM (GkIz4)
Now there's a man outstanding in his field.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at January 17, 2019 10:09 AM (PtOP4)
Matching the hatch at an Amish barn-raising with an Amish-Wulff in a 'youngster' color and landing a creel full of squirming rumspringa.
That's fun.
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 10:08 AM (Bdeb0)
Damn. I could use me some squirming rumspringa.
Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at January 17, 2019 10:09 AM (RD7QR)
Edit to add: any union, public and private.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 17, 2019 10:09 AM (ty7RM)
Just a sense of anger in their fight. Loved those little guys.
I think they're called warmouths, also. I wonder if that's partly why.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Does Gilette Sell Pink Razors? Why? at January 17, 2019 10:10 AM (4E/ZH)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 17, 2019 10:08 AM (pUDQf)
Sourdough? Yogurt?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 17, 2019 10:10 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: Archer at January 17, 2019 10:09 AM (gmo/4)
I chose... neither!
Posted by: Beto! at January 17, 2019 10:10 AM (KUaJL)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, watching DC theatre at January 17, 2019 10:10 AM (LISuA)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 17, 2019 10:10 AM (pUDQf)
Ok, that's funny right there.
With "there" being Lancaster, PA...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 10:10 AM (6qErC)
But that's also Bush/Trump's fault, I guess.
Well, sure. I would agree that their formative years were spent getting their whims catered to, just as boomers were insulated from a lot of crap by their Depression-era parents ("I don't want them to know the hardships I suffered!!!").
And yeah, college has long been cynically sold as THE way to get professional success, which really oversells it.
I'll just go back to what Monty used to rail about...he hated parents telling their kids "you can be anything you want to be if you try hard enough." No, you can't. But somewhere along the line that crap became accepted wisdom.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at January 17, 2019 10:11 AM (PFy0L)
That's a Gillette scythe, I think.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 17, 2019 10:11 AM (f1Vqw)
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Add the NCAA, MADD, and every governmental agency.
Posted by: SH at January 17, 2019 10:11 AM (sX1BW)
Funny, that.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 10:07 AM (6qErC)
___
Heh. Just yesterday I was at a client site and was chatting with a 30ish womYn there. What's she doing for MLK weekend? Flying to Canada to go snowboarding of course!!
The same womYn who I overheard a couple of weeks earlier complaining that she would never pay off her student loans and someone needed to do something about that to help people like her out.
I wanted to scream and/or throw something out the window.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:11 AM (gpinW)
Now there's a man outstanding in his field.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at January 17, 2019 10:09 AM (PtOP4)
Oh. Well done. Golf clap!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 17, 2019 10:11 AM (pUDQf)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2019 10:11 AM (w54mS)
Andrew M. Cuomo did his State of the State Address. His 2019 Justice Agenda included 12 proposals under part 4 "Launching the Green New Deal":
- Mandate 100 Percent Clean Power by 2040 -- This will mandate that all electricity will be "carbon free by 2040."
.. AOC didn't even think of this
Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2019 10:12 AM (QkjLD)
The real reason 30 yo are broke is because they spend their money on $18 avocado sandwiches
ARTISANAL avocado sandwiches. With organic free-range arugula.
Philistine.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 17, 2019 10:12 AM (veoSD)
Rapier Wednesday
Reaper Thursday
Posted by: votermom's phone at January 17, 2019 09:55 AM (EGSGm)
Reamer Friday
Posted by: Alliterative Harry Reems, proctologist at large at January 17, 2019 10:12 AM (k+UmV)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Does Gilette Sell Pink Razors? Why? at January 17, 2019 10:13 AM (4E/ZH)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, watching DC theatre at January 17, 2019 10:14 AM (LISuA)
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at January 17, 2019 10:09 AM (PtOP4)
I guess someone had to say it.
Posted by: Jewells45 at January 17, 2019 10:14 AM (kG5hP)
Turns out she's Aussie. Got props for an "anti steriod use" advert because guys on beaches use steroids or something (not kidding. That was "award winning"). Then a bra commercial that was "bold" and "groundbreaking" and "affirming" that showed women throwing off the oppression of ill fitting bras in favor of more comfortable ones.
Seriously. She's that stupid.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 10:14 AM (6qErC)
Philistine.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 17, 2019 10:12 AM (veoSD)
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Don't forget to pair that with a craft locally sourced, organic micro brew for $12 a pint.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:14 AM (gpinW)
Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2019 10:12 AM (QkjLD)
Cuomo is a nauseating combination of Leftist stupidity, condescension, and pandering.
I wonder if he knows just how polluting solar panel manufacture is? Or battery manufacture? Or how hydro destroys the land? Or how many birds are killed by wind turbines?
He might...but he just doesn't care.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 17, 2019 10:14 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2019 10:11 AM (w54mS)
I like his Civil War pictures.
Posted by: Kris at January 17, 2019 10:14 AM (OyyDO)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:06 AM (gpinW)
You've perfectly described the creeping insanity that pervades all of leftism.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at January 17, 2019 10:14 AM (/qEW2)
ARTISANAL avocado sandwiches. With organic free-range arugula.
Philistine.
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Wisdom is understanding that the best sandwiches are the cheapest. This does not mean that all cheap sandwiches are good.
Posted by: SH at January 17, 2019 10:15 AM (sX1BW)
Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2019 10:15 AM (nR2Re)
Vaughn Williams, 'The Lark Ascending'
http://tinyurl.com/cwpjgz5
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2019 10:15 AM (ZMWtN)
Sorry I think Monty was wrong. Just because kids are dreaming of being reality stars these days doesn't mean that instillig in your kids to go for their dreams with determination and hard work is bad. Maybe that 10 year old wants to be a SEAL when he grows up.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 17, 2019 10:16 AM (QviAd)
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 10:16 AM (Bdeb0)
They moved Mary Sue from fan fiction to mainstream characters, and resist any attempt to make characters more than two-dimensional.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Your Globalist Griefs - Two for One - at The Outrage Outlet! at January 17, 2019 10:16 AM (hLRSq)
Travel's a thing now - must go to Thailand or something, then protest back here over student loans.
El sigh.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 10:16 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 17, 2019 10:17 AM (ty7RM)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:17 AM (gpinW)
It ain't like she invented boobs or the marketing of them.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 17, 2019 10:17 AM (pUDQf)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker
You've perfectly described the creeping insanity that pervades all of leftism.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear
The real cause is power. The rest is window dressing.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at January 17, 2019 10:17 AM (AM1GF)
Using a scythe and cradle to cut wheat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF0kdhIcG7U
That's the way it used to have to be done. Back-breaking labor. And the way the left will have us doing again before too long if they keep up.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 17, 2019 10:18 AM (f1Vqw)
Translation: mandate that New York be "business free by 2040".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:18 AM (YLHN9)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at January 17, 2019 09:51 AM (XK/4h)
Yup. A lot of investment companies are getting in on the act too with "socially responsible" investments. Just tree hugging lefty BS. But they think the Millennial crowd will demand it and they are pandering to that. Along with all of the diversity bullshit too
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 17, 2019 10:18 AM (SiINZ)
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Busy bodies got to busy body.
Posted by: SH at January 17, 2019 10:18 AM (sX1BW)
This will mandate that all electricity will be "carbon free by 2040."
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There's a (tragically) comically large number of child laborers* in the mines getting the materials for battery suppliers, and all working without respiratory equipment or any type of health and safety oversight.
Yay "green" electricity!
* Actual children like "still believes in Santa" children, not 17 year old Laavion children that are robbing people in Chicago
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Does Gilette Sell Pink Razors? Why? at January 17, 2019 10:18 AM (4E/ZH)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2019 10:18 AM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2019 10:19 AM (nPGq2)
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Use two for the hanging wire and then some smaller ones to hold up the bottom of the frame. I am very glad that I used the small ones for extra support on some of my heavier stuff (slamming doors, etc) around my house.
Posted by: mustbequantum at January 17, 2019 10:19 AM (MIKMs)
"Those who beat their guns into plowshares will plow for those who don't." -- excellent bumpersticker on Deplorable pickup.
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 10:19 AM (Bdeb0)
"Millions, rich and not rich, gentle and simple, in town and country, led clean and wholesome lives. No newspaper paragraphs proclaimed that these good souls were bringing up their children to be ladies and gentlemen, were solicitous for the welfare of their inferiors, had respect unto themselves. No flaming headlines screeched, announcing they were paying their way, marrying and giving in marriage, rejoicing and sorrowing like the brave honest commonplace people they were. No Society Gossip told of Robert and William and Nicholas and James and Frederick and Herbert and Percy and Alfred, day laborers for a too scanty wage, who neither drank nor fought nor swindled nor yelled for their rights, but who led decent noble lives."
- Frederick Rolfe, 1903
True then, true today. When I say every morning, "Let's shame the lunatics by living a good life today," this is what it means to me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2019 10:19 AM (BWL+E)
Posted by: Caliban at January 17, 2019 10:19 AM (qEujL)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 17, 2019 10:19 AM (QviAd)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, watching DC theatre at January 17, 2019 10:14 AM (LISuA)
Feature. not bug.
Now the Murdoch Boys and their wives can get invited to the debauched Left-Wing cocktail parties again.
