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Ah, the fifties, when tobacco industries could say whatever bullshit they wanted without anyone calling them on it, and when DDT was sprayed everywhere, even on sidewalks where children happened to be playing.  Honestly poo poo isn't all that better for tobacco these days, but that might be because my definition of "better" would have big tobacco execs on trail before the Hauge.
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Klaus88 posted:Ah, the fifties, when tobacco industries could say whatever bullshit they wanted without anyone calling them on it, and when DDT was sprayed everywhere, even on sidewalks where children happened to be playing. Even better when they fought to protect the right to leaded gasoline.
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Oct 26, 2015 19:55
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Dr Christmas posted:kids will still point and laugh and call you a fag when you mess up. Been meaning to apologize for that.
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Oct 26, 2015 19:57
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I think a bigger problem than participation trophies is that kids are pretty keen on the fact that nobody gives poo poo about their non-sports trophies. My math olympiad medals from 5th grade didn't mean poo poo to me, or were actively embarrassing. Maybe it's changed since the 90s but back then kids were not generally proud of their academic achievements, be it in math competitions or science fairs or whatever. I do, however, still have my 20 year old math olympiad t-shirt and it is stylishly tight and chic these days. It's easy to forget, as an adult with no kids, how important sports are to boys' socialization, and how ruinous being bad at them can be. If you wanted to find something all mass shooters have in common, I bet sucking at sports is one.
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Oh hey I got one today: quote:This is too funny! "People in the U.P., in general, have a warped sense of humor. This is a highway near Ishpeming, MI. A deer was hit there. The couch was dumped there previously. Day two the deer was on the couch. Day three the end table and lamp showed up. Day four the TV and TV stand showed up. The County Sheriff had to call MI DOT because of all the people stopping to take pictures. The cardboard caption in front of the deer on the couch reads, "Sorry Hunters. Obama ruined health care. We can't afford to have injured hunters on our conscience, so I'm staying home! Sorry, the Deer."
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That thing deserves an award for being so unfunny that it makes other things that would be funny boring. I have to keep scrolling to look at it because, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, my brain refuses to accept anything could be so utterly antithetical to humor and I'm forced to conclude that I somehow imagined it. Keeshhound fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Oct 26, 2015 |
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Oct 26, 2015 20:49
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I honestly don't get the joke.
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Oct 26, 2015 20:54
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It was mildly amusing right up to the point where the cardboard sign exists. Like the "get well soon" balloon in a dead raccoon's hand. But... gotta put politics into it. Edit: From a few pages back, but I had this show up in my feed. Did you notice that if you look carefully you can see an erased answer? And that erased answer looks even more like something that would get a -1 point for getting the correct answer, but showing your work wrong? How much do you want to bet, little Jimmy wrote "No because 75 is not close to 68 or 73" and then had mom change it to score some political points. Val Helmethead fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Oct 26, 2015 |
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Oct 26, 2015 20:56
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Unzip and Attack posted:I honestly don't get the joke. I think it's saying "Don't hurt yourselves trying to kill me"?
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Oct 26, 2015 21:02
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Considering the size and ferocity of the far-right movement in this country, I wonder why we're not getting stories of all the people who are dying and getting terrible healthcare as a direct result of Obamacare. Whatever could be the reason... (Seriously though, I'm confused, because wouldn't you think they would at least make some up?)
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Oct 26, 2015 21:20
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Mellow Seas posted:Considering the size and ferocity of the far-right movement in this country, I wonder why we're not getting stories of all the people who are dying and getting terrible healthcare as a direct result of Obamacare. Well that deer on the couch isn't looking too good.
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Oct 26, 2015 21:22
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SSNeoman posted:Oh hey I got one today: This is the most Yooper "joke" I've ever seen.
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I'm sure I found this in this thread, but reposting so we all remember someone actually did make a bingo card for racial incidents:
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I touched the poop.  I know I got trollish with the second paragraph of my second reply, but seriously, how do you respond to that?
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SSNeoman posted:Oh hey I got one today: This is some hard-core yooper poo poo right here.
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Zeroisanumber posted:This is some hard-core yooper poo poo right here. its pretty much purestrain yooper, right down to the already snowy ground
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SSNeoman posted:Oh hey I got one today: Unzip and Attack posted:I honestly don't get the joke. It looks like a lovely, political version of this.
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Oct 26, 2015 22:29
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Jabarto posted:I touched the poop. You should probably point out that troops make well over 15 an hour when you factor in things like the fantastic healthcare we get, if you live on base (as a single Airman) your housing is paid for and your food is paid for and if you move off base you get extra money for food and housing. I make $13 an hour right now and my paychecks here are still smaller then when I was active duty and living off base.
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SalTheBard posted:You should probably point out that troops make well over 15 an hour when you factor in things like the fantastic healthcare we get, if you live on base (as a single Airman) your housing is paid for and your food is paid for and if you move off base you get extra money for food and housing. I make $13 an hour right now and my paychecks here are still smaller then when I was active duty and living off base. It might be too late for that, Sven just said this to me: quote:Listen you little cock sucker. I happen to be a Veteran as well are two of my brothers, my father, all my uncle, my grandfathers and so on all the way back to the Lewis and Clark expedition you disrespectful little turd.
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Oct 26, 2015 23:35
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Stinky_Pete posted:Anyway,
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Jabarto posted:It might be too late for that, Sven just said this to me: Also if you don't have enough money just go to school for something better. You know, school, that totally free thing that you probably have time for.
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Oct 26, 2015 23:38
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Jabarto posted:It might be too late for that, Sven just said this to me: Call him a welfare queen for living off government benefits like school funding and healthcare. I personally think that everyone should get those but I bet his type doesn't see it that way.
