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August 15, 2012 at 6:55 PM in reply to: Good fact based WSJ article on who pays taxes in America #750354
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Participanti have had strong demand for leather gloves lately. Ive bought 3 pair recently. nice work gloves.
I wear them all the time, just around …
I think they are going to help preserve my hands from looking like old people’s hands.i am trying to alert the market to keep up glove production.
maybe more of us should start wearing gloves more.
good int he car when the sterring wheels hot. think on how much sun your hands get.
try it.
Participantim prejudiced against the camry because i dont like the word camry.
i do like the words Accord and Civic.
i despise the word corolla. I am all right with Supra.
I always felt that Prelude was somehow sexual…like foreplay.
Odyssey is all right, but i always think homer’s odyssey, and it makes their minivan seem dangerous.
Sienna strikes me as wrong.
I also hate the word prius. lexus and i also despise pretty much any made up word
Participantmake compost. need some worms…
Participant1988 i think i had exactly 358.00 in thebank
Participanti had no sense of humor then
Participantabove article exactly expresses how i felt when i left NYC forever in 1988.
Participant8.4 Million New Yorkers Suddenly Realize New York City A Horrible Place To Live
‘We’re Getting The Hell Out Of This Sewer,’ Entire Populace Reports
SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 | ISSUE 46•35
NEW YORK—At 4:32 p.m. Tuesday, every single resident of New York City decided to evacuate the famed metropolis, having realized it was nothing more than a massive, trash-ridden hellhole that slowly sucks the life out of every one of its inhabitants.
With audible murmurs of “This is no way to live,” “What the hell am I doing here—I hate it here,” and “Fuck this place. Fuck this horrible place,” all 8.4 million citizens in each of the five boroughs packed up their belongings and told reporters they would rather blow their brains out with a shotgun than spend another waking moment in this festering cesspool of filth and scum and sadness.
By 5:15 p.m. there was gridlock traffic on the outbound sides of the Holland and Lincoln tunnels, and the area’s three major airports were flooded with New Yorkers, all of whom said they wanted to go anyplace where the pressure of 20 million tons of concrete wasn’t constantly suffocating them.
“I always had this perverted sense of pride because I was managing to scrape by here,” said Brooklyn resident Andrew McQuade, who, after watching two subway rats gnawing on a third bloody rat carcass, finally determined that New York City was a giant sprawling cancer. “Well, fuck that. I don’t need to pay $2,000 a month to share a doghouse-sized apartment with some random Craigslist dipshit to prove my worth. I want to live like a goddamn human being.”
“You see this?” added McQuade, pointing at a real estate listing for a duplex in Hagerstown, MD. “Two bedrooms, two baths, a den—a fucking den—and a patio. Twelve hundred a month. That’s total, not per person.”
According to residents, the mass exodus was triggered by a number of normal, everyday New York City events. For Erin Caldwell of Manhattan, an endlessly honking car horn sent her over the edge, causing her to go into a blind rage and scream “shut up!” at the vehicle as loud as she could until her voice went hoarse; for Danny Tremba of Queens it was being cursed at for walking too slow; and for Paul Ogden, also of Queens, it was his overreaction to somebody walking too slow.
Other incidents that prompted citizens to pick up and leave included the sight of garbage bags stacked 5 feet high on the sidewalk; the realization that being alone among millions of anonymous people is actually quite horrifying; a blaring siren that droned on and fucking on; muddy, refuse-filled puddles that have inexplicably not dried in three years; the thought of growing into a person whose meanness and cynicism is cloaked in a kind of holier-than-thou brand of sarcasm that the rest of the world finds nauseating; and all the goddamn people.
In addition, 3 million New Yorkers reportedly left the city because they realized the phrase “Only in New York” is actually just a defense mechanism used to convince themselves that seeing a naked man take a shit on a park bench is somehow endearing, or part of some shared cultural experience.
