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Chimera-gui posted:Oi vey: Scenario 2: 1970 - Mark wins. He gives Johnny a concussion that goes un-diagnosed, and 6 hours later Johnny dies in his bed. Mark is sent to prison for manslaughter when the autopsy reveals what happened. Probably best to let boys be boys though right?
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gradenko_2000 posted:http://www.lifehack.org/articles/money/10-differences-between-middle-class-and-rich-people.html?dgs=1&fb_ref=Default quote:1. The rich are literally addicted to capital gains.
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 IF YELLING AT PEOPLE CURED MENTAL ILLNESSES THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE'D DO AND NOT THIS ROUNDABOUT loving WITH A BILLION PILLS AND A TRILLION HOURS OF THERAPY BULLSHIT. 
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Feb 4, 2015 00:33
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Ratoslov posted:
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Feb 4, 2015 00:35
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Chimera-gui posted:Oi vey: I got in a fight with a kid from HS because some dipshit was making comments about my family. This is in the year 2006. I got an in school suspension (standard policy), and the principal threatened the kid with an even larger suspension if he as much even attempted to talk to me again. This meme reminds me though, of this creepy dude they put me with when I worked at Kohl's for a total of 3 days. He was a recently retired principal/former football coach, and I was stuck folding clothes with the guy. He actually BRAGGED about how he enjoyed hitting children, and had the ability to use physical discipline "Those were the days" was one of the phrases he used.. (I quit that job because of him, among other things). The amazing part is? Every person who I've spoken to who is my father's age (Boomer) and younger don't support the use of that type of punishment. (this included registered republicans). They also looked on in horror when I described this person.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:So you're saying Nationwide's Superbowl ad was ill-advised? What? I don't even know what that ad even is. I Just think that strawman blue guys were in the right for beating up red guy, which lets be honest is probably something the people who would echo that call deserve
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Feb 4, 2015 00:47
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ZenVulgarity posted:I'd understand the "religious right" if they were overwhelmingly anti abortion while also being for things like the ACA and other social projects My relative was also ranting about that very thing, they even said that if a high school girl got pregnant she should be cared for by her parents.
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Inspector Hound posted:The gun thing is kind of just weird (I went to school in a gun friendly area to say the least and every time a gun ended up at the school it was a big deal), but the others have an element of truth. Zero tolerance policies against fighting can get the victim of a straight up assault in trouble, and Ritalin is famously overprescribed. Schools don't prescribe Ritalin and thus including it in a list of reasons those human being communists are destroying Americas schools is stupid bullshit that they're only including because what is mental illness those kids just need a whupping
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Feb 4, 2015 01:15
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Jack is a stupid piece of poo poo who left an unsecured weapon in plain view in his car. GUILLOTINE.
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Feb 4, 2015 01:33
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High school starts at ungodly early times, what teenager is able to function, let alone go quail hunting before school?
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Coffee And Pie posted:High school starts at ungodly early times, what teenager is able to function, let alone go quail hunting before school? It's code the square rear end principal doesn't understand. They're going out to the woods to smoke dope and have sex before school. That's the only thing teenagers are gonna get up early for. I'm sure dalereed can learn you a thing or two about this.
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Feb 4, 2015 02:22
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Man I remember back in the 1970's, when flocks of quail were a common site at inner city schools.
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Feb 4, 2015 02:25
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Guavanaut posted:quote: Good job! I was going to try to do this myself but I thought, better read the newest page of the thread first.
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A similar situation to number one actually did happen at my school, but not quite the same way. This was back in I think '94, a friend of mine had his car break down so he borrowed his dad's truck to go to school. The school was having a random contraband search that day though, and my friend didn't realize his dad had left his hunting shotgun in the truck. The cops found the shotgun and the school was going to expel him, but his dad stepped in and explained the situation, and a few people from his church stood up for him, and basically he just got a "Don't make this mistake again" type warning. I find it pretty hard to believe that if this same thing happened today, that it would resemble what this image says in any way.
