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Umm, what??? That's pointless...
GarandMarine:
Have some AWESOME music with my compliments: (Warning, these tunes are written and performed by Air Force fighter pilots, these means they are inherently massive jackasses, there is offensive language in all these videos)
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bqx2wIQtKoFox one! When you got nothing left, Fox two it's that heater in your chest, Fox three! The only friend you'll ever need, that cock sucker, motherfucker Jeremiah Weed.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlNv8l9Ro4MSo here's to you fighter pilots victors of the war, who got us all this real estate backed up shore to shore, now oil's a buck a barrel and it's all because of me, because I'm the motherfucker who started world war three.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQAmvKMGUkoSomeone's got to make the call I'm going in for guns.
And now the most popular song about pilots amongst mechanics ever. Pilots: If your maintainers are singing this or humming it when you walk up, you need to buy them a box of doughnuts or some shit stat to avoid getting a wrench in your intake.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBfkbO0JuU8
LeeC:
@Papersatan: Yeah I notice that stuff too on the train, and I revel in making people do that by giving up my seat first. Sometimes they try to explain that they didn't see the pregnant lady just standing next to them, or the old man struggling to stand with a walker. I see them purposely pretending not to see them or do the whole fake get up thing and its quite pathetic. When its the "homeless" in this city, I don't give change/money, nor do I do the pat my pockets thing. I just say "sorry pal I got nothing for you" or just plain ignore them. Sure I've given food away but people coming up to me to "rap me a song for some change" as I am hurrying to work, or the bums who are fully capable of working but fake injuries and lay in the street rejecting food but asking for money, those people can get change or take up time from someone else but not me. I am just glad they arnt aggressive about it like in some other cities where they follow you or try to fight you...yet.
In other news, Spiderman and Wolverine go to a bar.
Barmymoo:
Don't be too hard on people who look like they're "fully capable of working". Long-term unemployment fucking sucks and it saps your self-confidence and your energy until all you can do is get through each day. I'm not saying that you should give money to people begging in the street - actually I think this is a bad idea, because it simply assuages a sense of guilt without actually doing anything meaningful to help - but I do encourage supporting charities which work with people who've fallen on bad luck (and I consider debilitating drug addictions to be bad luck, even if bad choices led to that state), especially ones like The Big Issue. "Just get a job" is an attitude which shows complete ignorance of what it is like not to be able to get a job, and to watch your life crumbling and not know how to stop it.
Carl-E:
Been there. I'm 51, with a Ph.D. that qualifies me for very little. I couldn't even get a job at the envelope factory, because I don't have line production experience; I don't have a CDL (Commercial Driver's license), so I can't drive a delivery vehicle or a bus. The taxi services weren't hiring. I don't have a mechanic's / plumber's / electrician's license, so even though I can do all those (and frequently do around my own house and for friends and our church), I can't legally get a job at it. That left retail, and... well, I'm short, fat, bald and old. Not gonna get hired when there are all those attractive schoolkids out there for hire. Can't teach high school or lower without state teacher's certification which requires an Ed. degree, even though I've been teaching for about 30 years, and the area colleges aren't hiring.
We almost lost the house.
That probably would have pushed me over the edge, especially if I'd lost my family in the process as well. You would have seen me on street in pretty short order.
I know there are professional beggars, alcoholics, the mentally ill out on the streets. I think what most people don't know is how close they are to being there themselves.
Sorry, that wasn't really pointless. Here's a crabby old kitty.
Sorflakne:
So there's a pickup in my town that I've seen a few times. If you wanted to conjure a caricature of a stereotypical Deep South redneck, this vehicle, its owner, and his friends are it. The pickup is a F250, has a lift kit, they blare country music, dress like rednecks, the girls wear Daisy Dukes (I've seen em as one girl puts her legs up on the dash), they're all drinking beer, and the icing on the cake is the 3x5' Stars and Bars that flies on a short flagpole mounted in the box. Every time I've seen this pickup, that is the scene I've seen. Only thing missing is the gun rack in the back window (it might be there, I haven't gotten a good look at that area).
I've been tempted to roll down my windows and crank my music volume (I have an aftermarket sound system that came with my vehicle) and play something like Ramstein or House music or some other most uncountry-like music possible to see how they'd react; and the fact that I'm driving a Toyota and have CA plates would just add to it. But frankly, I don't feel like getting shot.
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