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New York City
“I was sitting on my stoop, drinking coffee, and out of nowhere this crazy-looking woman just starts screaming, ‘I am inside all of you,’ over and over,” Bronx resident Sarah Perez, 37, said. “Then, we both had this moment where we looked at each other and realized, okay, we have to get out of here.”“This place sucks,” Manhattan resident Woody Allen, 74, told reporters. “It just fucking sucks.”
When fleeing New Yorkers were asked if they would miss the city’s iconic landmarks, most responded that Central Park is just a pathetic excuse for experiencing actual nature, that the Brooklyn Bridge is great but it’s just a fucking bridge, that nobody goes to the Met anyway, and that living in a dingy, grime-caked apartment while exhaust fumes from an idling truck seep through your bedroom window isn’t worth slightly bigger bagels.
“This is no place to raise a kid, that’s for sure,” said 32-year-old Brandon Rushing, a lifelong New Yorker. “I grew up here and I turned into a giant asshole. Why would I want that for my son?”
“Plus, we’re the place most likely to get nuked by a dirty bomb in a terrorist attack,” he added. “So that’s great. Also, it smells like shit here, and I’m not exaggerating. You’ll just be walking around and it starts smelling like human shit, and it just fills your nostrils and you breathe in shit for like 20 seconds.”
Before departing by private helicopter, Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke with members of the media to address the situation.
“You know what the greatest city in the world is?” Bloomberg asked reporters. “Scottsdale, Arizona. It’s clean, it’s not too big, it’s got a couple streets with shops and restaurants, and the people there aren’t fucking insane. This place is fucking insane. And by the way, that’s not a reason to like it. Anyone who says that is a delusional dirtbag.”
By Tuesday night, New York was completely abandoned. At press time, however, some 10 million Los Angeles–area residents, tired of their self-centered, laid-back culture and lack of four distinct seasons, and yearning for the hustle and bustle of East Coast life, had already begun repopulating the city.
Participantmy wife didn’t really care about my car I don’t think. She knew right away i was cheap when i brought a cracked up coconut to the weird foreign movie we went to see. I wouldn’t have been interested in anyone unwilling to split a coconut anyway. In fact, i don’t really like most women. or men.
Participantwhy is my ipod not maneuverable when plugged into the car. it just plays. won’t let me move around. I’ve just been going straight through 4,459 songs on the shuffle…
Participanttoo many other people can be too much.
temecula is about perfect in space to human ratio.
Participantwell, the movie CRASH showed that even people in vehicles can meet.
August 14, 2012 at 7:12 AM in reply to: OT: Compelling new Reason to never borrow a dime for school #750257ParticipantI left law school in 1995 with $95,000.00 in debt. Not sure what that is inflation-adjusted. Probably a lot.
Je ne regrette rien, but, I easily could’ve and froma financial planner’s perspective, shouldve, borrowed less. If I did it over, I’d have atteneded a different school and left with 20-30k debt, if that.
Timing is everything. That debt was a good deal at the time for me, in retrospect. It still might be a good deal. It’s just, there’s less room to change direction nowadays. You better be damn sure what you’re doing when you have 250,000 in student debt.
BG, not sure about the “under 45” criteria. You could be 50 and easily work till you’re 80.
My Mom is older than that and stillworks most days.
Indeed, perhaps the debt and the degree would give some individuals a purpose, mission and reason to keep living!
Participantcloth. but my last honda was a thin cloth without any a/c. I was too cheap to buy a/c with the car, later paid for aftermarket a/c which always sucked, then broke. I would say about 25-50 gallons of sweat soaked into the drivers seat over the decades.
That’s why i’m willing to let it go for the low low price of $750.00. And why I thinking that car pocho item is a good idea. I do have a/c now, but I am often soaked with sweat. Just a giant wet creature desperately trying to cool itself.
Participantso, ahh, the 1989 Honda Civic is for sale. $750. Has a newish timing belt and water pump almost worth that. Comes with 30 day warranty on engine and transmission! 35 mpg.
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