irish_buffalo
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Younger people do not think twice about it. It is normal to them to spend money in this manner. Sometime 3x a day. $75 for maybe $30 worth of food.
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eastisbest
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Can confirm but, I mean that's why they work, right? Until college became a reality, most of the money I earned pumping gas went to entertainment. For some in this generation, it's not "lazyness" dictating their use of door-dash. It's the feeling of being "served." Door-dash is the new hooker.
eastisbest
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My credit card used to send a yearly report, categorizing where I was spending my money. I thought I was reasonable frugal. Hurts to see it like that, lol.
oxat622
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The number of swipes should not exceed two per day, realistically. Because sometimes the kid is going to sleep in past breakfast and sometimes they just want to uptown for Jimmy John's.
My meal plan was swipes per week and any unused meals I could cash in at the campus markets and stock my dorm room.
CedarBuck92
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When my brother was a freshman, the school required all freshman to get the top meal plan which averaged out to 2 point something meals a day. He is also a Student athlete. He kept running into issues where practice wouldn't end until after the cafeteria closed and so mom and dad did end up having pay twice quite a lot.
14Red
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That's an extenuating circumstance, and shame on the school/ athletic department for not addressing this. This is a correctable problem. And I played college sports way back in the day, the same thing happened then and it was sorted out. If you pay for a meal plan, they are required to feed you, even a bag lunch if need be.
oxat622
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There are different kinds. A picket for a union strike - I get it. Those people who tossed soup at a painting in a museum a couple years ago to protest climate change - I even get that. The No Kings thing, I guess it's solidarity in numbers at best. Just like those bumpkins driving 50 mph on 275 with their pieces of flair. It's not a call to action and it doesn't raise awareness.
CedarBuck92
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My thing is more, people hold a protest for everything anymore. They are well within their rights but its exhausting trying to keep up with what they are even protesting anymore.
14Red
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I think picketing for a union strike is generally very laid back and is done to promote awareness to the general public and put the employer in a bad light. Blocking city streets or sidewalks normally doesn't happen in those. Damaging property? I don't get that, that's vandalism. Climate change folks are a different breed.
oxat622
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Baccarat - This is closer to playing "heads or tails" than it is to any other casino game IMO. Far less complexity to bet possibilities than roulette, far less decision making/strategy than blackjack, absolutely no competition like any poker variant, no social benefit of betting on someone else like craps. It seems like the only way to gain an edge in baccarat is to card count, which is FROWNED UPON in this ESTABLISHMENT!
irish_buffalo
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It is illegal for picketers to do so. To your point it is to essentially publicly embarrass an owner and/or prevent other union members from crossing and thus disrupting business.
I have never partook in a rally or protest event but they are a great tool under our constitution promoting assembly and free speech. Years ago when Ohio threatened to go Right-To-Work union members from across the state protested at the state capitol for a week and stopped the legislation dead in its tracks.
What ever happened to basic grammar amongst radio and some tv announcers? Listening to sports reporters and hosts, I constantly hear," We should have went," instead of " We should have gone." " "He should have ran," instead of " He should have run." This is especially true of the younger hosts and reporters, but it's rampant some older hosts like Tony Rizzo. Even Grossi has used " went" instead of " gone." It's second grade basic English........ Also the use of " myself" instead of " I" or" me." Bill, John, and myself will see you at the game." It's learned in first grade.
I don't get why every monster/disaster film must have a love interest ( people claim it's to get women to watch), but, be that as it may. Why, as they meet during a chase or buildings falling must they embrace and whisper words of love as they are about to be trampled by a rapid dinosaur or inundated by a raging fire or water from a broken dam? It's in just about every film and laughable.
eastisbest
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Lovers vs. Godzilla.
With the exception of the stupid American version with Matthew Broderick in which Godzilla goes into hiding to lay eggs in Madison Square Garden, he ( and I'm using " he" because he's obviously a man; is there anyone with more testosterone?} has been consistently excellent in every film. He is equally proficient at playing the villain in his early films to being the savior of the word in the later ones. He deserves an Oscar! The Rock? Oh, please. Can Dwayne do this?
eastisbest
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No doubt. They're handing out honorary Oscars like candy.
