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ParticipantWhy is that so horrible, scaredy? Your wife is 20 years older?
ParticipantOff the top of my head, in the US.
GE
Ford
Emerson Electric
Union Pacific
Westinghouse
Steinway & Sons (pianos)ParticipantBoth are equally stupid, agreed. Though I think that US “liberals” who want to ban smoking should love ISIS.
Participantscaredyclassic, I think IS has you beat to it…
http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/12/05/16/07/isis-burn-banned-cigarettes-and-alcohol-on-bonfires“ISIL has banned drinking and smoking in their occupied territories in Iraq and Syria because it violates Sharia Law.
In the photos – believed to have been taken in Tikrit, Iraq – armed jihadists wave the black ISIL flag while others load up blazing bonfires with whisky, beer can and cigarette packets.”
G-d is great!
ParticipantThe day they ban cigarettes, I’m moving to some third-world country where no one gives a fuck.
ParticipantFlyerInHI:
Depends which city center. London and Paris are much more expensive (to buy) than NYC. Berlin is about $400 per sq ft in a decent central area. About 1/2 to 1/3 the price of acceptable NYC property. East European city centers can be half to 1/3 that of Berlin, since incomes are correspondingly lower.
BTW – commuting 1 hour isn’t unheard of in the US 😉 How many people commute from Vista, Escondido, or La Mesa on clogged freeways into San Diego?
ParticipantNot trolling. Trolling is lying to elicit a reaction. I’m speaking my real opinion, as unpalatable as it may be to you. I didn’t say ALL COPS. I said this cop.
Actually, he’s worse than a thug. Thugs didn’t swear an oath to uphold the law. He did, he broke it, AND SOMEONE DIED AS THE RESULT OF HIS ACTIONS.
The only reason that he walked is that the grand jury was on Staten Island. If you knew Staten Island, you’d understand — place is stuck in the 1950s and not in a charming way.
It’s telling that their Congressman is a Tea Partier that’s under Federal investigation for corruption. He also threatened to throw a reporter off a balcony. Can’t make this stuff up — it’s all the bad stereotypes of Jersey Shore and Jerry Springer concentrated into an island in disputed territory, or perhaps NYC’s answer to Bakersfield 🙂
Fun times: http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/witnesses_say_skinhead_tries_t.html
More fun: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/22/racist-nypd-cop-michael-daragjati-sentenced-false-arrest-extortion-stop-and-frisk_n_1619812.html
Nice guy: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/01/rep-grimm-threatens-to-throw-reporter-off-balcony-on-camera/ParticipantExcept that chokeholds are banned by NYPD policy. Rightly so. It’s not only a question of the airway, but of damage to blood vessels, risk of vagal reflex (pressure on the vagus nerve alters heart rhythm), possible spinal damage.
You’re not talking about UFC or wrestling here, where the “victims” of the chokehold are examined by a doctor before they’re allowed to participate.
If multiple cops couldn’t cuff an out-of-shape man with a weak heart standing up, then perhaps their training should be examined.
And stop blaming the victim. A bit of cooperation with a rapist or mugger can also save your life. You can file a report later. I see this cop as no better than a rapist or other street thug.
Unless the behavior was observed by the cop personally, there was no need for an arrest or even a ticket. Just tell the guy “you’ve been bothering some people, move on.”
ParticipantNot everyone has the same level of health and stamina. Mine has never been good. I burnt out a long time ago, probably in my late 20s.
Probably did it to myself. Was in love with someone 20 years older, but neither of us were comfortable with the age difference. I went to sleep every night asking G-d to just age me twenty years. Maybe my prayer was answered finally.
ParticipantBecause I’m too tired and burnt out to use my brain any longer. I’d rather work with my hands for 8 hr per day, go home, and fall asleep on the couch with a beer in my hand and a cigarette in the ashtray.
BTW, sounds like the French do more short sales and fewer foreclosures:
http://www.connexionfrance.com/french-foreclosures-rarer-than-in-us-10064-news-article.htmlParticipantI don’t want to work in IT. Requires constant learning which takes too much effort.
Ideally, I’d be a full-time landlord, a carpenter, and/or a plumber. I’m tired of working with my brain — I’d prefer to use my hands strictly.
ParticipantBut, unlike most Americans, my main goal isn’t success or money. It’s simply creating a comfortable, controlled environment for myself where I have to do a minimal amount of work and live in a state of semi-retirement till I die 40-50 years from now.
As in: creating my own cradle to grave socialist state.
ParticipantBecause I have family here whom I love. No wife or kids, but still have a family.
And because there are still a lot of houses under foreclosure on the East Coast. Buy a few more, clean any skels living there out, rent them to humans, and be set with an income for life, able to live anywhere in the world.
That’s what I value above all else. Independence from anyone telling me what to do, except those people whom I might CHOOSE to give a flying rip about.
ParticipantI think it would be. It’s much easier, and legal!, to buy “friendship” abroad than in the US. Governments in Netherlands, Germany, and Czech Republic don’t care what consenting adults do with their time and money, unlike the US which is all up in people’s business. Except for Nevada, which is a stinking shithole in many other ways.
Being able to be with a hooker on a weekly basis, no dating game, no commitment would for sure relax me.
But buying friendship is less needed in (say) Germany, since people have enough free time to participate in things like hiking clubs where it’s easy to meet people of the correct gender.
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