Posted by: Hikaru at January 17, 2019 10:19 AM (UnA8+)
Marketers shouldn't be bending over backwards for them, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 09:54 AM (XSSCs)
Tough to have much money when all you do is live off of your parents. Michael Rotondo being their poster child
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 17, 2019 10:19 AM (SiINZ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2019 10:11 AM (w54mS)
I like his Civil War pictures.
Posted by: Kris
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We have a large framed print of 'Breezing Up' hanging over the mantle in the den, so it is a constant presence.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2019 10:20 AM (KoKdw)
I also bought a house at 29.
That's the other thing with the yuuutes of today. They scoff at the idea of buying a house. Cuz like buying like means you can't like move and stuff man. Now buying vs renting isn't always easy to decide. Sometimes renting is better. But in the long run, nobody gets rich being a life long renter. Yet for the millenial generation, the thinking is renting until you're dead is the way to go.
As a landlord I welcome that mentality, but for their generation it's gonna blow.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:20 AM (gpinW)
Well, what happens is that the sensible people who were involved to help solve a real problem all go "Hey, problem solved! Time to move on and work on a different problem.", leaving the whackjob fanatics behind.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:20 AM (YLHN9)
Now where is the MaryJane patch?
Posted by: saf at January 17, 2019 10:21 AM (5IHGB)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:17 AM (gpinW)
Slight correction: Best sandwich is the one she makes for you at home after decadence, while she's still all sweaty and a bit dazed.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 17, 2019 10:21 AM (QLvwG)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 17, 2019 10:21 AM (RpM6k)
Posted by: Burma Shave at January 17, 2019 10:21 AM (g1vnC)
"Us"?
"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig?"
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 10:21 AM (6qErC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF0kdhIcG7U
That's the way it used to have to be done. Back-breaking labor. And
the way the left will have us doing again before too long if they keep
up.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 17, 2019 10:18 AM (f1Vqw)
If God wanted you to Scythe, he wouldn't have allowed western civilization to invent the John Deere S series harvesters.
Posted by: Archer at January 17, 2019 10:22 AM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at January 17, 2019 10:22 AM (FTPVM)
Posted by: Sir Mansfield at January 17, 2019 10:22 AM (Y7cpQ)
Sorry I think Monty was wrong. Just because kids are dreaming of being reality stars these days doesn't mean that instillig in your kids to go for their dreams with determination and hard work is bad. Maybe that 10 year old wants to be a SEAL when he grows up.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 17, 2019 10:16 AM (QviAd)
Only a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction of guys ever get to be SEALs. What if you have a congenital heart defect? No SEAL for you no matter how hard you work or how bad you want it. No 20/20 uncorrected vision? No fighter jockey for you. Want to be a professional musician but you're tone deaf? Sorry, out of luck. The notion that you can be whatever you want if you just work hard enough is a load of bollocks.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 17, 2019 10:22 AM (NWiLs)
There's a difference between a sickle, scythe, and sling blade.
My grandfathers knew that, and would be appalled that I don't.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 17, 2019 10:23 AM (f1Vqw)
- Frederick Rolfe, 1903
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Old, dead white male. I piss on him.
Posted by: Google Nazi at January 17, 2019 10:23 AM (KoKdw)
If God wanted you to Scythe, he wouldn't have allowed western civilization to invent the John Deere S series harvesters.
Posted by: Archer at January 17, 2019 10:22 AM (gmo/4
Preach it, brother!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 17, 2019 10:23 AM (pUDQf)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 17, 2019 10:23 AM (0O7c5)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 17, 2019 10:23 AM (RpM6k)
Hydro, you say? What made your precious gensets that you set into the dam complex? Also hyrdro? Wind? Pixie dust?
Speaking of wind, how about windmills? What forged your steel pylons? What mixed your concrete? What powered the train and truck infrastructure that delivered the damn things?
Oh, so solar? Is the mining equipment "carbon free?" How about those big ships that burn bunker oil that brought the panels to you? Well, I guess I have it away there.
Piss up a rope, Cuomo. Going "carbon free" means turning off modern civilization. And by "modern" I mean approximately the early 18th century. If you count burning lesser fuels like wood and peat, we can go back to the trees.
The civilization that made this asshat possible drinks carbon energy and shits out industrial goods at a scale inconceivable to your grandparents. All of the good things - ALL of them - come from delicious, high-density energy. And not just your phones and computers. How about your food and water? You really want to mess the two cornerstones of modern civilization (refrigeration and water treatment, and the industrial infrastructure required to make those two cornerstones possible)?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2019 10:23 AM (I2dne)
Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at January 17, 2019 10:23 AM (ehq/Q)
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Hah, what a crock of shit wind power is. On top of being incredible inefficient (~80% of the power is lost in heat, through step-down transform) it also may be slowing the average surface wind speed of the planet. A new report says there are so many wind farms, that convection induced wind energy is being depleted.
They noted a "wake effect" at massive wind farms in China: the downwind turbines spin noticeably slower than upwind turbines.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 17, 2019 10:23 AM (ty7RM)
Posted by: Archer at January 17, 2019 10:24 AM (gmo/4)
https://tinyurl.com/ycs5malv
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Does Gilette Sell Pink Razors? Why? at January 17, 2019 10:24 AM (4E/ZH)
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at January 17, 2019 10:22 AM (FTPVM)
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Well Thursday was my rape day. But then I saw that beautiful Gillette ad and realized the errors of my way. In lieu of my rapes today, I will donate $1000 to Planned Parenthood.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:24 AM (gpinW)
Man, I miss the days when I got to look cool by carrying a badass scythe.
Do you realize how stupid I look carrying a weedwhacker?
Posted by: The Grim Whacker at January 17, 2019 10:24 AM (YLHN9)
In a poll of 'experts' the whippletree was ranked as one of top inventions of civilization.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 17, 2019 10:25 AM (QviAd)
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at January 17, 2019 10:25 AM (FTPVM)
They noted a "wake effect" at massive wind farms in China: the downwind turbines spin noticeably slower than upwind turbines.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 17, 2019 10:23 AM (ty7RM)
The laws of thermodynamics can be a real bitch.
Posted by: Someguy at January 17, 2019 10:25 AM (h5Df3)
My grandfathers knew that, and would be appalled that I don't.
Posted by: publius
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Sure you do. Sickle is a one-handed smaller tool, scythe is as pictured, and a sling is a long-handled tool, used a bit like a golf club, but one-handed.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2019 10:25 AM (ZMWtN)
Cut off that jagoff's internet. He can write with a quill and parchment instead.
Posted by: Roy at January 17, 2019 10:25 AM (C4fwM)
When I get my non polluting flying car in the future will it make that bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep noise?
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 17, 2019 10:19 AM (QviAd)
The technical name of the sound is "bleeble"
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 17, 2019 10:25 AM (ymnmz)
not complaining.....ok complaining.....work crew was to be here at 7:30.....it's 8:20 and they aren't here.
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Have you paid them anything yet?
It's harsh, but they're not going to get better as the job drags on.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Does Gilette Sell Pink Razors? Why? at January 17, 2019 10:25 AM (4E/ZH)
It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away!
It is the lark that sings so out of tune,
Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.
Some say the lark makes sweet division;
This doth not so, for she divideth us:
Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes,
O, now I would they had changed voices too!
Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,
Hunting thee hence with hunt's-up to the day,
O, now be gone; more light and light it grows.
Posted by: cpurick at January 17, 2019 10:25 AM (7YrFp)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 17, 2019 10:22 AM (NWiLs)
Worse than that. It led to a generation (or more) of boys that think they can be girls, and girls that believe they can get emotional fulfillment out of sexual promiscuity.
Posted by: Beto! at January 17, 2019 10:25 AM (KUaJL)
You know what I'd love to do. Put those Gillette soibois out in a wheat field in 90+ July heat and make them use a scythe and cradle.
Oh how I would love to do that, lording over them with a shotgun chain-gain style. I'd see what they were made of.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 17, 2019 10:26 AM (f1Vqw)
Marketers shouldn't be bending over backwards for them, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 09:54 AM (XSSCs)
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Many have less money relatively speaking than prior generations at that age. The blue-collar meltdown and college debt are big contributors.
Get the working-class work back and pop the higher ed bubble and lots will get better, and do so pretty quickly. I'm talking about the Zs here - I think to many Millenials are probably lost and not just for economic reasons.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2019 10:26 AM (I2dne)
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 17, 2019 10:23 AM (ty7RM)
Anyone who has sailed close to another sailing vessel could have told them that.
Posted by: Archer at January 17, 2019 10:26 AM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 17, 2019 10:23 AM (ty7RM)
+++++++++
They should move faster! The fan in my room moves air out really fast, so the next fan should move it even faster!
Posted by: Leftists who don't dig thermodynamics at January 17, 2019 10:27 AM (I2dne)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2019 10:27 AM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at January 17, 2019 10:22 AM (FTPVM)
Dealers Choice.
Also, off sock
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2019 10:27 AM (KUaJL)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 17, 2019 10:22 AM (NWiLs)
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I dunno. Those are extreme examples. I don't think anyone really thinks they can become NFL players just from hard work.
The general idea that if you want to be an engineer, work hard, study hard and you will become an engineer is appropriate. Or lawyer. Or whatever other *reasonable* thing you want to be.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:27 AM (gpinW)
Janitor: Lady, this is the Senate broom closet.
AOC:
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 17, 2019 10:27 AM (RpM6k)
You know what I'd love to do. Put those Gillette soibois out in a wheat field in 90+ July heat and make them use a scythe and cradle.