But
Can Godzilla climb the Empire State Building?
Has Godzilla ever gotten the girl?
'Merica!
Godzilla can take down the Empire State Bldg with one swipe of his tail, then step on the top. No need to climb it like a little wimp. And, do you think he would have been shot down by .30 caliber machine guns?
Apparently you have never heard of Mothra, Queen of the Monsters, who could have spun Ann Darrow in a silk cocoon, flown her over the Atlantic, and dropped her in. And Godzilla would never have been so PWed that he would have died for someone who never loved him, but was carrying on with Jack Driscoll. The hussy!
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oxat622
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Adults openly using profanity around kids they don't know.
I'm no profanity prude - I'll say bad words to drive home a point, including sometimes in front of my own kids when I lose a little control, which everyone loses control sometimes. So it's not fair to impress morality on others. But geez, people, show a little tact and restraint. I just got back from vacation. We'd go to the pool and there'd be kids all over the place. The constant groups of adults going effin this effin that within earshot. Crowded elevators: same thing. You know these things are taboo and you know many parents don't want their kids using that sort of language. Fuggin grow up and have some dam awareness.
I'm no profanity prude - I'll say bad words to drive home a point, including sometimes in front of my own kids when I lose a little control, which everyone loses control sometimes. So it's not fair to impress morality on others. But geez, people, show a little tact and restraint. I just got back from vacation. We'd go to the pool and there'd be kids all over the place. The constant groups of adults going effin this effin that within earshot. Crowded elevators: same thing. You know these things are taboo and you know many parents don't want their kids using that sort of language. Fuggin grow up and have some dam awareness.
eastisbest
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The englandfication of our culture happened while you weren't paying attention. They bought up Hollywood, put their actors and ways in and now it's ours. At least as far as the whiter part of our culture. Been part of the blacker since I was a kid. Where they got it,
Have you not paid attention to some of our reps in congress? It's how the nerds pretend to be cool. How white bred blacks pretend to ghetto. Jasmin Crocket much?
Basically, those we used to think of as the derps and dock drunks somehow became the cool kids.
That IS the new normal. Practicing self-restraint is in the past. It shows in everything now; socially, politically,...
f-u brother. lol
oxat622
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It sure does seem to be adults who should know better that ruin things in public more than it is people in their 20s and younger. Starting fights at a football game? Having the phone out on the roller coaster?The englandfication of our culture happened while you weren't paying attention. They bought up Hollywood, put their actors and ways in and now it's ours. At least as far as the whiter part of our culture. Been part of the blacker since I was a kid. Where they got it,
Have you not paid attention to some of our reps in congress? It's how the nerds pretend to be cool. How white bred blacks pretend to ghetto. Jasmin Crocket much?
Basically, those we used to think of as the derps and dock drunks somehow became the cool kids.
That IS the new normal. Practicing self-restraint is in the past. It shows in everything now; socially, politically,...
f-u brother. lol
I mentioned on the What Are You Watching thread that I started watching the old episodes of The Osbournes. That whole family cursed up a storm around their house and with the people they know. I remember an interview with them back in the day where they were asked about it and Sharon basically said 'we don't want to limit how our kids express themselves, but I do have a problem when they say that they "hate" someone or something.' I can get with that.
14Red
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I agree 1000% percent, and it's not just around kids, it's around adults you don't know. Now I may side more on the profanity prude side. I never use that language. I think it's very simple form of lack of self control if you can't control what comes out of your mouth. There are may wonderful adjectives people can use to "color" their conversations. But f-this and f-that makes no sense to me at all. Obviously for kids and younger people, it's a right of passage, or some way to feel like an adult. My point is if you're in a situation where you should control your language, can you? If things get emotional, can you "turn it on and off"? And I always love the person who let's one fly, and follows it up with "excuse my language". We'll it's already out there, you can't pull it back.