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Jabarto posted:It might be too late for that, Sven just said this to me:  I guess you shouldn't have thrown in the "ARE TROOPS" line. Although the response probably would've been pretty much the same.I'd advise that you "sever" but it sounds like he's probably gonna take care of that for you. e: Also, "Sven Gineer?" Pretty weak, social fixer. "Svengineer" is not a word.
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I pointed out the military housing/food thing to him, we'll see what he says. I was tempted to steal a line from this thread and say "You seem angry, I'm sorry if I triggered you" because I would bet money he's the type to get pissed at it, but at this point I think I'll get the same result no matter what I say to him.
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Jabarto posted:I pointed out the military housing/food thing to him, we'll see what he says. I was tempted to steal a line from this thread and say "You seem angry, I'm sorry if I triggered you" because I would bet money he's the type to get pissed at it, but at this point I think I'll get the same result no matter what I say to him. You should say this anyway, because it's hilarious
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Jabarto posted:It might be too late for that, Sven just said this to me:
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Chance of him literally threatening to shoot you if you use the "trigger" line: 75%
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Jabarto posted:It might be too late for that, Sven just said this to me: He's clearly never worked in any kind of food or catering business. Since a) he clearly believes that someone sitting in an office that happens to be on a military base is working harder than a server or a bartender or a short-order cook (all of which can be tough and incredibly stressful jobs) and b) any business in that sector that has labour as its #1 expenditure is shittily-run and has bigger problems to deal with than a few dollars an hour wage rise.
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CommieGIR posted:I have a three year old, and time outs work wonders, especially if you are consistent. When I started my first ever nanny job, the parents asked me what I would do if the kid in question misbehaved. I knew it was a trick question because the kid was loving seven months old. You don't discipline a loving seventh month old. But they asked because another prospective girl had said "a smack on the hand." Seriously timeouts worked with all four of the kids I helped raise. Hell, sometimes the meltdown from being told "timeout corner" was almost as bad as the freakouts my brother and I gave when we got spanked. I would never ever do that to a kid, it petrified me when I was one and I remember the fear more than the pain.
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I agree that no one who is not risking their lives or contributing to the greater well-being of the country should receive the same pay as our men and women overseas. That's why I support a massive redistribution of the wealth of the parasitic capitalist class.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Seriously timeouts worked with all four of the kids I helped raise. Hell, sometimes the meltdown from being told "timeout corner" was almost as bad as the freakouts my brother and I gave when we got spanked. I would never ever do that to a kid, it petrified me when I was one and I remember the fear more than the pain. I just want to beat up kids in a socially acceptable manner. Is that so wrong?
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Samuel Clemens posted:I just want to beat up kids in a socially acceptable manner. Is that so wrong? Just be a cop than, seems to work. You even get to kill them and people will insist your a hero
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Cowslips Warren posted:When I started my first ever nanny job, the parents asked me what I would do if the kid in question misbehaved. I say trouble, because whenever I bring this up with family members they always say "Well that's because [you/those kids/that family branch] were always well-behaved and never needed one!"
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My dad's still on a role. I got a Killary Clinton meme and "The only military craft launched on 9/11/12 in response to Benghazi was air force one taking Obama to a vegas fund raiser!"
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Julio Cruz posted:He's clearly never worked in any kind of food or catering business. Since a) he clearly believes that someone sitting in an office that happens to be on a military base is working harder than a server or a bartender or a short-order cook (all of which can be tough and incredibly stressful jobs) and b) any business in that sector that has labour as its #1 expenditure is shittily-run and has bigger problems to deal with than a few dollars an hour wage rise. This is how my day went (on a typical day) of being an Air Force Communications Project Manager: 7:30 - 8:30 - Daily Meeting to recap status updates on our current projects 8:30 - 10:30 - Contact my points of contact on all my various projects to get status updates 10:30 - 11:30 - Surf SA 11:30 - 12:30 - Lunch 12:30 - 4:30 - Surf SA 5:30p - Midnight - Play World Of Warcraft I get paid less at a high stress job than I did at my low stress job where most of my day consisted of reading these here very forums. I also perused a WoW and EQ related forum as well. The bulk of the military jobs are menial desk jobs with a lot of downtime.
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DarkHorse posted:I've had trouble with my family, because most of the kids that weren't spanked have all grown up well-adjusted and successful, while those that got a spanking or a-whoopin' or the belt seemed to do incrementally and progressively worse. It seems like solid evidence (for the "data is the plural of anecdote" crowd at least) except for confounding factors like income, drug use, mental issues, divorce... There's also probably correlations between education/income of parents and use of corporal punishment that make it hard to separate contributing factors
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So this is Sven's response to my pointing out the food/housing allowance: quote:Bullshit it does. Again you are talking about things you know nothing about! You need an education about how the world works. I'm not sure if I'm impressed or disappointed that he didn't vomit bile at me again.
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McDonald's is always hiring and they totally give you more than 40 hours a week!
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Oct 27, 2015 01:48
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$1500 for a one bedroom apartment? Is this Colorado or Coronado?
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^^^also, does military not have COL adjustments? Yeah, as someone who worked multiple crappy retail jobs, lol at thinking someplace like that would ever give you overtime (or even 40 hours) unless the world was ending. You could be the only dude in the store but if they realize they're going to have to pay you OT they will kick your rear end out at exactly 40hrs. Also having a steady paycheck like you would get from a military job. The two best things about finally getting a real job was a set schedule so I could actually plan something more than a week or two in advance and a steady paycheck. Those things make such a huge difference. Scruff McGruff fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Oct 27, 2015 |
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