Oh how I would love to do that, lording over them with a shotgun chain-gain style. I'd see what they were made of.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 17, 2019 10:26 AM (f1Vqw)
Of course, they're just going to stop the second they're confident you're not going to kill them.
Posted by: Hikaru at January 17, 2019 10:28 AM (UnA8+)
Do you realize how stupid I look carrying a weedwhacker?
Posted by: The Grim Whacker
It's the extension cord that makes you look silly.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2019 10:28 AM (tHAoL)
Or anyone with a basic understanding of physics. The extracted energy has to come from somewhere.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:28 AM (YLHN9)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 17, 2019 10:28 AM (HaL55)
Posted by: Woke Millenial at January 17, 2019 10:28 AM (QLvwG)
Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2019 10:28 AM (AU1m0)
I'd never thought you'd be one to take that position.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 17, 2019 10:28 AM (QviAd)
Can you picture the "Cool Hand Luke" scene with a bunch of soys watching the gal wash her car?
Yeah, me neither.
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 10:28 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 17, 2019 10:28 AM (pUDQf)
The general idea that if you want to be an engineer, work hard, study hard and you will become an engineer is appropriate. Or lawyer. Or whatever other *reasonable* thing you want to be.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:27 AM (gpinW)
They're kids! What do you think they believe if not everything you tell them?
Posted by: Someguy at January 17, 2019 10:28 AM (h5Df3)
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Have you paid them anything yet?
It's harsh, but they're not going to get better as the job drags on.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Does Gilette Sell Pink Razors? Why? at January 17, 2019 10:25 AM
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Had an appointment with a tile guy to get an estimate, he showed up an hour late with no text call or any excuse. Told him to take a hike because he was not reliable or courteous enough to at least text me that he was running late.
Six months later he was in jail for defrauding customers.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 17, 2019 10:28 AM (JUOKG)
Oh how I would love to do that, lording over them with a shotgun chain-gain style. I'd see what they were made of.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 17, 2019 10:26 AM (f1Vqw)
Of course, they're just going to stop the second they're confident you're not going to kill them.
Posted by: Hikaru
So you shoot one. No great loss.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2019 10:28 AM (tHAoL)
Posted by: Captain Cuck at January 17, 2019 10:28 AM (RpM6k)
can't put holes in the walls of my apartment per the lease agreement and
I don't trust sticky hooks to stay put with the weight of a picture and
frame on them.
Posted by: Grey Fox at January 17, 2019 09:54 AM (bZ7mE)
That's what they make Spackle for.
Posted by: Vic at January 17, 2019 09:59 AM
I've read that a really wet piece of chalk will fill a nail hole. Never tried it myself, but in theory it should work. Probably buy a bag of assorted color chalks at a dollar store.
Posted by: Newest Nic at January 17, 2019 10:28 AM (jYje5)
Question, because I'm looking at this on the phone, is there actually a lark in the picture? We are just imaging it, right?
Anyway, very nice.
Posted by: bluebell at January 17, 2019 10:29 AM (tVDnh)
That's why you ventilate one right off the bat, pour encourager les autres.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:29 AM (YLHN9)
The laws of thermodynamics can be a real bitch.
Posted by: Someguy at January 17, 2019 10:25 AM (h5Df3)
Thermodynamics is a social construct devised by white patriarchical cishets to oppress womxn, LGBT and People of Color. I learned that in my Thermodynamics Studies course in college.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2019 10:29 AM (BWL+E)
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at January 17, 2019 10:29 AM (FTPVM)
Somewhere around here is variation on the scythe and cradle, and I can't remember what's it called. Maybe "rack" is in it.
It's old as hell and may date to my great-grandfather. Anway, it for cutting grain somehow and has a large "rack" to catch the falling grain stalks. Rather than let it fall on the ground, it gets caught on the rack. You lay it aside.
There used to be a technique of piling up the cut grain stalks in little piles. It was done a certain way to keep rain from getting in.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 17, 2019 10:30 AM (f1Vqw)
A horse knows this.
Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2019 10:30 AM (AU1m0)
Just yesterday I was at a client site and was chatting with a 30ish womYn there. What's she doing for MLK weekend? Flying to Canada to go snowboarding of course!!
The same womYn who I overheard a couple of weeks earlier complaining that she would never pay off her student loans and someone needed to do something about that to help people like her out.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:11 AM (gpinW)
People like that will always vote for more socialism. Since individual responsibility is now considered to be white supremacy or something, there is no hope that it will get any better.
Posted by: rickl at January 17, 2019 10:30 AM (xjiRE)
They are well on their way of doing just that. Every new home built in California must have solar panels.
That should cure the problem of unaffordable housing.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2019 10:30 AM (/tuJf)
That's why you ventilate one right off the bat, pour encourager les autres.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:29 AM (YLHN9)
Whichever one gets mouthy.
Posted by: Someguy at January 17, 2019 10:30 AM (h5Df3)
Posted by: kallisto at January 17, 2019 10:30 AM (aKdV1)
Besides my example was an unsaid reference to Marcus Lutrell .
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 17, 2019 10:30 AM (QviAd)
Posted by: AOC at January 17, 2019 10:30 AM (RpM6k)
Posted by: Vic at January 17, 2019 10:30 AM (mpXpK)
Now if one day one of them said I want to be a professional ballerina, I'd tell them that great. If you really want to go for it, do it. But be aware that for every ballerina performing in NYC, there are 20 wannabe ballerinas serving coffee and auditioning for that one spot.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:31 AM (gpinW)
Posted by: Hikaru
Night in the Box.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 17, 2019 10:31 AM (b+Fr8)
I think it was called "shocking".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:31 AM (YLHN9)
hell, toothpaste works. That's an old dorm room trick.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2019 10:31 AM (Kpl3J)
It's meant as a moral for hard work. Any dunce - who is working hard towards a goal - will, since he/she is working hard towards that goal will come to the sober conclusion that being tone deaf will not allow you to become Prince.
The saying was used to instill hard work. NOT want to become a WWE star if you were inflicted with a bone disease. People need to stop being fucking obtuse and all whiny and shit
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 17, 2019 10:32 AM (5iLYn)
That's why you ventilate one right off the bat, pour encourager les autres.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:29 AM (YLHN9)
Two.
One at random in the middle of your opening speech to them.
Then the strongest (relative term) of them a bit later so they don't get reliant upon him and use him as a crutch.
Posted by: Hikaru at January 17, 2019 10:32 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: saf at January 17, 2019 10:32 AM (5IHGB)
"Those who beat their guns into plowshares will plow for those who don't." -- excellent bumpersticker on Deplorable pickup.
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 10:19 AM (Bdeb0)
I prefer Maxim 21.
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he's lucky just to be alive, and he'll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow.
http://tinyurl.com/kojydcb
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 17, 2019 10:33 AM (veoSD)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:27 AM (gpinW)
I can agree with that to a point, but the discussion started with this:
I'll just go back to what Monty used to rail about...he hated parents telling their kids "you can be anything you want to be if you try hard enough." No, you can't. But somewhere along the line that crap became accepted wisdom.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at January 17, 2019 10:11 AM (PFy0L)
Work hard and try hard are fine, but telling a kid they can be anything they want to be if they try hard enough is an outright lie.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 17, 2019 10:33 AM (NWiLs)
don't laugh - there are such "science studies" courses in what should be rather scientific programs.
"The Marching Morons"...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 10:33 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 17, 2019 10:22 AM (NWiLs)
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I dunno. Those are extreme examples. I don't think anyone really thinks they can become NFL players just from hard work.
The general idea that if you want to be an engineer, work hard, study hard and you will become an engineer is appropriate. Or lawyer. Or whatever other *reasonable* thing you want to be.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:27 AM (gpinW)
It's all about identity and belonging to the approved tribe. White Men need not apply. Double plus for White Christian Men.
Posted by: literally serious at January 17, 2019 10:33 AM (13dPG)
People need to stop being fucking obtuse and all whiny and shit
*quietly abandons dream of NBA career*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2019 10:33 AM (BWL+E)
hour late with no text call or any excuse. Told him to take a hike
because he was not reliable or courteous enough to at least text me that
he was running late.
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It's a shame that we've been conditioned to the point where we're impressed when an electrician or HVAC guy calls/texts to say they're on their way, or they're running fifteen minutes behind, or holy crap they show up on time.
I've created lifelong dedication to a few tradesmen over something that simple. I can't see why the others don't understand why it matters.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Does Gilette Sell Pink Razors? Why? at January 17, 2019 10:33 AM (4E/ZH)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 17, 2019 10:33 AM (fuK7c)
It's meant as a moral for hard work. Any dunce - who is working hard towards a goal - will, since he/she is working hard towards that goal will come to the sober conclusion that being tone deaf will not allow you to become Prince.
The saying was used to instill hard work. NOT want to become a WWE star if you were inflicted with a bone disease. People need to stop being fucking obtuse and all whiny and shit
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 17, 2019 10:32 AM (5iLYn)
You tell a 5 y.o. he can be anything he wants to be and he'll aim to be a firetruck. Yes, the truck.
Most parents seem not to grow out of treating their kids like 5 year olds so clear messaging matters.
Posted by: Someguy at January 17, 2019 10:33 AM (h5Df3)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 17, 2019 10:26 AM (f1Vqw)
Of course, they're just going to stop the second they're confident you're not going to kill them.
