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svelteParticipant[quote=evolusd][quote=svelte]
He is in at least two high risk categories: old age and obesity.
[/quote]He’s in a third high risk category: low income[/quote]
Ha! Perfect!
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]
Fucking asshole should be on hydroxychloroquinine.
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He’s already said he was taking hydroxychloroquinine!
That’s what makes this so deeply ironic!
Nature’s way of exposing bullsh!t!
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]There sometimes arent good people on both sides. Sometimes you need to fight the fascists.[/quote]
I’ve read through your posts here scaredy and have to say I’m with you brother.
I’m not sure I can trust my fellow man anymore. I always felt that Americans were somehow above the fray but that feeling has been ripped to shreds in four short years.
With our weekend evenings cut short this year, we’ve spent a lot of time out by the fire pit out back, just talking. In our family we have very religious conservatives and very wild liberals. We don’t always agree, but we’re always civil to one another.
We hit on a very interesting topic tonight: why does almost every couple consist of an aggressive person (usually the male) and a submissive person (usually the female)? Even in gay or lesbian couples that is true.
This past year we adopted a female mixed breed dog – a former TJ street dog. She was a wild one when we got her, but she is slowly learning the rules of civilization and has a heart of gold. But she is ultra protective of her pack. Someone crosses one of us, buddy, and watch out. She won’t back down for nothing and no one – she doesn’t care how big you are or how loud you bark. We have always had very mellow dogs so we are learning as much from her as she is from us. But you know what? I see a lot of me in her.
I guess where I’m going with all of this is that we as a country have to decide who we are. The moment is now. Are we going to stand up for what is right, or are we going to be submissive to bullying?
I can tell you without a doubt where I fall. I’m that dog from TJ.
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]really not buddhist to be wishing evil on people. i better stop. it’s not right.
i keep thinking at least an amputation, at elast have a leg or two chopped off. is that too much to ask?
[/quote]Well now about a day later he’s in Walter Reed “for a few days”.
He’ll get better though he’s too ornery to die.
Trump on Tuesday:
“I don’t wear masks like him. Every time you see him he’s got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away for a minute and he shows up with the biggest mask I’ve ever seen.”svelteParticipantApparently a lot happens overnight!
He is in at least two high risk categories: old age and obesity.
At 74, he faces 5x greater chance of hospitalization and 90x greater chance that 20 somethings.
Obesity gives a 3x greater chance of hospitalization
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]I would like to not know the winner until june 2022.[/quote]
It may end up that none of us do. 🙂
svelteParticipantI’m hoping the cans were at least sanitized before placement. Otherwise that entire place is going to have that old beer stank.
If he (and it has to be a guy) drinks that much beer, it might have that old beer smell anyway.
svelteParticipantsvelteParticipant[quote=Hobie]
Some guys prefer to take the smaller jobs and bang them out en masse. Lower level of quality expectation.
[/quote]Truth.
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Based on my limited personal experience with contractors: When they are working they simply don’t return calls. At all.When they are ready for another job, they will return your call. And probably expect to start working within a few days.
It’s not the way I would run a business. But to be fair, it’s not the kind of business I would run either.[/quote]
Also truth.
BTW, when I hear “pencilneck” I can’t help but think of the movie Ghostbusters.
svelteParticipantIn 2017-2019, I solicited bids to have $75K-100K worth of landscaping done.
It is amazing that I was willing to spend that amount of money and some landscape design companies would refuse to come out because it wasn’t in their wheelhouse for one reason or another. We live in a very wealthy part of the country where companies can turn down contracts of that size.
Some did come out and then never got back to us.
In the end, I received 3 bids out of the 10 or so companies I contacted.
I look at it this way – they weeded themselves out for me. If I couldn’t even get a bid out of them, why would I want them to work for me?
The contractor I eventually picked did a fabulous job and was very easy to work with. Very happy with the result.
svelteParticipantNo need for an apology. Things are truly strange right now.
If it makes you feel any better, I’m still convinced things get a little better, a little fairer all the time though sometimes it doesn’t feel that way.
I’ve been doing a lot of reading in old newspaper (they are archived online now and easy to search) and some of the stuff that happened 100 years ago shocks me when I read it, even though I know from history books that things like that happened. The papers reported them like it was no big deal.
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]
Dang unions. Providing flyer a good life. No more of that! Capital supreme, labor eat poo.
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Not sure if you’re implying that was what I was implying. Certainly was not. Or maybe that was just your opinion.
I belonged to a union for several years and made considerably more money that my peers doing essentially the same work. Can’t say I miss the union though because it did create a barrier between employees and management. We survived, but I’ve found a much more lucrative career that didn’t require a union.
I’ve known probably fifty pilots through my neighbors, friends, and customers and noticed a trend early on. Besides all having perfect vision (not a pair of glasses among them – even in old age!), almost every one was a former military pilot. Finally, if the person was over 6 feet, he usually had been a fighter pilot then a commercial airline pilot. If the person was under 6 feet, they had been a military helo pilot then changed careers once they left the military. I can’t think of a single exception among the pilots I’ve met to that.
svelteParticipant[quote=flyer]
I retired from American before 60 thanks to real estate. Another reason to have a “Plan B.”[/quote]Well that explains how you’ve done it – pilots make a great living. If you’ve got perfect eyesight and are over 6 feet tall, you’re eligible to attempt a career as a pilot.
I would have never been eligible.
Many of my current and former neighbors are pilots. One of them, an American pilot, rarely ever worked. He always opted for the standby slots and was home almost all the time. Downside: he could never drink because he didn’t know if he’d be called in. Sometimes us neighbors would watch their kids overnight for them (his wife was a nurse). They were great people so we didn’t mind, but he sure made a lot of money for not much work.
svelteParticipantThat is a great poem!
I’ve already started by list of things I’m gonna do when I retire and don’t have to care what anyone thinks…I don’t really care too much right now but have to keep up appearances to stay employed. 🙂
Maybe I’ll start buying purple clothes. To practice.
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