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Feb 4, 2015 03:39
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Coffee And Pie posted:High school starts at ungodly early times, what teenager is able to function, let alone go quail hunting before school? Speaking from experience, it's the kind of teenager who will drop out of high school in junior year to go work on pappy's farm or pursue a career in professional rodeo (two groups which collectively accounted for about 2/3 of my high school class, which is why almost none of the people I started out going to school with show up in my senior class photo).
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Twelve by Pies posted:A similar situation to number one actually did happen at my school, but not quite the same way. This was back in I think '94, a friend of mine had his car break down so he borrowed his dad's truck to go to school. The school was having a random contraband search that day though, and my friend didn't realize his dad had left his hunting shotgun in the truck. The cops found the shotgun and the school was going to expel him, but his dad stepped in and explained the situation, and a few people from his church stood up for him, and basically he just got a "Don't make this mistake again" type warning. In today's 'Zero Tolerance' age, they would expel you just to make sure. Never mind the fact that you're pretty much damning a student to a subpar education because now they got expelled and they'll probably resent the institution for the rest of their life. I remember something from my high school but I heard about it second hand where a student in our speech class gave a demonstration about proper gun maintenance. Of course all of the proper precautions were taken: gun had to be escorted by a parent, in a case, etc. Back in the late 90s you could actually get a school to allow a firearm on campus. This wasn't any podunk high school either, it was a private, middle class high school. Today, well...I wouldn't expect it at any school.
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Is the 'beat the poo poo out of each other, become friends' meme a thing that even happens? Whenever I got into a fight during high school we just hated each other until after graduating.
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AShamefulDisplay posted:Is the 'beat the poo poo out of each other, become friends' meme a thing that even happens? Whenever I got into a fight during high school we just hated each other until after graduating. I've been in abusive friendships and relationships. 
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AShamefulDisplay posted:Is the 'beat the poo poo out of each other, become friends' meme a thing that even happens? Whenever I got into a fight during high school we just hated each other until after graduating. One of my best bro's is a dude who was a hardcore bully the first 2 years we knew each other starting from the first grade. He would stomp the poo poo out of my feet constantly. Then he stopped being so lovely in like the 3rd grade, and we've been buds like ever since then. It happens, but I think it depends on what age. It's probably a lot harder for that to happen in high school. ErIog fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Feb 4, 2015 |
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Feb 4, 2015 05:06
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ErIog posted:One of my best bro's is a dude who was a hardcore bully the first 2 years we knew each other starting from the first grade. He would stomp the poo poo out of my feet constantly. Then he stopped being so lovely in like the 3rd grade, and we've been buds like ever since then. It happens, but I think it depends on what age. It's probably a lot harder for that to happen in high school. Yeah, not every fight in high school is like Rocky 1 and 2.
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ErIog posted:One of my best bro's is a dude who was a hardcore bully the first 2 years we knew each other starting from the first grade. He would stomp the poo poo out of my feet constantly. Then he stopped being so lovely in like the 3rd grade, and we've been buds like ever since then. It happens, but I think it depends on what age. It's probably a lot harder for that to happen in high school. One of the nicest people I've met out of High School was a guy who stabbed 36 people with a compass (no one was really hurt though, just gabbed in the arm with what is not much more than a pencil). He was expelled for this, ended up in gaol. After a couple of years away he came out the nicest bloke you could hope to meet. In a grade of 250 people I can't think of person I'd rather talk to now. This is obviously going to be the exception that proves the rule but it does happen.
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Chimera-gui posted:Oi vey: All three examples are presented with two extremes. I don't think the image is intended to be taken too seriously. AShamefulDisplay posted:Is the 'beat the poo poo out of each other, become friends' meme a thing that even happens? Whenever I got into a fight during high school we just hated each other until after graduating. My husband's got into a fist fight with someone in second grade and then they were BFFs through high school. They kind of grew apart after graduation, but that's besides the point. Ratoslov posted:
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Feb 4, 2015 05:36
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Zeitgueist posted:Man I remember back in the 1970's, when flocks of quail were a common site at inner city schools. Back when I was a boy, children were all white country boys; now they're all urban hip hop listeners.
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Chimera-gui posted:Oi vey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster Pre-1970.