Posted by: Hikaru
"B-but sir? I'm gluten free!"[BAM!]
Posted by: clutch cargo at January 17, 2019 10:34 AM (sLicW)
For extra-credit sneakiness points: scrape some small paint chips off an inconspicuous place (like down by a baseboard where it might've been knocked off by accident) and embed them in your spackle (or toothpaste).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:34 AM (YLHN9)
Americans who may not be federal employees are feeling the effects of the shutdown.
Over the last several years, phones around the country are ringing more because of robo-calls.
People are getting calls from telemarketers, bill collectors, and scam artists.
And the partial government shutdown, may be making the problem worse.
The Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission are part of the shut down.
So, there is nobody in Washington to administer the country's anti-robo calls rules.
And there's no one to warn Americans about possible scams that involve automated calls.
To make matters worse, if you want to add your number to the 'No Call List' or check to make sure your number is on the list you're out of luck.
That's part of the shutdown too.
Consumers are faced with a website that says the government is "unable to offer this service at this time."
Experts say the shutdown may be giving scammers and companies who routinely break the rules the upper hand.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2019 10:34 AM (aKsyK)
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he's lucky just to be alive, and he'll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow.
http://tinyurl.com/kojydcb
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 17, 2019 10:33 AM (veoSD)
++++++++++
Along the lines of "Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2019 10:34 AM (I2dne)
The same womYn who I overheard a couple of weeks earlier complaining that she would never pay off her student loans and someone needed to do something about that to help people like her out.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:11 AM (gpinW)
The wife has a friend like that. Friend went to an expensive school, got a degree in wildlife management or something similar where there aren't a lot of jobs and the average pay is around $30k. Wife went to a cheap school on full academic scholarship and lived at home and graduated without any debt and doesn't have much sympathy.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2019 10:34 AM (KUaJL)
Over the last several years, phones around the country are ringing more because of robo-calls.
People are getting calls from telemarketers, bill collectors, and scam artists.
Here's a trick I use: don't answer the phone, ever.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2019 10:35 AM (BWL+E)
Posted by: Sharkman at January 17, 2019 10:35 AM (FzjAl)
Pritzker will sign SB 337, a bipartisan plan to combat illegal gun trafficking and require firearm dealers to be licensed by Illinois State Police instead of the state agency that regulates professions and occupations.
Yeah, that ought to end all of the shootings on the south and west sides of Chicago
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 17, 2019 10:35 AM (SiINZ)
Hence the Wichita State University moniker, "Shockers," with the tuft-of-wheat mascot.
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 10:35 AM (Bdeb0)
How so? Meadowlark songs are one of the few things I miss from Colorado. They were *everywhere* when I was growing up, and I hadn't realized that wasn't the case in the rest of the country.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 17, 2019 10:35 AM (uquGJ)
individual responsibility is now considered to be white supremacy or
something, there is no hope that it will get any better.
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100% true.
Posted by: shibumi at January 17, 2019 10:35 AM (OXL6p)
Or on the pole.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:36 AM (YLHN9)
I'd never thought you'd be one to take that position.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 17, 2019 10:28 AM (QviAd)
Heh. Just keepin' it real, yo.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 17, 2019 10:36 AM (NWiLs)
frame on them.
Posted by: Grey Fox at January 17, 2019 09:54 AM (bZ7mE)
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Those 3M removable adhesive hooks you can get at the big hardware stores are pretty impressive. I think some can manage 30+lbs, too. Use two or three if you aren't confident in one.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Does Gilette Sell Pink Razors? Why? at January 17, 2019 10:36 AM (4E/ZH)
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at January 17, 2019 10:36 AM (FTPVM)
Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2019 10:36 AM (DVPgb)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 17, 2019 10:33 AM (NWiLs)
Maybe it's time to go back to "I brought you into this world, and I swear if you don't bring that F in Math up to an A within 2 semesters, I will f***ing take you out of it without hesitation."
Posted by: Hikaru at January 17, 2019 10:36 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez at January 17, 2019 10:36 AM (SkuXa)
Posted by: literally serious at January 17, 2019 10:36 AM (13dPG)
Pritzker will sign SB 337, a bipartisan plan to combat illegal gun trafficking and require firearm dealers to be licensed by Illinois State Police instead of the state agency that regulates professions and occupations.
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Oh shit. That means we no more guns for us right?
- MS-13
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:37 AM (gpinW)
It's harsh, but they're not going to get better as the job drags on.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Does Gilette Sell Pink Razors? Why? at January 17, 2019 10:25 AM (4E/ZH)
yes. i've used them before. so a 1/3. it's just frustrating because i have to find my cats and get them secured for the day....this is the tear down crew.....and i think they live across town....they should be done with this part today.
Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 17, 2019 10:37 AM (0O7c5)
Yeah, that's it, shocking.
I can remember the old timers talking about that. Long dead now, older than my 91 yr old father's generation.
Wheat was shocked out the field, waiting for the thresher, stationary thing set up. Shocks were brought to the thresher and piled up, where they were fed in.
The came combines. Pull-type. But no storage bins. Output was bagged. One guy drove the tractor pulling the little pull type combine, and the other rode on the back and sacked the grain coming out. You'd drop the sacks, 100 lbs, right in the field, then come back and pick them up.
That would be a job I'd have to soy boys do as well.
I'd love to see them react to all the dust along with heat and humidity.
Just them drop of heat stroke right in the field, then put the next soy boy on line until he dropped.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 17, 2019 10:37 AM (f1Vqw)
But be aware that for every ballerina performing in NYC, there are 20 wannabe ballerinas serving coffee and auditioning for that one spot.
And there will be some guy demanding they screw him for a shot at that one spot.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2019 10:37 AM (BWL+E)
You have to be able to not only work harder than the next guy, but also work FASTER than the next guy.
Posted by: Hikaru at January 17, 2019 10:38 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:38 AM (gpinW)
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People are getting more calls BECAUSE of the government's anti-robocall rules.
They put it in place and the scammers went to VOIP calls that can't be easily tracked, monitored, or stopped.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Does Gilette Sell Pink Razors? Why? at January 17, 2019 10:38 AM (4E/ZH)
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at January 17, 2019 10:38 AM (FTPVM)
Posted by: literally serious at January 17, 2019 10:36 AM (13dPG)
Ben Shapiro has a voice made for silent film.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2019 10:38 AM (KUaJL)
The wife has a friend like that. Friend went to an expensive school, got a degree in wildlife management or something similar where there aren't a lot of jobs and the average pay is around $30k. Wife went to a cheap school on full academic scholarship and lived at home and graduated without any debt and doesn't have much sympathy.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2019 10:34 AM (KUaJL)
The friend's parents probably had a lot to do with it. Need to beat the common sense into them when they're young. First experience most people seem to get with handling money and regular expenses these days is when they've moved out. People need to be taught how to budget and plan, these skills don't spontaneously generate.
Posted by: Someguy at January 17, 2019 10:38 AM (h5Df3)
And by "auditioning" you mean what, exactly?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 10:39 AM (6qErC)
Never stick it in crazy, dude. No matter how hawt.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:39 AM (YLHN9)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 17, 2019 10:39 AM (NT8y4)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, watching DC theatre at January 17, 2019 10:39 AM (LISuA)
You have to be able to not only work harder than the next guy, but also work FASTER than the next guy.
Posted by: Hikaru at January 17, 2019 10:38 AM (UnA8+)
And stroke the middle manager's ego better than the next guy.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 17, 2019 10:39 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: literally serious at January 17, 2019 10:36 AM (13dPG)
He's a ruthless bastard who hammers down any other voice that might rise up and calls them a fraud.
+1 for being a Ruthless Bastard.
-1,000 for being a Dickbag.
Posted by: Hikaru at January 17, 2019 10:40 AM (UnA8+)
Ok, I stopped and read that.
Weapons grade stupidity, there...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 10:40 AM (6qErC)
Never stick it in crazy, dude. No matter how hawt.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:39 AM (YLHN9)
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Well I'm happily married so there's that. I wouldn't say she cray-cray. She just wants Uncle Sugar Sam to pay her bills.
As a general rule any womYn that skis/boards is OK by me
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:40 AM (gpinW)
I'm using a call blocker more against those poor f*ckers than I am for the telemarketers.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Does Gilette Sell Pink Razors? Why? at January 17, 2019 10:40 AM (4E/ZH)
Yup. You wind up with people like O'CrazyHo-CourtDate who reach the age of thirty without enough savings to rent a fucking apartment.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:40 AM (YLHN9)
People are getting calls from telemarketers, bill collectors, and scam artists.
Here's a trick I use: don't answer the phone, ever.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
If you are not in my contact's list, leave a message.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2019 10:40 AM (tHAoL)
People are getting calls from telemarketers, bill collectors, and scam artists.
Here's a trick I use: don't answer the phone, ever.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2019 10:35 AM
Inscribed on a plaque right beneath the "The New Colossus" (give me your tired, your poor, etc.) on Liberty Island is another plaque which describes the necessity of always answering the phone. Both plaques carry the weight of law.
Disallowed. Answer your phone.
