This.

Useless trivia: When Lee Iacocca retired after so many decades at Chrysler and Ford he didn't know how to operate a gas station pump. Gas stations were all full serviceway back before he became an executive and he never had to put fuel in his own vehicles as an executive.

 

comment of the day:
Benjamin Arthur P. Pagdilao Just use anime girls lol

 

I get it. I'm just mad that I didn't think of it first.

Like, how do you even come up with idea such as "What if people are actually anxious / stressed about pumping their own gasoline, and willing to pay $20 a month plus markup to have someone else do it for them on-site? And maybe I can turn that into a profitable business!"

My brain just doesn't function at that level, and it pisses me off.

 

It is a psychological construct called projection. We assume by default that others see the world and situations within it in the same way we do unless they prove otherwise.

This is why shady people always think that someone is trying to put one over on them and take advantage of them. It is because they are often trying to do the same.

 

#metoo

https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/as...nt-1202909861/

 

^Read the NYTimes article on it this morning.

Got him drunk, had sex with him, took pics, etc.

 

Seems like they just copied an episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'.


My wife loves to watch Shark Tank. I cannot believe the garbage on that show that people are producing and making money off of.

 

what is your company?

we sell tee shirts.

what is special about them?

we donate our profits to transgender giraffes.

 

 

Where the hell is my $50k check?

 

Look at the bright side, she doesn't have to inherit any debt like us privileged white folk.

 

N/A to hispanics. At least that's what I tell myself.

Besides, no one gives $50K as that incurs gift-tax liability ($20K limit).

 

"buy"

 

I'm pretty sure it's (currently) a 15K limit, but each spouse in a marriage can gift split for a net 30K to the recipient.
Regardless, those are problems I should like to have.

... and I agree with Joe - where's mine?

 

True story: By denying the past, you can change the future.

(Side-note: the formatting of this post is brought to you by the fact that @IB Nolan has forced me to use the horrible new WYSIWYG editor, which makes a crude attempt to emulate the formatting of the source when you copy and paste from a webpage, and invariably fails miserably. The original article, linked to at the bottom, is actually legible.


‘Silent Sam is down’: Crowd topples Confederate statue at UNC

By Susan Svrluga
, Reporter
August 21 at 5:25 AMA crowd toppled a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina on Monday night, with cheers and smoke bombs filling the air.

The monument had long been a target of students and others, a symbol of a once-honored past that many wanted to demolish. This spring, a graduate student splashed a mixture of ink and her own blood on the statue. On the night before classes began this year, a crowd gathered to demonstrate at the statue and, using ropes, pulled it down.

The student newspaper, the Daily Tar Heel, and others covered the gathering protest on social media, and the elation once the monument was taken down:


Twitter Ads info and privacyAcross the country, people have debated whether Confederate monuments are symbols of a racist past that must be removed, or if efforts to tear them down amount to whitewashing history. Those arguments turned deadly a year ago in Virginia, when white supremacists and others rallied to oppose the removal of a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee from a Charlottesville park.

In the days that followed, monuments elsewhere in the country toppled or were vandalized, including a bronze Confederate statue in Durham, N.C., two statues in Wilmington, N.C., and another in Knoxville, Tenn. In Baltimore, Los Angeles and San Diego last summer, city officials removed Confederate monuments and a plaque. At the time, President Trump tweeted that removing “beautiful statues and monuments” was “so foolish.”



In Chapel Hill, N.C., the bronze and marble “Silent Sam” monument was commissioned by the Daughters of the Confederacy and erected in 1913 to honor UNC alumni who died for the Confederacy.

It is known as “Silent Sam” because the soldier holds a gun but no ammunition. A panel on the side shows a woman, symbolizing the state, urging a student to drop his books to take up arms for the fight.

In 2005, the state’s flagship public university added a sculpture nearby honoring enslaved African Americans. But the first statue has continued to be polarizing. In 2015, someone painted “KKK” and “MURDERER” on it. After the violence following a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville last year, hundreds of people in North Carolina chanted, “Take it down!”

Over the years, university officials had acknowledged that the statue elicited strong feelings, but said they didn’t have the unilateral authority to remove the historical monument.

On Monday night, university officials said that a group from among an estimated crowd of 250 protesters brought down the Confederate monument. “Tonight’s actions were dangerous, and we are very fortunate that no one was injured. We are investigating the vandalism and assessing the full extent of the damage. "

North Carolina’s governor, Roy Cooper, wrote on Twitter that he had been in contact with law enforcement and university officials about the rally and appreciated their efforts to keep people safe. “The Governor understands that many people are frustrated by the pace of change and he shares their frustration,” he wrote, “but violent destruction of public property has no place in our communities.”

Altha Cravey, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina who has been involved with the effort to move the statue, said, “Our campus looks a lot better now that the monument to white supremacy has been taken down from its pedestal. It was a joyful celebratory evening and rain started pouring after Silent Sam fell as if to cleanse and renew the campus.”


www.washingtonpost.com/education/2018/08/21/silent-sam-is-down-crowd-topples-confederate-statue-unc

 

linky no worky
try this one

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2018/08/21/silent-sam-is-down-crowd-topples-confederate-statue-unc/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7a36b71ced39l;'



I won't start on my dislike for IB.... They have run a few forums I use to enjoy into the ground.

 

These children in North Carolina have proven their intellectual depravity beyond any doubt.

When civics, constitutional scholarship, and study of our country's founding are neglected in elementary, middle, and high school curricula, this results. Couple that with the loss of cause and effect relationships, the elimination of failure and punishment, and the abject poverty of logical thought, and we are left with emotion unfettered by the burden of thought.

Can statesmen talk sensibly to fools when fanatics clothed as professors sit on their other shoulder?

Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do.

 

but we gotta punch non-existent *****

 

 

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