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Get ready to see this all over the place: Some San Francisco bookstore is announcing that they're going out of business because of the new wage laws. https://ricochet.com/sf-raises-minimum-wage-zero/ Just FYI, if you do the math, it shows that they're paying their employees ALL minimum wage and that payroll is 50% of their business expenses. For reference, 50% is typical for the healthcare industry where you're employing an army of highly skilled professionals. Retail is typically around 18%
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On the subject of "TAXIN ME BECAUSE I WON'T USE FASCIST NAZI OBAMACARE", I did my taxes yesterday and the no-insurance penalty ended up waived. My husband had no insurance for the entire year (work didn't offer it) and I only had pregnancy Medicaid, which ended in September, but the kids were on Medicaid so maybe that bumped it up to "covered for X% of the year". I dunno. I guess the point is if you live in a lovely red state with no Medicaid expansion or care too much about your FREEDUMZ to use Obamacare, have kids, they qualify for Medicaid/CHIP automatically and will get the penalty waived if they're on it. 
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Get ready to see this all over the place: Easy enough to counter: It's a bitch to keep bookstores in business these days, much less genre bookstores. I would wager Amazon is more to blame for their demise than their ungrateful workers who want enough money to afford any kind of housing at all in San Francisco. The fact that healthcare ate up that much of their budget must mean that their profit margins were razor thin and ultimately unsustainable.
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ProperGanderPusher posted:Easy enough to counter: It's a bitch to keep bookstores in business these days, much less genre bookstores. I would wager Amazon is more to blame for their demise than their ungrateful workers who want enough money to afford any kind of housing at all in San Francisco. The fact that healthcare ate up that much of their budget must mean that their profit margins were razor thin and ultimately unsustainable. Did you read the article? It has nothing to do with healthcare. Also it sounds like they have way too many employees. I've known a few independent niche book stores and they were all the owner and like maybe one other person working so they could have a day off without closing the store. It sounds like they were hosed anyway and this just makes an easy justification for closing. E: Also that article is loving insufferable. "Hurr hurr the TRUE minimum wage is zero." You can practically hear the author sucking his own dick as you read it. mr. mephistopheles fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Feb 4, 2015 |
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Some San Francisco bookstore is announcing that they're going out of business because of the new wage laws. It's great when these things are self-debunking. quote:The specialty shop had survived the dot-com boom and bust, the rise of Amazon and e-books... quote:But books are a special case because the price is set by the publisher and printed on the book. Furthermore, for years part of the challenge for brick-and-mortar bookstores is that companies like Amazon.com have made it difficult to get people to pay retail prices. Gee, seems like they're having trouble competing with the rise of Amazon and e-books, and have not actually survived it. Also, the timing on this also debunks it. quote:In November, San Francisco voters overwhelmingly passed a measure that will increase the minimum wage within the city to $15 per hour by 2018. quote:Consequently we will be closing our doors no later than March 31st [2015]. Yeah, that impending minimum wage increase 3 years from now sure is driving a nail into their coffin. I'll give them brownie points for not only looking at quarterly profits, but projecting 12 quarters out seems like a bit much.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Did you read the article? It has nothing to do with healthcare. I just read the blog post from the owner. http://borderlands-books.blogspot.com/2015/02/borderlands-books-to-close-in-march.html This sound like just a way to get some more business, the guy has a cafe next door. I'm guessing that the bookstore brings in a huge chunk of his customers.
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ErIog posted:Yeah, that impending minimum wage increase 3 years from now sure is driving a nail into their coffin. I'll give them brownie points for not only looking at quarterly profits, but projecting 12 quarters out seems like a bit much. Hahaha holy poo poo, I didn't catch that bit. How much more obvious could it be that they were going out of business anyway and this is just a convenient excuse. Dr. Arbitrary posted:This sound like just a way to get some more business, the guy has a cafe next door. I'm guessing that the bookstore brings in a huge chunk of his customers. I'm guessing the cafe next door is the only reason the bookstore didn't go out of business five years ago.
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I stopped by there a couple years back when visiting some friends. I remember being surprised they were still in business. Their shelves were super bare and the staff didn't seem very knowledgeable about what stock they had. I got the impression they were a cafe that occasionally sold books.