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge in Grass Skirt and Coconut Bra at January 17, 2019 10:40 AM (jYje5)
Posted by: literally serious at January 17, 2019 10:40 AM (13dPG)
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What a study in contrast; if you drive from southern Illinois up I-55 to Chicago, there are several farms w/pro-2A, Burma Shave style signs, the last one always says "Guns Save Lives." Too bad the cocksuckers from Chicago never see them on the way down to steal money from the farmers, to pay retired City of Chicago teachers.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 17, 2019 10:41 AM (ty7RM)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2019 10:34 AM (aKsyK)
Those anti-robo call laws have never been enforced or the so-called "don't call me anymore" laws.
when I got rid of my land line I had a brief ending of the robo calls and unsolicited spam calls. Now I get tons of them on my cell phone and I can't refuse to answer if I don't recognize the number calling. Too many doctors and hospitals calling all the time on different phones.
Posted by: Vic at January 17, 2019 10:41 AM (mpXpK)
And by "auditioning" you mean what, exactly?
Posted by: Anon a mouse
Yes.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2019 10:41 AM (tHAoL)
Hark! The Siren Call of Socialism!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 17, 2019 10:41 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Augustine at January 17, 2019 10:41 AM (BDZWU)
_____________
I once took a deposition of a board-certified woman physician who had gone to law school, been awarded her J.D., and had taken the bar exam 5 times and flunked each time.
She was smart enough to become a doctor, so one could have reasonably assumed that she could become a lawyer too if she put in the effort. And yet she did, but she wasn't able to achieve that goal.
Sometimes hard work and persistence just aren't enough to get you there.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 17, 2019 10:41 AM (fqUgw)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 17, 2019 10:39 AM (NWiLs)
When I started this job, the person who trained me said that speed doesn't count.
He lied. Speed VERY MUCH counts.
Posted by: Hikaru at January 17, 2019 10:42 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: literally serious at January 17, 2019 10:40 AM (13dPG)
And you believe that the taxpayer will not end up paying for them?
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at January 17, 2019 10:42 AM (3sjI6)
Posted by: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez at January 17, 2019 10:36 AM (SkuXa)
Shake your ass a little hon, that'll do it.
Posted by: joncelli, providing the traditional responses at January 17, 2019 10:42 AM (RD7QR)
http://tinyurl.com/y93l5ybf
If this sounds familiar, yes, Robert Meuller was acting Attorney General and head of the FBI in that time period. However, he started in September 2000, so it was really a Janet Reno joint, but I'm sure Meuller had influence and was key in keeping it going.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2019 10:42 AM (39g3+)
Zod accepts (smirks, crosses fingers behind back, claims taqqiya).
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 10:42 AM (Bdeb0)
And by "auditioning" you mean what, exactly?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 10:39 AM (6qErC)
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And then Hollywood will create a movie about ballerinas and cast non-ballerina movie stars (Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 10:42 AM (XSSCs)
Posted by: literally serious at January 17, 2019 10:40 AM (13dPG)
Almost all the debt is owned by federal programs. The universities already got paid. The only one getting screwed by loan forgiveness is those of us schmucks who got an affordable education.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2019 10:42 AM (KUaJL)
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 17, 2019 10:32 AM (5iLYn)
Hey. Hey. Hey!
No common sense! This internet!
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Your Globalist Griefs - Two for One - at The Outrage Outlet! at January 17, 2019 10:42 AM (hLRSq)
Yup. If it's not a number on my contact list, it goes to voice mail, which I might listen to next week sometime, or next month, or whenever the little icon starts showing a number big enough to annoy me.
Hell, even my friends and family usually just send text messages these days. Even the very old ones.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:42 AM (YLHN9)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y6uu62cb
Posted by: Huck Follywood, watching DC theatre at January 17, 2019 10:43 AM (LISuA)
Posted by: literally serious at January 17, 2019 10:36 AM (13dPG)
He's a ruthless bastard who hammers down any other voice that might rise up and calls them a fraud.
+1 for being a Ruthless Bastard.
-1,000 for being a Dickbag.
Posted by: Hikaru at January 17, 2019 10:40 AM (UnA8+)
Shapiro is the biggest fraud out there. Fuck that guy. He gets thrown in the Ivy League Work Camps.
Posted by: literally serious at January 17, 2019 10:43 AM (13dPG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 10:42 AM (XSSCs)
That's because ballerinas aren't protected classes.
If they were tranny ballerinas, on the other hand...
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2019 10:43 AM (KUaJL)
319 278 So, there is nobody in Washington to administer the country's anti-robo calls rules.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2019 10:34 AM (aKsyK)
Those anti-robo call laws have never been enforced or the so-called "don't call me anymore" laws.
Another feral gubmint fix that is not (and never was) worth a shit.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 17, 2019 10:43 AM (pNxlR)
This motto was meant to dream and instill hardworking. It wasn't meant to give a pass to some one to think at 20 and 600 lbs overweight to think of being a ballerina. Because if you had done HARD WORK up to that point, you'd realize it ain't happening.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 17, 2019 10:43 AM (//V6n)
Posted by: joe
Aka, taxpayers.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2019 10:43 AM (tHAoL)
Heck, I'm getting calls daily from people who are calling me "back" because some VOIP scammer spoofs local numbers to use as the caller ID for their "lower your credit card bills" nonsense.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
I had an irate call on my voicemail one day by some guy who had gotten some robocalls by some organization that had evidently spoofed my number.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2019 10:44 AM (aKsyK)
Posted by: literally serious at January 17, 2019 10:40 AM (13dPG)
And you believe that the taxpayer will not end up paying for them?
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at January 17, 2019 10:42 AM (3sjI6)
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We're nearly done paying off Dolley's loans, and then we're going to start focusing on mine.
After paying back probably about $140,000 on a total $110,000 loan, that is when the government will forgive all student loan debt.
And I will be unhappy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 10:44 AM (ANN96)
The taxpayer is going to wind up paying for them anyway.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:44 AM (YLHN9)
Posted by: Someguy at January 17, 2019 10:44 AM (h5Df3)
big hardware stores are pretty impressive. I think some can manage
30+lbs, too. Use two or three if you aren't confident in one.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Does Gilette Sell Pink Razors? Why? at January 17, 2019 10:36 AM (4E/ZH)
But at some point you discover that the hook sticks to the paint better than the paint sticks to the wall.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2019 10:44 AM (nPGq2)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y6uu62cb
Posted by: Huck Follywood, watching DC theatre at January 17, 2019 10:43 AM (LISuA)
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First and foremost:
Sitting presidents almost never lose re-election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 10:44 AM (ANN96)
Hard to support abortion when blowjobs don't result in pregnancy.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2019 10:45 AM (KUaJL)
And then someday, we'll run out of other people's money.
Prepare accordingly.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 10:45 AM (6qErC)
-1,000 for being a Dickbag.
Posted by: Hikaru at January 17, 2019 10:40 AM (UnA8+)
I cannot believe you did not award points for Abby's magnificent, er, points.
I don't know this place anymore.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Your Globalist Griefs - Two for One - at The Outrage Outlet! at January 17, 2019 10:45 AM (hLRSq)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 17, 2019 10:45 AM (0O7c5)
Posted by: IP at January 17, 2019 10:45 AM (cn3ZE)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Especially if you put it on backwards.
BTDT. Once.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2019 10:45 AM (tHAoL)
Yup. They take the credit hit for seven years, so they're not getting off scot-free, but neither is their life ruined forever because of a stupid decision they made when they were 18.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:45 AM (YLHN9)
Posted by: Sponge at January 17, 2019 10:45 AM (F4u7C)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 17, 2019 10:46 AM (oAY8z)
The Belarusian cyber-criminal known as Policedog online started hacking early on, and by the age of 20 he says he was earning $100,000 a month as a "carder", turning stolen credit card information into cash. By the early 2000s he was one of the leading figures in the Russian and Eastern European cyber-underworld.
In an exclusive interview Pavlovich, now 33 and with a 10-year jail term behind him, gives a rare insight into a community that has been accused of carrying out aggressive cyber-activity on behalf of the Kremlin.
..
While Pavlovich says he won't comment directly on the US election hacking allegations he does say it is getting easier to access government organisations across the world thanks to the help of new apps being developed every day.
Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2019 10:46 AM (QkjLD)
Posted by: Someguy at January 17, 2019 10:44 AM (h5Df3)
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Put the universities on the line for at least half of the amount.
The individual gets loan forgiveness in a bankruptcy, but the university still has to pay back it's penalty (60% of the total tuition).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 10:46 AM (ANN96)
In that interpretation, "you can be anything you want to be" is a brief summary of the "American dream." In the other interpretation as a literal, you get the Handicapper General so anyone can be anything so long as it is mediocre.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2019 10:46 AM (I2dne)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 17, 2019 10:39 AM (NWiLs)
When I started this job, the person who trained me said that speed doesn't count.
He lied. Speed VERY MUCH counts.
Posted by: Hikaru at January 17, 2019 10:42 AM (UnA8+)
Ah. And you have to watch out for sabotage.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 17, 2019 10:46 AM (NWiLs)
Sitting presidents almost never lose re-election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 10:44 AM
Zombie George H.W. Bush & Jimmeh Carter would like to have a word with you
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 17, 2019 10:46 AM (KCxzN)
Yup. You wind up with people like O'CrazyHo-CourtDate who reach the age
of thirty without enough savings to rent a fucking apartment.
She'll also remind you that she has a degree in economics. Probably more than once in a conversation.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 17, 2019 10:46 AM (HaL55)
Just have the government take all the money from everyone's retirement accounts to pay off the student loans. ☭
Posted by: Alexandria Occasional Cortex at January 17, 2019 10:46 AM (jYje5)
How do they know which numbers they're not supposed to call? That's the Do-Not-Call list, a list of guaranteed good numbers. Which they must have to be compliant.
Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2019 10:46 AM (bm2af)
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Didja see that Sheila Jackson Lee is being sued for firing a staffer who was taking legal action after being raped by a Congressionl Black Caucus staffer?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 17, 2019 10:46 AM (+y/Ru)
I don't know this place anymore.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Your Globalist Griefs - Two for One - at The Outrage Outlet! at January 17, 2019 10:45 AM (hLRSq)
I'm the one person you should have expected not to.
I have all the sex drive of a digital parking meter.
Posted by: Hikaru at January 17, 2019 10:46 AM (UnA8+)
The universities already got paid. The only one getting screwed by loan
forgiveness is those of us schmucks who got an affordable education.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2019 10:42 AM (KUaJL)
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Same as it ever was
(does karate chop arm thing down other arm)
Who is better off when they hit 70 and have to go into a nursing home? The guy who has lived modestly and saved a million dollars for retirement and now has to give it all to medicaid/care so they'll pay for the nursing home, or the guy who has driven a new $50K truck every three years and doesn't have a penny to his name and gets medicaid immediately?
I'm starting to believe that I'm the sucker, frankly.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Does Gilette Sell Pink Razors? Why? at January 17, 2019 10:47 AM (4E/ZH)
Posted by: literally serious at January 17, 2019 10:40 AM (13dPG)
And you believe that the taxpayer will not end up paying for them?
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at January 17, 2019 10:42 AM (3sjI6)
It's all going to collapse by 2030... If not sooner anyways. Fiat money, debt based economy, and pyramid schemes designed to create real wealth and power for rootless parasites with zero loyeality to America or any host nation never work out.
Let the billionares and trillionares pay for it all. Then feed them to the lions and sharks.
Posted by: literally serious at January 17, 2019 10:47 AM (13dPG)
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at January 17, 2019 10:47 AM (SkuXa)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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I have occasionally wondered about the delta T across dams.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2019 10:47 AM (2qPhT)
Sitting presidents almost never lose re-election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 10:44 AM
Zombie George H.W. Bush & Jimmeh Carter would like to have a word with you
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 17, 2019 10:46 AM (KCxzN)
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Hey, it's like I used the quantifier word: "almost"!
It's almost exactly like that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 10:47 AM (ANN96)
Around here, spoofing is a big thing.
I've received calls from local radio and TV stations, Police Precincts , and on multiple occasions, even our on home phone number.
Yes...the call was from inside the house.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2019 10:47 AM (cqNba)
Looking back , it was partially being responsible but it was also playing it safe which is for pussies.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 17, 2019 10:47 AM (QviAd)
Haven't read the Hanson piece yet, but if the Dems run someone from the O'CrazyHo-CourtDate end of the spectrum, they're gonna get curbstomped.
That 70% tax rate shit may get cheering from the communist chattering class, but that class is a lot smaller than is generally supposed (especially if you judge only on noise level).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:47 AM (YLHN9)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 17, 2019 10:46 AM (NWiLs)
He had one foot out the door, so it was less sabotage and more that he was just used to getting away with it.
Posted by: Hikaru at January 17, 2019 10:47 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Puddin Head at January 17, 2019 10:47 AM (2LelM)
Well I'm happily married so there's that. I wouldn't say she cray-cray. She just wants Uncle Sugar Sam to pay her bills.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:40 AM (gpinW)
Correction: She wants YOU to pay her bills.
Posted by: rickl at January 17, 2019 10:48 AM (xjiRE)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:31 AM (gpinW)
Or leveraging her fine dancer gluteus maximums into an MRS degree.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at January 17, 2019 10:48 AM (3sjI6)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 10:48 AM (6qErC)
This motto was meant to dream and instill hardworking. It wasn't meant to give a pass to some one to think at 20 and 600 lbs overweight to think of being a ballerina. Because if you had done HARD WORK up to that point, you'd realize it ain't happening.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 17, 2019 10:43 AM (//V6n)
Millennials are work harder not smarter types. Economic studies indicate they work longer hours and are more likely to view themselves as dedicated work martyr types, but they produce less. The issue isn't work ethic, its competence.
Posted by: Someguy at January 17, 2019 10:48 AM (h5Df3)
Haven't read the Hanson piece yet, but if the Dems run someone from the O'CrazyHo-CourtDate end of the spectrum, they're gonna get curbstomped.
That 70% tax rate shit may get cheering from the communist chattering class, but that class is a lot smaller than is generally supposed (especially if you judge only on noise level).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:47 AM (YLHN9)
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I don't know...the cadre may be growing.
I'm warming to the idea of overtaxing rich people who largely keep funding Democrats and progressives.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 10:48 AM (ANN96)
Posted by: Alexandria Occasional Cortex
What good are old people anyway? They're all wrinkly and gross.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 17, 2019 10:49 AM (+y/Ru)
I'd be okay with letting you file retroactive bankruptcy.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:49 AM (YLHN9)
And I will be unhappy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 10:44 AM (ANN96)
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Mine weren't that big, but count me in on the "I will be unhappy" point. From age 22-28, I managed to increase my income by about 75%. I increased my consumption (my lifestyle) by 0%. Every nickel went toward getting the millstone off my neck. I don't want to work for it twice, especially since the second time around it less efficient due to intermediation and for someone I don't know and with whom I probably disagree.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2019 10:49 AM (I2dne)
I have all the sex drive of a digital parking meter.
Posted by: Hikaru at January 17, 2019 10:46 AM (UnA8+)
It's in the style manual, Appendix DD.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Your Globalist Griefs - Two for One - at The Outrage Outlet! at January 17, 2019 10:49 AM (hLRSq)
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Start saving your known #'s as contacts. SHoul;d cut down some on the BS calls.
One of the new tricks is to spoof a number very close to your inbound number. Most people think it's someone from your office calling and will answer.
What sucks about the Federal No Call registry? You can only register private numbers. All commercial #s are, apparently, fair game.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 17, 2019 10:49 AM (ty7RM)
Monty's thought came to me as I was thinking about 30 yos being told all their lives that if they work hard enough, dammit they will get their $1,200 phones and $15 arugula sandwiches. And aside from what I think is that a fair chunk of those 30 yos are suffering more from inappropriate senses of entitlement than anything else.
Also brought to mind one of his stories of a lawyer in NYC who quit her job to run a cafe or something in Union Station. It was her lifelong dream to do it, and she failed miserably despite all her hard work. Because he said she was likely told all her life that all she had to do was work hard.
So I'd agree the constraints on that dream are missing more often than not. "Hey, you want to be a powerlifter, well don't let your 90 lb frame dissuade you! Work hard!" And kids are EXPECTED to take things literally and be obtuse and all that shit, so yeah messaging matters.
I would tell my kids "you can't be ANYTHING you want to be, but you can be MORE OF WHAT YOU ARE." Hopefully they won't turn out to be drunks.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at January 17, 2019 10:49 AM (eytER)
Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at January 17, 2019 10:50 AM (5h/3t)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2019 10:44 AM (nPGq2)
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Ha. That's a good point. Good thing apartment complexes don't skimp on paint or the application of, though.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Does Gilette Sell Pink Razors? Why? at January 17, 2019 10:50 AM (4E/ZH)
Nah, those people's money doesn't appear as ordinary income in the first place.
Propose a 5% net worth tax and see what the Heinz-Kerrys, Zuckerbergs, and Buffets think of that.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:50 AM (YLHN9)
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at January 17, 2019 10:50 AM (MkcN1)
I would tell my kids "you can't be ANYTHING you want to be, but you can be MORE OF WHAT YOU ARE." Hopefully they won't turn out to be drunks.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at January 17, 2019 10:49 AM (eytER)
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"You can be anything you want!"
"I want to be an astronaut!"
"You're 6'5. Astronauts can't be that tall."
"Whaaaaa!!!!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 10:50 AM (ANN96)
yes, the "almost" qualifier is noted
it could be argued that Bush 41 & Carter were both in special circumstances
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 17, 2019 10:50 AM (KCxzN)
Posted by: Someguy at January 17, 2019 10:44 AM (h5Df3)
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Put the universities on the line for at least half of the amount.
The individual gets loan forgiveness in a bankruptcy, but the university still has to pay back it's penalty (60% of the total tuition).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 10:46 AM (ANN96)
I liked Insty's idea of making all universities have to co-sign student loans.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 17, 2019 10:50 AM (NWiLs)
I listened to a voice mail that popped up on my cell last night. It was some asshole irate, saying, "Somebody from here called me. Why the fuck do you call and not say nothin'? Idiot!".
Sort of flew all over me, and I thought about calling him and telling him to go fuck himself, but I said the hell with it.
Spoofed number or the idiot dialed the wrong number himself.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 17, 2019 10:50 AM (f1Vqw)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at January 17, 2019 10:50 AM (eytER)
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"Almost."
What a terrible word.
Posted by: George H.W. Bush at January 17, 2019 10:51 AM (fqUgw)
For a while, back when, I was thinking of the Air Force Academy. Now, firstly, I didn't have the grades and had been the captain of no sports teams, but that's beside the point. I was in the process of assessment. One of the requirements is that you get your Senator (or whoever... I think it was Senator) to write you a recommendation.