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Yeah, it's another case of people who are not very good at business deciding it can't be their fault that their pet project isn't profitable anymore. In a lot of ways it's not the fault of local bookstores that Amazon hosed their business like Wal-Mart hosed local mom and pop specialty stores. However, there comes a point where the writing is on the wall for a business model not being viable anymore, and as a person who runs a business you have to change up or pack up. For bookstores, that writing was on the wall literally years ago. You don't get to blame a change in the minimum wage 3 years from now for you standing by while your business model imploded 3 years earlier.
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ErIog posted:Yeah, it's another case of people who are not very good at business deciding it can't be their fault that their pet project isn't profitable anymore. In a lot of ways it's not the fault of local bookstores that Amazon hosed their business like Wal-Mart hosed local mom and pop specialty stores. However, there comes a point where the writing is on the wall for a business model not being viable anymore, and as a person who runs a business you have to change up or pack up. For bookstores, that writing was on the wall literally years ago. You don't get to blame a change in the minimum wage 3 years from now for you standing by while your business model imploded 3 years earlier. Never underestimate the ability of people to be loving idiots especially when their paychecks are at stake. Aside from the fact that people tend to resist change in the first place whenever you hear stories like this it's the type of person who absolutely will not adapt. There is a certain level of entitlement as well; as in, I made this business and it exists and was successful, I should just have people hand me money forever. It doesn't matter if the writing is on the wall; they won't read it. Then when the business inevitably fails they find somebody else to blame because gently caress you I worked hard to make this business and I work hard to make it work. I'd be working hard if I went out and dug a 90' x 90' x 30' hole by hand using nothing but a masonry trowel but that doesn't mean I deserve to be showered in cash and accolades for it.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Never underestimate the ability of people to be loving idiots especially when their paychecks are at stake. Aside from the fact that people tend to resist change in the first place whenever you hear stories like this it's the type of person who absolutely will not adapt. There is a certain level of entitlement as well; as in, I made this business and it exists and was successful, I should just have people hand me money forever. It doesn't matter if the writing is on the wall; they won't read it. Then when the business inevitably fails they find somebody else to blame because gently caress you I worked hard to make this business and I work hard to make it work. Yeah, the thing that came to my mind is that expecting to be able to run this kind of niche business in a failing market like brick and mortar physical books is an amazingly privileged point of view. It'd be nice if we had a functioning healthcare system along with a good safety net so that when things like this happened they would be able to take it in stride and bounce back better. GOP talks non-stop about wanting to help small* businesses, but literally fights against every policy that leads to small business creation in lots of other developed countries. US is poo poo to start a business in, but not for the reasons the GOP always talks about. It's because if you fail then you might not be able to go to the doctor if you're sick. The only people who can create businesses comfortably in the US are privileged people with existing capital or a spouse to support them. On the topic of your gaping hole, it'd be nice if you could at least get healthcare and a mincome while doing that if it made you happy. Who knows, maybe you'll spawn a market for it, and it can become a legit business. Artisanal foundations or some poo poo. *small as defined by number of workers, and so you get financial firms with 12 people doing leveraged buyouts and loving around with oil futures raking in millions of dollars defined as small businesses. ErIog fucked around with this message at 09:58 on Feb 4, 2015 |
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1970: Jack gets sent to loving NAM because he does not have a powerful enough father to defer it.
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Fulchrum posted:Back from a trip. Part 2! You can play golf cheaply if you try. eric fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Feb 4, 2015 |
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McDowell posted:
This is probably the best way of refuting this specific quote, but it is really hard to go after people who say "Nazis = socialists!!!!" in a disingenuous way: The Nazis did regard themselves as socialists, but not in any way we use the term today, and certainly not in a leftist sense. They basically conflated socialism with modernism, which was en vogue for both the far right and far left at the time in Europe, so they thought they were creating a "new socialism", which was anti-Marxist at its very core. It's worth noting however that fascists were also fundamentally opposed to liberal capitalism, just not for the reasons Glenn Beck or anyone on the right trying to characterize them as leftists implies.
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eric posted:You can play golf cheaply if you try. Its part of this long running thing where they constantly disparage Obama for
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