I worried about my grades and extra-curriculars and I worried that it would actually be a good "fit" for me. But I never worried about the endorsement.
Later, I was talking about this to a classmate in college, a super sexy Greek fellow from Cyprus, explaining that I'd decided not to pursue it. What HE found utterly shocking was my attitude toward the endorsement. The idea that I thought that I could actually just send a nice letter with my qualifications and ask for an endorsement, completely Nobody Me, was something so far from his life experience that he thought I was nuts.
THAT is what it means that you can be anything you want to be if you work hard... you do the "stuff" you need to do. It depends on what you bring to the situation and it doesn't matter who your family is, where you were born, if you were poor, if you have "connections" or if you're a girl.
Posted by: Synova (reversion to pseudonymous) at January 17, 2019 10:51 AM (BD/yx)
I'll bet the Left/Prog/Lib/Dems would scream bloody murder about that. Because their 'rich'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2019 10:51 AM (YvUf/)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, watching DC theatre at January 17, 2019 10:51 AM (LISuA)
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at January 17, 2019 10:51 AM (fqUgw)
yes, the "almost" qualifier is noted
it could be argued that Bush 41 & Carter were both in special circumstances
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 17, 2019 10:50 AM (KCxzN)
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Carter was generally terrible (history's greatest monster, even). Bush was the third Republican administration in a row, and he pissed off his own base at the same time.
Yeah, there are definite exceptions, but the power of incumbancy is huge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 10:51 AM (ANN96)
Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2019 10:52 AM (AU1m0)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at January 17, 2019 10:31 AM (gpinW)
Or leveraging her fine dancer gluteus maximums into an MRS degree.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at January 17, 2019 10:48 AM (3sjI6)
Which could work unless the dude's really into feet.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 17, 2019 10:52 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2019 10:52 AM (AU1m0)
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It's 4 masters degrees across 2 people.
Thanks for your input on my family's life choices.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 10:52 AM (ANN96)
Let the billionares and trillionares pay for it all. Then feed them to the lions and sharks.
Posted by: literally serious at January 17, 2019 10:47 AM (13dPG)
I've noticed there's always a date. And it's always wrong. And as far as letting the billionaires and trillionaires pay for it: I would love that! But, how are you going to accomplish it? They own the government, the media, the corporations, YOU, so, short of a civilization collapsing revolution, how is that going to be accomplished? Me, I'm all for civilization collapsing revolution, but most people won't be.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at January 17, 2019 10:53 AM (3sjI6)
A while back, I asked the Horde to pray for my daughter, who was having serious depression problems.
Since then we have gotten her professional counseling, moved her to home-schooling and she has found some new friends. This combination has made such a great difference in her happiness and attitude and I could not be happier or more grateful.
I have no doubt that your prayers helped my daughter and I thank you all for them.
Viridian
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2019 10:53 AM (AllCR)
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They did fail college, but they're too dumb to realize it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, watching DC theatre at January 17, 2019 10:53 AM (LISuA)
Will we get less movies? Who cares, 90% are total shit anyway.
Posted by: Duncan Macleod, The Highlander at January 17, 2019 10:53 AM (trMj1)
Posted by: W4E at January 17, 2019 10:53 AM (6/p3q)
Ah, the A.J. Fernandez factory...
Good stuff, there. Enjoy!
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 10:53 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: Someguy at January 17, 2019 10:44 AM (h5Df3)
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This is the answer, I think. "But if we do that, then interest rates will be really high because it's high-risk and people might not be able to afford college! Lenders might not lend money for certain degree programs!"
Tough. Deal with it. The college bubble was enabled by cheap student loans, and those loans were enabled by bankruptcy law chicanery. What happens when you throw money at the problem? You get inflation. This is an easy fix.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2019 10:53 AM (I2dne)
some asshole irate, saying, "Somebody from here called me. Why the fuck
do you call and not say nothin'? Idiot!".
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I tried to explain what the scammers were doing to one person who called me similarly, and then I just felt bad because the guy couldn't understand *at all* even the most simple explanation I could give him.
It made me feel really rotten knowing 70% or more of our population exists day to day in that sphere.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Does Gilette Sell Pink Razors? Why? at January 17, 2019 10:54 AM (4E/ZH)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 17, 2019 10:54 AM (0O7c5)
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Dim dark recesses of my memory produced Ballets de Trockadero -- a 70s troupe of hairy men attempting ballet. Unfortunately, these days they would be super serious. Just enough of the hairy guys were coordinated enough to make it fun.
Posted by: mustbequantum at January 17, 2019 10:55 AM (MIKMs)
His crooked lawyer (BIRM) allegedly paid $50K to try to rig the poll. At least Trump's money was to be spent on one poll that ended up being correct.
Posted by: Roy at January 17, 2019 10:55 AM (C4fwM)
Yeah, that's called economics 101. :-) Certain activity is too risky to lend, hence the interest rate, based on risk, becomes untenable. Too bad, so sad.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 17, 2019 10:55 AM (f1Vqw)
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But you could also say that Trump is in a exceptional position, because there has never been a president who has been more continually attacked and demonized by the media, entertainment industry, courts, and half the country in general, throughout the course of his presidency.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 17, 2019 10:55 AM (fqUgw)
And of course, it's important that everyone attend college.
*sigh*
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 10:55 AM (6qErC)
gee, I wonder if the Soros money and her refusal to prosecute this drug dealer is related to open border policy and their intent to destroy America?
https://tinyurl.com/yad78v5n
Posted by: illiniwek at January 17, 2019 10:55 AM (Cus5s)
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 17, 2019 10:50 AM (KCxzN)
If being a lying sack of shit is special, then that was special Poppy Bush.
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 17, 2019 10:56 AM (y7DUB)
Never stick it in crazy, dude. No matter how hawt.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 10:39 AM (YLHN9)
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Ahem
Posted by: Carter, Bush Sr, Ford at January 17, 2019 10:56 AM (gpinW)
Tough. Deal with it. The college bubble was enabled by cheap student loans, and those loans were enabled by bankruptcy law chicanery. What happens when you throw money at the problem? You get inflation. This is an easy fix.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2019 10:53 AM (I2dne)
Simple supply and demand analysis shows that making financing more available means that people who could not afford college previously will now be purchasing their credential at a higher price.
The simple analysis is moving the demand curve right. More customers, higher price.
Posted by: Someguy at January 17, 2019 10:56 AM (h5Df3)
call me....the numbers are being hijacked......on my land line....up
popped my name calling my number. i called the carrier and they said
it's becoming more and more common.......
Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 17, 2019 10:45 AM (0O7c5)
There has got to be some sort of technology fix to prevent number spoofing. And there should be a legal penalty, too. Make it a a Class A felony, or whatever it takes to put a perp in the can for a decade.
A friend from Alberta was staying with me here in AJ for the past week or so, and twice over that visit he got calls from some scammer posing as Westjet marketing saying he had "won" some prize. Scammers are based in Mexico. Westjet ought to hire a hit man to go there and pop a couple of them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2019 10:57 AM (nPGq2)
Posted by: literally serious at January 17, 2019 10:57 AM (13dPG)
Hey, it's unfair that "buy here, pay here" car places charge high rates! Limit 'em!!!! That'll.... do something, but we're not quite sure...
/
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 10:57 AM (6qErC)
Posted by: IC at January 17, 2019 10:58 AM (a0IVu)
Are you serious?
Members of the House of Representatives stormed the Senate shouting demands??
The House of Representatives has become a left wing mob??
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at January 17, 2019 10:58 AM (XK/4h)
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at January 17, 2019 10:58 AM (MkcN1)
Black folks was painting with oils thousands of years before that Winslow homo.
Posted by: Al Sharpton, State-Chartered Tax Cheat at January 17, 2019 10:59 AM (t5m5e)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2019 10:59 AM (AzW6q)
Members of the House of Representatives stormed the Senate shouting demands??
The House of Representatives has become a left wing mob??
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at January 17, 2019 10:58 AM (XK/4h)
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When did this happen? And also, if it did, I can't say that I'm shocked.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2019 10:59 AM (I2dne)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 17, 2019 10:59 AM (+y/Ru)
My daughter was able to get a fellowship for her first masters just by asking the department administrator. It turned out they had extra discretionary fellowship money left over, and simply gave it to her on the spot.
We also used merit money for my second daughter's MBA, and this article helps identify spots to look. Good luck and God bless,
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yaqstza8
Posted by: Huck Follywood, watching DC theatre at January 17, 2019 11:00 AM (LISuA)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 17, 2019 11:00 AM (6qErC)
That person's number would be written down and deployed in other venues for the convenience of others.
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 11:00 AM (Bdeb0)
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I can't work up any outrage about this. Most online polls are being rigged by somebody, and everybody knows it. So rigging an online poll is sort of like putting out a commercial that contains exaggerated or misleading claims -- everybody does it, and nobody pays much attention to them, because everybody knows everybody lies in those things.
So much ado about nothing.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 17, 2019 11:00 AM (fqUgw)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Does Gilette Sell Pink Razors? Why? at January 17, 2019 11:00 AM (4E/ZH)
Punctuation tip:
Statements end in periods, not question marks.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2019 11:00 AM (cqNba)
Part of working hard is knowing the path. You can absolutely be anything you want, if you want the right thing, the thing you're preparing for. And that changes a lot if you're paying attention.
Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2019 11:00 AM (Pu/Kw)
That's great and all, and hopefully they are at least marketable.
However, it took what 6 years of your lives AND $100k + in debt?
If you had spent those same years simply delivering pizzas, you would be + $250k or more at the end of the same time span...
College is a pretty giant waste of time and money.
Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2019 11:01 AM (AU1m0)
Saw that general thing happen to my husband's cousin. He wanted to be a pilot. It was the *only* thing he had ever wanted to be the entire time he was growing up. Except he had very bad asthma. No one told him people with asthma don't get to be pilots until he was a sophmore/junior in college and was looking into what it would take to enter a flight program. He went into spin and has never really pulled himself together since, which is a shame because he probably would have made a decent airplane mechanic or done well in one of the non-flight aspects of aviation.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 17, 2019 11:01 AM (uquGJ)
Those 3M removable adhesive hooks you can get at the big hardware stores are pretty impressive. I think some can manage
30+lbs, too.
Wow, sounds like they could support a certain Supreme Court Justice.
All they have to do is hang the comatoses ginsburg by one of these hooks and she can "hear" oral arguments with the rest of the Court.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at January 17, 2019 11:01 AM (XK/4h)
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It's a shame the American Senate doesn't have roof tiles.
Posted by: Gaius Marius at January 17, 2019 11:01 AM (AzW6q)
Thanks for your input on my family's life choices.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 10:52 AM (ANN96)
Your family should choose to pool its resources. Organs for sale, for starters.
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 11:01 AM (Bdeb0)
Happened to an Eastern Bloc computer hacker back in the day, or so I heard the story.
(Company) was having trouble with this hacker, and was getting nothing but a runaround from (Eastern Bloc country's) "law enforcement". (Company employee) was from (Eastern Bloc country) and suggested an alternative solution. They gave him a few thousand bucks, which he sent to some people he knew back home. Then, mysteriously, some large gentlemen showed up at the hacker's apartment and broke all of his fingers.
No more problems from him.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2019 11:01 AM (YLHN9)
Interest rates blow up at some level of risk.
For example, to first approximation, risk goes as default rate. Say the default rate is 5%. There's a 5% chance the lendee will default. For every dollar you lend, you're going to lose 5 cents on average (for a large number of loans).
So you need to charge 5% interest just to make that up from those who do pay it back.
That 5% is the "risk premium" which you add in, or "price in".
But, the default rate itself is function of interest rate as well. The more interest you charge, the higher the default rate.
So, at some "interest free" default rate, the basic chance of failure, the interest rate equation will blow up.
That is where it becomes "unlendable". A similiar behavior results in "uninsurable".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 17, 2019 11:02 AM (f1Vqw)
This is unintelligent.
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 11:02 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 17, 2019 11:00 AM (fqUgw)
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Same here.. who gives a rip.
Posted by: IP at January 17, 2019 11:03 AM (cn3ZE)
monster, even). Bush was the third Republican administration in a row,
and he pissed off his own base at the same time.
Yeah, there are definite exceptions, but the power of incumbancy is huge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 10:51 AM (ANN96)
And let's not forget that oil asshole from TX.
Posted by: Vic at January 17, 2019 11:03 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2019 11:03 AM (AU1m0)
Posted by: literally serious at January 17, 2019 11:04 AM (13dPG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 17, 2019 11:04 AM (+y/Ru)
I bought what's called a PBX, although I haven't programmed it yet. It'll only ring thru to me once the caller has pressed "1", for instance, "because your call is important to us!". The automated calls won't do that.
Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2019 11:04 AM (IPZPl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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On the upside, contrary to common 'knowledge', old people smell better than young people:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yb2uhfuo
Thus, three irrefutable facts to place before uppity hipsters:
A. I may be older, but I smell better
B. So far, I have outlived you
C. Wisdom (as opposed to 'knowledge'), being necessarily a product of age and experience, I am wiser than you.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2019 11:05 AM (U2TY5)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2019 11:05 AM (AllCR)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 17, 2019 11:05 AM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 17, 2019 10:46 AM (+y/Ru)
Nothing will come of it. The case will be dismissed because SJL is black.
Posted by: Sponge at January 17, 2019 11:05 AM (F4u7C)
If you had spent those years simply delivering pizzas, you might have been coerced into wearing a collar-bomb to a bank in Erie, PA as part of a complex robbery scheme involving a scavenger hunt, unrequited love, and a "cane-like shotgun."
Posted by: Zod at January 17, 2019 11:06 AM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2019 11:01 AM (AU1m0)
Those hot coeds though.
Posted by: literally serious at January 17, 2019 11:06 AM (13dPG)
It is Ocaisio-Cortez and friends who are going to be wondering why none of the bills they sponsor make it past the Senate majority leader's circular in box.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Get Your Globalist Griefs - Two for One - at The Outrage Outlet! at January 17, 2019 11:06 AM (hLRSq)
Thanks for your input on my family's life choices.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, If you've read and enjoyed any of my works, please leave a review on Amazon. at January 17, 2019 10:52 AM (ANN96)
If those masters degrees don't increase your collective earning capacity beyond the cost (plus interest) of acquiring them, they were a bad investment, no?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2019 11:06 AM (nPGq2)
"Did Trump Bribe Drudge Poll"
Matt has jump the shark finally, done with it.
Posted by: IP at January 17, 2019 10:45 AM (cn3ZE)
I think it's funny that everyone on the left is all "Trump did this or that illegal to steal the election"
Willfully ignoring the fact that he campaigned like a bastard in all the places he needed to win. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Hillary was lazily gliding around California and Illinois running up meaningless popular vote counts, in between losing bouts with gravity.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 17, 2019 11:08 AM (ymnmz)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at January 17, 2019 11:09 AM (QviAd)
Yep; Didn't figure out that it might not be a good idea to piss off the old guy who's head of the other branch of Congress.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2019 11:09 AM (AllCR)
Everything is relative, so in comparison to what? If your child is a talented engineer but hates organized classes, there are plenty of certification programs to do on your own time that lead to highly paid jobs. No college degree required. If, however, your kid is interested in lab work or something more cutting edge, college and graduate degrees are an absolute must-have.
If your kid is just serving time, maybe taking sociology classes or something, then I completely agree. That kid should join the military and see the world. Grow up a little, manage some people, maybe gain some technical skills, and he/she will finish with a little money in the bank for college (if it makes sense) and lots more maturity.
My kids have a PhD and three masters between them, and zero debt. But it took dedication, planning and hard work on every one's part to pull it off.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, watching DC theatre at January 17, 2019 11:09 AM (LISuA)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 17, 2019 11:10 AM (+y/Ru)
My point is you don't even need a marketable skill to benefit from working rather than continuing a useless (majority of degrees offered) 100k education.
Shit. When I went to college I could already build a house. Using not much more than a string a shovel and a hammer.
A feat which none of my architecture profs could have accomplished.
Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2019 11:10 AM (AU1m0)
No kidding. Trump worked like a maniac to get votes while Hillzabub acted like your typical R hopeful. He also didn't acknowledge any demographic as being a wholly-owned subsidiary of the dem party.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 17, 2019 11:10 AM (uquGJ)
I always took that as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in action. We threw off that English idea that if your father and grandfather were day laborers or butlers, you had to be one too. Here a poor kid can rise as far as their smarts and their ambition can take them, assuming some bad luck like ill health doesn't put the breaks on it. It doesn't mean everyone will be president some day. But yeah, the idea got perverted into "Society owes you the life you want because you want it".
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at January 17, 2019 11:10 AM (zmIJL)
Would you consider them average?
Because they sound exceptional, to me.
The average person would benefit much more from real work experience than they do from college.
Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2019 11:12 AM (AU1m0)
Experts say the shutdown may be giving scammers and companies who routinely break the rules the upper hand.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
As if it was worth a damn before?
Posted by: Brother Cavil at January 17, 2019 11:12 AM (AM1GF)
Posted by: IC
Michelle Obama is going to play Maria in the Westside Story remake.
And she's going to be Cleopatra too.
Posted by: JT at January 17, 2019 11:15 AM (x98e1)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 17, 2019 11:17 AM (0O7c5)
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Posted by: Richard at January 17, 2019 11:20 AM (hUZo5)
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Tonight, tonight won't be just any night
Tonight I'll steal the morning star!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 17, 2019 11:21 AM (+y/Ru)
I don't have a PhD because I suck at math and couldn't grasp it no matter what, so I never even had grad school on my radar.
Of course, then my family decided I wasn't even worthy of a 4 year undergrad degree, so...
Posted by: Hikaru at January 17, 2019 11:25 AM (AwlSx)
Posted by: Hikaru at January 17, 2019 11:26 AM (AwlSx)
Or perhaps the reaper man is walking through a fallow field with a few scraggly wheat stalks to get to the real field.
Either way, odd, at least for this guy who spent some time on a farm. This suburbanite is not claiming to be a farm raised kid, but that strange wheat just bugged me.
Posted by: Matthew H Iskra at January 17, 2019 11:31 AM (0MpOC)
Because they sound exceptional, to me.
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That gets determined at the summing up of lives. Not now. Right now, they're just just people, like all the other Americans. Lets see what kind of parents and citizens they make.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, watching DC theatre at January 17, 2019 11:37 AM (LISuA)
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